ARCH ENEMY
War Eternal
Century Media
Honestly, I’m a huge fan of this band, so this review is a little biased… but with a new singer in the fold, what’s it gonna be?  Well, it’s awesome, a rebirth… all the same stuff you love about Arch Enemy, monster riffs, drumming, melodies and all that stuff.. and now new brutal female vocals.  You also have some symphoninc stuff showing up and it actually really works well to fill out the sound even better… adding a great new dynamic. Great stuff.

Vader
Tibi Et Igni
Nuclear Blast
Quite the one-two punch of new releases this week. New Arch Enemy, and now new Vader… wowza.  10th Album, first in 3 years and first with the new Drummer.  It’s the same ol great brutal, technical death metal that they’ve always been good at.  No fucking around. again, great stuff!

BEARTOOTH
Disgusting
Red Bull
This band is on Warped tour all year, that should be an indication of what direction this band goes… metal-coreish.  Seems like some pretty neat “extreme” stoner metal… you know, kinda stoner-ish, but with more extreme vocals, but then it takes a turn to the singy “emo-ish” vocals.  Sigh.  Overall it seems pretty decent, but you put that vocal style in there, and then my age kicks in.. “i’m too old for this stuff”  ugh.

THE AMITY AFFLICTION
Let the Ocean Take Me
Roadrunner
This is almost the same as above, it’s pretty cool heavy melodic metalcore and brutal type stuff, then it just gets all clean happy singing with some two-step beats…. again with the “i’m too old for this”

Bloody Hammers
Under Satan’s Son
Napalm
A sort of standard stoner metal with a doomy feel.  SOme slower-mid-tempo type stuff.  Big meaty riffs, some clean creepy 70’s sounding vocals and the music has a good groove.

Miasmic Theory
Miasmic Theory CD
Inverse
A catchy heavy thrashy melodic death metal.  It’s brutal and heavy and has good production… while it’s not breaking new ground, it’s cool stuff!

THE CHANT
New Haven
Lifeforce
Kind of some prog/melodic rock…. maybe some doomy metal feel too. A little bit like Porcupine Tree.

URIAH HEEP
Outsider
Frontiers Records
Classic rock type stuff, you know that 70’s throwback sound, but oh, wait, these guys have been doing it since then, just not some new band trying to sound like they’re in the 70’s.  This stuff rocks, they’re still rockin’ the organ and have a proggy hard rock feel.

Falconer
Black Moon Rising
Metal Blade Records
I always remembered these guys as a heavier power metal band… I could be remembering wrong, but yeah, these guys are still basically power metal, but it sounds to me like there’s a bit of a stoner metal and folk feel too. The folk feel mostly just comes from the vocal style, there aren’t any hurdygurdys or accordions or anything.

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2014-06-02 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Dust Bolt / Living Hell / Awake the Riot / Napalm Records
Necrodeath / Lust / The 7 Deadly Sins / Scarlet Records
Dismemberment / Aura of Obscurity / Embrace The Dark / Horror Pain Gore Death
Trap Them / Salted Crypts / Blissfucker / Prosthetic
Waxen / Suicidium / Agios Holokauston / Moribund
Demonic Rage / Evoking the Pestilence & Cadaver Christ’s Desecration / Venomous Wine From Putrid Bodies / Iron Bonehead
Deus Ignotus / Putrid Empie / Procession Of An Old Religion / Forever Plagued
Vreid / Arche / V / (RED) Indie Recordings
Opeth / Bleak / Blackwater Park / Music For Nations
Moonspell / A Poisoned Gift / Irreligious / Century Media
Insomnium / Collapsing Words / Shadows of the Dying Sun / Century Media
Whitechapel / Psychopathy / Our Endless War / Metal Blade Records
Aborted / Chronicles of Detruncation / The Necrotic Manifesto / Century Media
Martyr Defiled / No Hope / No Hope No Morality / Century Media
Bury Tomorrow / Man On Fire / Runes (Bonus Version) / Nuclear Blast
Miasmal / Excelsior / Cursed Redeemer / Century Media
Down / Conjure / Down IV, Pt. 2 – EP / ADA
KING 810 / Fat Around the Heart / Proem – EP / Roadrunner Records
Crowbar / The Taste of Dying / Symmetry In Black / Century Media
Eyehategod / Nobody Told Me / Eyehategod / Century Media
Prong / The Book of Change / Ruining Lives / Steamhammer
AVATAR / Tsar Bomba / Hail the Apocalypse (Deluxe Edition) / eOne Music
Mushroomhead / This Cold Reign / The Righteous & the Butterfly / Megaforce Records
Sworn Enemy / One Eye Open / Living On Borrowed Time / Rock Ridge Music
Arch Enemy / Blood On Your Hands / Rise of the Tyrant / Century Media Records
Helstar / Defy the Swarm / This Wicked Nest / AFM Records
Savage Messiah / Scavengers of Mercy / The Fateful Dark / Earache Records LTD
Sabaton / Smoking Snakes / Heroes (Bonus Version) / Nuclear Blast
Hard Riot / Blackout / The Blackened Heart / Pitch Black
Marty Friedman / Wicked Panacea (feat. Rodrigo y Gabriela) / Inferno / Prosthetic
Heavy Glow / 45 Shakedown / Pearls And Swine And Everything Fine / Heavy Glow
Kyng / The Ode / Burn the Serum / Razor & Tie
Bloody Hammers / Dead Man’s Shadow On the Wall / Under Satan’s Sun / Napalm Records

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 6/2/14

Artist  —  Album  —  Label
1) Insomnium  —  Shadows Of The Dying Sun  —  Century Media
2) Whitechapel  —  Our Endless War  —  Metal Blade
3) Aborted  —  Necrotic Manifesto  —  Century Media
4) Down  —  Down IV Part II EP  —  Down/ADA
5) Helstar  —  This Wicked Nest  —  AFM
6) Sworn Enemy  —  Living on Borrowed Time  —  Rock Ridge
7) Kyng  —  Burn the Serum  —  Razor and Tie
8) Dismemberment  —  Embrace the Dark  —  Horror Pain Gore Death
9) Prong  —  Ruining Lives  —  SPV
10) Marty Friedman  —  Inferno  —  Prosthetic
11) Martyr Defiled  —  No Home No Morality  —  Siege of Amida
12) Necrodeath  —  The 7 Deadly Sins  —  Scarlet
13) Miasmal  —  Cursed Redeemer  —  Century Media
14) Eyehategod  —  Eyehategod  —  Housecore
15) Mushroomhead  —  The Righteous & The Butterfly  —  Megaforce
16) Avatar  —  Hail The Apocalypse  —  eOne
17) Crowbar  —  Symmetry In Black  —  eOne
18) King 810  —  Proem EP  —  Roadrunner
19) Sabaton  —  Heroes  —  Nuclear Blast
20) Dust Bolt  —  Awake The Riot  —  Napalm

Top 5 Adds
1) Dust Bolt  —  Awake The Riot  —  Napalm
2) Trap Them  —  Blissfucker  —  Prosthetic
3) Bury Tomorrow  —  Runes  —  Nuclear Blast
4) Heavy Glow  —  Pearls & Swine & Everything Fine  —  Purge
5) Demonic Rage  —  Venomous Win From Putrid Bodies  —  Iron Bonehead

Other Adds:  Voyager, Brother Firetribe, Hard Riot, Deus Ignotus, On Top, Swarþ, Waxen, Bloody Hammers, The Osiris Club

TRAP THEM
Blissfucker
Prosthetic
Heavy, grindy, stoner metal with attitude. Big wall of metallic riffs and intense drumming with screamed, pissed off vocals.

HEAVY GLOW
Pearls and Swine and Everything Fine
Purge
A catchy Clutch-like stoner metal thing, not really all that heavy, but fun and jammin’.

BROTHER FIRETRIBE
Diamond in the Firepit
Spinefarm
Old school AOR type hard rock from Nightwish Guitarist Emppu Vuorinen.  Kind of a power-metal “light”  Reminds me of some of that 90’s hard rock from like Honeymoon Suite or Damn Yankees or stuff like that.  While it’s pretty neat stuff, probably not Mosh Pit material.

Voyager
Voyager
IAV/Nightmare Records
Proggy hard rock/metal with djent stuff and more of a light, clean prog thing like Porcupine Tree or Fair to Midland/Karnivool type stuff. Maybe a pinch of a Volbeat sound too.

Bury Tomorrow
Runes
Nuclear Blast USA
Sort of a metalcore thing… you have that heavier, brutal stuff, then you hit the chorus… it’s actually where you expect some whiney auto-tune vocals and it’s just nice, well sung clean vocals.  Heavy stuff stays brutal and growly with chunky thrashy riffs.  Overall, it’s a melodic metalcore thing. good stuff.

Dust Bolt
Awake The Riot
Napalm Records
Thrashy metal.  Main guitar riffs are a bit like some Hanneman-esque Slayer sounding stuff. The rest of the music and vocals are some cool throwback, yet modern-ish thrashy stuff.

Swarþ
Omines Pestilentiae DLP
Iron Bonehead
A low-production-ish old school black/death metal.  Lots of creepy yelling and screaming, sludgey music.

Opium Warlords
Taste My Sword Of Understanding
Svart Records
Long sludgey post-metal.

Vanhelga
Längtan
Art of Propaganda
Experimental ecclectic stuff which makes you think while listening… “is this music?”  “do I have something else playing in the background?”  I mean some parts have some neat stuff, but with so much happening and to wonder WTF… yeah, meh.

Demonic Rage
Venomous Wine From Putrid Bodies LP
Iron Bonehead
Death metal.  Great heavy riffage, just an overall evil dark feeling too.  But classic brutal death metal.

Hard Riot
The Blackened Heart
Pitch Black Records
A hard rock band with a bit of a 90’s hard rock/metal sound. Clean vocals, melodic stuff, catchy, almost sing-along songs.

Deus Ignotus
Procession of an Old Religion MCD
Forever Plagued
Kind of a basic black/death metal.  Very brutal, everything kind of mooshes together, but it all works as a grindy/sludgey black metal.

On Top
Top To Bottom CD
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Vocals remind me of Death Angel, music is more of a Steel Panther type thing, a fun catchy hard rock.  Overall a catchy classic metal sounding EP.

Waxen
Agios Holokauston
Moribund
Intense fast, heavy black metal.  Nothing fancy, just brutal black metal.

BLOODY HAMMERS
Under Satan’s Sun
Napalm Records
A melodic hard rock thing with a little bit of a stoner metal vibe.

The Osiris Club
Blazing World
Indie Recordings
Kind of a creepy, alternative proggy hard rock thing. A throwback 70’s stoner metal vibe, but also a little bit of a horror movie soundtrack vibe too.