Celebrating Canadian metal on this 1st day of July, starting with the long-awaited brutal new single from DETHGOD (Morley, AB), and some old favourites and surprises here and there. Rock hard!

Playlist:

• Dethgod - With All My Hate
• Dethgod - Ceremonial Decadence
• Iron Tusk - Dreaming City
• Iron Tusk - The Burning
• Iron Tusk - Dark Waters
• Exciter - Thrash Speed Burn
• Exciter - Pounding Metal
• Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac
• Exciter - Shout It Out
• Slik Toxik - Helluvatime
• Sven Gali - Freakz
• Brighton Rock - We Came To Rock
• Brighton Rock - Unleash the Rage
• Voivod - Thrashing Rage
• Voivod - Moonbeam Rider
• Voivod - Nuage Fractal
• Voivod - Preignition
• Voivod - Tribal Convictions
• Voivod - Voivod
• Lee Aaron - Metal Queen
• Santers - Racing Time
• Honeymoon Suite - Looking Out For Number One
• Haywire - Short End of a Wishbone
• Platinum Blonde, featuring Alex Lifeson - Crying Over You
• Rush - The Anarchist
• Rush - Territories
• Rush - The Enemy Within
• Rush - Red Barchetta (live)
• Paul Dean - Dirty Fingers
• Loverboy - Notorious
• Loverboy - Lead a Double Life
• Loverboy - Meltdown
• Loverboy - Heaven In Your Eyes
• Streetheart - Without Your Love
• FM - We Hold On
• Helix - Rock You
• Helix - Wild In The Streets
• Helix - Heavy Metal Love
• Triumph - Magic Power
• Triumph - Midsummer's Daydream
• Hyperia - Gimme Gimme Gimme (ABBA cover)

Some feel-good rockin' tunes, as well brutal HORROR themed tunage. It is summer afterall, and we could sure use some CHILL!

Playlist:

• Motley Crue - Red Hot
• Dokken - Burning Like a Flame
• David Lee Roth - Hot Dog and a Shake
• F.K.U. - The House By The Cemetery
• Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
• Tales Of The Tomb - The Nightmare Hall
• Macabre - The Sweet Tender Meat Vendor
• The Sickening - Obsessed With the Dead
• Exhumed - Dead, Deader, Deadest
• Gorezone - Mass Murder By One Form
• Ripping Death - Night Ripper
• Haemorrahge - Decom-Posers
• Carnal Savagery - Impaled Tortured and Left For Dead
• Avulsed - I Feel Good After Eating Human Flesh
• Church Of Misery - All Hallow's Eve
• Cathedral - Hopkins
• Coffins - Hellbringer
• Sigh - In Memories Delusional
• Kirk Hammett/Orbital - Satan
• Kirk Hammett - Maiden and the Monster
• Metallica - Through the Never (live)
• Zettai Club - Harakiri
• Saiseiga - Inside
• Bridear - Bloody Bride
• Our Last Crusade - Hail Destroyer
• Murder of Titans - Chop Chop
• Alice Cooper - Chop Chop Chop
• Sleepers' Guilt - Eye of the Storm
• In Flames - Pinball Map
• Saxon - Motorcycle Man (live)
• Judas Priest - Turbo
• Hammercult - Road To Hell
• Accept - Burning
• Damn Yankees - This Side of Hell
• Styx - Rockin' the Paradise
• Night Ranger - Night Ranger
• KISS - Hotter Than Hell
• Gene Simmons - Burning Up With Fever
• Y & T - Young and Tough
• X Japan - Voiceless Screaming
• Father Moon - Severed Sun

Sneak peak of this year's Sled Island, featuring: WORSE, MARES OF THRACE, VAGINA WITCHCRAFT, and a spotlight on POLTERGEIST!

Playlist:

• Fozzy - Relax (Frankie Goes To Hollywood cover)
• Warfare - Two Tribes (Frankie Goes To Hollywood cover)
• Powertron - You Spin Me Around (Dead or Alive cover)
• 3 Inches of Blood - Trial of Champions
• Worse - Harm Pit
• Mares of Thrace - Offerings of Hand and Tongue
• Vagina Witchcraft - Starting Over
• Thorazine - Cross of Emptyness
• Disciples of Power - Witch of Lies
• Body Count - Institutionalized 2014
• Suicidal Tendencies - You Can't Bring Me Down
• Kreator - Dying Planet
• Grim Reaper - Rock Will Never Die
• Boneyard - Rat Race
• Crystal Mess - Fuck Work
• Citizen Rage - I Will Fucking Kill You!
• Dayglo Abortions - Fuck My Shit Stinks!
• Abigail - Teenage Metal Fuck
• Midnight - Devil Virgin
• Pandemik9 - Rest In Compromise
• Cross Vein - Living On the Stage
• Crossfaith - Gimme Danger
• World War Waiting - World War Waiting
• Sentient - Assassin of Existence
• Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
• Andrew W.K. - It's Time To Party/Party Hard
• Hellrazer - Capture or Kill
• Primal Fear - Play To Kill
• Hammerfall - Brotherhood
• Killer Dwarfs - Hard Luck Town
• Sebastian Bach - TNT (AC/DC cover)
• Exodus - Overdose (AC/DC cover)
• AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
• Poltergeist - Electricity
• Poltergeist - Glory and Doom
• Poltergeist - Ocean
• Poltergeist - The Figurehead (The Cure cover)
• The Basement Paintings - Ziggurat

Another almost-never ending edition (well, some day, I will pass the torch and move on, right?) of The Rage Cage, new tunes, oldies, and some surprises here and there. Have fun!

Playlist:

• Tyrant (U.S.) - Thru the Night
• Tyrant (GER) - We Will Rock
• Manowar - The Power of Thy Sword
• Metalucifer - Born To Play Heavy Metal
• Loudness - Greatest Ever Heavy Metal
• Gyze - Samurai Metal
• Accept - Hung, Drawn and Quartered
• U.D.O. - 24/7
• Witchery - Fast As A Shark
• The Crown - Blitzkrieg Witchcraft
• One Man Army And The Undead Quartet - Misfit With a Machinegun
• Bridear - Another Name
• Crimson Glory - War of the Worlds
• Reviver - Fight Your Fight
• Thunderor - Fire It Up
• Sanhedrin - Change Takes Forever
• Destructor - Take Command
• Hobb's Angel of Death - Marie Antoinette
• Lethal - Fire in Your Skin
• Queensryche - The Needle Lies
• Fates Warning - In a Word
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Presto Vivace in C# Minor
• Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Sunrise
• Broken By the Scream - Under the Midsummer Nightsky
• Hanabie - Bukkowasu!! (I Destroy!!)
• Nemophila - Revive
• Mardelas - G Metal
• Marillion - Forgotten Sons
• Genesis - In the Cage/Afterglow
• Lord - I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight (Cutting Crew cover)
• Cutting Crew - One For the Mockingbird
• Firehouse - You're Too Bad
• Firehouse - Don't Treat Me Bad
• Warrant - So Damn Pretty: Should Be Against the Law
• Cinderella - The Last Mile
• Mammoth Storm - Auger's Echo

Lots of new songs this week, and have you heard the news? It's been some GOOD RAGIN' tonight! \m/

Playlist:

• Decapitated - No Cure
• Arch Enemy - Sunset Over the Empire
• Carcass - Dance of Ixtab
• Carnal Savagery - Cranial Sodomy
• Harvested - Bludgeoned
• Neck of the Woods - Vision Loser
• Cruciatus Infernalis - Untoten
• SVNEATR - The Consequence of Fear
• Nhialic - Painting Revenge
• Krisiun - Serpent Messiah
• Kings Rot - On Fellbeasts They Come
• Hexis - Nunquam
• Veiled in Scarlet - Lunar Eclipse
• Galneryus - Hunting For Your Dream (from "Hunter x Hunter")
• Lisa-X - Dragon Ball Z
• Marty Friedman - Gurenge: Dragon Slayer theme (Lisa cover)
• The Runaways - Rock and Roll
• Lita Ford - The Ripper
• Liliac, featuring Mercury Cross - Close My Eyes Forever (Ozzy/Lita cover)
• Anvil - Teabag
• Exciter - Born To Die
• Fastway - You Got Me Runnin'
• Def Leppard - Rock of Ages (live)
• Drug Sauna - Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young cover)
• Aerosmith - Draw the Line/Train Kept a Rollin'
• Cheap Trick - Need Your Love
• KISS - Rock Bottom
• Pandemik9 - Inbahcel
• Ministry - Broken System
• Machine Head - Choke on the Ashes of Your Hate
• Prong - For Dear Life
• Infectious Grooves - Infecto Groovalistic
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Heavy Wing
• Hagane - Supervillan
• Powerman 5000 - Super Villain
• Fozzy - Ugly On the Inside
• Va - The Beginning

Happy 5th Anniversary to Japan's LOVEBITES. My god, has it been that long already!?

Playlist:

• Powertron - Maniac (Michael Sembello cover)
• Tragedy - That's the Way I Like It/Shake Your Booty (KC and the Sunshine Band cover)
• White Zombie - Boogie Man (KC and the Sunshine Band cover)
• Nile - Chapter For Transforming Into a Snake
• Helloween - Reptile
• Testament - Brotherhood of the Snake
• Snakepit - Enduring Abyss
• Suffocation - Return to the Abyss
• Slayer - War Ensemble
• Evile - Five Serpent's Teeth
• Havok - Arise (Sepultura cover)
• Sepultura, featuring Phil Campbell - Orgasmatron (Motorhead cover)
• Motorhead - See Me Burning
• Paradise Lost - True Belief
• Cathedral - Nightmare Castle
• Coffins - Insane
• Harvested - Apathetic
• Veiled in Scarlet - Broken Sleep
• Armoured Angel - Demon Kings
• Carnal Savagery - Leeches
• Catastrophic - Pathology of Murder
• Aborted - Coven of Ignorance
• Fumigation - Close to a Burrow Below
• Malhavoc - Re-release
• HEALTH - Dead Flowers
• Pandemik9 - Reprogramming in G Minor
• Fate Gear - Be Invincible!
• Bridear - The Bathtub
• Hanabie - Reiwa Dating Apps Generation
• Cradle of Filth - Discourse Between a Man and His Soul
• Cradle of Filth - Temptation (Heaven 17 cover)
• Hyperia - Gimme Gimme Gimme (ABBA cover)
• HSAS - Animation
• Sammy Hagar - Burnin' Down the City
• Van Halen - Black and Blue
• Monstrose - Good Rockin' Tonight (Roy Brown cover)
• Yes - Big Generator
• Lovebites - The Apocalypse
• Lovebites - Warning Shot
• Billy Squier - Whadda You Want From Me
• Billy Squier - The Stroke
• Monolord - The Siren of Yersinia

This week's thought: BAND-MAID should be part of Sled Island next year. Make it happen! \m/ Also, R.I.P. Vangelis.

Playlist:

• Exhorder - Into the Void (Black Sabbath cover)
• Pantera - Electric Funeral
• Black Sabbath - Snowblind
• Sabaton - The Valley of Death
• Powerwolf - Nighttime Rebel
• Thunderor - Dangerous Times
• Dark Angel - No One Answers
• Vio-Lence - Flesh To The Bone
• Machine Head - Old
• Deicide - In Hell I Burn
• Venom - To Hell and Back
• Mercyful Fate - A Dangerous Meeting
• Dark Funeral - Let the Devil In
• Gorgoroth - Heavens Fall/Sorg
• Orcustus - Death Becomes You
• Taake - VI
• Hellhammer - Execution: When Hell's Near
• Celtic Frost - Obscured
• Sargeist - God of the Darkest Dawn
• Serpent Noir - Throne of Satanas
• Funeral Mist - Into Ashes
• Abbath - Trapped Under Ice (Metallica cover)
• Metallica - Breadfan (Budgie cover)
• Budgie - Young is a Word
• Iron Tusk / The Knot No Howz - Abyss
• Iron Tusk / The Knot No Howz - It Coulda Been a Punk Rock Song
• Deadwolff - Pedal To The Metal
• Rebel Priest - Lost in Tokyo
• Band-Maid - Thrill
• Bridear - Side of a Bullet
• Fear Factory - Flesh Hold
• Vangelis - Main Title Theme
• Vangelis - End Title
• Vangelis - Blade Runner Blues
• Bloom Filter - Orbital II

Couple of heavy, deadly tunes, as well as some feel good rockers, because let's face it: it was a tough week for many, including yours truly. Plus, killer new J-metal releases from NEMOPHILA and BRIDEAR!

Playlist:

• Iron Maiden - Childhood's End
• Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
• Twisted Sister - The Price
• Veiled in Scarlet - Cage
• Saiseiga - Illusion
• Fate Gear - Be Invincible!
• Hyperia - Pleonexia
• Tymo - Mars Attacks
• D.O.A - It's Not Unusual (Tom Jones cover)
• Exodus - Slipping Into Madness
• Slayer - You Against You
• Destruction - The Lonely Wolf
• The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma
• Father Befouled - Miasmas of Sodom
• Inhumate - Art, Sex, Intelligence
• Decapitated - The Fury
• Vader - The Calling
• Grave - For Your God
• Entombed - Evilyn
• Bolt Thrower - Embers
• Obituary - Gates To Hell
• Deformatory - Behold, The Apex of Decay
• Aborted - A Vulgar Quagmire
• Carnifex - Carry Us Away
• Carcass - No Love Lost
• Detherous - Ridden
• Caveat - Zero Hour
• Death - God of Thunder (KISS cover)
• KISS - Unholy
• Y & T - Life, Life, Life
• Raven - How Did Ya Get So Crazy!?
• Tygers of Pan Tang - Killers 2022
• Nemophila - A Ray of Light
• Bridear - Ray of Chaos
• Bridear - Preference
• Bridear - Brave New World Revisited
• Helloween - Sole Survivor
• Treat - Sole Survivor
• Blue Oyster Cult - Sole Survivor
• Asia - Sole Survivor
• En Fer - De La Grandeur D'Aucuns

Lots of new tunes again this week, with spotlights on Harvested and SVNEATR!

Playlist:

• Impiety - Terrorreign
• Sigh, featuring Chuck Keller - The Memories asa Sinner
• Ares Kingdom - Fear Itself
• SVNEATR - Lavender
• SVNEATR - Erasure
• SVNEATR - The Wind Stirs
• Opeth - Bleak
• Mastadon - Gobblers of Dreg
• Lucifer - Desire in Violent Overture
• Cradle of Filth - The Twisted Nails of Faith
• Harvested - Bludgeoned
• Harvested - Bereavement
• Harvested - Apathetic
• Vio-Lence - Screaming Always
• Hyperia - Prisoner of the Mind
• Hammerdrone - Rage, Consummated
• Thunder - The Western Sky
• Thunderor - How We Roll
• Skull Fist - Madman
• Powertron - You Spin Me Around (Dead or Alive cover)
• Jennie Tebler - Song To Hall Up High (Bathory cover)
• Bathory - One Rode to Asa Bay
• Emperor - My Empire's Doom
• Illumination - Occult Science
• Fear Factory - No One
• Mardelas - Force and Justice
• Unlucky Morpheus - Yumemaboroshi
• Poltergeist - Morning Star
• Passcode - 1 or 8?
• Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 ('86 version)
• Chicago - A.M. Mourning/P.M. Mourning/Memories of Love
• Hanabie - Sunrise Miso Soup
• Hanabie - We Love Sweets
• Babymetal - Gimme Chocolate!
• Babymetal - Awadama Fever
• Deafheaven - Baby Blue

Couple of new releases that I haven't played yet, plus: classic album spotlight on Rush's Moving Pictures, and new album spotlight on Fate Gear from Japan!

Playlist:

• Satyricon - Now Diabolical
• 1349 - Beyond the Apocalypse
• Destruction - Diabolical
• Cannibal Corpse - Follow the Blood
• Corpsegrinder - Bottom Dweller
• Monstrosity - Vicious Mental Thirst
• Paths of Possession - The Second Coming
• Immolation - When Halos Burn
• Incantation - Impending Diabolical Conquest
• Infamy - The Maggots Are In Me
• Pantera - Strength Beyond Strength
• Vio-lence - Officer Nice (live)
• Hatriot - Consolation For the Insane
• Lesson In Violence - Thrash Metal Mankind
• Hazzerd - The Decline
• Hyperia - Operation Midnight
• Riot City - Steel Rider
• Striker - Strange Love
• Enforcer - Roll the Dice (Demo)
• Redshark - Kill Your Idol
• Grindpad - The Lion's Strife
• Incrypt - Thrashing Extinction
• Immortal - One By One
• Abbath - Dream Cull
• I - Days of Northern Winds
• Rush - Witch Hunt
• Rush - Tom Sawyer (live)
• Rush - Limelight (live)
• Rush - YYZ (live)
• Rush - Vital Signs (live)
• Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Desert Queen Cleopatra
• Joe Satriani - Sahara
• Steve Vai - Sandman Cloud Mist
• Yngwie Malmsteen - Sea of Tranquility
• Unlucky Morpheus - Serene Evil
• Fate Gear - Soldier of Fortune
• Fate Gear - Lose My Voice
• Fate Gear - Live in Blood
• Bridear - Ray of Chaos
• Malsanctum - The Son