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.