March 26

01.JORN: Stormcrow
02.EXTREME: Rise
03.NESTOR: These days
04.JOURNEY: Stone in love
05.KEEPSAKE: The way you love me
06.LEFT HAND SOLUTION: Fevered
07.STIAN PIAN: I need you love
08.MENTALIST: Live forever
09.IMMORTAL: War against all
10.DRACONIAN: Lustrous heart
11.SWALLOW THE SUN: Deadly nightshade
12.AMENRA: De evenmens
13.KATAKLYSM: Guillotine
14.SOILWORK: Valleys of gloam
15.PICTURE ANN: Discoveries made in isolaton
16.SLEGEST: Innsikt
17.VORBID: Union
18.STORMRULER: Sacred rites & black magick
19.TILINTETGJORT: Sannhetens søyler
20.OCTOHAWK: Eyes glowing red
21.OMNIA MORITUR: Omnipotens

Raymond Smith

March 19

01.MOTÖRHEAD: We are Motörhead
02.ALL MY SHADOWS: Devil’s ride
03.FIREWIND: Destiny is calling
04.THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA: Gemini
05.ARCTIC RAIN: Fire in my eyes
06.BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST: Back in the game
07.WIG WAM: High n dry
08.POWERTRIPPIN’: Widowmaker
09.LEAGUE OF DISTORTION: Wolf or lamb
10.ELEINE: Death incarnate
11.MYRATH: Dance
12.KAMLEOT: Opus of the night (ghost requiem)
13.LAST AUTUMN’S DREAM: Long gone
14.ALFONZETTI: I will never let you fall
15.LOWDOWN: The world has ended
16.NECROVATION: Storm the void
17.SLEGEST: Til det største som finst
18.ARCH ENEMY: Bloodstained cross
19.WHAT THE FIVE FINGERS SAID TH THE FACE: Blackspiraldance
20.GOLDEN CORE: Sword of darkness
21.DEVILDRIVER: Through the depths
22.TRAIL OF TEARS: Deceptive mirrors
23.EINHERJER: Mine våpen mine ord

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

March 12

01.IRON MAIDEN: Gangland
02.CREYE: Glorious
03.ARTCH: Power to the man
04.DEF LEPPARD: Stay with me
05.MASTERPLAN: Enlighten me
06.FIRST SIGNAL: Face your fears
07.DEATHSTARS: Midnight party
08.IQ: Headlong
09.WARZAW: Red pill delivery
10.BLOODBOUND: Odin’s prayer
11.DJEVEL: Saa tok alt slutt
12.LEPROUS: Slave
13.CRADLE OF FILTH: She is a fire
14.GRAVEWORM: Escorting the soul
15.THE HAUNTED: D.O.A.
16.UNHOLY CRAFT: En askedrøm
17.THYRUZ: Dødsriket
18.AUGUST BURNS RED: Reckoning
19.DYING FETUS: Unbridled fury
20.BOLT THROWER: The IVth crusade

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

March 5 - Omnia Moritur

Mathis Ek Mathisen & Thomas Angell from Omnia Moritur visited out studio

01.ANGRA: Nothing to say
02.BIG CITY: After the raid
03.HEIDEVOLK: De strijd duurt voort
04.SLAAMASKIN: Forfall
05.MUNICIPAL WASTE: High speed steel
06.THE HU: This is mongol
07.FIREWIND: I am the anger
08.BEAST IN BLACK: Hardcore
09.CROWNE: In the name of the fallen
10.CEPHALIC CARNAGE: Shut up
11.OMNIA MORITUR: Quietus
12.OMNIA MORITUR: Sacrelegium
13.OMNIA MORITUR: Oblivion
14.FUNERAL WINDS: Stigmata mali
15.BLOODRED HOURGLASS: Nightmares are dreams too
16.VADER: Ostatni diakon
17.FLUIDS: Infantile mysticism
18.T.O.M.B.: Hatred to all
19.GORGOROTH: Ødeleggelse og undergang

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 26

01.LIMP BIZKIT: Take a look around
02.POWERTRIPPIN’: Crazy world
03.DEATHSTARS:This is
04.TEN: Brave new lie
05.BLIND CHANNEL: Dark side
06.INSIDE OUT: Way of my dreams
07.ISSA: Lights of Japan
08.AEROSMITH: Livin’ on the edge
09.KAMELOT: Opus of the night (ghost requiem)
10.TYPE O NEGATIVE: Love you to death
11.METALITE: Afterlife
12.KING’S X: Stay
13.FAUN: Gwydion
14.ENSLAVED: Forest dweller
15.NUNSLAUGHTER: Into the chasm
16.SVARTTJERN: Bonded by blood
17.ASHEN TOMB: They live beneath
18.SLEGEST: Innsikt
19.FLESHMEADOW: A cold wind that blows from beyond
20.KOLDBRANN: Totalt sjelelig bankerott
21.OMNIA MORITUR: Omnipotence

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 19

01.GREEN DAY: American idiot
02.ROB MORATTI: Masquerade
03.BEAST IN BLACK: Blade runner
04.QUEENRYCHE: The thin line
05.MANOWAR: Fighting the world
06.MEZMORIA: Breathless
07.PAIN: Shut your mouth
08.SOLSTAFIR: Bloodsoaked velvet
09.KATATONIA: Opaline
10.BLACK SABBATH: Black sabbath
11.FIXATION: More alive
12.DEVIN TOWNSEND: Moonpeople
13.DRAGONLAND: Lady of Goldenwood
14.PICTURE ANN: Sea journal
15.WITCHMASTER: Kazn
16.UNDER THE OAK: Pounding metal
17.FUNERALITY: Coprophagous necromagus
18.SLEGEST: Vinterkristus
19.ARCTURUS: Painting my horror
20.LORD OF THE LOST: Leave your hate in the comments
21.CRADLE OF FILTH: Summer dying fast
22.STORMDEATH: Deathocracy
23.IMPERIUM DEKADENZ: Forests in gale
24.DEATH: Choke on it

Raymond Smith

February 12 - Andre Nautøy

Andre Nautøy visited our studio, he was talking about his book project; Norwegian Thrash & Death Metal from the 80 and 90s.

01.EQUINOX: Fine by me
02.DARK SARAH: Attack of Orym
03.SAINT DEAMON: At break of dawn
04.NAZARETH: Love hurts
05.RUSSKAJA: Shapka
06.LEFT HAND SOLUTION: Worn away
07.METALLICA: Screaming suicide
08.WIG WAM: High n dry
09.HYPOCRISY: On the edge of madness
10.RAGE IN EDEN: Dysfunctional
11.RED HARVEST: Righteous majority
12.GRAVHEIM: Unborn
13.GHSS: The sickness within
14.SYMPHONIUM: Wisdom of darkness
15.OVERKILL: The surgeon
16.SLAAMASKIN: Forfall
17.DARKTHRONE: Natassja in eternal sleep
18.CADAVER: Decomposed metal skin

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 5 - Frostbitt

Ivan Hansen & Kevin Solheim from Frostbitt visited our studio

01.D.A.D.: Sleeping my day away
02.AUTOGRAPH: Beautiful disaster
03.THE IRON MAIDENS: Wasted years
04.ACCEPT: No shelter
05.KATATONIA: Austerity
06.INGLORIOUS: Bring me to life
07.ALICE COOPER: Billion dollar babies
08.POWERTRIPPIN’: Powertrippin
09.BON JOVI: Roller coaster
10.FROSTBITT: Machine destroy
11.FROSTBITT: Masked ghost host
12.FROSTBITT: Cyber walk
13.FROSTBITT: 106
14.GODFLESH: Crush my soul
15.IN FLAMES: Meet your maker
16.OBITUARY: The wrong time
17.WORMROT: Seizures
18.LEPER COLONY: Flesh crawl demise
19.SATYRICON: To the mountains


Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 29 - Wartex

Marius Paulsen from Wartex visited our studio

01.DEF LEPPARD: Photograph
02.ARC OF LIFE: Don’t look down
03.KAMELOT: One more flag in the ground
04.KISS: She
05.SHAKRA: Invincible
06.WILDNITE: Hero
07.IRON MAIDEN: 2 minutes to midnight
08.ATROCITY: Here comes the rain again
09.TAKIDA: Goodbye
10.WARTEX: Into oblivion
11.WARTEX: Pull the plug
12.WARTEX: Going south
13.SOCIAL DISTORTION: All the answers
14.NATT: Appell
15.CHILDREN OF BODOM: Needled 24/7
16.PERIPHERY: Wildfire
17.GEHENNA: Death to them all
18.SLAGMAUR: Bestemor sang djevelord
19.NILE: Ithyphallic

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 22- Powerdong

Ola Moum from Powerdong visited our studio

01.RUNNING WILD: Port royal
02.YESTERDAZE: Out of ammo
03.WALK IN DARKNESS: No oxygen in the west
04.KISS: Sure know something
05.POWERDONG: The prophecy of the dong / Tolkien and the elf
06.POWERDONG: Sanctuary
07.POWERDONG: The friar
08.SEVEN IMPALE: Helix
09.WARTEX: Into oblivion
10.EPICA: The essence of silence
11.APOCALYPTICA: Rise again
12.CELESTIAL SCOURGE: Moon dweller
13.ARCH ENEMY: Wings of tomorrow
14.ENTROPIA: Retox
15.REVOCATION: Dismantle the dictator
16.FLOATING: Pile of birds
17.VREDEHAMMER: Violator

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 15

01.WARLOCK: Burning the witches
02.PIL & BUE: Spesial agents
03.THRESHOLD: Haunted
04.ROUGH CUTT: Piece of my heart
05.RUMAHOY: Harambe, the pirate gorilla
06.GLORYHAMMER: Gloryhammer
07.ALESTORM: The sunk’n Norwegian
08.ENEMY EYES: Peace and glory
09.NAGA SIREN: Cut & run
10.THE CARBURETORS: Burning rubber
11.SABATON: Father
12.FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: Welcome to the circus
13.SEX PISTOLS: I’m a lazy sod
14.ETERNAL BLUE: The missing piece
15.FILTHDIGGER: Rapid descend
16.BLODKVALT: Decapitation
17.HANGING GARDEN: The four winds
18.DEFY THE CURSE: The tower of suffering
19.SLEGEST: Forløysning og rus
20.KAMPFAR: Mylder
21.NIGHTFALL: Lesbian show
22.LIONHEART: Hell on earth
23.CRADLE OF FILTH: Funeral in Carpathia

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 8

01.ANTHRAX: Time
02.ENUFF Z’ NUFF: Steal the light
03.TWILIGHT FORCE: Twilight force
04.SEX PISTOLS: My way
05.MANTRIC MOMENTUM: Final warning
06.AEROSMITH: Mama kin
07.BRUCE DICKINSON: Shoot all the clowns
08.GUNS N’ ROSES: Anything goes
09.RING OF FIRE: Run for your life
10.HEAVEN’S GATE: Always look on the bright side of life
11.MARILYN MANSON: Antichrist superstar
12.WATAIN: Storm of the antichrist
13.UNFORMULAS: Post mortem visionary
14.NAILED TO OBSCURITY: Clouded frame
15.ENSLAVED; Caravans to the outer worlds
16.BOLT THROWER: Final revelation
17.VITTRA: Satmara
18.STORMRULER: Upon frozed shores
19.PALACE OF WORMS: Winterbird
20.AVATAR: Legend of the king

Raymond

January 1 - Top 2022

Out Personal top 5 album of 2022

01.EUROPE: The final countdown

Jan Erik Johansen:
02. 05.HOUSE OF LORDS: Saints and sinners – Saint And Sinners
03. 04.GRAVE DIGGER: Battle cry – Symbols Of Eternity
04. 03.AUDREY HORNE: Animal – Devil’s Bell
05. 02.UNDER THE OAK: Our own choice – Rattus Norvegicus
06. 01.CANDLEMASS: Sweet evil sun – Sweet Evil Sun

Knut Ivar Jacobsen:
07. 05.DARKTHRONE: Impeccable caverns of Satan – Astral Fortress
08. 04.UNDER THE OAK: Total thrash metal – Rattus Norvegicus
09. 03.HAMMERFALL: Hammer of dawn – Hammer Of Dawn
10. 02.CANDLEMASS: Scandinavian gods – Sweet Evil Sun
11. 01.ARCH ENEMY: The watcher - Deceivers

Oddgeir Gitlestad:
12. 05.KREATOR: Strongest of the strong – Hate Über Alles
13. 04.HAMMERFALL: Brotherhood – Hammer Of Dawn
14. 03.CANDLEMASS: Goddess – Sweet Evil Sun
15. 02.MUNICIPAL WASTE: Electrified brain – Electrified Brain
16. 01.WATAIN: The howling – The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain

Raymond Smith:
17. 05.KHOLD: Apostel – Svartsyn
18. 04.ARCH ENEMY: Handshake with hell – Deceivers
19. 03.KREATOR: Hate über alles – Hate Über Alles
20. 02.RAMMSTEIN: Zick zack – Zeit
21. 01.OZZY OSBOURNE: Mr. Darkness – Patient Number 9

22.AYREON: The truth is in here

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Oddgeir Gitlestad
Jan Erik Johansen

December 25

01.BON JOVI: I wish everyday could be like Christmas
02.HOUSE OF LORDS: Road warrior
03.THE NEW DEATH CULT: Superglue
04.THE DREAM SYNDICATE: Let it rain
05.YESTERDAZE: Know no better
06.WITHIN SILENCE: Flame of peace
07.LEVIATHAN: Dark side down
08.KISS: I love it loud
09.BACKSTREET GIRLS: Hizbollah rock ‘n rollah
10.KING DIAMOND: The poltergeist
11.CLEANBREAK: Still fighting
12.DRAGGED UNDER: This holiday
13.KORPHJÄRTA: Lock på vredens tunna
14.BATHORY: Son of the damned
15.DARKTHRONE: Caravan of broken ghosts
16.WARTEX: Deathroll
17.DESTRÖYER 666: Guillotine
18.WARKINGS: Hellfire
19.CONSTELLATIA: Palace
20.T.O.M.B.: Frost tyrants
21.HELGRIND: Through the Helgrind gates
22.SATYRICON: Min hyllest til vinterland

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 18

01.TWISTED SISTER: Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
02.PALACE: Too old for this
03.ZERO HOUR: Technocracy
04.RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: Microphone fiend
05.CHEZ KANE: I just want you
06.RONNY PØBEL: Gå rundt et jævla juletre
07.ALLEN OLZON: Carved into stone
08.ACCEPT: Metal heart
09.METALLICA: Lux æterna
10.STRYPER: Rise to the call
11.CELTIC FROST: Dawn of Meggido
12.MAJOR PARKINSON: Behind the next door
13.OSLO ESS: Bislett stadion
14.MÖK: Voodoo pantics
15.MUNICIPAL WASTE: Crank the heat
16.IN FLAMES: Foregone pt.2
17.NIFELHEIM: Desecration of the dead
18.OBITUARY: The wrong time
19.VOID MOON: Waste of mind
20.TROLLFEST: Fjøsnissens fjaseri

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 11

01.KING DIAMOND: No presents for Christmas
02.ALAN PARSONS: Uroboros
03.TURMION KÄTILÖT: Isä meidän
04.U.D.O.: What a hell of a night
05.CANDLEMASS: Angel battle
06.RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: I’m housin’
07.OZZY OSBOURNE: Degradation rules
08.GENERATION RADIO: Why are you calling me now
09.TREAT: Skies of Mongolia
10.HERBST: Ein letzter abend
11.THE CULT OF DESTINY: The reaper
12.TROUBLE: Seven
13.LILLEBROR: Røver
14.AHAB: Prof. Arronax’ descent into the vast oceans
15.BLODSKAM: Sharpening the knives
16.EISREGEN: Wiedergänger
17.THYRFING: Digerdöden
18.OBITUARY: Dying of evrything
19.SLAUGHTER THE GIANT: Ritual abuse
20.DESTRUCTION: Tormented soul
21.KREATOR: Winter martyrium

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 4 - Knock Out Festival

Part of the show was about Knock Out Festival 2022

01.AC/DC: Mistress for Christmas
02.ICONIC: Ready for your love
03.ULTIMA GRACE: Powers of north and east
04.OF VIRTURE: Hypocrite
05.HELLOWEEN: Out for the glory
Knock..
06.BRAINSTORM: Shiva’s tears
07.ECLIPSE: Saturday night (hallelujah)
08.THE NEW ROSES: 1st time for everything
09.ORDEN OGAN: Gunman
10.DORO: Unholy love
11.HAMMERFALL: Brotherhood
..Out Festival.
12.SAHG: Fall into fire
13.L.A. GUNS: Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight
14.PICTURE ANN: I named those monstrous bones after you
15.IN THE WOODS: We sinful converge
16.IMMINENCE: Heaven in hiding
17.AT THE GATES: Heroes and tombs
18.IN FLAMES: Foregone pt.1
19.SADUS: It’s the sickness
20.JUST BEFORE DAWN: Drowned
21.DJEVEL: Kronet av en væpnet haand
22.TESTAMENT: Low

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 27

01.IRON MAIDEN: Another rock and roll Christmas
02.LEATHERWOLF: Madhouse
03.WEDNESDAY 13: Good day to be a bad guy
04.JUDAS PRIEST: Rapid fire
05.THERION: Pazuzu
06.STAGE DOLLS: Commandos
07.RETURN: Change the attitude
08.EPICA: Sensorium
09.AYREON: Ride the comet
10.KISS: Creatures of the night
11.GRAND: Stone cold
12.ALANNAH MYLES: Hurry make love
13.NAILED TO OBSCURITY: Liquid mourning
14.DARK TRANQUILITY: What only you know
15.ELUVEITIE: Exile of the gods
16.AMORPHIS: Black winter day
17.BATHORY: Ring of gold
18.IMPUGNER: Morass
19.DEMONICAL: Fallen mountain
20.TAAKE: I am the black wizards
21.ABORTED: Infinte terror
22.ATROCITY: Born to kill
23.NILE: Long shadows of dread

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 20

01.PANTERA: I’m broken
02.H.E.A.T.: Hollywood
03.IRON ALLIES: Full of surprises
04.DOKKEN: From the beginning
05.URIAH HEEP: Easy livin’
06.JETHRO TULL: Aqualung
07.SABATON: Father
08.JOURNEY: Live to love again
09.WARKINGS: Monsters
10.MOTORPSYCHO: The ladder
11.BLACK DEBBATH: Hobby dommedagsprofet
12.THE CROWN: Godeater
13.THE HALO EFFECT: Shadowminds
14.ATENA: Slip away
15.AURORA BOREALIS: The house of Nimrod
16.BRYMIR: Voices in the sky
17.DESTRÖYER 666: Wildfire
18.NOXIUM FERUS: Cut off from God
19.WITCHMASTER: All-consuming hate
20.IN PAIN: Witchcraft
21.TILINTETGJORT: Vinter og høst

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 13 - Metal Hammer Paradise

Part of the show was about Metal Hammer Paradise

01.SYSTEM OF A DOWN: Aerials
02.POWER TRIPPIN’: Gustav the gun
03.LED ZEPPELIN: Stairway to heaven
04.WIZRD: Lessons
05.AVATARIUM: God is silent
06.FAIR WARNING: In the ghetto
Metal Hammer…
07.CLAWFINGER: Rosegrove
08.CROWBAR: I feel the burning sun
09.SODOM: Ausgebombt
10.SACRED REICH: Surf Nicaragua
11.SEPULTURA: Guardians of earth
12.TIAMAT: The sleeping beauty
13.EISBRECHER: 1000 narben
14.CREMATORY: Break down the walls
15.THE UNITY: Hands of time
16.PRIMAL FEAR: Metal is forever
17.DORO: All for metal
18.RHAPSODY OF FIRE: Chains of destiny
19.IN EXTREMO: Liam
…Paradise.
20.THE CARBURETORS: Fire it up
21.MGLA: Age of excuse IV
22.CADAVER: During the end

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen