Metal
Spook The Horses
Wellington post-hardcore band Spook the Horses released their new album, Rainmaker, this week. The band's last release, Brighter, was a dense album filled with wall of guitars, but Rainmaker sees a… Audio
Musical Dynasties - The Grenell family
The Grenells are bursting with musical talent. We talk to dad John Grenell and his children Amiria, Denver, Oakley, and Redford about their careers and growing up on the Grenell family farm. Audio
Bulletbelt - Rise
Black metal horde Bulletbelt are set to release Rise of the Banshee this week, their new album that features the Wellington-based band's new vocalist Joelene Tempest. Craig Hayes sits down with… Audio
South of Heaven - Kris Stanley - Sinistrous Diabolus
Kris Stanley (aka N.K.S) joined Christchurch doom/death metal merchants Sinistrous Diabolus in the early 90s, and the band is responsible for New Zealand's first world-class extreme metal release… Audio
South of Heaven - Adam Thompson - Farming the Population
Wellington-based Adam Thomson is a radio DJ, promoter and vocalist with technical death metal band Farming the Population. Thomson recently organised the NZ Technical Death Metal Fest, and is a… Audio
South of Heaven - Chris Rigby - Convulsion, Dying of the Light
Chris Rigby was there at the birth of extreme metal in New Zealand, playing in Christchurch death metal and grindcore band Convulsion in the early 90s. Rigby has been a promoter and musician, and his… Audio
South of Heaven - Phil Kusabs - Vassafor
Phil Kusabs (aka VK) formed Auckland-based black metal band Vassafor in the mid-90s, and the band has gone on to become one of New Zealand's most internationally respected extreme metal bands. Kusabs… Audio
South of Heaven - Rigel Walsh - Dawn of Azazel
Rigel Walsh's band Dawn of Azazel is routinely cited as one of the groups that reenergised the extreme metal scene in New Zealand in the early 2000s. Dawn of Azazel have toured around the world, and… Audio
South of Heaven - Exordium Mors
Exordium Mors is one of New Zealand's leading black/thrash bands. Vocalist Mark Anthony Brooks (aka Scourge) and guitarists Raj Singarajah (aka Black Mortem) and Santi, spoke to Craig Hayes about… Audio
South of Heaven - Marko Pavlovic - Creeping House of Capricorn
Marko Pavlovic is an Auckland-based musician playing in black metal trio Creeping and doomy death and stoner rock band House of Capricorn. Pavlovic's also played in New Zealand metal bands like… Audio
Earth
Seattle drone doom group Earth speak to Emma Smith about working with vocalists again on their new album Primative and Deadly, run-ins with fairies and surviving scary plane trips. Audio
South of Heaven Part 1
A History of New Zealand Extreme Metal. In this episode reporter Craig Hayes talks to Chris Rigby, Phil Kusabs, Chris Stanley and Steve Francis; and travels back to the birth of this country's most… Audio
South of Heaven Part 2
In part two of 'South of Heaven: Extreme Metal in New Zealand' Craig Hayes finds out how New Zealand's extreme metal community was able to rebuild itself well away from mainstream eyes and ears, with… Audio
South of Heaven - Interview with program producer Craig Hayes
Craig Hayes, producer of South of Heaven - A History of New Zealand Extreme Metal, talks with Emma Smith about making the program, and why metal music matters. Audio
Beastwars live 2013
Wellington sludge-metallers belt out a set of songs live at Auckland's Kings Arms. Audio
