September 7

01.THIN LIZZY: The boys are back in town
02.BATTLE BEAST: Steelbound
03.THE GASÖLINES: Rock and roll is dead
04.FASTER PUSSYCAT: Bad things
05.LJUNGBLUT: Ut til munkene
06.JETHRO TULL: Thick as a brick
07.GREEN CARNATION: The shores of melancholia
08.ANTHRAX: Indians
09.HELLOWEEN: Giants on the run
10.ART NATION: Need you to understand
11.DYNAZTY: Call of the night
12.CONCEPTION: Roll the fire
13.DIMENSION F3H: The disciplined
14.TESTAMENT: Infanticide A.I.
15.1914: 1916 (the Südtirol offensive)
16.FIT FOR A KING: Witness the end
17.MESSHUGGAH: Future breed machine
18.SUBLIME EYES: Emperor’s mountain
19.KANONENFIEBER: Sturmtrupp
20.UNLEASHED: To my only son
21.VILLMARK: Skogbrann
22.ATENA: Ultra ultimate opus power
23.FÈLETH: Usa

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 31 - Drammen Metalfest

Ola Flatebø Sørensen, Jonathan Hamre & Jo Aslak Aspås from Drammen Metalfest visited our studio

01.YNGWIE J.MALMSTEEN: Rising force
02.I PREVAIL: Violent nature
03.KISS: Calling Dr. Love
04.KAL-EL: Cocaine
05.SYRON VANES: On your knees
06.:BOLVERK:: Time for chaos
07.IOTUNN: Earth to sky
Drammen..
08.BERZERKBREATH: Despondency
09.HAUNTED BY SILHOUETTES: Jakta
10.VILLMARK: Fossegrim
11.CONFESS: Slaughterhouse
12.OSKAAL: Refused
13.KAMBODSJA: Basement prophet
14.FELETH: Majesty
15.ATENA: Oil rigs
…Metal Fest
16.FROSTBITT: Masked ghost host

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 24 - Wacken Open Air revisited

Knuts top 5 from Wacken Open Air 2025

01.SAVATAGE: Edge of thorns
02.RUSS BALLARD: Resurrection
03.LORD OF THE LOST: Ghosts
04.MOTÖRHEAD: (We are) the road crew
05.SABATON: Lightning at the gates
06.THIN LIZZY: Thunder and lightning
07.THE GASÖLINES: Let’s go
08.THE WHO: My generation
09.YEAR OF THE GOAT: Alucarda
10.GIANT: A night to remember
11.VICK LECAR: Witches brew
12.HONEYMOON SUITE: Lookin’ out for number one
13.TANKARD: Centerfold
Wacken..
14.05.HELLBUTCHER: The sword of wrath
15.04.MACABRE: Vampire of Düsseldorf
16.03.MINISTRY: Rio Grande blood
17.02.FORBIDDEN: Out of body (out of mind)
18.01.GRAVE DIGGER: Excalibur
Open Air revisited
19.PARADISE LOST: Tyrants serenade
20.THYRFING: Angestens högborg

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 17 - Harald Eilertsen

01.ACCEPT: London leatherboys
02.WE CAME AS ROMANS: Culture wound
03.CRISIX: W.N.M. united
04.ARCH ENEMY: Aces high
05.IMBALANCE: On your knees
06.GORR: På gravens stille rand
07.PROSELYTISM: Strange god rising
08.AUDRVIN: Med renker og pisk
09.SKUGGIMADR: Siste andedrag
10.IF I WERE THE DEVIL: Traitor to the cross
11.FETTERS: Skunk
12.FETTERS: Self-hatred
13.CARCASS: No love lost
14.HELVITNIR: Void of emptiness
15.DESTROYER 666: Rise of the predator
16.BATHORY: Woman of dark desires
17.THE HAUNTED: Brute force
18.THORNS: Lovely children
19.MORBID ANGEL: Chapel of ghouls

Raymond Smith
Harald Eilertsen

August 10 - Midgardsblot

All the show was about Midgardsblot 2025.
Silje Brekke from the festival visited our studio.

01.THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN: Fire
02.KIRKEBRANN: En slaves frihet
03.GAAHLS WYRD: Time and timeless timeline
04.EIVØR: Jardartrà
05.THE 3RD AND THE MORTAL: Why so lonely
06.JORDSJUK: Siste skanse
07.ORANSSI PAZUZU: Valotus
08.HYPOCRISY: Pleasure of molestation
09.ISKALD: The atrocious horror
10.STAGE DOLLS: Wings of steel
11.TNT: As far as the eye can see
12.MORK: Den lukkede porten
13.SIGH: Me-devil
14.MAYHEM: Deathcrush
15.SVARTTJERN: Determination
16.RUÏM: The black house
17.BENEDICTION: Crawling over corpses
18.TSJUDER: Gods of black blood

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 3

01.FREEDOM CALL: Warriors
02.VULVARINE: Equal, not the same
03.CREMATORY: Banished forever
04.THE PRETTY RECKLESS: Only love can save me now
05.AC/DC: Highway to hell
06.HAREM SCAREM: Better the devil you know
07.GUS G: My premonition
08.REFUSED: Elektra
09.HONNINGBARNA: Fri Palestina
10.QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: Songs for the dead
11.AMENRA: Forlorn
12.MR. DEATH: Stillborn in a dying world
13.PICTURE ANN: A place of concealment for stolen internation property
14.ASHES OF ARES: From hell he rides
15.VADER: Rampage
16.SLAYER: In-a-gadda-da-vida
17.BIOHAZARD: Forsaken
18.BOLT THROWER: The ivth crusade
19.THE HALO EFFECT: How the gods kill
20.DEATHHAMMER: Abyssic thunder
21.LEPRA: In silence she lay still
22.HELVITNIR: Dread biter

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 27 - Beyond The Gates

Part of the show was about Beyond The Gates festival

01.TNT: Intuition
02.LITA FORD: Kiss me deadly
03.URIAH HEEP:  Easy livin’
04.WEDNESDAY 13: Devil inside
05.BLODSMAK: Giljotin
06.SLADE: When the chips are down
Beyond The Gates:
07.HELLRIPPER: All hail the goat
08.HELLBUTCHER: The sword of wrath
09.DESTRUCTION: Bestial invasion
10.KOLDRBANN: Totalt sjelelig bankerott
11.LUCIFER: At the mortuary
12.PARADISE LOST: Faith divides us - death unites us
13.KING DIAMOND: Welcome home
14.ETERNAL EVIL: Eternal evil
15.HEXVESSEL: Spirit masked wolf
16.TRIBULATION: Strange gateways beckon
17.CANDLEMASS: Crystal ball
18.OPETH: §1
19.HELHEIM: Nidr ok nordr liggr helvegr
20.GEHENNA: Deadlights
21.TAAKE: Hordalands doedskvad 4

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 20 - Wacken Open Air

The show was about Wacken Open Air 2025

01.SKYLINE: This is W.O.A.
02.WARBRINGER: Hunter-seeker
03.TORTURE SQUAD: Horror and torture
04.TARJA: I walk alone
05.BEYOND THE BLACK: Heart of the hurricane
06.IN THE WOODS…: The crimson crown
07.PENTAGRAM CHILE: La fiura
08.PRONG: Unconditional
09.NIGHTMARE: Saviours of the damned
10.GRAVE DIGGER: Bark to hell
11.SVARTTJERN: Prince of disgust
12.GUNS N’ ROSES: Live and let die
13.1349: I am abomination
14.SETYØURSAILS: Bad blood
15.FORBIDDEN: Step by step
16.PAPA ROACH: Braindead
17.SCHANDMAUL: In der hand
18.DIMMU BORGIR: Stormblåst
19.TROLLFEST: Dance like a pink flamingo
20.WARKINGS: Hangman’s night
21.W.A.S.P.: I wanna be somebody
22.OBITUARY: Find the arise
23.EXHORDER: Legions of death
24.FIT FOR AN KING: No tomorrow

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 13

01.ANGEL WITCH: Angel witch
02.ART NATION: Thunderball
03.MOB RULES: Trial and trail of fear
04.AC/DC: Big balls
05.DREAM THEATER: These walls
06.CHEMTRAILS OSLO: Two left arms
07.BAI BANG: Livin’ my dream
08.TAKIDA: Your blood awaits you
09.LENA SCISSORHANDS: Believe
10.CURSE OF CAIN: Feel the pain
11.SODOM: Gun without groom
12.WHITE TRASH: Judge-me-do
13.MALEVOLENCE: If it’s all the same to you
14.GOJIRA: Silvera
15.ILLDISPOSED: None shall defy
16.KATAKLYSM: The rabbit hole
17.D.R.I.: Manifest destiny
18.IMMORTAL: The sun no longer rises
19.GRUESOME: Condemned identity
20.JORDSJUK: Parasitt
21.HELHEIM: Geist
22.IN THE WOODS…: The things you shouldn’t know

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 6

01.CELTIC FROST: Circle of the tyrants
02.ROCK OUT: American way
03.MOB RULES: Future loom
04.LÜT: Glücksschmied
05.THE HELLACOPTERS: Toys and flavors
06.LARS FREDRIK FRØISLIE: Medusas flåte
07.BURNING WITCHES: Inquisition
08.GHOST: Bible
09.EXTINCT: Worship-obey-subjugate
10.PROJECT ARCADIA: I am alive
11.UNLEASHED: War comes again
12.FURNACE: Beyond the valley
13.BEHEADED: Il-kittieb
14.JORDSJUK: Grovt skadeverk
15.BEHEMOTH: The shit ov God
16.AFARGANG: Kvile
17.DARK FUNERAL: Unchain my soul
18.NAILED TO OBSCURITY: Overcast
19.WE CAME AS ROMANS: No rest for the dreamer
20.NERVOSA: Smashing heads
21.ENSIFERUM: One man army

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 29

01.LITA FORD: Kiss me deadly
02.MENTALIST: All for one
03.MÅNEGARM: Hör mitt kall
04.POWERTRIPPIN’: Gustav the gun
05.HELLOWEEN: This is Tokyo
06.GUNS N’ ROSES: Nightrain
07.I PREVAIL: Into hell
08.ALICE COOPER: Wild ones
09.KATATONIA: July
10.EPICA: Fight to survive
11.NIGHT DEMON: Screams in the night
12.TROLLFEST: Korstog
13.SVARTSYN: Hellstorm of Fenrir
14.SAGNTID: Flesh, and for what
15.FEVERSEA: Until it goes away
16.VADER: Necronomicon
17.IMPLANT SOUL: Death whispers in fears
18.MACHINE HEAD: Øutsider
19.EXHORDER: Legions of death
20.PARADISE LOST: Silence like the grave
21.INFERNAL: Mephisto
22.CHEPANG: Khel
23.TRAIL OF TEARS: Faith comes knocking

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 22

01.MEGADETH: Mechanix
02.W.E.T.: This house is on fire
03.SABATON: Hordes of Khan
04.BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE: Radioactive
05.BRUCE DICKINSON: Navigate the seas of the sun
06.DREAM THEATER: Midnight messiah
07.JERRY CANTRELL: I want blood
08.SKUNK ANANSIE: Animal
09.GLORYHAMMER: On a quest for Aberdeen
10.METALLICA: Harvester of sorrow
11.THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE ZUGLY: New kids on the blockchain
12.ANTITHESIS: Times of trial
13.FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: I refuse
14.EXODUS: He’s a woman she’s a man
15.HERSIR: Holocaust winter
16.PICTURE ANN: The architecture of cities past and present
17.THE HAUNTED: Warhead
18.FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY: Lower purpose
19.LORNA SHORE: Oblivion
20.MALUM: In gloom I
21.MESHUGGAH: Born in dissonance

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 15 - Tons of Rock

The show was about Tons Of Rock 2025

01.BLACK DEBBATH: Tons of rock
02.ALESTORM: Uzbekistan
03.CANDLEMASS: Solitude
04.POWERWOLF: Werewolves of Armenia
05.OLD MAN’S CHILD: The millennium king
06.MUSE: Uprising
07.CARCASS: No love lost
08.TURBONEGER: Fuck the world
09.ORBIT CULTURE: The tales of war
10.SEX PISTOLS: God save the queen
11.BELPHEGOR: Lucifer incestus
12.GREEN DAY: American idiot
13.DJERV: (We don’t) hang no more
14.WITHIN TEMPTATION: Supernova
15.STEEL PANTHER: It won’t suck itself
16.DIMMU BORGIR: Stormblåst
17.UGLY KID JOE: Everything about you
18.EXODUS: Bonded by blood
19.BACSTREET GIRLS: Going down
20.JINJER: Green serpent
21.DARK ANGEL: Never to rise again
22.EMPEROR: Inno a Satana
23.MACHINE HEAD: Bønescraper
24.AVENGED SEVENFOLD: Game over

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 8 - Spetakkelfestivalen

Interview with Pål & Per-Joar from Spetakkelfestivalen, recorded at Inferno Metal Festival

01.UGLY KID JOE: Neighbor
02.LAURENNE/LOUHIMO: Let the light be free
03.BEAST IN BLACK: Enter the behelit
04.HUMBLE PIE: Black coffee
05.KISSIN’ DYNAMITE: Queen of the night
06.SPIDERGAWD: What you have become
07.AUDREY HORNE: Youngblood
08.JUDAS PRIEST: Panic attack
09.CREMATORY: My own private god
10.SEIGMEN: Disiplin
11.MAYFIRE: Shadows
12.THE CULT: Fire woman
13.STAGE DOLLS: Heart of a woman
14.AVENGED SEVENFOLD: Hail to the king
15.RISE AGAINST: Savior
16.DEATH ANGEL: Wrath (bring fire)
17.SEPULTURA: Means to an end
18.DEVINE DEFILEMENT: Anthropophagic apocalypse pt.1  collapse
19.VOMITIZER: Rat religion
20.SOULFLY: Eye for an eye
21.MESHUGGAH: Demiurge

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

Reporter
Raymond Smith

June 1 - Befouled

Interview with Henning Haugen from Befouled, recorded at Inferno Metal Festival

01.EUROPE: Sign of the times
02.ALLIANCE: Right
03.ALESTORM: Killed to death by piracy
04.MONO INC.: The passenger
05.KORSLAGDA KUKAR: En sån här chans får man bara en gang i livet
06.SILVERSOUL: The moment
07.WARKINGS: Armageddon
08.LARS FREDRIK FRØISLIE: Gamle mester
09.NESTOR: In the name of rock’n’roll
10.CHONTARAZ: Spin the wheel
11.WITHIN TEMPTATION: Sing like a siren
12.MIKE TRAMP: Maybe tomorrow
13.HALCYON DAYS: Better days
14.FIGHT THE FIGHT: Shining
15.ALIEN WEAPONRY: 1000 friends
16.BEFOULED: Legacy
17.BEFOULED: Mummified alive
18.OPETH: Master’s apprentices
19.BLOODYWOOD: Tadka
20.DARKTHRONE: En vind av sorg
21.IMMORTAL: One by one

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

Reporters
Raymond Smith & Jan Erik Johansen

May 25 - Sweden Rock Festival

The show was all about Sweden Rock Festival 2025.

01.JINJER: Kafka
02.CATTLE DECAPITATION: Scourge of the offspring
03.SLIPKNOT: Spit it out
04.KING DIAMOND: Spider Lilly
05.SLOMOSA: Monomann
06.STRYPER: To hell with the devil
07.SEX PISTOLS: Anarchy in the UK
08.KREATOR: Enemy of God
09.KORN: Good God
10.DREAM THEATER: Strange déjà vu
11.BLOODSTAIN: I am death
12.CRAZY LIXX: Hunt for danger
13.CRIMSON GLORY: Red sharks
14.JORN: Stormcrow
15.OLD MAN’S CHILD: Enslaved and condemned
16.D.A.D: 1st, 2nd & 3rd
17.RUNNING WILD: Under Jolly Roger
18.SCORPIONS: Blackout
19.THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE ZUGLY: Song for a prepper
20.BLIND GUARDIAN: Bright eyes
21.TURBONEGER: Hurry up & die
22.EXODUS: The toxic waltz
23.SABATON: Templars

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

May 18 - Sjodogg

Espen Slotsvik from Sjodogg visited out studio

01.WARLOCK: I rule the ruins
02.OAK: Run into the sun
03.GHOST: Satanized
04.JOE LYNN TURNER: Vehicle
05.GRAVE DIGGER: Hellfire crusade
06.BLUE ÖYSTER CULT: Astronomy
07.SONS OF ANGELS: Cowgirl
08.KISS: Tears are falling
09.KATATONIA: Lilac
10.ARENA: Solomon
11.HIGHLAND GLORY: Forever endeavour
12.THE HALO EFFECT: Not yet broken
13.CELESTIAL SCOURGE: Exterminated
14.SJODOGG: Of the lowest order
15.SJODOGG: Ancient horror
16.SJODOGG: Sewn mouth
17.SACRED STEEL: Leather, spikes and chains
18.KONVENT: Pipe dreams
19.FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY: Two towers

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

May 11 - Helvitnir

Interview with Ihizag from Helvitnir, recorded at Inferno Metal Festival.

01.EXODUS: Bonded by blood
02.GINEVRA: Lightning roses
03.SUM 41: Radio silence
04.MARKUS ZIERHOFER, JEREMY FROBÖSE: Iron fist
05.NOVEMBER: Mount Everest
06.MAGIC PIE: Someone else’s wannabe
07.ALESTORM: Frozen piss 2
08.ATROCITY: Keine heimat
09.THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE ZUGLY: How to do nothing
10.UNLEASHED: The soil of our fathers
11.KATLA: Grim Jesus
12.HELVITNIR: Imagery of deceit
13.HELVITNIR: Black flame triad
14.HELVITNIR: Throes of transformation
15.THE GHOST INSIDE: Wash it away
16.SCOUR: Blades
17.FRANTIC AMBER: Black widow
18.OBLITERATION: Goat skull crown
19.ORBIT CULTURE: Strangler

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

Reporters
Raymond Smith
Jan Erik Johansen

May 4 - Desertfest

Preben Astrup & Elisabeth Horne from Desertfest visited our studio

01.GJENFERD: Starless
02.MAGMAKAMMER: Zimbardo
03.CULT MEMBER: The dragon
04.DUNBARROW: On your trail
05.LOWRIDER: And the horse you rode in on
06.ELEPHANT TREE & LOWRIDER: Through the rift
07.MESSA: Fire on the roof
08.GRAVEYARD: Ship of fools
09.FERAL NATURE: Unleash
10.BARREN WOMB:  Bug out bag
11.AGRICULTURE: In the house of angel flesh
12.HIPPIE DEATH CULT: Toxic annihilator
13.WHORES: Quitter’s fight song
14.CHAT PILE: I am dog now
15.ORANSSI PAZUZU: Bioalkemisti
16.ELDER: Compendium

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

April 27 - Karmøygeddon Metal Festival

The show was about Karmøygeddon Metal Fest

01.SODOMISERY:  A storm without a wind
02.COR SCORPII: Hjarteorm
03.GRAND MAGUS: Skybound
04.KOVENANT: Dragonheart
05.DECAPITATED: Mother war
06.ROTTING CHRIST: Grandis spiritus diavolos
07.HELHEIM: Nattravnens tokt
08.ECLIPSE: All I want
09.BORKNAGAR: Voices
10.FRANTIC AMBER: Burning insight
11.EINHERJER: Dragons of the north
12.DEAD BY APRIL: What can I say
13.JORN: Out to every nation
14.HAMMERFALL: The end justifies
15.SLAGMAUR: Ja vi elsker dette landet
16.SLEGGEKUNST: Poppis
17.EVERGREY: Falling from the sun
18.PAGAN’S MIND: Alien kamikaze
19.WORMWOOD: Galactic blood
20.AUDREY HORNE: Pretty little sunshine
21.SOEN: Deceiver
22.HYPOCRISY: End of disclosure
23.SATYRICON: Now, diabolical

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen