Rage Cage

You know something's wrong when the episode starts WITHOUT the theme music. Bit of a rough start indeed, due to some minor glitches, but managed to work around it. It was business as usual, and the business was still good! Mixed bag of new and old favourites this week, and also, my heart goes out to Kumamoto, Japan, where earthquake struck recently. I visited the city of Yatsushiro back in '92 with Izumi (my girlfriend at the time), whose relatives were from there. Praying for a speedy recovery for that beautiful city, and all the rest of Kumamoto affected. Oh, and Happy Belated 40th to that Stephen King classic (don't care what you think!), Maximum Overdrive!

Playlist:

• Allegeon - Extremophiles (B)
• Left To Die - Rise of Satan
• Death - Left To Die
• Diabolic - Internal Mental Cannibalism
• Monstrosity - Vapors
• Cryptopsy - Our Great Deception
• ÄXE - Gunned Down Dead
• ÄXE - Proclamator/Violator
• ÄXE - Distortion To Hell
• ÄXE - Rise From Your Tombs
• Coffin Hunters - Last Nail in the Coffin
• Coffin Hunters - Blood Moon
• Coffin Hunters - Give Up the Ghost
• Coffin Hunters - Cosmic Dawn
• Devourment - Advanced Stage Decomposition
• Stabbing - Eon of Obscenity
• Decapitated - The First Damned
• Cavalera Conspiracy - Inquisition Symphony
• Cavalera Conspiracy - Burn the Dead
• Cavalera Conspiracy - Warriors of Death
• Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells
• Sepultura - Inner Self
• Alice Cooper, featuring Rob Zombie - The Congregation
• Rob Zombie - Revolution Motherfuckers
• White Zombie - Welcome To Planet Motherfucker
• Powerman 5000 - Bombshell
• Fear Factory - Genexus
• Lamb of God - Sepsis
• Unlucky Morpheus - Gate of Hell/The Raven
• Unlucky Morpheus - Gate of Heaven/Kleidoscope
• Unholy Orpheus, featuring Fuki - Traumata
• Syu, featuring Fuki - Reason
• Hagane - We Are the Knight
• Metallica - The Struggle Within
• The Cult - King Contrary Man
• AC/DC - Who Made Who
• AC/DC - D.T.
• Aphonic Threnody - Blood of Gods

This week, it's all about DANCING! Plenty of tunes to keep you "thrashin' all around" while acting like a maniac! On a more personal note, as I am pretty much the last surviving member of my family, I dedicate this episode to all the loved ones I've lost of the years. Keep dancing for me up there.

Playlist:

• Exodus - Toxic Waltz
• Motorhead - Dancing On Your Grave
• Motorhead - Slow Dance
• Motorhead - Dance
• Corrosion of Conformity - Dance of the Dead
• Running Wild - Skeleton Dance
• Arch Enemy - Skeleton Dance
• Gus G., featuring Matt Barlow - Dance With Death
• Firewind - Maniac (Michael Sembello cover)
• Stratovarius - Maniac Dance
• Ryujin - Ninja Dance
• Mercyful Fate - Witches' Dance
• Witch Cross - Axe Dance
• Joe Satriani/Steve Vai - Dancing
• Joe Satriani - Dance of Spores
• Joe Satriani - Belly Dancer
• Joe Satriani - The Satch Boogie
• Armored Saint - Tribal Dance
• Tank - War Dance
• Destroyer 666 - Ghost Dance
• Black Sabbath - St. Vitus' Dance
• Pagan Altar - Dance of the Druids
• Pagan Altar - Danse Macabre
• Pagan Altar - Dance of the Vampires
• In Flames - The Jester's Dance
• Savatage - Gutter Ballet
• Celtic Frost - I Won't Dance
• Sonata Arctica - I Can't Dance (Genesis cover)
• Warlock - Metal Tango
• L.A. Guns - Crazy Tango
• Bang Tango - Dancin' On Coals
• Motley Crue, featuring Phyllis St. James - Dancing On Glass
• Motley Crue - Bad Boy Boogie
• Motley Crue - Come On and Dance
• Ratt - Dance
• Axxis - Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees cover)
• Babymetal, featuring Tak Matsumoto - Da Da Dance
• Dragonforce - Doomsday Party
• The Tubes/Olivia Newton John - Dancin'
• Hideki Saijo - YMCA (Village People cover)
• Battle Beast - Dancing With the Beast

*** Natural Disasters Edition ***

If you thought last week's "Summer Slasher" was scary, ... well, this week, your worst nightmare is the nature itself!

Playlist:

• CROCELL - Volcano
• Bloodspot - Volcanos
• Demolition Hammer - Pyroclastic Annihilation
• Death Angel - Volcanic
• Ensiferum - King of Storms
• Ensiferum - Winter Storm Vigilantes
• Ensiferum - Running From the Crushing Tide
• Voivod - Tornado
• Equilibrium - Tornado
• Megadeth - Tornade of Souls
• Loudness - Massive Tornado
• Van Halen - Human Being (from "Twister")
• Exumer - The Raging Tides
• Hellrazer - Raging Seas
• Testament - Raging Waters
• Testament - Greenhouse Effect
• Evildead - Global Warming
• Nuclear Assault - Critical Mass
• Kreator - When the Sun Burns Red
• Kreator - From Flood Into Fire
• Machine Head - In Comes the Flood
• Pantera - Floods
• Black Label Society - Damn the Flood
• Ozzy Osbourne - Lightning Strikes
• Aerosmith - Lightning Strikes
• Thor - Lightning Strikes Again
• Dokken - Lightnin' Strikes Again
• Judas Priest - Lightning Strike
• Halford - Thunder and Lightning
• Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
• Motorhead - Thunder and Lightning
• Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
• Metallica - Ride the Lightning
• Iced Earth - Stormrider
• Deep Purple - Stormbringer
• Europe - Stormwind
• Y&T - Hurricane
• Amon Amarth - An Ancient Sign of Oncoming Storm
• Amon Amarth - We Rules the Waves
• Allegaeon - Tsunami and Submergence

** Summer SLASHER Special! ** Seven months into the year, and chances are, you're already feeling the FIVE-YEARS-worth of burden. Well, it's time to let it all out. After three hours of brutal tunes, we cooled off with some more positive, festive summer tunes from Japan's guitar great, Rie a.k.a Suzaku.

Playlist:

• Cannibal Corpse - Code of the Slashers
• Cannibal Corpse - Gutted
• Guttural Slug - Hacksaw Surgery
• Gutrectomy, featuring Alexander Kristensen (Guttural Slug) - Forklift Facelift
• Gutrectomy - Sledgehammer Dismemberment
• Gorerotted - Hacked In The Back Dumped in the Sack
• Gorerotted - Mutilated in Minutes, Severed in Seconds
• Goretrade - Born of a Murderer
• Goretrade - Serial Killer
• Corpsefucking Art - Homicidal Chainsaw Butchery
• Corpsefucking Art - Splatterphobia
• Mortem - That's the Way I Kill You
• Mortem - Have You Ever Killed?
• Mortem - Execution For Meat
• Splattered Cadaver - Merciless Butchery
• Sepsism - Brutally Butchered
• Butcher'd - Cut Throat Kill
• Vomitory - For Gore and Country
• Vomitory - Piece By Stinking Piece
• Vomitory - Gore Apocalypse
• Purulent Granny Gangrene - The Burning
• Purulent Granny Gangrene - Sleepaway Camp
• Frightmare - Slasher Holocaust
• Frightmare - By Sword, By Pick, By Axe Bye Bye
• Bloodsoaked - Grotesque Memories
• Obituary - Violence
• Obituary - Chopped In Half
• Obituary - Torn Apart
• Obituary - Deadly Intensions
• Obituary - Killing Time
• Obituary - 1 010 000 Ways To Die
• Deaden - Instinct To Kill
• Dead Infection - Start Human Slaughter
• Dead Infection - Don't Turn His Crushed Head On Me
• Dead Infection - Undergo Operation
• Carcass - Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites
• Carcass - Empathological Necroticism
• Pathologist - Exhumed Dead Body
• Exhumed - Sepulchural Slaughter
• Exhumed - Naked, Screaming, and Covered in Blood
• Exhumed - Fester Forever
• Exhumed - Grotesque Putrefied Brains
• Aborted - Sea of Cartilage
• Cartilage - Slaughter Day at the Chopping Mall
• Cartilage - Chopped and Churned
• Muses, featuring Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Summertime
• Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Summer Carnival
• Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Tropical Wave
• Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Dolphin Dance
• 38 Special - Rough Housin'

New releases from Nunslaughter, Iron Slaught, and Metaladian. After that, it's all about the DECIBELS, baby! Loud enough to shatter any sound level meters, powerful enough to keep those "fun police karens" away! Stay LOUD AND PROUD!

Playlist:

• Iron Slaught - The Executioner
• Nunslaughter - Die Your Own Death
• METALADIAN - Deaditation
• Pantera - Proud To Be Loud
• Razor - Fast and Loud
• Lost Society - Fast Loud Death
• Gehennah - Decibel Rebel
• Gehennah - Too Loud to Live, Too Drunk to Die
• Gehennah - Brilliant Loud Overlords of Destruction
• Manowar - Blow Your Speakers
• Raven - Ballad of Marshall Stack
• Diamond Head - Play It Loud
• Saxon - Play It Loud
• Saxon - Heavy Metal Thunder
• U.D.O. - We Want It Loud
• U.D.O. - Metal Maniac Master Mind
• U.D.O. - Shout It Out
• U.D.O. - Metal Never Dies
• Accept - Metal Heart
• Warfare - Noise, Filth, and Fury
• Venom - Too Loud For the Crowd
• Overkill - All Over But the Shouting
• Overkill - Shred
• Megadeth - Let There Be Shred
• Megadeth - Rattlehead
• Metallica - Whiplash (Fukuoka, Japan, May 3, 1998)
• KISS - I Love It Loud
• KISS - Shout It Out Loud
• Shotgun Messiah - Shout It Out
• Arch Enemy - Shout (Tears For Fears cover)
• Motley Crue - Shout At the Devil
• Motley Crue - Louder Than Hell
• Slade - Til Deaf Do Us Part
• Slade - You Boyz Make Big Noize
• Slade - Cum On Feel the Noize
• Quiet Riot - Metal Health
• Demonessa - Wild 'N' Loud
• Diemonds - Loud 'N' Nasty
• Airbourne - It's Never Too Loud For Me
• Loudness - Loudness
• Helix - Rock You
• Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
• Judas Priest - Rock You Around the World
• AC/DC - Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution
• Ozzy Osbourne - You Can't Kill Rock and Roll
• Garry Lee and Showdown - The Rodeo Song

First off, like to send my congrats (and gratitude) to Team Japan: at FIFA, you once again proved that you're a tough team to beat, you exceeded our expectations. You've played well, you're still champions in my book. You're truly "samurais"! Well, from samurais to cowboys, ... and outlaws: as it THAT time of the year in Calgary, yours truly brought you cagefull of villainous tunes for your badass selves!

Playlist:

• Skymir - Outlaw
• Lamb of God - Redneck
• Obituary - Redneck Stomp
• Dangerous Toys - Gunfighter
• Dangerous Toys - Bad Guy
• Dangerous Toys - Outlaw
• Dangerous Toys - Rock Shop Cowboy
• Bulletboys - The Villain
• Bulletboys - Shoot the Preacher Down
• Bulletboys - Once Upon a Crime
• Van Halen - Girl Gone Bad
• David Lee Roth - Elephant Gun
• David Lee Roth - Big Trouble
• David Lee Roth - Don't Piss Me Off
• Metallica - Fuel
• Metallica - The Four Horsemen (Acoustic, Giants Stadium, NJ, July 17, 1998)
• Corrosion of Conformity - Baad Man
• Corrosion of Conformity - Vote With a Bullet
• Manowar - Outlaw
• Riot - Outlaw
• Motorhead - Outlaw
• Motorhead - Bite the Bullet
• Motorhead - Sharpshooter
• Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna Be a Cowboy
• Rob Zombie - Ride
• Rob Zombie - Tarantula
• Y&T - Open Fire
• Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
• Rebel Meets Rebel - Cowboys Do More Dope
• Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
• Poison - Strange Days of Uncle Jack/Valley of Lost Souls
• AC/DC - Guns For Hire
• AC/DC - Big Gun
• Skid Row - Big Guns
• Ratt - Wanted Man
• Faster Pussycat - Shooting You Down
• Twisted Sister - Shoot 'Em Down
• Alice Cooper - Desperado
• Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law
• Def Leppard - Billy's Got a Gun
• Billy Idol - Don't Need a Gun
• Billy Idol - White Wedding (Part 1&2)
• Billy Idol - Hot In the City
• Powertron - Rebel Yell (Billy Idol cover)

Wow, my Team Japan, the "blue samurais", they're truly on a roll in FIFA. They've definitely stepped up to another level! Keep at it, go Japan go! As for my other team, haven't forgotten about you Canada. You've been giving it all, you're still doing us proud. Go Team CANADA! As for the Cage business, what did yours truly have in store for you this week? Well, it's almost Canada Day, so I had you celebratin' it early, loud 'n' proud!

Playlist:

• Reanimator - Fucksicle
• Sacrifice - Reanimation
• Cauldron - Take This Torch (Razor cover)
• Razor - The End
• Razor - Evil Invaders
• Slaughter (Cdn) - F.O.D.
• Aggressor - Frozen Aggressor
• Infernal Majesty - Death Roll
• Blasphemy - Desecration
• Revenge - Annihilate or Serve
• Revenge - Silent Enemy
• Revenge - Strife Invocation
• Kataklysm - Sorcery
• Kataklysm - Mystical Plane of Evil
• Cryptopsy - Crown of Horns
• Cryptopsy - Flayed the Swine
• Gorguts - With Their Flesh, He'll Create
• Neuraxis - The Apex
• Voivod - Tribal Convictions
• Unleash the Archers - Heartless World (Teaze cover)
• Teaze - Rev the Engines
• Teaze - Gotta Rock
• Teaze - The Man On the Silver Mountain (Rainbow cover)
• Teaze - Flames Keep Growing
• Teaze - On the Loose
• Teaze - Loose Change
• Teaze - Calling All Nurses
• Teaze - Boys Night Out
• Helix - Does a Fool Ever Learn? (Eddie Schwartz cover)
• Eddie Schwartz - Strike
• Harlequin - Thinking of You
• Sebastian Bach - Rock n Roll is a Vicious Game (April Wine cover)
• April Wine - Doin' It Right (Power Blues Band cover)
• Max Webster - April In Toledo
• Kim Mitchell - Diary For Rock 'n' Roll Men
• Kim Mitchell - Go For Soda
• Trooper - Gypsy Wheeler
• Ian Thomas - Levity
• Ian Thomas - Hold On
• Ian Thomas - The Runner
• Ian Thomas - I'll Do You Right
• Ian Thomas - Harmony
• Boulevard - Talk Without Speaking

Story time!

One of my favourite (and top!) courses was drama, which I took throughout my high school years. Also acted in numerous school plays as well, and when I broke the news to my teachers (and even to my high school principal!) that I was accepted by U of C for Drama major, they all told me, "I knew you'd make it!". My principal even said, "You might be back here in few years TEACHING drama!" I was thinking: "Hey, I may even become a Drama prof at universities!" Anything was possible, as my confidence was in sky high! Well, by the end of my second year at U of C, I had to make some decisions, because I was flunking pretty bad! Anymore bad scores, and I'm OUT! So I had to make decisions fast. After much thinking, since I was already using my drama and theatre experience with my radio show, I've decided to go ahead and change majors. I absolutely have no regret in trying, and to this day, I still incorporate some of the teachings of late Dr. Keith Johnstone, the ONLY prof. that actually gave me decent scores! Calgary was lucky to have such an AMAZING coach! As for me, I still have NO regrets for trying, and you won't always get the result you want, but you just make the best of it, and remember to be HAPPY!

Playlist:

• Deathraiser - One Step to the Grave
• Deathraiser - Thrash or Be Thrashed
• Deathrow - Pledge To Die
• Death - Left To Die
• Culled - Coercion
• Decapitated - Suffer the Children (Napalm Death cover)
• Napalm Death - Inside the Torn Apart
• Terrorizer - Fear of Napalm
• Jungle Rot - When the Elders Rise
• Jungle Rot - Savage Rite
• Jungle Rot - Murder One
• Fleshcrawl - Reign Forever
• Vader - Rapid Fire (Judas Priest cover)
• Slayer - Dissident Aggressor (Judas Priest cover)
• Arch Enemy - Starbreaker (Judas Priest cover)
• Judas Priest - Raw Deal
• Twisted Sister - Sin After Sin
• Dee Snider - For the Love of Metal
• Primal Fear - Living For Metal
• Nukem - Into the Kill Zone
• Nukem - TV Crime (Black Sabbath cover)
• Black Sabbath - Sins of the Father
• Dio - Night People
• Dokken - Night By Night
• Kreator - Gangland (Tygers of Pan Tang cover)
• Tygers of Pan Tang - Blackjack
• Fastway - Easy Livin'
• Uriah Heep - Easy Livin'
• Edguy - Out Of Control
• Blue Oyster Cult - After Dark
• Budgie - Breaking All the House Rules
• Peter Frampton - Breaking All the Rules
• Billy Squier - You Know What I Like
• Billy Squier - In The Dark
• Billy Squier - The Stroke
• AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
• AC/DC - Shot Down in Flames
• AC/DC - Shoot To Thrill
• AC/DC - C.O.D.
• Diesel - Sausolito Summernight
• Donnie Iris - Ah Leah!
• REO Speedwagon - Don't Let Him Go
• REO Speedwagon - Take It On a Run
• Hanabie - Gal This Summer

It's FIFA time again, good luck to both CANADA and JAPAN!

Playlist:

• Savage Blade - The Way of Metal
• Tyrant (U.S.) - Warriors of Metal
• Tyrant (GER) - Metal Rules
• Voivod - Astonomy Domine (Pink Floyd cover)
• Metallica - Wherever I May Roam
• Yngwie Malmsteen - Far Beyond the Sun
• Michael Schenker Group - Lost Horizons (Live August 12, 1981)
• UFO - Lights Out (Live Kawasaki City, 1992)
• Scorpions - Dark Lady
• SYU - Japan
• Anthem - Driving Wire
• Loudness - Devil Soldier
• Sally - Revenge
• Saki - Germinans
• Mary's Blood - Deep Six
• Asterism, featuring Bootsy Collins/Buckethead - Blaze
• Asterism, featuring Marty Friedman - GYUTTO!!! - From the First Take
• Marty Friedman - Inferno
• Marty Friedman - Inferno (Reprise)
• Megadeth - Sweating Bullets
• Metal Church - The Show
• Saxon - Stand Up and Shout (Dio cover)
• Dio - Rainbow in the Dark
• Saxon - Wheels of Steel (Live at Donington 1980)
• Saxon - Back in '79
• Allegaeon - Subdivisions (Rush cover)
• Rush - Red Sector A (Terry Date mix)
• Rush - Distant Early Warning (Live, Maple Leaf Gardens, September 21, 1984)
• Styx - Too Much Time on My Hands
• Styx - The Best of Times
• Van Halen - Best of Both Worlds (Live, New Havens, 1986)
• Van Halen - Summer Nights
• David Lee Roth - She's My Machine
• Roman Grey - Shangri-La (Extended Mix)

Well, since everyone's sharing their "first time we met" stories on social media, as it typically seems to be anniversary season, instead of getting annoyed, ... what the heck, I'll share mine too! What? Nat Kaos was actually in LOVE at one point? Believe it or not, it's true! It was the summer of 1992, when I visited Japan for the first time since childhood. It was there, when I met Izumi. When our eyes met, they instantly became glued, and next thing we know, we're chatting over a tea at a nearby cafe. Coming back to Canada was the last thing on my mind, as I REALLY wanted to spend more time with her, and possibly start our new chapter together. However, ultimately, we (reluctantly) agreed that, because our lives were different, in different places, we should go separate ways to take care of our own future plans first. However, we still dated each other for the rest of my summer in Japan, ... and on our last day together, at the Osaka airport, ... we held onto each other for what seemed like an hour. My shirt felt like wet towel from her tears, and pretty sure there was some "sense" of regret, that maybe, something COULD'VE worked, because I sure felt that way. However, disrupting her future plan was something I would not forgive myself for, so it was for the best. 34 years later, ... I'm pretty sure she followed up on her plan to become a nurse, and made a difference to thousands of lives, I know she made a difference in MY life. Even after just 3 months together, I'm a better person, because of her. I still think about her, she will always be my angel. Love you Izumi!

As for this week's episode: yeah, little more heavier, ... and EVIL, than last week. It is the RAGE CAGE afterall. Muhahahahaaa!

Playlist:

• Armored Saint - Epilogue
• Category 7 - In Stitches
• Anthrax - Got the Time (Joe Jackson cover)
• Anthrax - It's For the Kids
• Frozen Soul, featuring Robb Flynn - Invoke War
• Machine Head - Davidian
• Decapitated, featuring Robb Flynn - Iconoclast
• Ingested, featuring John Gallagher - Watch You Fold
• Dying Fetus - Undulating Carnage
• Vomitory - Cataclysmic Fleshfront
• Vehemence - Nameless Faces, Scattered Remanants
• Jungle Rot - Suffer In Silence
• Vader - Incarnation
• Embryonic Autopsy - Bathing In Entrails
• Cannibal Corpse - Entrails Ripped From a Virgin's Cunt
• Monstrosity - The Atrophied
• Meltification - Nuclear Death Threat
• Immolation - The Ephemeral Curse
• Cryptopsy, featuring Bridget Lynch/Ben Duerr/Alexander Sason/Johnny Ciadullo/Malika Sanduramurthy - Blasphemy Made Fresh (2026 version)
• W.M.D. - The Thin Red Line
• W.M.D. - March of Death
• W.M.D. - Against All Warnings
• W.M.D. - Already Dead
• Unlucky Morpheus - Ignis Fatuus Vacuitatis
• Unlucky Morpheus - Onikobe
• Unholy Orpheus - Get Out of the Cage
• Kreator - Satanic Anarchy
• Anvil - 666
• Toxic Holocaust - 666
• Slayer - Hell Awaits
• Slayer - Praise of Death
• Slayer - Evil Has No Boundaries (Live From Bochum 1985)
• Slayer - Black Magic
• Slayer - Raining Blood
• Slayer - Blood Red
• Slayer - Sex, Murder, Art
• Geoff Tate - The Devil's Breath
• Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
• Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
• Galvanist - Atrophy