Rage Cage

Good luck to all the participants from all over the world, for the first ever Sumo Fest in Calgary this weekend. You know, some of these guys are actually over 500 pounds! Geez, just what the hell do they EAT?!

Playlist:

• Rob Zombie - The Devilman
• White Zombie - Super Charger Heaven
• Powerman 5000 - Devil Inside (INXS cover)
• Falcotron - Dune Lord
• Falcotron - Intergalactic Starfighter: 101
• Falcotron - Sonic Ninjas of Fuzz
• Sebastian Bach, featuring Steve Stevens - F.U.
• Skid Row - Slave To The Grind
• Twisted Sister - Under the Blade
• Bullet - Kickstarter
• Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
• Asterism - Helter Skelter (The Beatles instrumental cover)
• Accept - Carry the Weight
• Anvil - Blood On the Ice
• Raven - Battlezone
• Helix - Stuck in the 80s
• Iron Savior - Fame (Irene Cara cover)
• Avantasia, featuring Eric Martin - Maniac (Michael Sembello cover)
• Little V - Power Rangers Zeo Theme
• Satan's Fall - Go Go Power Rangers
• Sepultura - Ultraseven theme
• Voivod - Ultraman Opening theme
• Voivod - Ultraman Closing Theme
• Lazy - Ultra High (Ultraman Dyna closing theme)
• Loudness - Black Star Oblivion
• E.Z.O. - Mr. Midnight
• Vow Wow - Shock Waves
• Kyoji Yamamoto - Dog Fight
• Takayoshi Ohmura, featuring Tim "Ripper" Owens - Soldiers of the Fire
• Takayoshi Ohmura - Sadistic Ritual
• Babymetal - Babymetal Death
• Babymetal - Song 4
• Babymetal, featuring Alex Terrible (Slaughter To Prevail) - Song 3
• Babymetal - The One
• Testament - Electric Crown
• Burning Witches - Hall of the Mountain King (Savatage cover)
• Savatage - Legions
• Savatage - Sirens
• Hagane - Start Our Journey
• Rush - Distant Early Warning (2026 Terry Brown mix)
• Rush - Marathon (Live in Birmingham, 1988)
• Hellrazer - The Eye of the Sahara

* International Women's Day Edition * This week's episode is dedicated to women who rock ... and RAGE!

Playlist:

• Burning Witches - In For the Kill
• Burning Witches - Renegade
• Burning Witches - We Stand As One
• Burning Witches - The Sisters of Fate
• Burning Witches - Maiden of Steel
• Burning Witches - Shot in the Dark (Ozzy Osbourne cover)
• Cobra Spell - Addicted To The Night
• Cobra Spell - Bad Girl Crew
• Cobra Spell - Poison Bite
• Boneyard - Hanging Tree
• Boneyard - Before the Fall
• Boneyard - Compass Points To War
• Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly
• Lita Ford - Dressed To Kill
• Lita Ford - Bad Love
• Lita Ford - The Ripper
• The Runaways - Dead End Justice
• Marta Gabriel - Metal Queen (Lee Aaron cover)
• Crystal Viper - Metal Nation
• Crystal Viper - Burn My Fire Burn
• Crystal Viper - You Will Die You Will Burn
• Crystal Viper - I am Leather Witch
• Leather - We Take Back Control
• Leather - The Outsider
• Chastain - The Wicked Are Restless
• Chastain - The Battle of Nevermore
• Huntress - Running Wild (Judas Priest cover)
• Huntress - Zenith
• Huntress - Sleep and Death
• Huntress - Sorrow
• Liv Moon - Like a Prayer (Madonna cover)
• Liv Moon - The Phantom of Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber cover)
• Liv Moon - Valhalla/Midsummer Eve
• Nightwish - Forever Yours
• Miyako - Master of Puppets (Metallica Piano cover)
• Miyako - Battery (Metallica piano cover)
• Hanabie - Girl's Talk
• Unleash the Archers - Tonight We Ride

Well, it was another memorable Winter Olympics indeed. Congrats on my Team Japan, thank you for another display of excellence, resilience, and good sportsmanship. Back here in Calgary last week, we witnessed another metal historic moment as Megadeth brought their final tour with Anthrax and Exodus. They thrashed us good! By the way, to those people at the concert who look for their seats DURING the opening band's performance: be more organized next time, you slackers!

Playlist:

• Falcotron - Dune Lord
• World War Waiting - Ceremonial Murder
• Operation Winter Mist - Forever Frost
• Once Human - Pick Your Poison
• The Agonist - Take a Bow
• Arch Enemy - The Great Darkness
• Exhumed - Shock Trauma
• Gruesome - Condemned Identity
• Deeds of Flesh - Invested Beneath the Earth
• Invictus - Frozen Tomb
• Sigh - Rex Tremendae/I Saw the World's End
• Anthem - Shed
• Overkill - Shred
• Pantera - The Art of Shredding
• Megadeth - Let There Be Shred
• Asterism, featuring Marty Friedman - Gyutto!!
• Asterism - Metal
• Asterism - Planet Metal
• Asterism - Metal Supreme
• Iron Savior - Take On Me (A-ha cover)
• Northern Kings - Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel cover)
• Northern Kings - In the Air Tonight (Phil Collins cover)
• CobraKill - Silent Running (Mike + the Mechanics cover)
• KISS - I Love It Loud
• KISS - God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You Too (Petra cover)
• Deep Purple - Highway Star (Live)
• Rainbow - Stone Cold
• Dio - Night Music
• Hizaki, featuring Jill - Moon Shard
• Unlucky Morpheus - Welcome To Valhalla
• Unholy Orpheus - Get Out of the Cage
• Lovebites - Phoenix Rises Again
• Zilqy - Bleeding Love
• Nemophila - Namas
• Ozzy Osbourne - Fool Like You
• Metallica - Anesthesia/Damage Inc. (live)
• The Cult - Wildflower
• Emerson, Lake & Powell - The Score (New Japan Pro Wrestling theme)

Well, are you ready to witness another metal history at the 'Dome tonight, as Megadeth bring their final tour to Calgary? Show up early, you don't wanna miss Anthrax and Exodus either! Also, if you're fan of "twin guitar attacks" (common example being Judas Priest), you gotta checkout the latest from UK's TAILGUNNER, and Japan's LOVEBITE. Another killer releases for this year, will make the list for end-of-the-year special for sure! Also, congrats on Japanese Women's Curling Team: despite your losses, you played well, with smiles!

Playlist:

• Motorhead - Iron Horse
• Pride & Glory - Horse Called War
• Black Label Society - Dark Horse
• Tailgunner - Midnight Blitz
• Tailgunner - Night Raids
• Tailgunner - Eulogy
• Lovebites - The Castaway
• Lovebites - Silence the Void
• Lovebites - Out of Control
• Lovebites - Raise Some Hell (Live, September 1, 2024, Korea)
• Worm, featuring Marty Friedman - Witchmoon: The Infernal Masquerade
• Marty Friedman - Gurenge (Demon Slayer theme)
• Marty Friedman - Dragon Mistress
• Megadeth - Tornado of Souls
• Megadeth - Crown of Worms (Bonus Track)
• Megadeth - Crush 'Em (Jock Mix)
• Megadeth - Tipping Point
• Megadeth - Breaking Point
• Megadeth - Victory
• Megadeth - Back in the Day
• Megadeth - Rattlehead
• Megadeth - Sleepwalker
• Megadeth - Hook In Mouth
• Megadeth - Public Enemy Number One
• Megadeth - My Last Words
• Exodus - 3111
• Exodus - Feeding Time At the Zoo
• Exodus - Impact Is Imminent
• Exodus - Impaler
• Anthrax - Out of Sight, Out of Mind
• Anthrax - Friggin' in the Riggin' (Sex Pistols cover)
• Anthrax - I Am the Law (Live in Dallas, 1987)
• AC/DC - Heatseeker

*** My Bloody BLOODBATH Valentine Special! *** The annual ANTI-Valentine's Day special. Fellow "third wheelers" rejoice! You know The Cage will be extra dangerous when Friday the 13th falls before this dreadfall day of hearts and roses! No love songs, just plenty of brutal, deadly tunes to keep your mind off all this romantic crap! That being said, I like to send my love to Team Japan: congrats on your success in Olympics so far, wishing you more victories and medals. Go Japan Go!

Playlist:

• Frightmare - Be My Bloody Valentine
• Frightmare - Friday the 13th
• Frightmare - Friday the 13th pt.2
• Frightmare - Bringing Back the Bloodshed
• Mutilated - Axe vs. Throat
• Avulsed - Killing After Death
• Putrid Pile - Collection of Butchery
• Putrid Pile - Blood Runs Red
• Putrilage - Hack, Slash, Cut, You Bleed
• Deaden - Only Genitals Remain
• The Sickening - To Gauge and Fuck the Sockets
• Splattered Cadaver - Merciless Butchery
• Goretrade - The Horror of Gore
• Corpsefucking Art - Homicidal Chainsaw Buchery
• Vomitory - Chainsaw Surgery
• Cannibal Corpse - Kill or Become
• Cannibal Corpse - Blood Blind
• Cannibal Corpse - Blood Drenched Execution
• Cannibal Corpse - As Deep As the Knife Will Go
• Cannibal Corpse - Unleashing the Bloodthirsty
• Cannibal Corpse - Bloodlands
• Cannibal Corpse - Five Nails Through the Neck
• Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
• Cannibal Corpse - I Cum Blood
• Cannibal Corpse - Gutted
• Cannibal Corpse - Bloody Chunks
• Stabbing - Their Melted Remains
• Stabbing - Inhuman Torture Chamber
• Stabbing - Reborn To Kill Once More
• Invictus - Altar of Devoted Slaughter
• Invictus - Lucid Dream Trauma
• Invictus - Dragged Beneath the Grave
• Festerdecay - Centipede In Ass
• Kruelty - Unknown Nightmare
• Coffins - Hour of Execution
• Blood Freak - Blood, Blood, and More Blood
• Blood Freak - Melted and Slattered
• Blood Freak - Gobble Up Your Guts
• Jungle Rot - Butchering Death
• Jungle Rot - what Horrors Await
• Jungle Rot - Cut In Two
• Slayer - Hate Worldwide
• Slayer - Spill the Blood
• Suicidal Tendencies - I'll Hate You Better
• Queensryche - I Don't Believe in Love
• Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You
• Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Thank you to my dentist (as usual!) for helping me keeping my teeth razor SHARP!; Alo, hey Scott, my old friend (and my former show neighbour from the basement days), great running into ya after so many years! Most important of all, thank YOU all for being crazy enough to tune-in to this most dangerous late-night radio!

Playlist:

• Biohazard - Forsaken
• The Forsaken - Injected Terror
• Grimfist - Mosh Pit Underground
• Heathen - Never a God (Laughing Dead cover)
• Heathen - Mercy is No Virtue
• Heathen - World's End
• Sepultura - War (Bob Marley cover)
• Body Count, featuring Max Cavalera - Drug Lords
• Body Count - Body Count
• Joey Belladonna - Magic Power
• Anthrax, featuring Public Enemy - Bring The Noize
• Anthrax - Invisible
• Armored Saint - Terror
• Untimely Demise - MK Ultra
• Fear Factory - Edgecrusher
• Vio-lence - Screaming Always
• Bullet - Strike At Night
• Riot City - Paris Night
• Midnight Priest - When Midnight Comes
• Judas Priest - The Ripper
• Sabaton - Metal Ripper
• Ripping Death - Night Ripper
• Hellrazer - Penance
• Hellrazer - Fight To The Death
• Hellrazer - Serve the Machine
• Atomkraft - Total Metal
• Atomkraft - Pour the Metal In
• Powertron - Broken
• Black Label Society - Broken and Blind
• Pantera - I'm Broken
• Van Halen - Hot Summer Nights (Live at New Haven, Aug.27/1986)
• Sammy Hagar - Bad Motor Scooter
• David Lee Roth - Goin' Crazy
• Steve Vai - The Riddle
• Asterism - Kakuto
• Asterism - Last Rhythm
• Asterism - Enter Sandman (Metallica Instrumental cover)
• Asterism - Ace of Spades (Motorhead Instrumental cover)
• Engrupid Pipol - Viral Madness

Don't think, don't even use your brain! Just bring your attitude ... although, you kinda need a brain for that too. Whatever! Be easy on yourselves, and your brain, so you could experience the madness the Cage brings you every week!

Playlist:

• Hellrazer - Defenders of Metal
• Tyrant - Warriors of Metal
• Usurper - Kill For Metal
• Manowar - Die For Metal
• Scorpions - China White
• Lizzy Borden - Ultra Violence
• Ultra Violence - Why So Serious?
• Tenet - Watching You Burn
• Hatriot - My Cold Dead Hands
• Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
• Exodus - 3111
• Exhumed - Unsafe at Any Speed
• Gruesome - Fragments of Psyche
• Dekapitator - Thundering Legions
• Decapitated - Spheres of Madness
• Entombed - Evilyn
• Cryptopsy - Two Pound Torch
• Sacrifice - Give Me Justice
• Kamelot - On the Coldest Winter Night
• Kobra and the Lotus - Circus
• Hanabie - Iconic
• Nemophila - Pump It Up!
• Unlucky Morpheus - Savior After God
• Zilqy - Cannonball
• Zilqy - We Carry On
• Aldious - Carry Out!
• Deep Purple - Lazy (Tokyo, August 17, 1972)
• Casandra's Crossing, featuring George Lynch - Stranger
• Dokken - Mr. Scary
• Megadeth - The Last Note
• Metallica - Ride The Lightning
• The Motherfuckers - Punk Like a Skabby
• Rob Zombie - Punks and Demons
• Rob Zombie - I'm a Rock "N" Roller
• In Flames - Come Clarity
• Genesis - The Brazilian (Instrumental)
• Orbit Culture - Inside the Waves

Ragin' it extra loud for our recently fallen metal comrades: Pamela Palardy, Tamarah Maur, and Jean Guy Donair. RAGE In Peace. This week, brand new KREATOR, BIOHAZARD, and from Japan: NEMOPHILA and another one from the new ASTERISM, which I previewed last week. Damn, just can't get enough of this one. So damn good! Also threw in some classics from the 90s as well, as The Cage is almost 33. That's right, it was January 26, 1993, when yours truly started terrorizing the airwaves late at night! Thank you to everyone who's been following me on this journey. Let's make it another MAD year!

Playlist:

• Surgical Steel - Crank It Up!
• Racer X - Hammer Away
• Mr. Big - Alive & Kickin'
• Asterism - Blink Of Ray
• Fate Gear - Megabullets
• Nemophila - Oblivious
• Morbid Angel - God Of Emptiness
• Death - Trapped In A Corner
• Vader - Chaos
• Baphomet - The Suffering
• Dying Fetus - Streaks of Blood (Baphomet cover)
• Terrorizer - Fear of Napalm
• Napalm Death - Glimpse Into Genocide
• Napalm Death - If the Truth Be Known
• Napalm Death - Judicial Slime
• Napalm Death - More Than Meets the Eye
• Napalm Death - Riot of Violence (Kreator cover)
• Kreator - Blood of Our Blood
• Kreator - Deathscream
• Kreator - Krushers of the World
• Immolation - Adversary
• Immolation - After My Prayers
• Immolation - Away From God
• Carcass - Keep On Rotting in the Free World
• Carcass - Buried Dreams
• Arch Enemy - Time Capsule/Fields of Desolation
• Sepultura, featuring Matt Heafy - Slave New World
• Sepultura - Territory
• Sepultura - Policias (Titas cover)
• Sepultura - Desparate Cry
• Suicidal Tendencies - War Inside My Head
• D.R.I. - Acid Rain
• Cro-Mags - Seekers of the Truth
• Biohazard - War Inside Me
• Biohazard - Punishment
• Biohazard - Tales From the Hard Side
• Styx - Everybody Raise a Glass
• Styx - Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
• Damn Yankees - Silence Is Broken Now
• Triskelyon - Major Tom (Peter Schilling cover)

Couple of new tunes already this year. 2026's sure looking good for Japanese metal, as LOVEBITES, ZILQY, and ASTERISM have shown! But, like I said earlier, still too early in the year, and some of us are still in the "reflective" mode, which I'm sure will change in about ... 11 month? Lol! Anyways, hope you enjoyed some 80s!

Playlist:

• Band-Maid - Lock and Load (Rage Cage theme 2026!)
• Untimely Demise - World War Again
• Exciter - World War III
• Throne of Vengeance - World War Everything
• Nuclear Venom - Born To Fight
• Judas Priest - Reckless
• Iron Maiden - Heaven Can Wait
• Chemicide - 72 Seasons (Metallica cover)
• Metallica - Damage, Inc.
• Flotsam & Jetsam - Metalshock
• Metal Church - Over My Dead Body
• Ozzy Osbourne - Secret Loser
• Black Sabbath - Danger Zone
• Hammer King - Danger Zone (Kenny Loggins cover)
• Cheap Trick - Mighty Wings
• AC/DC - Chase the Ace
• Helix - Stuck in the 80s
• Great White - On the Edge
• Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
• Sex Machine Guns - Runaway Train From Hell
• Loudness - 1000 Eyes
• Anthem - Death To Death
• Lovebites - The Castaway
• Zilqy - Carry On
• Nemophila - Revive
• Asterism - Metal Supreme
• Asterism - Sex Jazz
• Asterism - Stress
• Asterism, featuring Marty Friedman - Gyutto!
• Chris Poland - Theater of the Damned
• Megadeth - Good Mourning/Black Friday
• Slayer - Postmortem/Raining Blood
• Beastie Boys, featuring Kerry King - Fight For Your Right To Party
• Beastie Boys, featuring Kerry King - No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn
• Beastie Boys - She's Crafty
• Volbeat - I Only Wanna Be With You (Dusty Springfield cover)
• Samantha Fox - Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)
• Toto - Til the End
• The Moody Blues - The Other Side of Life
• Lynx - Can't Get Enough

Happy New Year! Back after 3 weeks, hope you've been well. We kick off the year with a look-back to 2025, in no particular order. So, what will '26 be for the Cage world? Well, to quote The Thing (1982): "Let's just wait here for a little while, and see what happens!"

Playlist:

• Violator - Rot In Hell
• Interceptor - Confederate Cannibal
• Deathhammer - Satan's Hammer
• Cryptopsy - The Nimis Adoration
• Benediction - Deviant Spine
• Cancer - 39 Bodies
• Baest - Stormbringer
• Arch Enemy - Blood Dynasty
• Cradle of Filth - To Live Deliciously
• Fury - Interceptor
• Lethal X, featuring Paul Gilbert - Daredevil
• Lordi - Syntax Terror
• Serenity in Murder - Matrix
• Babymetal, featuring Alex Terrible - Song 3
• Slaughter To Prevail - Russian Grizzly in America
• Ryoji Shinomoto - Livng Dead Beat
• Warmen - March or Die
• Warbringer - Strike From the Sky
• Coroner - Sacrificial Lamb
• Testament - High Noon
• Sacrifice - Missile
• Destruction - Scumbag Human Race
• Sodom - Witchhunter
• Revenge - Treason Disrupt
• Thraxas! - Sentenced To Debt
• Hazzerd - Deathbringer
• Prisoner - Kill the King
• Grave Digger - Bone Collector
• H.E.A.T. - Running To You
• Giant - Holdin' On For Dear Life
• Helloween - A Little is a Little Too Much
• Avantasia, featuring Michael Kiske - The Moorlands at Twilight
• Alice Cooper - Blood on the Sun
• Sally - Frozen Garden
• Unlucky Morpheus - Ready For a New Stage
• The Uncrowned - Dream Chaser
• Band-Maid - Present Perfect
• Raven - Metal Militia
• Powertron - Halo