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.

Pervertor- 'Into The Alcoholic Abyss'

Thanks to Ross and the lads from Wellington black/thrash metal band, Pervertor for sending me a copy of their CD "Into Alcoholic Abyss". We've had recommendations for this album and soon after it fortuitously found itself in our mail bag.
Go pick up a limited edition copy of their CD or a t-shirt featuring CD cover art.

Hard fast and heavy show listeners can look forward to hearing tracks, and if you're getting into their sound and we haven't spun one of their tracks in a while- request it at our facebook page or at dale@hardfastheavy.com

The band members are::
Inebriator- guitars.
Rots- drums.
Necroar- vocals.
Carnage- bass.

Links to the band:

• http://pervertor.bandcamp.com/ 
• https://www.facebook.com/BlackThrashAlkoholiks
• https://www.facebook.com/HeadlessHorsemannz

Tracklist:
1. New Metal Order
2. Realm of Stagnation
3. Diabolical
4. Metallic Possession
5. Subterranean Parasite
6. Humanipulation
7. Scum, Entity, Disease
8. Into the Alcoholic Abyss

Playlist for 2nd December 2013

METAL CHURCH- Generation Nothing
ARTILLERY- Dies Irae
BENEDICTUM- Scream
ONSLAUGHT- Chaos is King
DEATH ANGEL- Empty
DEICIDE- Between the Flesh and the Void
DEICIDE- In the minds of Evil.
SOULFLY- Masters of Savagery
CELESTE- Tes ames soeurs immaculees
PROFANATICA- Foul the air with Blasphemy
AEVANGELIST- Relinquished destiny
KATAKYLSM- Like Animals
WINDS OF PLAGUE- No man is my Master
BENIGHTED- Cold Remains
WEST OF HELL- To War
ALL HAIL THE YETI- After a great fire
AMEN- Broken Design
CLUTCH- The wolfman kindly requests
HELL- Plague and Fyre.

Playlist for 25th November 2013

Interview with Chuck Billy from Testament aired.

 

HELL- Something wicked this way comes. (N)

HELL- Deliver us from evil (N)

DESTRUCTION- Stand up and shout

ARTILLERY- Chill my bones (Burn my flesh) (N)

SUBTRACT- Horned God (NZ, N)

PERVERTOR- Into the alcholic abyss (NZ)

KILLING YOURSELF FOR PROFIT- Ralph the Pengiun (NZ,N)

SUBTRACT- Talk minus action equals nothing (NZ,N)

**Testament Interview**

TESTAMENT- Riding the Snake (live, IV)

TESTAMENT- Formation of Damnation (live, IV)

KILL DEVIL HILL- No way out (N)

BULLET BELT- Mistaken Identity (NZ)

ICED EARTH- V (T)

HELLOWEEN- Are you Metal?

SKELETONWITCH- This evil embrace (T)

TOXIC HOLOCAUST- Awaken the Serpent (T)

GWAR- Bloodbath (*)

PRIMAL FEAR- Metal is forever.

 

KEY:

* - news maker.

(N)- new or recently released.

(NZ)- Some wicked Kiwi metal

(T)- international act touring NZ.

(IV)- interview.
(live)- live version of song.

Playlist for 18th November 2013

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD- Almost Again
BLACK SABBATH- Neon Knights.
MALEVOLENCE- Delusions of Fear
MALEVOLENCE- Human Suit (NZ)
SHAI HULUD- Monumental Graves
CHILDREN OF BODOM- Your days are numbered
MESHUGGAH- The hurt that finds you first
OVERKILL- Drop the Hammer
WEEKEND NACHOS- Watch you suffer
THE ACACIA STRAIN- Above
CALIBAN- Broadcast to Damnation
MASTODON- We built this, Come Death.
KREATOR- The number of the beast
SEBASTIAN BACH- Kicking & Screaming
KISSING DYNAMITE- Money, Sex & Power
CHIMAIRA- Kings of the Shadow World
BLACK COMEDY- Sum of all shit
VANISHER- I am failure.

Playlist for 11th November 2013

MEGADETH- Holy Wars... The Punishment due.
ROB ZOMBIE- Rock & Roll (In a black hole)
HELL- Darkangel
SEPULTURA- The Vatican
MEGADETH- A Tout Le Monde
THY ART IS MURDER- The Purest strain of hate
INTRONAUT- Dixie Whiskey
DEATHANGEL- Heaven & Hell
CRONIAN- Chemical Dawn.
RED DAWN- Iron Head (NZ)
WARBRINGER- Black Sun, Black Moon.
EARTHLING- Dark Path
FALCONER- Mountain Men
SINATE- Premonition of the wicked (NZ)
DAYONE- Contempt. (NZ)

Playlist for 5th November 2013

GWAR- Nothing Left Alive
IN FLAMES- Cloud Connected
SKELETONWITCH- Serpents Unleashed
KATAKLYSM- If I was god- I'd burn it all.
WARBRINGER- Dying Light.
WINDS OF PLAGUE- Say hello to the undertaker.
DYING OF THE LIGHT- Privatise the Sun (NZ)
CHICAINE- Undeniable (NZ)
SEPULTURA- Tsunami
FUCK THE FACTS- Cold Hearted.
DYING OF THE LIGHT- Monolithium (NZ)
METALOCALYPSE- The Fans are chatting.
SEPTICFLESH- Oceans of Grey
SUICIDE SILENCE- Fuck Everything.
SAVING GRACE- Deathless (NZ)
METAL CHURCH- Generation Nothing.

Playlist for 21st Oct 2013

Background music provided by Korpiklaani's 'Tales along the Road'

HELL- Let battle commence (S)
ACCEPT- Hung drawn and quartered (S)
TESTAMENT- Cold embrace (S)
AMON AMARTH- Hel (S)
AMON AMARTH- Stand up to go down. (S)
CARCASS- A congealed clot of blood (S)
EXODUS- blacklist (S)
HATE ETERNAL- Hatesworn *
FRANKENBOK- Dig (live, R)
HIGH ON FIRE- Slave the Hive (N)
SETENTIA- Beyond Bionic Blame (NZ)
DEATH ANGEL- Empty (N)
BEHEMOTH- Conquer All (T)
GENERATION KILL- Prophets of War (N)
ANNIHILATOR- Welcome to your death *
DOOMRIDERS- New Pyramids (N)
8 FOOT SATIVA- 8 foot sativa (NZ, R)

KEY:

(S)- played as part of a segment, in this case- my recent interview with Andy Sneap.
* - news maker.

(N)- new or recently released.

(NZ)- Some wicked Kiwi metal

(T)- international act touring NZ (or Australia).

(IV)- interview.
(R)- Request.
(live)- live version of song.

Ulcerate shows

In follow up to the interview with Ulcerate Drummer, Jamie Saint Merat, we played on the recent HFHshow, here are the details of their upcoming shows:

Auckland: at the Whammy Bar (St Kevin's Arcade, K Rd) on Friday November 1st. Supports by Shallow Grave & Setentia.

Wellington: at SFBH on Saturday 2nd November. Supports from Shallow Grave, Hoorendus Disfigurement, Vesicant.

Playlist for 14 Oct 2013

Background music from GWAR's latest album "Battle Maximus"
Interview was with Ulcerate drummer, Jamie Saint Merat.

HELL- The Age of Nefarius.(N)

HEATHEN EYES- The Blood of Cain (NZ)

WHITE WIZZARD- Torpedo of Truth.*

SOULFLY- K.C.S (N)

SOULFLY- This is violence. (N)
**INTERVIEW**

ULCERATE- The Imperius Weak (NZ, IV)

ULCERATE- Cold Becoming (NZ, IV)

TRIVIUM- No way to heal. (N)

TESTAMENT- Three days in Darkness (Live, N)

DEATH ANGEL- Left for Dead. (N)

BEHEMOTH- Be without fear. (T)

HATEBREED- Dead man Breathing. (N)

SEPTIC FLESH- Lovecrafts Death.*

 

KEY:

* - news maker.

(N)- new or recently released.

(NZ)- Some wicked Kiwi metal

(T)- international act touring NZ (or Australia).

(IV)- interview.

 

 

 

 

 

playlist for 7th Oct 2013

Background soundtrack provided by the recently new Carcass album "Surgical Steel".


TYR- Mare of my Night.(N)

ASHES OF ARES- This is my Hell. (N)

MACHINEHEAD- This is the End.*

RED FANG- Blood like Cream. (N)

SOULFLY- Ayatollah of Rock n Rolla. (N)

NACHTMYSTIUM- Ghosts of Grace.*

**Korpiklaani Interview**

KORPIKLAANI- The Steel. (IV, T)

KORPIKLAANI- Predator's Saliva. (IV, T)

PROTEST THE HERO- Clarity. (N)

TOXIC HOLOCAUST- Out of the Fire. (N)

SKELETONWITCH- I am Death (Hell has arrived) (N)

SCAR THE SURFACE- Dreaming through dead eyes. (N)

8 FOOT SATIVA- Shadow Masters (NZ)

INCARNIUM- Lucidity (NZ)

PUPPETEER- Another Leaf in the Breeze. (NZ)

HOUR OF PENANCE- Decimate the ancestry of the only god. (T)

 

Key:

* - news maker.

(N)- new or recently released.

(NZ)- Some wicked Kiwi metal

(T)- international act touring NZ (or Australia).

(IV)- interview.

Playlist for 30th Sept 2013

Background soundtrack provided by Philip H Anselmo & the Illegals album "Walk through Exits Only"

MOTORHEAD- Heart breaker
TYR- Blood of Heroes
DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND- Detox (live)
DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND- Colour your world (live)
PERPETUAL END- I'm on Fire
KORPIKLAANI- Journeyman
GWAR- They Swallow the Sun
GHOST B.C- Year Zero
SCAR THE MARTYR- Flatline and Fracture
KATAKLYSM- Like Animals
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE- Letters to Stallone
KREATOR- Civilisations Collapse (live)
HATESPHERE- Fear Me
SEPULTURA- The Age of the Athiest
CIRCLES- As it is Above
THE BROWNNG- Grave Digger

playlist for 23rd Sept 2013

BLUES PILLS- Devil Man
TYR- Where Eagles Dare
KORPIKLAANI- Rise
TESTAMENT- Eyes of wrath (live)
GWAR- Torture
THE RISING TIDE- Nightmare (NZ)
SEPULTURA- The Age of the Atheist
LAMB OF GOD- For your Malice
TROLL BENDS FIR- Humppa is my Neighbor
ULCERATE- Cessation (NZ)
GORGUTS- An Ocean of Wisdom
TWILIGHT OF THE GODS- Fire on the Mountain (1683)
BATHORY- Twilight of the Gods.
ONSLAUGHT- Cruci-fiction
NORMA JEAN- Sword in mouth, fire eyes.
ETERNAL REST- Manifestation
CARCASS- Noncompliance to ASTM F899-12 standard

Playlist for 17 Sept 2013

Background soundtrack from the latest Ulcerate album, "Vermis".

VISTA CHINO- Sweet Remain.

HUNTRESS- I want to fuck you to death.

KILL DEVIL HILL- War Machine.

POWERWOLF- Cardinal Sin.

GWAR- Lust in Space

GHOST B.C. INTERVIEW

GHOST B.C.- Secular Haze.

STATIC ERA- Fire Away (NZ)

BLACKLEAF GARDENS- Green Goliath (NZ)

BORN OF OSIRIS- Divergency

CLAIM THE THRONE- A Grand Destruction.

SLAYER- Angel of Death

BLACK SABBATH- The Writ.

Playlist for 9th Sept 2013

Background Soundtrack from Erimha's "Reign through Immortality".

MINISTRY-Hail to the Majesty
PROTEST THE HERO- The reign of unending terror
DEATH ANGEL-The dream calls for blood
STATIC X- Get to the gone
SOULFLY- Master of Savagery
BRING ME THE HORIZON INTERVIEW
BRING ME THE HORIZON- Go to hell for heavens sake
BRING ME THE HORIZON- sleepwalking
KREATOR- Warcurse (live)
KATAKLYSM- Kill the Elite
AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE- Trapped under ice
EQUILIBRIUM-Zwergenhammer
GWAR- Madness at the core of time
WINDS OF PLAGUE- one for the butcher
SLAYER- Angel of death
BLACK SABBATH- the writ

Playlist for 4th Sept 2013

DEVIN TOWNSEND- By Your Command

SHEPHERDS OF CASSINI- Eyelid part one (NZ)

CLUTCH- Crucial Velocity

OVERKILL- Drop the Hammer

CLAIM THE THRONE- Zephyrus

GHOST- Ritual

DEVIL DRIVER- Winter Kills

BOW MESSIAH- Perfect Virus (NZ)

CARCASS- Unfit for Human Consumption

ANNIHILATOR- Demon Code

BRING ME THE HORIZON- Antivist

BRING ME THE HORIZON- Empire (Let them sing)
SLAYER- Angel of Death
BLACK SABBATH- The Writ

I'm back.

Been away from the airwaves for a bit, coming back tomorrow night (2nd Sept). It's been my 1st break in 7yrs & I spent my time off wisely: by not at all thinking about the show.


Gonna try out a couple of new segments:

 Firstly, an on air review of sorts, of various albums, which I'm hoping turns into me making grunts and other various noises to convey how I felt about the music. I'll be watching a bit of Seinfeld to get some inspiration.

Secondly, I'll be calling on the listening population to call in to tell me what they did on the weekend: the catch is it's gotta be something metal or I'm hanging up on you. I don't like leaving the flat at all so I want to live vicariously through others. If it turns into nothing but being drunk stories I'll can it, unless those stories are funny.

Thirdly, I'll be resurrecting Midnight weather. I tried it again a few times before my break and still reviled in the joke. The Heavy metal/battle vest segment will remain buried until I can either find a vest that fits better, or I lose my beer belly & turn into my 16yr old self again: might try taking it seriously if I do ever resurrect it, apparently certain metal fashions can be a touchy subject for some serious types.

Playlist for 5th August 2013

Hard fast n heavy (5.8.2013)
MASTERPLAN- Back night of magic
KORPIKLAANI- Happy Little Boozer
NEKROGOBLIKON- Powercore
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH- Lift Me Up
TRIVIUM- Brave this Storm
GWAR- Madness at the Core of Time
CHIMAIRA- Kings of the Shadow World
THE DEFILED- Sleeper
THE DEFILED- Unspoken
ULCERATE- Confronting Entropy (NZ)
KORPIKLAANI- Predator's Saliva
DEAD COWBOY SLUTS- Criminal
KEN MODE- Secret Vasectomy
SETH- Dicing with Death
ARMED FOR THE APOCALYPSE- Happy Our (Disciple of death)

Korpiklaani NZ tour 2013

I'm a big fan of the band, been playing their songs on the show for years; even their non-alcohol based ones. 

So excited for this one, I don't wanna miss out & since I don't like leaving the house I'll be sure to have a beer beer, some wooden pints to turn this journey man into a happy little boozer once more. So hide your riches, lets drink!
we take no responsibility for all the eye rolls at the terrible song title puns

Notes for hfhshow 30 July 2013

MERCENARY- Through our Darkest Days

• Title track from this Danish bands upcoming new album. Out now in US & Europe, do not know NZ/OZ release date.

CLUTCH- Promoter

• Clutch vocalist, Neil Fallon, features/guests on the up coming Soulfly album. Clutch's latest album "Earth Rocker" is worth checking out as well.

DEATH DEALER- Hammer Down

• Ross the Boss's new band. Self titled new album (judging by cover) has all your sci-fi fantasy warfare needs covered.

HUNTRESS- Zenith

HUNTRESS- I want to fuck you to death

• Touring the 'states with Lamb of God, Testament & Killswitch Engage.

THE OCEAN- Bathyalpelagic II: The Wish in Dreams

• New video, (NSFW due to tits, though I haven't watch all of it thanks to my computer not being able to handle more than one thing at a time)

AUTOPSY- Running from the Goathead

• New/recent album: The Headless Ritual

MAMMOTH GRINDER- Barricades

LORD DYING- Water under a burning bridge

• New album , 'Summon the Faithless'  out now on Relapse Records

MURDOK- Brain face

• An example of technical, abrasive, and extreme lunacy from this killer unsigned Irish three piece.

SUSPERIA- Standalone

• New, as yet untitled, album coming soon: this is a free download (like their FB page to get it)

ROLO TOMASSI- French Motel

• Touring Australia, rather extensively: including a show with ex-pat kiwi's Jurassic Pengiun on the bill.

ERIMHA- Condemned to Death

•  'Reign through Immortality' out now via Victory Records, go check it out & support these Canadians as judging by the band promo shot for the album one of the guys looks likes he needs to see a dentist..

KORPIKLAANI- Iron Fist

• Motorhead cover, after news that the legendary band (Motorhead, not Korpiklaani) have released information on their next, upcoming album. I played this song on Monday, and now on Thursday as I finally get around to posting this, it has been announced that these guys are touring NZ in October!!!

DAMNED SPRING FRAGRANTIA- D.M.Z

• Brutally intense, unrelenting and outright savage, this Italian bands new album 'Divergences' wouldn’t be misplaced as the soundtrack to the leveling of humanity, as 10 tracks of down-tuned 8 strings flesh out an unrelenting aural bludgeoning. Layering ruthless riffs over frenetic drumbeats and intricate timing changes and a bass tone that makes you want to prolapse at the sheer thought of it, Damned Spring Fragrantia’s debut album is a bold, chest-beating emergence onto the European metal scene.

MANEGARM- Wake the Gods

• This Swedish viking/black metal band released their latest album 'Legions of the North' a wee while back & I had lined this song up to play then, but only now finally got around to playing it. If you like what you hear, these guys have almost 20years & 7 or 8 albums, and as an added bonus the cover art not only features viking warriors welding axe & sheild, a snake and wolf, but the center piece is a mystical bare breasted woman with horns & a half skull for a face. 

NEXILVA- Eschatologies

• Full bore progressive death metal from a bunch of UK lads barely out of their teens

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER- Their Beloved Absentee

•  New album 'Into the Everblack' out now on Metal Blade records, a kiwi did their artwork for this album, you're missing out if you haven't picked up this album yet!

DEW-SCENTED- Confronting Entropy

• I found this on a random (possibly recent) compilation from Prosthetic records. 

Playlist for 29 July 2013

Hard Fast n Heavy (29.07.2013)
MERCENARY- Through our Darkest Days
CLUTCH- Promoter
DEATH DEALER- Hammer Down
HUNTRESS- Zenith
HUNTRESS- I want to fuck you to death
THE OCEAN- Bathyalpelagic II: The Wish in Dreams
AUTOPSY- Running from the Goathead
MAMMOTH GRINDER- Barricades
LORD DYING- Water under a burning bridge
MURDOK- Brain face
SUSPERIA- Standalone
ROLO TOMASSI- French Motel
ERIMHA- Condemned to Death
KORPIKLAANI- Iron Fist
DAMNED SPRING FRAGRANTIA- D.M.Z
MANEGARM- Wake the Gods
NEXILVA- Eschatologies
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER- Their Beloved Absentee
DEW-SCENTED- Confronting Entropy

Notes for hfhshow 22 July 2013

KARNIVOOL- We Are

• Late last week (week starting 15th July) I had an interview with one of the guys from Karnivool, ahead of their new album, Asymmetry, which as of the 19th of July is in stores now. The video for "We Are" is definitely worthwhile checking out! 

BATTLE BEAST- Neuromancer

• Random pick. My computer was not liking the music player I was using to sort out the playlist for the show, so with time running out I quickly selected this song as a buffer from Karnivool to Ulcerate. I know that Ulcerate is 2 songs away, but I hadn't planned to play those two songs in between. 

RAZORWYRE- Knights of Fire (NZ)

• In light of the earthquakes and terrible situation down there, I had wanted to play a few more songs from Wellington bands, but I lacked the time to prepare. These guys are an awesome band, and even scored Nick Keller from Weta Workshop to do their cover art for "Another Dimension" 

PHAZE 1- Screams of dying dogs

• New Album: news out recently that says Phaze 1 are due to release a new album in October, good news as I like this band, and the last one I have (possible their last album) was from 2005/2006, and I've had it almost as long...

AMON AMARTH- Stand Up to Go Down

• Viking themed metallers have a smashing new album (I'm not british, so I mean that if any album had the ability to literally smash things, this would be one.) a deluxe version sees the addition of a 4 track cd called "Under the Influence". I haven't been able to nail down what's going on here, but it's not a covers EP, rather they're writing songs in the style of other iconic bands.

ULCERATE- Cold Becoming (NZ)

• NZ' s own, Relapse records signed metallers are due to release a new album in September, or there abouts, and to keep fans on the edges of their seats by releasing a wee behind the scenes look at the recording of new album "Vermis". More information about the band is available at http://www.ulcerate-official.com/

MISERY SIGNALS- Shadows and Depth

• New album out now by this British band, called "Absent Light". Get it through Basick Records. 

BEHEMOTH- Slave shall serve

• www.chaosnz.com have announced a Behemoth show at the end of October at the King Arms! Last time I saw them was December 2007 or so, I think. If you go check out http://www.metalblade.com/behemoth/ they currently have posted up, a video for 'Lucifer' (NSFW) 

CARCASS- Captive Bolt Pistol

• New single from the bands upcoming album "Surgical Steel"

BULLETBELT- Down in the Cold of the Grave (NZ)

• A most excellent Wellington band. 

STOMACH EARTH- Watchers

• Gunface from The Red Chord has a new band and this is it, worth a listen!

VOIVOD- Target Earth

• New music video out for this song.
•  Here's a teaser:

BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS- Windchimes and Nuclear Fallout (NZ)

• Christchurch band who are playing a show in Auckland, August 2nd with Dawn of Azazel, Setentia & Convulsitory at Mix Studios (3111 Great North Rd)
• http://www.facebook.com/events/392527674186427/

PHILLIP H ANSELMO AND THE ILLEGALS- Battalion of Zero

• New album, 'Walk through Exits Only' has been lighting up the metal worlds music players and ear buds.
  

SETENTIA- Beyond Bionic Blame (NZ)

• Auckland band who are also playing at Mix Studios, August 2nd, see note for 'Blindfolded and Led to the Woods'.

COFFINS- Dishuman

• New album out now, "The Fleshlands"

ILLDISPOSED- Time To Dominate

• Random pick.

5 STAR GRAVE- If

• Random pick.

Playlist for 22 July 2013

Hard fast n heavy (22.07.2013)
KARNIVOOL- We Are
BATTLE BEAST- Neuromancer
RAZORWYRE- Knights of Fire (NZ)
PHAZE 1- Screams of dying dogs
AMON AMARTH- Stand Up to Go Down
ULCERATE- Cold Becoming (NZ)
MISERY SIGNALS- Shadows and Depth
BEHEMOTH- Slave shall serve
CARCASS- Captive Bolt Pistol
BULLETBELT- Down in the Cold of the Grave (NZ)
STOMACH EARTH- Watchers
VOIVOD- Target Earth
BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS- Windchimes and Nuclear Fallout (NZ)
PHILLIP H ANSELMO AND THE ILLEGALS- Battalion of Zero
SETENTIA- Beyond Bionic Blame (NZ)
COFFINS- Dishuman
ILLDISPOSED- Time To Dominate
5 STAR GRAVE- If

Playlist for 15th July 2013

Hard fast n heavy (15.07.2013)
KARNIVOOL- We Are
SISTER SIN- Rock n Roll
MOTHRA- The Beginning (NZ)
SEPULTURA- Dialog
SOULFLY- American Steel
LAMB OF GOD- Bloodletting
LAMB OF GOD- Terminally Unique
GWAR- KZ Necromancer
A LIFE ONCE LOST- Something Awful
JUNGLE ROT- Terror Regime
NE OBLIVISCARUS- Of the Leper Butterflies
CAGE- Trapped in Paradise
FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE- Elegy
SHALLOW GRAVE- From Boundless Heights (NZ)
CREEPING- 12 Spires (NZ)
DREADLINK- Reinforced Concrete
BATILLUS- Concrete
ERIMHA- Cataclysmic Tides
DISINTEGRATE- Parasites of a shifting future

Playlist for 8th July 2013

Hard Fast n Heavy (8.07.2013)
GRAVEYARD- The Siren
AS ANGELS BLEED- Driven to Flames
STEEL PANTHER- Super Sonic Sex Machine
DEATH DEALER- Death Dealer
TOXIC HOLOCAUST- Future Shock
DEATH ANGEL- River of Rapture
BATTLECROSS- Never Coming Back
THE BROWNING- Ashamed
FEED HER TO THE SHARKS- Buried Alive
BORN OF OSIRIS- Machine
WEST OF HELL- Water of Sorcery
ABYSMAL DAWN- In Service of time
 GOD FORBID- The Lonely Dead
ARCH ENEMY- Nemesis
LAMB OF GOD- Blood of the scribe
RESPORN- Flesh (NZ)
LEGION OF THE DAMNED- Summon All Hate
DEAD TEACH THE LIVING- Human Centipede (NZ)
INCARNIUM- Ascension (NZ)

Playlist for 1st July 2013

Hard fast n heavy show (1st July 2013)
HUNTRESS- I want to Fuck you to Death.
WHITE WIZZARD- Torpedo of Truth
AMON AMARTH- Shape Shifter
SMEAR MERE- Dole Bludgeoned (NZ)
NACHTMYSTIUM- No Funeral
TROLLFEST- Brumlebassen
THE HAUNTED- Shithead
THE HAUNTED- Hollow Ground
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN- One of us is the killer.
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER- Goat of departure
AUGUST BURNS RED- Beauty in Tragedy
BLAMELESS- Ready to Live (NZ)
DENY- My Justice (NZ)
CEPHALOPOD-Devious (NZ)
AUTOPSY- Running from the Goathead
CARCASS- Heartwork
EVILE- Head of Demon
WATAIN- All that May Bleed
BULLETBELT- Mistaken Identity (NZ)

Autopsy: The Headless Ritual

When you're a drummer and you get together with a bunch of other muso's to put together a debut album, the far reaching implications of your collective work is probably not at the fore of your thoughts. Now imagine after working on an album called "Scream Bloody Gore" you leave that band & start another.

I know many of you would know Autopsy drummer/vocalist played on the legendary Death's debut & soon after formed Autopsy. Autopsy had a bit of a rocky history over the years, disbanding in '95, reuniting briefly in 2008, then again in 2009, before disbanding & permanently reuniting in 2010, upon the end of side project come main stay band, Abscess.

Autopsy's new album "The headless Ritual" is out now & I'm not going to review the album, there are better people out there for the job, I'm simply going to say that this is going to be an album that Metallers of quite a few stripes are going to kick themselves if they don't pick it up. The simple maths of it is, that members of this band are amongst the pioneers of a major sub-genre, one which who's influence has propagated and worked its way well beyond its foundations, so in that respect there will be great hordes of the metal listening population that would find something to their liking in this album.

I know that when it comes to matters of personal taste, arguments like that (such and such done good before, so is good now) lies with the it's popular argument (if so many people like it, then it can't be bad) in their flawed logic but I guess the point I'm trying to allude to is that, it is worth mentioning their history because it still makes up the essence of their sound.

As I always say, go have a listen to 'em & if you like what you hear go pick up the album because it'll be worthwhile: it was released in NZ on the 21st of June via Peaceville Records/Southbound.

http://www.peaceville.com/
http://www.peaceville.com/bands/2088
http://www.autopsydeathmetal.com

The Bogan's inside guide to metal

Dr Bogan, world famous in NZ and a broad, has authored "Bogan: An insiders guide to metal, mullets and mayhem." which is due for release on the 24th of July 2013 (according to the publishers website: http://www.penguin.co.nz/products/9780143568957/bogan )

Bits from an interview I conducted on the Hard, fast & heavy show is included in the book, though I can not think of what or why: though in all honesty it would be an honour if just my farts & burps were transcribed in the book  ;p  

It was a real radio high flying meets grounded, stressful, normal life experience when Dr Bogan asked to use bits from the show in his book- not only was I in contact with Dr Bogan, but the promoter for the then upcoming Steel Panther gig was also on the phone to either set up the interview, or use bits from it for some news paper article: all the while I had a massive Structural Engineering Assignment due! 

BUT in true bogan fashion; there is a release party, with bands playing and beer a flowing, no doubt!

Friday August 2nd, 2013: at Hamilton's Biddy Mulligans on Victoria St, featuring musical talent from Escape from the Sky, Team Kill & Cheshire Grimm

https://www.facebook.com/events/615636431781449/

I'm reasonably sure you might be able to hear Dr Bogan whenever he joins Hamilton's own, The Feral Crew and if their appearance on the Steve Wrigley, Ben Hurley traveling TV comedy show was anything to go by, sounds like you'll be in for a few laughs with your metal

 

Playlist for 24th June 2013

Check out the podcast on Itunes!!
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/podcast/95bfm-the-hard-fast-heavy-show/id663167677?mt=2

Hard fast n heavy (24.06.2013)
BATTLEBEAST- Raven
CHILDREN OF BODOM- Waste of Skin
VALIENT THORR- Call of the Dogs
AMON AMARTH- Father of the Wolf
U.D.O- Metal Machine
HAVOK- Unnatural Selection
EVILE- Skull
PROWLER- Choker (NZ)
BATTLECROSS- Force Fed Lies
EL SCHLONG- The Alchemist (NZ)
ANVIL- Mothra
TEAM KILL- Ditch (NZ)
ESCAPE FROM THE SKY- The Lost Signal (NZ)
AUTOPSY- Coffin Crawlers
GRIMUS- Draped in Fear
MUMAKIL- Waste by definition/ Death from below.
DEW-SCENTED- Confronting  Entropy
DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT- Resolve!
HOBBS ANGEL OF DEATH- Jack the Ripper

Playlist for 10th June 2013

BLACK SABBATH- Live Forever

GUNT- Deletion (NZ)

LAMB OF GOD- 11th Hour

IDYLLIC FOE- Fall to Greed (NZ)

PUPPETEER- Another leaf in the breeze (NZ)

FEAR FACTORY- Millenium

CHILDREN OF BODOM- Bodom Blue Moon

PUPPETEER- As the Tides Turn (NZ)

EXORDIUM MORS- Primordial Inversion Evolution (NZ)

JUST ONE FIX- Wasted Life (NZ)

OUT COLD A.D.- Aftermath (NZ)

TOO LATE- Waste (NZ)

MIDNIGHT- Satanic Royalty

LORD- Final Seconds

MUNICIPAL WASTE- The Wrath of the Severed Head

DENY- My Justice (NZ)

BULLETBELT- Mistaken Identity (NZ)

EXODUS- Culling the Herd

Municipal Waste interview

Just a heads up that I've added a link to the youtube audio of my interview with Municipal Waste's Ryan Waste under the 'interviews' section of the site.

Go directly there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWRONungRo0

Link to their 2013 NZ shows (June 13th: Welly & 14th: Auckland):
http://www.facebook.com/events/316414908481827

http://www.facebook.com/ChicksThatScream

www.facebook.com/Municipalwaste
www.facethewaste.com
www.youtube.com/municipalwaste

Incarnium

I would like to take the time to thank Andre from Deadlights Entertainment, and the lads from Incarnium.
If you missed the show & the podcast, on the 27th of May, Westies Incarnium were on, ahead of their album release show at the Kings Arms on the 1st of June.

Their new album, Purgatory, can be heard here: http://incarnium.bandcamp.com I recommend you check it out. The lads kindly passed on a physical copy so it'll be in the hard fast heavy vaults, ready to blast out a track whenever there's a request, when they're in the headlines again with a gig or even just when I want to.

 They're a good bunch, as well as having a wicked sound so I'm putting them on the hard fast heavy show list of bands to watch out for.

Playlist for 3d June 2013

MEGADETH- Don't Turn your back

MEMORY GARDENS- The King of the Dead

WHITE WIZZARD- Torpedo of Truth

DEMON LUNG- Devil's Wind

U.D.O- Steelhammer

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM- Motherfuckery

ASG- Castlestorm

M:PIRE OF EVIL- Black Legions

MEGADETH- Kingmaker

EVILE- Head of the Demon

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN- Hero of the Soviet Union

SHINING- Paint the Sky Black

INCARNIUM- In the Absence of Angels (NZ)

HAVOK- Arise

IMMOLATION- A Spectacle of Lies

DARK TRANQUILITY- Uniformity

Playlist for 27th May 2013

BATTLE BEAST- Neuromancer

WEST OF HELL- Spiral Empire (NZ-ish)

INCARNIUM- The Cult (NZ)

BULLETBELT- Mistaken Identity (NZ)

DECORTICA- Helix (NZ)

MY DAMNED KIND- Legacy (NZ)

INCARNIUM- Tramadol (NZ)

DEAD TEACH THE LIVING- Human Centipede (NZ)

INCARNIUM- Watering the Faceplant (NZ)

DENY- My Justice (NZ)

CHILDREN OF BODOM- Halo of Blood

IDYLLIC FOE- Fall to Greed (NZ)

BLESSED Y A BROKEN HEAR- Shut up and Rock.

SCAPHIST- Heraldic Verses (NZ)

SUPPRESSION- Concrete (NZ)

ALCHEMIST- Secrets Kept (NZ)

SINATE- Premonition of the wicked (NZ)

LEGACY OF DISORDER- Last Man Standing (NZ)

BLOODLETTING- Beauty of the Slain (NZ)

http://incarnium.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/incarnium

Playlist for 20th May 2013

HARD FAST N HEAVY (20.05.2013)
BATTLE BEAST- Let it Roar
KYLESA- Grounded
BATTLE BEAST- Fight Kill Die
M:PIRE OF EVIL- Taking it all
DENY- My Justice (NZ)
HERESIARCH- Carnivore (NZ)
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN- Crossburner
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN- Understanding Decay
HEAVEN SHALL BURN- Fallen
TIL DEATH DO US PARTY- Wait, I thought you were the sober driver!?(NZ)
KING PARROT- Shit on the Liver
AMON AMARTH- The Pursuit of Vikings
THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT- Drugs, thugs & machetes
VREID- The Devils Hand
SHADE EMPIRE- Malicious Winds
GAMA BOMB- We started the fire
ANTAGONIST A.D- I'm not there (NZ)
BULLETBELT- Mistaken Identity (NZ)

Playlist for 13th May 2013

HARD FAST N HEAVY (13-05-2013)
HELL- Let Battle Commence
CLUTCH- Cyborg Bette
THE DEVIL- Extinction Level Event
BLOODNUT- Fire Giant (NZ)
IDYLLIC FOE- Fall to Greed (NZ)
IMMOLATION- Kingdom of Conspiracy
HAVOK- Point of no return
RESPORN- In Waves (NZ)
LORD- Final Seconds
KORPIKLAANI- Honour
KORPIKLAANI- Happy Little Boozer
MUNICIPAL WASTE- Idiot check
MUNICIPAL WASTE- Headbanger Face Rip
OF BLACKEST OCEANS- As Silent as the Grave (NZ)
DEPTHS- The Last (NZ)
EXORDIUM MORS- Ancestors' Call (NZ)
TESTAMENT- Sangre Nativa
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN- Prancer
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER- Into the Everblack

Playlist for 6th May 2013

HARD FAST N HEAVY PLAYLIST (6/05/2013)
BEASTWARS- The Sleeper (NZ)
DYING OF THE LIGHT- Monolithium (NZ)
PUPPETEER- Away (NZ)
CHILDREN OF BODOM- Transference
MUNICIPAL WASTE- Repossession
ADVOCATES- Grizzly Adams (NZ)
STARGAZER- Animus
BLAZE OF PERDITION- Alchemy of Flesh
PYRITHION- The Invention of Hatred
WOE- This is the End of the Story
CARNIFEX- Angel of Death
ARK OF THE COVENANT- Blind man
ROB ZOMBIE- Call of the Zombie/ Superbeast
ROB ZOMBIE- Behold, the pretty filthy creatures

Playlist for 29th April 2013

ROB ZOMBIE- Rock and Roll (In a Blackhole)
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM- Motherfuckery
EL BAJO- Fist of Rocust (NZ)
KERRETTA- The Guardsman (NZ)
BEASTWARS- Dune (NZ)
BATTLE BEAST- Into the Heart of Danger
ALIASES- Exasperated
BEASTWARS- Tower of Skulls (NZ)
SET ON END- Cimmerian Shade (NZ)
HACRIDE- Ghost of the Modern World
EMPYRIOS- Masters
LORD- Point of View
IMMOLATION- Kingdom of Conspiracy
AMORPHIS- Hopeless days
HOWL- Your Hell Begins
MALEFICE- The Great Deciever

Playlist for 15th April 2013

HARD FAST N HEAVY (15.04.2013)
DEVILSKIN- Never see the light (NZ)
CITY OF FIRE- Prometheus Unbound
DEFTONES- Elites
DEFTONES- My Own Summer (Shove it)
BULLETBELT- Mistaken Identity (NZ)
NEW WAY HOME- Atrophy (NZ)
CEPHALOPOD- Generational Contradictions (NZ)
NORMA JEAN- Bastardizer
AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE- It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
MESHUGGAH- I am Colossus
GWAR- Go to hell!
GWAR- You are my meat
AMON AMARTH- Deceiver of the Gods
SEPULTURA- Slave New World
STRUCTURES- Hydroplaning.
SETENTIA- Beyond Bionic Blame (NZ)
WINTER DELUGE- Fall into the Wyrm of time (NZ)
IMMOLATION- Kingdom of Conspiracy
DEAD TEACH THE LIVING- Human Centipede (NZ)
TIL DEATH DO US PARTY- Wait, I thought you were the sober driver?! (NZ)

playlist for April 1st 2013

HARD FAST N HEAVY (1st April 2013)
AMARANTHE- Infinity
GLORYHAMMER- The Unicorn Invasion of Dundee
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE- Slave to the Machine
BRING ME THE HORIZON- Sleepwalking
BULLETBELT- Down in the Cold of the Grave (NZ)
ROTTING CHRIST- Rusalka
LORD- 2D person in a 3D world
HATE BEAST- Into the Darkness
SEKHT- A.K.N.F
GWAR- Metal, metal land
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD- Far Beyond Metal
BEASTWARS- Caul of Time
OCTOBER TIDE- The day I dissolved
BULLETBELT- Ironclad
LORD- Digital Lies
WORMED- Multivectorial Aeionization
HATEBREED- Ghosts of War

My Battle Vest Part 3

As promised on last weeks show, I have sewn-on the first of my sew-on patches to my Battle Vest. Check out more at:
http://www.talentlessblob.com/2013/04/my-battle-vest-first-patch.html

Thanks to Warlock Records for the patch http://www.warlockrecords.co.nz/

Playlist for 8th April 2013

HARD FAST N HEAVY (8-04-2013)
ORCHID- Wizard of War
LORD- Betrayal Blind
BEYOND CREATION- No Request for the Corrupted
ANCIIENTS- Overthrone
TOXIC HOOCAUST- We bring 'em Hell
HOWL- Attrition
TOXIC HOLOCAUST- Heavy Metal Attack
IN VAIN- Image of Time
WHITE WIDOWS- Slow Burn
BLOOD TSUNAMI- Grave Desecrator
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD- Rape Song
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD- Love?
GAMA BOMB- Terrorscope
HACRIDE- Overcome
THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL- The Mussulmans Wander Through The Infernal Whirling Fires Amongst Silent Shadows to be Fed Into the Thirsting Jaws of a Godless Death Machine to Cough Up Their Souls to the Nazi Moloch Who Sits Within a Ring of Smoking Infant Skulls.
CALL OF THE VOID- I hope you two fuck
WARBEAST- Blood Moon
BUCKSHOT FACELIFT- Across Dead Oceans
ROTTEN SOUND- War
ROTTEN SOUND- The Solution

My Battle Vest (part 2)

Tonight on the hard fast heavy show we had our second segment of "My Battle Vest" featuring an interview about vests with Johnny Hellkatze, a veteran vestie & lead guitarist for Wellington Metal/Hellcore band Sehkt.
If anything, he affirmed the fact that this is my own gear & it's up to me what I do with it. Though the point of the segment, as a previously non-vested metaller, is to honour the concept and not take the piss.

http://www.talentlessblob.com/2013/04/my-battle-vest-part-2.html

Here's me sporting the new (& blank) Battle Vest, posing with the new album from Wellington band Bulletbelt

Playlist for 25th March 2013

Hard fast n heavy (25 march 2013)
HOLY GRAIL- Too decayed to wait
LORDI- The Riff
PANTERA- Hole in the Sky
IN HEARTS WAKE- The Unknown
IN HEARTS WAKE- Departure
KVELERTAK- Undertro
THE DEFILED-Sleeper
INCENDIARY-Primal Rage
HYPOCRISY-When Death calls
THY ART IS MURDER- The purest strain of hate
NACTHMYSTIUM- Blood Trance Fusion
SIX FEET UNDER- The Curse of theAncients
HYPOCRISY- Hell is where I stay
BYZANTINE- Red Neck War
BYZANTINE- Pathogen
ROTTEN CHRIST- P'Unchaw kachun- Tuta kachun
DARK THRONE- Dead Early
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD- Anti-Product

New segment: My Battle Vest

I have decided to introduce a new segment on the show called "My Battle Vest" where, now that I have a vest to work on, I look into band patches to sew onto it.

Here I am with the blank canvas:

Playlist for 18th March 2013

Playlist for hard fast heavy 18th March 2013
ACDC- Big Balls

ORCHID- Wizard of War

BULLET- Bite the Bullet

ANTHRAX- TNT

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN- Prancer

ROTTEN SOUND- Peace

ROTTING CHRIST- Kata Ton Daimona Eaytou

KEN MODE- The Terror Pulse

ORANGE GOBLIN- Red Tide Rising (live)

SOILWORK- Realm of the Wasted

SEPULTURA- Roots Bloody Roots

WEST OF HELL- Spiral Empire

SIX FEET UNDER- The Sinister Craving

KEN MODE- Counter Culture Complex

SIX FEET UNDER- Zombie Blood Curse

INTROAUT- Milk Leg

BYZANTINE- Which light shall never penetrate

FRANKENBOK- Dig (live)

playlist for 11th March 2013

Hard Fast 'n Heavy Show (11/03/2013)
KROKUS- Rattlesnake Rumble
LORDI- I Luv Ugly
TANK- War Nation
WEST OF HELL- To War
MUNICIPAL WASTE- The Fatal Feast
ROTTING CHRIST-Gilgames
ROTTING CHRIST- Welcome to Hel
SAXON- Sacrifice
BYZANTINE- Everything I touch bursts into flame
SOILWORK- Leech
ROTTEN SOUND- Doomed
BEASTWARS- When I'm King (NZ)
ULCERATE- The Hollow Idols (NZ)
FEARED- Vintersol
SIX REASONS TO KILL- The Damned
HATEFORM- Perpetual Gold
WITHIN THE RUINS- Absolute Hell
INHUMAN REMNANTS- Once sent from the outer realms
DARKTHRONE- Dead Early
HORSENECK- Hooker Toilet

Online interviews

We've put up interviews (phone calls) with Max Cavalera & GWAR's Oderus Urungus on youtube for your listening pleasure.

Max Cavalera: http://youtu.be/llglm7VfQkE

Oderus: http://youtu.be/dNXmrc7zOho

I'm not a regular youtube person or anything so you'll have to forgive any nonsense etc.

In future, links will be posted at the appropriate spot at http://www.hardfastheavy.com/p/interviews.html and facebook etc.

Metal releases in February

Better late than never, right?

• Frankenbok: "Cheers, Beers and Beards" (Out 1st Feb)
• Hate:"Solarflesh" (Out 1st Feb)
• Ceremonial Oath: "The Book of Truth" (Re-release out 1st Feb)
• Defeated Sanity: "Passages Into Deformity" (Out 1st Feb)
• Enforcer: "Death by Fire" (Out 1st Feb)
• Bullet for My Valentine: "Temper Temper" (Feb 8th)
• Zombified: "Carnage, Slaughter and Death" (Feb 5th)
• Gloria Morti: "Lateral Constraint" (Feb 5th)
• Lordi: "To Beast of not to Beast" (March 1st but I have the single "The Riff")
• Beholder: "The Order of Chaos" (Feb 1st)
• Omnium Gatherum: "Beyond" (Feb 22nd, but I have their single "The Unknowing")
• We Set the Sun: "V Ages of Man" (Feb 8th)
• Suffocation: "Pinnacle of Bedlam" (Feb 15th)
• Epiphany From the Abyss: "Generation of the Hopeless" (Feb 1st)
• Sacred Steel: "The Bloodshed Summary" (15th Feb)
• Cancer Bats: "Dead set on Living (Deluxe: incl. Black Sabbath Covers)" (15th Feb)
• Misery Index: "Live in Munich" (15th Feb)
• Battalion: "Resilience" (12th Feb)
• The Amenta: "Teeth EP" (12th Feb)
• A Night at the Chalet: "A Night at the Chalet" (12th Feb)
• Torment: "The Damage is Done" (5th Feb)
• Screaming Savior: "Infinity" (5th Feb)
• Touch of Eternity: "In the Crossroads of Life" (15th Feb)
• Enforcer: "Death by Fire" (1st Feb)
• Devourment: "Conceived in Sewage" (19th Feb)
• Complete Failure: "The Art Gospel of Aggravated Assault" (15th Feb)
• Shai Hulud: "Reach Beyond the Sun" (15th Feb
• Old Wounds: "From where we came is where we'll rest" (26 Feb)
• Horseneck: "Belly full of Blood E.P" (26 Feb)
• Byzantine: "Byzantine" (26 Feb)
• Within the Ruins: "Elite" (26 Feb)
• Darkthrone: "The Underground Resistance" (25 Feb)
• Portal- "Vexovoid" (19 Feb)
• Feared- "Furor Incarnatus" (21 Feb)
• Lord- "Digital Lies" (22 Feb)
• Philip H. Anselmo and the Illegals & Warbeast: "War of the Gargantuas EP"

Playlist for 25th Feb 2013

ZIMMERS HOLE- 1312
ENFORCER- Death rides this night
RAZORWYRE- Knights of fire (NZ)
SINATE- Seperatist (NZ)
WEST OF HELL- Demon sent
KILLING YOURSELF FOR PROFIT- Betrayal begets blood (NZ)
HEAVEN SHALL BURN- land of the upright ones
DEVOURMENT- Heaving Acid
WEST OF HELL - Water of Sorcery
LORDI- Candy for the cannibal
CARNIFEX- Angel of Death
COMPLETE FAILURE- Exitist
SHAI HULUD- Monumental Graves
WEST OF HELL- Faceless the droids

http://www.facebook.com/WestofHell
http://www.reverbnation.com/westofhell

Beastwars new album up to pre-order, oh wait packages already sold out

Wellington band of riff-tasticness, Beastwars, have announced their upcoming album, "Blood Becomes Fire" will be release on the 19-20th of April, with wicked-cool track titles like "Tower of Skulls", "Shadow King" and um, "Ruins".

Old fashioned CD's are available via jbhifi, whether they'll be instore or not is another question..

What I want is a shirt, which if you get the pre-order bundle, comes with a digital copy of the album, so guys don't sell out of the larger sizes before I can get to 'em, ok? 

Artwork done by the award winning Nick Keller & special edition Red & gold vinyl has already sold out from www.bloodbecomesfire.com

www.facebook.com/beastwars666

West of Hell on the Hard Fast & heavy show

Chris "the Heathen" Valagao was up with West of Hell on the hard fast heavy show!! (Feb 25th)

The Heathen's worked a lot with Devin Townsend, even took three quarters of SYL to bring forth Zimmers Hole's last album.

Anyone who's listened to the show over the last 6 years knows I'm a huge fan of Devin Townsend's work and of the last Zimmers Hole album, so having him randomly turn up was a most excellent surprise.

playlist for 18th Feb 2013

Hard Fast and Heavy (18th Feb 2013)
SACRED STEEL- When the siren calls.
IN SOLITUDE- Witches Sabbath.
CANCER BATS-NIB.
SODOM- The Ace of Spades.
MISERY INDEX- Sleeping Giants.
CALL OF THE VOID- Napalm Lungs.
BATTALION- Riot Control.
THE AMENTA- Teeth.
MORS PRINCIPIUM EST- I will return.
DREAMSHADE- Late Confessions.
MAN THE MACHETES- Neo-Cowboy.
HATEBREED- Honor never dies.
CULT OF LUNA- Mute Departure.
BEHEMOTH- Ov fire and the void.
FRANKENBOK- Victims (live).
RAZORWYRE- Another dimension of hell (NZ).
AS THEY BURN- Origin.
SCREAMING SAVIOUR- Sanguinary Salvation
A NIGHT AT THE CHALET- Dimensions

Playlist for the 11th Feb 2013: Jay, BFMV interview.

Hard Fast & Heavy show (11th Feb 2013): Featuring an interview with Jay from Bullet for my Valentine about their latest album 'Temper Temper'
LORDI- The Riff.
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE- In Due Time.
STONE SOUR- Do me a favour.
KVELERTAK- Bruanne Brenn.
ARKAEA- Beneath the Shades of Grey.
GLORIA MORTI- Our god is War.
Interview
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE- Temper Temper
MESHUGGAH- Pitch Black
ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW- Baptized by the blood of angels
ZIMMERS HOLE- Devil's Mouth
Interview
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE- Riot
MESHUGGAH- I Am Colossus (remix)
Interview
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE- Whole Lotta Rosie
FRANKENBOK- Flyblown
OMNIUM GATHERUM- The Unknowing
BEHOLDER- Killing Machine
ZOMBIFIED- Slayer Fashion
SOILWORK- Rise above the Sentiment
EPIPHANY FROM THE ABYSS- The end of a dream

Bullet for my Valentine Interview

I'm playing an interview I had with Jay (Bass) tonight (11th Feb) on the show. I'll update this post with any transcripts or places online where you can hear it.

http://tt.bulletformyvalentine.com/

Go check out Jay's own online t-shirt business at: http://amp-ink.co.uk

Playlist for 4th Feb 2013

DEVIN TOWNSEND- Earth Day
RAINBOW- Gates of Babylon
DREAMSHADE- The Gift of Life
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE- In Due Time
CEREMONIAL OATH- Only Evil Prevails
DEFEATED SANITY- Lusting for Transcendence
AVERSIONS CROWN- Overseer
BYZANTINE- Soul Eraser
FRANKENBOK- Cut the rope
ZIMMERS HOLE- Hair doesn't grow on steel
ENFORCER- Run for your life
HATEBREED- Time to murder it
MORS  PRINCIPIUM EST- Departure
ALL HAIL THE YETI- Axe Murder Hollow
PHILLIP H. ANSELMO- Conflict (Nerve meets bone)
ROTTEN SOUND- Salvation
MAN THE MACHETES- Sudan
JIM FLORENTINE- Opening for Slayer

Top Metal releases for January

Okay folks, as promised here's a list of album that I have roughly determined to be new to January 2013.

Until the 17th of Feb, I'll be taking votes simply email dale@hardfastheavy.com or find us & comment on facebook etc etc http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-95bfm-Hard-Fast-and-Heavy-Show/173848189327

On the hard fast & heavy show on the 18th of February I will present the top 10: with selected songs to accompany.

Check out the list below, then vote / comment / tell us what album or albums you think deserve to be in the top ten for January.

Albums:

• Mors Principium Est: "...and Death Said Live" (due 15th Jan)
• Corpus Mortale: "Fleshcraft" (Due Jan 8th)
• Helloween- "Straight out of Hell" (Due Jan 18th)
• Apocalypse Warhead: "Opening the Silos" (Out Jan 11th)
• Mutiny within: "Synchronicity" (Out 12th Jan)
• Shakra: "Powerplay" (Out 11th Jan)
• Replica: "The Bright side of Death" (Out Jan 8th)
• Holy Grail: "Ride the Void" (Due Jan 16th -22nd )
• Otep: "Hydra" (Out 22nd Jan)
• Blockheads: "This World is Dead" (Out 22nd Jan)
• Clamfight: "I Versus the Glacier" (out 22nd Jan)
• Man the Machete: "Idiokrati" (out 18th Jan)
• Burnt Books: "Burnt Books" (Out 22nd Jan)
• Lightning Swords of Death: "Baphometic Chaosium" (Out 22nd Jan)
• Continents: "Idle Hands" (Out 22nd Jan)
• Fall City Fall: "Victus" (Out 22nd Jan)
• Nightfall: "Cassiopeia" (Out 22nd Jan)
• Voivod: "Target Earth" (Out 25th Jan)
• Firtan: "Wogen Der Trauer" (Out 19th Jan)
• Humanity Delete: "Never Ending Nightmares" (Out 11th Jan)
• Cult of Luna: "Vertikal" (Out 29th Jan)
• Hatebreed: "The Divinity of Purpose" (Out 25th Jan)
• Burnstitch: "A False Satisfaction" (Out 15 Jan)
• Koldbrann: "Vertigo" (Out 22 Jan)
• Enemies: "Framing Choices to Silence Our Voices" (Out 28th Jan)
• Robot Lords of Tokyo: "Virtue & Vice" (Out 22nd Jan)
• For All I Am: "Skinwalker" (Out 25 Jan)
• Eisenherz: "Fluch Der Zeit" (Out 25th Jan)
• Dreamshade: "The Gift of Life" (Out 25th Jan)
• End of Days: "Through the Ashes" (Out 29th Jan)

E.Ps:

• BABYMETAL: "Ijime Dame Zettai" EP (Out Jan 9th)
• Newsted: "Metal" EP (out 8th Jan)
• Rotten Sound: "Species at War" EP (Out 22nd Jan)
• The Resistance: "Rise from Treason"E.P (Out 25th Jan)
• The Distance Fourth: "Prologue" E.P (Out 22nd Jan)

Re-release:

• Septic Flesh: "Mystic Places of Dawn" re-release (25th Jan)

Playlist for 28th Jan 2013

THE HAMMA- Hard line. (NZ)
ALPHA TIGER- We came from the gutter.
HATEBREED- Before the fight ends in you.
BLOODNUT- Redvolution (NZ)
TIL DEATH DO US PARTY- Tic toc doc (NZ)
THE RESISTANCE- Face to face
SOILWORK- Spectrum of Eternity
NIGHTFALL- Hyperion
DEVOURMENT- Fifty ton war machine
CULT OF LUNA- Synchronicity
HATEBREED- Nothing Scars me.
CONVERGE- All we love we leave behind
TRIPHON- Fall of the Tyrant
ALL HAIL THE YETI- Deep Creek
THE DISTANT FOURTH- Hardest path, greatest end.
ULCERATE- Cold becoming. (NZ)
BURNSTITCH- Unresolved
OSMIUM- Forever damned. (NZ)
FALL CITY FALL- Dissentpede
A LIFE ONCE LOST- People Stare

Playlist for 21st January 2013

Playlist for hard fast heavy 21st Jan 2013

OTEP- Apex Predator

BARBE-Q-BARBIES- STFU

DESTRUCTION- Cyanide

CLAMFIGHT- I versus the Glacier

SAMAEL- As the Sun

BYZANTINE- Soul Eraser

ROTTEN SOUND- Peace / War

SEPTIC FLESH- Pale beauty of the past

VOIVOD- Mechanical Mind

SUBTRACT- Dirty Paradise

FIRTAN- Strom Der Tranen

WHITECHAPEL- Eternal Refuge

BLOCKHEAD- Doctrine of Assured Mutual Destruction

MAN THE MACHETE- Mageplask

HUMANITY DELETE- Necromantic Sorcery

LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH- Baphometic Chaosium

FALL CITY FALL - Victus

BURNT BOOKS- Empty Eyes

CONTINENTS- Trials

NIGHTFALL- The Reptile Gods

KRYPTOS- The mask of Anubis

MORS PRINICIPIUM EST- Departure

Playlist for 14th January 2013

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE- Temper Temper.
TRIVIUM- Dusk Dismantled
BRING ME THE HORIZON- Shadow Moses
BABYMETAL- Catch me if you can
MUTINY WITHIN- Machines
SNAKES OF IRON- Safety in numbness
NEWSTED- Soldierhead
DIO- Shame on the night
APOCALYPSE WARHEAD- Opening Silos
FONDLECORPSE- The Invasion
ENFORCER- Memorized by fire
ZIMMERS HOLE- When you were shouting at the Devil, we were in league with Satan.
WEST OF HELL- Water of Sorcery
DEVIN TOWNSEND- Planet Smasher
MARDUK- Damnation's Gold
MORS PRINCIPUM EST- Birth of the Starchild
REPLICA- Fate of Gods
KILLING YOURSELF FOR PROFIT- Betrayal Begets Blood
SOULFLY- Bastard

Playlist for 7th January 2013

HELLOWEEN- Nabataea.
RAM- Flame of the Tyrant.
ENCHANTYA- Clad in Black.
OSMIUM- Empty Bottles.
RED FANG- Crows in Swine.
DALE- Conflict of Interest.
PURGE- Plague Celebration.
SULPHUR AEON- Incantation.
INCANTATION- Ascend into the Eternal
UNCHAINED- Cosa Nostra
THE ROOM COLORED CHARLATAN- Immortal
RETALITORY MEASURES- Decompse
MORS PRINCIPIUM EST- Destroyer of All
PANTERA- Hellbound
SLAYER- Blood Red
CATALEPSY- Monolith
PIG DESTROYER- The Bug
CORPUS MORTALE- Tempt not the Knife
THE DEVIL- Illuminati
AT THE GATES- Slaughter of the Soul
PATHOLOGY- Asphyxiation through consumption.

Playlist for 31st December 2012

SLADE- Born to be wild (live)
BARONESS- March to the Sea
SINATE- Hollow Hatred
FRANKENBOK- Dig
STEEL PANTHER- Just like Tiger Woods
FEAR FACTORY- Demanufacture
TESTAMENT- Sangre Nativa
MESHUGGAH- Break those bones whose sinews gave it motion
GOJIRA- The Axe
HIGH ON FIRE- Madness of an Architect
SOILWORK- Spectrum of Eternity
ARSIS- Six coffins wide
MARDUK- Serpent Sermon
SUFFOCATION- As Grace Descends
PRIMITIVE WEAPONS- Or do Ideas have you
DESTRUCTION- Cyanide
ROTTING CHRIST- Fire death & Fear
SEPTIC FLESH- Apocalypse
KREATOR- The Number of the Beast
DETHKLOK- I Ejaculate Fire