Toothgrinder
“Blue” (Single)
Spinefarm
Melodic proggy hardcore… maybe a bit more “solid rock” and straightforward than BTBAM, but I see some parallels there. (i’ll look forward to the full length)

Megadeth
“Dystopia” (Single)
UME
Well, this is the third single and so far they’re all pretty good.  Great guitar work, technical classic metal… this is probably the most melodic and not as heavy song so far… still good stuff.

Prong
“Ultimate Authority” (Single)
SPV
Sounds like some cool classic punchy Prong.  can’t wait to hear more!

Baroness
Purple
Abraxan Hymns
I think with 3 singles already released, you could grasp the feel for this album, right on par with their previous releases… quality groovin’ stoner metal.

The Shrine
Rare Breed
Century Media Records
A cool melodic catchy stoner metal thing, found myself listening to it longer than I planned, songs are just to the point, groovin’ and cool.

Varg
Das Ende Aller Lugen
Napalm Records
A blackened melodic death… maybe a bit of a hardcore element too.  Pretty interesting diversity… metalcore sometimes, melodic death and fringing on heaver stuff… sort of reminds me of a heavier In Flames (you know before their last album)

Earthside
A Dream In Static
Bushwhack
Melodic proggy rock… Lajon from Sevendust does vox on “Mob Mentality” an epic nearly 10 minute track.

Witchcraft
Necleus
Nuclear Blast USA
A 70’s throwback of what one would probably call stoner metal now.  Good clean vox, a good groove of hard rock… I think some flute? going on?

BLOODIEST
Bloodiest (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
Sort of a post-metal thing.  A bit doomy, a bit slow and meh.

OPPROBRIUM
Serpent Temptation (Reissue)
Relapse Records
Reissue of their 1988 album… (originally they were called Incubus, but changed their name to avoid confustion with that “other” Incubus) Well, this album is some pretty cool thrashy infused death metal.

LYCUS
Chasms (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
4 long tracks, very doomy, very down tempo and depressing.  Vocals do get growly and stuff, but it’s just too slow and long for me.

Aborted
Termination Redux EP
Century Media
Three new tracks and a re-recording of The Haulcaust from 2001.  Brutal fast crazy death metal with a catchy groove. These guys have it going on and glad to have something new in honor of their 20th anniversary.

SOL
The Storm Bells Chime
Label: Avantgarde Music
Ambient doomy type stuff.  kind of a snoozer with growly vox.

Hostium
The Bloodwine of Satan CD/LP
Iron Bonehead
Doomy classic black metal with a scary dark evil feeling.

KRASSEVILLE
Nous sommes faux
Label: Avantgarde Music
not sure what to call this… 1) not really metal.  2)almost folky 3) ambient laid back stuff.

FIFTH TO INFINITY
Omnipotent Transdimensional Soulfire
Label: Avantgarde Music
Kind of black metal, kind of doomy, a bit melodic death… but cold and dark feeling and with a bit of a groove too.

VIRVEL AV MORKERHATET
Metamorphosia
Label: Avantgarde Music
Classic black metal, with a bit of an avant garde thing going on too.

OLD FOREST
Dagian
Label: Avantgarde Music
Drony doomy black metal.  Long songs, but there does seem to be going places other than just droning on for 10 minutes.

Suppressive Fire
Bedlam
Self-Release
A cool blackened thrashy thing.  Cool growly screamy vox, fast riffs with a bit of a groove and some pretty complex stuff going on too.

Sacrocurse
Destroying Chapels 7″ EP
Iron Bonehead
Good ol growly crazy black metal

The Lumberjack Feedback
Blackened Visions
Kaotoxin Records
Doomy um, doom metal with a pinch of a black metal feel… and all instrumental!  Some pretty long songs, but a cool doomy stoner groove going on.

MUCKRAKER
Karmageddon
Label: ETERNAL SOUND RECORDS/ Membran / Code7
Sounds a little like Gwar meets Zakk Wylde.  A stoner groove metal with Oderus-like vocals.

BIZARROTURAL
Looking In A Mask
Label: independent
Seems like an instrumental proggy experimental thing.  A bit avant/garde and doomy, prog metal in parts too.

CARTHAUN
Staub und Schatten
Label: Northern Fog Records
Classic old school black metal.

Curse/Styggelse/WAN
Necroholic
Satanath Records, Black Plague Records, The True Plague
Curse is raw brutal black metal… good and catchy though.  Styggelse is some extreme thrashy stuff, a little raw, defintely cool and brutal though. WAN is glassic black metal with a bit of a groove, but crappy production.

Playlist for 11pm-2am, followed by 2-5am (Rolling with Scissors substitute) below.

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2016-01-04 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Krisiun / Scars of the Hatred / Forged in Fury / Century Media
Cattle Decapitation / The Prophets of Loss / The Anthropocene Extinction / Metal Blade Records
The Black Dahlia Murder / Receipt / Abysmal / Metal Blade Records
Unleashed / A New Day Will Rise / Dawn of the Nine / Nuclear Blast / ???? ??????
Hammercult / Rise of the Hammer / Built For War / SPV
RAM / Return of the Iron Tyrant / Svbversvm / Metal Blade
Exmortus / Speed of the Strike / Ride Forth / Prosthetic
Olathia / hellhound / Hunters / Self Released
VISION OF DISORDER / Heart of Darkness / Razed to the Ground / Candlelight Records
August Burns Red / martyr / Found In Far Away Places / Fearless Records
Saxon / The Devil’s Footprint / Battering Ram (Deluxe Edition) / UDR
Armored Saint / Win Hands Down / Win Hands Down / Metal Blade Records
Harlott / Proliferation / Proliferation / Metal Blade Records
Cauldron / No Return / In Ruin / In Ruin / High Roller Records
Dissona / Another Sky / PaleoPneumatic / Black & White Music
Finsterforst / Zeit für Hass / Mach dich frei / Napalm Records
Satyricon / The Pentagram Burns (Live) / Live At the Opera / Napalm Records
Rivers of Nihil / Perpetual Growth Machine / Monarchy / Metal Blade Records
Cradle of Filth / Enshrined in Crematoria / Hammer of the Witches / Nuclear Blast
Dimesland / Institutional Gears / Psychogenic Atrophy / Crucial Blast
Firespawn / Imperial Burning / Shadow Realms / Century Media
Insision / among us / Terminal Reckoning / Sevared
Children of Bodom / My Bodom (I Am the Only One) / I Worship Chaos / Nuclear Blast
Metal Allegiance / Can’t Kill the Devil / Metal Allegiance / Nuclear Blast
Angelus Apatrida / First World of Terror / Hidden Evolution / Century Media
Psychostick / danger zone / IV Revenge of the Vengeance / Rock Ridge Music
Scatterbrain / Don’t Call Me Dude / Here Comes Trouble / Relativity

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2016-01-05 / 02:00:00 / 05:00:00 / Rolling with Scissors / Music / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Unearth / March of the Mutes / III: In the Eyes of Fire / ?
Unearth / Sanctity of Brothers / III: In the Eyes of Fire / ?
Shadows Fall / Thoughts Without Words / The Art of Balance / Lifeforce
Shadows Fall / Destroyer of Senses / The Art of Balance / Lifeforce
Machine Head / In the Presence of My Enemies / Through the Ashes of Empires [Bonus Disc] Disc 1 / Roadrunner International
Machine Head / Days Turn Blue to Gray / Through the Ashes of Empires [Bonus Disc] Disc 1 / Roadrunner International
Pantera / Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks / Far Beyond Driven / EAST WEST
Pantera / Slaughtered / Far Beyond Driven / EAST WEST
DevilDriver / Clouds Over California / The Last Kind Words / ?
DevilDriver / Bound By The Moon / The Last Kind Words / ?
Slipknot / Sarcastrophe / .5: The Gray Chapter / ?
Slipknot / AOV / .5: The Gray Chapter / ?
Lamb of God / Ashes Of The Wake – Lamb Of God / Ashes of the Wake / Sony
Lamb of God / Remorse Is for the Dead – Lamb Of God / Ashes of the Wake / Sony
Chimaira / Severed / Pass Out Of Existence / Roadrunner Japan
Chimaira / Lumps / Pass Out Of Existence / Roadrunner Japan
Mastodon / Tread Lightly / Once More ‘Round the Sun / Reprise
Mastodon / The Motherload / Once More ‘Round the Sun / Reprise
Liquid Tension Experiment / Biaxident / Liquid Tension Experiment 2 / Magna Carta
Liquid Tension Experiment / Another Dimension / Liquid Tension Experiment 2 / Magna Carta
3 / Battle Cry / The End Is Begun / Metal Blade
3 / All That Remains / The End Is Begun / Metal Blade
COHEED AND CAMBRIA / The Audience / The Color Before The Sun / Roadrunner Records
COHEED AND CAMBRIA / Peace To The Mountain / The Color Before The Sun / Roadrunner Records
October Sky / All This Sound / Rise / Self Released
October Sky / Live Again / Rise / Self Released
Caligula’s Horse / Marigold / Bloom / InsideOut
Caligula’s Horse / Firelight / Bloom / InsideOut
Spock’s Beard / The Light: The Dream/One Man/Garden People/Looking Straight Into the Light/The Man in the Mountain/Senor Valasco’s Mystic Voodoo Love Dance/The Return of the Horrible Catfish/The Dream / The Light / ?
Spock’s Beard / Go the Way You Go / The Light / ?
Joe Satriani / Back To Shalla-Bal / Flying In A Blue Dream / ?
Joe Satriani / Ride / Flying In A Blue Dream / ?
Joe Satriani / The Forgotten (Part 1) / Flying In A Blue Dream / ?
Joe Satriani / The Forgotten (Part 2) / Flying In A Blue Dream / ?
Joe Satriani / The Bells of Lal (Part 1) / Flying In A Blue Dream / ?
Joe Satriani / The Bells of Lal (Part 2) / Flying In A Blue Dream / ?
Joe Satriani / Into the Light / Flying In A Blue Dream / ?

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 1/4/16

Artist  —  Album  —  Label
1) Vision of Disorder  —  Razed to the Ground  —  Candlelight
2) Cryptopsy  —  Book of Suffering Tome 1  —  Self Released
3) Ram  —  Svbversvm  —  Metal Blade
4) Teramaze  —  Her Halo  —  Mascot
5) Devil You Know  —  They Bleed Red  —  Nuclear Blast
6) Exmortus  —  Ride Forth  —  Prosthetic
7) Transport League  —  Napalm Bats & Suicide Dogs  —  Metalville
8) Silent Line  —  Shattered Shores  —  Self Released
9) Kampfar  —  Profan  —  Indie Recordings
10) Firespawn  —  Shadow Realms  —  Century Media
11) Culture Killer  —  Throes of Mankind  —  Metal Blade
12) Adrenchrome  —  Tales from Adrenchrome  —  Self Released (Asher)
13) Despite Exile  —  Disprese  —  Lifeforce
14) Psychosomatic  —  Clicking Sound Of A Hammer Pulled Back  —  Buriedinhell
15) Vingulmork  —  Chiaroscuro  —  Crime Records
16) Diavolos  —  You Lived, Now Die  —  Hells Headbangers
17) Standing Ovation  —  Gravity Beats Nuclear  —  Inverse
18) Dimesland  —  Psychogenic Atrophy  —  Crucial Blast
19) Chastain  —  We Bleed Metal  —  Leviathan
20) Ur Draugr  —  With Hunger Undying  —  ATMF

Top 5 Adds
1) Exmortus  —  Ride Forth  —  Prosthetic
2) Olathia  —  Hunters  —  Shred Foot
3) Cauldron  —  In Ruin  —  The End
4) Dissona  —  Paleopneumatic  —  Black & White
5) Insision  —  Terminal Reckoning  —  Sevared

Other Adds:  Blackdeath,  Bode Preto, Pile of Priests, Overdoze

Exmortus
Ride Forth
Prosthetic Records
Catchy heavy and yeah, proggy too.  This is a mix of maybe Battlecross/Arsis/Skeletonwitch… yeah with more guitar virtuousity.  Great stuff, and already in 2016 a candidate for top of the year in just the first week!

Olathia
Hunters
Shred Foot Records
Kind of a melodic thrash… music is thrashy, vocals are clean and traditional metal-like.

Cauldron
In Ruin
The End Records
Edgy throwback stoner-ish metal.  Decent melodic hard rock stuff, catchy and cool.

Dissona
Paleopneumatic
Black & White Music
Sort of a proggy melodic symphonic and yes, industrial metal thing.  Parts of it musically have melodic death feel, but vocals are more folk/prog/power metal.

BLACKDEATH
Totentaz
Label: Heidens Hart Records
Old school black metal with “black metal popeye” style vocals

INSISION
Terminal Reckoning
Label: Sevared Records
Brutal death metal.  Good production and just a good classic groovin’ death metal thing going on

VISIONS OF THE NIGHT
Visions of the Night vs.ReMechanized
Label: Self-Released
Some sort of industrial/electronic-ized black/death metal.  a bit too weird for my tastes

BODE PRETO
Mystic Massacre
Iron Tyrant
Blackened thrash, heavy wall of sound brutal sound

Far From Alaska
modeHuman
(DeckDisc)
Female fronted hard rock with a bluesy thing, pretty catchy and decent, just not mosh pit material.

Pile of Priests
Void to Enlightenment
Label: Self-released
Progressive Death metal, a bit raw, but some cool stuff going on, good solos, some brutality and meat and potatoes death metal.

OVERDOZE
Supreme Dosage
Label: Cabin Blade Records
A basic thrashy thing with vox that seem sort of “punk” to me.  not too bad.

SHARKY SHARKY
Super Awsome Mega Rock
Label: Self Released
This might be one of the weirdest things sent this way… Shark themed kids rock music… more like an alt-rock thing, but this might be a go-to for a laugh.

Flames of Fury
Flames of Fury (2013 – reissued)
Self Released
Femaled fronted hard rock/traditional classic metal.  A little bit thrashy, a little catchy and they have that “local band” feel… not that meh local band, but the GOOD local band. ya know?

Since we’re doing our 2015 recaps and fun shows, we didn’t have time to play most of this stuff, but look for it to turn up later or give us a request!

Killswitch Engage
“Strength of the Mind” (Single)
Roadrunner
Good catchy decent and kinda heavy, typical KsE

NEURONIA
Under The Same Sky
Label: Self-Release
Polish heavy thrash/standard metal.  A good edge to it, also melodic too.  Actually reminds me a little bit of Grip Inc.

Anopheli
The Ache Of Want LP
Halo Of Flies
Melodic doomy death with a pinch of a folk feel.  As I look them up a bit more… they call themselves “emo crust” with a cello.  Interesting.

Svalbard
One Day All This Will End LP
Halo Of Flies
A screamy melodic doomy stuff.

Dark The Suns
Life Eternal
Inverse
Kind of a melodic gothy doom / melodic death… I guess they remind me a little of Moonspell.  Getting heavy and growly with a little melodic black metal sound going on, but also a bit doomy.

Chaos Echoes
A Voiceless Ritual LP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
The name says it all… echoing some chaos… a drony doom/experimental black-ish metal type thing… meh.

Kombur
I Am Alpha
Imminence Records
Kind of death metal, kind of death core, a little bit of melody and some chugga chugga.

AGAINST THE PLAGUES
Purified Through Devastation
Non Serviam Records
Brutal, classic death metal.  Good crisp production a bit of technicality and just full on cool stuff.

Ice War
Battle Zone 7″ EP
Iron Bonehead
Classic punky um, metal?  2 songs and crappy production.  meh.

Ripping Death
Tales of the Ripper TAPE
Iron Bonehead
Death/thrash with a raw feel.  A cool groove going on here too. (4 songs)

Bloodlash
Rain EP
Inverse Records
Melodic, proggy and melodeath in parts too… and a little bit of a doomy stoner metal sometimes too… and maybe a lil bit like Tool as well.

ENDLESS RECOVERY
Revel in Demise
Label: Witches Brew
Brutal trash… Heavy, yet catchy and lots of classic thrashy riffage, but with more extreme abrasive screamy/growly or “scrowly” vocals… great stuff.

WAR ATROCITIES
NECROMANTICAL LEGIONS
WITCHES BREW
This is I guess a textbook example of blackened thrash?  IT’s got that dark black metal feel, but that familiar thrash thing going on too.

ENDLESS RECOVERY
REVEL IN DEMISE
WITCHES BREW
Fast, heavy classic, well classic influcence thrash.  Great riffage and catchy.  Brutal vocals, almost black metal sounding… but it all works great.

Beorn
Time To Dare
Self Released
Kind of an epic proggy power metal with a bit of a thrashy edge

Various Artists
Happy Metal Annihilation Vol. 5
Asher Media PR

GRAVE FORSAKEN
The Fight Goes On
Label: Soundmass
Release Date: 1 December 2015
Genre: Thrash Metal | Country: Australia

Savage
7 / Live N Lethal
Minus 2 Zebra
Classic traditional metal… 2 albums, a studio album and a live album.  Good hard rockin’ drivin’ stuff.

ABSOLUTUS
Pugnare in iis quae obtinere non possis
Label: Heidens Hart Records
Classic black metal, good production, decent melody and that cold northern feeling.

HEIMDALLS WACHT
Der Untergang der alten Welt
Label: Heidens Hart Records
Release Date: December 2015
Genre: Black Metal | Country: Germany

Nachtzeit
Där Föddes En Längtan
Nordvis Produktion
Classic black metal with a bit of a drony sound.

Akatechism
Dripping Flames
Invictus Productions
Noisy classic doomy black metal

Serpents Athrist
Heralding Ceremonial Mass Obliteration
Invictus Productions
Kind of a brutal blackened death metal with grindy stuff going on.. (3 song ep)

Ravenous
We Are Become Death
Coffee Jingle Records
Good classic thrashy stuff with a heavier edge… kind of a groove metal.

COSTIN CHIOREANU
The Quest For A Morning Star
Avantgarde Music
Genre: Avantgarde / Experimental Music  Yup.  Yawwwn.

Angerhead
Headful of Hate EP
Self Released
Catchy thrashy metal with bit of a brutal edge to it.

DRAMA / PERDITION WINDS
[SPLIT] Drama / Perdition Winds
Label: Satanath Records
Drama is some doomy black metal but with a bit of a black and roll groove going on.  Perdition Wings… classic black metal.

ANCESTORS BLOOD & HEERVADER
Ancestors Blood & Heerva
Label: Heidens Hart Records
Heervader is some creepy black metal, Ancestors blood is more of a symphonic black metal.

Band: Inner Odyssey
Album: Ascension
Country: Canada
Proggy hard rock not quite venturing into the metal realm.  Maybe you know, kind of Porcupine Tree-ish.

Grill
Grill
Self Released
Technical brutal death metal.  Production is a little raw, but still brutal.

LAST FRONTIER
Theta Healing (Through the poison)
Label: Revalve Records
Heavier Prog metal… not so much power metal-ish, there’s good distorted guitars, keyboards, kind of a more raw metal early Dream Theater type thing.

Corners of Sanctuary
Metal Machine
Self Released
Classic metal with a little old thrash tendency.

Band: Batushka
Album: Litourgiya
Label: Witching Hour Prods
Starts of with some chanting… but then gets black and brutal real fast. The chanting stays in there with the brutal blackened death to just keep it creepy and evil sounding.  pretty cool stuff.

Infamy
The Blood Shall Flow (2015 Reissue)
Terror from Hell Records
Classic death metal on this 2015 reissue… classic because it IS old, and still holds up too.

Band: Vader
Album: Future Of The Past II – Hell In The East
Label: Witching Hour prods
It’s hard for Vader to do any wrong… This is a covers album of stuff that I haven’t really heard of, but it doesn’t matter, Vader sounds like Vader here, heavy, brutal and catchy all the while doing songs from bands like Exorcist, Imerator, Krabathor, Merciless Death and more.

Khazaddum
In Dwarven Halls
Self-Release
Here’s a band from Milwaukee that got sent our way via a PR firm.  Based on JRR Tolkein subjects, this is some brutal technical death metal kind of like a Nile/Behemoth.  Great stuff!

ZAFAKON
Release
Self Released
A heavier thrash… with a groove… a cool abrasive brutal sound going on too.

NIDAFJOLL
Einar
Self Released
Melodic folky black metal.

INSISION
Terminal Reckoning
Label: Sevared Records
Classic death metal… and yeah, there’s a cool groove going on here too.

Battle Path
Ambedo
Label: Inherent Records
Doomy black metal

Band: Denigrate
Album: Hollowpoint
Label: Looking for
Classic thrashy metal.  Good stuff.