It's OK, folks. 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 …

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. Tha…

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 …

January was a bit of a git, wasn't it? At least we've got the music to help get us through. Some cracking new stuff came out, some of which you'll get to listen to when you listen to the show. Plug in your headphones, turn it up, relax, get in the moment and let the soothing sounds of some excellent Heavy Metal take you to your happy place.…

This is definitely the last edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show for 2023. I'm certainly not going to have the time to produce another one in the next few hours before midnight and the beginning of 2024. I hope everyone reading this had an excellent Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule, Zarathosht Diso or whatever you celebrate at the end of December e…