In No Particular Order…

Mike’s Favorites

Principality of Hell – Fire and Brimstone
Descend – Wither
Legion of the Damned – Ravenous
Allegaeon – Elements of the Infinite
Revocation – Deathless
Exodus – Blood In, Blood Out
The Haunted – Exit Wounds
Arch Enemy – War Eternal
Behemoth – The Satanist
At the Gates – War With Reality

Matt’s Favorites

At The Gates – At War With Reality
Unearth – Watchers of the Rule
Abysmal Dawn – Obsolescence
Obituary – Inked in Blood
Exodus – Blood In, Blood Out
Revocation – Deathless
The Haunted – Exit Wounds
Fallujah – The Flesh Prevails
Allegaeon – Elements of the Infinite
Arch Enemy – War Eternal
Behemoth – The Satanist

Mike’s Honorable mentions:
Steel Panther  – All You Can Eat
Pitch Black Forecast – So Low
Voyager – Self Titled
Halcyon Way – Conquer
Obituary – Inked In Blood
Job For A Cowboy – Sun Eater
Fallujah – The Flesh Prevails
Scamp – The Deadcalm
Sanctuary – The Year The Sun Died
Insomnium – Shadows of the Dying Sun
Overkill – White Devil Armory
Bloodbath – Grand-Morbid Funeral
Anaal Nathrakh – Desideratum
Viathyn – Cynosure
White Empress – Rise of the Empress
Opeth – Pale Communion

Matt’s Honorable Mentions:
White Empress – Rise of the Empress
Machine Head – Bloodstone & Diamonds
Sanctuary – The Year The Sun Died
Carcass – Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel (EP)
Job for a Cowboy –  Sun Eater
Psychostick – IV: Revenge Of The Vengence
Cavalera Conspiracy – Pandemonium
Slipknot – .5 The Grey Chapter
Pitch Black Forecast – So Low
Scar Symmetry – The Singularity (Phase I – Neohumanity)
Flying Colors – Second Nature
Decapitated – Blood Mantra
Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain
Opeth – Pale Communion
Accept – Blind Rage
Within The Ruins – Phomenema
Overkill – White Devil Armory
Judas Priest – Redeemer Of Souls
Mastodon – Once More ‘Round The Sun
Aborted – Necrotic Manifesto
Iced Earth – Plaques Of Babylon
Primalfrost – Prosperous Visions
Carnifex – Die Without Hope
Steel Panther  – All You Can Eat
Exmortus – Slave To The Sword

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 1/5/15

Artist  —  Album  —  Label
1) Psychostick  —  IV: Renvenge Of The Vengence  —  Rock Ridge
2) Cavalera Conspiracy  —  Pandemonium  —  Napalm
3) Job for a Cowboy  —  Sun Eater  —  Metal Blade
4) Machine Head  —  Bloodstone & Diamonds  —  Nuclear Blast
5) Bloodbath  —  Grand Morbid Funeral  —  Peaceville
6) Carcass  —  Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel  —  Nuclear Blast
7) These Are They  —  At The Feast of Seven Funerals  —  The End
8) Rise of the Northstar  —  Welcame  —  Nuclear Blast
9) Thanatos  —  Global Purification  —  Century Media
10) Soen  —  Tellurian  —  Spinefarm
11) Obituary  —  Inked in Blood  —  Relapse
12) Krokodil  —  Nachash  —  Spinefarm
13) Cretin  —  Stranger  —  Relapse
14) Cripper  —  Hyena  —  Metal Blade
15) Kolony  —  Sledge  —  Self Released
16) Eyes of Mara  —  Eyes of Mara  —  Imminence
17) Siriun  —  In Chaos We Trust  —  Self Released
18) Order of the Dead  —  A Black Curse Comes  —  New Ocean Media
19) Morost  —  Solace In Solitude  —  Self Released
20) Horncrowned  —  Defanatus  —  Ketzer

Top 5 Adds
1) Creation’s End  —  Metaphysical  —  Pure Steel
2) Ravenscroft  —  Cosmic Plan  —  Divine Concubine
3) The Oxford Coma  —  Morphine EP  —  Self Released (Syn)
4) Reasons Behind  —  The Alpha Memory  —  Maple Metal
5) Ascension  —  The Dead of the World  —  WTC Productions

Other Adds: Dreamgrave, Sata kaskelottia, Stargazer, Dysangelium, Perdition Temple, Traitor, Corners of Sanctuary, Convictors, Premortal Breath, Emrevoid, Cvinger, Reign of Khan, Sweet & Lynch Sampler, Bosedeath, Witchrist

THE OXFORD COMA
Morphine
(self-released)
Sounds like Tool… and that’s a good thing. The good heavier proggy Tool stuff.  And well, if Tool wont do it, someone should, right?

Creations End
Metaphysical
Pure Steel Records
Proggy power metal

Ravenscroft
Cosmic Plan
Divine Concubine Records
A 90’s ish sounding hard rock thing with catchy riffs and a cool vibe.

CONVICTORS
Envoys Of Extinction
Self Released (Full Blast PR)
Thrashy death metal with a really cool groove

Corners of Sanctuary
Axe to Grind
Self Released
Some standard “metal” with clean vocals.

Premortal Breath
They
Self Released (email)
A fairly standard metal thing, but with vocals that are clean/growled.

EMREVOID (from Italy)
Riverso
Drown Within Records
Melodic death metal with a bit of a Technical feel. (no clean vox)

APOCRYFAL
ABERRATION OF MIND
SELF RELEASED
Catchy death metal (from 2013!)

CVINGER
THE ENTHRONEMENT OV DIABOLICAL
SELF RELEASED (metal Detector & Against PR)
Melodic Black metal with a classic fast and furious sound… and decent production too!

ACID AGE
DRONE SHARK ETHICS
WITCHES BREW  (metal Detector)
Raw, old school punked up thrash (with not so great production)

Spire (Australia)
Metamorph 12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead
Doomy depressing blackened “shoegaze” black metal

All The Shelters
Chasing Light
Famined Records
Metal core with heavy brutal parts, then some emo singy stuff too.  Decent melodic metal other than the singy whiney crap.

DREAMGRAVE
Presentiment
Self Released (FullBlast PR)
Opratic Femetal vocals mixed with proggy death metal stuff.. pretty cool dynamic stuff actually.

StarGazer
A Merging to the Boundless LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Technical blackened thrashy death metal.

REIGN OF KHAN:
Reign Of Khan EP
Coffee Jingle Records
Catchy three song EP… some standard modern metal with clean and harsh vox.

REASONS BEHIND
The Alpha Memory (MMR020)
Maple Metal Records
Music is fairly straightforward melodic death metal, vocals are out front clean female operatic type vox.  They’re a bit TOO much out front and takes away from the cool music backing it.

BÖSEDEATH (from Germany)
Impaled from the Left
Rotten Roll Rex
Raw sludgey gurgly vocalled death metal.

SWEET & LYNCH
Radio Sampler
Frontiers Music srl
Matthew Sweet (Stryper) and George Lynch together?  Yup!

Ascension
The Dead Of The World
W.T.C.Productions
Kind of a doomy blackened death metal.  Quality stuff… depressing, yet not all slow and gloomy.  There’s actually some chunk going on, along with some melodic guitar work and stuff.

Dysangelium
Thánatos Áskesis
W.T.C.Productions
Black metal, a bit on the classic side of black metal, not too balls out fast, there’s a melodic groove like say some Satyricon, but a bit more raw and true to “black metal”

PERDITION TEMPLE
Sovereign of the Desolate (7″ EP)
Hells Headbangers
Just two songs, but they’re fast quick blackened death tracks.  A bit raw on the production, still pretty decent.

Traitor
Delaware Destroyers
Horror Pain Gore Death
Thrashy metal with a wall of raw metal thrown at your ears. Catchy old school thrash vibe.

Witchrist
Vritra 12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead
Blackened doomy death metal.

Sata kaskelottia
Sata kaskelottia
Inverse
Some melodic thrashy stoner metal from Finland. Catchy, with a heavier vibe, yet still a bit of a chilled out stoner thing going on too.  Maybe like a Mastodon meets something melodic deathy?