ARTIST  —  TRACK  —  ALBUM  —  LABEL  —  NEW  —  REQ
He Is Legend  —  Dicephalous  —  It Hates You  —  Tragic Hero  —  Y  —  N
Clutch  —  Abraham Lincoln  —  Strange Cousins From The West  —  Weathermaker  —  Y  —  N
Machines of Grace  —  Just A Game  —  Machines of Grace  —  Winterfall  —  Y  —  N
Dream Theater  —  Wither  —  Black Clouds and Silver Linings  —  Roadrunner  —  Y  —  N
Amorphis  —  Course of Fate  —  Skyforger  —  Nuclear Blast  —  Y  —  N
Mind Key  —  Sunset Highway  —  Pulse For A Graveheart  —  Frontiers  —  Y  —  N
Crash The System  —  All Because of You  —  The Crowning  —  Frontiers  —  Y  —  N
Slayer  —  Hate Worldwide  —  Hate Worldwide Single  —  American  —  Y  —  Y
Devildriver  —  Waiting For November  —  Pray For Villains  —  Roadrunner  —  Y  —  N
Divine Heresy  —  The Battle of J Casey  —  Bringer of Plagues  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
Darkest Hour  —  Death Worship  —  The Eternal Return  —  Victory  —  Y  —  N
Arkaea  —  Years In The Darkness  —  Years In The Darkness  —  E1  —  Y  —  N
Dangerous New Machine  —  Burn  —  Dangerous New Machine  —  Unsigned  —  Y  —  N
Havoc  —  Morbid Symmetry  —  Burn  —  Candlelight  —  Y  —  N
Voivod  —  Treasure Chase  —  Infini  —  Relapse  —  Y  —  N
Killswitch Engage  —  A Light In The Darkened World  —  Killswitch Engage  —  Roadrunner  —  Y  —  N
9mm Solution  —  I Can Only Hurt  —  The Dream Is Dead  —  Rock Ridge  —  Y  —  N
Iwrestledabearonce  —  White Water In The Morning  —  It’s All Happening  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
Sworn Enemy  —  Lies  —  Total World Domination  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
Last Crack  —  Kiss A The Cold  —  Burning Time  —  Roadracer  —  N  —  Y
Mind Funk  —  Ride & Drive  —  Mind Funk  —  Epic  —  N  —  Y
Voivod  —  The Multiverse  —  Voivod  —  Chophouse  —  N  —  Y
Sanctuary  —  Future Tense  —  Into The Mirror Black  —  Epic  —  N  —  Y
Exodus  —  The Toxic Waltz  —  Fabulous Disaster  —  Relativity  —  N  —  Y
Suicide Silence  —  Something Invisible  —  No Time To Bleed  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
The Crimson Armada  —  A Filthy Addiction  —  Guardians  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
Job For A Cowboy  —  Regurgitated Disinformation  —  Ruination  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
Goatwhore  —  Reckoning Of The Soul Made Godless  —  Carving Out The Eyes Of God  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
Ex Deo  —  Legio XIII  —  Romulus  —  Nuclear Blast  —  Y  —  N
Obituary  —  Outside My Head  —  Darkest Days  —  Candlelight  —  Y  —  N
Suffocation  —  Pray For Forgiveness  —  Blood Oath  —  Nuclear Blast  —  Y  —  N
Anaal Nathrakh  —  In The Constellation of the Black Widow  —  In The Constellation of the Black Widow  —  Candlelight  —  Y  —  N
Valkyrja  —  As Everything Rupture  —  The Invocation of Demise  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
Angerpath  —  Human Is Left With Nothing  —  Forgotten World  —  Epitomite  —  Y  —  N
Blood Red Throne  —  The Light The Hate  —  Souls of Damnation  —  Earache  —  Y  —  N
Melechesh  —  Gyroscope  —  Emissaries  —  Osmose  —  N  —  Y
Behemoth  —  Christians to the Lions  —  Thelema.6  —  Century Media  —  N  —  Y

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 7/27/09

Artist  —  Album  —  Label
1) Goatwhore  —  Carving Out The Eyes of God  —  Metal Blade
2) Dream Theater  —  Black Clouds & Silver Linings  —  Roadrunner
3) Sworn Enemy  —  Total World Domination  —  Century Media
4) Killswitch Engage  —  Killswitch Engage  —  Roadrunner
5) Obituary  —  Darkest Day  —  Candlelight
6) Amorphis  —  Skyforger  —  Nuclear Blast
7) Voivod  —  Infini  —  Relapse
8) Suicide Silence  —  No Time To Bleed  —  Century Media
9) Ex Deo  —  Romulus  —  Nuclear Blast
10) Devildriver  —  Pray For Villains  —  Roadrunner
11) Suffocation  —  Blood Oath  —  Nuclear Blast
12) Clutch  —  Strange Cousins from the West  —  Weathermaker
13) 9MM Solution  —  The Dream Is Dead  —  Rock Ridge
14) Iwrestledabearonce  —  It’s All Happening  —  Century Media
15) Havok  —  Burn  —  Candlelight
16) Job For A Cowboy  —  Ruination  —  Metal Blade
17) Arkaea  —  Years In The Darkness  —  E1
18) Divine Heresy  —  Bringer of Plagues  —  Century Media
19) Crimson Armada  —  Guardians  —  Metal Blade
20) Darkest Hour  —  The Eternal Return  —  Victory

Top 5 Adds
1) Anaal Nathrakh  —  In The Constellation…  —  Candlelight
2) Valkyrja  —  The Invocation of Demise  —  Metal Blade
3) Angerpath  —  Forgotten World  —  Epitomite
4) Mind Key  —  Pulse For A Graveheart  —  Frontiers
5) Machines of Grace  —  Machines of Grace  —  Winterfall

Other Adds: He Is Legend, Blood Red Throne, Dangerous New Machine, Crash the System

Dangerous New Machine
3-Song
Unsigned
10:47 – 3 Tracks
Featuring a some guys from Fozzy (Billy Grey), Stuck Mojo (Rodney Beaubouef), Outshine (Jake Kitchen and Rodney) and Stereomud’s vocalist, Erik Rogers.   And it sounds a bit like all of these mentioned bands.   It’s pretty much a plain ol hard rock type thing though.  Fairly melodic and “solid-rocky”

Anaal Nathrakh
In The Constellation of The Black Widow
Candlelight
34:38  – 10 Tracks
I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz about these guys… you know, that it’s the best black metal release to come out this year… just complete raw old school black metal… and well, it’s raw and just crazy fast and out there.  Intense, scary, and really unlike anything out there right now.  This is the CD you want to put on for people if you want to show them how scary metal can be.   One might say it’s the Dragonforce of black metal… just so much going on!  I don’t mean that in a bad way… You know how d-force is just over the top on everything?  This is over the top of everything fast/black metal.   Awesome!

Angerpath
Forgotten World
Epitomite
37:58 – 7 Tracks
Some classic death metal going on here… From Poland!  We know that Poland puts out some pretty damn good metal… and while not on the same page as Behemoth or Vader, these guys have a good raw death metal thing going on .  Nothing groundbreaking, nothing bad.  Good meat and potatoes death metal.. and Poland has a lot of that, right?

He Is Legend
It Hates You
Tragic Hero
57:08 – 12 Tracks
Kind of an emo-core, but kind of metalcore.  The vocals pretty much stay “clean” the whole time… while I want to not like this, as it just has an emo vibe to it, it just doesn’t… It maintains some sort of cool hard rock metal thrashy thing in the music… just kind of catchy… it’s almost like catchy pop music metal… lots of stuff going on and fun to listen to.

Valkyrja
The Invocation of Demise
Metal Blade
43:52 – 9 Tracks
This is that sort of black/death metal that gives a true metal fan warm fuzzies.   Just dark, evil, fast, along the lines of Watain or Immortal.  Classic blast beats, black metal droning guitar riffs… evil abrasive vocals.  Just great classic Black metal!

Mind Key
Pulse For A Graveheart
Frontiers
58:12 – 10 Tracks
Mixing some of the 80’s/09’s Hard rock with Dream Theater, Evergrey and the like, these guys have a pretty good take on prog metal.  Music stays fairly heavy, yet still with some cool prog stuff, it does have some early Dream Theater / Symphony X type sound going on.  The Vocals are similar to Jorn Lande… great range and dynamic… not just all high notes.    As a whole it reminds me a bit of Andromeda or Ark.

Crash The System
The Crowning
Frontiers
38:35 – 13 Tracks
This takes more of the 80’s/90’s stuff as mentioned above and keeps more of it.  Vocals are a bit the same, but the music isn’t as heavy.  it’s a bit more euro-prog metal sounding…. without the keyboards, it’d be a bit like Whitesnake musically… you know, kind of like power ballad-like.

Machines of Grace
Machines of Grace
Winterfall
51:57 – 14 Tracks
Well, if Savatage won’t put out an album, why shouldn’t all of the members of the band have other projects outside of TSO and Savatage to keep them busy… This one features the drummer Jeff Plate and former Savatage frontman, Zak Stevens.  This is a pretty straightforward hard rock album… clean vox, solid backing band.

Blood Red Throne
Souls of Damnation
Earache
38:47 – 9 Tracks
Week of good black/death metal? This is great clean sounding classic brutal death metal.  It VERY much makes me want to stomp around and break things.  Great chugga chugga riffs, growly vocals, and more riffs and moshing!!   Has a great thrashy thing going on with the brutality.

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ARTIST  —  TRACK  —  ALBUM  —  LABEL  —  NEW  —  REQ
Death Before Dishonor  —  Peace and Quiet  —  Better Ways To Die  —  Bridge Nine  —  Y  —  N
Cruel Hand  —  Above and Below  —  Prying Eyes  —  Bridge Nine  —  Y  —  N
Cruel Hand  —  Dead Weight  —  Prying Eyes  —  Bridge Nine  —  Y  —  N
Sworn Enemy  —  On The Outside  —  Total World Domination  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
Killswitch Engage  —  The Return  —  Killswitch Engage  —  Roadrunner  —  Y  —  N
9mm Solution  —  My Real Enemy  —  The Dream Is Dead  —  Rock Ridge  —  Y  —  N
The Autumn Offering  —  The Curtain Hits The Cast  —  Requiem  —  Victory  —  Y  —  N
Poison The Well  —  Celebrate The Pyre  —  The Tropic Rot  —  Ferret  —  Y  —  N
Anaka  —  It’s All The Same  —  The Glorified Crusade  —  Godsend  —  Y  —  N
Voivod  —  Destroy After Reading  —  Infini  —  Relapse  —  Y  —  N
Down  —  Lifer  —  Nola  —  Elektra  —  N  —  Y
Clutch  —  Struck Down  —  Strange Cousins From The West  —  Weathermaker  —  Y  —  N
Firebird  —  Silent Stranger  —  Grand Union  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
Life of Agony  —  Through and Through  —  River Runs Again Live  —  Roadrunner  —  Y  —  N
Dirtfedd  —  War Criminal  —  The American Nightmare  —  E1  —  Y  —  N
Divine Heresy  —  Facebreaker  —  Bringer of Plagues  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
Arkaea  —  Beneath The Shades Of Grey  —  Years In The Darkness  —  E1  —  Y  —  N
Devildriver  —  Forgiveness Is A Six Gun  —  Pray For Villains  —  Roadrunner  —  Y  —  N
Iwrestledabearonce  —  You Aint No Family  —  It’s All Happening  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
Shadows Fall  —  King of Nothing  —  Retribution  —  Ferret  —  Y  —  N
Full Scale Riot  —  Guilty By Association  —  Rise  —  Rise  —  Y  —  N
August Burns Red  —  Thirty And Seven  —  Constellations  —  SolidState  —  Y  —  N
The Classic Struggle  —  Fuck You  —  Bring Back The Glory  —  Ironclad  —  N  —  Y
Unearth  —  Failure  —  The Oncoming Storm  —  Metal Blade  —  N  —  Y
Suicide Silence  —  Smoke  —  No Time To Bleed  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
Tenpoint  —  Killing Me  —  Northern Rock  —  Tenpoint  —  N  —  Y
Megadeth  —  Headcrusher  —  SINGLE  —  Roadrunner  —  Y  —  N
Pantera  —  Psycho Holiday  —  Cowboys From Hell  —  Atco  —  N  —  Y
Havok  —  Melting The Mountain  —  Burn  —  Candlelight  —  Y  —  N
Slayer  —  213  —  Divine Intervention  —  American  —  N  —  Y
Iron Maiden  —  Can I Play With Madness  —  Flight 666  —  Universal  —  Y  —  N
Dream Theater  —  To Tame A Land  —  Black Clouds and Silver Linings  —  Roadrunner  —  Y  —  N
Amorphis  —  Course of Fate  —  Skyforger  —  Nuclear Blast  —  Y  —  N
Suffocation  —  Dismal Dream  —  Blood Oath  —  Nuclear Blast  —  Y  —  N
Ex Deo  —  The Final War (Battle of Actium)  —  Romulus  —  Nuclear Blast  —  Y  —  N
Goatwhore  —  In Legions, I Am Wars Of Wrath  —  Carving Out The Eyes Of God  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
Obituary  —  Lost Inside  —  Darkest Day  —  Candlelight  —  Y  —  N
Hail of Bullets  —  Warsaw Rising  —  Warsaw Rising  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
Job For A Cowboy  —  Constitutional Masturbation  —  Ruination  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
Watain  —  Darkness and Death  —  Sworn To The Dark  —  Season of Mist  —  N  —  Y
Dimmu Borgir  —  Blessings Upon The Throne of Tyranny  —  Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia  —  Nuclear Blast  —  N  —  Y
Death    —  Lack of Comprehension  —  Human  —  Relativity  —  N  —  Y

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 7/20/09

Artist  —  Album  —  Label
1) Dream Theater  —  Black Clouds & Silver Linings  —  Roadrunner
2) Devildriver  —  Pray For Villains  —  Roadrunner
3) Goatwhore  —  Carving Out The Eyes of God  —  Metal Blade
4) Sworn Enemy  —  Total World Domination  —  Century Media
5) Iwrestledabearonce  —  It’s All Happening  —  Century Media
6) Amorphis  —  Skyforger  —  Nuclear Blast
7) Voivod  —  Infini  —  Relapse
8) Iron Maiden  —  Flight 666  —  Universal
9) Ex Deo  —  Romulus  —  Nuclear Blast
10) Killswitch Engage  —  Killswitch Engage  —  Roadrunner
11) Obituary  —  Darkest Day  —  Candlelight
12) Clutch  —  Strange Cousins from the West  —  Weathermaker
13) 9MM Solution  —  The Dream Is Dead  —  Rock Ridge
14) Dirtfedd  —  The American Nightmare  —  E1
15) Firebird  —  Grand Union  —  Rise Above
16) Havok  —  Burn  —  Candlelight
17) Job For A Cowboy  —  Ruination  —  Metal Blade
18) Suicide Silence  —  No Time To Bleed  —  Century Media
19) Arkaea  —  Years In The Darkness  —  E1
20) Suffocation  —  Blood Oath  —  Nuclear Blast

Top 5 Adds
1) Divine Heresy  —  Bringer of Plagues  —  Century Media
2) Shadows Fall  —  “King of Nothing”  —  Ferret
3) August Burns Red  —  Constellations  —  SolidState  —
4) Death Before Dishonor  —  Better Ways To Die  —  Bridge Nine
5) Hail of Bullets  —  Warsaw Rising  —  Metal Blade

Other Adds:  Autumn Offering, Full Scale Riot, Anaka, Cruel Hand, Tenpoint

New stuff this week…. 7/20/09

Divine Heresy
Bringer of Plagues
Century Media
42:00 – 11 Tracks
This follows about the same as the last album… yeah, new singer, but still the same heavy fear-factory-esque music as their first album.  This new vocalist probably has more of a phil anselmo growl, but has a higher up singy voice… drumming is super fast and insane along with Dino’s monster riffs.   Great new addition to the new wave of american metal!

Hail of Bullets
Warsaw Rising EP
Metal Blade
28:33 – 6 Tracks
Kind of a brutal grindy version of old school metal.   Compared to Exhumed and Napalm Death, I can see a little of both, with maybe a bit of Motorhead just for the vocals…. in parts… otherwise, the vocals are like brutal Lemmy…

The Autumn Offering
Requiem
Victory
37:40 – 11 Tracks
Fairly catchy, hooky, melodic… great angry vocals, but then of course, keeps the “core” thing going with melodic clean sing-y choruses.   Music is otherwise brutal with big meaty breakdowns… nothing really new and exciting here, just a new collection of metalcore songs…

Full Scale Riot
Rise (EP)
Riot
20:21 – 5 Tracks
It starts off having me think it’s a mix of Biohazard and Slayer… then the words kick in, it’s a LOT more Biohazard and not so much Slayer.  ha   So yeah, for the most part, this is kind of old school Biohazard-like, but then some clean singy chorus are thrown in and take a way from it a little bit… overall though, it’s kind of cool to have a throwback sounding band like this.

Tenpoint
Northern Rock
Tenpoint
TPM
30:36 – 6 Tracks
Sounds like a decent hard rock band.  A little bit of a southern tinge to it, but really not too much.  Fits along the lines of those early 90’s bands with good melodic hard rock, with an almost Robert Plant-type voiced singer.  This is just something that’s not really for the Mosh Pit…

Cruel Hand
Prying Eyes
Bridge Nine
23:16 – 12 Tracks
Hey, this is almost like Biohazard above too…  but this is more just a good classic chugga chugga punk/hard core band.  Nothing really new here, but nothing bad either!

Death Before Dishonor
Better Ways To Die
Bridge Nine
24:22 – 11 Tracks
Another straightforward hardcore/punk band/album going on here.   These guys are from Boston and the songs are kind of like “anthemy”   The little bio writeup mentions bands like Rancid (punk edge), Dropkick Murphy’s (working class anthems), Hatebreed (hardcore attack) and Slayer (riffage).   And that sums it up pretty good!

Anaka
The Glorified Crusade
Godsend
47:38 – 11 Tracks
This is a straightforward hard rock/”solid rock” type of band.  Some heavy hard rock stuff, with catchy melodic vocals… occasionally there’s like a Hetfield moment, where the song is pretty much “metallica-like”  from the Load era.   Actually if I had to compare this whole album to something, yeah, one of the Load disks would do it….

August Burns Red
Constellations
SolidState
40:10 – 12 Tracks
Catchy metal/brutal core.  Fast heavy songs, good guitar work, freight train drumming… you know, the typical good brutalcore album!

ARTIST  —  TRACK  —  ALBUM  —  LABEL  —  NEW  —  REQ
Bury Your Dead  —  Hurting No Helping  —  It’s Nothing Personal  —  Victory  —  Y  —  N
We Were Gentlemen  —  Deep Blue  —  Living Hell  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
Moss  —  Skeletal Keys  —  Tombs of the Blind Drugged  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
Killswitch Engage  —  Forgotten  —  Killswitch Engage  —  Roadrunner  —  Y  —  N
9MM Solution  —  Within A Minute  —  The Dream Is Dead  —  Rock Ridge  —  Y  —  N
Kill Junior  —  Gooberville  —  Confusiotomy  —  LOCAL  —  Y  —  N
Dirtfedd  —  A Shotgun Romance  —  The American Nightmare  —  E1  —  Y  —  N
Clutch  —  Motherless Child  —  Strange Cousins From The West  —  Weathermaker  —  Y  —  N
Bigelf  —  The Evils of Rock and Roll  —  The Evils of Rock and Roll  —  Custard  —  Y  —  N
Firebird  —  Fool For You  —  Grand Union  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
Kyuss  —  Tangy Zizzle  —  …And the Circus Leaves Town  —  Elektra  —  N  —  Y
Church of Misery  —  El Padrino  —  Houses of the Unholy  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
Danzig  —  Dirty Black Summer  —  Danzig III  —  Geffen  —  N  —  Y
Rhino Bucket  —  Blood On The Cross  —  Rhino Bucket  —  Reprise  —  N  —  Y
Motorhead  —  I’m Your Man  —  Bastards  —  Zyx  —  N  —  Y
Voivod  —  Global Warning  —  Infini  —  Relapse  —  Y  —  N
Five Finger Death Punch  —  Hard To See  —  Hard To See (Single)  —  Prospect Park  —  Y  —  N
Iron Maiden  —  Aces High  —  Flight 666  —  Universal  —  Y  —  N
Judas Priest  —  Dissident Aggressor  —  A Touch of Evil – Live  —  Epic  —  Y  —  N
Halford  —  Into The Pit  —  Live Insurrection – Remastered  —  Metal God  —  Y  —  N
Dream Theater  —  Stargazer  —  Black Clouds and Silver Linings  —  Roadrunner  —  Y  —  N
Devildriver  —  Resurrection Blvd.  —  Prey For Villains  —  Roadrunner  —  Y  —  N
Sworn Enemy  —  Still Hating  —  Total World Domination  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
Hatebreed  —  Suicidal Maniac  —  For The Lions  —  E1  —  Y  —  N
Biohazard  —  Punishment  —  Urban Discipline  —  Roadrunner  —  N  —  Y
Havok  —  Path To Nowhere  —  Burn  —  Candlelight  —  Y  —  N
Darkest Hour  —  Devolution of Flesh  —  The Eternal Return  —  Victory  —  Y  —  N
Iwrestledabearonce  —  Eli Cash vs The Godless Savages  —  It’s All Happening  —  Century Media  —  Y  —  N
Graves of Valor  —  To Breathe Blood  —  Salarian Gate  —  Relapse  —  Y  —  N
Job For A Cowboy  —  Summon The Hounds  —  Ruination  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
Blood Tsunami  —  Castle of Skulls  —  Grand Feast For Vultures  —  Candlelight  —  Y  —  N
Ex Deo  —  Invictus  —  Romulus  —  Nuclear Blast  —  Y  —  N
Trail of Tears  —  A Storm At Will  —  Bloodstained Existence  —  Napalm  —  Y  —  N
Suffocation  —  Blood Oath  —  Blood Oath  —  Nuclear Blast  —  Y  —  N
Obituary  —  Blood To Give  —  Darkest Day  —  Candlelight  —  Y  —  N
Goatwhore  —  Provoking The Ritual Death  —  Carving Out The Eyes of God  —  Metal Blade  —  Y  —  N
Amorphis  —  My Sun  —  Skyforger  —  Nuclear Blast  —  Y  —  N
Carcass  —  Death Certificate  —  Heartwork  —  Earache  —  N  —  Y
Cannibal Corpse  —  Hammer Smashed Face  —  Tomb of the Mutilated  —  Metal Blade  —  N  —  Y

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 7/13/09

Artist  —  Album  —  Label
1) Dream Theater  —  Black Clouds & Silver Linings  —  Roadrunner
2) Devildriver  —  Pray For Villains  —  Roadrunner
3) Goatwhore  —  Carving Out The Eyes of God  —  Metal Blade
4) Blood Tsunami  —  Grand Feast for Vultures  —  Candlelight
5) Iwrestledabearonce  —  It’s All Happening  —  Century Media
6) Sworn Enemy  —  Total World Domination  —  Century Media
7) Voivod  —  Infini  —  Relapse
8) Iron Maiden  —  Flight 666  —  Universal
9) Amorphis  —  Skyforger  —  Nuclear Blast
10) Hatebreed  —  For The Lions  —  E1
11) Ex Deo  —  Romulus  —  Nuclear Blast
12) Graves of Valor  —  Salarian Gate  —  Relapse
13) 9MM Solution  —  The Dream Is Dead  —  Rock Ridge
14) Dirtfedd  —  The American Nightmare  —  E1
15) Firebird  —  Grand Union  —  Rise Above
16) Obituary  —  Darkest Day  —  Candlelight
17) Trail of Tears  —  Blood-Stained Endurance  —  Napalm
18) Havok  —  Burn  —  Candlelight
19) Job For A Cowboy  —  Ruination  —  Metal Blade
20) Killswitch Engage  —  Killswitch Engage  —  Roadrunner

Top 5 Adds
1) Suffocation  —  Blood Oath  —  Nuclear Blast
2) Clutch  —  Strange Cousins From The West  —  Weathermaker
3) Darkest Hour  —  The Eternal Return  —  Victory  —
4) Judas Priest  —  A Touch of Evil Live  —  Epic
5) Halford  —  Live Insurrection  —  Metal God

Other Adds:  Bury Your Dead, Bigelf, We Were Gentlemen, Church of Misery, Never Got Caught, Five Finger Death Punch

We Were Gentlemen
Living Hell
Century Media
37:31 – 10 Tracks
This is pretty much some heavier Hatebreed sounding stuff.   Similar as there’s a hardcore element, but with some good heavy metal stuff too… some breakdowns, and some singy metalcore parts… but really not many, I probably shouldn’t even mention it, but the first one caught me off guard.  It’s pretty good thrasy/hardcore stuff

Suffocation
Blood Oath
Nuclear Blast
37:07 – 10 Tracks
I always knew these guys were good… but I really learned to appreciate them after seeing them live in Madison a few months ago…. which I then followed up and read more about them and all that…. so it got me more excited for this release… a mid-tempo brutal death fest of metal… Awesome vocals, Solos, drum and bass work throughout…. it’s not overly blast beat-y… but it’s just so heavy and brutal it makes you want to just high step stomp through a mosh pit and roll some heads!

Church of Misery
Houses of the Unholy
Metal Blade
48:12 – 7 Tracks
Kind of a Sabbath brand of stoner metal going on here…. songs seem to be about murderers or serial killers… and the band is from Japan!   First time I’ve heard stoner/sabbath metal from Japan.  Long songs, but relatively interesting with some great guitar work.  This would definitely go better with beer  or something else! 😉

Moss
Tombs of the Blind Drugged
Metal Blade
40:28 – 4 Tracks
Mike and I don’t like to throw this term around lightly… but when a band or album comes along that we don’t care for….. we call it an Endurance Test… these four tracks just seem to move along very very slow and never seem to get anywhere… while we’re not fans of this stuff, I’m sure some are… and for those of you… You’ll actually have to call the radio show while we’re there and say you want to hear this for real!

Clutch
Strange Cousins From The West
Weathermaker
44:58 – 10 Tracks
A new modern-era classic Clutch album… I say “modern-era” because the last few albums have had a bit more of a bluesy feel to them.  Songs are catchy, fun to listen to, and the playing is just awesome as usual.   And actually some of this album is a bit of a throwback to their older sound mixed up with the newer bluesy style.   As always… nice and catchy as I mentioned.

Bigelf
“The Evils of Rock and Roll”  (single)
Custard
2 Tracks – 11:12
A big fat stoner metal sound… these guys were the late add to Dream Theater’s Prog. Nation tour.   It’s kind of got the King Krimson sound a bit with big fat keyboards, but mix that with some Sabbath or Deep Purple/Floyd and you’ll have some catchy meets 70’s prog rock!

Darkest Hour
The Eternal Return
Victory
34:55 – 10 Tracks
A good mix of metalcore and just plain metal.   Heavy, thrashy, catchy, vocals sound angry and abrasive… classic sounding guitar solos… but I feel like there would be some flailing arms at a live show… Oh, wait, I just saw them on Friday and there were!   but I think the kids were a little worn out from the other couple arm flaily bands.  Good stuff, nice to have a new release from them.

Bury Your Dead
It’s Nothing Personal
Victory
48:31 – 12 Tracks
Starts off strong, big wall of sound shoving you over, kicks into monster riffs, abrasive vocals…. then… some singy-vocals.   Beside the clean-ish choruses, the music is heavy, low-end metal stuff… but singing more melodic choruses make this more for the kids that wear girls jeans.    but damn, if the heavy parts weren’t so cool… I’d write this off as poop.

Five Finger Death Punch
“Hard To See”
Prospect Park
3:30 – 1 Tracks
Wow, I was expecting to get my ass kicked by this track… but it just sounds like early 2000’s active rock or almost “nu-metal”…   after about half way, it gets a bit more angry, but overall, it seems overly commercial to me.   Since the “other” station has been playing this for a week or so now, I kind of felt left out, but after hearing it myself… meh.. they can have it!

Judas Priest
A Touch Of Evil Live
Epic
59:56 – 11 Tracks
New Live Priest!   Recorded during the tours ranging from 2005-2008.   The tours were awesome… why shouldn’t this live CD be?   It is great, captures a good slab of what live Priest is like…. it’s pretty raw, but it’s actually nice, it feels more like a REAL live album instead of one that’s been over produced.

Halford
Live Insurrection (Remastered)
Metal God
Disc 1: 63:11 – 15 Tracks
Just like with the album above… a great slab of what it was like to see Halford live… however, this is just a remastered, re-release.   It was cool to see this tour live also.  All of the best song that Halford made with Priest, Fight and Halford…

Red Right Hand
Plotting Your Death
Screaming Ferret
51:39 – 12 Tracks
This sounds like real old school Testament… last release from Locomotive’s “Screaming Ferret Wreckcords ”   Pretty good stuff, just like raw old school Testament!