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Tons of great video from the Pagan Knights Tour available on my youtube channel: HollywoodMetalRadio

Hollywood Metal is a weekly radio radio show available on the web at:

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Kristian Wahlin also known as Necrolord is responsible for creating many of the greatest album cover artworks in metal. Some of my favorites include the covers for DISSECTION, BATHORY and ENSIFERUM. If you're a fan too please take the code for your profile.

Album of the year so for 2009: BLACKGUARD "Profugus Mortis"

Album of the year for 2008: EQUILIBRIUM "Sagas"

Tohu Tehom Theli Than Leviathan Tanin'iver Taninsam (11x)

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -H.L. Mencken-

My Blog

Hollywood Metal 64 (Featuring PHLEGETHON)

Saturday May2nd 2009: PHLEGETHON was back on the show today to premier "Norloxious THE BLOODSMOKER" and to play my new favorite drinking game, wizard staff. The theme of the show was Totally Awesome S...
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 13:08:00 GMT

Hollywood Metal 63 (featuring STATIUS)

Saturday April 25th 2009: Ronny, Nick, Wyatt, Sean and Jed of STATIUS were studio along with Mircea, the notorious "Statius bear." STATIUS is the best LA band I've heard since moving here about 2 year...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:02:00 GMT

Hollywood Metal 62 (featuring PHLEGETHON)

Saturday April 18th 2009: Tyler and Lane of PHLEGETHON were here in the studio with us drinking beer and talking about their journey though metaldom.First up was of course PHLEGETHON with "Feeding the...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:55:00 GMT

Hollywood Metal 61

Saturday April 11th 2009: Packed house for episode 61 of Hollywood Metal Radio. The previous night I was out in Hollywood and wad introduced to Magnus Lervik and Tom Aswald from Sweden who attend Musi...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:49:00 GMT

Hollywood Metal 60

Saturday April 4th 2009: I felt like we weren't playing enough Finnish metal on the show lately so I decided to step things up today with a few great bands from the land of the midnight sun. BLACK SUN...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:50:00 GMT

Hollywood Metal 59

Saturday March 28th 2009: The theme of this weeks show was basically bands that have formed from bands that split up or bands that recently reunited. Things got started with VREID "Discipline" a band ...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:20:00 GMT

Hollywood Metal 58

Saturday March 21st 2009: ALESTORM "Leviathan" has been stuck in my head since the Pagan Knights tour so it was completely necessary to play them again on the show. When they played this song live the...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:05:00 GMT

Hollywood Metal 57

Saturday March 14th 2009: Episode 57 of Hollywood Metal Radio was the best one ever because it was the first day with our new Pro-tools rig. Since taking the show off the radio station earlier this ye...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:06:00 GMT

Hollywood Metal 56

February 28th 2009: Episode 56 featured Me, Dave Trau, Tracey Hays and Damon Wang. We kicked things off with some ALESTORM, a pirate metal band from Scotland that will be playing in the Pagan Knights ...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:52:00 GMT

Hollywood Metal 55

February 22nd 2009: My new friend Dave Trau joined the show officially today. Dave is a studio sound engineer and a masterful guitar player. He attends the prestigious Musicians Institute in Hollywood...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:14:00 GMT