What began as just a way for me to deal with the boredom and loneliness of UCI, became one of the longest programs broadcasted on KUCI. The show started in January of 1998, my sophomore year at UCI. The show bounced around several timeslots(Fri 3am-6am, Thurs 3am-6am, Mon 12am-3am, Tues 12am-3am) and finally landed on Wednesdays 10pm-12am. This was the first metal show on KUCI to be on before midnight in many years.

Most would assume that the name of the show came from the well-known Sabbath tribute albums. But the name was taken from another Sabbath related source. I had a trade magazine that detailed the history of the godfathers of our beloved genre. In the article, it discussed the confusion that some fans had about the meaning of the song title, "NIB." Some thought that the song had stood for "Nativity In Black." Geezer Butler cleared up the confusion by stating that the song title didn't stand for anything and that it had been called "NIB" after Bill Ward's beard which looked like a pen-nib. Thus I thought that "Nativity in Black" was the most suitable name for a metal show which owed it's existence to one band that changed the world in 1970.

As my musical knowledge grew, so did the show. The first shows were characterized by mainly thrash and traditional/classic metal bands with a small percentage of extreme metal. But as the years went by, the show became more of an extreme metal show. But the point of "Nativity in Black" has always been to play a variety of different genres from different eras of metal. So I constantly tried to play new and different genres that haven't been played much before. More doses of doom, hardcore, atmospheric, avant-garde, and dark metal were played during the last year of the show.

The show was unfortunately brought to an abrupt halt in August of 2002. Due to radio station politics, I decided to quit the show. I couldn't continue in an atmosphere void of fairness and respect.

Big hails go out to Roycifer, Big Johnson, Kevin Stockdale, Andrew Sample@Century Media/Nuclear Blast, and Pellet@Relapse.

I wanna thank all the people who have helped the show to live this long and who have supported me to keep the fight...