John Kennys Metal Show

[jobrok1]

'JK on the Radio's was like a religion in my school days.
Then Monday was all the lads discussing whichever bands were featured.

He did a top 100 at Xmas time too.
I remember on of the entries he said was Warrant's 'Dog Eat Dog", but then plays WASP's "Animal... FLAB"...
Obviously couldn't say the proper band and song name, like.

[Maggot Colony]

Does anyone remember Zag hosting an episode of the show in JK's absence? I'm fairly certain it happened unless it was a fever dream.

[jobrok1]

Yeah!
He guested on a few shows, I think.

[open face surgery]

Ya, that definitely happened and maybe a few times.

[Bürggermeister]

The lad who did Zag was a metalhead, he was no stranger to the Sound Cellar.

[jpm4]

I remember that tv quiz show 2 Phat on rte with Zig and Zag - one episode they had Andy Cairns from Therapy? on dressed up as Santa Claus.

[Eoin McLove]

Zag was on every year, I think, for the top twenty or whatever it was. He was certainly on a few times. Rodge said he used to be in the Cellar from time to time, yup.

[Polaris]

For me as a teen in the mid 90s it was really important because I knew nobody else into metal except maybe Metallica. Extreme metal CDs often seemed to cost a fortune, so this was the show where I first heard stuff like Emperor, Dimmu Borgir etc, which was mind blowing for me at the time as I had never heard anything like it.

Same. Some of favourite 90s albums I first heard through that show: Tiamat's Wildhoney, Death's Symbolic, Annihilator's King of the Kill. Some of these I would've never eventually found without the show. For me as a teen trying to get into the music, it helped that he would play the most accessible songs on the new albums, likely as they appealled to his somewhat naive ear too. Two things I recall was him asking a member of Slayer why they didn't put a Sex Pistols cover on Undisputed Attitude(!), and I remember him reading out a formal statement from Alan Averill clarifying that their music is black metal not death metal. I also won one of their competitions and was sent a framed cover image of Metalllica's Reload signed by the band, which I still have somewhere. Good memories!

[Eoin McLove]

Jesus lads, you've some memories. Strangely enough, I was slow to pick up on some of the leads from listening to the show. Much of the good stuff, bands I would later get into, were too obscure and dark for my tender ears. I was 10 when it started and 17 when it finished up so maybe in the last year or two of it I began taking a few more risks with underground bands. But that said, maybe just having so much dark music pumped into my brain at such a young age ended up shaping me for better or worse later on!

[Taranis]

Forgot to mention the listener-voted Top 100 metal songs (in association with Hot Press?), I think it was in the later part of the first or early part of the second year of the show. It was the first time I ever heard Bathory's Call from the Grave, which was a fairly life-altering few minutes.

It would be class to see that list now.