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WREKage is Atlanta's only weekly metal radio show -- Fridays, 11:59 pm 'til we get tired. 91.1 FM, and online worldwide.
WREKage is Atlanta's longest running true metal radio show. The show airs every Friday evening on WREK Atlanta 91.1 FM from midnight until around 6 a.m. It streams live on the web and a one-week streaming & downloadable archive is always available at www.wrekage.org/streamingWREKage.php. WREKage has been serving Atlanta's metal community since 1984 (known as "Night Reign" until the name changed to
We should have tickets to give away for Obituary, and also for Arch Enemy, this week on WREKage. Thanks to the Masquerade for offering contest giveaways...it's been since before the pandemic. (!)
An update on our 25-hour broadcast:
Well, you might have noticed that it didn't happen. :)
Joe T. had received tacit approval from WREK's General Manager and Music Director to stage a 25-hour broadcast during the Christmas break at GA Tech, to commemorate my 25 years officially hosting WREKage. When I sent a follow-up email to both, however, I did not receive any responses...so I suppose that was that.
Considering the problems at the studio -- dead console computer, malfunctioning turntables, missing cabling, etc. -- it might be just as well. Maybe we'll try again in the future.
--Paul C.
Stay tuned for details on (hopefully) our forthcoming 25-hour broadcast. (!!)
To our surprise, the A/C is still out in the GT Student Center for the second week in a row (!), so WREKage may be pre-recorded tonight. Or you might hear more of Stonehenge's 20-hour marathon broadcast, which is pretty cool, too.
Programming note: there will be no WREKage show the night of March 15th-16th, since Stonehenge will be running a 20-hour special at that time.
If all goes to plan, tonight's WREKage show will be an encore rebroadcast of DJ-Kraken's epic final show on WREKage , originally aired two weeks ago.
(Live broadcasts on WREK may resume next week if the move to our new (old) studios is complete.)
We are now allowed to have up to two visitors in the studio for interviews, etc.
Local bands, take note.
Holiday greetings to all of our metalhead listeners!
If you have any holiday song requests for our Christmas show -- which will actually fall ON Christmas night this year :o -- go ahead and let us know!
After our long hiatus, WREK is returning "live" to the airwaves. Per the campus' draconian COVID-related restrictions, only hosts currently affiliated with Georgia Tech -- i.e., students and faculty -- can be in the studio, so only Matt/DJ-Kraken will be able to host the show for now. If all goes well, our first "live" broadcast since March will take place this coming Friday.
05/10/2020
Here are some metal Youtube playlists, carefully curated by your humble WREKage deejays, to tide us all over until we can do our show live in the studio again. Everything from power- and death-metal to traditional heavy metal and a BIG collection of metal covers. Enjoy!
WREKage: Atlanta's Metal Radio WREKage - Atlanta's metal radio on WREK 91.1, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA USA.
Sad news:
Due to the COVID-19 virus and the lockdown of the Georgia Tech campus, ALL staffed shows at WREK -- including WREKage -- have been suspended indefinitely and the studio is off-limits.
EDIT: if possible, we will try to rebroadcast some old shows each week to at least have SOME metal on the radio......
We will have tickets to give away for ProgPower USA tonight on WREKage. These will be for Days 3 and 4; both days are sold out.
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WREK C/O WREKage 350 Ferst Drive NW Suite 2224
Atlanta, GA
30313
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