Darkest Hour
Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora
Southern Lord
Heavy melodic death type stuff.  You know that metalcore-ish sound, but heavier and more technical.

Metal Church
“Fake Healer” ft. Todd LaTorre
RatPak Records
A single from the forthcoming Live Album.  A newly recorded duet with Todd LaTorre of Queensryche.  Great stuff, both monster voices on one of the great classic metal songs.

SVART CROWN
Abreaction
Century Media
Brutal death metal.  Cookie monster, fast technical playing.  Great grooves too.

Black Map
In Droves
eOne
A little bit of a Tool (vocally?) feeling rock.  Just a good grooving hard rock thing.

The Bug vs. Earth
“Don’t Walk These Streets” [Single]
Ninja Tune
Doomy Electronic instrumental.

Lancer
Mastery
Metalville Records
Good old classic power metal.  Throw your fists up and scream along!  Good heaviness and catchy and just what something like classic Helloween or whatever would get you.

Morta Skuld
Wounds Deeper Than Time
Peaceville Records
Cool to have these guys still pputting stuff out and wow, this album crushes!  Death metal, great grooves, technicality and catchy… oh fucking brutal too!  Great stuff.

Memoriam
For The Fallen
Nucleat Blast USA
A bit of a doomy death metal. Cool riffs, meaty grooves and basic brutality.  Decent

The Charm The Fury
The Sinck, Dumb Happy (single)
Nuclear Blast USA
This is a Dutch metalcore band, female fronted, catchy and heavy and just some overall heavy catchy metalcore.  It’d be nice to hear some more…

Obituary
Obituary
Relapse Records
Well, this one is interesting!  It’s got like that classic Obituary groove and sound… but intermixed are some techy and cool solos.  They’re back!  oh wait, they never really left.  Anyway, great stuff.

Cut Up
Wherever They May Rot
Metal Blade Records
Great classic brutal death metal.  A couple of guys branched out after Vomitory broke up and made this band… so the pedigree is there and it’s just good solid death metal.

Apostate Viaticum
Before the Gates of Gomorrah
Invictus Productions
Old school brutal and evil death metal from Dublin! Maybe a little bit of a black metal evilness going on, but pretty much sticking to the catchy grooving death metal.

Consummation
Ritual Severance
Invictus Productions
Two 10 minute songs of Blackened death metal, a slight doomy feeling… but it’s

Death Worship
Extermination Mass MLP/MCD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Kind of classic death metal, more grind death metal but with a few grooves, production is a bit mushy, but listenable.

MURO
El Cuarto Jinete
Fighter Records
Classic metal / power metal all sung in Spanish!  Just your cool classic metal with guitars, great sounding vox (a nice raspy edge), and overall clean classic metal.

Harvest Gulgaltha
Altars of Devotion LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Dark and brutal blackened death metal.  Production is a bit raw, but it’s dark and evil, so who cares, right?

PANIKK
Discarded Existence
Xtreem Music
This is a bit of a classic thrash going more towards a speed metal heavier thrash type thing.  Great riffs and catchy too.   Great stuff.

Entartung
Baptised into the Faith of Lust
W.T.C.Productions
Good old classic black metal.  Cold meedly guitars, pulsing blast beats and melodic grooves.

Onirik / Grimfaug
MMXIV-MMXVI CD
Iron Bonehead / Altare
Both of these bands are pretty much black metal, but with brutal death metal too. Grimfaug is a bit more of a classic traditional black metal thing.

Iron Magazine
Queen of Hell
Ektro
This is a catchy almost 80’s rock, but stoner metal with some grooves… a bit like a Faith No More light.

Anomalie
Visions
Art of Propaganda
Dark and gloomy classic black metal.  A strong depressing doom feeling to go along with the pulsing black metal beats.

LOCUST LEAVES
A Subtler Kind Of Light
I, Voidhanger Records
Not sure what to say about this one.  A bit of an experimental traditional metal thing with some prog, thrash, classic metal, vox are a bit clean in one track, death metal in another.   Four tracks with seemingly different themes on each.

Allochiria
Throes
Art of Propaganda
Melodic post-metal type stuff

CRIME (Chile)
First Crime (TAPE)
Shadow Kingdom
Blackened thrash metal.  Just 3 songs.  Sounds like a classic throwback on both fronts.

Lantern
II: Morphosis
Dark Descent Records
Death metal, a bit grooving, maybe a little in the doom side of things in its mood.  But it’s fast brutal and has some black metal stuff going on too.

Ascended Dead
Abhorrent Manifestation
Invictus Productions / Dark Descent
Brutal blackened death metal… Fast intense playing, brutal barky growled vox.

Hello Black Hole
In No Good Hand
Svart Records
Doomy noise alternative rock… experiemental type stuff.

Alunah
Solennial
Svart Records
17 March 2017
Doomy psychedelic melodic rock with hypnotic female clean melodic vox.

Band: Killsorrow
Album: Little Something For You To Choke
Label: Art of the Nights Productions
Melodic thrash-ish / classic metal.  Vox are more shouty/growly, but some cool catchy melodic thrash type stuff.  It’s almost prog/power metal.

INGLORIOUS
I Don’t Need Your Loving – RADIO SINGLE
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Classic hard rock.  Good catchy stuff.

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2017-03-11 / 00:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Rob’s Music Shop / Music / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Nova Collective / Ripped Apart and Reassembled / The Further Side / Metal Blade Records
Haken / The Endless Knot / Affinity / InsideOut
Neal Morse Band / i’m running / The Similitude Of A Dream / Radiant
Neal Morse Band / the mask / The Similitude Of A Dream / Radiant
Neal Morse Band / Confrontation / The Similitude Of A Dream / Radiant
Neal Morse Band / the battle / The Similitude Of A Dream / Radiant
Flying Colors / Mask Machine (Live) / Second Flight: Live At the Z7 / Mascot
Dream Theater / Scene Four: Beyond This Life / Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory / Atlantic Records
Liquid Tension Experiment / Acid Rain / Liquid Tension Experiment 2 / Magna Carta
Persefone / Spirals Within Thy Being / Aathma / ViciSolum Productions
Protest the Hero / caravan / Pacific Myth / Razor & Tie
Between the Buried and Me / Sun of Nothing / Colors / Victory Records
Sicosis / We Shall Rise / Requiem of the World / M-Theory Auto
Myrath / Tales of the Sands / Tales of the Sands / Nightmare Records
Symphony X / Evolution (The Grand Design) / V – The New Mythology Suite / Metal Blade Records, Inc.
Symphony X / Fallen / V – The New Mythology Suite / Metal Blade Records, Inc.

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2017-03-06 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Havok / F.P.C. / Conformicide / Century Media
Iron Reagan / More War / Crossover Ministry / Relapse Records
Overkill / Let’s All Go to Hades / The Grinding Wheel / Nuclear Blast
Kill The Precedent / Watch What You Think / Some Version Of The Truth / Minus Head Records
Power Trip / Waiting Around to Die / Nightmare Logic / Southern Lord
Azreal / Prememonition / Premonition / Music Gallery International
Pantera / Medicine Man / Cowboys From Hell (20th Anniv.) / Rhino
Temptation’s Wings / I Destroyer / Skulthor Ebonblade / Self Released
Black Sites / Burning Away the Day / In Monochrome / Mascot Records
KXM / Noises in the Sky / Noises In The Sky (Single) / Rat Pak Records
Armored Saint / March of the Saint (Live) / Carpe Noctum (Live) / Metal Blade Records
Angelmaker / Aradia / Unholy Alliance – EP / Self Released
Reaping Asmodeia / The Clemency Guise / Impuritize / Prosthetic
Within The Ruins / Death of the Rock Star / Halfway Human / eOne Music
Crucify The Faith / New Breed / New Breed / Music Kickup Records
Demon Hunter / Jesus Wept / Outlive / Solid State Records
Damnation Plan / Beyond These Walls / Reality Illusion / Inverse
Atlas Pain / To the moon / What the Oak Left / Scarlet Records
Mors Principium Est / The Drowning / Embers Of A Dying World / AFM Records
Behind the Sun / The Fall / Post Solis / Self Released
Witherfall / Sacrifice / Nocturnes and Requiems / Witherfall
Cellador / Wake Up the Tyrant / Off the Grid / Scarlet Records
Sanctuary / Ascension to Destiny (Demo 1986) / Inception / Century Media
Evocation / Condemned to the Grave / The Shadow Archetype / Metal Blade Records
Grave Plague / Arise The Infected / The Infected Crypts EP / Give Praise Records
Hellfire / Hellmass Attack / Goat Revenge / Witches Brew
Wolfheart / World on Fire / Tyhjyys / Spinefarm
Warseid / In Themselves They Believed / A New Land to Find / Soundage / Soyuz Music
Six Feet Under / Slaughtered as They Slept / Torment / Metal Blade Records
Replacire / Do Not Deviate / Do Not Deviate (Single) / Season of Mist
Aversions Crown / The Oracles of Existence / Xenocide / Nuclear Blast
Once Human / Dark matter / Evolution / EarMusic
Ex Deo / Ad Victoriam (The Battle of Zama) / The Immortal Wars / Napalm Records
In My Embrace / The Road of Hanging On / Black Waters Deep / Sliptrick Records
Nidingr / Valkyries Assemble / The High Heat Licks Against Heaven / Indie Recordings
Valfreya / Promised Land / Promised Land / Self Released
Immolation / Rise the Heretics / Atonement / Nuclear Blast
Lorna Shore / Fvneral Moon / Flesh Coffin / OuterLoop Records
Dodecahedron / Tilling The Human Soil / Tilling The Human Soil (Single) / Season of Mist

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 3/6/17

Artist — Album — Label
1) Overkill — The Grinding Wheel — Nuclear Blast
2) Iron Reagan — Crossover Ministry — Relapse
3) Lorna Shore — Flesh Coffin — Outerloop
4) Azreal — Premonition — Music Gallery
5) Ex Deo — The Immortal Wars — Napalm
6) Mors Principium Est — Embers of a Dying World — AFM
7) Aversions Crown — Xenocide — Nuclear Blast
8) Once Human — Evolution — EarMusic
9) Six Feet Under — Torment — Metal Blade
10) Witherfall — Nocturnes and Requiems — Self Released
11) Nidingr — The High Heat Licks Against Heaven — Season of Mist
12) Black Sites — In Monochrome — Mascot
13) Valfreya — The Promised Land — Self Released (Asher)
14) Immolation — Atonement — Nuclear Blast
15) Armored Saint — Carpe Noctum — Metal Blade
16) In My Embrace — Black Waters Deep — Sliptrick
17) Warseid — A New Land to Find — SoundAge Prods. (local)
18) Power Trip — Nightmare Logic — Southern Lord
19) Sanctuary — Inception — Century Media
20) Reaping Asmodeia — Impuritize — Prosthetic

Top 5 Adds
1) Havok — Conformicide — Century Media
2) Evocation — The Shadow Archetype — Metal Blade
3) Within The Ruins — Halfway Human — eOne
4) Demon Hunter — Outlive — Solid State
5) Wolfheart — Tyhjyys — Spinefarm

Other Adds/Reviewed: American Grim, Windswept (single), Junius, Replacire (Single), Dodecahedron (Single), Kill the Precedent, Black Mirros, Poison Rites, Damnation Plan, Front Beast, Cellador, Ghastly Sound, PH, Atlas Pain, Black Cilice, Grave Plague, Lubricant, Deathwite, Lunar Shadow, Behind The Sun, Temptations Wings, Dunderbeist, Nemus, Crucify the Faith, Hellfire, KXM (Single)

American Grim
Freakshow
eOne Music / Rocktagon Worldwide Music
American new metal.  Not quite old “nu-metal” but it’s kind of what it reminds me of.  Maybe a bit of a Marilyn Manson shock rock/metal sound… catchy commercial metal-ish sound.

Demon Hunter
Outlive
Solid State
A band that has been around for a while.  This album stays true to their sound, maybe kicking it into melodic death a tiny bit.  Metalcore, a tiny feel of nu-metal all while staying tried and true to Christian metal.  Catchy too!

Wolfheart
Tyhjyys
Spinefarm
Melodic death metal with a viking metal feel… so yeah, sounds like Amon Amarth and that’s a good thing, right?  Right.  This might be a bit more dark and heavy though too. Great stuff.

WINDSWEPT
Blinding and Bottomless Abyss Is Howling (Radio Promo)
Season of Mist
An old school black metal feel, with some brutal vox and heaviness…. but overall, some old school Mayhem-ish black metal.

Evocation
The Shadow Archetype
Metal Blade Records
Heavy melodic death from Sweden. They were around in the early 90’s. took a 12 year break and came back in 2005.  This is the first album in 5 years and it’s good stuff man.  A big freight train of death metal all while having a catchy melodic groove going on too.  Vox are harsh the whole time too.

Junius
Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light
Prosthetic Records
This is a bit doomy, a bit sludgey, a bit black metal, a bit grungy and noisy and a little post-metal too… and yeah, space rock and all this together fits a bit into prog, but noise-prog?

REPLACIRE
Do Not Deviate (Radio Promo)
Season of Mist
Tech death metal.  Good barking vox, lots of techy guitar and drum stuff going on.  Looking forward to the rest of this album!

DODECAHEDRON
HEXAHEDRON – Tilling The Human Soil (Radio Promo)
Season of Mist
Blackened death metal, a bit more on the melodic black metal side of things… but good stuff.

Within The Ruins
Halfway Human
Entertainment One
Djenty techy death/brutalcore metal Catchy and heavy… a bit thrashy too, if you don’t like the brutalcore djenty stuff, then this is probably not for you.  I like it.

Kill The Precedent
Some Version Of The Truth
Minus Head Records
Kind of hardcore…a little darker and maybe some thrashy stuff going on too

Havok
Conformicide
Century Media Records
These guys seem to do no wrong with catchy modern classic thrash.  Heavy, kind of technical, and just what nowaways, when someone says tell me a good new metal band…”Havoc” should be one of those answers.

BLACK MIRRORS
Funky Queen
Napalm Records
Female fronted classic doomy metal.  Maybe a bit sabbath-y.  Grooves and catchy all around.

Poison Rites
Poison Rites
self-released
Kind of a punked up southern fried stoner metal

Damnation Plan
Reality Illusion
Inverse
Melodic death metal that sounds a bit like Soilwork.  Good harsh parts, catchy and kind of technical and clean vox work well too. Great stuff!

Front Beast
Third Scourge From Darkness CD/LP
Iron Bonehead
Blackened doom.  Black metal and doom,  yeah.  haha.  A little creepy with that echoey/shouted screamed vox.  Music has more of a classic stoner doom feel, but with black metal speed in parts.

CELLADOR
Off The Grid
Scarlet Records
These guys dropped off the map for a while and they’re back!  Classic power metal type stuff, maybe a bit more Dragonforce-ish, and they’re orginally from Omaha… now from Denver.  Great to have these guys back and to have a band like this from the US!

Ghastly Sound
Ghastly Sound
Magnetic Eye
A little sludgey something-core.  I guess it’s a little hardcore/metalcore but with a sort of sludgey metal music base.

PH
Eternal Hayden
Svart
Slow sludgey post-metal.  Shoegaze, whatever.  I am not a fan of this type of music, so I can’t really say anything good.

ATLAS PAIN
What The Oak Left
Scarlet Records
Progressive Melodic death metal going on here.  Harsh vox with more or less prog/power metal music.  Pretty cool stuff!  Usually you get one or the other, harsh vox or proggy power metal, but to get both… cool stuff.  The vox are a little low in the mix though.

Black Cilice
Banished From Time CD/LP/TAPE
Iron Bonehead
Raw, old school low-fi black metal.

Band: Grave Plague
Album: The Infected Crypts
Label: Give Praise records / Redefining Darkness
Two songs of classic grindy death metal.

Lubricant
Swallow This
Svart Records
Kind of a raw old school death metal. This is a compilation of their early 90’s stuff.  Kind of a hard rocking death metal type thing.

Deathwhite
For a Black Tomorrow
Self-Release
Kind of a more gothy and doomy Tool type thing.  A bit mroe on the grungy metal side, but vocally and prog-wise, it’s a little Tool like, but not quite as grooving.

Lunar Shadow
Far from Light
Cruz Del Sur Music
Dual guitar attack reminiscent of Judas Priest, but the rest of it is kind of a doomy old school classic metal.  There’s a little raw feeling in the production, maybe a bit of a throwback “Ghost” feeling too. But then there’s some Iron Maiden feelings too!

Behind The Sun
Post Solis
Self-Release
melodic death, big grooves, progressive death metal. catchy, brutal, melodic, laid back too.  great stuff all around!

Temptation’s Wings
Skulthor Ebonblade
Self-Release
Catchy and grooving stoner metal type stuff, intricate guitar and instrumental work, a sludgey heavy edge to it, but not doomy and depressing.  good stuff.

Dunderbeist
“Tvilja” EP
Indie Recordings
Classic doomy hard rock from Norway, all sung in assumingly Norwegian… probably not for the Mosh Pit, but it’s decent laid back chilled out prog-ish rock.

Band: Nemus
Album: Wald – Mensch
Label: self-released
They call it “post black metal”  So yeah, I can hear that, a bit doomy and noise-ish, but a melodic black/doom-ish metal thing happening too.

Crucify the Faith
New Breed
Record label: Self released
Melodic Deathcore, a little bit of a “local band” feel.  The Music is cool, the screamy and growly vox are good, but the clean vox seem a bit dirty.  They aren’t emo or anything, it just seems like they should stick to the growls or screams.

HELLFIRE
Goat Revenge (EP)
Label: Witches Brew
A little bit of a classic death metal, but a bit of a black n roll thing going on too.  Production isn’t 100% crisp, but it’s still good… this has a good gritty pissed off sound to it.

KXM
Noises In The Sky
RatPak
The 3rd single to trickle out from this supergroup.  This one is mostly instrumental, a little bit prog, but a laid back rock track.

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2017-02-27 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Sanctuary / Die For My Sins (Demo 1986) / Inception / Century Media
Skeletoon / Ticking Clock (feat. Jens Ludwig & Edguy) / Ticking Clock / Revalve Records
Witherfall / What We Are Dying For / Nocturnes and Requiems / Witherfall
Firewind / Vision of Tomorrow (Bonus Track) / Immortals / AFM Records
Valfreya / Shame and Despair / Promised Land / Self Released
Helion Prime / Oceans of Time / Helion Prime / AFM Records
Nova Collective / Dancing Machines / The Further Side / Metal Blade Records
Persefone / Spirals Within Thy Being / Aathma / ViciSolum Productions
Sanatana / Meditation / Brahmavidya / Rising Moon Productions
Warseid / Between Shadows / A New Land to Find / Soundage / Soyuz Music
Mors Principium Est / Into the Dark / Embers Of A Dying World / AFM Records
Ex Deo / Crossing of the Alps  / The Immortal Wars / Napalm Records
Disharmony / Whore of Babylon / Goddamn The Sun / Iron Bonehead
Nidingr / Sol Taker / The High Heat Licks Against Heaven / Indie Recordings
Funeral Storm / Necromancer / Funeral Rite / Iron Bonehead
Kreator / Army of Storms / Gods of Violence / Nuclear Blast
The Day of the Beast / The Destroying Eye / The Ultimate Cremation Pyre / Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Immolation / Fostering the Divide / Atonement / Nuclear Blast
Vorzug / Under a Dying Sun / Three – Single / Apollyon Entertainment
Zombie Assault / Open Grave / Video Nasty / Eclectic Productions
Deserted Fear / The Carnage / Dead Shores Rising / Century Media
Six Feet Under / Skeleton / Torment / Metal Blade Records
Foetal Juice / Phantom Visions / Masters of Absurdity / Grindscene Records
Desecrate the Faith / Unholy Infestation / Unholy Infestation / Comatose Music
Mindful Of Pripyat / Shrapnel Rain / New Doomsday Orchestration / Everlasting Spew Records
Gorephilia / Harmageddon of Souls / Severed Monolith / Dark Descent Records
Bear Mace / Wheel of Despair / Butchering The Colossus / Self Released
Azreal / Surveying the Fearful / Premonition / Music Gallery International
Power Trip / Firing Squad / Nightmare Logic / Southern Lord
Nuclear Oath / Razor Blade Regrets / Razor Blade Regrets – Single / Octave Studios Med Hat
Iron Reagan / Crossover Ministry / Crossover Ministry / Relapse Records
Zombie Motors Wrecking Yard / Love for Speed / Supersonic Rock ‘n Roll / Vertigo/Capitol
Emmure / Natural Born Killer / Look at Yourself / Sharptone Recordrs
Aversions Crown / Erebus / Xenocide / Nuclear Blast
Once Human / Mass Murder Frenzy / Evolution / EarMusic
Lorna Shore / Desolate Veil / Flesh Coffin / OuterLoop Records
In My Embrace / Into Oblivion (Dead to Dust Descend, Pt. 2) / Black Waters Deep / Sliptrick Records