I've posted up my The Black Dahlia Murder Interview from 2015

In the continuing effort to bring all the interviews I've done over the years under the heavy metal wanaka name, I've added a podcast to the throwback series.

This time it is with Trevor Strnad from The Black Dahlia Murder- I had an interview with him back in 2015 ahead of the band playing 2 shows in NZ in June of that year.


 Here's a playlist of the segments:

Speaking of...

I've made a point of this, elsewhere, but given the history of this blog etc etc I thought I'd share it here.
------Short version- as of the publishing of this post, it is coming up on 3 years since I left the station, but they still have me listed on their site.-------

So when I next get asked the question of how a heavy metal show fitted in with a radio station more known for other genres, and I answer that I did my own thing- know this to be true.

Link: http://95bfm.com/bcasts/?cast=202634

Heavy Metal Wanaka: Podcasts

To summarise: I was on 95bfm as host of the Hard Fast Heavy Show for a good number of years, and this blog used to have the URL 'hardfastheavy.com'.

Since then I've moved to the incredibly scenic town of Wanaka in N.Z's South Island, and set up shop as heavymetalwanaka.com  with podcast, music show, youtube channel and more social media pages than anyone has need of.

This old blog was just sitting there gathering dust, so I thought I'd go through and re-tag the many hundreds of posts I did during my time on radio as "An old Hard Fast Heavy post", which would leave me space (I guess) to add more current posts about what I'm doing at the moment, which I'll tag as "Heavy Metal Wanaka- it's what I do now" As an example of this- I've embedded a youtube playlist of my new podcast at the top of this post..
Magic.

PLAYLIST FROM 20/1/2014

PLAYLIST FROM 20/1/2014
GHOST B.C- Year Zero
BEASTWARS- Damn the Sky (NZ)
NASHVILLE PUSSY- Rub it to Death
ICED EARTH- The Culling
GRAND MAGUS-Triumph and Power
WHITE ZOMBIE- Thunderkiss '65 (Jdevil remix)
PRIMATE- Hellbound
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE- Waking the Demon
PERIPHERY- The Gods must be Crazy!
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA- Gloom.
THE HAUNTED- Eye of the Storm
THE HAUNTED- Infiltrator
KREATOR- Phantom Antichrist
KREATOR- The number of the Beast
DEATH ANGEL- The Dream Calls for Blood.
DEATH ANGEL- Heaven and Hell.
SUICIDAL ANGELS- Control the Twisted mind

PRESS RELEASE: Kerretta announce new album: 'Pirohia'

 

 Kerretta to release new album 'Pirohia' 05 Sept 2014

MIDIUM RECORDS are proud to announce the release of Taite Music Prize nominees KERRETTA's new album 'Pirohia'.

Available 05 SEP 2014. 

This New Zealand trio has toured the world for the last four years and 'Pirohia' will be the band's third full length album.

Kerretta have shared stages over Europe, North America, and Australasia with the likes of The Breeders, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Explosions In The Sky, Mono, and have performed festivals such as Incubate (NEL), Dunk! Festival (BEL), SXSW (USA) and Big Day Out (NZL).

Primarily instrumental, Kerretta revel with steadfast glee, the ins and the outs, the ups and the downs of a purely sonic narrative. A narrative that is heavy and dark, twisted with shards of beauty and danger all sitting securely on top of a churning slow burn groove. On one track only does the trio relent, and then in an unconventional fashion featuring vocals in Te Reo Maori fashioned along the ancient sun-bleached bones of a traditional Maori waiata.

Having been compared to the likes of Tool, Russian Circles, and described as a thinking bogan's rock band, Kerretta are excited to unleash their first album since 2011.

Hear the new single 'Warnlands', head to

http://goldenantennarecords.bandcamp.com/track/warnlands

 

Kerretta 'Pirohia'

5 September 2014

The third album from Kerretta

Available Gatefold LP/CD/Digital

  

www.facebook.com/kerretta

www.twitter.com/kerretta

http://www.kerretta.bandcamp.com

Bulletbelt (Well) 'Rise of the Banshee' N.Z / Aus tour

From facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1510160852549401

 

Bulletbelt have been striking fear into New Zealand audiences since 2009. The Wellington ­based band craft tunes that draw from black metal's vicious realms, with traditional metal, torrents of thrash, and biting second ­wave punk all added in, to sharpen the razor.

After eviscerating audiences on nationwide tours, and playing support slots with diverse international acts – including The Black Dahlia Murder, Impiety, Goatwhore, Bolzer, Tragedy, Rotten Sound, Midnight, Municipal Waste, Ringworm, Paul Dianno, Blaze Bayley and Primate – Bulletbelt return with their new record Rise of the Banshee, their first with new vocalist Jolene Tempest. Best prepare yourself – hell's a comin.

Support bands to be announced.

Wellington - Friday Aug 15th ,Valhalla w/ Psycroptic

Auckland - Saturday Aug 16th, Kings Arms w/ Psycroptic

Napier - Friday Sept 26th, Cabana

Masterton - Saturday Sept 27th King St Live

Nelson - Thursday Oct 2nd, Venue tbc

Christchurch - Friday Oct 3rd, Churchills Live

Timaru - Saturday October 4th. Barkode

Brisbane - Thursday October 30th, Whistle Stop Bar

Melbourne - Friday October 31st, Bendigo Hotel

Bendigo - Saturday November 1st, Bendigoat Metal Fest

Wellington - Sunday November 16th, Valhalla w/ Krisiun

Auckland - Monday November 17th, Kings Arms w/ Krisiun

New Plymouth -Saturday November 29th, NZ Tattoo and Art festival

 

https://www.facebook.com/Bulletbelt

http://bulletbeltnz.bandcamp.com/

The bands debut album "Down In The Cold Of The Grave" is out now on CD, vinyl, cassette tape and digital download through Headless Horseman.

 

Heavy Metal Sports Merchandise

Are you not into sports?

Is the work betting pool the only real contact you have to the FIFA World Cup?

How about try some merchandise from all your favourite bands, but with a foot ball / soccer twist?

Motorhead have shirts out for the different countries (i.e USA, Germany, England, Russia, Mexico etc etc) going to $25USD

http://shop.imotorhead.com/index.php/world-cup-tees.html

Iron Maiden have a similar situation going on, but theirs are football style shirts, rather than the usual cotton tee. Mind you, you pay for it at 45 pounds a piece (not including shipping etc)

http://ironmaiden.com/maiden-brazil-football-shirt.html

I remember reading somewhere that Max Cavalera (Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy) was providing music for ESPN's coverage, adding a Brasillian flavour to proceedings. Haven't heard an update on this to confirm anything, but if we're talking football/soccer tees from metal bands, Sepultura's classic one surely deserves a mention.

http://tshirtslayer.com/tshirt-or-longsleeve/sepultura-football-shirt-signed-andreas

I know that the sports to metal merch cross over is far larger market than the three examples I've shown here would suggest. But, unfortunately, apart from searching each band that sells merch on onlines web-stores, it's difficult to judge the scale of it (well it is on my phone during my lunch break at work, with all my bookmarks saved on the computer at home.).

As someone who is not a sports fan I am finding it weird that, at some level, I am interested to find out more about the extent of the Heavy Metal Sports Merch. I know Basket Ball singlets are another common option, but what are other merchandise options? Does an Irish Metal band have a line of Hurling shirts, or has there been a New Zealand band with Rugby shirts available at gigs?

So, in summary, I want to know:

• How far does Heavy Metal Sports Merch spread? (i.e. bands vs types of sports- like, I don't see Pantera have had a line of Badminton shorts, as humourous as that may be- but Cowboys from Hell American Football gear totally works, right?)
• Also, what would be some good sports gear to brand with metal band logos?

Feb (4)

SCORPION CHILD- Kings Highway
RHAPSODY OF FIRE- Dark wings of Steel
SUICIDE SILENCE- OCD
PLEBIAN GRANDSTAND- Thrust
A VIRGIN BURIAL- 34
CONAN- Foehammer
SAVAGE MESSIAH- Hellblazer
NERVOSA- Death
WE BUTTER THE BREAD WITH BUTTER- Ohne Herz
NEWSTED- As the crow flies
CHROME DIVISION- Lady of Perpetual Sorrow
LAY DOWN ROTTEN- The Fever
HOUSE OF LORDS- Battle
WALLS OF JERICHO- Relentless
GAMMA RAY- Hellbent
HESSLER- Never lost my way
KILL DEVIL HILL- Leave it all behind
I AM HERESY- March of black earth
TESSERACT- Of Matter
CARNIFEX- Dark Days
VANISHING POINT- When truth lies
SHORES OF NULL- Quiescent
DEPTHS- The cattle of Man

Third Feb Playlist

THE SWORD- Arcane Montane
GHOST- Ritual
CHILDREN OF BODOM- Scream for Silence
DEMON HUNTER- Artificial Light
NECRONOMICON- Rise of the Elder Ones
MARTYR DEFILED- Demons in the Mist
I AM HERESY- March of Black Earth
MONUMENT- Runaway
DEAD TEACH THE LIVING- Cystic Eyebrosis
DESTRAGE- Jade's Place
ROB ZOMBIE- Super beast
THE FACELESS- Accelerated Evolution
BULLET- Bite the Bullet
SIKTH- Pussyfoot
PROTEST THE HERO- Underbite

Playlist (2) for Feb 2014

We're a bit late this time round, but such is the luxury that now possesses me.

Playlist:
THE HAUNTED- My Enemy (quasi-video, promo I guess)
DEVIN TOWNSEND- Kingdom (promo performance piece featuring Devin Townsend by himself)
MONOLORD- Empress Rising (music video)
DEATH ANGEL- Left for Dead (music video)
FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE- Pathfinder (music video)
MAYAN- Human Sacrifice (lyric video)
AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE- I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle (video, but the next Austrian Death Machine album is on it's way despite Tim Lambesis' legal woes)
DREAM THEATER- The Looking Glass (music video)

Down, Suicide Silence & Depths in NZ March

Down, Suicide Silence & Depths will be at the Powerstation on Mt Eden Rd, Eden Terrace, Auckland, New Zealand on Thursday the 6th of March 2014.

It will be an interesting night of a band with an iconic front man, one with a replacement front man, and a kick as kiwi band. Yeah.

Playlist (1) for Feb

First playlist for February:

• INDIAN- Rhetoric of No (new video via Relapse Records)
• TYR- The Lay of Our Love (new video via Metal Blade Records)
• DEMONICAL- An Endless Celebration (new video via Metal Blade Records)
• CHIMAIRA- Wrapped in Violence (new video via eOne Entertainment)
• WINDS OF PLAGUE- Left for Dead (new video via Century Media Records)
• CALIBAN- Your Song (new lyric video via Century Media Records)
• EKTOMORF- Numb and Sick (new video via AFM Records)
• PROFANE OMEN- Song Wings (new lyric video via Spinefarm Records)
• DEICIDE- Thou Begone (lyric video via Century Media Records)
• IN FLAMES- Sounds of a Playground Fading (music video video via Century Media Records)
• ONE MACHINE- The Distortion of Lies and the Overdriven Truth (lyric video via Scarlet Records)
•  DARKANE - Mechanically Divine (new music video via Massacre/ Prosthetic Records)
• WOLVES LIKE US- I Don't need to be forgiven (new music video via Prosthetic Records)
• NOCTEM- Eidolon (new lyric video via Art Gates Records)
• 8 FOOT SATIVA- The Shadow Masters (music video via 8 Foot Sativa records Ltd)

2nd youtube playlist for January 2014 (updated)

Second playlist for the week. Tonight's the first Monday that I'm not on air & it does seem odd.

Anyways, here's this;
VAN CANTO- Badaboom
CHROME DIVISION- You're Dead Now
GOJIRA- L'Enfant Sauvage
REFLECTIONS- Vain words from Empty Minds
A TRAGIC SETBACK- Play by Play
PROSTITUE DISFIGUREMENT- Glorify through Cyanide
WORDS OF FAREWELL- Beauty in Passing
SUBTRACT- Black September.
MIDNIGHT HOUR- Royals.
BEHEMOTH- Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY- My Dying Time

Youtube playlist for January 2014

I'm done with the late Monday night radio show.
Started when I was 22, I'm now 30- that's a decent chunk of time to be near constantly be on the look out for songs etc for the weekly playlist- dropping the habit isn't going to be like flicking a switch. So here's this:

JALDABOATH- The Wailing Witch of Moulsecoomb.
AMON AMARTH- The Father of the Wolf.
THE HAUNTED- Eye of the Storm
SEKHT- False Godz
CARNIFEX- Dragged into the Grave
BEHEMOTH- Blow you Trumpets Gabriel
INDIAN- Rhetoric of No
LEGION OF THE DAMNED- Doom Priest
TWILIGHT- Lungs
BENIGHTED- Experience your Flesh
SUICIDAL ANGELS- Marching over Blood

Dying of the Light- "Monolithium"

Thanks to Chris and 'monolithic' sounding Aucklanders, Dying of the Light for send me their new E.P, 'Monolithium'.

We recieved the E.P a few weeks ago and have since played a few tracks off it, but as ever- if you're looking out for a bit of Dying of the Light request a song either via facebook or email dale@hardfastheavy.com

Links

https://www.facebook.com/dyingofthelightnz

http://www.dyingofthelightnz.com

dyingofthelight.bandcamp

About their EP release show (7th Dec 2013): 

http://13thfloor.co.nz/2013/12/01/dying-of-the-light-e-p-release-party-at-the-13th-floor/

https://www.facebook.com/events/347029782108611

Tracklist:

1. Monolithium

2. Tribulation

3. Privatise the Sun

4. Factory 

The band is-

Chris Rigby- Vocals and bass.

Rangi Powick- guitar, drum programming, production.