Metal Euphoria with your hostess Metal Maiden Vicki

19/10/2025

Hell yes, sharing in support of friends in Halloween The Heavy Metal Horror Show! 🎃💓🎶🎃

Based in Detroit, Michigan, US metal band Halloween fully embraced the tongue-in-cheek aspects of 80s horror while still creating speedy, catchy metal tracks...

07/10/2025

25/09/2025

I just created a LinkTree, check it out if you so desire....

Vicki "Metal Maiden" Gambino is an internet DJ, avid music fan and long time advocate of the heavy metal / hard rock scene.

19/09/2025

Hey Music Lovers! I'm currently in another dimension, but I am always around. 🤘😊🤘

10/08/2025

Hey Rockers! Just saying "High" and that I'm still around! 😊🤘

25/06/2025

Check out Lost Circus from Nashville, TN! "Music from a lost era when singers' notes soared, guitarists were gunslingers, bass was punchy, and the drums were thunderous.
Hard Rock? Heavy Metal? Melodic?
YES to all of the above....and more"

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07/06/2025

I may not be DJing right now and playing music for people, but melodies and lyrical emotions are always flowing through me, keeping me alive inside providing a powerful, passionate and immersive experience.

♫ Music is the healing force of the world...♫ - The O'Jays, "I Love Music"

"[Music] takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." ~ Sir Thomas Beecham

31/05/2025

Hello Sonic Asylum Radio Family,

Reminder ~ The radio station will be shutting down June 1, 2025.

As of April, 2025, Sonic Asylum Radio has been rocking the worldwide internet airwaves for 13 years, and what an absolutely amazing time it has been! For myself, this month marks ten-years for Metal Euphoria at the station, which is just unbelievable! Over the years the SAR family has changed, grown, etc. and wow, we have been so lucky and blessed to bring phenomenal music to the masses, conduct excellent interviews, meet incredible people / lifelong friends, bands, musicians, etc., forge relationships with record labels, PR companies, music promoters, etc., attend many shows and concerts in support of the music scene and even emcee several festivals! The overall experience has truly been extraordinary, outstanding and just a lot of damn fun!!

The DJs and Staff at Sonic Asylum Radio love and appreciate everyone that has supported the station, listened to the shows / stream, hung out in the chat room and everything else you have done to enhance the radio station over the years.

Keep on Rockin’ and much love! ~ Metal Maiden Vicki 😎🤘💓

26/05/2025

Here's my "Weekly Playlist Recap" for Saturday, May 24, 2025!
(For your listening pleasure, the audio file has been uploaded to Recap section of SAR website. https://www.sonicasylumradio.com
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This is my final show on Sonic Asylum Radio. Broadcast started at 3pm EST and ended at 11:11pm EST!!

The show is a mixture of music I chose and a complete replay of my first broadcast on SAR, which aired May 23, 2015!

Happy 10 Year DJ Anniversary to Me! This show was a wild trip full of memories and fun!

This first set was chosen by me:

Judas Priest – Evening Star (show opener)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Science Fiction, Double Feature
Rainbow – Stargazer
Motley Crue – Starry Eyes
Anthrax – Metal Thrashing Mad
Iron Maiden – The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Black Sabbath – Sweet Leaf
Dokken – Into the Fire
Bad English – When I See You Smile (a “Vicki is a sucker for ballads” track)
Van Halen – Sinner’s Swing!
Queensryche – I Dream In Infra Red
Ratt – You’re In Love
ManOwar – Battle Hymn (a song for my late husband Joe)
Edenbridge – Forever Shine On (dedicated to my sister Lori and my mom Donna)
Meat Loaf – For Crying Out Loud

Kickass three song request going out to Geronimo (aka Greg) with an extra from me. Guess which one. "What, Really?"
• Acid King – Motorhead
• Bob & Doug McKenzie – Black Holes
• Hawkwind – Motorhead
• Motorhead – Motorhead (Live)

Beginning of the Replay of my first Sonic Asylum Radio show broadcast on May 23, 2015:

Judas Priest – Delivering The Goods (Live)
Raven – Faster Than The Speed Of Light
Nevermore – The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel cover)
L.A. Guns – Never Enough
Ichabod Krane – Hypnotized
Grand Magus – Black Hole
Quiet Riot – Cum On Feel The Noize (Slade cover)
Sanctuary – White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane cover)

Songs I chose in real time, live and everything!:

Prodigy – As Darkness Reigns (going out by request to Rich Brown)
Lisa Hurt – What A Nice Place (Halloween “Detroit’s Heavy Metal Horror Show” cover)
Stone Magnum – Pictures Of Your Life (going out by request to MetalFreak Mark in dedication of our very own Brad “MadBrad” Toth) (May he forever R.I.P., Rock In Peace) Madbrad played drums for Stone Magnum and was one of our beloved DJs and founders.

Returning to the Replay of my first Sonic Asylum Radio show broadcast on May 23, 2015:

This Set was dedicated to my second family, the Brothers and Little Sisters of Pi Alpha Nu Fraternity, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY and the origin of why I call myself “Metal Maiden Vicki”:

• S.O.D. (Stormtroopers Of Death) – Pi Alpha Nu
• The Functional Idiots – Granola Parade (song went out to Pam “Pleasant Pam” Nee, one of our fallen sisters, may she R.I.P.)
• The Functional Idiots – Stick With Grandma
• Murphy’s Law – Fun
• Murphy’s Law – Quest For Herb
• M.O.D. (Method Of Destruction) – Party Animal
• M.O.D. (Method Of Destruction) – Rock Tonight
• Some “Animal House” movie soundbites thrown in there too)

Scorpions – Holiday (going out by request from a UK listener, Angie)
Alice In Chains – Them Bones
M.A.R.S. (Macalpine, Aldridge, Rock, Sarzo) – Slave To My Touch
Astral Doors – Rainbow In Your Mind
Psychoprism – Defiance
Black Sabbath – N.I.B.
Lyken 21 – Serial Killer Voodeux
Judas Priest – Cathedral Spires
Budgie – Rocking Man (going out to another UK listener, Paul)
Rush – The Trees
Pink Cream ’69 – Sugar For Love

Ronnie James Dio Tribute:

• Black Sabbath – Heaven And Hell
• Elf – Hoochie Koochie Lady
• Rainbow – Self Portrait
• Dio – Mystery
• Black Sabbath – The Sign Of The Southern Cross
• Rainbow – Do You Close Your Eyes
• Dio – King of Rock and Roll (Live)
• Black Sabbath – Children of the Sea (LOOKOUT!!)
• Rainbow – Gates of Babylon
• Kobra and the Lotus – Don’t Talk To Strangers (acoustic sung by Kobra Paige) (Dio cover)

** I also included a poem I wrote on the night RJD passed away entitled “In Loving Memory of Ronnie James Dio 5/16/10” **

Pantera – Proud To Be Loud
Shadowkiller – Visions in the Eclipse
Nightwish – Astral Romance
Running Wild – Raise Your Fist
Ratt – You’re In Love
Savior From Anger – Claustrophobia
Prime Evil – Blood Curse
Prime Evil – Plague of Humanity
Twisted Sister – I Am, I’m Me
Twisted Sister – Bad Boys (Of Rock ‘n’ Roll)
Judas Priest – Metalizer
Judas Priest – Never Satisfied
ManOwar – Bridge of Death (going out to Geronimo, aka Greg)
Spiritual Sickness – Your Life Is Mine
Iron Maiden – Wasted Years
Avantasia – Lay All Your Love On Me (Abba cover)
Armored Saint – Can U Deliver
Saxon – Denim And Leather

^^^ Wow, that was the last set of my Replay of my first Sonic Asylum Radio show broadcast on May 23, 2015! ^^^

Now Back To Songs I chose in real time, live and everything!:

Yes – And You And I (a song that goes out to so many people for so many reasons)
Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station (a “Lori’s Just Dance A Few” tracks and also a song with dual meaning, which I do explain)
The Who – We’re Not Gonna Take It

Another tribute to my second family, the Brothers and Little Sisters of the Pi Alpha Nu Fraternity, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY:

• Several more “Animal House” movie sound bites
• Pi Alpha Nu Chant live from one of our Anniversary parties (I think it was maybe the 30th one)
• Pi Alpha Nu singing our great country’s national anthem (a fraternity standard since 1984, especially when traveling to functions on a bus!) “The Star-Spangled Banner” (like the chant above, I also recorded this live at the same anniversary)
• I also included two poems I wrote about the fraternity and the legendary Lembo Lake toga parties.
• S.O.D. (Stormtroopers Of Death) - Pi Alpha Nu


Pi Alpha Nu (with lyrics below)
♫ Going out to drink beer
Having loads and loads of fun
Don't complain that spring break is here
Hanging out in P&G's

[Chorus]
Pi Alpha Nu
Pi Alpha Nu

[Verse 2]
Hangin' in the trippin' fields
Jumpin' into mud puddles
Toga party was a blast
Don't know how the people last

[Chorus]
Pi Alpha Nu
Pi Alpha Nu

["Mosh Part"]
Mosh!

McMahon!

[Chorus]
Pi Alpha Nu
Pi Alpha Nu ♫

Van Halen – Happy Trails
The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Science Fiction, Double Feature (Reprise)
Judas Priest – Never Forget (no, I’m not tearing up, really I’m not) (well, actually…you know I am)

Alice Cooper - I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (show closer)
Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith (show closer)

(Various fun/comical sound bites interspersed throughout the show…tune in to check them out!)

AND THAT’S A WRAP! WHAT A WILD TRIP TO HEAR MY FIRST BROADCAST AND I HOPE ALL OF YOU ENJOYED IT AS WELL!
ONE THING HAS REMAINED OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS, “I AM, I’M ME!” MUCH LOVE TO YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT OVER THE YEARS! AND JUST A REMINDER, I AM NOT GOING ANYWHERE! I AM NOT GIVING UP DJING AND WILL PROBABLY RETURN SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE, BUT LIFE THINGS ARE TAKING PRECEDENCE WITH ME AND STUFF. SONIC ASYLUM RADIO IS SHUTTING DOWN, BUT I WILL ALWAYS BE AROUND!

SO UNTIL NEXT TIME, LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE, BE SAFE AND ALWAYS STAY METAL AND YES, IT’S DAMN GOOD TO BE A METALHEAD!
😊🎙🤘💓