19/05/2025
Just to let you know, I'll be back with the Dark Side of Metal as soon as I can, got a few health issues going on atm but I'll be back on air soon. In the meantime there'll be repeats of past shows aired at 8pm. Thanks for understanding.
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Welcome to the Dark Side of Metal
In February 2017 it was a huge pleasure and privilege to join the ranks at Sine FM, Doncaster’s incredible community radio station, with the idea of bringing some great underground metal bands to the airwaves and broadcasting content which is sadly underrepresented on conventional radio. Thanks to the extraordinarily open minded and positive ethos Sine FM has and also to community radio as a platform this idea, which would be looked upon with disdain by most conventional radio outlets, was welcomed by Sine FM with open arms and so the Dark Side of Metal was born.
The clue is in the name, Dark Side of Metal aims to bring the obscure, the extreme, the underground and sometimes the just plain weird bands which make up a vital and vibrant force in the metal scene and show the metal underground to be a hugely eclectic and exciting thing to be a part of. On the show you’ll hear, among other things, black metal, death metal, doom, pagan metal, viking metal and all sorts of other stuff that is beyond doubt just as deserving of radio airplay and of listeners attention as anything else out there, regardless of commercial viability.
Sine FM is a great platform to be on for this reason and many others. It’s a community station, non-profit oriented and so is not influenced by commercial motivations and therefore not required to tailor it’s content to mainstream audiences, this means it can bring on board more specialist shows such as this one and do things which aren’t done elsewhere. Unlike many stations it’s us, the presenters, who choose the content, we’re not handed orders or playlists from above here and this allows us to collectively create a broad and diverse schedule, of which my underground metal show is a small part. Sine FM is essentially the voice of Doncaster, engaging with and bringing on board ordinary members of the Doncaster community and giving us a platform to put out the content we love and share the things we’re passionate about with Doncaster and the wider world, and also providing the training, skills and experience that comes with it. All in all, it’s a great organisation and well worth supporting, and be sure to check out Sine FM’s full schedule on the website too, for anything from punk and indie to chat shows to some highly experimental music shows and a whole load of other stuff.
As for me, I’m just a regular metal fan who’s been listening to and loving this music for around 25 years now, I’m one of those people who comes across new bands and ends up screaming about them from the rooftops trying to convince people to listen to them. Having a radio show now, means I can carry on doing that on a much larger scale.....
