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.

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.