Black Sabbath .. Black Sabbath .. Black Sabbath … BLACK SABBATH!!!

Welcome friends to The Charge Episode 22.

Ok, Let’s get it out the way …. BLACK SABBATH ARE BACK!! We are, frankly, outrageously excited about this prospect. The most important band within this genre are back for a series of live shows and a new album in the pipeline. Whatever your thoughts on the Double O’s latter career, he has done enough in his many years to earn our respect and faith in him. Don’t even get us started on Tony Iommi .. the riff master!

Alongside Sabbath we feature some great new material from Mishkin, The Arusha Accord, Anthrax and the bludgeoning Exhumed.

We are delighted to revisit Slipknot’s classic Iowa LP which remains a landmark classic and, with hindsight, shows they were always more than nu-metal.. something they have consistently proved through their later albums.

Unsigned talent is represented by Glaswegian power metallers, Farseer with their anthemic Chthonic Visions track, and we go transatlantic to visit Brazilian melodic death metallers, Blakk Market.

All topped off by a funny and genuinely touching interview with Joel Graham from Evile where he discusses the band’s colossal new album, Five Serpents Teeth as well as the monumental task of filling the shoes of heavy metal hero, Mike Alexander.

This episode goes out with love and respect to Mike and Dimebag Darrell

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WHO IS THAT THAT STANDS BEFORE ME … FIGURE IN BLACK THAT STARES AT ME!

Tracklist

1. Black Sabbath – Children of the Grave – Vertigo, 1971
2. Rebel Meets Rebel – Time – Big Vin Records, 2006
3. Anthrax – The Devil You Know – Nuclear Blast, 2011
4. Evile – Xaraya – Earache Records, 2011
5. Slipknot – People = Shit – Roadrunner Records, 2011
6. Mishkin – Violate – Basic Records, 2011
7. Farseer – Chthonic Visions – Unsigned, 2011
8. Blakk Market – Atlas – Unsigned, 2011
9. Black Tusk – Bring Me Darkness – Relapse Records, 2011
10. The Arusha Accord – The Resurgent – Basick Records, 2011
11. Exhumed – As Hammer To Anvil – Relapse Records, 2011

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It’s our 21st and, like any good celebration, we’ve brought AC/DC to the party!!

Our 21st installment, as with all our other shows, is chock to the rafters with fantastic music.

Frankly, if you can’t find some music in here that tickles your fancy, then we suggest giving up on rock music!

We’re delighted to have interviews with two bands, who come from completely different worlds within rock, but who have produced two of the albums of the year; Swedish AOR kings, WORK OF ART and Djent pioneers, TESSERACT. We implore you to pick up their albums In Progress and One respectively.

Flying the flag for the unsigned artists are our tech metal heads, ENTRO-P and CHRONOGRAPHS, each bringing unique and interesting angles to the world of technical metal.

We are interviewing thrash metal kings, EVILE for our next edition of the show, but, to whet your appetite for their pending show on FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER at THE CATHOUSE, we present the killer title track to their colossal new album, Five Serpents Teeth. If thrash isn’t your bag, our friends in TRUCKER DIABLO are playing at The Classic Grand on the same night, included is the fantastic When Angels Die too!

MASTODON, ABSU, OBSCURA and FUCK THE FACTS all round off another, frankly, killer edition of The Charge!

YOU’RE ABOUT TO ROCK AND WE SALUTE YOU!!

Tracklist

1. AC/DC – Whole Lotta Rosie – Epic Records, 1978
2. Work Of Art – Emelie – Frontiers Records, 2011
3. Trucker Diablo – When Angels Die – Unsigned, 2011
4. Mastodon – Dry Bone Valley – Roadrunner Records, 2011
5. Tesseract – Concealing Fate Part 2: Deception – Century Media, 2011
6. Evile Five – Serpents Teeth – Earache Records, 2011
7. Entro-P – Nucleus – Unsigned, 2011
8. Chronographs – Tides – Unsigned, 2011
9. Obscura – Celestial Spheres – Relapse Records, 2011
10. Absu – Circles of the Oath – Candlelight Records, 2011
11. Fuck The Facts – Drift – Relapse Records, 2011

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The Charge is 20 and to celebrate we have three whole interviews for you to digest and get your lugs around! There’s a distinctly proggy feel to our interviewees this week.

The kings of classic prog-infused death metal return, but… er… minus any death metal, with their Heritage album. This is of course, OPETH, and Michael and Frederic guide us through the new album and their upcoming plans.

We caught up with three of our favourite modern progressive tech metal bands on the ‘Lowering The Tone’ tour earlier in September. TESSERACT, CHIMP SPANNER and UNEVEN STRUCTURE all came, they saw, they conquered… then they chatted to us! You can hear The Spanner and Uneven Structure in this episode… we saved Tesseract ‘til next time! To get all at once is just greed friends!! These bands are keeping pushing the envelope and we love their music… you should too!!

As well as our interviews we have new music from Victorian-themed, symphonic metallers IMPERIAL VENGEANCE, bringing a bit of class and decorum to proceedings .. before ripping your head off; VOLBEAT bring their wildly varied and dynamic rockabilly-punk-metal to the party while two incredible female-fronted classic metal bands, THE DEVIL’S BLOOD and ROYAL THUNDER prove there is still life in that classic blues metal sound… as if it was in question!
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We also feature the first track from the much anticipated ‘Lulu’ collaboration between METALLICA & LOU REED (though it seems we’re the only ones on the internet who are being positive about this song!!). To balance the show, in case the bile towards this collaboration is too much. We’ve got new MACHINE HEAD to appease you’re wee metal hearts too this week!

Finally, if you’re looking for just straight up face melting, bludgeoning death metal …. Get right in about THE ROTTED and TORTURE DIVISION, who’ll smash a massive sledgehammer to the side of your head and drill your knee caps … metaphorically of course!!

THIS IS THE RESOLUTION – THE END OF ALL PROGRESS

Tracklist

1. The Devil’s Blood – Christ or Cocaine – Van Records, 2009
2. Royal Thunder – Mouth Of Fire – Relapse Records, 2011
3. Volbeat – 16 Dollars – Spinefarm Records, 2011
4. Opeth – The Devil’s Orchard – Roadrunner Records, 2011
5. Metallica & Lou Reed – The View – Warner Bros, 2011
6. Machine Head – Be Still And Know – Roadrunner Records, 2011
7. Chimp Spanner – Under One Sky – Basick Records, 2011
8. Imperial Vengeance – Black Heart of Empire – Transcend Music, 2011
9. Uneven Structure – Awaken – Basick Records, 2011
10. The Rotted – Rex Oblivione – Candlelight Records, 2011
11. Torture Division – Through The Eyes Of A Dead – Self Released, 2011

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Radio Magnetic’s fortnightly dive into rock and metal brings more news, more information and lot’s more killer music for you to digest!

We have new material from the fantastic Welsh hard rockers THE DIRTY YOUTH, alongside new Swedish AOR kings WORK OF ART each kicking things off with significant aplomb.

There are tracks and tour information for Irish rockers THE ANSWER and Floridian metallers TRIVIUM, each touring in support of their new albums towards the end of this year.

We have a fantastic interview with current ALIASES and former SIKTH guitarist Pin discussing ALIASES’ awesome new album Safer Than Reality, as well as the current tech-metal revolution and the bands future plans.

Space Lords MONSTER MAGNET are playing their timeless Dopes To Infinity album in full in Glasgow’s The Garage on Thursday 24 November. The albums title track is included to whet all appetites for this unmissable show!!

With plans to pull together a Special Scottish Metal show we are looking for our listeners input to contribute and suggest bands for inclusion. If you are in, or know of, a band from Scotland who you feel should be included then please send across details to ken@radiomagnetic.com or send details via or Facebook page.

Local bands are represented by two previous contributors to The Charge. Blood metallers, ACHREN, have just released their new The Forgotten King album represented here, appropriately, by Fury of The Northmen. Metalcore kings GRANT ME REVENGE provide another exercise in killer riffing on These Things That Are Already Dead available for free download on the bands YouTube page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXcWqLD5z1s)

LET FREEDOM RING WITH THE SHOTGUN BLAST!!

Tracklist

1. The Answer – Keep Believin’ – Spinefarm Records, 2007
2. The Dirty Youth – Fight – RMR Records, 2011
3. Work Of Art – Castaway – Frontiers Records, 2011
4. Monster Magnet – Dopes To Infinity – A&M Records, 1995
5. White Wizzard – West L.A. Nights – Earache Records, 2011
6. Trivium – Watch The Word Burn – Roadrunner Records, 2011
7. Aliases – The Reality Of Beliefs – Basick Records, 2011
8. Grant Me Revenge – Things That Are Already Dead – Unsigned, 2011
9. Achren – Fury of the Northmen – Unsigned, 2011
10. Revocation – Cradle Robber – Relapse Records, 2011

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Metal Gods = CHECK;
Classic Hard Rock = CHECK;
Instrumental – Thrash – Glam – NWOBHM – Doom = CHECK x5

AND interviews with 2 fantastic local bands!

The Charge 18 is packed to the rafters and fit to burst!!

Legends JUDAS PRIEST and MICHAEL MONROE fly the flag for the old guard, but it is new talent that permeates this edition of our flagship metal show.

English hard rockers THE TREATMENT tell us what they like to do of an evening; guitar virtuoso ANDY JAMES whips up A Storm on his self-titled instrumental album, proving instrumental does not necessarily equal mindless self-indulgence.

Canada’s superb SKULL FIST and Chicago’s DIAMOND PLATE prove that the future of classic heavy metal and thrash metal respectively is in safe hands!

Local bands ATTICA RAGE and FALLOCH discuss their respective new albums. While sounding nothing alike, these bands are further evidence of the depth of talent that Scotland has within its hard rock and metal community. For further evidence, attend the ‘Featured Gig’ below including three The Charge alumni and guaranteed to highlight the strength of contemporary Scottish metal!

FEATURED LOCAL GIG

CO-EXIST:  (See Episode
THRONE ‘O DIABLO:  (See Episode 9)
DIES THE FIRE: (See Episode 13)

Where: 13th Note
When: Sunday 21 August
Doors: 20:00

This time round, we also feature more forthcoming gig news and information about the growing Damnation Festival line up.

Finally, we welcome back Polish Death Metal heroes, DECAPITAED. Theirs is a story of tragedy and rebirth and we’re delighted their back to crush our skulls!

THE CARNIVAL IS FOREVER! \,,/

Tracklist

1. Judas Priest – You’ve Got Another Thing Coming – Sony Music, 1982
2. The Treatment – Drink, F*ck, Fight – Spinefarm Records, 2011
3. Michael Monroe – Superpowered Superfly – Spinefarm Records, 2011
4. Attica Rage – Looking Through The Inner Eye – Rocksector Records, 2011
5. Andy James – The Storm – Transcend Music, 2011
6. Skull Fist – Head Of The Pack – Noise Art Records, 2011
7. Falloch – Beyond The Embers & The Earth – Candlelight Records, 2011
8. Diamond Plate – Generation Why? – Earache Rcords, 2011
9. The Living Fields – Glacial Movements – Candlelight Records, 2011
10. Decapitated – The Knife – Nuclear Blast, 2011

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SOUND THE CHARGE!!!!!!

Welcome to The Charge Episode 17 …. After a week that has featured performances in Scotland from both Judas Priest and Iron Maiden within the space of two days …we’re breathless and ready to relax by the fire with a glass of Glenlivet, a cigar and some thrash metal

We are focussing on some of the amazing new live gigs about to hit these shores within the next few months, for the first time since we began we will not feature any interviews however nearly all of the artists included are playing in the UK over the next few months and are more than deserving of your ears!! Get along and support all of these awesome artists!

In Scotland in particular we have some amazing artists playing here … to name but a few… ‘deep breath’… TesseracT, Chimp Spanner, The Ocean, Alises, Reckless Love, White Wizzard, Jettblack, Abandon Ships, Dead By April, Machine ‘F##kin’ Head, Opeth, Sylosis… OUCH! My neck is hurting just thinking about these!

We feature some incredible new music in 17 from such seasoned pros as Devin Townsend, Machine Head, and Arch Enemy; as well as newer upstarts like Reckless Love, Dead By April, Visions and 7 Horns 7 Eyes!! We keep adding to our list of albums of the year with yet another contender in Conjure & Command (pictured), the new ‘thrashterpiece’ by the magnificent Toxic Holocaust and a little known band named Metal Licka… or something like that… they sound like they could have a future!!

Anybody looking to have their demo/album/E.P. covered in the show please send your details to ken@radiomagnetic.com or get in contact via Facebook!

HE .. IS … THE .. PAIN … KILLER!!

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Tracklist

1. Devin Townsend Project – Ghost – Century Media (2011)
2. Metallica – Brothers In Arms – Creeping Death Music (2007)
3. Reckless Love – Hot – Spinefarm Records (2011)
4. Dead By April – Within My Heart – Spinefarm Records (2011)
5. Machine Head – Locust – Roadrunner Records (2011)
6. Arch Enemy – No Gods, No Master – Century Media (2011)
7. Visions – Control – Basick Records (2011)
8. The Browning – Time Will Tell – Earache Records (2011)
9. Toxic Holocaust – Sound The Charge – Relapse Records (2011)
10. 7 Horns 7 Eyes – Vindicator – Basick Records (2011)

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Amorphis & Symphony X have Forgotten Sunday – while Achren Hang The Bastard by their El Schlong – the Origin of a Monument to the Seven Year Kismet!

Episode 16 provides a supremely generous helping of local, national and international talent to feast on.

We are delighted to present interviews with three supremely talented local bands, all fantastic in their particular fields, and sounding not one iota alike! Melodic Post Hardcore act Forgotten Sunday discuss their upcoming Surface Festival gig at the G2 and present the fantastic, Icarus, track due for inclusion on a new EP; newly formed stoner rock titans Bacchus Barracus discuss sex, drugs and rock and roll …. and whiskey, lots and lots of whiskey, while drummer and vocalist Quzzy explains exactly why this show and bands like these three are so important .. heed his words… the man speaketh the truth! Finally, self titled Blood Metallers, Achren discuss their excitement at the pending release of their debut album and appearances at some of the most prestigious metal festivals in the world … also we are emphatically told what is, and isn’t, Blood Metal!

On top of that we have brand new tracks from Symphonic maestros Amorphis whose terrific Beginning of Times album is out now, Hang The Bastard whose music is just as brutal as the name suggests, and El Schlong whose music is just as crazy as their name suggests!!! We also have a solid gold contender for album of 2011 in Symphony X and their quite breathtaking album Iconoclast, represented here by the tremendous Promoetheus (I Am Alive).

We didn’t even have time to mention Origin, Monument and Seven Year Kismet …. Ooft!

Anybody looking to have their demo/album/E.P. covered in the show please send your details to ken@radiomagnetic.com or get in contact via Facebook!

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Tracklist

1. Symphony X    – Prometheus (I Am The Night) – Nuclear Blast (2011)
2. Amorphis – Mermaid – Nuclear Blast (2011)
3. NEW TALENT: INTERVIEW
4. Forgotten Sunday – Icarus – Unsigned (2011)
5. Monument – Rock The Night – Self-Released (2011)
6. NEW TALENT: INTERVIEW
7. Bacchus Barrachus – Rock ‘N Roll Man – Unsigned (2011)
8. Hang The Bastard – The Blackest Eyes – Holy Roar Records (2010)
9. El Schlong – With Trousers On – Unsigned (2011)
10. Seven Year Kismet – Behold The Eve Of Ruin     - Transcend Music (2011)
11. NEW TALENT: INTERVIEW
12. Achren – Impaled (Live from Bloodstock 2010) – Unsigned (2011)
13. Origin – Explosion of Fury – Nuclear  Blast (2011)

 

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In the Year of the Goat, deep in Raven Woods, the SSS have a Warrant for Trucker Diablo!

It’s time to Charge! and we are here to rock harder, faster and down right nastier, than we ever have before!

We’re delighted to introduce two of our favourite, but still as yet little known hard rock bands; Swedish retro doomsters Year of the Goat and, Northern Irish hard rockers Trucker Diablo. YOTG are the magnificent bastard offspring of Pentagram and Blue Oyster Cult, but fronted by Matt Bellamy (sic) while Trucker Diablo play a classic brand of southern hard rock with a panache that an endless stream of generic American acts would do well to listen to!!

Now, want the recipe for a huge, lumbering Jurassic beast of a song?

1. Take Gojira + Devin Townsend + one part of Meshuggah
2. Mix in a cement mixer,
3. Add nails and glass then wrap in a lead container,
4. Bake at 10000 degrees Celsius then shoot into the sun;
5. Serve

You now have Of Blood & Salt; the first track to be released from Gojira’s new Sea Shepherd E.P. If this is the standard we can expect from this E.P. then we’re drowning in saliva waiting for the rest!

We close with the most verocious quadrumvirate of acts you could only imagine in your nightmares; ready and waiting to tear your brain to shreds! Blackened death metal is in full effect with Spanish crew Noctem and Turkey’s Raven Woods bringing the audio death, Anaal Naathrakh’s brand of electro-infused grind will both terrify and energise and we interview one half of the amazing Chronocide from Glasgow who show that the spite in Scotland is alive and well… just don’t call them brutal!

RAINING BLOOD – FROM A LACERATED SKY!!

PS/ Gojira’s Sea Shepherd E.P. is not quite available as yet … Ken’s getting a wee bit ahead of himself … anticipation’s too much for him!

Anybody looking to have their demo/album/E.P. covered in the show please send your details to ken@radiomagnetic.com or get in contact via Facebook!

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Tracklist

1. Year Of The Goat – Of Darkness – Van Records (2011)
2. Warrant – The Last Straw – Frontiers Records (2011)
3. Trucker Diablo – Voodoo – Unsigned (2010)
4. Gojira – Of Blood & Salt (feat. DT/Fred Thornandal) – Sea Shepherd (2011)
5. SSS – Eat Me, Drink Me, Burn Me – Earache Records (2011)
6. Lazarus A.D. – Beneath The Waves of Hatred – Metal Blade (2011)
7. Chronocide – Society Of The Spectacle – FETO Records (2010)
8. Anaal Nathrrak – Paragon Pariah – Candlelight Records (2011)
9. Raven Woods    – Enfeebling The Throne – Code666 Records (2011)
10. Noctem – The Arrival of False Gods – Rising Records (2011)

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Charge into Hell! … and Amon Amarth, The Soulless, Within Temptation, Born of Osiris!!

The Charge is 14 shows young! And in our old age we are celebrating by presenting some of the most extravagant and bombastic artists within the hard rock sphere.

Dutch superstars Within Temptation get all 80s arena rock with us, while Jorn Lande and Symphony X’s Russell Allen clash in massive style with The Showdown! Judas Priest’s Epitaph Tour support, Rival Sons bring their classic brand of blues rock and Amon Amarth bring us back to the primitive. If Thor played metal .. it’d sound like this!!

Reactivated 80s NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) act, Hell have brought a contemporary classic in new album Human Remains, hear On Earth As It Is In Hell and you’ll believe us!

We also have interviews with Chicago’s crushing tech crew Born Of Osiris off the back of their new album The Discovery and we talk to Scotland’s most exciting Power Metal act, Farseer, whose new EP Chthonic Visions is out imminently … check out more of the band here:

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F##K IT ALL AND F##KIN NO REGRETS!!

Anybody looking to have their demo/album/E.P. covered in the show please send your details to ken@radiomagnetic.com or get in contact via Facebook!

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Tracklist

1. Rival Sons – Get Mine – Earache Records (2011)
2. Within Temptation – Where Is The Edge? – Roadrunner Records (2011)
3. Jorn / Allen – The Showdown – Frontiers Records (2010)
4. NEW TALENT: INTERVIEW WITH FARSEER
5. Farseer – Nightmares Collide – UNSIGNED (2011)
6. Hell – On Earth As It Is In Hell  – Nuclear Blast Records (2011)
7. Amon Amarth – War Of The Gods – Metal Blade Records (2011)
8. The Soulless – Unaltered – Earache Records (2011)
9. Deep Black Sees – Soul Freedom – Rising Records (2011)
10. INTERVIEW WITH BORN OF OSIRIS
11. Born of Osiris – Recreate – Sumerian Records (2011)
12. Xerath – God Of The Frontlines – Candlelight Records (2011)

The Charge spins Circles, Burns Bridges and through Hypocrisy seeks The Facts! Bring it on!

The thirteenth episode of Radio Magnetic’s premier exponent of all things RAWK, brings the usual mix of melody, moshing, madness and metal.

The modern kings of stadium rock the Foo Fighters, have returned with one of the albums of the year in Wasting Light and Dave Grohl & co kick of the show to some aplomb… if you’ve not heard this album yet… do!

We have new tracks from Swedish ‘were thrash-now turned-alternative rockers’ The Haunted, Basick Records’ thrilling Aussie tech crew Circles, as well as Trap Them, For Dying Souls and Armor For The Broken.

Also included on The Charge this month are interviews with two Scottish metal bands at very different stages in their careers; the excellent progressive metalheads Dies The Fire, who are at the very beginning of their (hopefully) long journey into metaldom while Glaswegian Brutal Death Metallers Cerebral Bore, through years of grit and determination have earned themselves a place on the roster of one of the UK’s most prestigious metal labels, Earache; this interview shows exactly what a bit of hard work and perseverance can do ……

STRONGER THAN ALL!! \,,/

Anybody looking to have their demo/album/E.P. covered in the show please send your details to ken@radiomagnetic.com or get in contact via Facebook!

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PS. Those of a nervous disposition please be advised the Jackanory of Cerebral Bore’s lyrics towards the end of the show may cause slight offence.

Tracklist

1. Foo Fighters – Bridge Burning – Columbia Records (2011)
2. Circles – Frontline – Basick Records (2011)
3. The Haunted – The Skull – Century Media (2011)
4. Armor For The Broken – Captivate – Tragic Hero Records (2011)
5. For Dying Souls – Hypocrisy – UNSIGNED (2011)
6. NEW UNSIGNED TALENT: INTERVIEW WITH DIES THE FIRE
7. Dies The Fire – Reset To Rectify – UNSIGNED
8. Trap Them – The Facts – Prosthetic Records (2011)
9. Lions! Tigers! Bears! – Go Go Gadget Copter – Tragic Hero Records (2011)
10. Animals On Coke – Diet Coke Head – Deaf Row Records (2011)
11. SCOTLAND’S NEWEST DEATH STARS: INTERVIEW WITH CEREBRAL BORE
12. Cerebral Bore – Maniacal Miscreations – Earache Records (2011)