The Meltdown - CKCU 93.1 FM

10/10/2025

It was great having Paul Champagne back on Meltdown this week to talk about his latest endeavour, Pain 74!

You can catch it all here (and remember to take out the parentheses in the link):

https://cod.ckcufm[.]com/programs/56/72357.html

Huge thanks to Paul for visiting us in the studio and for sharing his time!

Hope you're all doing well!

07/10/2025

Join us in less than an hour when Paul Champagne joins us to talk about all of his music endeavours, past, present, and future!

Go to ckcu[.]com and click on Listen Now, or tune in the old fashioned way at 93.1 FM!

05/10/2025

A good amount of Canadian metal this week on Meltdown where we spun:

- Iron Maiden
- Karnage Through Crossing (heavy metal from Calgary - new single!)
- Triskelyon (thrash metal from Nfld - track off of their upcoming full-length!)
- Outlying (melodic death metal from Bécancour - track off of their upcoming LP!)
- Juliet Ruin (metalcore from Edmonton - track off of their upcoming EP!
- Pansophic (progressive thrash metal from Thunder Bay - track from their just-released full-length!)
- Gorotica (deathgrind from Australia - track from their just-released full-length!)
- Death&Legacy (melodic death metal from Spain - last year's single!)

Listen here (**and remember to remove the parentheses!**):
https://cod.ckcufm[.]com/programs/56/72263.html

Big thanks to Jon Asher at Asher Media Relations for sliding some of these our way!

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

Hope you're all doing well!

25/09/2025

A lot of new metal this week on Meltdown, along with some At The Gates in remembrance of Tomas Lindberg. Rounding out the show, we spun:

- Ancient Thrones (blackened death metal from Halifax - track off of their brand new full-length!)
- Coroner (killer Swiss thrash - track off of their upcoming LP!)
- Born Divided (progressive death metal from QC - track off of their upcoming full-length!)
- Devolver (melodic death from Grande Prairie - track off of their recently-released full-length!)
- From The Crypt (death metal from the Netherlands - track off of their upcoming full-length!)
- Dying Fetus (their recently-released single!)
- Testament (track off of their upcoming full-length!)
- Soulfly (track off of their upcoming full-length!)

Listen here (**remember to delete the parentheses in the link!**): https://cod.ckcufm[.]com/programs/56/72153.html

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

Hope you're all doing well!

21/09/2025

Tracks for this week's Meltdown...

- Swarm of the Lotus (killer defunct(?) sludgy post-metal from Baltimore - track off of their first full-length)
- The Last Oblation (Spanish melodic death metal - track off of their just-released LP)
- Pain 74 (local industrial metal - track off the recently-released full-length!)
- Brian Fisher (Spiral Fracture: melodic death metal from Virginia - track off of their just-released full-length!)
- Dying Remains (death metal from Calgary - track off of their just-released debut full-length!)
- Sucking Void (German death metal - track off of their upcoming full-length!)
- Aramis - Thrash/Death Metal (death/thrash from California - track off of the just-released LP!)
- Exhumed (goregrind from California - track off of their first full-length!)

Listen here, and remember to remove the parentheses in the link! https://cod.ckcufm[.]com/programs/56/72061.html

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

Hope you're all doing well!

15/09/2025

Only a few hours left in our Between the Buried and Me TICKET GIVEAWAY!!

See the original post below for details on how to win!

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

Courtesy of Spectrasonic, we have TWO tickets to give away to next week's Between the Buried and Me show at Bronson Centre!

For a chance to win the tickets, just:

1) Share this post WITH the show poster below; AND

2) Tag your +1

That's it!!

Contest run to Monday, Sept. 15, at 4:00 p.m. Winner will be notified directly.

Good luck to all!

13/09/2025

ICYMI, we had a great, insightful chat with original Anthrax vocalist Neil Turbin this week on Meltdown in advance of his Fistful of Metal tour that brings him to The Brass Monkey on Oct. 10!

Listen here: https://cod.ckcufm[.]com/programs/56/71970.html
(***and don't forget to remove the parentheses in the link!****

Huge thanks to both Neil for taking the time to talk with us, and to Kevin Michaud from Front Row Promotions for coordinating it all!

Hope you are all doing well!

11/09/2025

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

Courtesy of Spectrasonic, we have TWO tickets to give away to next week's Between the Buried and Me show at Bronson Centre!

For a chance to win the tickets, just:

1) Share this post WITH the show poster below; AND

2) Tag your +1

That's it!!

Contest run to Monday, Sept. 15, at 4:00 p.m. Winner will be notified directly.

Good luck to all!

09/09/2025

Tonight!! Tune in as we chat with legendary vocalist Neil Turbin about his upcoming tour that brings him to Ottawa on Oct. 10!

93.1 FM

or

Ckcufm[.]com, and click on Listen!

Maybe a couple of tickets to give away, too! 😁

06/09/2025

Ringing in the new school year on Meltdown with these bands:

- Sepultura
- ooluu (local industrialized post metal - new single!)
- The Judge The Juror (progressive/technical death from Edmonton - track off of their upcoming EP!)
- Devolver (melodic death/metalcore from Grande Prairie - track off of their just-released LP!)
- Ancient Thrones (blackened death from Halifax - track off of their upcoming full-length!)
- Eternal Drak (blackened thrash from QC - track off of their recently-released EP!)
- Obituary
- Sacrifice (killer Torontonian thrash metal - track off of this year's full-length!)
- Doll (local alternative rock - track off of this year's EP!)

Listen here: https://cod.ckcufm[.]com/programs/56/71872.html
(remember to remove the parentheses in the link!)

Hope you're all doing well!

30/08/2025

We had a great chat on Meltdown this week with Mike Badmington from Alberta's Woodhawk about their recently-released album "Love Finds a Way" and their tour that takes them to Ottawa's House of TARG on Sept. 4!

Listen here (and remember to remove the brackets in the link):
https://cod.ckcufm[.]com/programs/56/71764.html

Big thanks to Mike for spending his time with us, and to Asher at Asher Media Relations for helping to coordinate it all!

Hope you're all doing great!

20/08/2025

We had a great chat this week on Meltdown when Eric Forget dropped into the studio to talk about Harvested's recently-released 1st full-length "Dysthymia"!

Listen here (and remember to take the brackets out of the link!): https://cod.ckcufm[.]com/programs/56/71664.html

Huge thanks to both Eric for spending the time with us, and Jon Asher at Asher Media Relations for helping to make it happen.

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

Hope you're all doing well!