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:
http://wmbr.mit.edu/cgi-bin/arch

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

As always, archives are located here:
   http://wmbr.mit.edu/cgi-bin/arch

"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