Final Episode - 5/14/10 - FIGHT!

God Bless Ye Merry Bastards.

This has been a most entertaining season. Sadly we need to wrap it up tonight, so we're going out in style.

Bang your heads, click your heels, and we'll be back to blow your heads off soon enough. Our last hurrah:

Manowar - Brothers of Metal, Pt. 1

Rob Zombie - Sick Bubblegum
Children of Bodom - Living Dead Beat

Megadeth - Kill the King
Dream Theater - Forsaken

Ministry - So What?
Pantera - Cemetery Gates

Death - Painkiller (Judas Priest cover)
Arch Enemy - Kill With Power (Manowar cover)

Detroit Metal City/Jack Ill Dark - Fuckingham Palace

If you'd like to hear more from us, about any future shows, or just about metal in the area, please shoot us an email at heavyfm-request@mit.edu, and we'll hook you up.

See you in hell,

Our last show is archived at:
http://wmbr.org/m3u/Heavy_FM_20100514_0200.m3u

As always, our archives can be found at:
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Episode 10 - 5/7/10

Good god, May already?

The hell with this, I'll play what I want! No themes this week, just solid metal that we're too impatient (or overdue) about playing.

This is also our 2nd-to-last show this season, so be sure that next week will kick ever the more ass. Consider this a warmup/warning.

Prong - Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck

Blind Guardian - When Sorrow Sang
Manowar - Outlaw

Brainstorm - Falling Spiral Down
Dio - Holy Diver

Iced Earth - Damien
Blind Guardian - Valhalla

Annihilator - King of the Kill
Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave

King Diamond - A Mansion in Darkness

Rock on, you monsters.


This show is archived at:
http://wmbr.org/m3u/Heavy_FM_20100507_0200.m3u

As ever, the last two weeks of archives can be found at:
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We'll be back next week to burn this mother down. Tell your friends. Especially the weak-willed ones looking to find a new religion. We'll take good care of 'em.

Episode #9 - 4/30/10 - HeavyFM.02T

HeavyFM comes from MIT. And as such, there are certain qualifications, and we, too, must pass through the hellish gauntlet that is 8.02T - Electromagnetism in TEAL.

Tonight, we salute our fallen brothers, the warriors who have come and gone before us to suffer on the TEAL frontier. With today's generation powering through a test this very night, assuredly with many casualties lying by the wayside, we can only pay homage and fight alongside them. Here we go:

Queensrÿche - Resistance

Dark Tranquillity - Cathode Ray Sunshine
Fear Factory - Self Bias Resistor

Iron Savior - H. M. Powered Man
Lacuna Coil - A Current Obsession

Angra - Deus le Volt! / Spread Your Fire
Black Label Society - Electric Hellfire

Testament - Electric Crown
Judas Priest - The Hellion / Electric Eye

Chrome Division - Serial Killer
Crimson Death - Parallel World

Manowar - The Power


You can listen to the show:
http://wmbr.org/m3u/Heavy_FM_20100430_0200.m3u

And, as always, our archives can be found at:
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Episode #8 - 4/23/10

"It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top." - Robert Lindner

Deus le Volt!* It was good enough in 1095, and it's good enough today. Anything for a nice bloody Holy War. Metal waxes philosophical, especially about religion, and especially about war.

I wonder if there's enough intersecting material for a show? If only...

Manowar - Holy War

Godgory - Holy War
Dragonland - Holy War

Detente - Holy War**
Blind Guardian - Another Holy War

Megadeth - Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
Children of Bodom - If You Want Peace... Prepare For War

Epica - The Last Crusade [A New Age Dawns, Pt. 1]
Star One - Intergalactic Space Crusaders

Symphony X - The Walls of Babylon

Damnation, religion, salvation, fire and steel!

*Amazingly, there simply wasn't room for Angra's "Deus Le Volt/Spread Your Fire" leadoff combo from their Temple of Shadows album!

**We incorrectly reported this track as "Holy Wars" - thankfully, fate intervened in our own divine struggle, and Detente's song is, in fact, just called "Holy War"


The archive for this show can be found at:
http://wmbr.org/m3u/Heavy_FM_20100423_0200.m3u

As always, archives can be found at:
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Episode #7 - 4/16/10

And it's only 19 days late! Go me!
This was the night Capen wasn't around so I ran a solo show. And it almost worked, but I played a song we played the week before. Hurrrrrrr.
Oh well, so it goes. On to the setlist:

Testament - For the Glory of...
Testament - More than Meets the Eye

Nocturnal Rites - Never Trust
Primal Fear - The Curse of Sharon

Iron Savior - Stand Against the King
Brainstorm - Frozen

As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
Arch Enemy - Nemesis

Sepultura - Piranha (Exodus cover)
Acid Bath - Paegan Love Song

Painside - Sand Messiah
Luna Mortis - Ruin

In Flames - Abnegation



This show is archived at:
http://wmbr.org/m3u/Heavy_FM_20100423_0200.m3u

Archives, as always, can be found here:
http://wmbr.mit.edu/cgi-bin/arch

Episode #6 - 4/9/10

Hey stupid, we brought you some stuff!

Tonight we're just winging it, so we threw together some solid tracks that didn't necessarily have a place anywhere else. We also had a brief dedication to my dad, who, as Joey Demaio would say, was recently "reBORN in the fires of TRUE. HEAVY. METAL!" after I took him to a Sonata Arctica show.

Rock on, old man!

Here's the list:

Iced Earth - Last December

Acid Bath - The Mortician's Flame
Poisonblack - Love Infernal

Luna Mortis - Ruin
Opeth - To Rid the Disease

Mercyful Fate - Curse of the Pharaohs
Steel Attack - Dreaming

Sonata Arctica - Don't Say A Word (Live)

Primal Fear - Fighting the Darkness / The Darkness / Reprise


This show is archived at:
http://wmbr.org/m3u/Heavy_FM_20100409_0200.m3u

As always, all our radio archives can be found at:
http://wmbr.mit.edu/cgi-bin/arch


Bang your head, you monsters.

Episode 5 - 4/2/10

It's honorary Kai Hansen Day today at HeavyFM! Tune in as we salute, and, in some cases, completely botch the history of, one of Germany's finest power metallers.

Metal Church - Beyond All Reason

In Flames - Egonomic
Nocturnal Rites - The Devil's Child

Rob Zombie - Jesus Frankenstein
Acid Bath - Tranquilized

Iron Maiden - Out of the Silent Planet

Gamma Ray - Afterlife
Helloween - I Want Out

Iron Savior - Cybernatic Queen
Powerglove - Holy Orders (Be Quick and Just Shred)

The show is archived at:
http://wmbr.org/m3u/Heavy_FM_20100402_0200.m3u


Stay Bloody...

Episode #4 - 3/26/10

Jesse's out of town this week for Spring Break, so I thought I might take this opportunity to play a setlist that I've had in my back pocket for some time. The list is, in a way, about the history of Heavy Metal. Or perhaps more appropriately, about the stigma surrounding heavy metal. This week's setlist is about suicide. That and the relationship that heavy metal music and specifically the stigma surrounding heavy metal have with self-destruction. Indeed, of the songs on the list, only a few actually concern suicide directly. The rest either use suicide as a (perhaps reductive) metaphor for a number of things (war, religion, life, death, substance abuse), describe historical events (e.g Jonestown cult), and/or actually are only commonly mistaken for having anything to do with suicide whatsoever. That this last category exists has been the greatest instrument in the creation of metal's dangerous stigma. Indeed, the Ozzy and Priest songs were both subject to landmark court cases in which case the "offending" artists were respectively sued for responsibility of the suicides of young men. Much as the PMRC's insistence that metal and hard rock were corrupting America's youth led to the Explicit Lyrics stickers that have so accelerated record sales, heavy metal music, despite its naturally dark atmosphere and serious content, has gained most of its reputation from those ignorant enough to label it as such. Metal was never Satanic before the religious said it was.

Metal music's content tends more towards both the philosophical and the vulgar than much of today's mainstream music, but I think for the most part, the genre's best work gravitates around the former. Perhaps this has greatly to do with metal's attitude of "no boundaries", "pushing the envelope", and about connecting with listeners in a very deep, personal way, particularly with the uglier sides of life. Hence, much metal is about struggle, life, death, war, hatred, religion, blasphemy, and any number of topics, simply because they're deeply important, deeply connecting elements of the human race and merit discussion. I could go on about how the "metal
concert" is akin to the primal human gathering and is, in itself, a great release for its listeners, through moshing, crowd-surfing, motion, or simply reveling in a unity of spirit (and admittedly, I just did), but this might distract from today's theme.

The following are all excellent songs (Spooky Tooth aside), but you won't find suicide among them outside of metaphor, misattribution, or hyperbolic extension.

Opening Sample from Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"
In Flames - Take This Life

Ozzy Osbourne - Suicide Solution
Judas Priest - Better By You, Better Than Me (Spooky Tooth cover)

Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde
Pain - Suicide Machine (Cut short by technical difficulties)

Sentenced - The Suicider
Sentenced - Excuse Me While I Kill Myself

Metallica - One

Black Label Society - Suicide Messiah
Nightmare - Battleground for Suicide

Manowar - Guyana (Cult of the Damned)

This show is archived for your perusal/amusement/deal-with-it at:
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Nightmare #3 - 3/19/10

Good to be back from the trip to DC. Megadeth/Testament show was incredible, despite being congested all to hell and generally unable to bang my head without much discomfort (you heard me). Tour was an anniversary celebrating the release of Rust in Peace in 1990 and The Legacy in 1987, by the respective bands, or at the very least a well-executed "Oh shit, we just got ready to go on tour with Slayer, but Tom Araya blew out his spine and had surgery, what the hell do we do now?" circuit of slightly smaller venues of North America (sans New England, hence the trouble).

Having everyone in a place half the size of the Avalon scream out

IF THERE'S A NEW WAY!
I'LL BE THE FIRST IN LINE!
BUT IT BETTER WORK THIS TIME!

is almost humbling if you weren't also a part of the thing.

We brought some of that aggression to the airwaves tonight in a heavy-hitting salvo of metal for you. It looked like this:

Prong - Whose Fist Is This Anyway?

Sentenced - Vengeance is Mine
Symphony X - Domination

In Flames - Land of Confusion (Genesis cover)
Ozzy Osbourne - Trap Door

Testament - Alone in the Dark
Megadeth - 44 Minutes

Van Canto - Battery (Metallica cover)
Primal Fear - Church of Blood
Dark Tranquillity - Monochromatic Stains

Manowar - Fight Until We Die

This show is archived for your perusal/amusement/deal-with-it at:
   http://wmbr.org/m3u/Heavy_FM_20100319_0200.m3u

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"It's funny playing this album 20 years after I wrote it, in the city that I aimed it at. No offense to any of you, of course. Or to anyone in our government who is a patriot.

Vote for me, and you'll have at least one, motherfuckers!
  <Holy Wars... The Punishment Due>" - Dave Mustaine, DC, 3/15/10

Episode 2 - 3/12/10

Very well, I suppose I'll have to start listing this crap with the ahem "correct" date so it will at least line up with the archives. We'll be contacting the ALCU soon to discuss the institute's insistence that we conform to a calendar directly in opposition with our own waking hours.

Playlist for the 2nd day, Reamer piloting solo:

Enter Annihilation - Descending

Twilightning - Gone to the Wall
Nocturnal Rites - Never Again

Iron Saviour - The Omega Men
Pyramaze - Year of the Phoenix
   
 Dammit Reamer, Matt Barlow already rejoined Iced Earth!

Human Error - City of Ghosts
Harasai - A Constant Disbelief

Welicoruss - Apeiron
In Flames - Delight and Angers

As I Lay Dying - The Sound of Truth
Arch Enemy - I Will Live Again

Primal Fear - Face the Emptiness


This show is archived at:
   http://wmbr.org/m3u/Heavy_FM_20100312_0200.m3u

As always, archives can be found at:
   http://wmbr/cgi-bin/arch

Nightmare #1 - 3/4/10

A bit late, but that's my fault. I am a delinquent webmaster. I am a much better metalhead. Here's the playlist for our first show under the new flag:

Manowar - The Gods Made Heavy Metal
   *Hello, World!*
Sabaton - 40:1
Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
   *wank*
Luna Mortis - Ash
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
   *wank*
Pain - Shut Your Mouth
Megadeth - Addicted to Chaos
   *wank*
Lordi - Raise Hell in Heaven
Iced Earth - Brainwashed
Blind Guardian - I'm Alive
   Sometimes I don't remember to take out the CD. Whoops, more Germans.
   *signoff*
Arch Enemy - Silent Wars

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under "HeavyFM" (or "Heavy_FM", as they seem to insist on calling us...)

"I'm in a heavy metal-powered world
That's my way to be"
   - Iron Savior

March Metal Madness

Ah, March.

Hammerfall is coming through. Megadeth is on one of the best Thrash Metal tours I've heard of in a while. To any of you on heavymetal@, this is old hat. If so - GOOD, I like to maintain a well-informed metalocracy.

Our first show is firing the cannons live this Thursday("Friday") night("morning") from 2-3am and will do so for every week thereafter. Once we're in the throes of it, we'll be able to pepper the lot of you with a wide span of information for calling in for comments, making requests, full playlists, future plans, and what mailing lists you can sign up for if you're interested in hearing more from the mouths of kings.

As for less-happy news, I feel an obligation to pour a proverbial 40 for the dissolution of Luna Mortis, a great start-up band out of Wisconsin with only one album (at least under that name). They remain the best surprise of an opener that I've ever encountered.

Of course, I am still further obliged to rig several tankers of Carlsberg with explosives and to flood Gothenburg's Scandinavium with the alcoholic dross in tribute to Jesper Strömblad. Jesper formed both Hammerfall and In Flames, spending a solid 17 years in the latter effectively revolutionizing the fusion of Death Metal and Thrash into what is arguably the most advanced form of Metal any of us have ever seen, Melodic Death Metal. Jesper has spent something on the order of an entire year at home resting from the tribulations of alcoholic (and possibly World of Warcraft) rehab and officially declared his exodus from In Flames in mid-February.

I cannot wait to see what the man does next.

Invocation

Welcome to Heavy FM - Heavy Frequency Modulation for Heavy Fucking Metal!

We are a Cambridge, MA 88.1FM WMBR radio show running every Thursday("Friday") night("morning") 2-3AM, EST

Heavy Metal at its finest - if it's not melting your face and grinding your bones to dust, you won't hear it here!


Like every epic poem, so, too, must we invoke our muses, that they might lend us power and grant our art their majesty. Expect our first show, and many thereafter, to heavily feature the Gods of Metal, of Power, of Thrash, of Progress, of Death, of Britain, of Sweden, of America, of Finland, and of Germany.