..and speaking of metal radio....

[Pellaz]

I guess I'll toot my own horn here bit, too.

I'm involved with one of America's longest-running metal radio shows, WREKage on WREK-FM in Atlanta, which has been running for around 20 years (no-one's quite sure when the show started, now). Friday nights, from 10pm until we get tired, the sweet smell of metal.

The best thing about the show nowadays is that it can be streamed live in near-CD quality mp3 (that's not too unusual) ...but what IS unusual is that the show is also archived for a week afterward, so you can go back and listen to stuff you missed. We now post our playlists dynamically as we play stuff.

The overall link for the show is http://www.wrekage.org

The link for our playlists is http://www.wrekage.org/playlists.php -- older playlists are on my own site, at http://wrekage.paulcashman.com

The mp3 streaming archive link is at http://www.wrekage.org/wrekage.m3u

(For slower connections, you can go to the station's page at http://www.wrek.org and use the 24 kilobit mono stream to listen.)

Last Friday night's show was our longest in recent memory, about 8 solid hours from 10pm-6am. While the show's focus has tended toward harder/heavier stuff, any metal is fair game and, depending on the deejay, we'll be playing more power- and progressive stuff -- we played quite a bit this past Friday (new Nightwish!) and we got some excellent calls about the bands.

Those within 50-60 miles of Atlanta can listen live at 91.1 FM, and make requests at 404-894-2468 while the show's in progress.
During the week, we take requests at requests@wrekage.org

(As a side note, we almost played Green Carnation's Light of Day, Day of Darkness in its entirety this past Friday, and I think we would have if we hadn't had so many requests. )

 

[Rakosh]

Nothing like a little healthy competition, huh? Seriously though, I've tuned in for a few weeks now (when I'm not on the road), and I think it's great you guys play a lot of the deathy stuff I wouldn't normally listen to. I've been surprised by some of the harsher bands I've heard of, but never heard. Good job!

I think our audiences overlap quite a bit, so it's good to have all sides of the metal world represented. Keep it up, and I'll keep tuning into WREKage (and I hope you'll keep checking out Rakosh Radio, too!).

:Smokin:

 

[Pellaz]

Nothing like a little healthy competition, huh? Seriously though, I've tuned in for a few weeks now (when I'm not on the road), and I think it's great you guys play a lot of the deathy stuff I wouldn't normally listen to. I've been surprised by some of the harsher bands I've heard of, but never heard. Good job!

That's kinda what happened to me, through osmosis. I've discovered a lot of heavier stuff (Cryptopsy, Old Man's Child, etc.) through the other deejays at WREKage.

I think our audiences overlap quite a bit, so it's good to have all sides of the metal world represented. Keep it up, and I'll keep tuning into WREKage (and I hope you'll keep checking out Rakosh Radio, too!).

:Smokin:

Sure, and there's plenty of room for metal outlets Out There. It's not as if this stuff (prog, power, death or black) gets much attention from the mainstream. I try to give the bands all the help I can.

A surprisingly good source for metal is the MusicChoice digital music "Metal" channel on cable -- they play a pretty wide variety of stuff -- I've heard everything from Nightwish to Nile, Stratovarius to Sonata Arctica to Satyricon -- on there. They're also oddly knowledgeable about the genre; last year they ran a blurb announcing Rage and Nightwish at ProgPower USA...and Glenn hadn't contacted them at all. They were aware of it and ran a mention of it gratis, nationwide. Pretty kewl of them.

 

[Rakosh]

Sure, and there's plenty of room for metal outlets Out There. It's not as if this stuff (prog, power, death or black) gets much attention from the mainstream. I try to give the bands all the help I can.

Completely in agreement with ya there!
:Smokin: