CiTR -- Powerchord
737 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★ - 1 ratingOriginally conceived by veteran heshers "Metal" Ron and Gerald "Rattlehead" in 1985, Powerchord is Vancouver's longest running metal show! And the torch is still burning with contemporary hosts Coleman, Serena, Chris, Justin, and Ian, covering all sub-genres across the harsh landscape of heavy metal. New releases, local bands, the obscure, the classic, and everything in-between.
Two hours of absolute brutality every Saturday from 1-3pm.
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Episodes
In Sickness And In Death
November 21, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 192 MBIan brings crushing new doom hymns from Heron, Bong Wizard and Sons Of Otis to this episode of Powerchord. We'll blast away the November blues with paint-scouring death metal from Extremity, Vastum and Cosmic Putrefaction, and rep the still-simmering Vancouver metal scene with Ceremonial Bloodbath and Vital Spirit. We'll also play new rippers from heavyweights Napalm Death and Boris, and dig a classic tack from Exciter's 1983 debut record Heavy Metal Maniac out of The Graveyard! Join us...
Entropic Self Immolation
November 14, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBSome real posi-vibes on the show today! We welcome new music from Fuck the Facts, Thou and Emma Ruth Rundle, Pallbearer, Eternal Champion, and Of Feather and Bone; we celebrate another great streaming event at the Rickshaw with local faves Empress and Heron; we mark Remembrance Day and the 40th anniversary of Ace of Spades with a double-dose of Motorhead; and last but definitely not least, we finally get to say goodbye to that vile piece of shit in the oval office with some Neckbeard Deathcam...
Nocturnal Hell
November 07, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 192 MBThe time change has come and gone, so welcome to the part of the year where it's perpetually dark and raining and miserable! Dark, heavy weather calls for heavy sounds, so we start this episode off with a ripping track from Vancouver's own Ceremonial Bloodbath and their monstrous new album The Tides Of Blood. Brutality and wanton destruction is the order of the day as we play tracks from some of 2020's best death and black metal releases, including new music from Embodiment, Cultus Profano, W...
Halloween 2020
October 31, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 111 MBColeman gets spooky with Halloween classics from the Misfits, Helloween, King Diamond and more; plus new music from Wake, Ceremonial Bloodbath, Ape War, Skaphe, and heaps more.
Legions Arise
October 17, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBToday's show is a celebration of all things pagan, wyrd and spooky! We'll begin celebrating the season of decay with a track from the epic doomy power metal unit Valkyrie off of their first new album in 5 years. We'll set the mood for the Halloween season with witchy tracks by proto-doom and heavy occult rock shamans like Witchcraft, Blood Ceremony, Jex Thoth and Witch Mountain. We also have new music to play for you by Pale Divine, Cirith Ungol, Skeletal Remains, Ceremonial Bloodbath, and lo...
RIP EVH
October 10, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBA lot of ups and downs on this one. We pay tribute to the passing of Eddie Van Halen, check out a slew of stuff from Riff Merchant Records, feature new music from Sumac, Empress, Proscription, and more. Dig it.
Every Walk A Quarantine
October 03, 2020 20:03 - 2 hours - 110 MBLet's celebrate the start of the spooky season! On this episode, Ian brings death metal deliverance with new music from Napalm Death, Ulcerate, Cerebral Rot and Vader! Hardcore heavy-hitters KEN Mode, Fucked Up and Trap Them will make an appearance, and we'll also play a suffocatingly dark new track from miserable sludge masters Primitive Man. Plus, we'll get into the spirit of the season by digging a track from Swedish gothic doom titans Candlemass out of The Graveyard! Let's rock.
Morbid Exaltations
September 26, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBColeman sets the pace at "dark and bleak" early on in this show with a disgusting slab of funeral doom courtesy of Atramentus. Spotlights on new splits from Encoffinate/Abscess Lord and Antediluvian/Heresiarch; more New Zealand heat from Temple Nightside and Vassafor; two outstanding benefit comps in support of Black Lives Matter, and other great jamz!
The Crushing Tide
September 19, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 192 MBBlast away the smoke with us as we kick off the show with a jam from Ulthar's punishing new death metal masterpiece Providence! We'll get proggy with Intronaut, Anciients and Voivod, ride into battle with Throne Of Iron, Visigoth and War Dogs, and then bring the doom with Paradise Lost, Electric Wizard and Thou! The second half of the show will feature some ferocious crusty hardcore with Nails, Erosion and WTCHDR, and we'll give 'er with Vancouver skate-thrashers Christ Air and S.T.R.E.E.T.S....
Your Hell
September 12, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 112 MBColeman returns with a heap of new shit from some of the best bands in the genre; Uada, Pallbearer, Necrot, Primitive Man, Napalm Death, and plenty of other lesser known but just as amazing bands. 2020 has been (and will certainly continue to be) a dumpster fire, but the metal output this year has been anything but!
Out For Blood
September 05, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 192 MBSept 5th We start today's show with the rip-roaring title track off of Skeleton's self-titled debut record, out now on 20 Buck Spin. It's a raging blend of feral blackened thrash, riffy Conan-sludge, and classic lighter-raising bombast, sure to get the headbangers' attention. We follow that up with vicious and brutal new tracks from the likes of progressive tech-death units Pyrrhon and Odius Mortem, righteous jammers from local favourites Vth Circle and Temple Of Abandonment, and rampaging n...
Soul Sacrifice
August 29, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 111 MBWe eulogize the late Riley Gale of Power Trip and the tragic loss it is to the entire metal community. Features on new black metal duo's from Spirit Possession, Dkharmakhaoz, and Fayenne; plus a spotlight on the recent output of live streams with special focus on happenings at the Rickshaw Theater and the CVLT Nation Youtube channel. REST IN POWER RILEY GALE. POWER TRIP FOREVER.
After The Future
August 22, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 192 MBToday's episode opens with a trilogy of tracks involving the incomprable multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, Colin Marston. We start with new music from his band Krallice, who just put out a punishing new record of extreme black/death metal. We follow that with some of his work from behind the board with Afterbirth, off their stunning new album Four Dimensional Flesh. Then we'll hear something from Colin's collaboration with the legendary Gorguts off their brilliant comeback album C...
Cage Of Mirrors
August 15, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 192 MBWe kick off today's show with a track by French experimental metal project Igorrr, whose new record Spirituality & Distortion blends aspects of black and doom metal with folk, classical, electronic, drone and avante garde music to create one of the most singular records of the year. Next, we'll get into some more traditionally heavy territory with some crushing doom from Heron, Isak, Elder Druid and Vile Creature, then get dark and brutal with Dark Fortress, Forest Leech and Embodiment. We'll...
Smouldering Embers
August 08, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 192 MBNew music from farflung heavyweights like Boris, Acid Mammoth, Serpent Cobra, Exhorder and Vastum headline today's show! Join us as we crank things into high gear with a set of speed metal featuring Bewitcher, Riot City, Cauldron, and Blade Killer, and then slow things to a crawl with some crushing doom from Haggatha, Craters and Windhand. We'll dig into some transcendent, nature-worshipping black metal as we visit both sides of a split release featuring Skagos and Panopticon, and we'll crank...
Sludge on the Swamp / Migration Fest
August 01, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 111 MBColeman does a feature on what would have been Sludge on the Swamp Vol.2 and Migration Fest Vol.3.
When The Path Is Unclear
July 18, 2020 20:01 - 2 hours - 110 MBThis episode kicks off with a pair of filthy covers from the CVLT Nation Sessions tribute to Entombed's classic 1990 album Left Hand Path! Fight the pandemic blues with us as we play some crusty, agonizing doom from Vile Creature's newest album, and then we get into some thunderous, riff-heavy power metal from Eternal Champion and Smoulder. We'll also play some psychedelic-dosed hard rock with Blackwater Holylight and some occult-scented proto-doom with The Well. Hour 2 features some demented...
When The Path Is Unclear
July 18, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBThis episode kicks off with a pair of filthy covers from the CVLT Nation Sessions tribute to Entombed's classic 1990 album Left Hand Path! Fight the pandemic blues with us as we play some crusty, agonizing doom from Vile Creature's newest album, and then we get into some thunderous, riff-heavy power metal from Eternal Champion and Smoulder. We'll also play some psychedelic-dosed hard rock with Blackwater Holylight and some occult-scented proto-doom with The Well. Hour 2 features some demented...
Coming out swinging
July 11, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBOn this show we blast out of the gate with new death metal from heavyweights like Ulcerate, Vader, Revenge, along with some stuff from Tyrant's Blood and Venom Prison! We also lay down some neck-breaking thrash with Infernal Majesty, Nervosa, Warbringer and new music from Canada's own Annihilator! This show also features new doom metal from the legendary Paradise Lost along with local favourites Heron and Mendozza, and we get into some transcendent black metal with the likes of Ruins of Berve...
Coming out swinging!
July 11, 2020 19:59 - 1 hour - 110 MBOn this show we blast out of the gate with new death metal from heavyweights like Ulcerate, Vader and Revenge, along with some stuff from Tyrant's Blood and Venom Prison! We also lay down some neck-breaking thrash with Infernal Majesty, Nervosa, Warbringer and new music from Canada's own Annihilator! This show features new doom metal from the legendary Paradise Lost along with local favourites Heron and Mendozza, and we get into some transcendent black metal with the likes of Ruins of Bervera...
Coming out swinging!
July 11, 2020 19:59 - 2 hours - 110 MBOn this show we blast out of the gate with new death metal from heavyweights like Ulcerate, Vader and Revenge, along with some stuff from Tyrant's Blood and Venom Prison! We also lay down some neck-breaking thrash with Infernal Majesty, Nervosa, Warbringer and new music from Canada's own Annihilator! This show features new doom metal from the legendary Paradise Lost along with local favourites Heron and Mendozza, and we get into some transcendent black metal with the likes of Ruins of Bervera...
Coming out swinging
July 11, 2020 19:30 - 2 hours - 111 MBOn this show we blast out of the gate with new death metal from heavyweights like Ulcerate, Vader, Revenge, along with some stuff from Tyrant's Blood and Venom Prison! We also lay down some neck-breaking thrash with Infernal Majesty, Nervosa, Warbringer and new music from Canada's own Annihilator! This show also features new doom metal from the legendary Paradise Lost along with local favourites Heron and Mendozza, and we get into some transcendent black metal with the likes of Ruins of Berve...
The Ghost of Covenant VI
July 04, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBColeman does some hard lamenting about the postponed Covenant fest.
The Return
June 27, 2020 20:01 - 1 hour - 110 MBIan makes his triumphant return to the airwaves and attempts to grapple with recording the show at home on his laptop. In this episode, we’ve got new music from Smoulder, Spell, Mendozza, Haunt, Cauldron, Dopelord, Slift and others, plus a song off the newest record from veteran Bay Area thrashers Testament! We’ll dig into some heavy rock with a few prog, psych, and proto-metal touches like Blood Ceremony, Stonefield, Merlin, as well as some traditional ‘80’s style speed metal with Blade Kill...
Don't Mess with the Hornet's Nest
June 20, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBColeman ambles through another COVID sesh from his East Van abode. We play some protest tunes re. the BLM movement against racism and police brutality courtesy of Power Trip, Body Count, and Holy Grinder; some assorted new tunes from the likes of Sightless Pit, Ifernach, and Hyperdontia; plus a feature on the new split from Almyrkvi and (of course) The Ruins of Beverast. Get the FUCK into it.
The Ghost of NWTF 2020
June 13, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBColeman pours one out for what would habe been Northwest Terror Fest in Seattle. Also new chunes from local faves Heron, Empress, and Seer; and Ice-T drops a truth bomb to close us out. RIP George Floyd.
Raise Your Metal Claw!
May 23, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBColeman has a chat with Mayo from local promoter The Invisible Orange about missing live music and when/how it may return, as well as a feature on the cancelled Modified Ghost 5 Year Anniversary shows with Sacrifice, Razor, Cattle Decapitation, Old Man Gloom, and plenty more \m/
Star of Darkness and Abyss
May 09, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBAnother transmission from lockdown. Coleman highlights more cancelled and postponed shows from Auroch, Exterminatus, and Archgoat; as well as a feature on new stuff from the Vigor Deconstruct label, and more...
Salvation Smothered
May 02, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 112 MBA whole schwack of new shit from Cauldron, Revenge, The Hallowed Catharsis, Cirith Ungol, and the new Whoredom Rife/Taake split. Plus a feature on new live releases, and an inquest into the idea and examples of "modern-classics".
Bloodborne Lust to Kill
April 25, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 111 MBColeman greets you once again from his basement with riffs aplenty. New shit from the Spectral Lore/Mare Cognitum collab, Panzerfaust, Lady Beast, Ripped to Shreds, Ruin Lust and heaps more.
Enraptured By Decay
April 18, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBColeman cobbles together another show from home, touching on the cancelled Hyperspace Metal fest and Ritual Dictates shows; we pine for live music with Yob and Triptykon; and check out a heap of new jamz from Wake, Black Curse, Nekrovault, Krallice, and more.
Easter Cop Out
April 11, 2020 20:08 - 2 hours - 110 MBColeman throws together another home recorded show with a bunch of hella long players. We bookend the set with two half-hour masterpieces from Esoteric and Gorguts respectively, plus new Spell, Auroch, Panopticon and a live show that could have been: Year of the Cobra and Mendozza. And an Easter anthem from Deicide.
Agonize in Solitude
April 04, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 111 MBWelcome to the first ever home recorded episode of Powerchord! It only took a global pandemic to force us to figure it out, but whatever works, right? Listen to Coleman fumble through this trial run, hopefully find his legs in the end, and manage to produce something coherent.
Abject Darkness
March 07, 2020 20:59 - 2 hours - 111 MBColeman and his wee girl are in studio cranking out dark, heaviness of many varieties. We check out the new split from Anhedonist and Spectral Voice, recent local shows from Blackwater Burial, Blackwater Holylight, and upcoming shows from Vastum and Mayhem, plus shit loads more.
Live Set from STAHV
February 29, 2020 19:57 - 2 hours - 113 MBThis episode we start with the post Doom psychidelic sounds of STAHV the One man show from Ari Rosenschein out of Seattle. Then Bina Mendozza Joins the show to talk about the New relaese from Mendozza the Album Soul Nebula. We play some music and shoot the shit about playing slow and producing albums. ASll Hail the Black Goat!
Some Blackened Sludgey Misery
February 22, 2020 19:59 - 2 hours - 113 MBBlack Sabbath, Black Sabbath turned fifty last week and the God known as Tony Iommi had his birthday this week so that is where we will start, at the beginning of heavy metal. the rest of the show is pretty much new music from bands like Mendozza with their new release Soul Nebula, Weed Demon with The Elder Tree Pyre, brand new release from the Rough Spells and Religious Observance. Then we did an overview of the up coming shows All Hail The Mighty Church Of Misery for the first time in vanco...
Metal at 50
February 15, 2020 21:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBBlack Sabbath's first album was released on Friday, Febuary 13th, 1970. Loud, heavy rock and roll, high-powered amplification, distortion, and drugs existed prior to that, but Sabbath's use of the tritone on the first song of their first album added the final crucial ingredient -- they made the music sound EVIL. That moment represents heavy metal's "Big Bang", the inception of all the metal that has come since. Today's show (and every show we do) is a celebration of that legacy in all its f...
FUNDRIIIIIIIIVE 2020
February 08, 2020 19:01 - 3 hours - 165 MBColeman and Ian hit the airwaves for a special 3 hour episode of begging for your money!
SOCAN SHOWDOWN
February 01, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBColeman is in studio, starting with a tribute to 3 fallen drummers this month, Sean Reinert, Reed Mullin, and Neil Peart, before moving into a big ol' SOCAN set. Git yer CANCON on hosers!
Heron Live!!!!!!
January 18, 2020 20:58 - 2 hours - 111 MBHERON Vancouver's purveyors of Sludgey Doom play a live set to open the show and then get down with some of their favourite tracks. this show is heavily influenced by predominantly Vancouver bands. So join us in this crushing set with a couple of brand new tracks from HERON, cuz HERON is for the children. All Hail The Black Goat!
ECHOES OF DEATH
January 11, 2020 19:58 - 2 hours - 110 MBDenver demons CHTHONIC DEITY join Coleman in studio along with local death metal hero, Anju Singh. We talk about their show(s) in Vancouver, touch on the many other projects they are involved in, and of course, play sick, disgusting metal ov death. RIP NEIL PEART
Unholy Mess it is 2020
January 04, 2020 19:59 - 2 hours - 110 MBAs the Wolrd Burns and Wars are started by infantile world leaders and our Brethern fall before their time, we must return to what is important. The devastating soul crushing sounds of the Underground. The Unholy Union of Death and Doom. We start the show with a shout out to the lose of one of the Heavy Ones, Remembering Elijah Nelson we start with two tracks from Black Breath. We continue on with more Blackened Metal with Occult Burial, Crystal Coffins, and Creeping Death. We slow the show d...
Last Show of 2019 Good Bye and Good Riddance
December 28, 2019 19:57 - 2 hours - 114 MBThe last Show and Justin is playing some of his favourite tunes from 2019 and some special tracks to be released in 2020. some of the features upcoming releases from Mendozza, Frayle, Yatra, and Sixes. Top picks for this show include Sunn((0, Slowner, Temple of the Fuzz Witch, Rough Spells, Haxan, Black Mountain, The Well, Devil's Witches, Black Furs, Lochness, Let Them Hang, and The Kings Pistol. Here to an amazing year in Music with more top 2019 tracks to come. Looking forward to the relea...
The First Day Of Winter
December 21, 2019 21:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBRaise a goblet of goat’s blood and toast the solstice! Today is the darkest day of the year, and Ian’s got your soundtrack, featuring crushing tunes from some of our favourite releases of 2019!!!! Lurching doom metal from Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard and Dead Witches, ferocious thrash with West of Hell and Devil Master, putrid death metal including Tomb Mold and Vastum, and melodic Thin Lizzy-worshipping anthems with Gygax and Sheer Mag are just some of the highlights of today's show, plus we'...
Unconquered Light of Nothingness
December 14, 2019 21:00 - 2 hours - 111 MBGettin' dark and doomy in studio A with Coleman. 2019 is nearly through, but there is already a ton of new stuff on the horizon for 2020: Tombs, Carcass, Midnight, Cult of Fire, Today is the Day. Plus a look back at forgotten/overlooked albums of the year, and spotlight on some local punk.
Strong Women in Metal
December 07, 2019 20:01 - 1 hour - 109 MBThis episode is heavily laden with the sounds of Women in metal. Witchrot, Year of The Cobra, Brume, Palmistry Rifflord, Cauchemar begins this satanic Saturday session of Worship. Music is Life and life is fuckin heavy so I listen to heavy music in the key of Life (Stevie Wonder reference cuz I love all good music).we end this episode with a bit more of a Blackened energy drawing from Canada, Ye Goat Herd Gods, and Sadomagickal Seducer, and then from around the world Abigail Williams, Creepin...
Inhuman Utterings
November 30, 2019 20:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBColeman returns from parental leave to highlight what might be the best (non-festival) week of live music in Vancouver all year: King Diamond, Daughters, Lingua Ignota, High on Fire, Power Trip, Uada, and Wormwitch! Many other heavy and harsh things abound. Dig in.
The Build Up
November 23, 2019 19:58 - 2 hours - 110 MBWe start this episode low and slow but I promise you it is worth the wait for devastation is promise and there will be a total destruction of your mind by the end of this set. We start with Daughters and Lingua Ignota. We move into a realm a bit heavier with Monolord, Heron, and Dopethrone. The the show takes a turn towards annihilation with Power Trip, Creeping Death and AHNA. We close this episode with a nod to the Doom Giants Sleep who are taking a Hiatus from the music world. All Hail The...
Cold November Rain
November 16, 2019 20:03 - 1 hour - 107 MBHolding it together as the rainy season gets underway in Vancouver with some blistering new black metal tracks from the likes of Yellow Eyes, Liturgy, Constellatia and Abigail Williams. We'll blast some local favourites like Black Mountain, storc, Sand Witch, Hexripper and Syrinx and also revisit some of the year's best death metal with Blood Incantation, Tomb Mold and Diocletian. The legendary Death Angel is playing the Rickshaw on Monday, so we'll dig a classic track from them out of The Gr...