It’s Christmas Eve and we have an early gift for your at Ragnarok - episode 31 of the podcast.
Its crammed full of heavy metal christmas tunes for the season, we review what 2008 has brought for the show and discuss the up and coming interview schedule for the coming year. We’d love to read your comments about the last year of the podcast and if theres anything you’d like to hear in 2009.
Also we’re taking part in the North East Digital Awards looking to claim the award for best podcast in 2008. We’d love you to vote for us!
We hope you have a heavy Christmas and a metal New Year!
The playlist for episode 31 looks like this…
Fight - Christmas Ride
The Sword - Winter’s Wolves
Paul Di’anno - Another Christmas Rock and Roll
Twisted Sister - Heavy Metal Christmas
Sacred Dawn - Wicked Land of Winter
Exsecratus - Under Winter Moon
Taken By Wolves - Land of Ice and Snow
Blackmore’s Night - Good King Wenceslas
Joel Kopistike - A Harry Potter Christmas
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]]>This is the first part of our series about women in Heavy Metal with interviews from female metal stars.
With these podcast programs we’re hoping to highlight the differing roles and challenges faced by women in the Heavy Metal industry. In this show we talk to Floor Jansen of After Forever and Lori Linstruth guitarist turned manager for Arjen Lucassen.
The following episodes of this series will be avalible from our site in the new year!
Also included in this show are the following Metal tracks
After Forever - Energize Me
Interregnum - Storm Of The Ancient
Brainstorm - Inside The Monster
Girlschool - Demolition Boys
Lori Linstruth - Leite Mich
Lori Linstruth - If
Battlelore - House Of Heros
Khoda - Violent Times
Ego Likeness - Severine
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]]>Agamoth from extreme Black Metal act Abgott gives us this exclusive interview while being on the road at Ivory Blacks in Glasgow revealing details about the new album, why he made the move to London and what it was like being part of the Italian Metal scene.
If you like your metal blackened and brutal then this is undoubtedly the show for you!
This episode of the podcast features the following 9 crushing tracks
Abgott - Kronos Cosmic Throne
Benighted - Identisick
Beyond The Grave - Beyond The Grave
Cryptic Hate - Arterial Spray
Gallhammer - At The On Set Of Age Of Despair
Lazarus Blackstar - The Day The Circus Came
Martriden - The Art Of Death Infernal
Mindless Torture - Amputate
The Monolith Deathcult - Wrath Of The Ba’ath
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]]>Our Halloween special featuring all the finest evil metal to get you in the mood for ghoulish goings on. Whatever you choose to do this year we hope you have a great time regardless of if you get dressed up or not!
Episode 28 features the following devilishly heavy bands…
Zimmer’s Hole - While you were shouting at the Devil… we were in league with Satan
Red Warlock - The Ritual
Kronahaarn - Ghost Town
Devilish Impressions - Dracula’s Mechanised Universe
Detrimentum - First Three Circles of Hell
Helloween - Halloween
Death - Zombie Ritual
Zombina and the Skeletones - Nobody likes you when your dead
The Coffinshakers - Halloween
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]]>Photos of industrial goth group The Cruxshadows can now be found on our flickr page along with Bristol based Cauda Pavonis from their gig at Independent in Sunderland.
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]]>Catch our video of Iron Maiden performing Run To The Hills at Graspop 2008
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]]>A selection of photos from the 2008 Graspop festival held in Dessel, Belgium are now online to view. They include vampiric portugese metallers Moonspell, Sabaton and Sonata Arctica.
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]]>Gig photos from Wacken 2008 are now on our flickr page. A short set of photographic highlights including Irish Black Metal band Primordial, Nightwish and Iron Maiden.
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]]>You can catch our videos of Man Must Die playing New Elgin Hall at the following locations.
Man Must Die at New Elgin Hall
Man Must Die - Wall Of Death
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]]>View photos from the Man Must Die show at New Elgin Hall on our flickr page!
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