Also, be sure to tune in to WITR this Tuesday Night at 9PM when I'll be hosting Rochester Sessions featuring live music from 137.

Bolt Thrower - Honour, Valour, Pride (Metal Blade) 
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence sampler (Elektra) 
Entombed - Morning Star (Koch)
Fleshcrawl - Soulskinner (Metal Blade) 
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness (The End) 
Scholomance - The Immortality Murder (The End) 
Within - The Way...  The Truth... The Light (Local/Unsigned)

The Rochester metal scene, as always, needs a boost. Local clubs are giving up on metal. Bands are doing the best they can, but don't get much help from local clubs [...] As it stands now, it is going to be almost impossible to bring nationals in, unless bar owners see the demand for it. They are also beginning to shy away from the local metal [...] We need all the help we can get. 

Thanks, 
Mike 
137

Thursday, January 3rd at the Penny Arcade - Warblade, homeRX, and Savingthrow - Show at 9PM 
Warblade is a new Rochester band that take their inspiration from melodic death metal greats like In Flames.  Check out their homepage here

Saturday,  Jan. 5th  at Water Street - Withered Earth, Within, 137, Herod  - doors @ 8 :30 show @ 9PM 
If you listen to the show, you probably know Withered Earth, and  you can check out Within mp3s here and visit 137's homepage here

I will see you all in the new year, until then, support metal in Rochester... or there won't be any metal in Rochester.

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Deteriorot - In Ancient Beliefs (WW3) 
Diabolical - Synergy (MercenaryMusik/WW3) 
Enter My Silence - remotecontrolled scythe (MercenaryMusik/WW3) 
Godless - EP (Unsigned death metal from Greece) 
Severance - What Lies Ahead (WW3) 
Tottenkorps - Tharnheim: Athi-Land-Nhi; Ciclopean Crypts of Citadels (WW3) 

Make sure to listen for a chance to win guest list spots for the Catastrophic show on Tuesday!

Death - Live in L.A. (NBA) 
Diabolic - Subterraneal Magnitude (Conquest) 
Grave Digger - The Grave Digger (NBA) 
Kreator - Violent Revolution (SPV) 
Saxon - Killing Ground (SPV) 
Sodom - M16 (SPV) 

Plus, the return of me GIVING FREE SHIT AWAY ON THE AIR!

Behemoth - Thelema.6 (Olympic) 
Diabolical Masquerade - Death's Design (Olympic)
Engrave - The Rebirth - Remasters (WWIII)
Hellspawn - Lords of Eternity (Rotten Records)
Nokturne - Embracer of Dark Ages (WWIII)
Sonota Arctica - Silence (Century Media)
Tristania - World of Glass (Napalm Records)

...and lots more! Call us at 716-475-2271 with requests. 

New: High quality internet streaming audio!
If you have high bandwidth internet connection and Winamp, click here to hear a 128kbps badass quality mp3 stream of WITR.

Absu - Tara (Osmose)
Adagio - Sanctus Ignis (Limb/SPV)
Aeon - Dark Order (DeathVomit/Necropolis)
Armored Saint - Nod to the Old School (Metal Blade)
Circle of Dead Children - The Genocide Machine (DeathVomit/Necropolis)
Freedom Call - Crystal Empire (Limb/SPV)
Gun Barrel - Power-Dive (Limb/SPV)
Iced Earth - Horror Show (Century Media)
Jacob's Dream - Theater of War (Metal Blade)
Mob Rules - Temple of Two Suns (Limb/SPV)
Reign of Terror - Sacred Ground (Limb/SPV)
Total War - We Are...Total War (Necropolis)
Vanishing Point - Tangled in Dream (Limb/SPV)
Wizard - Head of the Deceiver (Limb/SPV)

So tune in at 10PM to check out the show, and give me a call or drop me an email and let me know you're out there!

Donation Update
Rather than donating to SDO, the donation link on the left now allows you to donate directly to the Chuck Schuldiner Medical Fund.  Visit their page for tons of cool online auctions with the proceeds all going to help Chuck. 

New Rochester Zine
Check out "Pedal to the Metal" a new Rochester-area based metal zine.  The first issue features interviews with such notables as Jon Oliva of Savatage and  Nick Barker of Dimmu Borgir, plus CD reviews, news, and more. 

Shirt Special!
While supplies last, every T-Shirt ordered will get a "Virgin Steele - House of Atreus Act II" sampler CD, as well as other cool stuff from Noise Records! 

Donations
If you'd like to help out the show, I've added a PayPal donation link on the left.  All donations (and T-shirt proceeds) go towards expanding the Sudden Death Overtime archive of music, including purchasing classic and rare/import metal albums for airplay, and may also go towards promotion of metal shows or various other ways of  spreading the word of metal.  Note that this money does not just go into my pocket, any donations recieved will be used for show purposes only.  You can make micro-donations as small as one dollar.  Feel free to email me suggestions for usage of the donations recieved.

New CDs: 
Pro-Pain - Road Rage (Spitfire)
Avulsed - Stabwound Orgasm (WW3)
Centinex - Hellbrigade (WW3)

I also have just uploaded an interview I did with Stefan of Primal Fear in the features section.  Check it out!

Congrats to everybody who got themselves some free stuff courtesy of SDO.  If you don't have your packages already, they should be coming soon.  More interviews and pictures will be added to the site soon, but until then you can check out my interview with Peter from Soilwork in the features section.

Free Stuff For You!
I got a bunch of promo stuff from Nuclear Blast, and I haven't given anything away in a while, so it's about time I did.  The first 5 people to email me their name and address at suddendeathovertime@portalofevil.com with the subject "I want free stuff!" will win an SDO prize package featuring a Nuclear Blast sampler with songs by top NB artists such as Children of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, Primal Fear and many more, PLUS: Stickers, singles, posters, and anything else I find lying around the station!  Don't worry if you don't make the first five though, because the rest of the emails will be entered in a drawing to win more stuff as well.  Only one winner per address, good luck, and get your emails in now!

Major thanks to Malcom (drums for Nunslaughter, vox for All That Is Evil, ex-vox From the Depths) for hooking me up with both the Nunslaughter disc as well as the Descend/All That is Evil split CD at the AC show last Sunday.  Nunslaughter are all a bunch of cool guys, and they played an awesome set of pure death metal.  Thanks to everyone who came out to the show. 

New old stuff!  I hit some record shops today and snagged some older CDs that our station is missing, so we now have: 
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
Dark Tranquility - The Gallery
Sodom - Persecution Mania + In the Sign of Evil/Obsessed by Cruelty (double CD box set)
Rhapsody - Legendary Tales

The station doesn't give the show a lot of money to flesh out our back catalog, so we may explore other ways of making money in the future.  SDO shirts could be on the way, and I'm also considering some kind of micro-donation scheme where people could give small amounts of cash towards CD purchases.  If anyone has any suggestions or ideas, feel free to send me an email. 

Withered Earth CD Release!
Monstrosity and Within will aid Rochester death metal veterans Withered Earth in celebrating the release of their Olympic Records debut "Into the Deepest Wounds" tomorrow night at 8PM at the Water St. Music Hall!  Tonight on the show we'll be giving you a chance to win guest list spots for the show, PLUS the winners will also recieve a free copy of "Into the Deepest Wounds"!  So make sure to tune in to the show tonight and have a phone handy. 

More Rochester Metal!
Check out the future of extreme music in Rochester, Veqlargh!

I just got back from the eyehategod show, and it kicked a lot of ass.  I wanted to mention that I have some tickets to give away for the A.C. show sunday night, so make sure and tune in.  In the coming weeks we will also have giveaways for guest list spots to see Monstrosity

I've started posting shows happening as far away as Syracuse and Buffalo/Niagra in the concert calendar, in the interest of promoting metal in the western NY area and not just Rochester.  I recommend getting out to every show you can, even if you have to drive a little ways, because true metal needs your support!  And speaking of support, I have also added some more unsigned bands to the links section.  Check them out for cool sound samples and info.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Cryptopsy show, everyone who tuned in last night, and also to the Rochester based 137 who hooked me up with a cool demo at the Cryptopsy show.  Check out their page for sound samples and info, and tell 'em Ron sent ya.

Oh yeah, the Morbid Angel pictures from the Rochester show are finally posted, check 'em out!

Also, big thanks to the guys in Serberus, who sent me another copy of their awesome "In Eternity" demo CD after I lost the first one like an idiot.  Check out their page and listen to the best unsigned American melodic death metal band on the scene.

...and Oceans - A.M.G.O.D. (Century Media)
Dismal Euphony - Python Zero (Nuclear Blast)
Gardenian - Sindustries (Nuclear Blast)
Iron Saviour - Dark Assault (Noise)
Kreator - 1985-1992 Past Life Trauma (Noise)
Love History - Anasazi (The End)
Mortifer - If Tomorrow Comes (Valiant)
Neotruth - 32'42" Short Infinity (Valiant)
Nordream - Memories Progression (Valiant)
Odes of Ecstasy - Deceitful Melody (The End)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (Koch)
Specter - Images of the Innocent (Valiant)
Skinless - Foreshadowing Our Demise (Relapse)
Virgin Steele - House of Atreus Act II (Noise)
WASP - Unholy Terror (Metal-Is)

Lots of good stuff here, and finally we have the new Iron Saviour and Virgin Steele albums.  We also recieved a bunch of excellent Russian releases thanks to Valiant Music Productions.  The metal scene in Russia is not well known worldwide, but there are a lot of excellent Russian bands that deserve more credit.  Expect most of this stuff to go into rotation on our show, and if you want to hear more from certain bands, just let me know.  One more thing...
GO SEE OVERKILL THURSDAY NIGHT!

Annihilator Interview Up!
I was lucky enough to get the chance to talk to Jeff Waters, founder of Annihilator check the interview out in the features section.  I have posted the transcript only, as in the case of the Morbid Angel interview.  If you would like the full length audio versions of these and future interviews posted, just send me an email and let me know and I will post mp3's as well as the text versions.

Note:  There will be the usual hockey-related delay tonight.  So if you hear hockey when you turn us on, just sit tight and we'll be there soon.  Don't worry, the season is almost over!

Avalon - Eurasia (Sensory)
B.E.N.T. - Eleven (unsigned)
Britny Fox - Long Way to Live! (Spitfire)
Demonicon - Condemned Creation (Root of All Evil)
Paul Dianno - The Beast Live (Spitfire)
The Forsaken - Manifest of Hate (Century Media)
Grim Reaper - See You in Hell (Re-issue - Spitfire)
Horfixion - Disynchronize (unsigned)
Krokus - Headhunter (Re-issue - Spitfire)
Krokus - The Blitz (Re-issue - Spitfire)
Krokus - Alive and Screamin' (Re-issue - Spitfire)
Morningstar - Weight of the Hammer (R.I.P.)
October 31st - Visions of the End (R.I.P.)
Onward - Evermoving (Century Media)
Serberus - In Eternity (unsigned)
Tad Morose - Undead (Century Media)
Tygers of Pan Tang - Live at Wacken (Re-issue - Spitfire)
Tygers of Pan Tang - The Wreck-Age (Re-issue - Spitfire)
Visionaries of the Macabre Vol II - An Evil Elite (Lost Disciple)
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Double Live (Re-issue - Spitfire)
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - The Seventh Sign (Re-issue - Spitfire)
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Inspiration (Re-issue - Spitfire)
Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - Alchemy (Re-issue - Spitfire)
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Facing the Animal (Re-issue - Spitfire)
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Magnum Opus (Re-issue - Spitfire)
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in E flat minor Op. 1 (Re-issue - Spitfire)
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Best of '90 - '99 (Re-issue - Spitfire)

Mega Metal thanks to Spitfire records, who completely out of the blue sent me a ton of reissues!  As you can see there are some unsigned bands in here, two of which were featured on the show the other night.  I recommend everyone check out B.E.N.T. for some awesome prog/power/thrash, and the excellent Canadian band Horfixion, for a straight up kickass thrash attack.

New CDs
Mayhem - Mediolanum Capta Est (Dwell)
Enslaved - Mardraum -Beyond the Within (Necropolis)
Entombed - Uprising (Sanctuary)
Fozzy - s/t (Megaforce)
Damaged - Purified in Pain (Rotten Records)
Cradle of Filth - Midian (Koch)
Judas Iscariot - Dethroned, Conquered and Forgotten (Red Stream)

Upcoming Rochester Shows!
10/20 - Blind Identity at Tremors
10/31 - Withered Earth, Kalibas, Downdriven, Lifebleed at the Penny Arcade
11/1   - Saxon and U.D.O. Venue is TBA at this point.
11/19 - Morbid Angel, Immolation, Withered Earth, at the Penny Arcade
12/3   - Incantation, Mortician, Malignancy, and Goatwhore at the Penny Arcade
(All info is tentative and subject to change)

Sudden Death Overtime is Moving!
Due to scheduling changes here at WITR, Sudden Death Overtime has a NEW TIME, starting this week Sudden Death Overtime will be on Saturday Nights at 10pm.
We will be on tonight, but this will probably be our last Monday night show for the forseeable future.  So tell all your friends that we're packing up and heading to Saturday.  The main upshot of this will be that I can stay up practically all night Saturday, which means MORE METAL!
So, check us out tonight, and then again Saturday night for our first show in the new timeslot.

You'll probably hear most, if not all, of this on the show this week.  If you want to make sure to here something, give us a call or send me an email.

Early word has it that The Crown and Krisiun will be at the Water St. on August 16th.  Unfortunately this is the same night Maiden will be at Darien Lake, so a tough choice for metal fans.  If you aren't going to Maiden though, definately check this show out.  I'll have confirmation of it soon.  Until then, remember that Mayhem is at the Water St. this Sunday the 30th, and King Diamond is here August 11th.

In site news, I've put up this page to showcase some banners from other sites, because it would hardly be fair of me to ask for people to use my banners without having somewhere to put theirs in return.

Steel Prophet Giveaway!
Alright everyone, its contest time again!  This time around we have a copy of the brand new Steel Prophet album "Messiah" up for grabs.  This was our featured album the week before last, and if you're a power metal fan, this album is a must have.  Rules are as per usual, just drop an email to suddendeathovertime@portalofevil.com with the subject "Contest Entry" and your name and mailing address included, this contest will run until next Thursday the 29th at 10pm when the winner will be randomly drawn.  Thanks to the fine folks at Nuclear Blast for making this contest possible.

Upcoming shows: Tomorrow night is of course the U.D.O. show in Buffalo at The Funhouse, and if you're a fan of Accept or classic power metal in general, you owe it to yourself to get to this show.  Thursday night is of course the Rochester stop of the International Extreme Music Festival, featuring Shadows Fall, Kataklysm, Krisiun, and Dismember.  These are all great bands, and it's the first time Dismember has been in the US in seven years, so get out to the Penny Arcade and show your support for these death metal legends.  Also of note: Ted Nugent will be making a rare club appearance this Sunday night at the Water St. and if you're into him, its a great chance to see him outside of the Arena settings he usually plays in. 

Contest note: multiple entries will not increase your chances of winning (so cut it out Butch).

Jon Oliva interview update:
Due to some requests, I have transcribed the Jon Oliva interview.  Check it out in the features section.
 

Also, check out the features section for my interview with the mountain king himself.  It's a 20 minute mp3 fat packed with Savatage goodness.  If enough people request it, I may transcribe the interviews in the future, but I personally prefer to hear the actual audio, so thats the format I put up.

I noticed that our RealAudio feed was down last night, apologies to internet listeners who couldn't get to us.  I've taken care of the problem for now, so everything should be cool.

In other news, it looks like The Indestructable Beat, the world music show that usually comes on right before us, may not be happening tonight.  If it doesn't I may take it upon myself to fill that empty spot with some metal, so tune in starting at 8pm tonight and check it out.

In other news, we recieved the full length of the new Motorhead album, entitled "We Are Motorhead" plus a few other odds and ends we'll be featuring on the show this week, so be sure to tune in.

Contest Update:
Due to a large amount of entries, I have decided to increase the number of prizes.  There will now be three winners, each getting a copy of "Excalibur."  One Grand Prize winner will also get a copy of "Identity 6" Century Media's newest compilation, featuring music from some of their best bands.  The two runner's up will recieve Century Media's fall sampler from last year.  We might also throw in a few other surprises depending on what we have around at the station.  There's still time to enter before the drawing monday night, so if you haven't yet, just send us email at suddendeathovertime@portalofevil.com with the subject "Contest Entry" and your name and mailing address.

Grave Digger Giveaway!
As I mentioned previously, we have a copy of Grave Digger's new album "Excalibur" out now on Nuclear Blast and all you have to do to win is Send Us an Email with the subject "Contest Entry" and your name and mailing address.  The winner will be chosen in a random drawing before next weeks show, and will be announced on the show as well as on the page.  (Note: multiple entries will not increase your chances of winning)

In other news, the big release this week is the new Iron Maiden single "The Wicker Man" which of course sees the return of Bruce Dickinson and Adrian smith to the Maiden fold.  The new album, called "Brave New World" should be out by the end of the month.

Nuclear Blast hooked us up with a couple extra copies of the new Grave Digger album, and we'll be giving one away on the show next week, and the other here on the web page, so check back here for details.

Got some more info about the Shadows fall show.  They are on tour as part of the International Extreme Music Festival, and with them at the Penny Arcade on the 15th will be Dismember, Kataklysm, and Krisiun.  I'm in the process of trying to get some tickets to give away on the show, so stay tuned for that.

Also coming up in June, on the 25th at the Finger Lakes P.A.C., Dokken, Slaughter, Cinderella, and Poison.  I've begun teasing my hair in preparation.

I also just got word that Shadows Fall (their web page hasn't been updated with this yet) will be at the Penny Arcade here in Rochester on June 15th.  I'm announcing this pretty early, but if you've been listening to the show you know why this is good news.  They are certainly one of the best new bands around.  Everyone really needs to get out to this show.  You can read some PR stuff about them  here but if you've heard them, you don't need the label to tell you they rock.