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It’s summer time! Woohoo! Not that the sun is omni-present, as it gets beaten by the rain more often than not. but fear not, for the following divine (or demonic, however you consider them) may help get you through this dull period. If you’re in need of a stress reliever, then Outliar will help you. Need to warm yourself? Burning Point is near, while Wild Hunt will present you with new experiences. Arjen Lucassen, known from Ayreon and more, brilliantly mixes old and new, while Shining can be of assistance if you’re not feeling too happy. Or if you are too happy for your own liking. Rest assured, the Nautikal Doomsters from Ahab are the providers of deliverance. Latitudes leaves vocals for what they are, in the antechamber… or not. Powerful deadly Metal can be expected from Miseration. The Canadians from Sorcier des Glaces were previously featured in January. Still, amongst all this dark, evil and hot material, it always nice to add a humourous note by the lads of Tenacious D. As always, enjoy this new delivery and have a great summer! Cheers! Hosting: Si Tracklist: Polina, Judit, Tim, Si, Marcus, Kobe 01. Outliar – A Loss of Sincerity 02. Burning Point – In the Fires of My Self-Made Hell 03. Wild Hunt – Window to the Nether 04. Arjen Anthony Lucassen – E-police 05. Ahab – Deliverance 06. Shining – Tiden Läker Inga Sår 07. Latitudes – Antechamber 08. Tenacious D – Rise of the Fenix 09. Miseration – Ciniphes 10. Sorcier des Glaces – Unholy Path to Immortality

Time to travel again. This time we visit Luxembourg. A small country, but it does have a Metal scene, no matter how small or big. Of course, we have played some Luxembourgian Metal in the past and those bands are featured in this Nation Special again, also because our collections hold only very few bands from that area and because many releases just aren’t as wide-spread as the gazillion German, Scandinavian, Italian, American, etc… are. Metal-Archives has a selection in their database and luckily we found 10 bands to be featured. So this episode is at the same time a call to all existing Luxembourgian bands to get in touch with us to help spread the word and sound. We hope to feature more bands in the future, but without their reply, it’s not going to happen. Again, due to our collections not holding much such material. Nevertheless, as always, we hope you enjoy this package. Feedback and suggestions are of course still welcome. Hosting: Si Tracklist: Polina, Judit, Tim, Si, Marcus, Kobe 01. Abstract Rapture – Primal Sin Crisis 02. Rude Revelation – Waiting 03. Sleeper’s Guilt – Price to pay 04. Le Grand Guignol – Degenesis 05. Kyrenee – Hope sweet rope 06. Dreadnought – Pastor 07. Funerarium – Riders of doom 08. Clanrock – Rommelpott 09. Exinferis – Blackened by daylight 10. Kraton – Hades

Yes, we know, we should make another Special. But before we compile that one, we’ve got another regular sonic experience for you, featuring new material, obviously, by Moonspell, Dawn Of Destiny, Nachtblut, Shadowside, Vesperian Sorrow, Mercury Falling, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Carach Angren, Fever Sea and Heathen Beast. European bands (mainly German ones, that be a coincidence ) dominate, but there’s countering from India, Brazil and Texas (USA). Style-wise it’s again pretty varied. No Doom, sorry, that’s for another occasion. Enjoy and like before, may it inspire you in your occupations, be them musical or otherwise. Cheers! Hosting: Si Tracklist: Polina, Judit, Tim, Si, Marcus, Kobe 01. Dawn of Destiny – My life lies in ruins 02. Moonspell – Alpha Noir 03. Mercury Falling – Stranger in us all 04. Carach Angren – The funerary dirge of a violinist 05. Heathen Beast – Drowning of the elephant god 06. Shadowside – My disrupted reality 07. Nachtblut – Mordlust 08. Vesperian Sorrow – Stormwinds of ages 09. Diablo Swing Orchestra – Of Kali Ma Calibre 10. Fever Sea – The King Immersed

What did we play last? Oh yes, soundtracks. Time to get off the Theme trail again and present you guys and gals with another regular offering of Death Metal, Black Metal, Thrash Metal, Progressive Metal, Power Metal and Doom Metal. We’ve got new material from Kreator, Unleashed, Sonata Arctica, Circus Maximus, Burzum, Saint Vitus, Desaster, Naglfar, White Skull and Sabaton. And this makes the entire playlist as new as can be, 2012 only! And Scandinavia dominates once more with six representants. Like always, enjoy and expand your collection when/where necessary. Hosting: Si Tracklist: Polina, Judit, Tim, Si, Marcus, Kobe 01. Sonata Arctica – Only the broken hearts 02. Kreator – Death to the world 03. Saint Vitus – Blessed Night 04. White Skull – Bottled mind 05. Circus Maximus – Namaste 06. Burzum – Joln 07. Unleashed – Fimbulwinter 08. Desaster – At hells horizons 09. Sabaton – Long live the king 10. Naglfar – Pale horse

Beautiful weather, great to sit outside, have a beer, see a gig, etc… or catch up with your film/movie collection. Marcus from time to time posts a blog on movies he likes, but there are of course also artists and bands who provide music to the soundtracks. We’ve made two such specials so far, the first being episode 67 (a loooong time ago ), the second one dating from October 2010 (episode 177). And now volume three is here, featuring Motörhead, Children Of Bodom, Saxon, Cradle Of Filth, Strapping Young Lad, Poison, Pantera, Morbid Angel, Slayer and Agalloch. Which movies these bands are related to, our dearest Si will tell you all about. So tune in and get inspired to check out the respective movies. Cheers! Hosting: Si Tracklist: Polina, Judit, Tim, Si, Marcus, Kobe 01. Motorhead – Locomotive 02. Children of Bodom – Needled 24/7 03. Saxon – Everybody up 04. Cradle of Filth – Her ghost in the fog 05. Strapping Young lad – Devour 06. Poison – Nothin’ but a good time 07. Pantera – Cemetary Gates 08. Morbid Angel – Enshrined by grace 09. Slayer – Bloodline 10. Agalloch – The Hawthorne Passage

Before we unleash another Special, the current episode revolves mostly about Norwegian and American bands. Norway sent 3 bands: Madder Mortem (Prog Metal), Mistur (Black Metal) and The Wretched End (Death/Thrash Metal). The USA countered with 4 bands: Yakuza (Avant-Garde Metal), Novembers Doom (Death/Doom Metal), Averse Safira (Black Metal) and New Eden (Power Metal). The remaining slots are filled by Nightmare (Power Metal – France), Toxic Heart (Southern Rock – Slovenia) and De Profundis (Black Metal – UK). As you can see, this episode is pretty extreme, though we hope the more melodic bands help to keep things balanced in terms of listening pleasure. As always, enjoy the show and feedback can be left at the usual places. Cheers! Hosting: Si Tracklist: Judit, Tim, Si, Marcus, Kobe 01. New Eden – The Not Self 02. Nightmare – The burden of God 03. Averse Sefira – Séance in a warrior’s memory 04. The Wretched End – Tyrant of the mountain 05. Madder Mortem – The purest strain 06. Mistur – Armod 07. Toxic Heart – Dr Groove 08. De Profundis – Dead inside 09. November’s Doom – Aurora’s Garden 10. Yakuza – Exterminator

And even after 250 episodes, we still are pleased to present you with new bands and new songs, be them from known European places, or American, or Asian, or wherever. Though there might be countries we haven’t played anything Metal from. In any case, tune in to hear about Pensées Nocturnes, Sigh (which you should know from previous episodes), Huntress, When Nothing Remains, Xasthur, Wodensthrone, Solstafir, Farflung, Nervecell (which was featured some time ago, but new material has come out since and their label asked for an update), and Shear. Or, Black Metal, Doom Metal, Power Metal, Death Metal, Space Rock, Heavy Metal, and so on. Enjoy! Hosting: Si Tracklist: Judit, Tim, Si, Marcus, Kobe 01. Sigh – Purgatorium 02. Huntress – Senicide 03. Farflung – Breach of I 04. When Nothing Remains – Embrace her Pain 05. Shear – Crowned by fools 06. Pensees Nocturnes – Des-Espoir 07. Xasthur – This Abyss holds the Mirror 08. Nervecell – Upon an Epidemic Scheme 09. Wodensthrone – Jormangundr 10. Solstafir – Ljós Í Stormi

Back in February one of our listeners, Nathan Magus, suggested a Dragon Themed Special, since 2012 is said to be the Year Of The Dragon. We looked into our collections for songs about dragons. Of course the choices are legion, massive and more. There are many bands out there with songs that have the word dragon in the title or even in the band name. We didn’t really look for band names, didn’t really think of them, but we did find sufficient song material involving dragons. This could be the first of several Dragon Specials, but while we consider such a series, enjoy this Dragon Themed Special. Cheers! Hosting: Si Tracklist: Judit, Tim, Si, Marcus 01. Grave Digger – Dragon 02. Luca Turilli – Black Dragon 03. Nazgul – Legio Draconorum Orkian (The Legion of the Orkian Dragons) 04. Battlelore – Green Dragon 05. Hammerfall –The dragon lies bleeding 06. Dissection – Black Dragon 07. Raventhrone – Dragon of the Nightsky 08. Nevermore – The river dragon has come 09. Grendel – The dragon awakes 10. Gojira – Where dragons dwell

A new week, a new regular. We’ve got new stuff from Dragonforce, Jeff Loomis, Plutonian Shore and Brimwylf, a completely new band having just put out their first release. In addition, a few bands asked us to be played and so we are happy to present you with new tunes by Archenterum (which were featured in episode 147), Grenouer and Fliptop Box. The list is completed with a bit of older material by The Shadow Theory, Dordeduh and Pin-Up Went Down. Musically the buffet consists of Power, Black, Avantgarde, Progressive, Alternative, Heavy and Death… Metal. As always, we hope you enjoy this offering and don’t hesistate to post your feedback. Cheers! Hosting: Si Tracklist: Judit, Tim, Si, Marcus, Kobe 01. Dragonforce – Seasons 02. Jeff Loomis – Tragedy and harmony 03. Dordeduh – Zuh – Cu tunetul munţilor 04. Fliptop Box – Stoned Side Boy 05. Archenterum – Inferno 06. Plutonian Shore – Scrying the night’s shadows 07. The Shadow Theory – Ghostride 08. Pin-Up Went Down – Murphy in the sky with daemons 09. Brimwylf – Seek the bottomless grave 10. Grenouer – Fix your life

A new week, a new episode. Yes, a little later, but we all lead busy lives and circumstances aren’t always favourable. But what’s a day in a human life? So, get set for another round of metallic variety. The more melodic side of things is represented by Dragon Guardian (Power Metal from Japan), H.E.A.T. (Hard Rock from Sweden), Lillian Axe (Hard Rock from the USA), Drakkar (Power Metal from Italy) and Gürz (Folk Metal from Turkey). The more extreme side of things is represented by Derelict (Progressive Death Metal from Canada), Borknagar (Progressive Black Metal from Norway), Ground Zero System (Industrial Metal from Norway), Sear Bliss (Dark Metal from Hungary) and Drudkh (Black Metal from Ukraine). A nicely balanced and diverse offering here. Enjoy! Hosting: Si Tracklist: Judit, Polina, Si, Marcus, Kobe 01. Dragon Guardian – Mountain of sword 02. Derelict – Shackles of indoctrination 03. H.e.a.t – Breaking the silence 04. Gurz – Göç 05. Sear Bliss – The new era of darkness 06. Ground Zero System – Sensory domination 07. Drakkar – New frontier 08. Borknagar – Epochalypse 09. Lillian Axe – Death comes tomorrow 10. Drudkh – Breath of cold black soil

When other genres get metallized… here’s our third Cover Special. In any case, it’s usually interesting to see how Metal bands take on Pop, Rock and other kinds of songs. Metal bands covering other Metal bands occurs very often. In this newest episode we have stuff originally by King Crimson, Limahl, Tom Waits, Mecano, Louis Armstrong, GG Allin, Stan Jones, Uriah Heep, Abba and Deep Purple. An idea: check the original songs and the renditions we chose for this episode and tell us which you liked more. Enjoy and have a great Easter! Hosting: Si Tracklist: Judit, Polina, Si, Marcus, Kobe 01. Die Apokalyptischen Reiter – Ghostriders in the sky 02. Dragonland – Neverending story 03. Taake – Die when you die 04. Vengeance Rising – Space truckin’ 05. Mago de Oz – Dama Negra 06. Theatres des Vampires – Figlio Della Luna 07. The Meads of Asphodel – Wonderful world 08. Shining – 21st Century Schizoid Man 09. Paradox – S.O.S. 10. Vertebrae – Dirt in the ground

Metal bands write long songs, short songs, middlelong songs, epic songs, dramatic songs, and so on. We had a first episode with long songs (mininum 15 minutes per song) last year in episode 212. This time we present you the second Long Songs Special. Due to the length of the episode, we again limited the playlist to about half of what we usually play. Again we tried to present something from the different genres: Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Doom Metal and Black Metal, with songs that don’t sound like one song that has been stretched. Variety is key. Sit back, enjoy and should you have knowledge of other bands or songs that are minimum 15 minutes long, do not hesistate to contact us. Cheers! Hosting: Si Tracklist: Judit, Si, Tim, Marcus, Kobe 01. Domain – Shadowhall 02. Devin Townsend Project – The Mighty Masturbator 03. Darkspace – Dark 317 04. Dream Theater – The Count of Tuscany 05. My Dying Bride – The Barghest O’Whitby EPISODE 212 – LONG SONGS VOL. 1

More Specials are planned, but as we don’t want to throw all our cards on the table, let’s play another regular. Next to the Thrash of Toxic Holocaust, the Black Metal of Himinbjørg, the Power Metal of Kaledon (a previously unreleased track, by the way) and Freedom Call, the Traditional Metal of Christian Mistress, the Folk of Cave Growl, the Death of Spawn Of Possession – well, it’s their style, not the band that has ceased to exist, obviously – and the Doom of Swallow The Sun (a new track) and last but not least, an oldie from Bathory, we present you the band Sa-da-Ko. Sa-da-Ko is one of the band which are on our long list of requests, which Kobe is now selecting from, starting thus with Sa-da-Ko. As usual, enjoy the sounds and leave your feedback at the usual places (website, facebook, google+, …). Hosting: Si Tracklist: Nancy, Si, Tim, Marcus, Kobe 01. Cave Growl – Battle’s beer 02. Toxic Holocaust – Nowhere to run 03. Christian Mistress – Haunted hunted 04. Kaledon – Steel maker 05. Himinbjorg – Convictions 06. Bathory – Woman of dark desires 07. Spawn of Possession – Where angels go demons follow 08. Sa-da-kO – Change my fate 09. Freedom Call – Crimson dawn 10. Swallow the Sun – Emerald forest and the blackbird

A rather extreme episode this time, though there’s a nice balance between heavy riffs, thundering drums, happy melodies and bombastic operaticness. On the extreme side we have the Black Metal band Azaghal from Finland, the Death Metal formation Baht from Turkey and the Doom groupings XII Boar from the UK, The 11th Hour from The Netherlands and Pallbearer from the USA. On the melodic side of things, there is the Folk/Black/Power Metal combo Black Messiah from Germany (though one can also place them in the other camp), the Folk Metal assembly Dalriada from Hungary, the Gothic Metal bands Xandria from Germany and Diabulus In Musica all the way from Spain. Except perhaps for Dalriada, the rest is as new as can be. Enjoy! Hosting: Si Tracklist: Si, Tim, Marcus 01. XII Boar – Smokin’ Bones 02. Black Messiah – Der RIng Mit Dem Kreuz 03. Baht – The Trauma 04. Azaghal – Vihasta ja Veritoista 05. The 11th Hour – The death of live 06. Xandria – A prophecy of worlds to fall 07. Hammer Horde – Infinite war thirst 08. Dalriada – Igeret 09. Diabulus in Musica – Ex nihilo 10. Pallbearer – The legend

Alrighty, people, take your history books. We’re starting way back in time, ten, maybe hundreds of years before the year of our Lord. The Lord Of Time will however NOT be your guide in this musical journey through ages past, as he’s taking the liberty to go skiing, now that everyone or most are back home and at work. Chapter 1: Helvetios by Eluveitie. From there we move on into the Roman empire in chapter 2 with Deströyer 666. We remain there for chapter 3, thanks to Spearhead. Moving on after that into 12th century with Magic Kingdom, while Hollenthon awaits us in the 15th century. Get set then for a jump forward with Imperial Vengeance as we enter Victorian times, followed by a trip to the 20th century serial killers. And killing also happens in WW II, where we are assisted by Barbatos. Sodom then takes us into Stalin territory, while Mob Rules shows us some insights regarding the murder on JFK. We all hope you’ve got pen and paper at the ready (or other means of writing). Buckle up, enjoy and do leave your impressions, at the end of the voyage, at the usual places. Thank you for choosing MetalCast Endeavours! Hosting: Si Tracklist: Si, Tim, Marcus 01. Eluveitie – Helvetios 02. Destroyer 666 – King of kings 03. Spearhead – Interregnum + Iulianus Augustus Apostata 04. Magic Kingdom – I’m a lionheart 05. Hollenthon – Ars Moriendi 06. Imperial Vengeance – Black heart of empire 07. Rage – Serial killer 08. Barbatos – Shoigunjinsho: All for the Son of Heaven 09. Sodom – Stalinorgel 10. Mob Rules – The Oswald file Episode 210 – Historical special Vol 2 Episode 139 – Historical special Vol 1