Hi, how are ya? Me? Oh, just catching up on playlist posts. Here’s what you heard on 3/17, The Metal Asylum’s St. Paddy’s Day Salute. Yes, you will hear some requisite Celtic Metal (Skyclad and Cruachan to be specific), but it’s pretty awesome and doesn’t last too long.

1. Death | Empty Words | Symbolic
2. Cannibal Corpse | Demented Aggression | Torture
3. Immolation | Rival the Eminent | Unholy Cult
4. Napalm Death | Inside the Torn Apart | Inside the Torn Apart
5. 1349 | When I Was Flesh | Demonoir
6. Dimmu Borgir | Blessing Upon the Throne of Ty | Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
7. Nile Barra | Edinazzu | Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
8. Morbid Angel | Chapel of Ghouls | Altars of Madness
9. Engineer | Big Black Smile | The Dregs
10. The Network | Service With a Smile | Bishop Kent Manning
11. Boris | Galaxians | Heavy Rocks
12. Every Time I Die | Drag King | Ex Lives
13. Young Widows | Took a Turn | Old Wounds
14. Black Pyramid | The Cauldron Born | Black Pyramid
15. Eyehategod | Who Gave Her the Roses | Take As Needed For Pain
16. Weedeater | God Luck and Good Speed | Within The Church Of Thee Overlords II
17. Pallbearer | The Legend | Sorrow and Extinction
18. Burzum | Jeg Faller | Fallen
19. Marduk | This Fleshly Void | Wormwood
20. Drudkh | Farewell to Autumn’s Sorrowful Birds | Eternal Turn of the Wheel
21. Skyclad | The Widdershins Jig | Wayward Sons of Mother Earth
22. Cruachan | The Rocky Road to Dublin | Folk-Lore
23. Iron Maiden | Phantom of the Opera | Iron Maiden

Listen to the podcast: 

xoxo Jody

So…yeah…it’s been a few months since the Metal Asylum last shook the earth. A desolate, metal-less few months. But it’s back, here to stay, and I had some kick-ass new music to share. Unfortunately, there seemed to be an issue with the mic throughout the show, so I tried very hard to talk as little as possible. That just means more metal for you!

1. Mark Deutrom | Darksider | The Value of Decay
2. Mastodon | Spectrelight | The Hunter
3. The Dillinger Escape Plan | Farewell, Mona Lisa | Option Paralysis
4. Horse the Band | New York City | A Natural Death
5. Baroness | Isak | Red Album
6. Black Cobra | Machine | Chronomega
7. Hirax | Murder One | Barrage Of Noise
8. Evildead | Living Good | Annihilation of Civilization
9. Liberteer | Feast of Industry | Better to Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees
10. Deicide | Crucifixation | Deicide
11. Chelsea Grin | Recreant | Desolation of Eden
12. Soilent Green | Emptiness Found | Sewn Mouth Secrets
13. Goatwhore | Death to the Architects of Heaven | Blood for the Master
14. The Crown | Death Is The Hunter | Crowned In Terror
15. Coffinworm | Blood Born Doom | When All Became None
16. Alcest | Beings of Light | Les voyages de l’âme
17. Hull | Beyond the Lightless Sky | Beyond the Lightless Sky
18. Dark Castle | Flight Beyond | Spirited Migration
19. Horseback | The Invisible Mountain | The Invisible Mountain
20. Satyricon | The King of the Shadowthrone | The Shadowthrone
21. Darkthrone | Graven Takeheimens Saler | Transilvanian Hunger
22. Cirith Ungol | King of the Dead | King of the Dead
23. TUSK | Lost In The Woods | Tree Of No Return
24. The Sword | The Night the Sky Cried | Tears of Fire Warp Riders

Listen to the podcast: 

xoxo Jody

Here’s the breakdown of my Metal Asylum Halloween Tribute:

First 20 minutes: Fumble with cords, try to figure out how to get the CD players to work.
Middle part: Success! Pretty awesome new metal ensues.
Final hour: Halloween metal from some legendary bands, yay!

A good day, indeed.

1. Arckanum | Or Djupum | Helvitsmykr
2. Red Fang | Dirt Wizard | Murder the Mountains
3. Charred Walls of the Damned | Ashes Falling Upon Us | Cold Winds on Timeless Days
4. Freedom Hawk | Indian Summer | Holding On
5. Yakuza | Testing the Waters | Of Seismic Consequense
6. Krallice | Autocthon | Dimensional Bleedthrough
7. Indian | Guilty | Guiltless
8. Thrones | Epicus Doomicus Bumpitus | Day Late, Dollar Short
9. Slayer | Dead Skin Mask | Seasons in the Abyss
10. Helloween | Halloween | Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 1
11. King Diamond | Halloween | Fatal Portrait
12. Entombed | Left Hand Path | Left Hand Path
13. Megadeth | Go to Hell| Hidden Treasures
14. Annihilator | Alison Hell | Alice in Hell
15. Judas Priest | A Touch of Evil | Painkiller
16. The Misfits | Halloween | Halloween
17. Venom | Witching Hour | Possessed
18. Iron Maiden | Fear of the Dark | Fear of the Dark

Now on to 10/8/2011. This show had no theme. Except…being, well, kind of awesome.

Some notable additions to my metal collection debuted during this show, including Noothgrush, Textures, Deadbird, and Glorior Belli. Check ’em out…knowledge is power.

1. Nightbringer | Rite of the Slaying Tongue | Hierophany of the Open Grave
2. Rwake | An Invisible Thread | Rest
3. Noothgrush | Hatred for the Species | Live for Nothing
4. Warbringer | Wake Up…Destroy | Worlds Torn Asunder
5. Glorior Belli | Negative Incarnate | The Great Southern Darkness
6. Torchbearer | 9-32 | The Dirty Swagger
7. Brutal Truth | Malice | End Time
8. Mastodon | Bedazzled Fingernails | The Hunter
9. Absu | Abraxas Connexus | Abraxas Connexus
10. Landmine Marathon | Knife from My Sleeve | Gallows
11. Rabbits | Burn, Sun, Burn | Lower Forms
12. The Devin Townsend Project | Poltergeist | Deconstruction + Ghost
13. Liturgy | Harmonia| Aesthetica
14. The Jonbenet | Eating Lightning Pt. 1 | The Plot Thickens
15. YOB | Doom #2 | The Illusion of Motion
16. Textures | Laments of an Icarus | Silhouettes
17. Deadbird | Feral Flame | Twilight Ritual
18. Dimmu Borgir | Blessing Upon the Throne of Ty | Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
19. 1349 | Atomic Chapel | Demonoir
20. Black Cobra | The Sapphire Falcon | Feather and Stone
21. Trash Talk | Hash Wednesday | Eyes and Nines
22. Krallice | Molec Codices | Krallice

Listen to the podcast: The Metal Asylum: 10/8/2011

xoxo Jody

Yeah, okay, okay. I have been a lazy jerk lately, and have not updated the Metal Asylum playlists in over a month.

I’m gonna do a quick ‘n’ dirty rundown of the skipped shows (with their respective podcasts), starting with 9.17.2011: “The Metal Asylum Forever ’80s Time Machine”. This ain’t no hair metal, but that doesn’t mean you can’t bust out the snakeskin pants…

1. Megadeth | The Conjuring | Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying (1986)
2. Judas Priest | Grinder | British Steel (1980)
3. Kreator | Awakening of the Gods | Pleasure to Kill (1986)
4. Anthrax | A Skeleton in the Closet | Among the Living (1987)
5. D.R.I. | The Trade | Thrash Zone (1989)
6. Celtic Frost | The Ursurper | To Mega Therion (1985)
7. Metallica | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ride the Lightning (1984)
8. Diamond Head | Am I Evil | Am I Evil (1987)
9. Motorhead | Jailbait | Ace of Spades (1980)
10. Metal Church | Highway Star | Metal Church (1985)
11. Whiplash | Message in Blood | Power and Pain (1985)
12. Slayer | Jesus Saves | Reign in Blood (1986)
13. Napalm Death | Scum | Scum (1987)
14. Overkill | Evil Never Dies | The Years of Decay (1989)
15. Mercyful Fate | Into the Coven | Melissa (1983)
16. Iron Maiden | Phantom of the Opera | Iron Maiden (1980)
17. Death | Choke on It | Leprosy (1988)
18. Pentagram | Evil Seed | Day of Reckoning (1987)
19. Morbid Angel | Damnation | Altars of Madness (1989)
20. Venom | Countess Bathory | Black Metal (1982)
21. Bathory | Enter the Enternal Fire | Under the Sign of the Black Mark ( 1987)
22. Godflesh | Like Rats | Streetcleaner (1989)
23. Killing Joke | The Fall of Because | What’s This For… (1981)

Listen to the podast: The Metal Asylum: 9/17/2011

xoxo Jody

It’s the Metal Asylum “I Luv The ’90s” Spectacular!

Yesterday I was sitting at home, listening to “Jump” by Kris Kross (don’t ask), pondering the unforgivable nature of most ’90s music. Then I switched to some good ol’ Megadeth and realized that metal actually THRIVED in the ’90s. Speed Metal matured, Death Metal gained a new respect, Gothenburg Metal was born, Experimental/Jazzy/Math Metal found its niche, and the Norwegian Black Metallers wreaked havoc across the land and spread their seed…

So yeah. The ’90s metal scene pretty much KICKED ASS (and were also my formative metal-listening years), so of course I had to do an all ’90s Metal Asylum. And it was good.

Bombs away:

1. Dissection | The Somberlain | The Somberlain (1993)
2. Darkthrone | Slottet I Det Fjerne | Transylvanian Hunger (1994)
3. Emperor | Thus Spake The Nightspirit | Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk (1997)
4. Gorgoroth | The Rite of Infernal Invocation | Under the Sign of Hell (1997)
5. Overkill | Frankenstein | Horrorscope (1991)
6. Testament | Hail Mary | Low (1994)
7. Megadeth | Five Magics | Rust in Peace (1990)
8. Coroner | Pale Sister | Mental Vortex (1991)
9. Slayer | Dead Skin Mask | Seasons In the Abyss (1990)
10. At the Gates | World of Lies | Slaughter of the Soul (1995)
11. In Flames | Scorn | Colony (1999)
12. Converge | Singles | Petitioning the Sky (1995)
13. The Dillinger Escape Plan | 4th Grade Dropout | Calculating Infinity (1999)
14. Cynic | The Eagle Nature | Focus (1993)
15. Sepultura | Roots Bloody Roots | Roots (1996)
16. Death | Altering the Future | Fate (1992)
17. Soilent Green | Emptiness Found | Sewn Mouth Secrets (1998)
18. Nile | Ramses Bringer of War | Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka (1998)
19. Brujeria | Sacrificio | The Mexecutioner! (1993)
20. Opeth | Into the Frost of Winter | Orchid (1995)
21. Eyehategod | Dixie Whiskey | Dopesick ( 1996)
22. Kyuss | 50 Million Year Trip } Blues of the Red Sun (1992)
23. Helmet | Better | Meantime (1992)

Listen to the podcast: The Metal Asylum: 8/3/2011

xoxo Jody

Hi folks, the Metal Asylum Half-Show will start at 1 p.m. today. The entire show will be dedicated to everyone’s favorite now-defunct-Swedish-revolutionary-anticapitalist-blow-your-mind-and-make-you-feel-like-you’re-hearing-music-for-the-first-time-band: Refused.

Switchin’ things up a bit, yeah! Today’s show was dedicated to the killer bands that will be playing in and around the Bay Area in the next couple weeks. A great way to get pumped for all the upcoming shows, and an even better way to check out some local and not-so-local acts you may never have heard of.

Here we go:

1. The Black Dahlia Murder | Necropolis | Deflorate (Summer Slaughter Tour, The Fillmore, SF, 7/29)
2. Whitechapel | Father of Lies | This is Exile (Summer Slaughter Tour, The Fillmore, SF, 7/29)
3. Murderlicious | Set Apart | Murderlicious (Eli’s, Oakland, 7/29)
4. Nero Order | Celebration of a Wounding | The Tower (Hemlock Tavern, SF, 7/30)
5. Black Cobra | The Sapphire Falcon | Feather and Stone (El Rio, SF, 7/30)
6. Lecherous Gaze | Sold | Lecherous Gaze  (El Rio, SF, 7/30)
7. Ringworm | Hellbound | Scars  (924 Gilman, Berkeley, 7/30)
8. New Lows | The Horrible and the Miserable | Harvest of the Carcass (924 Gilman, Berkeley, 7/30)
9. Exhumed | As Hammer to Anvil | All Guts, No Glory (Slim’s, SF, 8/4)
10. Cephalic Carnage | Ontogeny of Behavior | Anomalies (Slim’s, SF, 8/4)
11. Sentinel Beast | Sentinel Beast | Depths of Death (Cafe Cocomo, SF, 8/5)
12. YOB | Doom #2 | The Illusion of Motion (924 Gilman, Berkeley, 8/6)
13. Dark Castle | Growing Slow | Spirited Migration (924 Gilman, Berkeley, 8/6)
14. Oakhelm | Of Wood and Blood | Betwixt and Between (El Rio, SF, 8/6)
15. Eyehategod | Self Medication Blues | Confederacy of Ruined Lives (Oakland Metro Operahouse, Oakland, 8/15)
16. Impaled | The Last Gasp | The Last Gasp (Oakland Metro Operahouse, Oakland, 8/15)
17. Laudanum| Wooden Horse | Coronation (Oakland Metro Operahouse, Oakland, 8/15)
18. Diamond Head | Play it Loud (BBC in Concert 1982) | Reading Rock (Elbo Room, SF, 8/17)
19. Slough Feg | Starport Blues | Atavism (Elbo Room, SF, 8/17)

Listen to the podcast: The Metal Asylum: 7/30/11

xoxo Jody

The apex of today’s show was quite possibly my dramatic reading of the lyrics from “Pee Wee Herman/Paul Rubens” by Ed Gein. Here are the lyrics: “Isn’t it a relief to know that even the most perfect people have flaws? Hiding secrets behind candy coated exteriors. A book with a perfect cover hiding dry rotted pages. But don’t worry you goody-goody some day you will fall. Someday you will be caught pulling it in a movie theater. Someday….you will fall.” Ponder THAT, metalheads!

And here’s the playlist:

1. Craft | Past, Present, Dead | Total Soul Rape
2. Farsot | Thematik: Hass | IIII
3. October Falls | Part III | A Collapse of Faith
4. Black Cobra | Machine | Chronomega
5. Watain | Reaping Death | Reaping Death – EP
6. Lamb of God | Terror and Hubris in the House of Frank Pollard | New American Gospel
7. Bolt Thrower | Celestial Sanctuary | The IVth Crusade
8. Death | Suicide Machine | Fate
9. Iron Monkey | Bad Year | Our Problem
10. Rabbits | A Tale of Tales | Lower Forms
11. Leng Tch’e | Death’s Head Cockroach | Hypomanic
12. Smoke and Smoke | Abandon Ship | Love Suffers Long
13. Conifer | Albuquerque | Conifer
14. Dark Castle | Flight Beyond | Spirited Migration
15. Ed Gein | Pee Wee Herman/Paul Rubens | Judas Goats & Dieseleaters
16. Genghis Tron | Sing Disorder | Cloak of Love – EP
17. The Number 12 Looks Like You| Clarissa Explains Cuntainment | An Inch of Gold for an Inch of Time – EP
18. United Nations | The Shape of Punk that Never Came | S/T
19. Refused | The Shape of Punk to Come | The Shape of Punk to Come
20. Metal Church | Beyond the Black | Rhino Hi-Five: Metal Church – EP
21. Warrior | Defenders of Creation | Fighting for the Earth
22. Armored Saint | March of the Saint | March of the Saint
23. Anvil | 666 | Metal on Metal

Listen to the podcast: The Metal Asylum: 7/16/2011

xoxo Jody

You thought the Metal Asylum was gone forever, didn’t you, hmmm? Nope, no such luck! I’m back, snarling, with a clenched fistful of new music. Diehard fan Alex Penafiel summed it up nicely when he posted on Facebook: “That hurt my bowels just thinking of the heaviness.” Right on.

1. Onslaught | Fight With the Beast | The Force
2. Kreator | Behind the Mirror | Terrible Certainty
3. Laaz Rockit | Erased (Live) | No Stranger to Danger
4. Metallica | Metal Militia | Kill ‘Em All
5. Exodus | Shroud of Urine | Tempo of the Damned
6. Shrinebuilder | The Architect | S/T
7. Big Business | Easter Romantic | Head for the Shallow
8. Black Cobra | The Sapphire Falcon | Feather and Stone
9. YOB | Doom #2 | The Illusion of Motion
10. Bison B.C. | Medication | Quiet Earth
11. Goatwhore | Provoking the Ritual of Death | Carving Out the Eyes of God
12. Suffocation | Provoking the Disturbed | Blood Oath
13. Cattle Decapitation | Regret and the Grave | The Harvest Floor
14. From a Second Story Window | In a River Where you Least Expect it There Will Be Fish | Not One Word Has Been Omitted
15. Cave In | Vicious Circles | White Silence
16. Cave In | Ebola | Until Your Heart Stops
17. Immortal | Damned in Black | Damned in Black
18. Anaal Nathrakh | Volenti Non Fit Iniuria | Passion
19. Altar of Plagues | Watchers Restrained | White Tomb

Listen to the podcast: The Metal Asylum: 7/9/11

xoxo Jody