RIP Clem Burke 1954-2025

It is with sadness that I announce the passing of Clem Burke, longtime drummer in Blondie, The Romantics as well as a very brief stint in the Ramones. He recorded with Iggy and was a prolific session drummer. I was always impressed by the intensity of his playing, even in his later years. His hard hitting style was an influence on my own playing and along with Keith Moon, who he also idolized, was an inspiration for me in taking up the drums to begin with. Taken far too soon. RIP

Channelling Keith Moon...

April 7, 2025

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Habak - mil orquideas en medio del desierto  

Wraith - the curse

Graveripper - the one reborn

Hellripper - hell's rock 'n' roll

Abyss - to conquer a corpse/accursed followers/

    the final blood bath/purity negation/unburied/

    coven of the blood stalker/splatterhouse

Myteri - psykisk terror/age of disinformation

Born for Slaughter - as dawn turns black

Storm of Sedition - mechanism of defense

Ancst - entropie

Hell is Other people - fates

Wolfcharge - stalking prey/charge of the wolf

Onslaught - skullcrusher

Tulpa - fear of fades

Totem Skin - the mouth of man

Upon a Field's Whisper - spread death

Habak - desarraigo

March 31, 2025

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Oroku - death to the sufferer

Kuroishi - apocalyptic stress/what keeps us alive

Warkrusher - grind the enemy

Limb From Limb - death cycle

Slaughter Strike - carnal promises

Wolfpack - outlaw vagabond

Sickness of Greed - path to extinction/ensnared

Förgör - nyckeln till frihet/vagra verkligheten/rista blodom

Hard Charger - conquer darkness/shipwrecked/derelict/

    dragged to hell

Schifosi - content with death

Gomora - popel a prach

Dopethrone - demonsmoke

Extensive Slaughter - imminent global collapse/

    yet the selfish remain/the greatest shame

Mass Grave - what's left/second guess

Legion666 - no god/fear to fall/outbreak of evil

Fall of Efrafa - the fall of efrafa

March 24, 2025

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For tonight's show I featured 25 crucial releases from the 1980's, the decade when hardcore/metal music was in perhaps in it's greatest stage of development. D-beat was emerging as a force as Discharge's influence began to spread worldwide. Grindcore was in it's infancy. The American bands were releasing seminal records. The Japanese bands were becoming known to us showcasing a unique hardcore which would pave the way for the burning spirits sound. These are not only important releases that would shape the direction of intense music and build an underground music culture, but pivotal for me as an alienated teenager looking to distance myself from the herd and inspiring me to become a musician myself. This is by no means a comprehensive list, there are at least another 25 bands that should be here. Probably many more than that. Hardcore was becoming a global movement and every country was developing their own scenes and sounds. Discharge wasn't the first hardcore band I ever heard, but they resonated with me in a unique way. If I could only keep one record out of the thousands I own, it would be Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing. When I die I want to be cremated with it so our ashes are forever entwined. There's no more fitting place to begin... 

Discharge - hell on earth/cries of help/the possibility of life's destruction

Heresy - more blood is shed

Sacrilege - at death's door

Onslaught - angels of death

Ripcord - poetic justice/subconscious thoughts/starvation

Napalm Death - instinct of survival

Extreme Noise Terror - deceived

Crucifix - prejudice

MDC - i remember/john wayne was a nazi

Poison Idea - this thing called progress/in my headache/underage/

    self abuse/cult band

Agnostic Front - last warning/traitor/friend or foe/united blood

Negative Approach -lead song/whatever i do/negative approach

Misfits - all hell breaks loose

Anti Cimex - warmachine

Gism - document one

Adrenalin OD - corporate disneyland

Bad Brains - right brigade

Angry Samoans - gas chamber

Jerry's Kids - i don't belong

Corrosion of Conformity - loss for words

Motorhead - the hammer

Venom - sons of satan

Slayer - evil has no boundaries

Possessed - death metal

Hellhammer - crucifixion

March 17, 2025

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Uhrit - ei kaikki

Kuroishi - freedom/gasoline stains/crosses & flags/

    graa dagar/minefield/hierarchy

Myteri - svck/sjaslig host

Ursut - det fria valet/kontrollerad

Tulpa - no one wins

Bakounine - no place to call own/farce/crs

Dark Circles - frantic death/soul suppressor/

    you can't hold onto money while you burn/

    glacial instinct/rot

Krash - devastation/a living hell/nuclear strike/power corrupts/

    they declare it/ warsystem

Drought - plague trader

Night Vermin - from the tongues of the deceiver

ITUS - sturgeon

Ulva - the unavoidable reality

Stiff Little Fingers - alternative ulster

Summer of 92 - green & white

March 10, 2025

March 8 was International Women's Day. Rights! Equality! Empowerment!

Tonight's show focuses on female fronted hc/metal bands. 

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The Gaia - wild wind

The Gits - slaughter of bruce

Sinkin Ships - broken hearts are blue

The Gift - kelly k.

Habak - orbe de almas

Schifosi - post genocide syndrome

Fuck the Facts - dropping like flies

Bombardement - warriors of the night/greed prevails/this frantic silence

Sacrilege - dig your own grave/the closing irony (live)/bloodrun (live)

After the Bombs - war monger

Cloud Rat - losing weight/delayed grief

Iskra - lawless/ruins

Gallhammer - ripper in the gloom

Ahna - living in fear

Lifeless Dark - outcry

Wildspeaker - desecration plague/sins of depression/hunt the weak/

    first taste of flesh

March 3, 2025

War//Plague - the accursed throne

Habak - no crecen flores aqui solo podagrarias

Schifosi - half lit world/Law is freedom/drowning in the aftermath

Myteri - marscherar/branda broar

Procrastinate - [greek ttitle]

Dispair - ministry of murder/today this tomorrow that/

    i blame religion/cooperation not competition/cannibal politics/

    government goal

The Murder Squad TO - deal with fate/how can there be christmas 

    when there's still no peace/disease/means to an end

Warsick - tomorrow/warhawk/end of days

Speed Kobra - barricades

Dispose - deathcult/my faraday cage/green future/the darkest minds/

    the demons core h-bomb horizon

Soil of Ignorance - flesh ulceration/truth be told/final plague stench/

    no compromise/disarmed then ripped apart/file under:extreme

    misfortune/perpetual slaughter/unfiltered sewage/collapsing fortress

Ursut - dem yterrsta dagen

Lightbearer- prelapsus

February 24, 2025

MDC - my family is a little weird

Descendents - my dad sucks/suburban home

Angry Samoans - my old man's a fatso

The Freeze - duh family

Ramones - we're a happy family

Articles of Faith - my father's dreams

Blood for Blood - mother dear

Poison Idea - rubber husband

Misfits - mommy can i go out and kill tonight

Born Against - the good father/mary & child

One Blood - uncle joe's revenge

Riverdales - i accuse my parents

Fear - we destroy the family

Dead Kennedys - we've got a bigger problem now

Bleeding Out - one in a million/floating crypt

Rotting Hammer - days & nights of endless butchery/who's next

S46 - by myself/lost cause/beliefs/break/end the hate

Bootlicker - it's beautiful/false power/shot at dawn/uniforms/

    dismantle

Warkrusher - shadows

Tulpa - healing

Bolt Thrower - war/remembrance/when glory beckons

Hell is Other People - loss

February 10, 2025

Masskontroll - mortis invictus 

Extreme Noise Terror - pray to be saved

Genocide SS - destroyer of worlds

Valvonakomissio - mielen valtakunta

Selfish - how do you reach the end?

Terror Squad - straight to hell

Demolition - dressed to kill

Disgust - the result of war

Youth Crusher - desocialized

A.T.E.R. - pesadilla podrida

Anion - open casket

Absolut - life sketch/black void/your fraud

Abyss - coven of the blood stalker/unburied/

    curse of the graves

Assault - blind customs

Assfort - royalty

Asschapel - fire & destruction

Audio Kollaps - die nacht der 5 sekunden

Acme - blind

Kontrovers - lust

Systematic Death - tonight/jap gate/disobey/

    be dead gone Annie/don't stop my way

Poison Idea - death, agonies & screams

Speedwolf - death ripper

Inepsy - no order disorder

Age - women in slaughter

February 3, 2025

Brujeria - raza odiada

Avskum - fight back capitalism

Doom - black monday

Resist - united states of apathy/liberation 

Manliftingbanner - empire

Assuck - body politic equation/anti capital/epilogue

Brutal Truth - stench of profit

Napalm Death - multinational corporations/

    instinct of survival/stigmatised/parasites

One Blood - yankee parasite

Crisis of Faith - land of the free

Propagandhi - todays empires, tomorrow's ashes

Warbitch - drop the bombs/radiation zombie/fight back/

    hellfire/warfare/btk/speedmetal dbeat assault

Avskum - capitalism is terrorism

Warsick - tomorrow/fight to break control/pigs on your back

Nihilist Death Cult - follow the money/obey-consume/

    wake up/death to all tyrants

AK47 - when pigs fly/this racist country/burn the rats out/

    kill robert fucking bales/school of war/scars/if this isn't war/

    i don't care that you don't care/yatim/justified/no remorse

Born Against - eulogy/riding with mary/the nail that sticks up

    gets hammered down/resist control/half mast

Paintbox - flame

January 27, 2025

Hellshock - passage

The Last Survivors - dead and gone

Union of a Dying Sun - they light our path with burning books

Limb from Limb - disjointed from all logic/they light our path

Hellknife - blood of the snake

Wraith - devil's hour

Bastard - misery/flash out

Grafjammer - waanzee

Carpathian Forest - he's turning blue

Impaled Nazarene - motorpenis

Ashkara - it might have been

Gomora - popel a prach/psychoterur

Sarabante - all that remained

Saccage - motorcrust

Nuclear Power Genocide - bigotscum

Krash - devastation/a living hell/nuclear strike

Slaughter Strike - when the unspeakable is unchained

Leper - decivilize

Oroku - spineless/terror/the end is near

January 20, 2025

Poison Idea - plastic bomb

Vaxine - war crimes/conditional freedom/thread of hate

Attack The Enemy - pervitin patrol/death from the sky/war crime

    corporations/glam rock incel/plastic over values/massacre/

    death camps/tax rich - kill the rich/future

Union of a Dying Sun - drowning in the labour pool/

    that which we cannot erase

Wolfbrigade - mayhem mongrel/sea of rust

The Essential Letdowns - bus fare is too damn high/intervention/

    she's got me/fuck the government/police won't leave me alone/

    i don't wanna work today

Career Suicide - play the part/saving face/realities/recipe for disaster/

    the last say/impact

Hassler - love this job/imprisoned/affluenza/excess necessity/snowbound/

    cannon fodder/pigpen

Grafjammer - hachel mijn boul/lijdensverlenger

Nightfeeder - the reaper's yield/asylum/species on the brink

Gel - turbulence/culmination/glue

Hell is Other People - moirae

January 13, 2025

Union of a Dying Sun - shadows cast on the darkest days

Zyclone - enemy/life for a life/visions of impending death/

    exterminate them all

Wolfbrigade - ways to die/disarm or be destroyed/

    life knife death/a day in the life of an arse

Warkrusher - tyranny of vengeance/endless night

Oroku -  vulture/disgust for mankind/meaningless

Marusya - language of deceit/death of a snake oil salesman

Storm of Sedition - mountains of waste/prisoners of industry/

    insurrectionary fire/dead of night

Wind in His Hair - reap the storm

Lifeless Dark - feeding the light

Fall of Efrafa - pity the weak

Autarch - aldebaran

Hell is Other People - degrade