The Meltdown - CKCU 93.1 FM (2024)

07/09/2024

Another week of mostly new tunes on Meltdown, cranking out:

- Sacrifice (killer Canadian thrash!)
- Insurrection (local death metal - single off of their upcoming album!)
- Nile (track off of their latest album!)
- Infrared (local thrash metal - track off of their just-released album!)
- Heinous Exsanguination (brutal death metal from LA - track off of their just-released album!)
- Fit For An Autopsy (deathcore/prog metal from New Jersey - track off of their upcoming album!)
- U.D.O. (German heavy metal!)
- To The Grave (Australian deathcore - track off of their just-released album!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/66750.html (****to listen, delete the space in the link****)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Look out for each other, and hope you're all doing well!

24/08/2024

Another week of mostly new metal on Meltdown, cranking out the following:

- The Sun Through a Telescope (local drone/doomgaze - new single!)
- A Scar For The Wicked (local death metal - new single!)
- Ensiferum (Finnish melodic folk metal - track off of their upcoming album!)
- Benighted (death metal/grindcore from France - track off of their most recent album!)
- 200 Stab Wounds (death metal from Ohio - track off of their most recent album!)
- Keitzer (German death metal/grindcore - track off of their upcoming album!)
- Amethyst (Swiss heavy metal - track off of their upcoming album!)
- Exhumed (grindcore from California - track off of their most recent full-length!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/66566.html (****to listen, delete the space in the link****)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Hope you're all doing well!

15/08/2024

Paying tribute to Ryan from Ominous Eclipse, as well as spinning some NWOBHM in memory of Reginald Clarke this week on Meltdown.

- Ominous Eclipse (local melodic death metal - their most recent single)
- Raven
- Nile
- Nasty Savage
- DESTRUCTOR (thrash metal from Ohio - track from their first full-length!)
- Violent Force (German thrash metal - track from their only full-length!)
- Darkness (German thrash metal - track from their first full-length!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/66470.html (****to listen, delete the space in the link****)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Hope you're all doing well, and remember to look out for each other.

09/08/2024

We were thrilled this week on Meltdown to premiere TWO brand new demo tracks from John Ricci's new band, POWERRAGE, as well as killer tracks from the following:

- ChrysalïD (power metal from the UK - track from their upcoming album)
- World On Alert (prog thrash from Montreal - track off of their recently released album!)
- BONERIPPER (metallic hardcore from the Netherlands - track off of their recently released album!)
- MRSA (U.S. OSDM band - track off of their new album!)
- Haggus (minecore: punk/goregrind from California!)
- Sovereign Council (symphonic metal from kingston/Ottawa - track from last year's EP!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/66368.html (****to listen, delete the space in the link****)

The POWERRAGE tracks begin and end the show. While the last track is played in its entirety, note that there is an Amber Alert that was broadcast right before it played.

Huge thanks to John Ricci for sending us the tracks and giving us the green light to play them. Also big thanks to Jon Asher at Asher Media Relations and Mike de Coene at Hard Life Promotion for providing some of the tracks on the show.

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Hope you're all doing well!

05/08/2024

John Ricci has been working on some new music with his band, POWERRAGE, and he was kind enough to share a couple of tracks with us recently. With his permission, we'll be playing them tonight on Meltdown, 23:00 EDT.

For those that can't listen in tonight, you'll be able to catch them - and the rest of the show! - on our archive page on CKCU (we'll send out the link in the next day or so).

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If you're listening online, go to ckcufm . com and click on the blue "Listen" link at the top left.

19/07/2024

Dog days of summer are coming, but we were cooking on Meltdown this week, blasting out:

- Feed After Midnite (local metal - new single!)
- The Aphelion (local prog metal - new single off of their upcoming album!)
- Turbo (heavy metal from Halifax - new album now out!)
- Quiescent Mantis Official (death/thrash from Tennessee - new album out this week!)
- All For Metal (heavy metal from Germany - track off of their upcoming album!)
- The Human Tornado (groove metal from Italy - track of their new album!)
- Thousand Limbs (post-metal from New Zealand - new album out this week!)
- Infested Entrails (death metal from Australia - new album out this week!)
- Brainsore (grindcore from Italy - track off of their upcoming album!)
- THEY GRIEVE (killer local post-metal - track off of their most recent album!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/66071.html (****to listen, delete the space in the link****)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s: [email protected]

Hope you're all doing well!

13/07/2024

A couple of false starts, but we ended up with a great chat with Derelict’s Max Lussier this week on Meltdown, about their new album, "Versus Entropy".

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/65979.html(****to listen, delete the space in the link****)

Huge thanks to Max for his time, as well as to Jon Asher at Asher Media Relations for coordinating it all!

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Hope you're all doing well!

07/07/2024

Celebrating Canada Day in style this week on Meltdown, where it was top to bottom Canadian metal with these bands:

- ICE WAR (local speed metal - track off the most recent EP!)
- Expunged (local death metal - track off their last album!)
- Ültra Raptör (speed metal from Quebec City - track off their last album!)
- Skull Fist (speed metal from Toronto!)
- Human Compost (goregrind from Toronto - track off of their first full-length!)
- F**k The Facts (local death metal - track off of their last full-length!)
- Rötual (local deathdoom - track off their new debut EP!)
- Sovereign Council (local/kingston symphonic metal - track off of their most recent EP!)
- As We Suffer (local heavy metal - track off of their first full-length!)
- Whispers In The Maze (local melodic death metal - track off of their most recent EP!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/65874.html (****to listen, delete the space in the link****)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Hope you're all doing well!

03/07/2024

****TICKET GIVEAWAY!!****

Courtesy of Spectrasonic, we have 2 tickets to give away for this Saturday's Northlane show at the Bronson Centre!!

For a chance to win the pair, simply:
- share this post, AND
- tag your +1.

Contest ends Thursday at 5:00 p.m.. The winner will be contacted directly.

Good luck to all!!

29/06/2024

A bit of this and that on Meltdown this week, foisting this on our listeners:

- Sleep
- SARS (death metal from Finland - track off of their upcoming album!)
- Runtuh (killer post-metal from Malaysia - new album out this week!)
- Absorb (doom metal from Hamilton - track off of their upcoming EP!)
- The Aphelion (local prog metal - new single, "Deserter"!)
- O T E P
- Bred From Hate (local death metal - tracks off of their upcoming album!)
- 200 Stab Wounds (death metal from Cleveland - new album now out!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/65784.html (**** to listen, delete the space in the link)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Hope you're all doing well!

22/06/2024

All new/newish releases this week on Meltdown, playing these bangers:

- Narcotic Wasteland (death metal from South Carolina - new single now out!)
- Onchocerciasis Official (goregrind from Quebec City - track off of their upcoming EP!)
- Quiescent Mantis Official (death metal from Tennessee - track off of their upcoming album!)
- COBENTRICE (death metal from Columbia - new album now out!)
- LïVEWïRE (speed metal from Australia - new single!)
- Hyperdontia (death metal from Denmark/Turkey - new album now out!)
- Raised By Owls (death metal from England - track off of their newest album!)
- Warhog (heavy metal from Dallas - track off of their upcoming EP!)
- Necronomicon Ex Mortis (death metal from Chicago - track off of their upcoming EP!)
- DAATH (melodic death metal from Atlanta - track off of their new album!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/65685.html (**** to listen, delete the space in the link ****)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Hope you're all doing well!

16/06/2024

A playlist of mostly new metal this past week on Meltdown, smashing out:

- Traumatomy (Japanese/Russian death metal - track off of their upcoming EP!)
- Gevaudan (local Melodic Black Metal)
- Deathwish WI (thrashy punk from Wisconsin - new album now out!)
- Black Sites (prog metal from Chicago - track off of their upcoming album!)
- Pipe Dreamer (doomy post-metal from Florida - new album now out!)
- Comaniac (thrash metal from Switzerland!)
- Brutally Deceased (death metal from Czechia - new album out this week!)
- Feed Them Death (deathgrind from Italy - new album out this week!)
- Markkheim (grindcore from Cincinnati - new album out this week!)
- Grim Colossus (doom metal from Sweden - new album out this week!)
- Metallica

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/65594.html (****to listen, delete space in the link****)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Stay loose, look out for each other, and hope you're all doing well!

09/06/2024

100% new tracks this week on Meltdown, blasting out:

- Feed After Midnite (local hard rock - new single!)
- No Helmet (local metal - new EP now out!)
- Rötual (local deathdoom - new EP now out!)
- VICOLO INFERNO (heavy metal from Italy - new album now out!)
- Necropurulence (goregrind from Brazil - track from their debut demo!)
- Huntsmen (doom/post-metal from Chicago - new album now out!)
- Vale of Pnath (blackened death metal from Denver - new album now out!)
- Cowardice (doom metal from New Jersey - new album now out!)
- Bred From Hate (local heavy metal - track from their debut EP!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/65501.html (****to listen, delete the space in the link****)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s: [email protected]

Stay loose, and hope you're all doing well!

02/06/2024

It was all new tracks this week on Meltdown, where we cranked out the following:

- Supermodel Taxidermy (thrash metal from Fort McMurray - track off of their new album!)
- Thirteen Goats (death metal from Vancouver - track off of their upcoming album!)
- Dune (groove metal from Saudi Arabia - new EP now out!)
- Victoria Lies (metalcore from Calgary - new single now out!)
- Derelict (death metal from Montreal - track off of their upcoming album!)
- Eternal Drak (thrash metal from Quebec City - track off of their upcoming album!)
- Valfreya (symphonic blackened death metal from Montreal - new album now out!)
- Extrusion.official (death metal from St. Louis - new album now out!)
- Cell Intruder (death metal from Kentucky - new EP now out!)
- Monstrous Death (death metal from Germany - new album now out!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/65406.html (****to listen, delete the space in the link****)

Special thanks to Jon Asher from Asher Media Relations for sending us a number of the above!

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Stay loose, and hope you're all doing well!

28/05/2024

****Ticket Giveaway!!****

Courtesy of Spectrasonic, we have TWO tickets to give away to this Wednesday's Smash Into Pieces show at The Brass Monkey!!

For a chance to win them, simply:

- LIKE and SHARE this post (with the show poster); AND,
- TAG your +1
- Do it by 4:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 28th.

Remember to keep your post's privacy preferences open so we can see it!

That's it!

Winner will be notified directly.

Good luck!

26/05/2024

A bunch of banger tunes this past week on Meltdown spinning these beauties:

- Necrot (death metal from Oakland - track off of their new album!)
- Repugnant (death metal from Sweden - track off of their last album!)
- Massacre_TheOfficial_BandPage (death metal from Tampa - track off of their most recent EP!)
- Skinless
- 200 Stab Wounds (death metal from Cleveland - single off of their upcoming album!)
- Infrared (local thrash metal - track off of their last full-length!)
- Abrams (post-metal from Denver - new album now out!)
- Shattering Calamity (goregrind from Spain - track off of their just-released EP!)
- The House Primordial (doom metal from Louisiana - track off of their new album!)
- SADUS

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/65321.html (**** to listen, delete the space in the link ****)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Stay loose, and hope you're all doing well!

11/05/2024

ICYMI, we had a great time this week on Meltdown chatting with Sebastian Hogg from Niagara-based Ivy Gardens to hear more about their recently-released album, "Goon," and their upcoming show at House of TARG on May 16th!

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/65130.html (****to listen, delete the space in the link***)

Huge thanks to Sebastian for his time, as well as to Jon Asher at Asher Media Relations for helping coordinate it all!

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Hope everyone's doing well!

27/04/2024

****Ticket Giveaway!!****

Courtesy of Spectrasonic, we have TWO tickets to give away to this Thursday's Dying Fetus show at The Brass Monkey!!

For a chance to win them, simply:
- LIKE and SHARE this post (with the show poster); AND,
- TAG your +1
- Do it by 4:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 30th.

Remember to keep your post's privacy preferences open so we can see it!

That's it!

Winner will be notified directly.

Good luck!

20/04/2024

We had our first in-studio guests in over 4 years this week on Meltdown when we hosted Dylan Gunnell and Paul Champagne from local rockers Marble Ghosts to talk about their recently released self-titled EP!

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/64849.html (****to listen, delete the space in the link.****)

Huge thanks to Dylan and Paul for making the trip to CKCU and to Jon Asher at Asher Media Relations for helping to coordinate it all!

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Stay loose, and hope you're all doing well!

09/03/2024

Another SOCAN period at CKCU this past week, so we jammed in as much Canadian metal as we could on Meltdown, including:

- Congregation of Savagery (local doom metal - new single!)
- Cell Press (sludge metal from Montreal - new album now out!)
- Ivy Gardens (stoner metal from Niagara - single off of their upcoming album!)
- BackStabber (death metal from Quebec - new single off of their upcoming album!)
- Fall Of Earth (prog metal from Edmonton - track from their most recent album!)
- Novichok (thrash metal from Halifax - track off of their last album!)
- Omnivide (prog metal from Moncton - track off of their upcoming album!)
- Confined to Oblivion (deathcore from Montreal - new cover single!)
- Deadwolff (heavy metal from Toronto - track off of their most recent album!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/64263.html (****to listen, delete the space in the link****)

Big thanks to Jon Asher at Asher Media Relations for helping to get a bunch of these into our hands.

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Look out for each other, and hope you're all doing well!

03/03/2024

ICYMI, we spun a lot of Canadian metal this week on Meltdown, including:

- Exciter
- Seum (sludgy stoner metal from Montreal!)
- Hatred Reigns (local death metal - track off of their recent LP!)
- Rage (speed metal from Germany!)
- Walk With Titans (power metal from Montreal!)
- Putrid Stu (goregrind from Ohio!)
- Skeletal Remains (death metal from California - new track off of their upcoming album!)
- Fathomless Ritual (death metal from Toronto - debut album now out!)
- In Flames

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/64172.html (***to listen, delete the space in the link***)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Look out for each other, and hope you're all doing well!

23/02/2024

Had a great time this week on Meltdown chatting with Dan Cleary from Striker about what they've been up to the last few years, as well as their new album, Ultrapower!

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/64076.html (****to listen, delete the space in this link****)

Huge thanks to Dan for his time, as well as to Jon Asher at Asher Media Relations for helping to coordinate it all!

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay@ [email protected]

Look out for each other, and hope you're all doing well!

18/02/2024

We had another week of (mostly) new metal on Meltdown where we smashed out:

- Voivod
- Madame Frankenstein (stoner metal from Brazil - new album out this week!)
- Defect Designer (prog. death metal from Norway - new album out this week!)
- The Obsessed (doom metal from Maryland - new album now out!)
- Headless Dawn grindcore from The Netherlands - new EP now out!)
- Downwinder (death/crust from Greece - new album out this week!)
- Altered Perception (death metal from Chile - single from their upcoming EP!)
- Gore Bash (goregrind from Winnipeg - track off of their debut EP!)
- Gurney (sludgy doom metal from Kansas City - debut EP now out!)
- Transit Method (prog. metal from Austin - new album now out!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/63985.html (to listen, delete the space in the link)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Look out for each other, and hope you're all doing well!

10/02/2024

A mix of this and that on Meltdown this week, where we also mourned the sad passing of Matty Grant - Fenton.

Finding their ways onto our playlist were:

- A Darker Day (local metalcore)
- Sonder Band (local prog metal - new single!)
- Rivers of Nihil (technical death from Pennsylvania)
- Black Dregs (sludge metal from France - new EP now out!)
- Maou Mindu (local grindcore - most recent single!)
- Motörhead
- Petrification (death metal from Oregon - new album now out!)
- In Autumn (doom/post-metal from Italy - new album out next week!)
- Contaminated (death metal from Australia -new album now out!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/63885.html (to listen, delete the space in the link)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s: [email protected]

Look out for each other, and hope you're all doing well!

03/02/2024

Another week of (mostly) new metal tunes on Meltdown, where we cranked out:

Borknagar (new track off of their upcoming album!)
Carnifex (track off of their most recent release!)
Organectomy (brutal death metal from New Zealand - new single!)
Beyond Creation (technical death metal from Montreal!)
Hulder (dark medieval black metal from Washington - single off her upcoming album!)
Insomnium (melodic death metal from Finland - track off their recent EP!)
Nile
Vitriol (death metal from Portland - new album now out!)
INCINERATED (grindcore from Australia!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/63785.html (to listen, delete the space in the link)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Look out for each other, and hope you're all doing well!

25/01/2024

We had a great time this week on Meltdown chatting with Clark from Ottawa hardcore outfit The Sink to talk about their upcoming EP release party this Saturday at Dominion Tavern!

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/63692.html (to listen, delete the space in the link)

Huge thanks to Ryan for giving us his time, and to Joe Reilly for helping to make it all happen!

We also found time to spin some more Bred From Hate (local death metal, incl. ex-Nefarious), as well local death mettalers Echoes From Beyond, and Hamilton hardcore COUNTERPARTS!

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Look out for each other, and hope you're all doing well!

21/01/2024

We smashed out another banger this past week on Meltdown, playing the following:

- Marble Ghosts (hard rock from Ottawa/Gatineau - track off of their upcoming EP!)
- Maere (blackened death metal from Germany!)
- Bred From Hate (death metal from Ottawa, ex-Nefarious - track from their upcoming album!)
- Enslaved (new single!)
- Guiltless (sludgy post-metal from Seattle - new EP out next month!)
- Memoriam (OSDM from the England!)
- Grave Digger (new single!)
- Buckshot Facelift (grindcore from Long Island!)
- Bred from Hate (another track from their upcoming album! - apologies for messing up the first minute)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/63597.html (to listen, delete the space in the link)

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Look out for each other, and hope you're all doing well!

13/01/2024

Ringing in the new year with mostly new metal on Meltdown this past week, where Markus spun out these beauts:

- Deadwolff (killer heavy metal from T.O.!)
- Striker (heavy metal from Edmonton - new singles off their upcoming album!)
- Stages Of Decomposition (brutal death metal from Los Angeles! - new singles off their upcoming album!)
- FALL OF SERENITY (melodic death metal from Germany - new singles off their upcoming album!)
- Cavernous (doom metal from the Laurentians - new single!)
- Degenerator (stoner rock from Edmonton - tracks from their recently released album!)
- Dirty Audio Machine (groove rock from BC!)

https://cod. ckcufm .com/programs/56/info.html (to access, delete the spaces in the link)

Huge thanks to Jon Asher at Asher Media Relations, as well as the folks at Lifeforce Records, for sending us some of the tracks above!

Reminder to send us your new metal mp3s for airplay! [email protected]

Hope all of you are doing well, look out for each other, and have a great week!

24/12/2023

We had our annual holiday-themed show this past week on Meltdown, bringing you some festive season merriment from these fine folks:

- Vantablack Warship
- Nova Spei
- Reanimator
- Special Ops
- Lacuna Coil
- Sonata Arctica
- Amon Amarth
- Tunguska Mammoth
- Sabaton
- Tarja Turunen
- Dizzygoth

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/info.html (to listen, delete the space in the link)

Thanks to Jon Asher at Asher Media Relations for helping to hook us up with some of the above.

We're taking a couple of weeks off, but keep sending us your new metal mp3s for airplay: [email protected]

Happy holidays to all of you and your families!

18/12/2023

Mostly new metal this past week on Meltdown, blasting out the following:

- Striker (heavy metal from Shredmonton - latest single!)
- Never Reborn (blackened thrash from Arizona)
- Burning The Forgotten (melodic death from Montreal - new single from their upcoming album!)
- Severe Lacerations (death metal from England - new album now out!)
- Stratuz (deathdoom from Venezuela!)
- Deorbit (instrumental prog metal from Wisconsin - new album out now!)
- Black Dregs (sludge metal from France - debut EP just released!)
- Imperialist (black metal from California - new EP just released!)

https://cod.ckcu fm.com/programs/56/63155.html (to listen, delete the space in the link)

Thanks to Jon Asher at Asher Media Relations for getting some of these tunes into our hands!

Also, reminder to send us your new metal mp3s: [email protected]

Hope everyone is keeping well!

The Meltdown - CKCU 93.1 FM