The Metal Bar

09/12/2024

Scottish Metal powerhouse Bleed From Within are dropping a new album, Zenith, on the 4th April via Nuclear Blast . They've also just dropped the video for new single 'In Place Of Your Halo', a thunderous shot of modern metal fury that pays homage to their native Scotland with a bagpipe-backed refrain for the ages🤘

https://youtu.be/42-e9zFmgPA?si=YRbqSZ6AvMp2LwLP

06/12/2024

On this week we have new from Scottish act Bleed From Within French kings Hangman's Chair Aussie from & something new out of Nelsons

I'll be featuring Christchurch band Extorted album 'Cognitive Dissonance', playing tracks from High On Fire Slipknot Just One Fix SADUS & plus .ripper.metal cover former Glenn Danzig band Samhain

Shatterface

29/11/2024

What do you call a Judas Priest all-female tribute act? JUDAS PRIESTESS of course!! Hear their cover of 'Dissident Aggressor' on this week's show along with new stuff from act from Wellington Brainwave HC, German band Obscura & Ukrainian outfit Jinjer
Also cranking tracks from Drowning Pool Pull Down the Sun Sepultura & Extorted plus Testament the featured artist of the week.

27/11/2024

Ukrainian act Jinjer hit Wellington & Auckland in March next year on the back of their new album 'Duel' which drops Feb 7th.

https://www.valhallatavern.com/valhallatouring/jinjer

Here's the latest track from it - 'Green Dragon'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=637ER6dlGDg

Check out the brand new single "GREEN SERPENT", the fourth single taken from JINJER’s highly anticipated 5th studio album, to be released via Na**lm Records ...

26/11/2024

Check this out Pull Down the Sun & Drowning Pool the stand outs for me - great we have a Festival like this coming back. Paradise City Rock Festival

22/11/2024

If you've been living under a rock you may have missed the news that Weaponry & Reign are heading out for a New Zealand tour in March 2025 - I'm spinning some of their tracks this week plus there's new from Danish act new with a bent from French band The Great Old Ones & Killswitch Engage have a new one too!

Plus there's news & tunes from Megadeth Kreator & Chimaira plus a sick Judas Priest cover.

20/11/2024

It's coming home!
Alien Weaponry will commence a 6 date tour of Aotearoa in March 2025, fresh from a North American tour with Kerry King Music
Joining the band dubbed "The Future of Metal" by Metal Hammer on the tour will be Polynesian Titans Shepherds Reign
Hit www.alienweaponry.com from tomorrow at 9am to make sure you don't miss out 🤘
“Gen Z has basically just discovered their own Sepultura , and they liked what they heard, and they were fantastic live” - 9.5/10
- Brink The Noise UK

"Alien Weaponry, one of the best young metal bands in the world right now"
- Revolver Magazine

20/11/2024

Oh yeah 🤘🤘🤘

17/11/2024

Hitting NZ this week - The Cult have sold out Christchurch but there's limited availability for Spark Arena - saw these guys at Powerstation last time they were here and they killed it.
https://www.ticketmaster.co.nz/event/24006106A08D1DE8

16/11/2024

A day late but it's here! Special thanks to Matt from for sorting my IT issues!
The Generator FM will have the show on tonight as we missed the Friday slot.
New tunes from Machine Head & friends, band Scour Savage Lands & Christchurch band Omêka
from Bulletbelt Plague Of The Fallen & Just One Fix
Megadeth cover Black Sabbath, news from Soilwork Down & Trivium

13/11/2024

Wellington will get torn a new one! Bulletbelt 15th Anniversary show next Saturday with Deadhouse Gates & 3000 A.D. Thrash Metal - celebrate one of the hardest working bands in NZ Metal achieving one hell of a milestone 🤘

Valhalla .nz

12/11/2024

The UK's Battle Lords Conan hit NZ with 3 shows in March 2025🤘

If you're a fan of bands like BONGRIPPER & Acid Mammoth then you'll wanna be at this one - they'll be joined by Christchurch act Borer

08/11/2024

Big show! Canadian act A Scar For The Wicked Virginian band Enforced & local rabble Flesh Merchant all have new songs.
There's news from Kerry King Music As I Lay Dying Opeth Sepultura Mastodon & Exodus cover AC/DC

07/11/2024

Tonight!! Flesh Merchant EP release gig Ding D**g Lounge with Parasitic Infestation & Just One Fix
Doors at 8.

01/11/2024

The Bok are back! That's right Melbourne's favourite band FRANKENBOK have a new tune so do Swedish act The Halo Effect & Greek band InnerWish
The Featured album of the week is from the legendary Savatage, there's news from DevilDriver Testament Shadows Fall Lamb of God and spin tracks from Imperial Slave & Just One Fix plus Lucifer cover Leonard Cohen.

https://www.mixcloud.com/riccardo-ball/the-metal-bar-november-1st-2024/

28/10/2024

It's been a while but Underoath are back 🤘

Underoath - “Survivor’s Guilt” Listen/Stream: https://underoath.ffm.to/s__g ►Underoath Tour/VIP Tickets: https://underoath.ffm.to/tourdates.OYD ►Follow Unde...

25/10/2024

This is a great piece on Alien Weaponry on AudioCulture - always good to see getting props outside the scene.

At a very young age the two brothers at the centre of the band – Henry Te Reiwhati de Jong and younger brother Lewis Raharuhi de Jong (Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāti Raukawa) – began jamming together. Lewis wrote his first tune as a two-year old, singing his own m