The weekly Wyrd Ways Rock Show is back for the time being!

There's been so much good music I've been finding recently, I'm making a lot more shows than normal. Not bad, eh?

Anyway... if you need it, there's a bit of a TW for mental health problems (mine!) and sex. They're linked together and I've been talking to Alice Lovegood of the Better Sx Academy. She gets a mention and also a track played (that's why there's some classic Black Sabbath in this week's playlist).

Shall we get on with this?

This is an unusual situation, isn't it? Two Wyrd Ways Rock Shows, two weeks in a row?! Is it a sign of The End Times?!

With the political situation in the US, it might just be that.

Anyway, continuing the policy of getting more women and marginalized communities onto the show (so long as they're making good music), there's loads of new stuff about to pour out of your earphones, or whatever it is you're listening on.

This week's show was helped into being by all the PRs who send me music to play to you, the members of Vanitas, the ComeCurious podcast and the Instagram and OF presences of @hoopsydaisy, @MercedesValentine, @Raven_alternative and @AliceLovegood.

Not done one of these since July, and it's now November. Oops.

Been a busy few months at Castle Wyrd Ways. That's why there's been a big delay. You've listened to the interviews I did at at Stonedead, right?

Anyway. As usual, there's loads of new stuff, including tracks from Celavi, Grand Magus and loads of others. You can see it in the tracklisting on the Wyrd Ways Rock Show website.

There's another reason I got this finished this weekend. Anger. Anger at what's happened in America. How can over half the voting population of the country be so damned stupid, racist, homophobic and just plain wrong? I suppose this is what happens when the religious fundies kicked out of Europe create their own country.

So as from now, The Wyrd Ways Rock Show is going to be platforming women, sex workers and members of the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities. We are Metal. We are the outsiders and outsiders have to stick together. If you voted for Trump, I don't want you listening to my show anymore. You spread hate? You're not welcome here.

Welcome to the latest edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show.

This month (although I may try to get another one out this month before Stonedead), we’re bringing you a solid lineup of new music from across the metal spectrum. As always, we’re keeping it real – mistakes, verbal hiccups, and all. But not literally hiccups this time out.

We’ve got fresh tracks from experienced heads like Deep Purple, Powerwolf, Flotsam and Jetsam and Anvil and emerging talent, namely Defences, Alt Blk Era, Scene Queen and Soulfracture, showcasing the diversity of today’s metal scene. Expect about two hours of hard-hitting tunes that’ll keep your Mosh Buffer working overtime.

So turn it up and enjoy another round of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show – where the music does the talking. Except when I’m doing it.

May was ridiculously busy this year. So much assignment marking to be done, so I wasn't in the right brain space for the work of putting a show together. Then there was The Final Shape...

Anyway, Download 2024 was another mudbath that I'm glad I didn't attend, I can't got to SOS Festival in a couple of weeks because of transport issues and I appear to have a chest infection. That's why I sound so croaky. Ended up taking a day or so off work, which just shows you how crappy I feel. I'm not one for going off sick unless I absolutely have to.

Have a couple of hours (or near enough) of quality Rock and Metal.

It’s OK, folks, The Wyrd Ways Rock Show is back for another blast of quality Rock and Metal, just the way you love it.

It’s May and Festival Season is just getting going. Here in the UK we’ve got Download, Stonedead and Bloodstock, in France there’s Hellfest and in Germany, there’s Wacken Open Air. Unfortunately Metal Days has been cancelled, but there’s loads of others, large and small all over Europe. America’s got a few (Sick New World, Maryland Deathfest, When We Were Young for the Emo crowd)… so it’s all kicking off worldwide.

If you want some new music to listen to if you can’t get to any of those, or you need something to listen to on the way, stick on an edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show and turn it up. Loads of new stuff to pique your interest and burn out your Mosh Buffers.

Let’s do it.

8th March was International Women's Day. It would also seem that March is Women's History Month. It would have been nice to actually have been informed of that. Anyway, this edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show celebrates and commemorates the role of women in Metal.

This one doesn't just look backwards. I'm not looking at the already established. That's why Doro, Nightwish, Butcher Babies, Leaves Eyes and so on aren't in the playlist. OK, I sneaked in some White Zombie, but the rest is current and up-and -coming. I've not even included anything by Alt Blk Era or Wargasm because I play their stuff regularly.

Anyway, there's some good stuff here, so play it loud.

This one came together a lot quicker than I was expecting, to be honest. I just happened to find a lot of stuff that I wanted to play on the show over the last few days, so I thought I'd just record and publish.

There's more than the normal amount of Power and Symphonic Metal in this one, quite a lot of it being from Italy. That was mostly because it was precisely what I've been in the mood for for the past few days. Power Metal is excellent for when you just want to elevate your mood, isn't it? Certainly works for me.

Weirdly, there's also a song from the Republic Of Ireland's entrant for Eurovision in there somewhere. Seriously.

Anyway, as usual, you can find me (and a lot of these bands) on Instagram and TikTok. Give them a follow. Give me a follow too, while you're there. You can find me at WyrdWaysRockShow on both platforms. Come and say "hello". Also remember to subscribe to the podcast on your favourite podcast app.