Every week's a program highlight for The Cage, and this week's no exception: loads of killer metal from Japan; tributes to the legends such as Deep Purple, Whitesnake, and Dio; Happy B-Day to Udo; New releases from Raven, Tygers, and a spotlight on new RAIDER! Rest in Power, Ryuichi Sakamoto, thanks for your incredible work.

Playlist:

• Hell Freezes Over - Grant You Metal
• Phantom Excaliver - Metal Never Betrays Us
• Abigail - Beer! Metal! Sex!
• Barbatos - Sexual Alcohol Metal
• Kyoji Yamamoto - Dog Fight
• Bow Wow - Silver Lightning
• Vow Wow, featuring Neil Murray - Turn On the Night
• Whitesnake - Still Of The Night
• Whitesnake - Dancing Girls
• Whitesnake - Burn/Stormbringer (Deep Purple cover)
• Murasaki - Lazy (Deep Purple cover)
• Murasaki - Doomsday
• Paul Gilbert - Maybe I'm a Leo (Deep Purple cover)
• Deep Purple - Speed King
• Gillan - No Laughing in Heaven
• Black Sabbath - Trashed
• Cannibal Corpse - Zero the Hero (Black Sabbath cover)
• Silver Mountain - Breakin' Chains
• Hammerfall - Man On The Silver Mountain (Rainbow cover)
• Liliac - Rainbow in the Dark (Dio cover)
• Dio - Holy Diver
• Raven - Go For the Gold
• Tygers of Pan Tang - Fire On the Horizon
• Holocaust - The Small Hours (live, 1981)
• Holocaust - Love's Power
• Raider - Juggernaut Cerebrivore
• Raider - Fearless
• Raider - Devour the Darkness
• U.D.O. - Go Back To Hell
• Accept - Balls To The Wall
• Saxon - Substitute (The Who cover)
• Saxon - Hungry Years
• Saxon - Denim and Leather
• Saxon - Power and Glory
• Fate Gear, featuring Kokomi - Romancer
• SYU, featuring Fuki - Reason
• Fuki - Zinger, Ringer, Gang, Love
• Yellow Magic Orchestra - Firecracker
• Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Garden of Poppies