CiTR -- Powerchord

Ian’s at the controls today for another episode of Powerchord!!! We've got classic Canadian thrash with Infernäl Mäjesty, Sacrifice and Witches Hammer, mind-bending black metal from Mare Cognitum and Spectral Wound, and a colossal, decimating masterpiece from the latest Ischemic album! We’ll also get into some rippin’ anthemic speed metal to burn up the highway to with Bewitcher, Blade Killer, Hau...

Ian’s at the controls today for another episode of Powerchord!!! We've got classic Canadian thrash with Infernäl Mäjesty, Sacrifice and Witches Hammer, mind-bending black metal from Mare Cognitum and Spectral Wound, and a colossal, decimating masterpiece from the latest Ischemic album! We’ll also get into some rippin’ anthemic speed metal to burn up the highway to with Bewitcher, Blade Killer, Hau...

It's Ferris again, stumbling his way through another playlist of ELITE Canadian and international black and death metals. Lots of weird stuff on this one; real envelope slitters. Premieres from Atræ Bilis, Crystal Coffin, Antediluvian, and a whole lot more. Plus a preview for a sick live gig.

Coleman bids farewell to the legendary Dusty Hill of highly influential power-trio ZZ Top, then rolls into a savage lineup for an upcoming show on the island with Graveolence, Euthanized and more. New music from King Woman, Gutvoid, Decrepisy, a contrast between the new Lingua Ignota and Alexis Marshall albums, and plenty more great stuff to eff up your eardrums.

Well, I got a fuck ton of new vinyl since the last time I was in the actual studio at the CITR station. The Ol'Dirty Hick has put together a great selection of vinyl tracks, some new, some old, and we will finish the show with a solid set of face-melting instrumentals. Come for the Doom of it and stay for the instrumentals.

Powerchord returns to the CiTR studio live for the first time since the start of the pandemic! To celebrate, Ian is playing a whole bunch of live tracks from some of the greatest live records of all time, including rippers by Slayer, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Sleep, High On Fire, Bolt Thrower, Mayhem, Windhand and Dark Angel! We'll also do some pogo-ing with raging punk rock, crust, sl...

Powerchord returns to the CiTR studio live for the first time since the start of the pandemic! To celebrate, Ian is playing a whole bunch of live tracks from some of the greatest live records of all time, including rippers by Slayer, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Sleep, High On Fire, Bolt Thrower, Mayhem, Windhand and Dark Angel! We'll also do some pogo-ing with raging punk rock, crust, sl...

Powerchord returns to the CiTR studio live for the first time since the start of the pandemic! To celebrate, Ian is playing a whole bunch of live tracks from some of the greatest live records of all time, including rippers by Slayer, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Sleep, High On Fire, Bolt Thrower, Mayhem and Dark Angel! We'll also do some pogo-ing with raging punk rock, crust, sludge and h...

Ferris struggles through the side effects of his 2nd vaccine to bring you 2 hours of depraved, miserable filth. Let's suffer together.

Coleman returns for another rip through some of 2021's harshest sounds. Almost exclusively new music today, we get into a heap of new Cancon, talk about the slow (but very exciting) reemergence of live music, congratulate Unleash the Archers on their Juno Award, and look at the latest output from Norwegian heavyweights Darkthrone and Mayhem. Plenty of great shit, as usual. Come DIE!

In this episode of Powerchord we have an Interview with Ulvik a new black metal band that truly took shape during our pandemic times and we premier Cascades their latest release. we also visit what happens when Thou and Emma Ruth Rundle combined their sounds and a bit of a shout out to a Local Drummer Bina Mendozza as we play three separate bands that she has been involved with, Momy Fortuna, Nost...

On the first part of today's episode, Ian is joined by special guest Rob Hughes aka Mule of local basement metal rogues Dirty Vicar to discuss their new EP Higher Roads Less Travelled as we play the whole thing! We'll also slip in a sludgy, soot-encrusted Dirty Vicar cover of a deep cut from KISS, then get into some long-form doom metal with titanic dirges from Electric Wizard and Craters. The fin...

Ferris throwing down doubles on his second turn in the host seat! All kinds of new Canadian extremes, served up two at a time. Get into it!

Coleman brings you this first home recording from his new radio-dungeon on the Sunshine Coast. Plenty of new shit to catch up on with music from King Woman, Anahata, Fumes, Malgoth, Panopticon, Grave Miasma and plenty more!

In this episode, I doubled up a bunch of heavy hitters cuz it just felt right. let's start with some Japanese Serial Killer Doom and then back to Canada with some of the dark heavy riders The Death Wheelers and Pale Mare and shift to Blackened Death with Altered Dead, Ischemic, and Wormwitch and ride out the rest of the show a pile new music from all over the US. All Hail The Black Goat.

Today's episode of Powerchord kicks off with decimating new tracks of twisted and horrifying black metal from Paysage D'Hiver, Mare Cognitum and Spectral Wound! We'll also play some crushing new music from death metal masters Gatecreeper, Frozen Soul and the almighty Cannibal Corpse, plus debut a vicious banger from incomprable brutality auteurs Krallice. Hour two of the show features some bombast...

Longtime listener and CiTR supporter Ferris joins the Powerchord family with his first show!

We kick off today's episode with corrosive new tracks from black metal masters Ruins of Beverast, Paysage d'Hiver, Spectral Wound and Wode!!! We'll also wreak havoc on your eardrums with some wanton death metal destruction courtesy of Venom Prison, Nekrovault and Occult Burial, and we'll hear Baptists, Kylesa and Napalm Death tackle punishing covers of some of their favourite '80s hardcore punk ba...

Coleman is back in the saddle with a wide array of new music from Gojira, Chasmdweller, Big Brave, Spectral Lore, and many others; plus a spotlight on the talents of Rae Amitay of Immortal Bird and most recently, her solo album as errant.

This is expansive and crushing Doom. This is Doom to get high too! let's open the Drug Sauna door and climb inside. Look over there, that sure looks like a Jointhugger right beside that huge Earthbong..... Take a hoot, inhale in the ethereal voice from Witchrot, exhale the Olde. All Hail the Void while the rest of civilization live in Satanico Pandemonium. The end is coming and we are left with Cr...

Coleman has a convo with David Stepanavicius, resident shredder from up-and-coming death metal entity Atræ Bilis. They catch up about the band's origin's and their forthcoming debut full-length on 20 Buck Spin, as well as feature new ripper "By the Hierophant's Maw". We also touch on the recent live-strea, by long running local faves Bison, and feature a heap of new music from bands like Oriflamme...

Today's episode celebrates heavy metal's long love affair with "the Devil's lettuce," and what better way to do that than to take a journey with a hash caravan through the deserts of the Old Testament? Prepare yourself for 63 minutes in stoner doom hell as Ian tells the story of Sleep's mighty's masterpiece DOPESMOKER, which we play in its entirity. Hour 2 of the show features some shorter blasts...

Doom and Stoner Doom are not the originators of long songs but they definitely carry the form in epic proportions. This episode is dedicated to the long-format song and its ability to take you on a journey. We start with a little Vancouver band called Cambodia (2003-2006) and a 22-minute Funeral Doom track that will leave you devastated and yet with a glimmer of hope, Cope is real a song made for...

We mark a few 30th bday's from Sepultura and Paradise Lost; artist spotlights on Adrian "Noctis" Blosse, Jo Steel and their various projects; new music from Frozen Soul, Oryx, Mare Cognitum, and plenty more. Get morbid!

We kick today's episode of with some suffocating slabs of doom metal from Jupiterian, Kult Of The Wizard, Sons Of Otis, Windhand, and the almighty Electric Wizard! We'll take a journey down south with an epic track from Rwake's 2011 post sludge opus Rest, and also cruise the cosmos to some spacey heavy psych from new releases by Samsara Blues Experiment and Yuri Gagarin. The final part of the show...