Motionless In White
Graveyard Shift
Roadrunner
I recall this band being a bit more heavy… this seems to be more along the lines of a modern hard rock/metal-core-ish-light with some electronic stuff going on all over… a bit Marilyn Manson-ish/Rob Zombie meets a StoneSour type band.

Vangough
Warpaint
Self-Released
A hard rock/ prog hard rock thing with maybe little prog metal.  Decent melodies, nothing getting too fast or heavy, just leaning more towards straightforward hard rock.

Beastmaker
“The Evil One” [Single]
Rise Above
Doomy metal, crunchy riffs, meedly solos and a stoner metal thing

DragonForce
Reaching into Infinity (Special Edition)
Metal Blade Records
They’re back!  A new album.  It has the same elements that you’d expect, over the top guitars, then some more.  Big powerful anthemic stuff, cool vocal harmonies.  fast heavy and catchy… but as with all albums from these guys… sometimes it’s too much.

Below
Upon a Pale Horse
Metal Blade Records
Kind of a doomy power metal, like a Candlemass or dark epic stuff.  Clean power-metalish vox, big power doomy riffs too.

Goatwhore
Vengeful Ascension – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Usually this band grabs you straight up… This track is a bit more doom and down tempo… big grooves, just not fast and heavy like I’m used to.  Great vox and riffs and all that though.

The Unit
I Won’t Die
Pavement Entertainment
Female fronted… crunchy guitars, a bit crusty and hard rock/stoner-like musically.

Twilight Force
Heroes Of Mighty Magic
Metalville Records
Big epic symphonic power metal along the lines of Rhapsody.  cool stuff.

Kobra And The Lotus
I Prevail
Napalm Records
A little goth, a little stoner metal, some power metal feels too.  Good catchy hard rocking stuff with some cool female vox.

3Theeth
Shutdown.EXE
Cleopatra Records
I wouldn’t even know how to pronounce this band name.  Electronic metal, but a bit more gothy down temp

Black Dreams
My Hell (Single)
Inverse
Grooving hard rock with a very Danzig-like sound.

Sacrificial Slaughter
Generation Of Terror
Horror Pain Gore Death
Brutal death metal, great fast and aggressive sound, maybe a bit on the brutal thrash thing… but grooving fast and catchy death metal.  Great stuff.

SACRED OATH
Twelve Bells
Angel Thorne Music
Kind of a thrashy thing, a bit of classic metal, clean vox, decent catchy music.  A mix of classic metal, a bit thrash, prog/power metal too.

Tusmörke
Hinsides
Svart Records
Folky funky quirky art rock.

Band: BITTERED
Album: Foreign Agenda
Label: Lost Apparitions Records
Crusty grindy classic death metal type stuff.

RED BEARD WAL
S/t
Argonauta Records
A little sludgey, with some monotone-ish vox, kinda like old Raw Nirvana type stuff…then you get some screamo going on… and an overall doom feel.

Caïna / Cara Neir
Split
Broken Limbs
12 May 2017
Melodic, black metal, post-metal, decent stuff though, seems to have a good melodic death/black metal feel without getting too boring/post-metal-ish.

Sabbath Assembly
Rites of Passage
Svart Records
Some kind of old school sounding doomy classic metal, female vox …. a sound along the lines of alike a Ghost type thing.

SUMMONER
Beyond the Realm of Light
Magnetic Eye
A little bit of a stoner metal meets like the guitar work of Iron Maiden.  A cool catchy sound, a bit doomy, but some quick solo work in parts… I guess there’s a bit of a Mastodon feeling too.

Excommunion
Thronosis
Dark Descent Records
Brutal blackened death metal.

Ensnared (Sweden)
Dysangelium
Invictus Productions / Dark Descent
Heavy blackened death metal… great brutal and yeah, a little melodic in parts too.  Good stuff!

Peter Graigs
The Beginning of the End
Self Released
classic metal, clean vox, an ok groove… it’s just basic metal type stuff.

Band: Act Of Sin
Album: Casting the Second Stone
Self Released
Kind of a melodic death meets thrash thing.  A bit like a brutal thrash, but with some catchy melodic stuff too…

Humangod
Real Me
Inverse
A single of some proggy epic power metal, cool stuff!

Rithiya Henry Khiev
The Finite Cycle EP
Self Released
Melodic death, with production that sounds like a few layers of mp3s were compressed.  Cool music, great guitar work, crunchy riffs, and overall decent.

Miserist
Miserist (EP)
Label: Krucyator Productions
Black-ish metal, doomy and atmospheric in parts too.  A lot of noodling around, then finally getting to some brutal good stuff then, just putzing around again.

SLANT
With Or Without You
(Slant/PCM Live Entertainment)
Gothy emo-commercial hard rock/metal sounding stuff.

Corvus Noctis
Tenebrarum
Self Released
Spanish language power/classic metal.  Anthemic/driving guitars/vox and overall feel.  Catchy but nothing new.

Il Pasaro
Revived
Self Released
A dark grooving thrash sound.

Band: Nemesis Sopor
Album: MMXL
Label: Geisterasche Organisation
Clasic old school black metal… more on the melodic side…. meedly cold guitars and blast beats.

Lvx Hæresis
Descensu?s Spi?ri?tu?s
Label: Atavism Records (France)
classic black metal, a little on the doomier side of things.

Fellwarden
Oathbearer
Eisenwald
Classic melodic black metal.  A bit of an atmospheric doomy black metal thing going on.

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2017-05-05 / 23:00:00 / 00:00:00 / Fiction Jones / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Revocation / Theatre of Horror / Great Is Our Sin / Metal Blade Records
Testament / Brotherhood of the Snake / Brotherhood Of The Snake / Nuclear Blast
Exodus / Forward March / Tempo of the Damned / Nuclear Blast
Annihilator / Burns Like a Buzzsaw Blade / Alice In Hell / Roadrunner Records
Flotsam and Jetsam / Life Is a Mess / Flotsam and Jetsam / AFM Records
Death Angel / Discontinued / Act III / DGC
Celtic Frost / Circle of the Tyrants / To Mega Therion / Sanctuary Records
Principality O f Hell / Codex Inferno / Fire & Brimstone / W.T.C. Productions
Megadeth / Devil’s Island / Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? (2011 Reissue) / EMI
Infernal Majesty / Overlord / None Shall Defy / Roadrunner
Venom / Don’t Burn the Witch / Black Metal / Neat
Lamb of God / Pathetic / Sacrament / Epic Records
Slayer / Praise of Death / Hell Awaits / Metal Blade Records
Witchery / Midnight at the Graveyard / Restless and Dead / Necropolis
Deceased / Chambers of the Waiting Blind / Supernatural Addiction / Hell’s Headbangers
The Crown / Blitzkrieg Witchcraft / Deathrace King / Metal Blade Records
Dimmu Borgir / Kings of the Carnival Creation (Live in Oslo) / Forces of the Northern Night (Live) / Nuclear Blast
Opeth / The Funeral Portrait / Blackwater Park / Peaceville
Stargazer / Old Tea / A Merging To The Boundless / Nuclear War Now! Productions
DEATH / Scavenger of Human Sorrow / The Sound Of Perseverance (2CD Reissue) / Relapse
Gorguts / Forgotten Arrows / Colored Sands / Season of Mist
Barren Earth / Curse of the Red River / Curse of the Red River / Peaceville
Amorphis / Dark Path / Under the Red Cloud (Deluxe) / Nuclear Blast
Moonspell / Lickanthrope / Alpha Noir (Deluxe Version) / Napalm Records
Melechesh / Double Helixed Sceptre / Emissaries / THE END
Moonsorrow / Kylän Päässä / Voimasta Ja Kunniasta / Spin-Farm Oy
Skyclad / Land of the Rising Slum / Prince of the Poverty Line / Sanctuary Records
Ensiferum / Burning Leaves / Two Decades of Greatest Sword Hits / Spinefarm Records
Thulcandra / Throne of Will / Ascension Lost / Napalm Records
Eluveitie / Nil / Everything Remains (As It Never Was) [Exclusive Bonus Version] / Nuclear Blast
Finsterforst / Fremd / Rastlos / Napalm

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2017-05-01 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Dimmu Borgir / The Serpentine Offering (Live in Oslo) / Forces of the Northern Night / Nuclear Blast
Satyricon / K.I.N.G (Live) / Live At the Opera / Napalm Records
Netherbird / The Blackest Breed / The Ghost Collector / Scarecrow Music Group
Infernal Majesty / No God / No God / High Roller Records
God Dethroned / Annihilation Crusade / The World Ablaze / Metal Blade Records
Hate / Svarog’s Mountain / Tremendum / Napalm Records
The Noctambulant / Legion / Advocatus Diaboli / DGRecords
Helsott / The Tavern’s Tale / The Healer – EP / M-Theory Audio
Prometheus / Vulture All Black / Consumed In Flames / Katoptron Ix Records
Ancient Ascendant / Scaling the Gods / Raise the Torch / Spinefarm Records
Nighon / Blow Them All To Hell / The Somme / Inverse
Morbid Flesh / Heretic’s Hammer / Rites Of The Mangled / Unholy Prophecies / Equinox Disc
Novembers Doom / Apostasy / Hamartia / The End Records
Opeth / The Grand Conjuration / Ghost Reveries / Roadrunner Records
Earth Electric / Meditate. Mediate (Single) / Vol. 1: Solar / Season of Mist
The Obsessed / Haywire / Sacred / Relapse Records
Mastodon / Word to the Wise / Emperor Of Sand / Reprise
Life Of Agony / Meet Thy Maker / A Place Where There’s No More Pain / Napalm Records
Pallbearer / I Saw the End / Heartless / Nuclear Blast Records
Hive / Gated Community / Parasitic Twin / Crown and Throne Ltd.
Body Count / Walk With Me… (feat. Randy Blythe) / Bloodlust / Century Media
Eruption / Sanity Ascend / Cloaks of Oblivion / Xtreem Music
Harlott / Conflict Revelation / Extinction / Metal Blade Records
Warbringer / Divinity of Flesh / Woe To The Vanished / Napalm Records
Blood Feast / Last Rites / The Future State Of Wicked / Hell’s Headbangers
Tribulance / Oblivious / The Aftermath of Lies / The Entertainment Company
Helker / For All the Eternity / Firesoul / AFM Records
Vhäldemar / 1366 (Old King’s Visions Part V) / Old King’s Visions / Fighter Records
Seven Kingdoms / Kingslayer / Decennium / Napalm Records
The Unity / Firesign / The Unity / Steamhammer
All That Remains / Safe House / Safe House – Single / Razor & Tie
Without Waves / Memento Mori / Lunar / Prosthetic
A Killer’s Confession / Final Breath / Unbroken / EMP
Fit for An Autopsy / Spiral / The Great Collapse / eOne Music
Night Demon / Life on the run / Darkness Remains / Steamhammer
Final Drive / Life Decided / Dig Deeper / Independent
Mammothor / Howling Baying Jackal / Devotion Lost / EMP

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 5/1/17

Artist — Album — Label
1) Body Count — Bloodlust — Century Media
2) Mastodon — Emperor of Sand — Reprise
3) Warbringer — Woe to the Vanished — Napalm
4) Harlott — Extinction — Metal Blade
5) Novembers Doom — Hamarita — The End
6) Night Demon — Darkness Remains — Century Media
7) Infernal Majesty — No God — High Roller
8) Fit for an Autopsy — The Great Collapse — eOne
9) Blood Feast — The Future State of Wicked — Hells Headbangers
10) Without Waves — Lunar — Prosthetic
11) Final Drive — Dig Deeper — Independent
12) Hate — Tremendum — Napalm
13) Pallbearer — Heartless — Profound Lore
14) Blessed Curse — Beware of the Night — M Theory Audio
15) The Obsessed — Sacred — Relapse
16) A Killer’s Confession — Unbroken — EMP
17) Ancient Ascendant — Raise The Torch — Candlelight
18) Fates Warning — Awaken the Guardian Live — Metal Blade
19) Helsott — The Healer — M-Theory
20) Morbid Flesh — Rites of the Mangled — Unholy Prophecies

Top 5 Adds
1) God Dethroned — The World Ablaze — Metal Blade
2) All That Remains — Madness — Razor and Tie
3) Tribulance — The Aftermath of Lies — The Entertainment Co.
4) Dimmu Borgir — Forces of the Northern Light — Nuclear Blast
5) The Unity — The Unity — SPV —

Other Adds/Reviewed: Mammothor, Life of Agony, For Trips Ahead, Seven Kingdoms, Never Say Never (Single), Ulsect (Single), Earth Electric (Single), Stone Sour (Single), Mongol, Eruption, Excalibur, Vhaldemar, From Oceans to Autumn, Forgotten Woods, Alchimia, Netherbird, Helker, Black Cage, Nighon, Fading Axalea, The Noctambulant, Zenden San, Roctum, Prometheus, Urskog, Hive, Bleed Again, Gurt, Nayades, Black Paisley, Bare Infinity

Dimmu Borgir
Forces Of The Northern Night
Genre: Black Metal
Live show(s) from their shows in Oslo and Wacken a few years ago… finally seeing the light of day.  Sounds great and to have a full orchestra and choir really brings out the epic-ness that this band can do… good clean production.  This will have to tide us over til their new stuff comes out!

ULSECT
Fall To Depravity (Radio Single)
Season of Mist
Brutal blackended death with a wall of atmospheric noise… a little post-metal going on.

EARTH ELECTRIC
Meditate. Mediate (Radio Single)
Season of Mist
Female fronted doomy stoner/grunge, a bit atmospheric, and good punchy production.

Never Say Never
Trust Fall
RuffLife Recordz LLC
Well, this is some kind of classic hard rock / nu metal.  Clean vox, driving guitar and even a little rap part.

Mammothor
Devotion Lost
EMP
Hard rock with a little bit of a stoner edge to it .  Good catchy and meaty riffs, clean vox, melodic hard rock stuff with maybe a little doom going on

The Unity
The Unity
SPV
Power/prog-ish metal.  Big solid voice, classic metal/hard rock type stuff, but yeah a bit in the power metal area with a little prog going on.  Fist pumping sing-along stuff with a big of head bobbing hard rockin edge.  (not quite thrashy head banging, just that good hard rock nodding along with the beat head banging)

Stone Sour
“Song #3” [Single]
Roadrunner
These guys have kind of crossed more into the commercial hard rock area.  this is a good classic hard rock type song.  Nothing heavy… I’d just have to say, oh, it’s a good catchy rock song.

All That Remains
Madness
Razor And Tie
Good barking vox, chuggy metalcore sound, some big breakdown parts, heavy and kinda brutal… and melodic too.  Good stuff.

Life Of Agony
A Place Where There’s No More Pain
Napalm Records
Classic hard rockin’ stuff, not quite whiny type stuff like the old days, just good grungy melodic hard rock.

Tribulance
The Aftermath Of Lies
The Entertainment Company
A cool heavy metal…  classic metal good riffage, vox are gritty but mostly clean… cool dark yet melodic feel.

Four Trips Ahead
And The Fire Within
HiFi Records
This is sort of a solid rock… melodic hard rock thing.  Decent stuff, probably not for the Mosh Pit.

Seven Kingdoms
Decennium
Napalm Records
Female fronted speedy power metal, getting a little heavy thrashy in parts… pretty cool stuff.

God Dethroned
The World Ablaze
Metal Blade Records
Blackened melodic death metal.  These guys don’t seem to put out anything bad.  Brutal, catchy, melodic, heavy and a good full sound while not going overboard nor too light.  Great stuff.

Band: MONGOL
Album: Warrior Spirit
Self Released
Folk death metal from Canada.  Great heavy death metal thing with some banjo folk stuff, but the heavy stuff gets good and brutal, kind of a good brutal melodic death metal… I hear a little bit of Amorphis and Children of Bodom going on too.  good stuff!

ERUPTION
Cloaks of Oblivion
Xtreem Music
Kind of an extreme thrash type thing / classic metal.  Just good heavy stuff, sometimes screamy and sometimes abrasive vox.  Great meaty beats/riffs all with a little thrash feel.

EXCALIBUR (Spain)
Humo Negro
Fighter Records
Classic metal all spanish language… A bit on the hard rock/AOR style from the early 90’s.

VHÄLDEMAR
Old King’s Visions
Fighter Records
Heavy German sounding metal (from Spain!)  A good edge, catchy thrashy type stuff, but with some classic metal going on

FROM OCEANS TO AUTUMN
Ether / Return to Earth
Argonauta Records
Post rock… ambient meh

Band: Forgotten Woods
Album: “As The Wolves Gather” + “Sjel Av Natten”
Label: ATMF
Dark scary black metal.  Old school.  shouty screams for vocals, classic lofi black metal sound

Alchimia
Musa
Nadir Music
Melodic doom, hitting into some death growly stuff here and there, but overall dark and depressing.

Netherbird
Hymns From Realms Yonder
Label: Black Lodge Records
BLack/death metal.  HEavy, evil and good stuff.  Brutal, and sort of melodic death-ish, but more of a heavy blackened death metal. Great stuff.

Helker
Firesoul
AFM Records
Classic metal, clean vox, just your meat and potatoes standard melodic hard rockin’ metal.

BLACK CAGE
Excess All Areas
MarsMusic
Sounds like femaled fronted blues rock.  uh… prob. not for the mosh pit.

Nighon
The Somme
Inverse Records
Kind of a gothy symphonic blackened metalcore.  Clean female vox, harsh male vox in a sort of melodic death metal thing too.

Fading Azalea
Maze Of Melancholy
Self Released
Symphonic-ish black/death metal…. leaning towards a metalcore/melodic death with female vox.

The Noctambulant
Advocatus Diaboli
Domestic Genocide Records
Melodic blackend death metal… but not too over the top. A good groove, heavy, kind of catchy.  It’s got a great evil edge without being too brutal or heavy… good well rounded stuff.

Zenden San
Daily Garbage
Karma Conspiracy Records
Slappin’ bass instrumental stuff.  A bit fusion-ish, a little Primus feel as it’s very Bass centered.  Cool funky stuff.

Roctum
Nothing To Do With Hell
Inverse
Classic metal that has a bit of a WASP sound (vocally)

PROMETHEUS
Consumed In Flames
Katoptron IX Records
Blackened death metal, kind of that fast brutality you get from Behemoth/Melechesh.  Heavy and catchy.  Great stuff

Urskog
Sprider Sporer
Self Released
2 songs of extreme “metal”  kind of a blackened grooving death metal.

Hive
Parasitic Twin
Crown & Throne Ltd
Blackened doom and grindy death metal.  it kind of hits both

Band: BLEED AGAIN
Album: Momentum
Label: Sliptrick records
Melodic modern metal.  Maybe a little edge going on here and there, screamy vox, clean vox, a kind of extreme commercial metal type thing.

GURT
Skullossus
A bit of a sludge sound, but not too down tempo, just a classic doomy death metal that seems to be a little groove/stoner metal feel too.

NÁYADES
White Winter Tale
Self Released
Classic metal/power metal.  Catchy maybe along the lines of a european Queensryche.  Melodic hard rock/metal-ish

Black Paisley
Late Bloomer
self-released
Kind of a southern rock/maybe throwback blues metal with a good dose of hammond organ, maaaabye a pinch of a hard rock/country?  Probably not really for the ‘pit.

BARE INFINITY
The Butterfly Raiser
Blackdown Music
Female fronted gothy melodic folk metal.  Good heavy edge, kind of melodic death but with the clean fe-metal vox.