Century Media Weekend

This weekend, starting Friday afternoon, Metal Forge Radio will be playing a salute to numerous extreme metal groups and their albums signed under the recording company very much devoted to Extreme Metal - Century Media.

Century Media is behind some of the finest death metal, black metal and just about any extreme metal for that matter. Groups like Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquility, Opeth, Soilwork, Asphyx, Behemoth, Emperor and many more will be playing around the clock.

This will start a series that MFR will go through, it will do tribute to Nuclear Blast, Roadrunner and more.

new albums added

I visited a used video games, music and movies store in my community and came across some good stuff for cheap. I purchased Dissection's Live Legacy album and Marduk's 2009 album Wormwood. So I will have those up on the playlist as soon as possible.

Easter Sunday Weekend - Easter Egg Album Weekend

Metal Forge Radio will be playing a random album weekend. Any album that plays will play in their entirety, so tune in and be surprised at what may play.

Agalloch/Opeth Damnation/Enslaved weekend

Sounds like an odd mix of stuff, but I got CDs of many of these in the week to add to my collection. Got an album by Agalloch called The Mantle, they are a folk metal/black metal group from my hometown of Portland, OR and The Mantle was highly praised in 2002. Also got more stuff from Enslaved which are one of my absolute favorite black metal groups. Black Metal gets a lot of bad rap from people who are outside of what the genre is all about, for many reasons I do understand. But even when it was at its most controversial in the early to mid '90s, it was still no less artistic and musicianship driven. But many of the original trendsetters of the '90s have either disappeared or changed styles altogether, it's groups like Enslaved that have evolved Black Metal into new territory never dreamed possible and many people outside of Extreme Metal's impossible to crack lack of accessibility have taken notice and began to praise. So tune in as these albums are explored this weekend.

Live Album Weekend, January 14 and 15

Metal Forge Radio will be playing every extreme metal live albums, everything that could be possibly in our playing list. To name a few, there will be Amon Amarth, Atheist, Behemoth, Deicide, Dissection, In Flames, King Diamond, Obituary, Suffocation, and many more. Tune in and I hope you enjoy.