VomitRadio is the creation of Eric Egenes, veteran of Metal Radio for almost 40 years.

 Eric started playing hard music on the airwaves at KUNM Radio in Albuquerque, New Mexico back in 1987. Eric was Metal Music Director and hosted the show "Radio Nightmares" and gained a large listenership playing the best in underground metal, punk and alternative rock.

Eric left Albuquerque in 1989 to attend broadcasting school in Portland, OR for about a year, and then returned to Albuquerque to work at KBAC, the top Alternative Rock station in Northern New Mexico at the time.

In 1992, Eric started working  for KZRQ, the Z-Rock affiliate in Albuquerque and eventually ended up with the Music Director title. He programmed heavy music within the format (the stuff most of his co-workers hated, but had a large fanbase in Albuquerque). Needless to say it didn't last and Eric was out of a job.

After a year of searching, Eric landed the Program Director job at WTZR (another Z-Rock affiliate) in Scranton, PA., in 1994. He started programming heavy music into the format and started a weekly show called the "Weekend Powersurge" (with the air name 'Johnny Kilgore'). The management of the station and the Z-Rock network didn't like this of course, and tried to pressure Eric to change to a 'listener friendly alternative format'....which he refused to do. Soon after the premiere of his show, Eric was fired.

In 1995, Eric ended up working overnights at KTEG, The Edge, in Albuquerque, again as 'Johnny Kilgore'. After a year and 3 months, dealing with overbearing program directors who never gave him a raise or any amount of respect, getting turned down for better airshifts (even though he was the #1 overnight jock in Albuquerque), Eric got tired of the shit and totally snapped. He took over the radio station for over 2 hours and played nothing but the heaviest of metal. The phones blew off the hook in support...even the next morning when the morning show came in, they also interviewed him live on the air to get the whole story (to quote Eric from the interview "Sometimes you gotta grab the bull by the horns and give him a swift kick in the nads"). Of course Eric was fired the next day, but with a smile on his face.

Eric left commercial radio with a vengeance! Five trade journals covered the story (Gavin Report, Album Network, F Magazine, Hard Report and FMQB) and he even got a mention on a local TV station's morning news program. The Edge was getting slammed with phone calls for months afterwards, eventually causing them to get a new request line number. And to this day nobody has forgotten the 'Legend of Johnny Kilgore'.

Over the next three years, Eric worked as a strip club disk jockey, went to school to learn about computers,
and worked in customer service for a major corporate online service....and quit after 2 1/2 years to pursue other options and to save his sanity.

On January 1, 2000, VomitRadio.com launched to the world and radio will never be the same again.

VomitRadio will continue to feature the best in metal, punk, industrial, hardcore, and also unsigned bands.

VomitRadio
P.O. Box 93006
Albuquerque, NM USA 89199-3006