It’s been a long time since our last show but Ragnarok Radio the metal podcast is back!

This show focuses on Scumstock the north east’s heavy metal festival that took place last easter, if you were there and gave us a few minutes of your time on the day then you’ll more than likely hear yourself.

Our main interviews during this show are with Def Con One, Antton formerly of Venom - talking about the legandary black metallers last album ‘Hell’, Ben from Risen Prophecy, Ted from Zero and Adam from The Drift (formerly called Vomicide).

Anyway hopefully it’ll give you a taste of what the day was like at Independent in Sunderland!

As usual the show features the following metal tracks…

Artesian Well - The Jungle
Uncerta - Bitter pills
Five Ways Of Asphyxiation - Fringe of Doom
Book of Job - This Ones for Heath
Def Con One - Hypocrisy
Fallen Fate - Asphyxihate
Boadiceas Grave - Dead Skies Rising
Secta Rouge - Time needs a Skeleton
Thoughts Of Ruin - The Despised

If you want to find out more about Scumstock you can check out their myspace page.

 

 Episode 36 - Scumstock [71:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome to Episode 35 of Ragnarok Radio where we meet Warlord Nygård of Turisas to talk about touring with Dragonforce, Finnish folklore influences and the genre of ‘Battle Metal’. You can catch the live experience of a Turisas show on DVD with their release of ‘A Finnish Summer With Turisas’, we’d of course like to thank Warlord and all the bands who appear on this episode of the podcast.

The following hardened metal warriors appear in episode 35…

Turisas - Rasputin,
Lunarium - Trollslayer
Forefather - Cween Of The Mark
Spearhead - Decrowining The Irenarch
Bastard Of The Skies - Foe
hAND - I Find Myself
Nerrus Kor - Irreligion
Cilice - God Of Lies
Hand Of Grief - 2 Bagger

 

 Episode 35 - Warlord, Turisas [68:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode 34 is the first in our show’s new format!
From now on featured segments will be uninterrupted so you can listen to interviews in their entirety without breaks.

This edition of the podcast contains our interview with Scottish Pirates Alestorm. The interview took place just after they left the studio recording their new album and before embarking on their American tour. You can catch them on tour right now in the US supporting Tyr until the 30th of March.

Thanks go to the Alestorm guys for chatting to us while the ale was indeed flowing!

The show also contains the following blistering Metal tracks…

Alestorm - Curse Of Captain Morgan
W.E.B - Ressurection Hades
A Thousand Lies - When Im Gone
Adestra - Not The Outlaw
Pantheon - Area Of Invasion
Temtris - Masquerade
Unearthly Trance - Permanent Ice
Black Sister - Vikings From Hell
Mindless Torture - Ashes

 

 Episode 34 - The Pirates of Alestorm [72:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Check out our latest videos of Municipal Waste playing at Glasgow Barfly. You view them here and here

We had a request for these to be put out on the site, hope you enjoy them Thrashblaster93!

Check out our latest Metal video added to youtube. Its Blood Island Raiders playing Moorings Bar in Edinburgh!

Episode 33 is the final show in our Women In Metal series.

It features our interview with metal legend Angela Gossow from Arch Enemy; where she talks about her humble beginnings as a metal fan, progression to performer and finally some reflections on women in metal.

As well as the interview with Angela we also take the time to draw a few conclusions from this series of podcast shows. We would of course love to hear some of your opinions on Women in Heavy and Extreme Metal, if you’d like to drop us an email or a comment at the end of this show. Any interesting comments may well get featured in our next show!

Many thanks of course go to The Gossow for taking the time out to talk to us and making this show possible.

Episode 33 of the podcast also features the following tracks…

Arch Enemy - Taking Back My Soul
Bolt Thrower - No Guts No Glory
1000 Scars - New Rebellion
Beware The Ides - Irish
The More I See - Bloodline
Fireball Ministry - Sundown
November’s Doom - Armour Of The Harp
Battlelore - We Are The Legions
Macbeth - Good Mourning

 

 Episode 33 - Women In Metal Part 3 [126:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Podcast episode number 32 features the second part of our Women In Metal series.

This time we talk to Becki Clarke from acclaimed UK Gothic Metal act Season’s End and Miranda Bradshaw formerly of Glasgow Black Metal group Achren. In this show we continue to investigate the ever changing roles of women within the genre and how they fit into extreme Heavy Metal culture.

Also be sure to catch the last part of the Women In Metal series airing next month!

The following tracks make up this months show…

Season’s End - Beyond The Grace Of God
Visions Of Atlantis - At The Back Of Beyond
The Gathering - Liberty Bell
The Cruxshadows - Birthday
Thororod - Upon Haunted Battlefields
El Shlong - The Baddies are Coming
Achren - Blood Soaked Banner
Fuck the facts - The Storm
Oblivionized - The Archetects of Surmise

Be sure to check out the details for Scumstock our sponsored event in Sunderland happening at Independent on the 13th of April.

Its also coming up to your last chance to vote for us in the North East Digital Awards. We’re entering the category for best podcast of 2008, you can vote for us here!

 

 Ragnarok Radio Episode 32 - Women In Metal Part 2 [99:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It’s Christmas Eve and we have an early gift for your at Ragnarok - episode 31 of the podcast.

Its crammed full of heavy metal christmas tunes for the season, we review what 2008 has brought for the show and discuss the up and coming interview schedule for the coming year. We’d love to read your comments about the last year of the podcast and if theres anything you’d like to hear in 2009.

Also we’re taking part in the North East Digital Awards looking to claim the award for best podcast in 2008. We’d love you to vote for us!

We hope you have a heavy Christmas and a metal New Year!
The playlist for episode 31 looks like this…

Fight - Christmas Ride
The Sword - Winter’s Wolves
Paul Di’anno - Another Christmas Rock and Roll
Twisted Sister - Heavy Metal Christmas
Sacred Dawn - Wicked Land of Winter
Exsecratus - Under Winter Moon
Taken By Wolves - Land of Ice and Snow
Blackmore’s Night - Good King Wenceslas
Joel Kopistike - A Harry Potter Christmas

 

 Episode 31 - 2008 A Year In Metal [62:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is the first part of our series about women in Heavy Metal with interviews from female metal stars.

With these podcast programs we’re hoping to highlight the differing roles and challenges faced by women in the Heavy Metal industry. In this show we talk to Floor Jansen of After Forever and Lori Linstruth guitarist turned manager for Arjen Lucassen.

The following episodes of this series will be available from our site in the new year!

Also included in this show are the following Metal tracks

After Forever - Energize Me
Interregnum - Storm Of The Ancient
Brainstorm - Inside The Monster
Girlschool - Demolition Boys
Lori Linstruth - Leite Mich
Lori Linstruth - If
Battlelore - House Of Heros
Khoda - Violent Times
Ego Likeness - Severine

 

 Ragnarok Radio Episode 30 - Women In Metal Part 1 [88:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Agamoth from extreme Black Metal act Abgott gives us this exclusive interview while being on the road at Ivory Blacks in Glasgow revealing details about the new album, why he made the move to London and what it was like being part of the Italian Metal scene.

If you like your metal blackened and brutal then this is undoubtedly the show for you!

This episode of the podcast features the following 9 crushing tracks
Abgott - Kronos Cosmic Throne
Benighted - Identisick
Beyond The Grave - Beyond The Grave
Cryptic Hate - Arterial Spray
Gallhammer - At The On Set Of Age Of Despair
Lazarus Blackstar - The Day The Circus Came
Martriden - The Art Of Death Infernal
Mindless Torture - Amputate
The Monolith Deathcult - Wrath Of The Ba’ath

 

 Episode 29 - Abgott [84:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download