Heavy Metal Wanaka

BATTLE BEAST- King for a Day BLOODBOUND- Metalheads Unite GRAVE DIGGER- Call for War SEPULTURA- Phantom Self ALL HAIL THE YETI- Feed the Pigs STEEL PANTHER- Anything Goes BLOODNUT- Drop Dead Red Head ( Get album on iTunes HERE! ) AVERSIONS CROWN- The Souless Acolyte WITCHERY- Nosferatu BEARSTORM- Cravers of a Second Birth BENIGHTED- Forgive Me Father IRON REAGAN- Grim Business KREATOR- Satan is Real IMMOLATION- Destructive Currents XOTH- Tentacles of Terror OCTOBER TIDE- Sleepless Sun SENTIENT HORROR- Ungodly Forms

When you think of RED HAIR, is Heavy Metal usually the first thing you think of? As a band of gingers, Auckland Stoner / sludge metal band  Bloodnut  has made, what is normally somewhat of a social stigma, the bands thematic focus. The album, Blues from the Red Sons, is available via  bandcamp  and  ITUNES These guys are quite pro-active on social media, quite often with a slight twist of humour, worthwhile following on platforms like  www.facebook.com/bloodnutband

Playlist: DEVILMENT- Hell at my Back  MINISTRY- Let's Go  GALACTIC PEGASUS- Thanatos LAMB OF GOD- Culling  EXODUS- Culling the Herd  DEVILSKIN- Limbs (Get Album on iTunes HERE!)   KREATOR- Gods of Violence  TESTAMENT- The Pale King  IN FLAMES- Underneath my Skin  SHARK INFESTED DAUGHTERS- Deadeye  SETENTIA- Darkness Transcend (Get Album on iTunes HERE!)   ULCERATE- Yield to Naught (Get Album on iTunes HERE!)

  New Zealand's rock & Metal fans will be well familiar with the pedigree of Hamilton's DEVILSKIN- either from previous bands the members are /  have been in- ( i.e. Slipping Tongue, Chuganaut, World War Four, Seas of Conflict ). The band recently released their highly anticipated SECOND album," Be Like The River " which has since hit #1 on the album charts!  Check out 'Be Like The River' here:    Music fans hanging around Wanaka over New Years Eve will be able to catch them perform at this years (i.e. year to end 2016) Rhythm and Alps fest .  The band consists of: Jennie Skulander - Vocals Nail - Guitar Paul Martin - Bass Nic Martin - Drums  I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this record & easily managed to listen to the full album several times over. I've included a couple of music videos from the new album, so you can check out their sound for your self, but in summary: The bands sound is a heavy metal guitar /...

Welcome to the  HEAVY METAL WANAKA PODCAST THROWBACK EDITION! I revisit an old interview from one of my earlier PODCASTS! TODAY we have TREVOR STRNAD from THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER. Recorded in 2015 ahead of a New Zealand tour. THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER  are widely regarded extreme/ melodic death metal band and  Trevor himself is known for his knowledge and enthusiasm for the genre of METAL The interview has, as per usual, been put through a small amount of AUDIO CLEAN UP to try and IMPROVE the listening EXPERIENCE. Check Out some music: Abysmal: Everblack: Ritual: Deflorate: Nocturnal: Miasma: Unhallowed: Here's a playlist of the shortened versions of the podcast / interview:  Follow me on all of these:-

Welcome to the  HEAVY METAL WANAKA PODCAST THROWBACK EDITION! I revisit an old interview from one of my earlier PODCASTS! TODAY we have BILL STEER from CARCASS. Recorded in 2015 ahead of a MASSIVE  NAPALM DEATH   and  CARCASS  New Zealand tour. Formed in the 1980's,  CARCASS  is a HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL British BAND, leaving their mark on GRINDCORE, DEATHMETAL and MELODIC DEATHMETAL The interview has, as per usual, been put through a small amount of AUDIO CLEAN UP to try and IMPROVE the listening EXPERIENCE. Check out some music: Surgical Steel: Swansong: Heartwork: Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious: Symphonies of Sickness: Reek of Putrefaction: Follow me on all of these:-

Gothenburg, Sweden's Melodic (or Alt to some) metal band In Flames (my podcast / interview with Anders here...) recently released the song 'Save Me' from their upcoming album "Battles".  If you listen to my podcast with Anders, you might notice that I ask a question relating to this particular song, in that one of the early guitar riffs (to my ears) calls back to the theme song of the Xmen animated adventures from the 90's. No one else seems to have made this connection, but it still drives me mad- particularly as during our chat, Anders denied any such connection...  I'll begrudgingly admit it's not really close to a copy BUT there is something there!  WHERE'S MY TIN FOIL HAT?!?!

THIS WEEK on the HEAVY METAL WANAKA PODCAST-  ANDERS FRIDEN  vocalist for Melodic Metal band  IN FLAMES ! The bands new upcoming album, "BATTLES" is due out 11th November 2016. Originally from Gothenburg, Swedish they recorded this- their 12th , album in Los Angeles - a change for the band. The bands sound continues to EVOLVE with each album, which might polarise fans of earlier records, but I feel that this album is an easy relisten as well as most of the songs being iconically  In Flames sounding.   Check us out on all of these:-  

RECENTLY, the topic of our name has been brought up a quick couple of times. In the interests of getting this down on record and to a lesser extent, to track how the perception might change over time, I thought I would run through what is in our name. HEAVY METAL WANAKA  At the surface level, it's a very simple descriptive name. It's matter of fact- the podcast topic is that of the Heavy Metal music and I am based in the South Island New Zealand town of Wanaka. These are tangible entities- you can physically visit the town of Wanaka while listening to music of the Heavy Metal genre. WANAKA IS METAL?  Wanaka and the surrounding area is know for many things, but music, let alone heavy metal is certainly not on anyone's list for the area. Following this logic, the podcast name now works in a type of clean joke humour. In this, the joke is at the same level as referring to your town as 'sunny', when it is most clearly, and very obviously not. A clean Dad-joke t...

This one's been gathering dust for some time.   Playlist: CANDIRIA- Mereya TAKE OVER AND DESTROY- Leave the Door AGHAST!- Something Else RED FANG- I Am A Ghost THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN- Apologies not Included THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN- Wanting Not So Much to as to GATECREEPER- Stronghold MESHUGGAH-Monstrocity ION DISSONANCE-Perpetually Doomed: The Sisphean Task HEAVEN SHALL BURN- Bring the War Home WORMROT- Buried the Sun POLYPTYCH- Crimson Halls VENOM PRISON- The Exquisite Taste of Selfishness

THIS week on the HEAVY METAL WANAKA  PODCAST: Piotr 'Peter' Wiwczarek  of VADER! We talk about the band's BRAND  NEW  album  "The Empire"  due out 4th November 2016. Peter's ICONIC vocal style promises to punctuate the  aggression  and 'dark tones and morbid leads' of the new ALBUM   VADER are certainly one of the most resilient bands of Polish DEATH METAL, but the band's THRASH laced DEATH METAL is bound to entertain both fans and new comers alike. Check us out on all of these:-

A  QUICK  update for Heavy Metal Wanaka on  YOUTUBE I just had a Skype interview with the frontman of  VADER , Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek. This interview will feature in an upcoming  Heavy Metal Wanaka PODCAST , so  STAY TUNED! The LEGENDARY Polish Death Metal band is releasing their 11th studio Album,  “The Empire”  on 4th November 2016. At the exact same time as this interview, metal fans in Auckland were rocking out to Lamb of God & Slipknot, social media is so good at keeping the world informed..