Rage Cage

Gained another listener today, and possibly more. To all my new, and long-time Cage-a-holics, let me take this time to say THANK YOU! You are the reasons why our journey continues today!

Playlist:

• Iron Kingdom - The Blood of Creation
• Iron Savior - Heavy Metal Never Dies
• Crypta - Poisonous Apathy
• Holy Moses - Cult of the Machine
• Arch Enemy - Anthem/Saints and Sinners
• Powertron - Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley cover)
• Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
• AC/DC - Jailbreak
• Airbourne - This Is Our City
• Jackyl - Dirty Little Mind
• Krokus - Streamer
• Rob Zombie - Dragula
• White Zombie - More Human Than Human: Meet Bambi In The King's Harem Mix
• Powerman 5000 - The End Of Everything
• Hanabie - We the Space Invaders
• Hanabie - Tousou: Escape
• Bridear - Awakers
• Broken By the Scream - Lips For Romance
• Passcode - Melody From The Bumbling Clash
• Passcode - Spark Ignition
• Nuclear Assault - New Song
• Whiplash - Last Man Alive
• Demolition Hammer - Human Dissection
• Devin Townsend Project - A New Reign
• Devin Townsend Project - Z2/From Sleep Awake/Ziltoidian Empire
• Devin Townsend Project - N9
• Strapping Young Lad - Relentless
• Michael Schenker Group - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
• UFO - This Kid's
• UFO - Rock Bottom
• KISS - Rock Bottom
• Slipknot - Iowa
• Slipknot - My Plague (Live in London, 2002)
• Sludgehammer - Supernova Silhouette

Shoutout to all the crews for OMATSURI Japanese Festival last weekend. Thanks for bringing me close to home!

Playlist:

• Babymetal, featuring Tom Morello - Metali!
• Asterism - Metal
• Sex Machineguns - Burn! Japameta!
• Thelemite - Night of the Wolf
• Midnight Vice - Strike In The Night
• Enforcer - Midnight Vice
• Overkill - Scorched
• Nita Strauss - Scorched
• Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Blue Planet
• Huntress - Oracle
• Burning Witches - I Wanna Be Somebody (W.A.S.P. cover)
• W.A.S.P. - Doctor Rockter
• Hooker Spit - Dry Fisted
• Vader - Don't Rip Beast's Heart Out
• Vomitory - All Heads Are Gonna Roll
• Crypta - The Other Side of Anger
• Nervosa - Seed of Death
• Torture Squad - No Escape From Hell
• Cadaver - The Sicker, The Better
• Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick/Leading the Rats
• Exhumed - Sicked
• Cannibal Corpse - Bloody Chunks
• Cannibal Corpse - Summoned For Sacrifice
• Hate Eternal - Sons of Darkness
• Girlschool - It Is What It Is
• The Runaways - Queens of Noise
• Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I'm Gonna Run Away
• Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly
• Savage Master - Hunt At Night
• Liliac - Rebel Girl
• Doro, featuring Rob Halford - Living After Midnight (Judas Priest cover)
• Dolly Parton, featuring Rob Halford - Bygones
• Vortex - When No More Words Will Be Heard
• Evile - When Mortal Coils Shed
• Anthrax - Big Eyes (Cheap Trick cover)
• Cheap Trick - Reach Out
• Billy Squier - Lonely Is The Night
• Billy Squier - Stroke Me Blues
• Band-Maid - Shambles
• Band-Maid - Thrill
• Band-Maid - Rock In Me
• Band-Maid - Be OK
• Gatekeeper - Desert Winds

First of all: congrats to my Team Japan for their victory in FIFA Soccer so far. This week: we ROCKED our way back to the some of the biggest metal festivals in history: US Festival (1983), Monsters of Rock (1988), and Ozzy's Monsters of Rock (2008). Stay tuned, stay unchained, and hit the ground runnin'!

Playlist:

• Cavalera Conspiracy - Troops of Doom
• Cavalera Conspiracy - The Doom of All Fires
• Zimmer's Hole - When You Were Shouting At the Devil, We Were In League With Satan
• Motley Crue - Shout At the Devil
• Motley Crue - Looks That Kill
• Motley Crue - Live Wire
• Quiet Riot - Metal Health (live)
• Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel the Noize
• Quiet Riot - Danger Zone
• Ozzy Osbourne - I Don't Know
• Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon
• Ozzy Osbourne - Iron Man/Children of the Grave
• Scorpions - Blackout
• Scorpions - Rhythm of Love
• Scorpions - Bad Boys Running Wild
• Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
• Kingdom Come - Living Out of Touch
• Kingdom Come - Get It On
• Kingdom Come - Pushin' Hard
• Dokken - Tooth and Nail
• Dokken - In My Dreams
• Dokken - Burning Like a Flame
• Triumph - Allied Forces
• Triumph - Magic Power
• Triumph - A World of Fantasy
• Testament - The Formation of Damnation
• Hatebreed - I Will Be Heard
• Voivod - Tribal Convictions
• Metallica - Anesthesia - Pulling Teeth/Whiplash
• Metallica - Welcome Home: Sanitarium (live)
• Metallica - Creeping Death (live)
• Van Halen - Unchained
• Van Halen - Romeo's Delight
• Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' Bout Love
• Van Halen - Sucker In a Three Piece
• Judas Priest - Victim of Changes

Good to see my superwomen of Team Japan kickin' ass in the FIFA World Cup so far! Speaking of superwomen, a spotlight on an exciting new release from Japan's HANABIE! Also, more sneek-peak at Loud As Hell Festival, and new album from Red Deer's HOOKER SPIT. Lastly, rest in power Sinead O'Connor. Thank you for your music, and your fight.

Playlist:

• Girlschool, featuring Biff Byford, Duff Mckagan, Phil Campbell - Born To Raise Hell (Motorhead cover)
• Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons - Born To Roam
• Motorhead - Crazy Like a Fox
• Grindpad - Sharkbite!
• Warhead - Attack of the Shark
• Witchery - Fast as a Shark
• Hooker Spit - Corpse Grinder
• Hooker Spit - Flesh Feast
• Hooker Spit - The Huntsmen
• Necht - Within Her Jaws Dwells the Dark Promises of Death
• Witchmayne - Killing Field
• Whorrify - Open Grave
• Lethal Mentality - Tragicomic
• The Astral Prophets - Cybernetic Doom
• Lost Nebula - Survival Isn't Free
• Alex Nunziati - Black Space Void
• Theatres des Vampires - Theatre of Horrors
• Sleepless - Blood Libel: A Vampire Tale
• Jungle Rot - Beyond the Grave
• Jungle Rot - They Gave Their Lives
• Jungle Rot - I Predict a Riot
• Jungle Rot - Rage Through the Wasteland
• Voivod, featuring Jason Newsted - Rebel Robot (2023 Version)
• Flotsam and Jetsam - I Live You Die (1985 demo)
• Killitorous - Eat Your God Alive
• Murasaki, featuring Kyoji Yamamoto - Double Dealing Woman (Re-recorded version)
• Kyoji Yamamoto - Saturn
• Bow Wow - Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran cover)
• Vowwow - Go Insane
• Hanabie - Gal This Summer For Sure!
• Hanabie - Warning!
• Hanabie - Blast Off/Hyperdimensional Galaxy
• Hanabie - Sunrise Miso Soup
• Little Lilith - Lullaby
• Lonesome Blue - Total Eclipse
• Tailgunner - Guns For Hire
• Iron Maiden - Tailgunner
• Sinead O'Connor - Troy
• Poltergeist - We Watch the Skies

Back after 2 weeks, big thanks to Milan for taking over, you did a FANTASTIC job! Now this week: more fresh tunes (including the "new" Cavalera Conspiracy), and another preview of upcoming Loud As Hell Festival. Lastly, it's World Cup Soccer time again, so may the best team win. Go JAPAN Go!

Playlist:

• The Art of Mankind - Backstab
• Parasitario - Five To Die
• Defiled - Centuries
• Concrete Funeral - Carnival of Contradictions
• Greybeard - Beneath
• Param-nesia - Home
• Eye of Horus - Unsolemn
• Vapor - The Executioner
• LOST NEBULA - Technophobia
• Sepultura - Necromancer (demo)
• Cavalera Conspiracy - Mayhem
• Cavalera Conspiracy - Warriors of Death
• Sacrifice - Warrior of Death
• Blood Sacrifice - Kneel and Obey
• Green Jelly - Obey the Cowgod
• Sorrow Enthroned - Lord Satan
• Enthroned - Silent Redemption
• Hecate Enthroned - An Ode For a Haunted Wood
• Evile - Sleepless Eyes
• Exhorder - The Truth
• Exodus - The Beatings Will Continue Until Morality Improves
• Dying Fetus - Feast of Ashes
• Vomitory - Beg For Death
• Vader - Send Me Back To Hell
• Tsjuder - Iron Beast
• Tsjuder - Born For Burning (Bathory cover)
• Necrophobic - Enter the Eternal Fire (Bathory cover)
• Bathory - Chariot of Fire
• Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue
• William Shatner, featuring Steve Vai - Ponder the Mystery
• William Shatner, featuring Ian Paice, Johnny Winter - Space Truckin' (Deep Purple cover)
• Miyako - Burn (Deep Purple cover)
• Lovebites - Glory To The World
• Arkroyal - Dystopia
• Pat Travers - Snortin' Whiskey
• Raging Slab - Take a Hold
• Red Cain, featuring James Delbridge (Lycanthro) - Fires of Heaven

Milan Uyeno is in the booth today, playing the whole gamut from classic heavy metal, prog, black and even some tech death avant-guard songs. Some familiar, some not, all excellent!

Playlist:

• Converge - Fault and Fracture
• Gatekeeper - Twisted Towers
• The Dillinger Escape Plan - Limerent Death
• Suzuki Tsunekichi - OMOIDE
• Mastodon - Shadows That Move
• Coroner - Son of Lilith
• Anthrax - Monster At The End
• Tim Hecker - Monotony II
• Effluence - Caustic RNA Transmogrification
• ISIS - So Did We
• GWAR - Crack In The Egg
• Broken Paws - Deeper Blue (Edit)
• Necrophagist - Stabwound
• Megadeth - Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
• Bruce Dickinson - Darkside of Aquarius
• Ayako Shinozaki - Heterodyne (Edit)
• Kostnatění - Nausea Is All I Am
• In Flames - Cloud Connected
• Devin Townsend - Seventh Wave
• A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Sullen Sonata
• Gorguts - The Carnal State
• Deafheaven - Dream House
• Anthony Tan - sublime subliminal sublimate
• Asunojokei - The Sweet Smile of Vortex
• Eldensky - Glyph
• Oranges and Lemons - Raspberry Heaven
• Iced Earth - Ten Thousand Strong
• Earthshaker - Labyrinth
• Waste of Space Orchestra - Seeker's Reflection
• Forager - Apostate
• Devin Townsend Band - Deadhead
• Hellripper - Poison Womb (The Curse of the Witch)
• Bloated Pig - DEADWEIGHT
• Ben Frost - Venter
• Goatwhore - Collapse in Eternal Worth
• Dragged Into Sunlight - Boiled Angel
• Oranssi Pazuzu - Oikeamelisten sali
• Fridge - Our Place In This
• The HU - Wolf Totem
• Godflesh - Defeated
• Caveat - Until Dawn
• Coaltar of the Deepers - Dear Future
• Opeth - Beneath the Mire
• TOOL - Pushit
• Valiska - Sketches of Mid-December
• The Great Kat - Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" For Violin, Chamber Orchestra & Band
• TOOL - Third Eye

More sneak-peek of upcoming Loud As Hell Festival, new music from Rockin' Engine, Nita Strauss, The Art of Mankind. Plus, some "western-y" tunes for your Stampedin' ways, and Happy TANABATA to all my Ikari Crews in Japan!

Playlist:

• King Diamond - The 7th Day of July 1777
• Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
• Rockin' Engine - Carnival of Evil
• Rockin' Engine - Psycho Path
• Rockin' Engine, featuring Steph Jomf - Room 185
• Black Sabbath - The Shining
• Omnium Gatherum - Slasher
• Slayer - 213
• Vantablack Warship - 40 Acres
• Blessed Death - Death in the Sky
• The Art of Mankind - Chaosbringer
• Juliet Ruin - Fight To Win
• Osyron - Prairie Sailor
• Incite - Ruthless Ways
• Anthem - Headstrong
• Lazy - Everybody Wants Love
• Loudness - In My Dreams
• Blood Star - Fearless Priestess
• Riot City - The Hunter
• Intranced - El Gran Deseo
• Accept - Stampede
• Nita Strauss - Summer Storm
• Nita Strauss, featuring Dorothy - Victorious
• Dorothy - Hurricane
• Sanctuary - White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane cover)
• Jefferson Starship - Jane
• Journey - Topaz
• Molly Hatchet - Both Sides
• 38 Special - Chain Lightnin'
• Devildriver - Outlaw Man (Eagles cover)
• Krokus - Playin' the Outlaw
• Striker - Outlaw
• Skymir - Trois Pistoles: Legend of the Black Horse
• Asterism - Fiction
• Asterism - Gunfire
• Babymetal - Babymetal Death/Megitsune
• Electric Revival - Of This Darkness

Happy Canada Day, and for my Cageaholics in the south, Happy Independence Day!

Playlist:

• Def Leppard - Hello America
• Dee Snider - American Made
• Sebastian Bach - American Metalhead
• Terrifier - Grinding the Blade
• Terrifier - Trial By Combat
• Terrifier - Bones of the Slain
• Saxon - Sailing To America
• Helloween - Lost in America
• Alice Cooper - Lost in America
• Alice Cooper - I Love America
• Alice Cooper - The Great American Success Story
• Necronomicon - Paradise Lost
• Untimely Demise - Ring of Steel
• Hyperia - Asylum
• Tora Tora - Wild America
• Love/Hate - Wasted In America
• Motorhead - America
• Motorhead - Stone Deaf In The U.S.A.
• Boneyard - Born Again
• Hellrazer - Ironheart
• Bloated Pig - Deadweight
• Ye Goat-Herd Gods - Ancient Hell
• Danger Danger - Rock America
• Night Ranger - You Can Still Rock in America
• Night Ranger - Growin' Up in California
• David Lee Roth - California Girls (Beach Boys cover)
• Razor - Miami
• Razor - American Luck
• Razor - Challenge the Eagle
• Razor - The Marshall Arts
• Razor - The End
• Razor - Killer Instinct
• Razor - Evil Invaders
• Crazy Lixx - Anthem For America
• Y & T - All American Boy
• Y & T - L.A. Rocks
• L.A. Guns - Hollywood Tease
• Helix - The Kids Are All Shakin'
• Helix - Wild in the Streets
• Helix - Heavy Metal Love
• Helix - Rock You (Live at the Marquee Club, 1984)
• Slik Toxik - Helluvatime
• Honeymoon Suite - Burning in Love
• Black Label Society - America the Beautiful
• Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner
• Kenna Burima - Morning
• Devin Townsend - Borderlands

Plenty of shreddin' tunes, as well as rockin' summer tunes!

Playlist:

• The Great Kat - High Priestess of Guitar Shred
• The Great Kat - AI: The Shredbot Robot
• The Great Kat - Hot and Heavy Metal
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - World On Fire
• Alcatrazz - Little Viper
• George Lynch, featuring Phil Lewis - Billion Dollar Babies (Alice Cooper cover)
• Dokken - Live To Rock, Rock To Live
• Nita Strauss - Summer Storm
• Joe Satriani - Summer Song
• Gus G., featuring Jeffrey Scott Soto - Summer Days
• Miyako - Battery (Metallica cover)
• Sonic Lover Reckless - Phoenix
• Lovebites - Dissonance
• Onmyo-Za - Tokimeki
• Maki Oyama - Trigger
• Tony Martin - As the World Burns
• Black Sabbath - End Of The Beginning
• Dolly Parton, featuring Rob Halford - Bygones
• Halford - Hearts of Darkness
• Judas Priest - On the Run
• Saxon - Midnight Rider
• Blue Oyster Cult - This Ain't The Summer of Love
• Diesel - Sausolito Summernight
• Cinderella - Once Around the Ride
• Winger - Proud Desperado
• Extreme - #Rebel
• Great White - Desert Moon
• Kansas - Power
• Kansas - Down the Road
• Kansas - Loner
• Kansas - Point of No Return
• Kansas - Questions of My Childhood
• Hanabie - Tousou
• Saiseiga - Persona
• Babymetal - Metalizm
• Liliac - Master of Puppets (Live in Woodstock, GA)
• Metallica - You Must Burn!
• skulkpartionroot - I Found You Name On Pornhub
• The Last Rockstars - The Last Rockstars
• Xaaxaa - Spider's Web
• Lisa - Realize (song from Japanese-Dubbed Spider-man: Across the Multi-verse)
• The Ramones - Judy Is a Punk (demo version)
• Pharm - Exiting the Vortex

Metal, truly a global phenomenon, as proven by new killer tunes from HELLCRASH (Italy) and TRASTORNED (Chile). Plus, a spotlight on Japan's most promising new heavy-hitters, ASTERISM!

Playlist:

• Trastorned - Metal Violence
• Trastorned - Into the Void
• Trastorned - Thrashtornado
• Hellcrash - Satan's Crypt
• Hellcrash - Volcanic Outburst
• Hellcrash - Graveripper
• Hellripper - Hell's Rock 'n' Roll
• Ripper - Silent Cage
• Cage - Blinded By Rage
• Asterism - Metal
• Asterism, featuring Bootsy Collins, Buckethead - Blaze
• Asterism - Stand Up and Shout (Dio cover)
• Asterism - Ram It Down (Judas Priest cover)
• D_Drive - Thumbs Up
• Marty Friedman, featuring Jeremy Colson, Billy Sheehan - Tornado of Souls (Megadeth cover)
• Megadeth - Moto Psycho
• Dieth - Don't Get Mad, Get Even!
• Entombed A.D. - The Winner Has Lost
• Sinister - Neurophic
• Big Business - Father's Day
• Father Moon - Father Moon
• Sabaton - Father
• Iron Mask - Father Farewell
• Cavalera Conspiracy - Bestial Devastation (Re-recorded)
• Sepultura - Silent Violence
• Obliteration - Sepulchral Rites
• Vomitory - Decrowned
• Dismember - Intro/Dismembered
• Carcass - Dance Of Ixtab
• Omnium Gatherum - Maniac (Michael Sembello cover)
• Ghost - We Don't Need Another Hero (Tina Turner cover)
• Powertron - Holding Out For a Hero (Bonnie Tyler cover)
• Powertron - Something In the Way (Nirvana cover)
• Nirvana - Endless, Nameless (CD hidden track)
• Fear Factory - School (Nirvana cover)
• Fear Factory, featuring Gary Numan - Cars (Gary Numan cover)
• Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the Cradle (Harry Chopin cover)
• Lagerstein - Down Under (Men At Work cover)
• Turisas - Rasputin (Boney M cover)
• Blind Guardian - Mr. Sandman
• Blind Guardian - Spread Your Wings (Queen cover)
• Dead Quiet - Dying to Live Again