Its an American invasion on this month’s Ragnarok Radio with our interviews with Cauldron and Bonded By Blood.

Toronto’s NWOTM band Cauldron talk to Gordy in Glasgow about Chained To The Night, record collecting and playing at Germany’s Keep It True festival in 2007.

Bonded by Blood formed in 2005 hailing from the Californian Thrash Metal scene naming themselves after the 1985 Exodus album ‘Bonded by Blood’. Exiled to Earth is set to be the bands second full length album to be released this year on Earache Records.
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 Ragnarok Radio Episode 48 - Cauldron and Bonded By Blood [76:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

C.J from Newcastle’s hard rocking punk act The Wildhearts talks to Andy in Glasgow. The interview was conducted while the band were on tour promoting their new album ‘¡Chutzpah!’. The tour featured a set list playing the album in its entirety along with an encore featuring older songs.

¡Chutzpah! is their eighth studio album released in August 2009, produced in Denmark by Jacob Hansen who has most famously worked with Volbeat. C.J talks about working with Jacob, their new ‘downtuned’ playing style and appearing at the Kerrang! awards.

Episode 47 is presented by Gordy and Richard on location in Glasgow.

This month’s show features a mix of hard rock and heavy metal with the following tunes.

Revengine - Given It All
Final Curse - Christinsanity
Sleeping Martyr - Hollow
Solipsia - Confusion
Wheelchair Wheelchair Wheelchair Wheelchair - Panto Massacre
Forever Never - Empty Promises
The Wildhearts - Chutzpah
The Flare Up! - Put it in a Letter
Eightball - Revolution Man

 

 Ragnarok Radio Episode 47 - C.J from The Wildhearts [70:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In our readers poll Amon Amarth were our most requested metal band to be interviewed, so in Episode 46 we bring you our interview with Johan Soderberg.

We caught up with the Swedish Viking metallers in Newcastle on tour promoting their latest album ‘Twilight Of The Thunder God’ released in 2008. ‘Twilight’ is the seventh studio album and features a variety of guest musicians including L.G Petrov of Entombed, Roope Latvala of Children of Bodom and Perttu Kivilaakso of Finnish cello metal crossover band Apocalyptica.

Also in a slight change to our usual shows Richard and Ewan present this months podcast on location in Dundee.

As always this month’s metal podcast comes with the following tunes.

Switch Opens - The Electric Hour
Blind Image - Sepia Tone Sunrise
Mama Kin - Too Much
Bonafide - Fill your head with Rock
Spit Like This - Sweet Transvestite
Amon Amarth - Guardians of Asguard
Element of the Machine - Seas of blood
Von Benzo - Medicine
Burial - Fall of the holy

 

 Episode 46 - Johan Soderberg from Amon Amarth [62:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Our interview with Mark Jansen from Dutch symphonic metallers Epica features as possibly our last interview of 2009!

Epica recently released their new album ‘Design Your Universe’ in October of this year. It includes a guest appearance from Sonata Arctica’s Tony Kakko and is the first album to feature their new guitarist Issac Delahaye.

Mark talks to Rich about what its like touring in the UK and how such complex musical compositions are created during Epica’s writing process.

As usual we have some great metal tunes to accompany the show. We hope that your looking forward to the festive season and have a very brutal Christmas!

Warpath - Damnation
Mean Streak - Battle Within
Napalm Death - Scum
Construcdead - My Haven
Unsun - Whispers
Epica - Unleashed
Spheric Universe Experience - Lakeside Park
White Wizzard - High Speed GTO
Thaurorod - Warrior’s Heart

 

 Episode 45 - Mark Jansen from Epica [81:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Haunted and recently reformed At The Gates guitarist Anders Björler talks to Gordy in Glasgow about his inspiration, favorite riffs and what its like being a semi professional musician.

Swedish thrash metallers The Haunted released their last album ‘Versus’ in September of 2008 and are about to visit the UK in support of Slayer. Our interview with Anders was conducted before The Haunted attended this years Bloodstock festival.
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 Episode 44 - Anders Björler from The Haunted and At The Gates [69:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Lori Linstruth and Arjen Lucassen join us to talk about their latest project Guilt Machine. The album ‘On This Perfect Day’ was released in Europe on August 31st, an album of self reflective twists and turns through progressive metal sounds.

As well as Guilt Machine Arjen also talks about life after the Ayreon project and his future musical direction.

Accompanying this is Phil’s look at the progressive metal scene focusing on amongst others Mesuggah and Mastodon. A great starting guide for the uninitiated to prog metal!
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 Episode 43 - Lori and Arjen from Guilt Machine [101:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In episode 42 we discover the meaning of…. life, the universe and maybe not everything but at least you’ve got something to listen to while pondering the possibilities!

In this edition of Ragnarok we talk to Simon from York metallers Pantheon about their latest collaboration on the heavy metal charity record ‘One Voice’ for the NSPCC and also what it’s like to be an unsigned band in the UK.

Also Gordy talks to Tommy Concrete from Man Of The Hour at Studio 24 in Edinburgh about their upcoming album to be released on No Face Records

And of course the show also features the following tracks -
Echos Of Eternity - Ten Of Swords
Excellent Cadaver - Bear Blasting
Pantheon - New Shadow
Legion Of The Dying - March On
Nanna Satanen - Legojuna
Man Of The Hour - Whirlpools Of Hades
Seregon - Band Of Brothers
Painting In Negative - Inertia
Danny Tanner - Kill Me Yeti

 

 Episode 42 - Simon from Pantheon and Man Of The Hour [76:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode 41 of the podcast features interviews with Blaze Bayley and Municipal Waste.

Blaze is of course is the former vocalist of both Iron Maiden and Wolfsbane. We caught up with him in Glasgow during ‘The Tour That Would Not Die’ series of gigs promoting the album ‘The Man Who Would Not Die’ - the fourth studio album released by the band in 2008.

US thrashers Municipal Waste also talked to us during their last UK tour. The Waste are of course set to release their new album ‘Massive Agressive’ on August 25th, you can hear a preview track entitled ‘Shredded Human’ in this show right before the interview!

Blaze Bayley - The Man Who Would Not Die
Celtic Legacy - Live By The Sword
Trail Of Tears - Dead End Gaze
Death In Blood - Hell Within A Hell
Municipal Waste - Shredded Human
Witchmaster - Total Annihilation
Tiamat - The Temple Of The Crescent Moon
Kivimetsan Druidi - Blacksmith
Alter Of Plagues - Earth As A Womb

 

 Ragnarok Radio - Episode 41 - Blaze Bayley and Municipal Waste [82:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Cristiano Migliore of Lacuna Coil and Firebrand Super Rock feature in episode 40 of Ragnarok Radio.

Cristiano joined Lacuna Coil in 1998 just a year after getting signed to Century Media, he talks to us about how the band rose to fame internationally, the Italian metal scene and touring with one of the most famous women in metal - Cristina Scabbia.

Our second feature is Metal Hammer favorites Firebrand Super Rock from Edinburgh, having formed in 2004 they’ve played support for such metal giants as Slayer and Mastodon. So its your turn to check out these rising stars of metal!

Episode 40 of the podcast also includes the following tunes

Lacuna Coil - Spellbound
Tarja - Lost Northern Star (Lost Northern Pain Remix)
Empyrea - Our Story
Versailles - The Love From A Dead Orchestra
Splintered Soul - Critical Mass
Firebrand Super Rock - Point Of No Return
Children Of Bodom - Banned From Heaven
Arnocorps - Terminator
Bin Laden’s Daughter - Farce Of Propaganda

 

 Episode 40 - Cristiano Migliore of Lacuna Coil and Firebrand Super Rock [98:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Mark Cross from Firewind and Matt from Highland Fire Festival join us on episode 39 of Ragnarok Radio.

Mark is of course the highly acclaimed drummer for Greek metallers Firewind, he talks to us in Glasgow about joining the band back in 2006 and the release of The Premonition last years follow up to Allegiance.

Also included is an interview with Matt from Highland Fire Festival and vocalist for Scottish folk metal act Fortrius. Highland Fire is set to take place at The Ark in Edinburgh on August 1st the bill currently features Waylander, Northern Oak and Ravenage. The myspace page for Highland Fire Festival contains more information about the event and ticket purchasing.

Also included on the show are the following tracks

Firewind - Head Up High
Pain - Zombie Slam
Thurs - Raise Your Sword
Ensiferum - Blood Is The Price Of Glory
The Unravelling - Where Will It End
Seven Thorns - Artificial Night
Sorcerer’s Spell - Lead Us To Anthror
Mystical Fullmoon - May Wisdom Bless My Path
WolfP.A.C.K - War
Raintime - Beat It

 

 Episode 39 - Mark Cross and Highland Fire Festival [77:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download