Rage Cage

Now that's I'm half a century old, I should mellow out a bit, right? WHAT!? And be ... NORMAL? I think not. Stay CRAZY! Oh, and thanks for the birthday wishes. :)

Playlist:

• Abysmal Lord - Glowing Baphomet
• Bestial Warlust - Holocaust Wolves of the Apocalypse
• Vile Insignia - Bestial Invocation
• Gatekeeper - Death On Black Wings
• Riot City - Tyrant
• Celtic Frost - Into the Crypts of Rays
• Selfgod - God Of Self
• Jungle Rot - Straightjacket Life
• Exhumed - Undertaking the Overkilled
• Jurassic Jade - After Your Death
• Nemophila - Rise
• Babymetal - Metalizm
• Powertron - Sex Type Thing (Stone Temple Pilots cover)
• Father Moon - Lord Hollow
• Whipstriker - Warspell
• Striker - Fight For Your Life
• Annihilator - Armed To The Teeth
• Steel Prophet - Fight, Kill
• Evilcult - Speed Metal Fire
• Vulture - High Speed Metal
• Seax - Speed Psycho
• Butcher - Metallstorm: Face the Butcher
• Hellripper - The Cursed Carrion Crown
• Archgoat - Burial of Creation
• Mystifier - Under Inhumane Evil Spells
• Lucifer's Child - Satan's Wrath
• Satan's Wrath - Satan's Blood, Lucifer's Fire
• Nita Strauss, featuring Alice Cooper - Winner's Take All
• Alice Cooper - Unfinished Sweets
• Hanabie - We Love Sweets
• Galneryus - Time Will Tell
• Asia - Only Time Will Tell
• Europe - On Broken Wings
• Winger - Proud Desperado
• W.A.S.P. - Helldorado
• Guns N' Roses - Dust N' Bones
• Lynx - Crazy Crazy World
• Scorpions - Crazy World
• Quiet Riot - Let's Get Crazy
• Slade - Mama Weer All Crazee Now
• Poltergeist - We Watch the Skies

Before I hit the big Five-O this weekend, I bring you the most celebratory episode dedicated to live albums. Happy Birthday to me, oh thank you, domo arigatou! :)

Playlist:

• Malevolent Creation - Premature Burial
• Monstrosity - Final Cremation
• Cannibal Corpse - Disposal of the Body
• Hate Eternal - The Victorious Reign
• Autopsy - Fiend For Blood (live)
• Deicide - Bible Basher
• Cryptopsy - We Bleed
• Suffocation - Pierced From Within
• Haemorrhage - Oozing Molten Gristle
• Vader - Decapitated Saints
• Decapitated - The Negation
• Behemoth - The Satanist
• Church of Misery - I, Motherfucker
• Loudness - Crazy Doctor
• UFO - Doctor Doctor
• Michael Schenker Group - Victim of Illusion
• Scorpions - We'll Burn the Sky
• Deep Purple - Lazy
• Arch Enemy - Burning Angel
• Lovebites - Spellbound
• Unlucky Morpheus - Serene Evil
• Bridear - Bloody Bride
• Babymetal - Song 4
• Dokken - It's Not Love
• Cathedral - Blue Light (Live in Tokyo, March 30/2001)
• Obituary - Slowly We Rot
• Black Label Society - Stronger Than Death
• Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At the Moon
• Motorhead - Keep Us On the Road
• Overkill - Evil Never Dies
• Exodus - Impaler
• Slayer - Hell Awaits
• Judas Priest - The Hellion/Electric Eye
• Iron Maiden - Revelations
• Accept - Metal Heart
• Judas priest - Grinder

Spotlight on the new album from Japan's SAISEIGA, and it's so damn awesome! Also, some of Ireland's finest, including: WAYLANDER, PRIMORDIAL, and THIN LIZZY. Happy St. Patty's!

Playlist:

• Waylander - To Rule Was Pre-Ordained
• Primordial - Let The Sun Set On Life Forever
• Thin Lizzy - Roisin Dubh
• Gary Moore - Blood of Emerald
• Tankard - Need Money For Beer
• Lords of the Drunken Pirate Crew - Give Us Beer!
• Municipal Waste - Beer Pressure
• Korpiklaani - Beer Beer
• Alcoholator - Drink Beer, or Die Trying
• Alkoholizer - Surfin' Beer
• Pasadena Napalm Division - Beers With a Zombie
• Devildriver - If Drinking Don't Kill Me, Her Memories Will (George Jones cover)
• Wind Rose - Drunken Dwarves
• Holy Moses - Cult of the Machine
• Savage Master - Kill Without Warning
• Satan - Luciferic
• Natural Selection - Natural Selection
• Devour the Unborn - Compulsive Meatcleaver Amputation
• Devour the Fetus - Force Fed Shredded Genitalia
• Wake - Monuments To Impiety
• Altars - Black Light Upon Us
• Obscura - The Conjuration
• Unlucky Morpheus - Angreifer
• Saiseiga - Seibaida!
• Saiseiga - Level5
• Saiseiga - Jumble
• Saiseiga - Hanabi
• Saiseiga - Emerald
• LawShed - The Worst Disease
• Lovebites - My Orion
• Liv Moon - Symphonia
• Serenity In Murder - Matrix
• Versailles - Second Fear, Another Descendent
• Hizaki - Dark Classical
• Skull Fist - Heavier Than Metal
• Striker - The Iron Never Dies
• Stryker - Too Wild To Live, Too Young To Die
• Tragedy - She Bop (Cyndi Lauper cover)
• Urheimat - The Gates To An Elder Constellation

Preview of upcoming Final Round of Battle For Wacken, and The Electric Highway. Also, a tribute to Gary Rossington, the last surviving member of the legendary great band, Lynyrd Skynyrd. Rock In Peace.

Playlist:

• Supermodel Taxidermy - Blood Painted Dash
• Supermodel Taxidermy - Forgive or Forget
• Supermodel Taxidermy - Chrysalis
• Necht - Within Her Jaws Dwells The Dark Promise of Our Death
• Redshifted - Monster
• Tyrants of Chaos - Skull Crusher
• Balrogath - Dragonfall
• Citizen Rage - Future Acknowledged
• Buffalo Bud Buster - Ghosts of Montreal
• Iron Tusk - The Burning
• Gone Cosmic - Misfit Wasted
• The Astral Prophets - Lazerwitch
• Father Moon - Lord Hollow
• La Chinga - The Wheel
• Jurassic Jade - Cave Sorrow
• Megadeth - Tornado of Souls
• Marty Friedman - Steroidhead
• Ningen-isu - Mountain of Needles (a.k.a. Breadfan)
• Metallica - Crash Course in Brain Surgery (Budgie cover)
• Voivod - Paranormalium
• Selfgod - Cosmic Axis
• Descrepit Birth - Concepting the Era
• Vader - Iron Reign
• Nemophila - Rise
• Extreme - Rise
• Acrassicauda - Rise
• Air Raid - Thunderblood
• Anthem - Snake Eyes
• Children Of Bodom - Hexed
• In Flame - Bleeding Out
• Galneryus - Run To The Edge
• Onmyo-Za - Shiramine
• Armored Saint - Saturday Night Special (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover)
• Rossington Collins Band - I'm Free Today
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
• Cydemind - Hoax

Women in METAL: lot of 'em from Japan, where women continue to dominate metal!

Playlist:

• Burning Witches - The Dark Tower
• Warlock - Burning Witches
• Doro - I Give My Blood: Dedication
• Show-Ya, featuring Doro Pesch - Heavy Metal Feminity
• The Runaways - Dead End Justice
• Lita Ford - Hellbound Train
• Joan Jett, featuring L7 - Cherry Bomb (The Runaways cover)
• L7 - Metal Stampede
• Diemonds - Ain't That Kinda Girl
• Lonesome Blue - Superhero
• Hagane - Supervillan
• Crossvein - Living On the Stage
• Boneyard - Fates Warning
• Fate Gear - Arashine
• Pinkish Crown - Utopia
• Ibuki - Breakout!
• Fuki - Bloody Rain
• Unlucky Morpheus - Black Pentagram
• DOLL$BOXX - Shoutdown
• Arch Enemy - Despicable Heroes
• Nita Strauss, featuring Allisa White-Gluz - The Wolf You Feed
• The Agonist - Predator and Prayer
• Saraya - Love Has Taken Its Toll
• Vixen - Edge of a Broken Heart
• Chrissy Steele - Love Don't Last Forever
• The Plasmatics - Put Your Love in Me
• Huntress - Spellleater
• The Uncrowned - Janus
• Cyrypta - Under the Black Wings
• Nervosa - Masked Betrayer
• Smoulder - Sword Woman (demo)
• Saiseiga - Ride On
• Zettai Club - Answer
• Arkroyal - Vengeance
• Bridear - Side of a Bullet
• Band-Maid - Memorable
• Brides of Lucifer - Warriors of the World (Manowar cover)

Spotlight on the long-awaited new album from Japan's power-metal powerhouse, LOVEBITES. I think I already found my album of the year!

Playlist:

• Hellripper - I, Deceiver
• Lord Rot - Flowers of Flesh and Blood
• VHS - Deep Gashes and Long Lashes
• Parasitario - Devouring Parasites
• Invictus - Devouring Room
• Grief of War - The Judgement Day
• Lovebites - We Are the Resurrection
• Lovebites - Soldier Stands Solitarily
• Lovebites - Stand and Deliver: Shoot 'em Down
• Lovebites - Dissonance
• Lovebites - Judgement Day
• Sonic Lover Reckless, featuring Miyako (Lovebites) and Aya Kamiki (Uroboros) - Rock N' Roll Revolution
• Uroboros - Infection
• Vamps - In This Hell
• The Last Rockstars, featuring Yoshiki (X-Japan), Sugizo (X-Japan/Luna Sea), Hyde (L'arc-en-ciel/Vamps), - The Last Rockstars
• X-Japan - Joker
• Luna Sea - Vampire's Talk
• Ryujin (formerly Gyze) - Ninja Dance
• Veiled in Scarlet - Bloody Gates
• Bridear - The Moment
• Bridear - Ray of Chaos
• Turbo - Serpent's Coil
• Judas Priest - Out in the Cold
• Lee Aaron - Hands On
• Headpins - Breakin' Down
• Toronto - What About Love
• Honeymoon Suite - Burning in Love
• Streetheart - Pressure
• Loverboy - Steel the Thunder
• April Wine - Anything You Want, You Got It
• Helix - Check Out the Love
• Killer Dwarfs - We Stand Alone
• Vernon Reid - You Say He's Just a Psychic Friend
• Living Colour - Middle Man
• Jimi Hendrix - Red House
• Jimi Hendrix - Stone Free
• Pandemik 9 - I Stole the Sauce

Family Day Five-Peat edition: five songs from your favourite ragers. Plus, brand new yet-to-be released album from ODINFIST!

Playlist:

• Suffocation - Cycles of Suffering
• Suffocation - Surgery of Impalement
• Suffocation - Bind Torture Kill
• Suffocation - Return To The Abyss
• Suffocation - Come Hell or High Priest
• Dying Fetus - Unbridled Fury
• Dying Fetus - Grotesque Impalement
• Dying Fetus - Wrong One With Fuck With
• Dying Fetus - Your Treachery Will Die With You
• Dying Fetus - Epidemic of Hate
• Cannibal Corpse - Deboured By Vermin
• Cannibal Corpse - Demented Aggression
• Cannibal Corpse - Submerged in Boiling Flesh
• Cannibal Corpse - Force Fed Broken Glass
• Cannibal Corpse, featuring Glen Benton - Vomit the Soul
• Deicide - Thou Begone
• Deicide - Homage For Satan
• Deicide - Scars of the Crucifix
• Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
• Deicide - Day of Darkness
• Krisiun - Swords Into Flesh
• Krisiun - The Sword of Orion
• Krisiun - Meaning of Terror
• Krisiun - Perpetuation
• Krisiun - Cursed Scrolls
• Obituary - Weaponize the Hate
• Obituary - Lesson in Vengeance
• Obituary - In the End of Life
• Obituary - Immortal Visions
• Obituary - Dying
• Odinfist - Deadline
• Odinfist - Allfather
• Odinfist - Riffmaster
• Odinfist - Metalmancer
• Odinfist - Remade In steel
• Triumph - Lay It On the Line
• Triumph - Fool For Your Love
• Triumph - Never Surrender
• Triumph - Spellbound
• Triumph - Just One Night (Eric Martin cover)
• Dethroned Concrete - Deadsmoke

Sneak preview of upcoming Battle For Wacken Alberta, as well as B.F.W. participants from other cities. Plus, loads of killer metal from Japan, as it is National Foundation Day there!

Playlist:

• Enforcer - Coming Alive
• Enforced - Ultra-Violence
• Ultra-violence - Wildcrash
• Exit Wound - One Last Man
• Ash Lee Blade - Kill For Heavy Metal
• Ammo - Too Metal For Metal
• Arcane Tyrant - Heavy Metal Force
• Onslaught - Metal Forces
• Malicious Intent - Mosh Mentality
• Hellhound - Warriors of the Rising Sun
• Tokyo Blade - Warrior of the Rising Sun
• Rising Sun - Language of Warrior
• Anthem - Wheels of Fire
• Anthem - Death To Death
• Anthem - Show Must Go On!
• Anthem - The Juggler
• Anthem - Power and Blood
• Anthem - Wild Anthem
• Necht - Within Her Jaws Dwells the Dark Promise Of Our Death
• Repugnant Scum - Become the Scum
• CNTRL - 1999 (Prince cover)
• Lovebites - Dissonance
• Mary's Blood - Bloody Birth Day
• Nemophila - Zen
• Zettai Club - Blue Flame
• Saiseiga - Empty666
• Hanabie - Please Excuse Me
• Babymetal - Monochrome
• Abysm Diabolis - Hexen Tomb
• Bloated Pig - Death Is My Slave
• Ye Goat-Herd Gods - Fallen Ones
• Voivod - Mind Clock
• Immortal Force - Stiff in the Streets
• Joe Lynn Turner/Steve Lukather - Hellraiser (Ozzy Osbourne cover)
• Toto - Stranger in Town
• Muses, featuring Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Planetary Girl
• Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Sunrise
• SYU - Japan
• Dethronement - Hexgraftv

My voice is still worn out from the big 30th anniversary special last week, but that didn't stop me from raisin' hell over the airwaves!

Playlist:

• Alkoholizer - The Hogmosh
• Pig Destroyer - The Torture Fields
• Divide the Dead - Switchblade
• Redshifted - Nightmare
• Gales of Avalon - Purgatory
• From The Flame - Concrete
• Concrete Funeral - In the Minds of Evil (Deicide cover)
• Deicide - Carnage of the Temple of the Damned
• Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
• Lesson In Violence - Thrash Metal Mankind
• W.M.D - Thrash Attack
• Vindicator - Thrash and Destroy
• Mantic Ritual - Cross Me Fool (Razor cover)
• Razor - Punch Your Face In
• Armoured Angel - My Fist Your Face
• Savage Master - With Whips and Chains
• Lita Ford - Fatal Passion
• Ozzy Osbourne - Iron Man
• Ozzy Osbourne - Fairies Wear Boots
• Night Ranger - Passion Play
• Warrant - 32 Pennies
• Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild
• Father Moon - Iron God
• Iron Maiden - Wrathchild
• Blaze - Reach For the Horizon
• Overkill - The Surgeon
• In Flames - Meet Your Maker
• Screamer - Kingmaker
• Pretty Maids - Kingmaker
• Obituary - Dying Of Everything
• Immolation - Blooded
• Krisiun - War Blood Hammer
• Morta Skuld - In Judgement
• Disincarnate - In Sufferance
• Sufferance - Discipline Aura
• Avantasia, featuring Bob Catley (Magnum) - The Moonflower Society
• Magnum - Too Many Clowns
• Liv Moon - Fighter
• White Lion - Little Fighter
• Harem Scarem - Change Comes Around
• Doom Bastards - Dopelord

Dirtiest Thirtieth Anniversary Special: It's time to celebRAGE!

Playlist:

• Cathedral - Sky Lifter (Rage Cage theme: 1993 - 1996)
• Cathedral - Ride
• Cathedral - Midnight Mountain
• Hizaki - Explosive Anger (Rage Cage theme: 2021 - Present)
• Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Kingdom of the Sun (Rage Cage theme: 2019 - 2021)
• Metalucifer - Heavy Metalucifer (Rage Cage theme: 2012 - 2013)
• Fight - Vicious
• Morbid Angel - Vengeance Is Mine
• Vader - Vicious Circle
• Mastery - Lethal Legacy (Rage Cage theme: 2006-2008)
• Dream Evil - Children of the Night
• Arch Enemy - The Book of Heavy Metal (Dream Evil cover)
• Hrom - Power
• Gatekrashor - Axecution Guaranteed
• Enforcer - Diamonds (Rage Cage theme 2010 - 2012)
• Dimebag Darrell - Caged in a Rage
• Pantera - Living Through Me: Hell's Wrath
• Anthrax - Packaged Rebellion
• Black Witchery - Baphomet Throne Exaltation (Rage Cage theme: 2005 - 2006)
• Occulus - Cemetery
• Dunkelgrafen - Einleitung (Rage Cage theme 2005 - 2006)/Triumph Des Fleisches
• Vermin - Supremechanism (Rage Cage theme: 2016 - 2019)
• Deathhammer - Onward To The Pits (Rage Cage theme: 2014 - 2016)
• Type O Negative - Black No.1
• Varga - Freeze Don't Move
• Thorazine - Fuck Sanity
• Sepultura - Clenched Fist
• Dead Salvation - Let Them Bleed
• Netheriel - Suffering Servants
• Hellrazer - Raging Seas
• Dungeon - Lost in the Light (Rage Cage theme: 2004 - 2005)
• Boneyard - Tune Attack
• Annihilator - Set the World On Fire
• Kobra and the Lotus - The Spirit of the Radio (Rush cover)