Midnite Madness CXCVI—I AM THE NITE

"Funerals get orgasm from my soul"

OBITUARY:
1. SARACEN - CRUSADER
2. MORBID - FROM THE DARK
3. BEOWÜLF - PHUCK
4. CIANIDE - SECOND LIFE
5. THE OBSESSED - CONCRETE CANCER
6. INCINERATOR - INSOMNIA
7. PANTERA - DAUGHTERS OF THE QUEEN
8. TERRORIZER - INJUSTICE
9. VOIVOD - TO THE DEATH
10. FATES WARNING - EPITAPH

Midnite Madness CXI—Demo Entrails VI - 2000AD II (Altar of Death)

Back with another demo show, this time picking up from where I left off at show LVIII, with more 2000s-onwards bands/releases. All from tape this time, giving those MP3s a break. Alas, maniacs, I am back on July 25th for more Midnite fuckin' Madness, so "don't nobody go nowhere"...

Maniac Monday LII - DARKTHRONE—Lust for Hell (The Next 978 Years Are Still Theirs)

 YES. At last, it has arrived—the Darkthrone show. As mentioned at the top of the show, this is not a definitive guide to Darkthrone or anything like it, just me playing 22 Darkthrone tracks I haven't played on the show before (I have already played 22 tracks—a whole 'nother show's worth—over the past 52 shows), with one track appearing off each official release. Sure, I skipped the singles and anything retrospective pretty much, but you get the gist.

Nothing more to say here really except enjoy the show and here's hoping for more classic Darkthrone releases in the future!

Maniac Monday returns on March 3rd for more metal madness (I have no idea what exactly yet because I can't stop listening to Juju, Catastrophe Ballet, and Closer, haha. Maybe a deathrock show :P), so be sure to tune in then. Or wait and get it here afterwards. The choices are yours, motrals...

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Maniac Monday LI - Total Death II

It's been some time coming, but here's a fresh death metal show for your brain to devour. In classic MM form, hour one is 80s and 90s gems, with hour two covering post-00s bands.

It was great to finally play a few things I've wanted to for a while—like Excoriate and Deathcult—yet I still managed to forget Possession and some other stuff. Oh well, there will something similarly evil again soon, faithful maniacs.

Maybe the next show will be this Darkthrone one I have mentioned more than once in the past, who knows (I certainly don't). Tune in to NTS on February 16th to find out...

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Maniac Monday XXXII - SLAYER—Life's a Dream

Jeff Hanneman 1964-2013

The first Maniac Monday of May sees me paying tribute to Slayer, mainly as, unless you are living in North Korea and haven't heard, the world is now short one Jeff Hanneman. There will never be another band like them, so it felt fitting to pay homage to not only one of thrash's finest guitarists and song writers, but also to one of heavy metal's greatest ever bands. Cramming two hours of classic old Slayer into one show seemed almost mandatory.
I actually had the privilege to interview both Tom Araya and Kerry King just before the release of their last album, World Painted Blood, in 2009 in Sony's offices in west London. The following day myself and a friend shot the original line-up in a studio in east London, which was another highlight of my journalistic career. The compiled interview can be read here, the Tom Araya-only one here, and if anyone really wants to read the complete interview with Kerry King, then just say so and I will get to editing it.

Maniac Monday will return in just under two weeks with the black metal show that I am sure most of the show's listeneres are already bored of hearing me talk about, ha ha. 'til then...