Sinopsis
On the air since 1985, Powerchord is Vancouver's longest running metal show! Covering all sub-genres across the harsh landscape of heavy metal, old and new alike. New releases, local bands, the obscure, the classic, and everything in-between.Two hours of absolute brutality every Saturday from 1-3pm.
Episodios
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Transcending Antecedent Visions
25/12/2021 Duración: 01h59minColeman is up for a Christmas Day broadcast with personal faves from 2021, some new jams from Arde and Nekrovault, a ton of great CanCon through the year, and some highlights from our year in broadcasting. Thanks for tuning in, see you in 2022!
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Exhumed From Mortal Spheres
18/12/2021 Duración: 01h58minSatisfy your rifflust and praise the pagan winter solstice rituals of old with a special winter holiday-themed episode of Powerchord!!! We kick it off with Tampa death metal legends Nocturnus and their gloriously sacrilegious, nativity-demolishing anthem "Destroying the Manger" from their 1990 album The Key! We'll also face the onrushing cold of the winter months with a trio of frigid Quebecois black metal atrocities from Spectral Wound, Csejthe and Délétère, as well as an epic track from Weakling's legendary USBM masterpiece Dead As Dreams. We'll play crushing new death metal from brutality merchants 200 Stab Wounds, Mortiferum, and Frozen Soul, and throw in a clinic on dreamy, psychedelic heaviness from Dream Unending's magnificent new album Tide Turns Eternal. Not only that, but we're gonna play a few holiday classics from the likes of Jesu, The Black Halos, King Diamond, AC/DC and England's Loudest Rock Band, Spinal Tap! Join us, raise a goblet of eggnog and rage at the darkness as we bring you the soundt
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Exhumed From Mortal Spheres
18/12/2021 Duración: 02h01sSatisfy your rifflust and praise the pagan winter solstice rituals of old with a special winter holiday-themed episode of Powerchord!!! We kick it off with Tampa death metal legends Nocturnus, and their gloriously sacrilegious nativity-demolishing anthem "Destroying the Manger" from their 1990 album The Key! We'll face the onrushing cold of the winter months with a trio of frigid Quebecois black metal rituals from Spectral Wound, Csejthe and Délétère, as well as an epic track from Weakling's legendary USBM masterpiece Dead As Dreams. We'll also play crushing new death metal from 200 Stab Wounds, Mortiferum and Frozen Soul, and throw in a clinic on dreamy, psychedelic heaviness from Dream Unending's magnificent new album Tide Turns Eternal. Not only that, but we're gonna play a few holiday classics from the likes of Jesu, Tge Black Halos, King Diamond, AC/DC and England's Loudest Rock Band, Spinal Tap! Join us, raise a goblet of eggnog and rage at the darkness as we bring you the soundtrack for the the longest
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Ferrous Humiliation
11/12/2021 Duración: 02h01sFerris again. A little bit less drunk, a lotta bit more death. SUBMIT!!!
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Serena is back and spinning some heavy hitters!
04/12/2021 Duración: 02h01sSerena is back after a couple years hiatus (thanks Covid and baby)! Serena is also joined in studio by co-host Justin. I come out swinging with Candlemass and get into some black metal - Thantifaxath, Spectral Wound and Sorguinazia. Some epic and beautiful vocals come in the from of Blackwater Holylight, Big Brave and Crypta. Also featuring tunes from Stormkeep, Mortiferum, Power Trip, Balkan and so much more!
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Wretched Mockery of Creation
27/11/2021 Duración: 02h01minColeman is in house, featuring tunes from a heap of local shows (Napalm Death, Eyehategod, Swallow the Sun, Unleash the Archers, Neck of the Woods) and new music from Converge, Hyperdontia, Ethereal Shroud, and plenty more! With much banter re. the floods in BC (and my basement), the reality of live music in BC amid current Covid restrictions, and the looming spectre of year-end-list season. JOIN US!
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B-Sides
20/11/2021 Duración: 01h59minWe are hitting up the B-Sides of the Vinyls today. Starting with Monolord's brand new album Your Time To Shine the B-side holds an amazing space and is reminiscent of Pink Floyd Meddle. Some O Type Negative and in a similar vein Port in The Storm from Victoria's Hail the Void . later on we get into some New Creeping Death and the entireB-side of that album followed by Carass' new album Torn Arteries. I hope you all enjoy my B-side selections.
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Lunar Bathysphere
13/11/2021 Duración: 01h59minIan’s back in studio today with another slate of putrid. cavernous death metal! Today’s show will include new releases from Cerebral Rot, Gatecreeper, Frozen Soul and Abjection! Frigid black metal with Paysage d’Hiver, Revenge and Blasphemy will also be featured, along with sludgy local riffage from Black Wizard, Waingro and Dirty Vicar. We’ll also mark Remembrance Day and pay our respects to victims of violence the world-over with a couple of brilliant songs inspired by the horror of warfare from Bolt Thrower and Iron Maiden. Plus, we’ll dig a legendary Saint Vitus track out of the Graveyard!
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Lunar Bathysphere
13/11/2021 Duración: 01h59minIan’s back in studio today with another slate of putrid. cavernous death metal! Today’s show will include new releases from Cerebral Rot, Gatecreeper, Frozen Soul and Abjection! Frigid black metal with Paysage d’Hiver, Revenge and Blasphemy will also be featured, along with sludgy local riffage from Black Wizard, Waingro and Dirty Vicar. We’ll also mark Remembrance Day and pay our respects to victims of violence the world-over with a couple of brilliant songs inspired by the horror of warfare from Bolt Thrower and Iron Maiden Plus, we’ll dig a legendary Saint Vitus track out of the Graveyard!
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Blasphemic Mindflaying
06/11/2021 Duración: 02h01sFerris ritualizes, mutates, starves, laments, dies, mispronounces, terrorizes, swears, nucleates, crepitates, grips, infests, mutilates, perceives, glaciates, drifts, and oozes horrible rhythmic sounds through a drunken fog of drug smoke and piss mist. Not recommended for cowards.
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Slowly Sawn
30/10/2021 Duración: 01h58minRaise a toast of goat's blood to the elder gods with us, and be damned for all eternity!!!! It's the 2021 Powerchord Halloween episode, and we're celebrating by blasting all manner of gruesome, horrific, and satanic debauchery! It's all about those seasonal classics today, with deathly, satanic thrash from Slayer, Venom and Sacrifice, as well as bloody odes to classic horror films from Mortician, Cannibal Corpse, VHS and Possessed! We'll also blast some thematically appropriate new jammers from Cannibal Corpse, Helloween, Haunt, and Skeleton, plus mine gothic, occult-inspired proto-doom with Blood Ceremony, Jex Thoth and the legendary Electric Wizard!!!! We'll also cram in some Halloween classics from The Misfits a double-shot of Mercyful Fate and King Diamond, and of course even exhume an undead track by the mighty BLACK SABBATH!!!! Turn it up and raise the chalice!
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Bark at the (Wolf) Moon AWOOOOO
23/10/2021 Duración: 02h24sColeman gets into the seasonal spirit with some Halloween jamz from King Diamond, Iron Maiden, and Type O Negative; check out upcoming and very recent live shows from Big Brave, We Hunt Buffalo, Archspire, Lamp of Murmuur, and a local Halloween show featuring covers by Bolt Thrower, Misfits, and Poison Idea. Come get spooky!
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Indestructable
09/10/2021 Duración: 01h59minJust in time for the start of gloomy fall weather in Vancouver, we start things off with a track off Iron Maiden's colossal new album Senjutsu, as well as Ian's thoughts on the record. We'll also blast some tracks off new releases by metal legends Helloween and Cirith Ungol, plus rippers from the latest releases by Polish power metal unit Crystal Viper and Miami true metal stalwarts Midnight Ride. Later on in the show we get into some new mind-bending technical death and progressive metal with StarGazer and Ænigmatum, along with a dose of punishing, full-tilt thrash from Nervosa and Enforced, plus burners by a pair of Canadian thrash legends as we excavate crucial releases by Voivod and Annihilator. Plus, we'll pay tribute to the great Eric Wagner of Chicago doom metal legends Trouble with a track off their classic debut album Psalm 9. Let's rock!!!
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Indestructable
09/10/2021 Duración: 02h01sJust in time for the start of gloomy fall weather in Vancouver, we start things off with a track off Iron Maiden's colossal new album Senjutsu, as well as Ian's thoughts on the record. We'll also blast some tracks off new releases by metal legends Helloween and Cirith Ungol, plus rippers from the latest releases by Polish power metal unit Crystal Viper and Miami true metal stalwarts Midnight Ride. Later on in the show we get into some new mind-bending technical death and progressive metal with StarGazer and Ænigmatum, along with a dose of punishing, full-tilt thrash from Nervosa and Enforced, plus burners by a pair of Canadian thrash legends as we excavate crucial releases by Voivod and Annihilator. Plus, we'll pay tribute to the great Eric Wagner of Chicago doom metal legends Trouble with a track off their classic debut album Psalm 9. Let's rock!!!
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Circumcision Covenant
02/10/2021 Duración: 02h01sSpiderbit foreskin removal by a tainted sword. Fucked in a cave crypt by the law. The preserved owl screeches, aflame.Featuring a preview of the Ghosts of the Covenant gig (October 8, 2021), host Ferris plays cuts from each of the 7 bands presenting. Add to that some real brain stabbing harsh noise, warmetal, sex, and of course death.
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THE NEGATION OF DELERIUM
25/09/2021 Duración: 02h01minColeman is at the helm with the duo behind Edmonton's Sorguinazia. They grant us some insight into their dark, mesmerizing new album "The Negation of Delerium", and a preview of the first two singles. Also a heap of new stuff from Dungeon Serpent, Succumb, and more; an EXCLUSIVE premiere of a new track from Vancouver sludge trio Balkan; and an RIP to Eric Wagner of Trouble.
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Bottomless Sun
18/09/2021 Duración: 01h59minIan's live in studio to celebrate the change of season and the arrival of the cold and spooky months of the year on Powerchord with an arsenal of heavy hitters! We'll kick it off with ripping new speed metal tracks from Pounder, Saber, Oath and Cauldron, plus some decimating and totally brutal new death metal from Laceration, Occult Burial, Sanguisugabogg and local heroes Hedonist! Later we'll explore hybrid strains of epic and deathly black metal with Nekrovault, Havukruunu and Blackevil, and explore the cosmos with cosmic doom crushers Eye Of Doom, Hail The Void and Kult Of The Wizard, as well as a classic track with Italian heavy psych giants Ufomammut. We'll dig some spooky autumnal vibes with occult rock/heavy prog jammers from Blood Ceremony and the legendary Jex Thoth, plus we'll dig a classic riff-monster of a track from UK doom lords Cathedral out of The Graveyard! Turn it up, hammerheads.
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Bottomless Sun
18/09/2021 Duración: 02h01sIan's live in studio to celebrate the change of season and the arrival of the cold and spooky months of the year on Powerchord with an arsenal of heavy hitters! We'll kick it off with ripping new speed metal tracks from Pounder, Saber, Oath and Cauldron, plus some decimating and totally brutal new death metal from Laceration, Occult Burial, Sanguisugabogg and local heroes Hedonist! Later we'll explore hybrid strains of epic and deathly black metal with Nekrovault, Havukruunu and Blackevil, and explore the cosmos with cosmic doom crushers Eye Of Doom, Hail The Void and Kult Of The Wizard, as well as a classic track with Italian heavy psych giants Ufomammut. We'll dig some spooky autumnal vibes with occult rock/heavy prog jammers from Blood Ceremony and the legendary Jex Thoth, plus we'll dig a classic riff-monster of a track from UK doom lords Cathedral out of The Graveyard! Turn it up, hammerheads.
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Funereality
11/09/2021 Duración: 02h01sAlmost entirely deathmetal, Ferris' playlist this week will grant you sex magick in the primordial aeon. Plenty of deep cuts with which to cut deeply. The colour of psychic power is blue, then red. Run for your life.
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Climbing the Majestic Mountain
04/09/2021 Duración: 02h01minThis Show is a nod to my favourite record label Majestic Mountain Records. We start with some new local Black Metal from Ulvik and Worm Witch and slowly delve into the world of that which is Majestic. Bands like Kal-el who was just nominated for the top spot on the Doom Charts for the month of August along with Droid Attack, Sonic Demon, Mama Doom and others who have scaled the Majestic mountain. We finish the show with some female centred music from Psychic Hit, Haxan, and Rough Spells. All Hail the Black Goat this is the Oldirty Hick signing off.