Welcome to Erk FM: Metal Monday episode 156. Instead of watching ice hockey brawls on YouTube (a personal favourite is 14 Minutes of Pissed Off Goalies – it does exactly what it says on the box!), Erk is bringing you metal from around the world, probably in languages other than English (the bands, that is, not Erk) courtesy of music supplier Jamendo. Some of the tracks are so not in English that Erk’s English keyboard can not re-create the letters forming the titles of the songs.
The first song is called Escape From Dead Halt by Metal Mood. You might listen to the start of the song & think that Erk has gone stark raving mad. Look past the the piano in the introduction and you’ll hear some German metal.
The next band are called ReconQuistA from Russia. Erk plays a few tracks from them but can’t translate the song titles into English. Making a return to Erk FM: Metal Monday are Melqart who are from Spain. Erk wonders if the traditional “U follows a Q” rule also applies in Spanish. Probably not.
Next are ApocryphA from Argentina. Based on previous submissions and tracks Erk has found plus his experiences on 70000 Tons of Metal, South Americans love their heavy metal. Moving to an English speaking country, Man-Witch are the penultimate band from Portland – Erk presumes Portland in Oregon unless he can prove differently when it comes to a band from Portland. PS – GO WINTERHAWKS!
Finally, Erk brings us home with a word pun. The final band on this week’s episode is Final Deadline (see what he did there?) who are from Italy.
Welcome to Erk FM: Australia episode 486. This is a preview of next month’s Rocktober. This preview episode dates from the last time that Erk did Rocktober in 2012. There is a lot of great Australian rock out there & I’ve only touched the surface! To allow more music, there’s not a lot of talking from Erk on this episode – more music, less waffle!
Music supplied by Radio Submit, Musik & Film, Cyber PR, Deuce Management & Promotion, SGC Media & the artists directly.
Welcome to episode 485 of Erk FM: International. This is a preview of Rocktober which is coming up from next week with all new tracks. This re-presented episode dates from the last time Erk did Rocktober, 2012.
Music supplied by AirPlay Direct & Ambicon Records.
Welcome to Erk FM: Metal Monday episode 155. Erk again features Canadian metal bands who competed for the chance to go to Wacken. On this episode, we also find out who did actually win the race to go to Wacken on behalf of Canadians. Music supplied by Asher Media Relations.
Fractured Dreams – Sovereign Council (Asher Media Relations).
Welcome to Erk FM: Australia episode 484. This is a re-presentation of Erk FM episode 174 originally released in June 2011. This episode is an interview with Symon (guitar) and Allan (drums) from western Sydney progressive metal band Centred Self. Music supplied directly by the band. During the interview, we find out how Centred Self got its name, how the band got together, recording and rehearsing, drumming, the live music scene in Sydney & a lot more. On the day of this interview, Symon & Allan were pre-producing drum tracks at Party Pig Studios in the early stages of producing the forthcoming Centred Self debut album. This album was planned for late 2010 but never saw the light of day, sadly. Among other things, Allan is now drumming successfully for metal band Dawn Heist while Symon ran away and joined the circus … um, not really. It makes for an interesting headline, though!
A lot has happened after this interview occurred. Soon after the interview, Erk travelled across Europe and formulated the idea for Erk FM: International & Erk FM: Australia and how they would work while he was overseas. The idea for Erk FM: Metal Monday was only very young at this stage. As Erk is wrapping up Erk FM’s non metal shows in early 2015, this is a perfect time to look back at this interview & reflect.
Keep listening at the end of the interview for Erk’s very first attempt at playing drums as well as some entertaining out-takes & bloopers!
Continuing back at looking back at music across Channel Erk, Erk features an alternative online music festival called Couch X Couchwest.
While CXCW requires video to be filmed from anywhere that isn’t a stage, there are some tracks on this episode that have been recorded in a studio environment. Some of the songs on this episode, however, are played directly from the artist’s CXCW video submission. You can see many videos that have been created for CXCW plus a lot more about the World’s Best Online Music Festival at the official CXCW website. Thank you to the CXCW team for involving me in the festival this year & helping me to promote this show while I am promoting the festival. This episode starts with a couple of new submissions by artists that have appeared on Erk FM before. Then various artists who won CXCW awards are featured.