CiTR -- Powerchord

We honor the passing of legendary Entombed vocalist LG Petrov; a tour through the many musical projects of national treasure Timothy Grieco; do a brief intro to the stacked roster of Transylvanian Recordings; check out new music from Sandstorm, Forhist, and many others!

We travel down a dark road today hand in hand with beast himself, speaking of the Pandemic, the Occult and our connection through the thin veil that is the spirit world where we conjure music of the darkest themes and bring them for in a cacophony DOOM and METAL. This incantation has summoned forth the spirits of Monolord, Eye of Doom, Heavy Trip and Clouds Taste Satanic to begin the ceremony. We...

Today's show gets off to a roaring start with some explosive thrash from local speed demons Witches Hammer! We'll jump into the fire with ripping blackened thrash from Condor, Deathwitch, and a savage new number from Nervosa. We'll also blast some putrid, crushing death metal with 200 Stab Wounds and Ceremonial Bloodbath, and highlight a pair of new releases from Church Recordings artists Oath and...

Coleman does a Fundrive wrap-up and thank you show with music from all the great bands who kicked merch to our raffle, and the bands of people who donated money to win said raffle! Thank you to everyone again for the support!

Today's episode kicks off with a vicious new banger from the legendary Cannibal Corpse off their upcoming fifteenth full-length studio album, Violence Unimagined! We'll follow that up with a taste of another one of 2021's most anticipated records, The Thule Grimoires, by Germany's epic blackened doom metal masters The Ruins Of Beverast. The show will feature more brutality with crusty, rampaging b...

Today's show opens with a punishing blast of blood-splattered grindcore from Gatecreeper's new EP, An Unexpected Reality. We'll continue the aural punishment with corrosive death metal blasters from Plague, Exhumed and Ceremonial Bloodbath, and celebrate the lunar new year with a part of Fucked Up's zodiac-inspired rock opera to ring in the Year Of The Ox. The second hour of the show features maje...

Another Fundrive is upon us, and now we're thrusting it upon YOU! Coleman cobbles together some pitches from our hosts Ian, Justin, and Serena, while making many pitches of his own. Featuring the extremely generous bands that donated to our sick raffle this year - Witches Hammer, Heron, Mendozza, Spell, Crystal Coffin, and Tyrants Blood - and all the other heavy and brutal shit you expect from us...

Join us for another two hours of pure devastation on today's episode of Powerchord! We're kicking off the show with some crushing doomy death metal from Snorlax and a raging track from their spectacular sophomore EP. We'll dig into the work of some of today's weirder, spacier and more progressive death metal heavyweights with Cosmic Putrefaction, Krallice, Odious Mortem and Ulcerate, and we'll als...

Ian unleashes hymns to frozen winter darkness from Celestial Swarm, Spectral Lore, Mare Cognitum and Ludicra on this episode of Powerchord! We'll spend some time excavating the uncompromising Quebecois black metal scene with raw and bloody tracks from Frozen Shadows, Ossuaire and Délétère, and then hear some collossal and majestic odes to despondency with funeral doom epics from Drown and Atrement...

Coleman commemorates 1 year with no live music with Chthonic Deity and Encoffinate; some best-of-2020 stuff from Great White North. Metal; a feature on the Taake/Deathcult split from last year; a tribute to Sangine Eagle (RIP Lam) and much more!

Ian rings in the new year and bids farewell to the dearly despised old one with a countdown of his favourite albums of 2020! We'll enjoy some otherworldly heavy psych with Slift and Heavy Trip, corrosive blackened speed metal with Bütcher and Skeleton, some epic, lighter-lifting doom with Pale Divine, Cirith Ungol and Eternal Champion, and some triumphant true metal anthems from Haunt, Spirit Adri...

We kick off our 36th (!) year with recent releases from Amnesian, Volur, Possessed Steel, and more; plus a feature on the CVLT Nation year-end-lists. Bring on 2021!

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...