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Check out our weekly shows below:

Daily Album Premieres

Hear the latest metal and hard rock releases, hand-picked by our expert screeners. Read more about the show here.

The Friday Guest DJ Hour Show

Tune in every Friday to hear your favorite musicians share their musical influences and play their favorite tracks. Read more about the show here.

The 12th Hour Show

Stay ahead of the curve with the latest metal and hard rock tracks. Read more about the show here.

Six Degrees of Progressive Metal

Dive deep into the progressive metal universe and discover mind-bending music. Read more about the show here.

Hairbanger’s Hairspray Show

Join us for a wild ride through the best of classic and modern hair metal. Read more about the show here.

Before They Called It Heavy Metal

Delve into the roots of heavy metal and celebrate the groundbreaking music of the 70s. Read more about the show here.

Thrash Zone

Unleash the fury with the ultimate thrash metal experience, featuring classic and modern bands. Read more about the show here.

Daily Album Premieres

DAILY ALBUM PREMIERES Week 2, 2016

January 10, 2016 Stig G. Nordahl

Tune in the Daily Album Premiere Show to hear the finest metal releases just now hitting the streets! See this week’s schedule here: DAY BAND ALBUM Monday Cauldron In Ruin Tuesday Olathia Hunters Wednesday Dissona Paleopneumatic Thursday Dear Delusion Sleep Of Reason Songs from these new releases will be featured at 6:00/18:00 CET & Midnight/Noon EST on the days indicated. All featured albums will have a short review posted the day it’s on the show! The FRIDAY edition of the Daily Album Premiere show contains 3 tracks from each of the Daily Premiere Albums. Be sure to tune in here! See all the new albums on power rotation here!

This Week’s Guest DJs Is: KEN INGWERSEN

January 8, 2016 Stig G. Nordahl

Host for the Guest DJ Show this Friday is guitar player, songwriter and producer Ken Ingwersen. Ken will introduce a nice set of classic hard rock tracks that definitely will give you a kick start for the weekend. After the Ken’s show we’ll play six tracks of his album released as Kens Dojo called Reincarnation (2010) Tune in at 15:00 and 21:00 CET/ 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. EST this Friday to hear the show! Learn more about Ken Ingwersen: Ken started playing classical guitar …at the age of 10, but was soon spelled by the electric guitar and rock music, listening to acts like KISS, Van Halen, Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple and tons of other 70s and 80s rock bands. Spending his early teens playing in a few local bands in Oslo, Norway, the first real band making any fuzz was called LIMELIGHT. Releasing a single on Polydor, and doing a tour with TNT, Ken got hungry for doing more music. He was soon hired as a guitar player for Evenrude, a Norwegian singer signed by the infamous Clive Davis at Arista Records in the US. Enjoying some touring with this great band, the big success for Evenrude never happened outside of Norway. Ken moved on to form a band called RAGS, and released two albums in ’93 and ’95. The albums were well received by the global press and was released throughout Europe and Japan. When RAGS broke up in the mid 90s, Ken formed a band called SPEED and released an album in ’97 called “One”. The album was released world wide through various indie labels. Writing the songs, engineering, producing, mixing, playing guitars, bass and keyboards on the album…..a reporter once said in a review: “I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s driving the tour bus too!” Doing “everything” can be …READ MORE

Today On The Maxed Out Metal Hour

January 7, 2016 Maxxxwell Carlisle

On this week’s Maxed Out Metal Hour with Maxxxwell Carlisle: Fire Metal! Songs about Fire, Flames and Burning! Featuring an amazing lineup of bands including Hammerfall, Accept, Saxon, Loudness, Manowar and more! Tune in at 15:00 and 21:00 CET/ 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. EST this Thursday!!

Daily Album Premieres

DAILY ALBUM PREMIERES Week 1, 2016

January 3, 2016 Stig G. Nordahl

Tune in the Daily Album Premiere Show to hear the finest metal releases just now hitting the streets! See this week’s schedule here: DAY BAND ALBUM Monday My Dear Addiction Kill The Silence Tuesday Cloudscape Voice Of Reason Wednesday Axel Rudi Pell Game Of Sins Thursday Lugnet Lugnet Songs from these new releases will be featured at 6:00/18:00 CET & Midnight/Noon EST on the days indicated. All featured albums will have a short review posted the day it’s on the show! The FRIDAY edition of the Daily Album Premiere show contains 3 tracks from each of the Daily Premiere Albums. Be sure to tune in here! See all the new albums on power rotation here!

Daily Album Premieres

DAILY ALBUM PREMIERES Week 53, 2016

December 27, 2015 Stig G. Nordahl

Tune in the Daily Album Premiere Show to hear the finest metal releases just now hitting the streets! See this week’s schedule here: DAY BAND ALBUM Monday Metal Xmas songs! Various Tuesday Corners Of Sanctuary Metal Machine Wednesday Enzo And The Glory Ensemble In The Name Of The Father Thursday Arcanum XII Evening Lights Songs from these new releases will be featured at 6:00/18:00 CET & Midnight/Noon EST on the days indicated. All featured albums will have a short review posted the day it’s on the show! The FRIDAY edition of the Daily Album Premiere show contains 3 tracks from each of the Daily Premiere Albums. Be sure to tune in here! See all the new albums on power rotation here!

This Week’s Guest DJs Are: DIVIDED MULTITUDE!

December 23, 2015 Stig G. Nordahl

A progressive power metal war horse, Divided Multitude would be best described to the uninitiated as a hybrid of In Flames, Nevermore and, due to Eskild Kløften’s stunningly effective keyboard work, Dream Theater. The new album “Divided Multitude” marks the band’s 20th anniversary as a band, and shows their strength as a band, and shows the band more versatile than ever. 10 new hard-hitting tracks from one of the “godfathers” of Norwegian Prog-Metal. Set for release in December in Europe, and January in the USA. After the band’s show we’ll play six tracks of Divided Multitude Tune in at 15:00 and 21:00 CET/ 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. EST this Friday to hear the show Here is the video for the track “Scars”

Daily Album Premieres

DAILY ALBUM PREMIERES Week 52, 2016

December 20, 2015 Stig G. Nordahl

Tune in the Daily Album Premiere Show to hear the finest metal releases just now hitting the streets! See this week’s schedule here: DAY BAND ALBUM Monday Harem Scarem Live At The Phoenix Tuesday Headless Crown Time For Revolution Wednesday The Chronicles Project When Darkness Falls Thursday Overwind Level Complete Songs from these new releases will be featured at 6:00/18:00 CET & Midnight/Noon EST on the days indicated. All featured albums will have a short review posted the day it’s on the show! The FRIDAY edition of the Daily Album Premiere show contains 3 tracks from each of the Daily Premiere Albums. Be sure to tune in here! See all the new albums on power rotation here!

This Week’s Guest DJs Are: LUCID DREAMS!

December 16, 2015 Stig G. Nordahl

Lucid Dreams from Oslo, Norway are back with their second album, Build And Destroy, released on October 10th 2015. The album is a follow up to the band’s critically acclaimed debut album from 2013. If you’re into melodic metal, check out Lucid Dream’s Guest DJ Show. After the band have introduced their 10 all time hard rock tracks we’ll play a handful of tracks off their new album. Tune in at 15:00 and 21:00 CET/ 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. EST this Friday to hear the show Here is the new Lucid Dreams video for the track “Absence Of Innocence”

Daily Album Premieres

DAILY ALBUM PREMIERES Week 51, 2015

December 13, 2015 Stig G. Nordahl

Tune in the Daily Album Premiere Show to hear the finest metal releases just now hitting the streets! See this week’s schedule here: DAY BAND ALBUM Monday Last Days Of Eden Ride The World Tuesday Lucid Dreams Build And Destroy Wednesday Fatal Embrace Slaughter To Survive Thursday Divided Multitude Divided Multitude Songs from these new releases will be featured at 6:00/18:00 CET & Midnight/Noon EST on the days indicated. All featured albums will have a short review posted the day it’s on the show! The FRIDAY edition of the Daily Album Premiere show contains 3 tracks from each of the Daily Premiere Albums. Be sure to tune in here! See all the new albums on power rotation here!

This Weeks Guest DJ: EVIL EYE!

December 9, 2015 Stig G. Nordahl

Evil Eye are a Heavy Metal band from Central America. The roots of the band can be traced back to the spirit of Heavy Metal of the 80s. Their first release “The Business of Faith” criticizes society and religion, by using really heavy guitar riffs, fast solos and a really good powerhouse singer, who can hit really high screams…. The main influences are Accept, DIO and Judas Priest. You’ll hear all these bands and many more when vocalist Jeremy introduces ten of his all time favourite metal tracks on the Guest DJ Show this Friday. After the show you’ll hear all the tracks from Evil Eye’s new EP The Business of Faith. Tune in at 15:00 and 21:00 CET/ 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. EST this Friday to hear the show Listen to the title track off the EP here: