The Molten Metal Show

This one, hosted by the Roadie, is worth a listen.

http://molten-metal-show.podomatic.com/

hard fast heavy show podcast

The hard fast heavy show on 95bfm in Auckland is podcasting their broadcasts, the link for it is below:

http://www.hardfastheavy.com/p/cast.html

They're not too on to it with timing- the most recent show is not yet posted there, and it's not available for download. If it weren't recorded from a live broadcast, or whatever, I think I'd be questioning it's existence. In fact I'm surprised the station isn't questioning why the current hard fast and heavy show host/DJ still hosts the show: tell him to speak properly and to not rub me the wrong way.

Metal devastation or the Sick room; I should really try & listen when people tell me meaningless drivel.

http://soundcloud.com/metaldevastationthesickro/the-sick-room-1/s-uiHjO


This link is to the latest (as far as I can be arsed to see) of the wholly internet based 'radio show' or podcast that my flatmate listens to and bitches about 'cos it's not downloadable so he can't put it on his douchebaggy ipod and take it to work with him.
Of course i remind him that the makers of the podcast would probably get sued for music copyright and left in a state much like as (What I gather to be) the titles of the songs they play, describe, i.e. hammer smashed faced, raped with a chainsaw etc (these are song titles I've thought of just now, off the top of my head. No relation to the podcast)

Rimutaka Metal: I've heard of 2 bands on this poster.

I've been absent for months, yet still I get sent emails. I'm not from nor have never been from the lower tips of the north island so Rimutaka is only a place I hear on the news, and I have no idea who "Jenimal at large" is/are etc but if your around Rimutaka, this poster's for you.

Note: This poster would kick ass if it were original art, can anyone tell me if it is, or post a link to the avatar on some metal forum where it was ripped from?

Winter Chaos 2011

In Malice’s Wake (Aus) :
Odiusembowel (Aus):
Exordium Mors :
Nullifier :
Forsaken Age :
Dying of the Light :
Winter Deluge :
7pm, Galatos Main Room, Friday June 3rd 2011. $10 pre-sales from http://www.chaosnz.com/ or $15 on door.

Sweet,

http://www.facebook.com/pages/TAINTED/7624147135

Metal on the awards night(s)

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=158397574219044
This blog is listed on this fb page ;)
Listed (with us) on the site is a rough list of what a NZ metaller can generally expect to encounter in the media, radio/tv/internet. Although, I personally wouldn't have simply copy and pasted direct from the Axe man's email list, Black frog lady; if you read this, i suggest a few changes:

This is (some of) what I think the fb page should say/list:


Think that the NZ Music Awards should include METAL in the awards. Over the last year or two there has been a steady increase in the number of METAL Radio shows, ALL of which feature different KIWI METAL bands each week! The longest running METAL show in NZ has been going since 1987! Which of course is The Axe Attack, http://www.theaxtattack.co.nz/  on The Rock. Here is a list of ALL the other METAL Radio Shows, TV shows and Blogs available to the average Metaler:

1) Metal Blog http://1milliontons.blogspot
2) The Kiwi Metal Bar tues10pm on kiwi fm http://www.kiwifm.co.nz/ 
3) Molten Metal Show Midnight Thurs Volcano Radio 88.5 FM Lyttelton. http://www.volcanoradio.co.nz/ 
4) The Steelmill C42
5) Anger Management Metal Radio Mon 11pm - 1am 89fm Wgtn http://www.facebook.com/pages/Anger-Management-Radio-Active/119440901422451
6) Cacophony - Metal Radio Tuesdays 9-11pm RDU98.5FM CHRISTCHURCH http://www.cacophony.co.nz/
7) The Metal Bar Metal Show Juice TV Wed 10pm and Fri nights 11pm.
8) House Of Noizz -Metal Radio Fridays 10:05PM 104.6 Planet FM Auckland http://www.houseofnoizz.com/
9) The Eclectic Electric -Metal show Weds 8-10pm 89FM Waikato
10) The Hard Fast and Heavy Show. Mondays 11pm-1am. 95Bfm http://www.hardfastheavy.com/

 11) NZmetal forums http://forum.nzmetal.com/

12) http://www.nzrock.com/
13)  http://www.heavymetal.co.nz/ 
14) Nocturnal Dominion, Wednesday11pm-1am 95bfm
15) Apparently this is real: 11am-1pm Saturdays is The Jenimal at Large NZ Metal, Punk and Hardcore Show. http://www.vipersoundradio.com/  
16) Metal Gig listings, like: www.eventfinder.co.nz/metal-gigs/events/new-zealand
17) http://www.mukuna.co.nz/auckland/metal.htm
18)www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/gig-guide/&genre=4 
19) I'm led to believe this site is metal friendly, http://www.punkas.com/ 
20) hardcore.Hard Planet fm 10.30pm Thursday. http://www.facebook.com/pages/HardcoreHARD-1046-planet-FM/110525532337401

And there's plenty more, what I've added is just me quickly searching around, remembering off the top of my head etc etc

holiday metal shows

Our posts about local radio shows seem to get a good number of views, and here's me thinking that scouring the web for free legit song downloads was the way to go...

So, despite the fact you can just google it and find it out in 2 seconds:

The Rock fm's The Axe Attack: last show for 2010 last Sunday, and will be returning to the airwaves Jan 23rd 2011.

95bfm's Hard fast & heavy show, Planet fm's Hardcore.hard seems not to be taking a break.

Can't tell shit from the kiwi fm kiwi metal bar, the station website doesn't have a page for them and there's just a generic holiday message on their facebook.
 
Metal ad is apparently returning to the airwaves with a new name, format, style etc in 2011, but to be honest I'm quite disappointed with these guys. When I first saw all the buzz about it on the interwebs and all the hype they pumped out, and all the potential I envisaged for them. But, in the end they only aired a handful of shows before disappearing. They should sort their shit out, and on their return: stick to it, otherwise f...-off.

Free song from a band i never heard of before now

Follow the link below, enter your email address and the dowload link will be emailed to you.
http://petsematary.5stargrave.com/order.php

Manowar re-doing Battle Hymns

The title says it all really, but their getting in Count Dooku/Saruman aka Christopher Lee for "Dark Avenger"
The updated album, titled "Battle Hymns 2011" will probably rub fans of old Manowar the wrong way, but stoked will be fans of the newer manowar..
Lee recently released a "metal" concept album about Charlemagne, and has apparently worked with the of odd power metal band at various times, i guess.

Metal Ipod/phone app

shit yeah, I wanna frikkin I-something now:

Australian Black Metal, tours NZ

I am getting so lazy these days, *screen shot* *crop* *post on internet* haven't even replied my attendance yet..

more news I saw today

Converge, a band who recently visited NZ and tore up the Kings Arms, are starting the writing process this week for a new album.

Dethcore new comers Oceano are due to release their 2nd album, Contagion on Metalblade and if you click here to pre-order it (or any combo of new cd to merch) you go in the draw to win an Ipad- valid only thru the US store so I don't know if that means it's limited to USA residents or not..

Slaughterama, a Zine run by the guys who do "The House of Noizz" has a new issue out now, for details and to download it for free check out: http://www.houseofnoizz.com/slaughterama.php
NOTE: If you pay for it, i.e. for a hard copy- it'll come with a free NZ sampler CD, available via trade me in a few days or something.

The Souless, formerly Ignominious Incarceration, will be entering the studio [one in Britain] in mid-December and working there thru til January2011- due for an April 2011 release

A few bands enter studio, etc

The Haunted are working on a new album- they're in Antfarm studios [Denmark] now [check out their facebook page for pics of their recordings]

Gojira are "... in Los Angeles next week in the studio with Logan Mader, recording an EP to support the action of Sea Shepherd led by Paul Watson. A lot of people are showing their support already. We'll have very special guests singing on these 4 songs." not really album news, but I'll still be checking it out despite stories of the sea sheppard organisation being 'morally bankrupt' and a means to an end kinda group.

In Flames are also due to begin work on a new album, they'll be entering IF studios- in the heart of Gothenburg! [Sweden] if ever there was a place to record an album, smack bang in the middle of the world-renowned Gothenburg would be the place. The band recorded A sense of Purpose at IF, other bands who've recorded there include The Haunted [Versus], and a bunch of others.

Chimaira guitarist Rob Arnold, along with Bleed the Sky's Austin D'Amond are in a new side-project, "The Elite" they have an EP due out "WW3 EP" [available via iTunes, apparently] though it sounds closer to Chimaira than Black Metal as the band name would suggest [as the sayings go- Black Metal & Elitism go togeather like Pantera and Camo-Cargo shorts]

My Halloween

Being in New Zealand, the holiday catered for goths [I use the term loosely, least my goth friends see this] and the overly [if secretly] theatrical alike [and not always mutually exclusive] i.e. Halloween as far as I've experienced it, has never really been enthusiastically 'celebrated' [beyond those with said character anomalies.]
However, this year came a culmination of several events amongst my circle of friends [i mean drinking buddies] in both personal and work respects, which brought us all together with reasons, both positive and negative, to crash the weekend into a ditch and leave it there bleeding.
I went dressed as Admiral No Beard from Swashbuckle [despite looking more like a mix of commodore redrum and bootsman collins] or in other words, a pirate... the usual messy, memory loss inducing night on Saturday followed, leading to a group of us waking up in the car at a beach on the other side of Auckland [turns out our sober driver's girlfriend lives up the road from this beach] a flash cafe cooked breakfast later and we eventually made it back home for ghostbusters on the telly.

It's nothing really to do with metal [other than the fact- it was what we had blasting at all opportunities], but was a particularly awesome weekend that I wished happened more often.

Our Last Enemy Album Launch Tour

The NZ dates for the "Our Last Enemy Album Launch Tour" have been amended [if they haven't been & it's been correct like this the whole time- I apologize, my sleep deprivation and terrible-ness with numbers was to blame...]

New New Zealand Dates:
 Friday 07/01/11 Medusa Bar, Wellington NZ
 Saturday 08/01/11 The Kings Arms, Auckland NZ
Any more information than this, check out: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141310135895474&ref=nf

It's only temporary but:

Hope this swings by NZ

Darkest hour w/ Carnifex tour Oz early 2011, It's no secret that one of the prime reasons for my interest in this tour is that the Carnifex released a cover of Angel of Death, which I find a bit stirring [in my pants, but it's not gay cos it's Slayer]

This looks massive, but unfortunately it's like 1000miles away from me

I don't know half the bands [less than half really] but it still looks huge. I couildn't even imagine something like this happening in NZ- with 23 bands [including NZ ex-pats Akaname] with more to be announced. And for onlu $15AUD [or $28NZ ;p nah, but exchange rates are a bitch]

Local [Auckland] radio update. [updated]

This is gonna probably seem a bit hypocritical, since I don't/can't/forget to listen to the local metal shows, especially these past few weeks- but luckily they have an internet footprint, which is what I'm gonna look for:

The Axe Attack (the Rock): The giant, the tower of power of all things metal and radio in NZ hosts 6hours of Sabbath on the next show this Sunday (Oct 31st), from 6pm- I'm gonna attempt to organise a BBQ, have a few cold beers and invite my stoner brother- make the night complete ;p [hell, I'm not being biased just because the gracious, most brutally awesome Axe Man has included a link to this very blog in his own regular email update, as previously reported ;p]

The Hard Fast Heavy show (95bfm): These guy(s) must have a deal with the promoters of the Megadeth headlined No Sleep Til Auckland tour, 'cos host, Dale, is interviewing damn near all the bands on the lineup. So far facebook/ their blog [it's now http://www.hardfastheavy.com/] tells me they've interviewed [someone from] Parkway Drive, Katatonia, August Burns Red, Suicide Silence, GWAR and 3 Inches of Blood.

Hardcore.Hard (planet fm): Is it's own beast, completely different to the short-lived Metal AD. Hosts Dug and db recently had the lads from Antagonist AD in the radio booth with them, and on this Thursday's show, they're having someone by the name of Cash- vocalist for now split Evil Priest [I did catch these guys play once or twice back in the day]

The Kiwi Metal Bar (Kiwi FM): all these guys seem to be doing at the moment is promoting the Tainted tour in November, well their facebook page is at least [and the only mention on the kiwi FM website is of said tour]. Not a bad tour to have your name on, I wonder if I could get this blogs name on a tour like that, or will my insatiable desire for anonymity be my downfall?!?!...

The House of Noizz (Planet fm): These guys seem to be humming along nicely- their fb group is quite active and their youtube vids are quite good to watch as well.. I wonder- it would probably be these lads to buy [had they the money] life size versions of the original Manowar album art. It would look good in the back ground to their youtube vids [I haven't seen all of their clips so can't say if they've already done so]