Believe it or not, Polish trad metallers Crystal Viper have just dropped their 8th (!!) full lengther. Their Listenable debut “The Cult” just hit the shelves giving the perfect opportunity for vox/axeperson Marta Gabriel to make her RAM debut. We go over the ins and outs of the new album plus we discuss working with Jack Starr’s Burning Starr and the band’s predilection for cover songs. You gotta hear the…

2020 was one helluva year! Now we can truly put the year that was in it’s Metal Godz forsaken grave with our annual tradition. The Rammy Awards is our year end take-the-piss-out-of-the-grammy awards. We basically share with all our listeners all of our faves in the categories that mean the most to Metalheads. Such as Fave Band, Album, Song, Live, New/Indie, Comeback and News Story. And of course, our always…

As 2020 started to wind down, the prevailing sentiment seemed to be that with the new year all the negativity will disappear and all will be hunky-dory. But as this week unfolded, 2021 seems to be picking right up where we left off. Enter our “Creature Feature”. The concept behind Seattle bashers Fvcked And Bound is very apropos. We’re all fvcked! And bound! And we’ve enlisted axeman Brian McCelland to…

In general, 2020 may have been a crap year. Here at the RAM offices the year will be a memorable one for the number of awesome artists that gave us a moment of their time. We’re going to keep the Crazy Train on the right track this year starting with this week’s legendary “Creature Feature”. The influence of the mighty Diamond Head is undeniable. Being one of the NWOBHM originals,…

Horns Up and Merry Xmas! To help all our beautiful listeners celebrate the holidays, we decided to do something new. This past Halloween we introduced our very first watch along. This season we present our inaugural listen along? (I guess.) The “We Wish You A Metal X Mas and a Head Banging New Year” Christmas compilations become a holiday staple around the RAM offices. An hour long, 2 record set…

Black metalled Scour are a unique beast. The line up consists of some of the top names in extreme music including (ex) Pantera, Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, and Misery Index. Slinging bass for this unholy alliance is RAM alum John Jarvis (AN). The Five Horsemen of the Musical Apocalypse have dropped their new EP, “Black” and Mr. Jarvis told us all about it. We discussed the “all star” concept, recording…

This week’s “Creature Feature” will be most familiar with listeners for his recent (ish) work with the mighty Nile. South Carolina metaller Brian Kingsland was tapped to join the legendary outfit in ’17 and swung his axe for last year’s “Vile Nilotic Rites”. But Mr. Kingsland is padding his resume elsewhere as well. His new project Imperishable dropped it’s first single in anticipation of a 2021 EP. The tune is…

We remember the first time Finnish melodic death metallers Mors Principium Est came to our attention. The outfit was the first tune on a European metal mag’s (we want to say Metal Hammer ??) promo comp. Their unique monicker stuck in our brains and never left. So now, with the band having dropped their latest album “Seven”, we got on the horn with vox Ville Viljanen to get the first…

Schools…in(?) This week we find ourselves on the other side of the mic. Mr. Mark Buell is an old friend and RAM alum who joined us in celebrating all that is Rush after the passing of Neil Peart (Epi. 590). Well, Mark recently hit us up for a favour. His son Issac was assigned a school project of creating his own podcast. Choosing the subject of the “History Of Heavy…

Another one off the ole’ “Bucket List”!! Our fandom with extreme pioneers Nuclear Death goes back to the turn of the ’90s. The terrorific trio just released two killer records on the old Wild Rags Records label and had the attention of stereos throughout the underground. In another long time coming chat, we sat down with vox/bassist Lori Bravo. We could now write her biography as she regaled us with…

When we were offered a chance to speak with black/thrashers Pulchra Morte, we jumped at it. We were expecting we’d be hearing from vox Adam Clemens. But we were pleasantly surprised when axeman Jarrett Pritchard called. Mr. Pritchard not only has extensive experience in the underground, but he’s also a producer extraordinaire. He’s turned the knobs for some of our fave artists. We discussed the new record “Ex Rosa Ceremonia”…

All Hail Odin!! Just last year we had the good fortune of having Leaves Eyes vocalists Alex Krull and Elina Sirralla on the show as they passed thru town. Now this year LE are helping us cope with this craziness with a cool new album. “The Last Viking” is an absolute battleshipburner of a record! So we jumped at the chance of having Mr.Krull on the show again. We discussed…