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