Metal Music on the Rise

With the announcement last week of Chris Jericho, from Fozzy, being on the next season of Dancing with the Stars, its apparent to me that Metal music is getting more popular year after year.

Metal, the red headed stepchild art form of music, has always seemed to be a shunned genre. Mainly shunned because of subject matter, looks, and crazy antics of the musicians. A great deal of the rock stations i listened to while driving cross country seemed to push it on the back burner so they could play more trendy recycled garbage. I do have to admit that I caught a few small stations here and there playing Slipknot, Flaw, and Static-X. The better smaller stations i experienced were in Baton Rouge and Las Vegas.

With extremely popular groups like Slayer and Lamb of God being nominated at the Grammys, and given tv shows Like the Osbornes and Gene Simmons Family Jewels, our genre is getting harder and harder to ignore. Hopefully some day in the near future we can get a station here in Los Angeles that will cater to the metal crowd, or the current station can start playing some metal instead of sponsoring all of the shows but have no intention of showcasing of the bands on their station.

Metal Tonite August 6, 2010

Songs Played on the show this week

Bullet for my Valentine – Hit the Floor
Strapping Young Lad – Love
Cavalar – Going for It
Adastra – Get Back to the Ring
Ill Nino – My Resurrection
Wicked Wisdom – Dont Hate Me
Autumns Eyes – Downfall of Giants
Twisted Method – The End
Darklight Corporation – Ramrod69
Corwen – Basel Brennt
Soil – Halo

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Metal Tonite July 29, 2010

Songs played on the show

Static-x – Otsegolation
Inner Surge – Maggots And Liars
Divine Heresy – False Gospel
Broken Soul – Messiah Complex
Thine Eyes Bleed – Consequences Unknown
Elevator Death Squad – Beyind Reach
Caveat – Within This Weakness
slayer – Angel of death
In Silence – For All My Friends
Twins Crew – End of Forever
Asesino – Amor Marrano
Prong – Whose Fist is it Anyway?

Next weeks show will be on Tuesday and it will be much better.

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