CiTR -- Powerchord

Ring in the winter solstice holiday season with Ian on this very special episode of Powerchord! Enjoy some holiday favourites (and unholy abominations) with us as we pay tribute to the celebration of Yule through the ages, with sounds to set the frigid darkness alight to! Beginning with the classic Nocturnus hymn "Destroying The Manger", we've got your non-sucky heavy metal holiday music playlist...

Coleman gets into more Best-of-2020 jamz with spotlights on local releases, personal favorites, and some over-looked gems. Plus a little live-music nostalgia trip to close out. Merry Xmas all! See you in 2021 xox

Winter is coming, and Ian is warding off the chill with firey true metal anthems from Spirit Adrift, Eternal Champion and Haunt!!! We'll detour through the progressive hall of mirrors conjured by Hammers of Misfortune, Vhöl, and the almighty Voivod, and also sample some of the best of Vancouver's local extreme metal underground with merciless blasters from Ceremonial Bloodbath and Vital Spirit. Th...

Coleman stitches together another home-show featuring a mix of Decibel Magazine's best of 2020 and a heap of late-year new releases. Much rambling, mumbling, and brutal riffs to be found!

Ian brings crushing new doom hymns from Heron, Bong Wizard and Sons Of Otis to this episode of Powerchord. We'll blast away the November blues with paint-scouring death metal from Extremity, Vastum and Cosmic Putrefaction, and rep the still-simmering Vancouver metal scene with Ceremonial Bloodbath and Vital Spirit. We'll also play new rippers from heavyweights Napalm Death and Boris, and dig a cla...

Some real posi-vibes on the show today! We welcome new music from Fuck the Facts, Thou and Emma Ruth Rundle, Pallbearer, Eternal Champion, and Of Feather and Bone; we celebrate another great streaming event at the Rickshaw with local faves Empress and Heron; we mark Remembrance Day and the 40th anniversary of Ace of Spades with a double-dose of Motorhead; and last but definitely not least, we fina...

The time change has come and gone, so welcome to the part of the year where it's perpetually dark and raining and miserable! Dark, heavy weather calls for heavy sounds, so we start this episode off with a ripping track from Vancouver's own Ceremonial Bloodbath and their monstrous new album The Tides Of Blood. Brutality and wanton destruction is the order of the day as we play tracks from some of 2...

Coleman gets spooky with Halloween classics from the Misfits, Helloween, King Diamond and more; plus new music from Wake, Ceremonial Bloodbath, Ape War, Skaphe, and heaps more.

We'll get into the most metal-ful time of year by kicking off the show with a dose of gothic gloom from UK doom legends Paradise Lost's majestic new album Obsidian. Some of 2020's most crushing doom, including Heron, Mendozza, Dopelord will make an appearance as well, and then we'll lay waste with some hyperspeed blackened war metal from Revenge and Tyrant's Blood. New music from death and black m...

Today's show is a celebration of all things pagan, wyrd and spooky! We'll begin celebrating the season of decay with a track from the epic doomy power metal unit Valkyrie off of their first new album in 5 years. We'll set the mood for the Halloween season with witchy tracks by proto-doom and heavy occult rock shamans like Witchcraft, Blood Ceremony, Jex Thoth and Witch Mountain. We also have new m...

A lot of ups and downs on this one. We pay tribute to the passing of Eddie Van Halen, check out a slew of stuff from Riff Merchant Records, feature new music from Sumac, Empress, Proscription, and more. Dig it.

Let's celebrate the start of the spooky season! On this episode, Ian brings death metal deliverance with new music from Napalm Death, Ulcerate, Cerebral Rot and Vader! Hardcore heavy-hitters KEN Mode, Fucked Up and Trap Them will make an appearance, and we'll also play a suffocatingly dark new track from miserable sludge masters Primitive Man. Plus, we'll get into the spirit of the season by diggi...

Let's celebrate the start of the spooky season! On this episode, Ian brings death metal deliverance with new music from Napalm Death, Ulcerate, Cerebral Rot and Vader! Hardcore heavy-hitters KEN Mode, Fucked Up and Trap Them will make an appearance, and we'll also play a suffocatingly dark new track from miserable sludge masters Primitive Man. Plus, we'll get into the spirit of the season by diggi...

Coleman sets the pace at "dark and bleak" early on in this show with a disgusting slab of funeral doom courtesy of Atramentus. Spotlights on new splits from Encoffinate/Abscess Lord and Antediluvian/Heresiarch; more New Zealand heat from Temple Nightside and Vassafor; two outstanding benefit comps in support of Black Lives Matter, and other great jamz!

Blast away the smoke with us as we kick off the show with a jam from Ulthar's punishing new death metal masterpiece Providence! We'll get proggy with Intronaut, Anciients and Voivod, ride into battle with Throne Of Iron, Visigoth and War Dogs, and then bring the doom with Paradise Lost, Electric Wizard and Thou! The second half of the show will feature some ferocious crusty hardcore with Nails, Er...

Coleman returns with a heap of new shit from some of the best bands in the genre; Uada, Pallbearer, Necrot, Primitive Man, Napalm Death, and plenty of other lesser known but just as amazing bands. 2020 has been (and will certainly continue to be) a dumpster fire, but the metal output this year has been anything but!

Sept 5th We start today's show with the rip-roaring title track off of Skeleton's self-titled debut record, out now on 20 Buck Spin. It's a raging blend of feral blackened thrash, riffy Conan-sludge, and classic lighter-raising bombast, sure to get the headbangers' attention. We follow that up with vicious and brutal new tracks from the likes of progressive tech-death units Pyrrhon and Odius Morte...

We eulogize the late Riley Gale of Power Trip and the tragic loss it is to the entire metal community. Features on new black metal duo's from Spirit Possession, Dkharmakhaoz, and Fayenne; plus a spotlight on the recent output of live streams with special focus on happenings at the Rickshaw Theater and the CVLT Nation Youtube channel. REST IN POWER RILEY GALE. POWER TRIP FOREVER.

Today's episode opens with a trilogy of tracks involving the incomprable multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, Colin Marston. We start with new music from his band Krallice, who just put out a punishing new record of extreme black/death metal. We follow that with some of his work from behind the board with Afterbirth, off their stunning new album Four Dimensional Flesh. Then we'll hear som...

We kick off today's show with a track by French experimental metal project Igorrr, whose new record Spirituality & Distortion blends aspects of black and doom metal with folk, classical, electronic, drone and avante garde music to create one of the most singular records of the year. Next, we'll get into some more traditionally heavy territory with some crushing doom from Heron, Isak, Elder Druid a...

New music from farflung heavyweights like Boris, Acid Mammoth, Serpent Cobra, Exhorder and Vastum headline today's show! Join us as we crank things into high gear with a set of speed metal featuring Bewitcher, Riot City, Cauldron, and Blade Killer, and then slow things to a crawl with some crushing doom from Haggatha, Craters and Windhand. We'll dig into some transcendent, nature-worshipping black...

Coleman does a feature on what would have been Sludge on the Swamp Vol.2 and Migration Fest Vol.3. I miss live music.

Coleman does a feature on what would have been Sludge on the Swamp Vol.2 and Migration Fest Vol.3.

This episode kicks off with a pair of filthy covers from the CVLT Nation Sessions tribute to Entombed's classic 1990 album Left Hand Path! Fight the pandemic blues with us as we play some crusty, agonizing doom from Vile Creature's newest album, and then we get into some thunderous, riff-heavy power metal from Eternal Champion and Smoulder. We'll also play some psychedelic-dosed hard rock with Bla...

This episode kicks off with a pair of filthy covers from the CVLT Nation Sessions tribute to Entombed's classic 1990 album Left Hand Path! Fight the pandemic blues with us as we play some crusty, agonizing doom from Vile Creature's newest album, and then we get into some thunderous, riff-heavy power metal from Eternal Champion and Smoulder. We'll also play some psychedelic-dosed hard rock with Bla...