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Melting Point Radio 7/15/09 Al Green, and the voyage of a SUN

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:31:00 -0400

In honor of the lovely summer sun we bring you a SUN themed show (can you tell I just got back from the beach?). Also, first show with a (non-Ayreon, non-cover) non-metal song!

Playlist for Melting Point Radio: Wednesday, Jul 15th, 2009

DJ: Yuletide

Time	Artist	Song	Album
10:26 PM	al green	aint no sunshine	greatest hits
10:27 PM	ark	waking hour	burn the sun
10:31 PM	cydonian	black sun	estranged
10:37 PM	dalis dillemma	andromeda sunrise	manifesto for futurism
10:39 PM	iron maiden	the flight of icarus	the trooper
10:42 PM	detonation	second sun ascending	emission phase
10:44 PM	sunrise in eden	edenbridge	the grand design
10:52 PM	devon townsend	sunshine & happiness	synchestra
10:55 PM	nightwish	sleeping sun	highest hopes
10:59 PM	krisiun	massacre under the sun	southern storm
11:03 PM	moonlight comedy	solar eclipse	dorothy
11:11 PM	dark tranquillity	indifferent suns	exposures in retrospect and denial
11:14 PM	samael	solar soul	solar soul
11:18 PM	stratovarius	will the sun rise	episode
11:23 PM	conception	the last sunset	the last sunset
11:28 PM	nightrage	the glow of the setting sun	sweet vengeance
11:31 PM	angra	millenium sun	rebirth
11:37 PM	dionysus	closer to the sun	anima mundi
11:40 PM	intronaut	sundial	prehistoricisms
11:47 PM	immortal	solarfall	at the heart of winter
11:54 PM	pink floyd	set the controls for the heart of the sun	a saucerful of secrets

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Melting Point Radio 7/8/09: Songs that inspire us to ROCK! Guitar, keys, drums, and bass, oh my!

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:59:00 -0400

These are songs that inspire the best in us. They make us want to join the bands on stage, take up an instrument, and add our own little something to the mayhem. Any instrument is fair game. We've divided things up a bit between instruments, or at least inserted our own commentary for most of the songs, so give a listen... then respond in the comments with your thoughts, and certainly any songs we left out!

Due to the nature of the genre, there is a preponderance of guitar songs. Oh, and both DJ's Yuletide and Jack actually DID begin playing guitar because of THESE SONGS! Jack made us proud, having had the honor to shred Episode 666 (see playlist) in front of a live audience at none other than the WORCESTER PALLADIUM, perhaps the MOST METAL venue ever (insert citation here...)?

Disclosure of DANGER:

This show may inspire reckless amounts of air drumming, with feet thundering mercilessly on dual air-bass-drums; air-shredding leading to fingers air-bleeding; and of course fingers fluttering at supersonic speeds along air-keyboards until complete air-dislocation. You have been WARNED!

Playlist for Melting Point Radio: Wednesday, Jul 8th, 2009

DJ: Yuletide

Time	Artist	Song	Album
10:30 PM	Nightwish	Come Cover Me	Wishmaster	request
10:32 PM	In Flames	The Jesters Dance	The Jester Race	request
10:35 PM	Symphony X	Communion And The Oracle	V	request
10:43 PM	Children of Bodom	Children Of Bodom	Hatebreeder	request
10:48 PM	Liquid Tension Experiment	Acid Rain	Liquid Tension Experiment 2	request
10:56 PM	Dimmu Borgir	Blessings Upon The Throne of Tyranny	Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia	request
11:00 PM	Arch Enemy	Enemy Within	Wages Of Sin	request
11:05 PM	Helloween	Mission Motherland	The Time of the Oath	request
11:14 PM	In Flames	Episode 666	Whoracle	request
11:17 PM	Andy Timmons	I Have No Idea	Ear-X-Tacy	request
11:19 PM	Nightwish	Sacrament of Wilderness	Oceanborn	request
11:24 PM	Children of Bodom	Children of Decadence	Follow the Reaper	request
11:29 PM	Pagans Mind	Aegan Shores	Celestial Entrance	request
11:34 PM	Lamb Of God	Beating On Deaths Door	Sacrament	request
11:43 PM	Decapitated	Spheres of Madness	Nihility	request
11:48 PM	Into Eternity	Splintered Visions	Buried in Oblivion	request
11:57 PM	Nightwish	Moondance	Oceanborn	request
11:57 PM	Quo Vadis	Silence Calls the Storm	Defiant Imagination	request
12:01 AM	In Flames	Moonshield	The Jester Race	request
12:08 AM	Sex Machineguns	JACKY	CAMERON	request
12:15 AM	Mechanical Poet	The Dead, The Living and the City	Creepy Tales For Freaky Children	request
12:21 AM	Children of Bodom	Trashed, Lost, and Strungout	Are You Dead Yet?	request
12:27 AM	Tool	Aenema	Aenima

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We're Back! The Best Vocalists in METAL! 7/1/09

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:55:00 -0400

Playlist for Melting Point Radio: Wednesday, Jul 1st, 2009

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Time	Artist	Song	Album
9:43 PM	Iron Maiden	Aces High	Powerslave	request
9:46 PM	Judas Priest	Judas Rising	Angel of Retribution	request
9:50 PM	Twilightning	Diamonds of Mankind	Plague House Puppet Show	request
9:55 PM	Lost Horizon	Lost in the Depths of Me	A Flame to the Ground Beneath	request
10:09 PM	Symphony X	A Winters Dream	The Damnation Game	request
10:10 PM	Impellitteri	Everything Is You	Eve of the Hurricaine	request
10:21 PM	Kamelot	Nights of Arabia	One Cold Winters Night	request
10:21 PM	Pagans Mind	The Seven Sacred Promises	Celestial Entrance	request
10:32 PM	Falconer	Upon the Grave of Guilt	Falconer	request
10:33 PM	Nocturnal Rites	Shadowland	Shadowland	request
10:40 PM	Nightwish	Ocean Soul	Century Child	request
10:41 PM	Nightwish	Amaranth	Dark Passion Play	request
10:45 PM	Therion	Midgard	Secret of the Runes	request
10:50 PM	Nightwish	Phantom of the Opera	Century Child	request
10:54 PM	King Diamond	Spirits	Abigal II - The Revenge	request
10:59 PM	Beyond Twilight	Sleeping Beauty	Section X	request
11:07 PM	Killswitch Engage	Holy Diver (Dio)		request
11:11 PM	Lamb of God	Walk With Me In Hell	Sacrament	request
11:15 PM	Into Eternity	Spiralling into Depression	Buried in Oblivion	request
11:19 PM	Quo Vadis	Silence Calls The Storm	Defiant Imagination	request
11:22 PM	Arch Enemy	My Apocalypse	Manifesto of Arch Enemy	request
11:27 PM	Queensryche	I Don't Believe in Love	Operation: Mindcrime	request
11:32 PM	Dimmu Borgir	The Serpentine Offering	In Sorte Diaboli	request
11:37 PM	Aeon	Morbid Desire to Burn	Bleeding the False	request
11:39 PM	Decapitated	Spheres of Madness	Nihility	request
11:45 PM	Children of Bodom	Punch Me I Bleed	Are You Dead Yet?	request
11:50 PM	Pagans Mind	At The Graves (King Diamond)	Infinity Divine	request
12:00 AM	3 Inches of Blood	Deadly Sinners	Advance and Vanquish	request

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2009 Winter Edition Podcast Exclusive!

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:38:00 -0500

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Time	Artist	Song	Album
9:50 PM	Immortal	At the Heart of Winter	At the Heart of Winter
9:56 PM	Luca Turilli	Lord of the Winter Snow	King of the Nordic Twilight
10:02 PM	Abigor	Cold Void Choir	Fractal Possession
10:10 PM	Wintersun	Beyond the Dark Sun	Wintersun
10:14 PM	Kamelot	On the Coldest Winters Night	Epica
10:17 PM	Fall of the Leafe	Within the Everfrozen Winternight	Evanescent, Everfading
10:24 PM	Norther	Frozen Angel	No Way Back
10:29 PM	Amorphis	Black Winter Day	Tales from the Thousand Lakes
10:33 PM	Demons & Wizards	Winter of Souls	Demons & Wizards
10:40 PM	At the Gates	Cold	Slaughter of the Soul
10:41 PM	Symphony X	A Winters Dream (Ascension Part 2)	The Damnation Game
10:45 PM	Catamenia	Iced Over	Winternight Tragedies
10:51 PM	Into Eternity	Timeless Winter	The Scattering of Ashes
10:55 PM	Iron Maiden	Fear of the Dark	Best of the Beast
11:01 PM	Dissection	Frozen	The Rebirth of Dissection

Also a bonus this week: outtakes!

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Exams (Stress) & Thanksgiving (Genocide)... No Thanks

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:00:00 -0500

Time	Artist	Song	Album
4:04 PM	Iron Maiden	Purgatory	Killers
4:09 PM	Edge of Sanity	Twilight	Purgatory Afterglow
4:12 PM	Pain of Salvation	Stress	Entropia
4:16 PM	Scar Symmetry	Deviate From the Form	Pitch Black Progress
4:30 PM	Textures	Millstone	Drawing Circles
4:31 PM	Twilightning	At the Forge	Delirium Veil
4:33 PM	Iced Earth	Stand Alone	Something Wicked This Way Comes
4:35 PM	Persefone	Train of Consequences	Core	rotation
4:37 PM	Steve Vai	Down Deep Into The Pain	Sex & Religion
4:46 PM	Iron Maiden	Run To the Hills	A Real Dead One	request
4:53 PM	Amon Amarth	Free Will Sacrifice	Twilight of the Thunder God
4:56 PM	Dream Evil	Into The Moonlight	The Book of Heavy Metal
4:56 PM	Nevermore	Dead Heart in a Dead World	Dead Heart in a Dead World
5:09 PM	Dimmu Borgir	Cataclysm Children	Death Cult Armageddon
5:17 PM	Pagan's Mind	Aegean Shores	Celestial Entrance
5:20 PM	Dream Evil	Tired	The Book of Heavy Metal
5:24 PM	Amoral	Nervasion	Reptile Ride
5:28 PM	Blind Guardian	Carry The Blessed Home	A Twist in the Myth

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Obamametal & Alex's Birthday!

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:00:00 -0500

No podcast this week, cause technology sucks.

Time	Artist	Song	Album
4:13 PM	Skyclad	War and Disorder	A Burnt Offering for the Bone Idol
4:13 PM	Slayer	Raining Blood	Reign in Blood
4:14 PM	Turisas	The Land of Hope and Glory	Battle Metal
4:24 PM	Ayreon	Day Seven: Hope	The Human Equation
4:25 PM	Shadow Gallery	Hope for Us	Prime Cuts
4:30 PM	Myrath	Hope	Hope
4:33 PM	Dethklok	Birthday Dethday	The Dethalbum
4:36 PM	Ensiferum	Victory Song	Victory Song
4:49 PM	Angra	Heroes of Sand	Rebirth
4:50 PM	Stratovarius	Seasons of Change	Episode
4:57 PM	Sonata Arctica	The Power of One	Silence
5:07 PM	Therion	Midgard	Secret of the Runes
5:12 PM	Nocturnal Rites	Warrior's Return	Tales of Mystery and Imagination
5:18 PM	Liquid Tension Experiment	Paradigm Shift	Liquid Tension Experiment II
5:28 PM	Symphony X	Rediscovery, Pt. 2: The New Mythology	V: The New Mythology	request

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Melting Point HALLOWEEEEN!

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Mon, 3 Nov 2008 21:00:00 -0500

http://www.archive.org/details/meltingpoint_2008-11-03

Time	Artist	Song	Album
4:13 PM	King Diamond	Spare this Life	Abigail II - The Revenge
4:13 PM	King Diamond	Halloween	Deadly Lullabyes Live
4:14 PM	Halloween	Helloween	Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy
4:31 PM	Opeth	The Grand Conjuration	Ghost Reveries
4:38 PM	Pagan's Mind	At The Graves (King Diamond)	Infinity Divine	rotation
4:55 PM	Helloween	Locomotive Breath (Jethro Tull)	Metal Jukebox	request
4:56 PM	Iced Earth	Damien	Horror Show	request
5:05 PM	Testament	Legions of the Dead	The Gathering
5:09 PM	Diablo String Quartet	Ballrog Boogie	The Butcher's Ballroom
5:10 PM	Fantomas	Spider Baby	The Director's Cut
5:17 PM	Iced Earth	Jack	Horror Show
5:17 PM	Steve Hackett	A Dark Night In Toytown	Wild Orchids
5:22 PM	Meshuggah	The Exquisite Machinery of Torture	Chaosphere
5:25 PM	Dimmu Borgir	Hybrid Stigmata - The Apostasy	Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
5:33 PM	Ayreon	Back 2 Me	Come Back to Me EP	rotation request
5:36 PM	Demons & Wizards	The Fiddler on the Green	Demons & Wizards

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Shot Through the Ventricles... Melting Point does Breakup/Anti-Love Songs

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:20:00 -0400

Time	Artist	Song	Album
9:07 PM	Dimmu Borgir	The Serpentine Offering	In Sorte Diaboli	rotation
9:10 PM	Smashing Pumpkins	Love	Mellon Colly and the Infinite Sadness	request
9:11 PM	The Faceless	All Dark Graves	Akeldama	rotation
9:16 PM	Queensryche	I Don't Believe in Love	Operation: Mindcrime	rotation
9:20 PM	Abigor	Liberty Rises a Diagonal Flame	Fractal Possessions	rotation request
9:24 PM	Iron Maiden	The Thin Line Between Love and Hate	Brave New World	request
9:33 PM	Into Eternity	Spiraling into Depression	Buried in Oblivion	request
9:36 PM	Bon Jovi	Shot Through the Heart		request
9:39 PM	Brain Drill	Sadistic Abductive	Apocalyptic Feasting	request
9:45 PM	Edguy	Trinidad	Rocket Ride
9:47 PM	Hypocrisy	A Thousand Lies	Virus
9:52 PM	Lamb of God	Beating on Death's Door	Sacrament	request
10:03 PM	Avantasia	What Kind of Love	The Scarecrow	request
10:09 PM	Symphony of the Deceived	The Project Hate MCMXCIX	Armageddon March Eternal: Symphonies of Slit Wrists	request
10:14 PM	The Faceless	Coldly Calculated Design	Planetary Duality	new rotation request
10:17 PM	Diablo Swing Orchestra	Wedding March For a Bullet	The Butcher's Ballroom	request
10:21 PM	SikTh	As the Earth Spins Round	Death of a Dead Day	request
10:26 PM	Anthem (For the Children)	Dionysus	Sign of Truth	request

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Intro to Power Metal!

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:30:00 -0400

Time	Artist	Song	Album
9:13 PM	Rhapsody	Ira Tenax	Legendary Tales
9:13 PM	Iron Maiden	22 Acacia Avenue	Number of the Beast
9:25 PM	Helloween	I Want Out	Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II
9:31 PM	Gamma Ray	Valley of the Kings	Blast from the Past
9:31 PM	Stratovarius	Dreamspace	Dreamspace
9:36 PM	Angra	Carry On	Angels Cry
9:48 PM	Iron Maiden	Fear of the Dark	Fear of the Dark
9:49 PM	Blind Guardian	Theatre of Pain	Somewhere Far Beyond
9:54 PM	Helloween	Mission Motherland	The Time of the Oath
10:02 PM	Nightwish	Gethsemanne	Angels Fall First
10:11 PM	Rhapsody	Lord of the Thunder	Legendary Tales
10:16 PM	Freedom Call	Freedom Call	Crystal Empire
10:21 PM	Sonata Arctica	My Land	Ecliptica
10:26 PM	Beyond Twilight	Sleeping Beauty	Section X
10:27 PM	Bloodbath	Treasonous	The Fathomless Misery	new rotation

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Out on a Lim - Opinions

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Thu, 9 Oct 2008 22:43:00 -0400

Out on a Lim - Opinions
Our first media coverage! Check it out!

Something eerie happened to me during the first few days of school. It was night and most appliances in my room were turned off, but I kept hearing really low strains of music. I attributed it to sensitive ears and somebody else's music. But it happened again, and determined that I was not losing my mind, finally found the source of the music. My speakers, which were hooked up to my computer, seemed to get the airwaves of WRMC so I could hear 91.1 FM whether I was actually tuned in or not, even if my computer was off as well. Because of this strange phenomenon, I now hear WRMC at nearly all times. Even with my own music on, I can hear echoes of another song in the background. Although avoidable if I cut the power to the speakers, this auditory invasion had become a minor source of frustration.

However, a couple of days ago, while attempting to do my homework, I heard two DJs talking about their show and introducing the songs. Their music of choice was metal, which is practically a galaxy away from the orbit of my musical taste. But their theme for the night was covers, so I heard metal bands playing songs anywhere from Phantom of the Opera to ABBA. It was surprisingly good and refreshing, and got me thinking about where and when I had developed this aversion to metal. I had no idea. It wasn't that I had an unpleasant experience with that genre per se, but that I enjoyed other types of music so much to the point where I had stopped exploring and appreciating.

YeeahhhH! He goes on to talk about economic theory and why people make sub-optimal choices. Hopefully, if you've found this site, you're already on your way to singularity (optimal choice) of music. \m/

Melting Point Radio: 10/6/08

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:29:00 -0400

Second show of the fall 2008 season of Melting Point Radio on WRMC, 91.1FM Middlebury, VT

Time	Artist	Song	Album
9:07 PM	Equilibrium	Blut im Auge	Sagas	new
9:10 PM	Nachtmystium	Ghosts of Grace	Assassins: Black Meddle Part I	new
9:21 PM	Dark Tranquillity	Zodjiackal Light	The Mind's I
9:21 PM	In Flames	The Inborn Lifeless	Lunar Straight/Subterranean
9:22 PM	Atheist	And the Psychic Saw	Unquestionable Presence
9:25 PM	At the Gates	Cold	Slaughter of the Soul
9:29 PM	Van Canto	Fear of the Dark	Hero	new
9:38 PM	Cynic	Integral Birth	Traced in Air	new
9:41 PM	Direwolf	1,000,000 Enemies Mercury's Disaster	Beyond the Lands of Human Existence	new
9:45 PM	Children of Bodom	Hellion	Follow the Reaper	request
9:55 PM	Zimmers Hole	1312	While You Were Shouting at the Devil... I Was in League...	new
9:59 PM	Haggard	Chapter I - Tales of Ithiria	Tales of Ithiria	new rotation
10:13 PM	In Flames	Moonshield	The Jester Race
10:14 PM	Night in Gales	Towards a Twilight Kiss	Towards the Twilight
10:15 PM	Omnium Gatherum	Song for December	The Redshift	new
10:16 PM	Children of Bodom	'Lil Blood-Red Riding Hood	Hatecrew Deathroll
10:17 PM	Raintime	Rolling Chances	Flies & Lies
10:18 PM	W.A.S.P.	Hellion	W.A.S.P.	request
10:27 PM	Iron Maiden	Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Powerslave

Melting Point METAL COVERS edition... Final semester kick off

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:05:00 -0400

*NOTE*: Due to technology sucking, the middle part of the show was omitted from the podcast. Including my amazing mixmasterology. Go figure.

This is the first show of the 2008-2009 season (Alex's last semester!!)
Our new time slot is Mondays, 9-10:30pm EST.

Now sit back, relax, and enjoy our first show of the year... COVERS!

Time	Artist	Song	Album
9:03 PM	Children of Bodom	Oops I Did it Again (Britney Spears)	Bodom Covers	rotation request
9:05 PM	Alex Stark and Replicant	Fear of the Dark	Powerslaves	request
9:11 PM	Norther	Final Countdown	Dreams of Endless War
9:17 PM	Freedom Call	Demons Dance	Dimensions
9:17 PM	Dimmu Borgir	Burn In Hell	Cover It Up Vol. 2	request
9:23 PM	Pagan's Mind	At The Graves	Infinity Divine	rotation request
9:32 PM	Nevermore	The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)	Cover It Up Vol. 1
9:38 PM	Van Canto	Kings Of Metal	Kings	new rotation request
9:42 PM	Labyrinth	Come Together (The Beatles)	6 Days To Nowhere	request
9:46 PM	Nightwish	Phantom of the Opera	Century Child
9:57 PM	Van Canto	The Bard's Song	Kings	new rotation request
9:59 PM	Synergy	Gimme Gimme Gimme (ABBA)	A Man After Midnight	request
10:03 PM	In Flames	Everything Counts	Cover It Up Vol. 2
10:11 PM	Children of Bodom	Aces High	Bodom Covers	request
10:18 PM	Alex Yule	Sounds of Silent Bloodbaths	Random?
10:18 PM	To/Die/For	In the Heat of the Night	Cover it up Vol.2
10:22 PM	Therion	Summernight City	Secret of the Runes	request
10:31 PM	Between the Buried and Me	Geek U.S.A. (Smashing Pumpkins)	The Anatomy Of	request
10:34 PM	Between the Buried and Me	Kickstart My Heart (Motley Crue)	The Anatomy Of	request
10:35 PM	Between the Buried and Me	Bicycle Race (Queen)	The Anatomy Of	request

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The Melting Point Crew Loves You This Much...

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:06:00 -0400

Lavaging Expectorate Of Lysergide Composition Lyrics

New Kamelot Video

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:03:00 -0400

FYI: Melting Point is on break for another semester, with the possibility of several select episodes being produced exclusively for podcast.

Kamelot released a video for their new album today. Both the video and the song, suck.

Kamelot - Rule The World from Kamelot Official Vimeo on Vimeo.

Two Reasons Why Avantasia Should (Collectively) DIE

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:39:00 -0500

Reason 1: Tobias Sammet does high kicks at the end of this song. Live. On stage. And seems to be enjoying it.

Reason 2: They made this video (and the song!! the soooong!)

I rest my case.

Update: In response to those who say this album (and video) are being panned solely for being "different" and "not heavy enough" I submit this as evidence: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ReRbSbBhTHQ&

A song from Avantasia's earlier days that is both "soft" and "awesome". As opposed to being "soft" and "pop bullshit" (see: The entire new album).

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:19:00 -0500

WELL, since WRMC is lame, there was a fucking schedule screwup. And it seems our slot was mixed up. So until (maybe) next week...

Enjoy...

The Glorious Fiery Return of Melting Point

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:08:00 -0500

Time	Artist	Song	Album
9:29 PM	Abigor	Warning	Fractal Possession
9:29 PM	Abigor	Cold Void Choir	Fractal Possession
9:48 PM	Noekk	Hong Long Is Ever	The Minstrel's Curse	new
9:49 PM	Ayreon	The Earth Extinction	01011001	new
9:51 PM	Turisas	Five Hundred and One	The Varangian Way
9:57 PM	Symphony X	Eve of Seduction	Paradise Lost
10:02 PM	Ensiferum	Wanderer	Victory Songs
10:08 PM	Food For Thought	Fortunes of War	Now That's What I Call 'kin' Music (Elektro Tribute to Iron Maiden)
10:11 PM	Raintime	Rolling Chances	Flies & Lies
10:16 PM	Xystus	Part 2: Make It Happen	Surreal
10:20 PM	Miseration	Seven Are The Sins	Your Demons - Your Angels
10:23 PM	Sonata Arctica	The Vice	Unia
10:27 PM	Nightrage	Encircle	A New Disease is Born
10:33 PM	Finntroll	Under tva runor	Ur Djordens Djup

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Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka, RIP

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:09:00 -0500

Drummer Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka of the Polish extreme metal band DECAPITATED passed away in a Russian hospital from injuries sustained in a recent road collision. He was 23 years old.

[From BLABBERMOUTH.NET - DECAPITATED Drummer Dead At 23]

This is such a tragedy for the metal community. I just found out today, as I was abroad in Mongolia since August. It's completely surreal reading the progressing news reports, first an accident... then surgery but recovering, then DEAD?! I don't even know what to say. My heart is with the families, and of course COVAN who should know the entire world of metalheads are pulling for his recovery. I'm wearing my Decapitated shirt in the honor of these incredible men and musicians. I sent a few dollars to the fund as well, hopefully it'll make this whole ordeal a little easier for everyone involved.

From the band:

Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka – our brother and dearest friend succumbed to head injuries sustained after a bad van accident while on tour in Russia. He was 23.

One of the youngest and most promising drummers in the genre, together with Decapitated he has consistently released albums both crushing and invigorating in their musicianship. Extremely talented – he has been involved in other side projects: Dies Irae, Panzer X.

He will be missed and can not be replaced. The metal scene will be much sorrier with his passing…

[From MySpace.com - DECAPITATED]

See their myspace site for more news and to support the families of both Vitek and vocalist Covan, (who is still in the hospital) through the Vitek and Covan Charity Fund.

Akercocke Irish BBC TV Interview

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:08:00 -0400

Score one for heavy metal... \m/

Sabbatical

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Sun, 27 May 2007 20:53:00 -0400

Well everyone, it's been a great run, and I hope you've enjoyed the show these past few years... With tear-filled eyes I must now give you the sad news: indeed, Melting Point Radio will be taking a short break, to return en force in the Spring of 2008!

Jack will be in New Zealand spreading metal to the high and lowlands, while Alex heads to the steppes of Mongolia, and Toby will hold the fort back in Vermont.

With love and Heavy Metal
-Melting Point Radio

p.s. our last few shows were nothing special, but I'll still post the podcasts eventually, for now I leave you with this sexy little logo I just cooked up for the Metalheads Against Racism project, feel free to take a copy and pass it on, and if you wanna be real nice tell everyone to listen to our show! I'll make some more when I get a few spare minutes and will post them here as well. Yay.

Aaand because the border looked stupid on that one, here's one with no grey border around it:

God Listens... to Slayer

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Fri, 11 May 2007 00:10:00 -0400

Hehe...

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Metal Mapping: The First Metal Cartogram?

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Sun, 6 May 2007 23:08:00 -0400

I give you... in the name of procrastination and, of course, metal... what I might wager to say is the first (ever?) metal cartogram. For your viewing pleasure...

Each country is distorted so that its relative area is proportional to the number of metal bands registered to it on Encylopedia Metallum. Created using Adrian Herzog's ~~excellent~~ mediocre Mapresso cartogram applet.

What is a cartogram?

Melting Point 4/12/07: Alex's Week Off

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Sun, 6 May 2007 22:04:00 -0400

Alex's week off; don't worry you're still in good hands. Jack and Toby take the wheel for this weeks show. Good stuff.

Stream this episode at archive.org.

Time	Artist	Song	Album
9:02 PM	Nightrage	Spiral	A New Disease is Born
9:05 PM	Raintime	Matrioska	Flies & Lies
9:10 PM	Dalraida	Szondi Ket Aprodja (2. Resz)	Kikelet
9:17 PM	Dimmu Borgir	The Serpentine Offering	In Sorte Diaboli
9:21 PM	Star One	Set Your Controls	Space Metal
9:26 PM	The Faceless	The Ghost of a Stranger	Akeldama
9:30 PM	Symphony X	The Edge of Forever	The Damnation Game
9:39 PM	Laethora	Clothing of the Dead	March of the Parasite
9:43 PM	Sonata Arctica	The Vice	Unia
9:48 PM	Conscience	When It's Over	Half Sick of Shadows
9:55 PM	Dream Theater	Under a Glass Moon	Images & Words

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Heavy Metal Baghdad

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Fri, 4 May 2007 00:43:00 -0400

Hey everyone. We had a great show tonight, extra long @ 90mins which I'll post sometime soon hopefully (as well as last week's show. the week before that was crappy so I'm not gonna post it...).

Anyways, I found this amazing documentary on Youtube made by some indie journalists who went to Iraq to interview the country's only metal band, Acrassicauda.

See below for the full blurb.

It's a 5 part series, which you can find here.
Here's part one:

The group that made this is called VBS.tv, and they seem to be doing really cool alternative journalism stuff, all over the world: Sudan, Pakistan etc...! Check it out.

UPDATE! Here's an update from Roy Ahearn that was posted as a comment below, republished for your convenience:

Hey Guys, could not find your email, wanted to let you know that a new part about this band is up on VBS. In the final installment, the band has reunited in Damascus, Syria and play a reunion concert. We went to the show, hung out with them, and then recorded a demo with the band. Yes, a heavy metal demo in Syria! Something very rare. Through the band, we explore the Iraqi refugee crisis. The current crisis is the worst to happen in the Middle East since the creation of Israel. So far 2.4 million Iraqis have fled Iraq and 2 more million are displaced within Iraq. This is perhaps the worst refugee crisis in the world right now.

Part 1
Part 2

Dionysus Quotage

adyule@gmail.com (Alex Yule) — Wed, 2 May 2007 19:23:00 -0400

Sent to me by a friend who has recently fallen in love with the Dionysus song, "Anthem for the Children" (thanks to Melting Point):

So this is what the drummer to Dionysus said about their last album: When asked for comment on the album, drummer Ronny Milianowicz replied:

"This album is so good that you would throw away all other cds you got only to have this one. It will make you drink beer like crazy. It will make your neighbors[sic] your worst enemies. It will make you a true metal warrior."

If that isn't metal, i do not know what is.

My reply to him? "\m/"

'Nuff said.