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

 

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Episode 37 of Ragnarok Radio is our Sauna Open Air special featuring interviews with Perttu from Apocalyptica and Laura of Medeia who both played at the event.

One of the first during the festival season Sauna took place in Tampere, Finland from 5th to the 7th of June. If you were there checking out the Finnish metal and drinking in the rain hope you had a great time!

The show also features some of the bands who appeared on the day, hopefully we’ll be able to give you an insight into what the metal scene is like in Finland. Kiitos to everyone who made this show possible!

Apocalyptica - Grace
Tarot - Pyre Of The Gods
Evile - Enter The Grave
Swordmaster - Guardians Of The Waves
Medeia - Through Sacrifice
Finntroll - Maktens Spira
Backmask - New Revolution
The February Solution - No Escape
Beyond The Grave - Conflict Zone

 

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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

 

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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!

 

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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

 

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