I've lived in several cities in my life- Born in Saint Mary's, PA, Grew up in East Peoria, IL, Went to college in Normal, IL, then moved to Grand Haven, MI, then Tempe, AZ, and finally back to East Peoria, IL.
In Saint Mary's, where I still go back occaisonally to visit relatives, the only 2 decent stations are Megarock, a general rock station which occaisonally plays Zeppelin and AC/DC, and the Revoltion, an alternative/modern rock station coming out of State College, which occasionally does play metal, even though it's usually the mallcore variety.
In Normal, the main rock station, WIHN plays mostly alternative music(It's a college town), emo, and mallcore, though they do occaisonally play some old Metallica or Priest or Maiden. They currently have a show on weekend niights called Weekend Anarchy, which unfortunately largely plays mainly nu-metal, although they do include Slayer, Megadeth, Pantera, and some early Metallica. The Illinois State University(Where I went to school) station, WZND, though does have a heavy metal show on Thursdays, though it's only available thru cable radio or online. WESN, the college station for Illinois Wesleyan University in next-door Bloomington(Franklin Street, running thru both towns, is the ONLY street in the entire world with a university on both ends), which was available over the open airwaves, did have "Death by Volume" on Mondays and Saturdays.
In Grand Haven, the best station available was WKLQ in Grand Rapids, which had "Out of Control Saturday Night"(Which admittedly played a lot of nu-metal), "Rock Hard Sunday"(Featuring 80's hair bands), and "New Metal Monday". Sadly, WKLQ got rid of those shows and has gone downhill.
In Tempe, the best station was KUPD, which every Sunday had "Into The Pit", a 2-hour metal show with some pretty raw stuff.
Back in East Peoria, until recently the best local station, WIXO, really doesn't have a metal show, although they do play metal, although most of it's more like nu-metal and mallcore bands like Saliva, Papa Roach, etc. A new station, MAXfm, which is at least not corporate owned, plays some pre-sellout Metallica, Pat Travers, Rainbow.
And last but not least, the local album rock station, WWCT, which I grew up listening to, and was the best local station at the time, and played Sabbath, Priest, Riot, etc., had taken a nose dive in the last 20 years until recently when they switched to an all-request format and is now on its way back up, playing requests from Suicidal Tendencies, Slayer, Megadeth, to Johnny Cash(!!), and it does have Dee Snider's "House of Hair" on Sunday mornings(!), which, as anyone who's listened to it well knows, plays more poser crap than metal, not to mention the fact that it airs when many people who'd listen to it are either sleeping off the previous Saturday night or in church!
In Saint Mary's, where I still go back occaisonally to visit relatives, the only 2 decent stations are Megarock, a general rock station which occaisonally plays Zeppelin and AC/DC, and the Revoltion, an alternative/modern rock station coming out of State College, which occasionally does play metal, even though it's usually the mallcore variety.
In Normal, the main rock station, WIHN plays mostly alternative music(It's a college town), emo, and mallcore, though they do occaisonally play some old Metallica or Priest or Maiden. They currently have a show on weekend niights called Weekend Anarchy, which unfortunately largely plays mainly nu-metal, although they do include Slayer, Megadeth, Pantera, and some early Metallica. The Illinois State University(Where I went to school) station, WZND, though does have a heavy metal show on Thursdays, though it's only available thru cable radio or online. WESN, the college station for Illinois Wesleyan University in next-door Bloomington(Franklin Street, running thru both towns, is the ONLY street in the entire world with a university on both ends), which was available over the open airwaves, did have "Death by Volume" on Mondays and Saturdays.
In Grand Haven, the best station available was WKLQ in Grand Rapids, which had "Out of Control Saturday Night"(Which admittedly played a lot of nu-metal), "Rock Hard Sunday"(Featuring 80's hair bands), and "New Metal Monday". Sadly, WKLQ got rid of those shows and has gone downhill.
In Tempe, the best station was KUPD, which every Sunday had "Into The Pit", a 2-hour metal show with some pretty raw stuff.
Back in East Peoria, until recently the best local station, WIXO, really doesn't have a metal show, although they do play metal, although most of it's more like nu-metal and mallcore bands like Saliva, Papa Roach, etc. A new station, MAXfm, which is at least not corporate owned, plays some pre-sellout Metallica, Pat Travers, Rainbow.
And last but not least, the local album rock station, WWCT, which I grew up listening to, and was the best local station at the time, and played Sabbath, Priest, Riot, etc., had taken a nose dive in the last 20 years until recently when they switched to an all-request format and is now on its way back up, playing requests from Suicidal Tendencies, Slayer, Megadeth, to Johnny Cash(!!), and it does have Dee Snider's "House of Hair" on Sunday mornings(!), which, as anyone who's listened to it well knows, plays more poser crap than metal, not to mention the fact that it airs when many people who'd listen to it are either sleeping off the previous Saturday night or in church!
