Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone!

For our New Years Day show, we decided to do kind of a review of metal in 2010. We thought about some of the biggest things that happened in the metal world in 2010, at least the things that we talked about on the show. Blind Guardian's new CD, the metal cruise, illnesses and deaths in the metal world, and more.

There's probably some things that we left out, so feel free to post a comment about something that you think is important from 2010.

The playlist:
"Fantasmic" - Nightwish
"A Voice in the Dark" - Blind Guardian
"Champagne Bath" - Sonata Arctica
"Hard Rock Hallelujah" - Lordi
"House on a Hill" - Kamelot
"Paradise Lost: Carrion" - Cradle of Filth
"A World to Win" - Gorgoroth
"Gateways" - Dimmu Borgir
"Last December" - Iced Earth
"Twilight of the Thunder God" - Amon Amarth
"Aces High" - Children of Bodom
"Der Ewige Sieg" - Equilibrium
"Trollhammaren" - Finntroll
"Quoth the Raven" - Eluveitie
"The Visitor" - Kivimetsan Druidi
"Rounds of Rum" - Swashbuckle
"Feigdin" - Heljareyga
"From Afar" - Ensiferum
"Ormurin Longi" - Tyr
"Death and the Healing" - Wintersun
"Hello Spaceboy" - Behemoth

See you all next week,
TJ

We're Back!

Hello Everyone!

Melanie and I are back from Puerto Rico and are playing a live show for the first time in three weeks. For the show tonight, we didn't want to do anything fancy, so we just played a regular show in case anyone wanted to make a request.

For news, there were a few things we mentioned. There were some medical issues, like the lead singer of Behemoth getting a bone marrow transplant, and the lead singer of Kamelot having to leave part-way through their European tour. Everything we mentioned can be found on Blabbermouth.net.

This week we were also able to bring you the title track from Turisas' upcoming CD, "Stand Up and Fight." It is available for free download here. All you need to do is, through this website, share it on either your twitter or your facebook. The song is great and I can't wait to see what the rest of the album sounds like.

The playlist from this week:
"Ghost Love Score" - Nightwish
"Carry the Blessed Home" - Blind Guardian
"White Pearl Black Oceans" - Sonata Arctica
"Moonrise (Through Mirrors of Death)" - Nevermore
"Soul Sphere" - Borknagar
"Queen of the Damned" - Theatres Des Vampires
"Dusk and Her Embrace" - Cradle of Filth
"The Gathering" - Delain
"Deconstruct" - Epica
"New Found Land" - Leave's Eyes
"Keep on Galloping" - Korpiklaani
"Tale of Revenge" - Ensiferum
"Shattering Swords" - Suidakra
"The Somber Lay" - Eluveitie
"Ramund Hin Unge" - Tyr
"Captain Morgan's Revenge" - Alestorm
"Curse of the Bard" - Mael Mordha
"Stand Up and Fight" - Turisas
"Third Immortal" - Battlelore
"Metal Heart" - Dimmu Borgir

See you next week,
TJ

Folk Metal Night

Hello Everyone!

We are still in Puerto Rico, so we will be bringing you another pre-recorded show this week. The theme for the show is folk metal. We'll be bringing you a great playlist of folk metal. We hope you'll enjoy it as much as we will.

Since we're not at the show this week, you won't be able to call in and make requests. We also won't be bringing you news this week either, so feel free comment on this post if you have any news to contribute or anything else.

The playlist for this week:

"Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan" - Nightwish

"Goi! Rode! Goi!" - Arkona

"Over the Seas" - Alestorm

"Der Ewige Sieg" - Equilibrium

"The Calling" - Primordial

"Hear the Heathen Call" - Tyr

"Isle of Skye" - Suidakra

"Korpiklaani" - Korpiklaani

"Het Wilde Heer" - Heidevolk

"Forked Height" - Battlelore

"Thousandfold" - Eluveitie

"Seasonspeech" - Elvenking

"Perpolsa" - Lumsk

"Kylan Pasaa" - Moonsorrow

"Lagnan" - Helyarega

"Homeward Shore" - Falkenbach

"Blodnatt" - Finntroll

"The Visitor" - Kivimetsan Druidi

"Starchild" - Wintersun

"Lai Lai Hei" - Ensiferum

"Juodaan Viinaa" - Korpiklaani

See you next week!

Melanie and TJ

Pre-Recorded Finnish Show

Hello Everyone!

Melanie and I are in Puerto Rico, so we'll be bringing you a pre-recorded show again this week. Next week, we will still be here so there will yet another pre-recorded show.

Since this coming Monday (December 6) is Finnish Independence Day, the show tonight is all Finnish bands. For information about Finnish Independence Day, you can go the Wikipedia page about it.

Also, since tonight is a pre-recorded show, we will not have any news for you tonight. So If you want to contribute any news of your own, please feel free to comment on this posts. Also, feel free to add any comments about Finland, Metal, or pretty much anything you want.

Here's the playlist from this week's show:

"Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan" - Nightwish

"Victoria's Secret" - Sonata Arctica

"Metsamies" - Korpiklaani

"Downfall" - Children of Bodom

"Warrior of Life" - Sentenced

"Bittersweet" - Acolyptica

"Trollhammaren" - Finntroll

"I Walk Alone" - Tarja

"Hard Rock Hallelujah" - Lordi

"Wanderer" - Ensiferum

"Winter Madness" - Wintersun

"Exile the Daystar" - Battlelore

"My Kantele" - Amorphis

"Sankarihauta" - Moonsorrow

"My Selene" - Sonata Arcitca

"Teräksen varjo" - Terasbetoni

"Ali Jaisten Vetten" - Kopriklaani

"Tuoppein nostelulaulu" - Kivimetsan Druidi

"Wings of Blackening" - Kalmah

"Jurahevin kuninkaat" - Hevisaurus

"Into Hiding" - Amorphis

"Beyond the Dark Sun" - Wintersun

"Jaktens Tid" - Finntroll

"Finnish Medley" - Ensiferum

"I Want Out" - Sonata Arctica

Enjoy the show, Everyone!

TJ and Melanie

Slow song Theme night

Hello from Michigan everyone!

We've got about two and a half hours till we go see Blind Guardian! It's going to be amazing.

Because we're not in Naperville, we had to pre-record the show for this week. I figured it would be best to play a theme show, so i chose a slow song theme. I'm really happy with how the show turned out, and I hope you do to.

Since we're not there to give you any metal news, feel free to comment on this post with any interesting metal related news.

Here's the playlist:
"Creek Mary's Blood" - Nightwish
"Nightfall" - Blind Guardian
"The Boy Who Wanted to be a Real Puppet" - Sonata Arctica
"Go Into the Water" - Deathklok
"Love's Tragedy Asunder" - Demons and Wizards
"The Ravens" - Tristania
"The Sorrowed Man" - Nvermore
"My Choice" - After Forever
"Embrace the Endless Ocean" - Amon Amarth
"Slavsya Rus" - Arkona
"Leave's Eyes" - Leave's Eyes
"Tuulen Koti, Aaltojen Koti" - Moonsorrow
"To the End of Days" - Alestorm
"Nokken" - Lumsk
"Sleeping Stars" - Wintersun
"Elegy" - Amorphis
"Hail to the Hammer" - Tyr
"Lady in Black" - Ensiferum

Hope you enjoy the show,
TJ and Melanie

Playlist from 11/20/10

Hey all,

Despite some technical difficulties, I think the show went well this week. Melanie's friend was there and we were introducing her to the delicately darker edge of metal. We played some of the more iconic songs from the bands we play, like "Inis Mona" by Eluveitie, "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" by Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth's "Nymphetamine".

We had a lot to talk about for news. Things like Wintersun finishing their album (hopefully) by Christmas, and Melanie and I being able to go to Blind Guardian after all!! For a better run down of the news than I can give you, stop by blabbermouth.net

The playlist:
"Wish I had an Angel" - Nightwish
"Born in a Mourning Hall" - Blind Guardian
"Champagne Bath" - Sonata Arctica
"Emptiness Unobstructed" - Nevermore
"Genocide" - Hammerfall
"Last Hope" - Apocalyptica
"Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" - Dimmu Borgir
"Nymphetamine" - Cradle of Filth
"Persepolis" - Septic Flesh
"The Last Crusade" - Epica
"Would You love a Monsterman" - Lordi
"Inis Mona" - Eluveitie
"Isle of Skye" - Suidakra
"Unbesiegt" - Equilibrium
"Weiber und Wein" - Alestorm
"One More Magic Potion" - Ensiferum
"Paljon on Koskessa Kivia" - Korpiklaani
"One More" - Turisas
"Ramund hin Unge" - Tyr
"Vanderen" - Ensiferum



TJ

Rule #1: 1. You have one goal: be epic.

Old TJ (Noob) sent this our way this morning...

The 101 Rules of Power Metal!


Which ones are your favorites?

Show on Nov. 14

We had a regular show this week, no theme or anything. We didn't get any requests, so we just played what we wanted.

As far as news, Turisas has announced that their new album is called "Stand Up and Fight" and will be released on February 8 in the US. This is very exciting. Also, Korpiklaani announced that they have finished their new album, although they didn't say the name.

The playlist:
"Wishmaster" - Nightwish
"Ride Into Obsession" - Blind Guardian
"Stormrider" - Iced Earth
"Flag in the Ground" - Sonata Arctica
"Abigail" - King Diamond
"Chess With the Abyss" - Dimmu Borgir
"Absinthe and Faust" - Cradle of Filth
"Bittersweet Feast" - Nevermore
"The Gathering" - Delain
"Transitory" - After Forever
"Pauper of Souls" - Mael Mordha
"The Last With Pagan Blood" - Amon Amarth
"The Messenger" - Turisas
"Dragonheads" - Ensiferum
"Die Affensinsel" - Equilibrium
"Death and Healing" - Wintersun
"Vesainsen" - Korpiklaani
"A Riddle of Stars" - Elvenking
"Skirnir" - Falkenbach
"Immigrant Song" - Demons and Wizards

TJ

Meet your hosts: TJ

I'm finally getting around to posting this. Sorry for the wait, everyone. Here you go...

How long I've been a host:
I've been at Metal Oxide since fall 2009 (I think, maybe winter '09). I wasn't an "official" host until January-ish, but I started hanging out with Melanie and Rita at the show a while before that.

Major:
Heh, Melanie told you hers, so I guess I should too. I'm a Classics Major at the moment, that's why I try to read Latin in song titles whenever I can, even though I'm bad at it

Favorite Genre:
Folk Metal. The amount of culture, heritage and history that folk metal bands can put into their material is amazing. The history buff in me can't get enough of Tyr singing about when a Bishop came and converted the Faeroe Islands by force, or when Turisas sings about sailing down to "Konstantinopolis". Also, it blends all the best aspects of other genres to create in my opinion, the best one.

Top 10 Bands:
1. Blind Guardian
2. Ensiferum
3. Turisas
4. Tyr
5. Korpiklaani
6. Eluveitie
7. Nevermore
8. Sonata Arctica
9. Equilibrium
10. Amon Amarth

Favorite Song:
"The Heart Collector" - Nevermore

Favorite Album:
Live - Blind Guardian

First Concert:
Well....my first concert was Weird Al Yankovic, years ago. But my first metal concert was Sounds of the Underground 2007. It was intense, especially for my first concert. About 12 hours just to see Amon Amarth play 4 songs. Gwar was cool, but I didn't really care for the other bands.

Favorite Concert:
Hmmmmm.......really hard to say. My first thought (and very close second) is the Nevermore concert I saw recently at Reggie's; they just played such an amazing show and I met them, thanks to Melanie. There's also the Tyr, Alestorm and Act of Destruction show back at the Pearl Room, which was the first time I saw either of them. And there's the Tyr an Korpiklaani show, also amazing. But I think I have to go with Ensiferum, when they headlined at Logan Square was amazing because they played two sets worth of time (One of the bands opening for them couldn't make it, so they went on early and played until the regular time). And that leads me to my favorite live band...

Favorite Live Band:
ENSIFERUM!!!!! They play such a good show. They all have such a good stage presence and their songs are so great. It's hard to choose though, and even though I think there are bands hat might play better (Amon Amarth, Nevermorem, etc) but I just love Ensiferum so much, that I had to pick them.

Favorite Book:
The Godless World Trilogy, by Brian Ruckley
(Winterbirth, Bloodheir, The Fall of Thanes)

Favorite Movie:
13th Warrior

Hobbies:
DISCLAIMER: I'm a nerd.
I play World of Warcraft. Too bad, I love it.
I also play other games like Day of Defeat, Counter Strike, Mount and Blade, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Rome: Total War, and Starcraft.
I also rides bikes sometimes, and I'm a bit of a carpenter. But that's about it.

Favorite Sport:
Hockey (Blackhawks, of course!)

Well, that's about it. I hope you enjoyed it.
If you want to know anything else, you'll have to ask me.

TJ

Meet your hosts: Melanie

So I know I've said that I would be on here more often but the past two weeks I have left my laptop at home and getting up to write in the computer room at the station does not seem too appealing...ergo no posts. However, today I have my laptop and lots of free time for writing so I will do my "Meet your hosts" blog and hopefully my Nevermore blog as well. We'll see how I feel after this one.

Meet your host: Melanie

How long have you been on Metal Oxide?

-I have been here since August 2009. I joined the show the day that TJ #1 ended his time here so it was kind of awkward but fun. I have been at almost every single show since then (excluding vacations).


What is your major?:

-I had to put this question on, I work at a college radio station. My major is German and I am an education minor so hopefully one day I will be teaching German in high school.


Top 10 bands:

-I mentioned this one earlier tonight so I had some time to think about it. It is always hard to limit myself to just 10 and the bands tend to switch around based on what I am listening to most at the moment. Here is what I came up with today:

1. TYR
2. Cradle of Filth
3. Dimmu Borgir
4. Turisas
5. Ensiferum
6. Sonata Arctica
7. Korpiklaani
8. Alestorm
9. Mindless Self Indulgence
10. Blind Guardian
(11) Nevermore

I needed 11 spots, 10 is not enough.


What is your favorite live band?:

-Cradle of Filth puts on a great live show and I always enjoy going. I really loved seeing Korpiklaani live and of course Tyr. Blackguard is a band that I didn't really care for but they put on such a great love show that they earned my respect. Same with 3 Inches of Blood. Best local band is Act of Destruction.


First concert:

-Don't laugh. I was young and ignorant. My first concert was at the Riviera seeing the All-American Rejects. Then I saw H.I.M. a few months later and then Cradle.


Most recent concert:

-Nevermore


Best concert:

1. Tyr, Alestorm, Suidakra, Act of Destruction

2. Korpiklaani, Tyr, Swashbuckle, White Wizzard

3. Cradle of Filth, The 69 Eyes, 3 Inches of Blood

4. Eluveitie, Alestorm/Swashbuckle


Best live moment:

-Seeing Alestorm live and realizing Swashbuckle was in the audience and had come to see them, then joined them on stage for "Nancy the Tavern Wench" and later joined Eluveitie for "Inis Mona".


Favorite song:

-"Ragnarok"- Tyr


Favorite movie:

-Lord of the Rings. If I have to choose one of the three it would be "The Two Towers". And yes I am incredibly excited for "The Hobbit" to come out!


Free time:

-I read, knit (epic sweaters), paint my nails (Blackhawks, Nevermore, Turisas...) and of course listen to music.


Favorite sport:

-Hockey (go Blackhawks)

-Rugby (Wales)

-Tennis (Rafa)

-Soccer (Deutschland und Espana)

-Baseball (Phillies)



Where were you born?:

-Pennsylvania


Favorite video game:

-Doctor Mario for the NES

-Civilization Revolution for the DS (I conquer the world as various historical figures!)

-Pokemon for the Gameboy


Tattoos:

-Three: Ball of yarn on my left foot; Book on my right foot; JRR Tolkien insignia on my right inner calf.


Books:

-Frankenstein- Mary Shelly

-War of the Worlds- H. G. Wells

-Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte

-Harry Potter- J.K. Rowling

-Lord of the Rings- J.R.R. Tolkien

-The Historian- Elizabeth Kostova

-Oryx and Crake- Margaret Atwood

-The Giver- Lois Lowry

-The Vampire Chronicles- Anne Rice



Any other questions? Ask me.

That's all for now...

-M