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The show will mainly be focusing on music from the last 20 years – with a special selection by fans, guests and host Blackdiamond. Joining the show to share all their latest news will be three artists from three different metal genres; Philip Shouse from ACCEPTand ACE FREHLEY, GiovaniVenttura from DEPRESSED and Nige Rockett from ONSLAUGHT!
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TotalRock History:
TotalRock‘s beginnings go way back to 1978 with The Friday Rock Show at BBC Radio 1, hosted by Tommy Vance and produced by Tony Wilson. The effect this had on the rock and metal scene in the UK was substantial not only for fans to hear this music but also for the bands reaching out.
Many a conversation was had in the BBC hallways amongst like minded colleagues such as Andy King, and led to the formation of the UKs first full time rock and metal specific radio station in 1997, ‘Rock Radio Network’, in the front lounge at Skulls house, “The Skullery”, along with the walking encyclopedia of metal, journalist Malcolm Dome, and long time contributor, Maria Hererros.
In 2000 ‘TotalRock’ was born after receiving investment and launched on Sky Digital. First based at The Kings Head in Fulham and later Denmark Place in Soho next to The Astoria, with legendary DJs such as Krusher, Diamond Dave, Mighty Matt Mason and the Twisted Sisters and too many more to mention here. Artists and journos alike have flocked to our airwaves (including Jerry Ewing, Katie.P, Dougie White, Alex Milas, Bill Steer, Louise Brown, Robin Guy, Chris Dale, Sophie K, Kylie Ollson, Julia Hardy, Ginger Wildheart, Matt Goom, Anna Phoebe and Dom Lawson) helping to wave the flag of the true voice of rock and metal. A brief stint as Bloodstock Radio was enjoyed in 2013 based in Shoreditch and then another move to Euston back as TotalRock.
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Metal Shock Finland Senior Manager Alison Booth recently spoke to Niklas Stålvind, front man of Swedish metallers WOLF, as part of the sixth anniversary celebrations of her Blackdiamond’s Metal Mayhem radio show. The chat was just a few days ahead of the band returning to the studio to start recording their next and eighth album, the follow up to 2014’s “Devil Seed”. The whole show can be heard here.
They discussed what WOLF has been doing the last few years, the recently announced UK tour set for March next year, Nik‘s role with THE DOOMSDAY KINGDOM and of course all the latest WOLF news, with exclusive details about the new album! Some excerpts from the chat can be read below, with the full interview on the audio player.
Discussing the next album, Niklas stated:
“It’s a bit rawer and rougher than the Devil Seed. The Devil Seed was a bit polished. I don’t wanna call it polished, it has a lot of depth to it, but it was also a kind of expensive sounding production.
This time we want to get back to the roots of the old school Wolf with the energy and rawness you know, but still keeping that depth. So this time, I tried to write deeper stuff, you know, simple, powerful songs and not overwork the demo and I’m really excited.
Also, I can tell you that one of the reasons this album has taken so long is because for me, song writing is my therapist, my shrink. And I had some really weird experience and dark period in my life that I never talked to someone about it, just put the lid on. And now, like twenty years later, I knew to get forward in life I really had to deal with these issues, that’s what these songs are about. I felt that I couldn’t really rush this process of writing the songs.
And also, there’s a lot of things going on in the world that the album deals with.
This album is not about just writing ten, twelve songs and record and get it out. It’s a bit deeper than that I think, at least for me, so that’s why it’s taken a while.”
On the new album, Niklas revealed:
“It’s not official yet but I can tell it to you – the plan is to release it in August. It depends on how well it goes in the studio, but I think it should be very easy to record it when we have things well planned out.
And everything is written already so we don’t have to sweat in the studio and come up with lyrics and melodies you know. The foundations of the songs are already there – I think it will actually be released after the summer as we plan.”
Metal Shock Finland’s Alison Booth also has a radio show, Blackdiamond’s Metal Mayhem -which has now been going for 7 years, but is celebrating its 6th birthday on http://www.totalrock.com! Tuesday 11th December is set to be a very special edition of the show, starring some awesome guests – Niklas Stålvind, front man of WOLF and Steve Williams and George ‘The Kid’ Karafotis of POWER QUEST!
Tune in from 6PM GMT to find out all the latest from both bands, you won’t want to miss it!
Also a few new singles coming up on the show from BEAST IN BLACK, NIGHTRAGE and BLACK SHEETS OF RAIN, as well as a few favourites for this birthday celebration!
Blackdiamond’s Metal Mayhem on Tuesday 17th April from 6PM GMT on http://www.totalrock.com will star special guest SNOWY SHAW!
Snowy will be joining the show for an in depth chat about his forthcoming solo album “White Is The New Black” and the live streamed release party set to be broadcast this Saturday 21st April on Snowy‘s official YouTube channel, from 9PM CET. (More info here). Tune in to find out all the info!
Brand new tracks from the album will be aired, so if you’re a fan of Snowy don’t miss it!
Also a few new singles coming up from PALLBEARER, FOLLOW THE CIPHER, AMANDA SOMERVILLE and LINNEA VIKSTRÖM.
“White Is The New Black” is set for release on 23rd of May in Europe and Japan, and digitally worldwide. The album is all written, performed and produced by Snowy Shaw for Wunderwurld Music & Films. You can get “White Is The New Black” a full month earlier by pre-ordering the album straight from Snowy‘s own store at this location. Snowy recently unleashed his new video for the track ‘My Religion ( I sold my soul to rock n´roll, that is)’:
Tune in from 6PM GMT on Tuesday 12th December for a celebration starring two special guests – Niklas Stålvind, frontman of WOLF and producer and guitarist Andy Sneap from HELL! Of course we’ll be talking about Andy‘s latest work with JUDAS PRIEST on their forthcoming “Firepower” album, so don’t miss out on all the news and updates from these two guys!
A few new singles will feature on the show, from bands such as THE 69 EYES, IN FLAMES, MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST and MIKE LEPOND’S SILENT ASSASSINS. Plus a few favourites and now we’re well and truly into the season, a few metal Christmas tunes!
Check out all the info on this and past shows here.
Last month, Senior Manager Alison Booth presented a Halloween special on her weekly Blackdiamond’s Metal Mayhem radio show. One of the special guests featured was DIMMU BORGIR‘s Silenoz.
As well as discussing Halloween celebrations in Norway and what Silenoz gets up to, they also had a chat about what’s happening with the highly anticipated forthcoming DIMMU BORGIR album. The full chat can be heard on the audio player below and you can read what Silenoz said about the new album below. The full Halloween show can be heard on Mixcloud at this location.
“Everything is pretty much set to go and we’re still in the final stages of getting everything artwork-wise ready, photos, videos, stuff like that. So, things are taking a bit of a time – I guess after seven years, a little bit more waiting doesn’t hurt too much hopefully.
Yeah we feel we’re sitting on the best album we could possibly do at this time and personally I definitely think it’s our best album to date. Obviously that’s something that everybody says, but if I didn’t believe that we would do our best album, there wouldn’t really be any point doing a new one.
So yeah I’m really excited about it and I know that quite a few fans will be positively surprised. And yeah, we can’t wait to get this stuff off the ground and get going.”
When asked for an idea of when the album will be released, Silenoz revealed:
“Well I would say when we spoke last time I said something about around this time (laughs) or November 2017. But now, I think it’s gonna be the first half of 2018, the way it looks now. We’re lucky that Forces Of The Northern Night was something of a layover, I guess you can call it. We’re really happy about the response to that – there’s been great feedback all over, so we’re really happy about that too.”
“Everything is pretty much set to go and we’re still in the final stages of getting everything artwork-wise ready, photos, videos, stuff like that. So, things are taking a bit of a time – I guess after seven years, a little bit more waiting doesn’t hurt too much hopefully.
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