WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 4/30/07

Artist  —  Album  —  Label
1) Dark Tranquillity  —  Fiction  —  Century Media
2) Dew Scented  —  Incinerate  —  Nuclear Blast
3) Dimmu Borgir  —  In Sorte Diaboli  —  Nuclear Blast
4) Hellyeah  —  Hellyeah  —  Epic
5) Six Feet Under  —  Commandment  —  Metal Blade
6) Shadows Fall  —  Threads of Life  —  Atlantic
7) Vital Remains  —  Icons of Evil  —  Century Media
8) Sanctity  —  Road To Bloodshed  —  Roadrunner
9) Redemption  —  The Origins of Ruin  —  InsideOut
10) In This Moment  —  Beautiful Tragedy  —  Century Media
11) Antigama  —  Resonance  —  Relapse
12) Machine Head  —  The Blackening  —  Roadrunner
13) Temple of Brutality  —  Lethal Agenda  —  Demolition
14) As Blood Runs Black  —  Allegiance  —  Mediaskare
15) Black Sabbath  —  The Dio Years  —  Warner Bros.
16) All Out War  —  Assassins In The House Of God  —  Victory
17) Saxon  —  The Inner Sanctum  —  SPV
18) Static X  —  Cannibal  —  Reprise
19) From Autumn To Ashes  —  Holding A Wolf By The Ears  —  Vagrant
20) Man Must Die  —  The Human Condition  —  Relapse

Top 5 Adds
1) Megadeth  —  United Abominations  —  Roadrunner
2) Dublin Death Patrol  —  DDP 4 Life  —  Godfodder
3) Immolation  —  Shadows In The Light  —  Century Media
4) Alesana  —  On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax  —  Fearless
5) Job For A Cowboy  —  Embeded (Single)  —  Metal Blade

Other Adds: Mother Night, Behold the Archetype

Immolation
Shadows In The Light
Century Media
40:33 – 10 Tracks
Good ol classic Death metal from Immolation.  The mix sounds just a little boomy, but other than that, just classic heavy, almost sludgey death metal with some cool guitar solos here and there.  Can’t say there’s anything groundbreaking here, but it’s always good to get some meat and potatoes death metal from a band that’s been around a long time!   You’ll hear it on the Mosh Pit!

Megadeth
United Abominations
Roadrunner
48:01 – 11 Tracks
Well, this is about what I’d expect from the “new” Megadeth after seeing them play a few times in the last couple years.  A good solid, fairly heavy effort.  Andy Sneap handled the mixing, so you know it’s going to sound clean and crisp.   It’s a lot more cohesive than the last album, as Dave’s actually got a real band this time.  This is what the modern Megadeth should sound like!   It’s not all out thrash, but it is a good solid metal album.  Of course, it’s angry and mad at war/terrorism and all that…  You’ll hear it on the Mosh Pit!

Job For A Cowboy
Embedded (Single)
Genesis
Metal Blade
3:35 – 1 Track
Good intense heavy death metal along the likes of Dying Fetus, Suffocation, etc.  Another release mastered by Andy Sneap, again, of course it sounds great, the man is a master!   You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit, I’m looking forward to getting the full length!

Mother Night
Mother Night
Locomotive
69:06 – 12 tracks
This is some classic sounding hard rock with female vocals, at first thought, it sounds like Doro or something along those lines.  It doesn’t ever seem to really get going.  The songs are all fairly good hard rock songs, but it just does not seem like Mosh Pit material.

Alesana
On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax
Fearless Records
55:57 – 15 Tracks
Well, this is interesting, three vocalists, a female emo sounding guy, an metalcore screamer and some cookie monster.  Three guitarists.  It does sound like some metalcore, but with so many more dynamics.  It’s just not the typical metal-core band.  It still has all the elements that make up emo-metalcore, but there’s just something about this that makes it neat, it stays pretty heavy and has some cool thrash elements too.  You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit.

Becoming the Archetype
The Physics of Fire (one Track download)
Solid State
Solid heavy stuff from these guys… I’ll have a bigger review when the real CD comes in.  Sounds good for this one track though!

Dublin Death Patrol
DDP 4 Life
Godfodder Records
53:10 – 12 Tracks
Chuck Billy and Steve Souza team up with a bunch of others from the Dublin, CA thrash scene for a bay area thrash super group.  It’s so nice to hear Chuck Billy back again… and Zetro for that matter.  It’s a straightforward metal/thrash album.  Doesn’t seem to get too complex, it’s about what you’d figure, a classic Bay Area thrash sound.  You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

ARTIST  —  TRACK  —  ALBUM  —  LABEL  —  NEW  —  REQ
Invitro  —  New Disease  —  3 Song EP  —  Gridiron  —  Y  —  N
A Band Called Pain  —  Holy  —  Broken Dreams  —  Heiro Imperium  —  Y  —  N
Porcupine Tree  —  Fear Of A Blank Planet  —  Fear Of A Blank Planet  —  Atlantic  —  Y  —  N
Static X  —  Destroyer  —  Cannibal  —  Reprise  —  Y  —  N
Lordi  —  Who’s Your Daddy  —  The Arockalypse  —  The End  —  Y  —  N
Type O Negative  —  Halloween In Heaven  —  Dead Again  —  SPV  —  Y  —  N
The Destro  —  Rivers Bottom  —  As The Coil Unwinds  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
In This Moment  —  This Moment  —  Beautiful Tragedy  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
Sanctity  —  Laws of Reason  —  Road To Bloodshed  —  Roadrunner  —  Y  —  N
Hellyeah  —  Rotten To The Core  —  Hellyeah  —  Epic  —  Y  —  N
All Out War  —  Glorified In Defeat  —  Assassins In The House of God  —  Victory  —  Y  —  N
Shadows Fall  —  Dread Uprising  —  Threads of Life  —  Atlantic  —  Y  —  N
Devildriver  —  Driving Down The Darkness  —  The Fury of Our Makers Hand  —  Roadrunner  —  Y  —  N
Machine Head  —  Aesthetics of Hate  —  The Blackening  —  Roadrunner  —  Y  —  N
Slayer  —  War Ensemble  —  Seasons in the Abyss  —  American  —  N  —  Y
Testament  —  Disciples of the Watch  —  First Strike Still Deadly  —  Spitfire  —  N  —  Y
Exodus  —  The Last Act of Defiance  —  Fabulous Disaster  —  Combat  —  N  —  Y
Temple of Brutality  —  Doesn’t Matter  —  Lethal Agenda  —  Demolition  —  Y  —  N
Biohazard  —  Tales From The Hardside  —  State Of The World Address  —  Warner Bros.  —  N  —  Y
Sepultura  —  Slave New World  —  Chaos A.D.  —  Epic  —  N  —  Y
Pantera  —  Domination  —  Cowboys From Hell  —  Atco  —  N  —  Y
Dark Shift  —  Gaining Ground  —  Gaining Ground  —  LOCAL  —  Y  —  Y
Serenity  —  Canopus  —  Words Untold & Dreams Unlived  —  Napalm  —  Y  —  N
Saxon  —  Let Me Feel Your Power  —  The Inner Sanctum  —  SPV  —  Y  —  N
Redemption  —  The Suffocating Silence  —  The Origins of Ruin  —  SPV  —  Y  —  N
Dimmu Borgir  —  The Chosen Legacy  —  In Sorte Diaboli  —  Nuclear Blast  —  Y  —  N
Dew Scented  —  Into The Arms of Misery  —  Incinerate  —  Nuclear Blast  —  Y  —  N
Naglfar  —  Plutonium Reveries  —  Harvest  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
Antigama  —  Ecstasy  —  Resonance  —  Relapse  —  Y  —  N
Dark Tranquillity  —  Terminous  —  Fiction  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
Vital Remains  —  Scorned  —  Icons of Evil  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
As Blood Runs Black  —  The Brighter Side Of Mourning  —  Allegiance  —  Mediaskare  —  Y  —  N
Belphegor  —  Seyn Todt In Schwartz  —  Pestapokalypse VI  —  Nuclear Blast  —  N  —  Y
Six Feet Under  —  Zombie Executioner  —  Commandment  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
Behemoth  —  No Sympathy For Fools  —  Zos Kia Cultus  —  Nuclear Blast  —  N  —  Y