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Radio New Zealand recently aired a show called “South of Heaven” detailing the history of extreme metal in this country from it’s germination in the late 1980s through to the current day. Co-ordinated by Craig Hayes, a notable New Zealand music writer and metal aficionado, the show draws from interviews with many scene luminaries who discuss the way the scene was established, particularly with its isolated state in the pre-internet era to the present where many of our underground metal acts are beginning to gain international acclaim by the global metal underground. Expect to see a range of extreme metal sounds covered from death metal to doom and New Zealand metal notables like Demoniac, Vassafor, Malevolence, Sinistrous Diabolus, Diocletian, Skuldom, Forced to Submit, Dawn of Azazel, Ulcerate, Exordium Mors and plenty others. Link for the show and a few other interviews conducted for it at the bottom, check it out and feel the antipodean aural assault.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/south-of-heaven

Intro Bust

Thought it was about time I got my shit together and started up a music blog and within it will be general rantings, ravings, reviews, interviews and whatever else I damn well want to talk about (Pretty much everything you’d encounter if you were unfortunate enough to strike up a conversation with me on a Friday night after too many bourbons- ha!). Hopefully I’ll stave off procrastination and keep it updated pretty regularly so be sure to check on it as such and send me abuse if I don’t stay on top of it. Will mostly be focused on hardcore, punk and metal music, but good music is good music and I won’t be discriminating when giving any artist credit when they deserve it. Peace.