WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 10/26/20

Artist — Album — Label
1) Kataklysm — Unconquered — Nuclear Blast
2) Lik — Misanthropic Breed — Metal Blade
3) Necrot — Mortal — Tankcrimes
4) Anaal Nathrakh — Endarkenment — Metal Blade
5) Devildriver — Dealing with Demons 1 — Napalm
6) Six Feet Under — Nightmares of the Decomposed — Metal Blade
7) Tallah — Matriphagy — Earache
8) Raven — Metal City — SPV
9) Necrophobic — Dawn of the Damned — Century Media `
10) Helion Prime — Question Everything — Saibot Reigns
11) Melted Bodies — Enjoy Yourself — Self Released
12) Benediction — Scriptures — Nuclear Blast
13) Eye of the Destroyer — The Wolf You Need — High Potency —
14) Armored Saint — Punching the Sky — Metal Blade
15) Mors Principium Est — Seven — AFM
16) Freaks and Clowns — Justice Elite — Metalville
17) Goratory — Sour Grapes — Everlasting Spew
18) Salem’s Childe — The Sin That Saves You — Pavement
19) Infera Bruo — Rites of the Nameless — Prosthetic
20) Solitary — The Truth Behind The Lies — Metalville

Top 5 Adds
1) Carcass — Despicable — Nuclear Blast
2) Undeath — Lesions of a Different Kind — Prosthetic
3) Stalker — Black Majic Terror — Napalm
4) Scardust — Strangers — M-Theory Audio
5) Pallbearer — Forgotten Days — Nuclear Blast

Other Adds/Reviewed: Pantera, Motorhead, Every Mother’s Nightmare, Architects (single), Insidious Disease, Distrupted, Atheos, Malicious, Gangrena, Svartsyn, Sarcator, Hell is Here, Angel Rising, Noxis, Boreal, Slagmark, The Kryptik, Witchtrap, The Flower Kings, Sad, Desaster/Decayed Split, Essence of Blasphemers, Blood of Angels, Occult Burial, Odiosior, Curimus, Dolore, Nahemia, Midnight Gallows, Funeral Harvest, October Falls, Wombripper, Loss of Infection, Jorg Klein, Poison Wind, Ferris MC, Apathy Noir, AshenMoon

UNDEATH
Lesions Of A Different Kind
PROSTHETIC RECORDS
23 October 2020
Brutal death metal, with a little old school groove and six feet under thing going on. cool stuff!

(EMN) EVERY MOTHER’S NIGHTMARE
RESURRECT THE FAITHFUL
HIGHVOLMUSIC
Whoa, remember this band? 90s? They still have that early 90’s hard rockin’ melodic metal sound

Architects
“Animals”
Epitaph
Modern metalcore, electronic fullness, clean and emotive vox. (single)

Stalker
Black Majic Terror
Napalm Records
Old school thrash

Pantera
Reinventing The Steel 20th Anniversary Edition
Rhino Entertainment
Wow… 20 years already… this release has some alternate mixes by Terry Date and bonus tracks… always a good excuse to revisit

Motorhead
Ace Of Spades 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
BMG
And, whoa, 40 years!? I mean, way way before my time (before I became a metalhead)…. live tracks and some other bonus stuff on here.

Pallbearer
Forgotten Days
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 23 October 2020
Laid back doom.

Scardust
Strangers
M-Theory Audio
30 October 2020
Female fronted progressive metal/rock, pretty epic in parts, and definitely cool prog metal stuff going on with keyboards and vocals are great

Carcass
Despicable
Nuclear Blast
30 October 2020
This EP has some monster grooves and melodic death goodness that only Carcass can deliver… dare I say there’s more of a heartwork/swansong thing going on in a couple of the tracks on here. Great stuff as always.

Insidious Disease
After Death
Nuclear Blast
30 October 2020
Meaty and brutal with monster grooves… this death metal album is solid

Disrupted (Sweden)
Pure Death
Memento Mori / De:Nihil
26 October 2020
A kind of gritty death metal with a tiny black metal tone, but overall just good ol brutal swedish death metal.

ATHEOS
WORDS OF ERODING WORLDS
LABEL: NIFLHEL RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 27th 2020
Brutal death metal with a kind of technical groove thing going on too, almost a bit prog, while still keeping brutal and a little melodic

Malicious (Finland)
Deranged Hexes
Invictus Productions
30 October 2020
Fast, frenetic blackened death… while not full on death metal, nor full on black metal, it’s got that black metal attitude but with a brutal death thing going on

Band: Gangrena
Album: Oscuro Tormento
Label: Australis records
Release date: September 5th, 2020
classic death metal from Chile

Svartsyn
Requiem
Carnal Records
30 October 2020
I would say this is a blackended death, a bit death metal groove, brutal, heavy, but with a dark cold black metal thing going on. pretty decent stuff!

SARCATOR
S/T
Redefining Darkness Records
30 October 2020
Extreme thrash, great stuff, catchy, fast, heavy,

Hell is Here
S/T
Seeing Red Records
30 October 2020
This has a bit of a death metal/extreme thrash, but a kind of heavy stoner tone, featuring members of Ringworm, Incantation and Keelhaul. Cool stuff.

Band: ANGEL RISING
Album: Angel Rising
Label: Music-Records
Release date: October 30th, 2020
Primarily death metal with a little thrashy thing going on, a bit brutal, but catchy too

Noxis
Expanse of Hellish Black Mire
Pulverised / Rotted Life
30 October 2020
Brutal death metal, a little sludgey black metal happening too

Boreal
The Battle of VOSAD
Nebulae Artifacta / King of the Monsters
31 October 2020
Symphonic/atmospheric post-black metal

Slagmark (Germany)
Radical Malice
Purity Through Fire
30 October 2020
Classic black metal, cold, meedly guitars, shrieking vox, and a dark melodic tone

The Kryptik
Behold Fortress Inferno
Purity Through Fire
30 October 2020
Classic black metal

WITCHTRAP (Colombia)
Evil Strikes Again
Hells Headbangers
30 October 2020
fast and catchy thrash

The Flower Kings
Islands
InsideOut
Release date: Friday, October 30, 2020
Longtime Prog rockers with a new double album. pretty much par for the course for these guys, pretty laid back and epic in parts following the prog rock formula. Good stuff.

Sad (Greece)
Misty Breath of Ancient Forests
Purity Through Fire
31 October 2020
Shrieky vocals, classic cold black metal.

Desaster / Decayed
SPLIT 7EP
Hellprod Records
Oct 31
Desaster is fast and pissed off blackened death, more on the black metal sound musically, Decayed is brutal blackened death. one song from each band.

Essence of Blasphemers
Calyx of Black Metal Blood
Purity Through Fire
31 October 2020
Cold dark and classic black metal with yeah, a little bit of a groove

BLOOD OF ANGELS
FAILURE OF FAITH ( FULL ALBUM)
Self Released
Death metal, a little bit of a metalcore thing happening, but overall, just a standard death metal thing.

Occult Burial
Burning Eerie Lore
Invictus Productions / Electric Assault Records / Stygian Black Hand / Temple of Mystery Records
30 October 2020
Heavy, blackened death. Brutal, fast and perhaps a pinch of thrash thrown in to this evil goodness.

Odiosior
Syvyyksistä
Purity Through Fire
31 October 2020
A sort of classic melodic black metal. A bit cold/harsh in the vox, the meedly guitars, but a bit of melody to “warm” it up a bit.

Release: Curimus
Garden of Eden
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: October 30th 2020
They say the genre is “Death/Thrash Metal” And yeah, pretty true to that, a heavy death groove, while having that gallopy catchy thrash thing… and it gives you the urge to headbang!

Dolore
2020 I Sette Teschi di Andromeda
Horror Pain Gore Death
October 31st
All electronic, almost 80’s sounding stuff… forwarded on to Ryan @ something wonderful.

Band: Nahemia
Album: AR-CAOSAJI
Label: Misanthropic Assault Productions
Release date: October 30th, 2020
Classic black metal with decent production, a little bit of a melodic groove (so not all super harsh and cold)

Midnight Gallows
Attack Warning Red
Wasted Wax Records
Release date: 24/07/2020
This is kind of neat, a sort of blackened stoner/doom. Music is grooving stoner metal, vox are shrieky black metal style, neat stuff.

FUNERAL HARVEST
Funeral Harvest
Signal Rex
30 October 2020
Sometimes the band name just sets the tone. I thought it’d be a bit more post-metal-ish, but it’s more of a classic melodic black metal, not too shabby.

October Falls
Syys
Purity Through Fire
31 October 2020
Ambient acoustic guitar and very laid back and chill… not quite metal at all really…

Wombripper
Macabre Melodies
Memento Mori
26 October 2020
Fast and heavy brutal blackened death… great stuff.

Band: LOSS OF INFECTION
Album: Dark Dimension
Label: Sliptrick records
Release date: October 27th, 2020
Good brutal death metal with harsh vox, growls, big monster grooves… and they’re from South Korea!

Jørg Klein
Torn
Label: Dr. John’s Surgery Records U.K
All instrumental melodic hard rock/metal

Poison Wind
Virus!
Eleventh Key
30 October 2020
songs have a timely theme. Track one is “Branch Covidians” A bit punk and post metal and noise and hardcore too

Ferris MC
Missglückte Asimetrie
Arising Empire
Release date: Friday, October 23rd 2020
A kind of alt metal/rock, modern stuff… all in German?

Apathy Noir
The Shipbreaker’s Song
Artnoir Productions/Independent
Release date: 25/09/2020
Doomy and atmoshperic black metal.

AshenMoon
UMBRA I
Golden Robot Records
16 October 2020
doomy rock.

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Oct 19, 2020
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Armored Saint / Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants / Punching The Sky / Metal Blade Records
Helion Prime / Prof / Question Everything / Saibot Reigns
Greg Puciato / Deep Set (Explicit) / Child Soldier: Creator Of God / Federal Prisoner
Prong / Revenge…Best Served Cold / Carved Into Stone / Long Branch
Pantera / Throes Of Rejection / Far Beyond Driven (20Th Anniversary Edition) / Rhino
DevilDriver / Die (And Die Now) / DevilDriver / ?
Fear Factory / Demanufacture / Demanufacture / ?
Schizophrenia / Structure Of Death / Voices Ep / Redefining Darkness
Devildriver / Nest Of Vipers / Dealing With Demons 1 / Napalm Records
Freaks And Clowns / Man With The Power / Justice Elite / Metalville Records
Salem’s Childe / Warpath / The Sin That Saves You / Pavement
Dragged Under / Just Like Me / The World Is It In Your Way (Single) / Mascot
Raven / Metal City / Metal City / Spv
Anthea / Eclipse / Illusion / Rockshots Records
Hammerfall / Keep The Flame Burning / Live Against The World (Single) / Napalm Records
Devin Townsend / Lucky Animals (Live In London 2019) / Order Of Magnitude – Empath Live Volume 1 (Cd 2) / Insideout
Star Insight / Reaching For The Sky Above / Across The Galaxy / Inverse
Leaves Eyes / Chain Of The Golden Horn / The Last Viking / Afm Records
Solitary / I Will Not Tolerate / The Truth Behind The Lies / Metalville
Slayer / Read Between The Lies / South Of Heaven / American
Netherblade / Eyes Of The World / Reborn / Dark Hammer Legion
Hecate Enthroned / Unchained / Virulent Rapture (2020 Reissue) / M Theory Audio
Artillery / The Last Journey / The Last Journey (Singles) / Metallica
Evildead / Word Of God / United States Of Anarchy (Single) / Spv
Thrashwall / War Outside The Wall / Thrashwall / Firecum Records
Arsebreed / Obliteration / Butoh / Brutal Mind
Benediction / Scriptures In Scarlet / Scriptures / Nuclear Blast Records
Furnace / The Calling / Dark Vistas / Soulseller Records
Goratory / Losing Streak / Sour Grapes / Everlasting Spew
Eye Of The Destroyer / Weight Of The World (Explicit) / The Wolf You Feed / Nocturnal Audio
Invincible Force / Doomed By The Vision / Decomposed Sacramentum / Dark Descent Records
Anaal Nathrakh / The Age Of Starlight Ends / Endarkenment / Metal Blade
Tallah / Placenta / Matriphagy / Earache Records
Melted Bodies / Club Anxious / Enjoy Yourself / Self Released
Necrophobic / Mirror Black / Dawn Of The Damned / Century Media Records
Black Sun Brotherhood / Might Is Right / God & Beast / Metal Blast
Napalm Death / Zero Gravitas Chamber / Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism / Century Media
Kataklysm / Focused To Destroy You / Unconquered / Nuclear Blast Records
Necrot / Asleep Forever / Mortal / Tankcrimes
Six Feet Under / The Rotting / Nightmares Of The Decomposed / Metal Blade
Carnal Ruin / Elder Spell / The Damned Lie Rotting / Redefining Darkness Records
Lik / Corrosive Survival / Misanthropic Breed / Metal Blade
Varg / Fara Til Ránar / Zeichen / Napalm
Thanatopsis / Age Of Silence / Initiation – Out Oct 23rd / Extreme Metal Music
The Myopia Condition / Brainwashed / Event Horizon / Self-Release
Those Who Bring The Torture / Carved Into Pieces / Dark Chapters / Iron, Blood And Death Corporation
Mors Principium Est / A Day For Redemption / Seven / Afm Records
Summoning The Lich / Descend / Descend (Single) / Prosthetic
Infera Bruo / Frayed / Rites Of The Nameless / Prosthetic Records
Draconian / Sorrow Of Sophia / Best Of The Blessed (Single) / Napalm Records
Enslaved / Urjotun / Utgard / Nuclear Blast

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 10/19/20

Artist — Album — Label
1) Napalm Death — Throes in the Joy of Defeatism — Century Media
2) Kataklysm — Unconquered — Nuclear Blast
3) Necrot — Mortal — Tankcrimes
4) Varg — Zichen — Napalm
5) Lik — Misanthropic Breed — Metal Blade
6) Anaal Nathrakh — Endarkenment — Metal Blade
7) Tallah — Matriphagy — Earache
8) Six Feet Under — Nightmares of the Decomposed — Metal Blade
9) Devildriver — Dealing with Demons 1 — Napalm
10) Enslaved — Utgard — Nuclear Blast
11) Raven — Metal City — SPV
12) Necrophobic — Dawn of the Damned — Century Media `
13) Helion Prime — Question Everything — Saibot Reigns
14) Melted Bodies — Enjoy Yourself — Self Released
15) Eye of the Destroyer — The Wolf You Need — High Potency —
16) Benediction — Scriptures — Nuclear Blast
17) Furnace — Dark Vistas — Soulseller
18) Freaks and Clowns — Justice Elite — Metalville
19) Goratory — Sour Grapes — Everlasting Spew
20) The Myopia Condition — Event Horizon — Self Released

Top 5 Adds
1) Armored Saint — Punching the Sky — Metal Blade
2) Salem’s Childe — The Sin That Saves You — Pavement
3) Solitary — The Truth Behind The Lies — Metalville
4) Mors Principium Est — Seven — AFM
5) Infera Bruo — Rites of the Nameless — Prosthetic

Other Adds/Reviewed: Hammerfall, Draconian, Greg Puciato, Evildead (single), Leaves Eyes, Artillery (single), Dragged Under (single), Summoning the Lich (single), Hecate Enthroned (reissue), Pure Reason Revolution (reissue), Devin Townsend (live), Black Communion, Bondbreaker, Invincible Force, Old Mother Hell, Prometheus, Anthea, Kevel, Thanatopsis, Jakko M Jakszyk, Black Fate, Carnal Ruin, V.A. – Thrashed from the Vault (compilation), Uncle Woe, Arsebreed, Atlases, Black Sun Brotherhood, Star Insight, Orion, Those Who Bring The Torture, Consumption, Behind the Horror, Slow Fall, Starless Domain, Thrashwall, Ritual Suicide, SomnusThrone, Alleyway, Schizophrenia, Striges, Netherblade

Artillery
The Last Journey
Metal Blade Records
16 October 2020
Guitarist and founding member Morten died about a year ago… this is a single to honor him… they’re working on a new album now too.

Evildead
“Word Of God”
SPV/ Steamhammer
Classic thrash

INFERA BRUO
Rites of the Nameless
Prosthetic Records
16 October 2020
Blackened death metal leaning a bit more on the blackend part, pretty good stuff. Harsh, cold, catchy.

Summoning The Lich
Descend
Prosthetic Records
16 October 2020
Brutal death metal with a hint of black metal… brutal and heavy

Dragged Under
“Just Like Me”
Mascot
A little punk, a bit rob zombie, some horror metal, groovin’ modern cool stuff

HECATE ENTHRONED
VIRULENT Rapture
M Theory Audio
REissue from 2013, extreme blackened death… harsh vox and death growls, death metal sound with that black metal vibe cool stuff.

Pure Reason Revolution
The Dark Third (2020 Reissue)
Inside Out
Release date: Friday, October 16, 2020
Reissue from 2006, classic prog rock, pretty laid back and chill, and getting a bit rockin’ and catchy too.

Greg Puciato
Child Soldier Creator Of God
Federal Prisoner
former Dillinger Escape plan frontman’s solo project… it’s a bit dark, and emotive and on the post metal side.

Draconian
Under A Godless Veil
Napalm Records
Doomy blackened metal. male (Growls) and female (clean) vox

Hammerfall
Live Against The World
Napalm Records
A bunch of power metal live albums lately. This band has always been pretty solid for power metal and the production is good.

Solitary
The Truth Behind The Lies
Metalville Records
Solid classic thrashy metal.

Salem’s Childe
The Sin That Saves You
Pavement Entertainment
Thrashin’ groove metal… Just not a lot of this kind of stuff out there lately, catchy, melodic and thrashy music with some growly harsh vox…without any of that emo modern stuff.

Armored Saint
Punching the Sky
Metal Blade Records
23 October 2020
Solid… we’ve had a couple singles that were great, and the smooth vocal

Black Communion
Miasmic Monstrosity
Dunkelheit Produktionen
Death/Black Metal from Colombia, dark, and evil with some big monster grooves.

Leaves’ Eyes
The Last Viking
AFM Records
23 October 2020
Female fronted folky power metal…poking into melodic death with some heavier stuff and growls too. They’ve been around for some time and you know what you’re getting.

Devin Townsend
Order of Magnitude – Empath Live Volume 1
InsideOut
Release date: Friday, October 23, 2020
Live album with a bunch of top tier musicians… he was going to do 3 tours for different styles and groups, but covid hit… so this is just 1 so far… Great stuff, and amazing how this is all done live.

Mors Principium Est.
Seven
AFM Records
23 October 2020
First album in 3 years, melodic death metal, one of the better bands doing this genre lately. Catchy, heavy, right up there with the DT’s, Soilworks, etc.

BÖNDBREAKR
BÖNDBREAKR
Self-Release
20 October 2020
Raw punky thrash

Invincible Force
Decomposed Sacramentum
Dark Descent Records
22 October 2020
Classic blackended death metal, yeah, you have that grooving brutal death metal thing, but a bit of a harsh vox/dark evil feel without the full on coldness of black metal, pretty good stuff here.

Old Mother Hell
Lord of Demise
Cruz Del Sur Music
23 October 2020
I’d say this is some classic metal with clean vox, a solid groove, a little doomy in parts too

PROMETHEUS
Resonant Echoes From Cosmos Of Old
I, Voidhanger Records
23 October 2020
Old school black metal, wall of cold dark evilness.

Anthea
Illusion – Out October 23rd
Rockshots Records
23 October 2020
This has a bit epic melodic blackened death metal thing going on… Orchestral/keyboard sound, fast, catchy, harsh and clean vox. Great stuff!

KEVEL
Mutatis Mutandis
I, Voidhanger Records
23 October 2020
Some black metal, some prog, some post-metal, a bit of a classic metal, some sludge, there’s a lot going on here, so overall, it’s some proggy post-black metal I guess? lol

Thanatopsis
Initiation
Extreme Metal Music
23 October 2020
This is some kind of thrashy melodic death, solid grooving stuff with catchy thrash licks and melodic hooks

Jakko M Jakszyk
Secrets & Lies
InsideOut
Release date: Friday, October 23, 2020
Solo album for the guy that’s been fronting King Crimson since 2013. It’s pretty low-key, definitely prog-rock, getting a little more rocking in parts.

Black Fate
Ithaca – Out October 23rd
Rockshots Records
23 October 2020
Prog metal, soulful clean power metal type vox, a good crunchy guitar sound and keyboards fill out the straightforward prog/power metal thing

Carnal Ruin
The Damned Lie Rotting
Redefining Darkness Records
23 October 2020
Good ol classic brutal groovin’ death metal. Cool stuff.

Various Artists…
Killing Time
“Thrashed From The Vault” (Compilation)
MDR
All pretty decent… a variety of thrash bands you haven’t heard of doing up good ol thrash!

Uncle Woe
Phantomescence – Out October 23rd
Packard Black Productions
23 October 2020
Doomy and depressing.

ARSEBREED
BUTOH
Brutal Mind
13 October 2020
Brutal death metal, unrelenting, punshing and even technical

ATLASES
Woe Portrait
Lifeforce
Oct 23
Dark melodic, doomy and heavy in parts, and some post-metal gloom too.

Band: Black Sun Brotherhood
Album: God & Beast
Label: Metal Blast Records
Release date: September 11th, 2020 (CD) / September 18th, 2020
A kind of thrashy death metal, just falling into “extreme metal” pretty good stuff.

Release: Star Insight
Across The Galaxy
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: October 16th 2020
Symphonic metal with some female clean vox, and male growl vox… pretty decent stuff, songs are mostly under 4 minutes which means that the songs don’t go on and on.

Band: Orion
Album: Mysterivm Cosmographicvm
Label: Iron, Blood and Death Corporation
Release date: September 30th, 2020
Pretty much good ol death metal with a thrashy thing going and some decent grooves too.

Band: Those Who Bring the Torture
Album: Dark Chapters
Label: Iron, Blood and Death Corporation
Release date: September 30th, 2020
This has a death metal/melodic death thing going on, some big brutal grooves, crunchy riffs… cool stuff.

Band: Consumption
Album: Recursive Definitions of Suppuration
Label: Iron, Blood and Death Corporation
Release date: September 15th, 2020
Brutal death metal

Behind The Horror
“Burn Up This Truth”
Self Released (MDPR)
A bit thrashy, a bit of a groove and maybe a tiny metalcore thing

Release: Slow Fall
Beneath the Endless Rains
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: October 23rd 2020
Melodic death with a bit more of a basic metal, more on the melodic metal with harsh vox

Band: Starless Domain
Album: ALMA
Label: Aesthetic Death
Release date: August 3rd, 2020
One 44 minute track of post metal lo-fi-noise-black metal. meh.

ThrashWall
ThrashWall
Firecum Records
10/19
Thrash Metal from Portugal, pretty good stuff with a name like ThrashWall, what did you expect? Cool catchy thrash!

Ritual Suicide (Ukraine)
Nocturnal Haematolagnia
Esfinge de la Calavera
12 October 2020
Old school lo-fi black metal

SomnusThrone
Somnus Throne
Burning World Records
9 October 2020
Doomy and stoner-ish metal, pretty cool grooves and longer tracks.

Alleyway
Album: After Dark
Label: Sliptrick records
Release date: October 13th, 2020
Classic hard rockin’ metal. Big sound, maybe like a thrashed up motorhead

SCHIZOPHRENIA
Voices EP
Redefining Darkness Records (North America)
Heavy deathy thrash, along the lines of Sepultura for style/heaviness (without the tribal vibes) great stuff.

Striges
Verum Veterum
Blut & Eisen Prod.
13 October 2020
Classic old school black metal

NETHERBLADE
Reborn
Dark Hammer Legion/Volcano Records.
16th October 2020
Thrash and just good ol metal… cool stuff.

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Oct 12, 2020
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Van Halen / Tora! Tora! / Women & Children First / Warner Bros, Wea
Van Halen / Loss of Control / Women & Children First / Warner Bros, Wea
Van Halen / Hang ‘Em High / Diver Down / Warner Bros, Wea
Ac Dc / Shot In The Dark / Shot In The Dark (Single) / Columbia
Mg?a / Age of Excuse II / Age of Excuse / Northern Heritage
Watain / Malfeitor / Lawless Darkness / Season of Mist
Tsjuder / Unholy Paragon / Desert Northern Hell / Season of Mist
Fumigation / Pandemicaholic / R0 5.7 Ep / Self Released
Anaal Nathrakh / Thus, Always, To Tyrants / Endarkenment / Metal Blade
Necrot / Stench Of Decay / Mortal / Tankcrimes
Necrophobic / Darkness Be My Guide / Dawn of the Damned (320) / Century Media
Cult Of Lilith / Comatose / Mara / Metal Blade Records
Skalmold / A?ra?s / 10 Year Anniversary – Live In Reykjavik (Single) / Napalm Records
Finntroll / Vid Haxans Hard / Vredesvävd / Century Media Records
Varg / Auf Die Götter / Zeichen / Napalm
Lik / Funeral Anthem / Misanthropic Breed / Metal Blade
Enslaved / Homebound / Utgard / Nuclear Blast
Kromheim / Prayer / Kromheim Ep / Self Released
Benediction / Iterations Of I / Scriptures / Nuclear Blast Records
Kataklysm / Underneath The Scars / Unconquered / Nuclear Blast Records
Skeletal Remains / Tombs Of Chaos / The Entombment Of Chaos / Century Media Records
Goratory / Rat King / Sour Grapes / Everlasting Spew
Furnace / The Other Ones / Dark Vistas / Soulseller Records
Six Feet Under / Zodiac / Nightmares Of The Decomposed / Metal Blade
Napalm Death / Contagion (Explicit) / Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism / Century Media
Noitatalid / I Lie And Win / Furies In The Steppes From Russia / Music-Record
Foul Body Autopsy / Vicious Cycles (Feeding Off Themselves) / Consumed By Black Thoughts / Self Released
Septage / Mouthful Of Utreated Sewage / Septic Decadence / Me Saco Un Ojo
Repuked / Fucking Your Fucking Corpse / Dawn Of Reintoxication / Repuked
Eye Of The Destroyer / Scapegoat (Explicit) / The Wolf You Feed / Nocturnal Audio
Incinerate / Lux In Tenebris / Sacrilegivm / Comatose
Horripilant / Falsified Spirits / Embrace The Obsession / Blackseed Productions
Kingdom Of Giants / Wayfinder / Passenger (Singles) / Sharptone Records
Tallah / Kungan / Matriphagy / Earache Records
Falset / Rock Bottom / We Follow Or Lead The Way / Self Released
Devildriver / Vengeance Is Clear / Dealing With Demons 1 / Napalm Records
Dry Kill Logic / Don’t See Ghosts (Explicit) / Don’t See Ghosts (Single) / Psychodrama/entertainment One
Fenisia / Sky Oracle / The Spectator / Eclipse Loud
Psychosomatic / Fortune Dealer / The Invisble Prison / Nefarious Industries
Heathen / Blood To Be Let / Empire Of The Blind / Nuclear Blast Records
Slayer / Americon / World Painted Blood / Columbia
Melted Bodies / Ad People / Enjoy Yourself / Self Released
Purnama / War For Home / Lioness / Slovak Metal Army
Vision Of Atlantis / New Dawn (Live) / A Symphonic Journey To Remember / Napalm Records
Helion Prime / Madame Mercury / Question Everything / Saibot Reigns
Raven / Human Race / Metal City / Spv
Fates Warning / Now Comes The Rain / Long Day Good Night Singles / Metal Blade
Freaks And Clowns / Justice Elite / Justice Elite / Metalville Records
The Myopia Condition / Seperation From Classification / Event Horizon / Self-Release
Ascension Of The Watchers / Ghost Heart / Apocrypha / Dissonance Productions

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 10/12/20

Artist — Album — Label
1) Cult of Lilith — Mara — Metal Blade
2) Psychosomatic — The Invisible Prison — Nefarious Industries
3) Skeletal Remains — The Entombment of Chaos — Century Media
4) Napalm Death — Throes in the Joy of Defeatism — Century Media
5) Heathen — Empire of the Blind — Nuclear Blast
6) Kataklysm — Unconquered — Nuclear Blast
7) Finntroll — Vredesvaevd — Century Media
8) Varg — Zichen — Napalm
9) Necrot — Mortal — Tankcrimes
10) Lik — Misanthropic Breed — Metal Blade
11) Anaal Nathrakh — Endarkenment — Metal Blade
12) Raven — Metal City — SPV
13) Tallah — Matriphagy — Earache
14) Six Feet Under — Nightmares of the Decomposed — Metal Blade
15) Enslaved — Utgard — Nuclear Blast
16) Devildriver — Dealing with Demons 1 — Napalm
17) Necrophobic — Dawn of the Damned — Century Media `
18) Eye of the Destroyer — The Wolf You Need — High Potency —
19) Melted Bodies — Enjoy Yourself — Self Released
20) Helion Prime — Question Everything — Saibot Reigns

Top 5 Adds
1) Benediction — Scriptures — Nuclear Blast
2) Freaks and Clowns — Justice Elite — Metalville
3) Dry Kill Logic — Don’t See Ghosts — eOne
4) Vision of Atlantis — A Symphonic Journey to Rem. — Napalm
5) Acension of the Watchers — Apocrypha — Dissonance Prod.

Other Adds/Reviewed: Kingdom of Giants, Skalmold, Beyond the Gray (single), Ghostemane (single), Fates Warning (single), AC/DC (single), The Troops of Doom, Fenisia, Foul Body Autopsy, Vanish, Visiulusion, Dysylumn, Incinerate, Noitatalid, Leviathan, Goratory, Anarchos / Morbid Stench Split, Ataraxia, Kraken Duumvirate, Fumigation, Septage, Kromheim, The Myopia Condition, Autocatalytica. Falset, Red Cain, Horripilant, Purnama, False Gods, Altar of Gore, Arcanum Sanctum, Chris Catena’s Rock City Tribe, Memoremains, Hell Freezes Over, Shotgun Rodeo, Alleyway, Proclamation, Matriarchs, Gotthard, Wail, Tension Rising

GHOSTEMANE
”Lazaretto”
Blackmage
Industrial nu-metal techno noise metal

Fates Warning
Scars & Now Comes the Rain – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
6 November 2020
Second song now… Now Comes the Rain is a slower track, still with that unimstakeable FW sound.

AC/DC
“Shot In The Dark”
Download Here
Columbia
whoa, new AC/DC! And guess what? Sounds like them! and it’s catchy good old stuff that we need.

Ascension Of The Watchers
Apocrypha
Dissonance Prod.
Release date: Friday, October 9th 2020
With a lot of Fear Factory drama in the news, mainly Burton Bell leaving and stating he’s concentrating on this band… well, here it is, new stuff! Been a while. It’s a bit more melodic and emotive than Fear Factory, and it’ll always draw comparisons since, well, it’s the same voice and all. Just a bit toned down, with Bell’s voice.

The Troops Of Doom
The Rise Of Heresy
Blood Blast
Release date: Friday, October 9th 2020
Brazilian death metal with a former member of Sepultura (Tormentor). A bit of an old school raw death metal thing going on and yeah, maybe a little smidge of an old Sepultura sound.

Fenisia
The Spectator
Eclipse Records
30 October 2020
Modern metal, a bit catchy, almost a blues rock/metal influence too… clean vox.

BEYOND THE GREY
Men Of War (single)
Skyfire
A single of classic metal, catchy

Visions Of Atlantis
A Symphonic Journey To Remember
Napalm Records
Symphonic power metal with a symphony! Live stuff giving you an idea of how epic this band can be.

Dry Kill Logic
Don’t See Ghosts (Single)
eOne
Whoa, remember these guys? nu-metal!? Catchy, mid-tempo with some big grooves and heavy riffs.

Kingdom Of Giants
Passenger
SharpTone Records
This has a nu-metal, modern metalcore thing going on

Benediction
Scriptures
Nuclear Blast USA
Classic brutal death metal, great grooves and catchiness too.

Skalmold
10 Year Anniversary – Live In Reykjavik
Napalm Records
Live album for their 10th anniversary (obviously by the album title)…. good live sound, music is melodic dark metal with a little bit of folk metal.

Freaks And Clowns
Justice Elite
Metalville Records
Swedish band that takes some classic metal and throws in power metal, with vox that almost have a little UDO/Quiet Riot type sound. Catchy fun stuff.

FOUL BODY AUTOPSY
CONSUMED BY BLACK THOUGHTS
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 10th 2020
This is a bit death metal, a little thrash, some good brutality, a bit of a melodic death thing too

VANISH
Altered Insanity
Fastball Music
Release date: 24/03/2020
“Classic” prog metal with guest singers on this ep celebrating their 20th anniversary, Ripper Owens, Ralf Scheepers

ISIULUSION
I – Follow The Flow”
Black Sunset / MDD
9/11/20
Black Metal from Austria, pretty typical

DYSYLUMN
Cosmogonie
Signal Rex
9 October 2020
A bit of a typical black metal, a little atmospheric

INCINERATE
SACRILEGIVM
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 9th 2020
RIght off the bat, boom, brutal death metal, deeper in, some groovin’ going on too, but machine gun brutal drumming, harsh, guttural vox, and fast riffage.

Band: NOITATALID
Album: Furies in the Steppes from Russia
Label: Music-Records
Release date: October 9th, 2020
A fast and heavy thrashy/death metal with some blackened metal parts, and a bit of a catchy groove too. Cool stuff!

Leviathan (Sweden)
Förmörkelse
Nebular Carcoma / Bile Noire
12 October 2020
Black metal more on the side of a melodic black metal, harsh vox, a bit cold.

Goratory
Sour Grapes
Everlasting Spew Records
16 October 2020
Brutal death metal with some technical stuff going on.

Anarchos / Morbid Stench
Ghospels Of Necromancy – split 7″ EP
Blood Harvest
16 October 2020
Anarchos is a meaty and doomy death metal with a little black metal coldness. Morbid Stench is similar, groovin’ doomy dark and cold death metal.

Ataraxia
Quasar
AnnapurnA
16 October 2020
Atmospheric post-rock type stuff.

Kraken Duumvirate
The Stars Below, The Seas Above
Silent Future Recordings
16 October 2020
Post metal/black metal

Fumigation
“r0 5.7 E.P.”
self released (MDPR)
Brutal Death Metal, very fast, technical and over the top. cool.

Septage
Septic Decadence
Me Saco Un Ojo
16 October 2020
Fast and furious brutal death metal

Kromheim
“Kromheim E.P.”
Self Released (Metal Devastation)
Melodic death/folky/viking metal sounding

The Myopia Condition
Event Horizon – Out Oct 16th
Self-Release
16 October 2020
Melodic death metal, pretty quick (less than 3 min) songs, a technical, deathy catchy groove.

Autocatalytica
Powerclashing Maximalism
Self-Release
16 October 2020
Prog metal, going from quiet almost acoustic classic prog rock to full on techncial death metal… kind of the very definition of proressive, eh? cool stuff.

Falset
We Follow or Lead the Way
Self Release
So, Portnoy’s kid has Tallah that just came out, now James Labrie’s kid is the drummer in this band. This one is a bit more of a emo-technical metalcore thing, fairly melodic and modern-metalcore-ish too

Red Cain
Singles -” Kindred” + “Demons” + “Sunshine (Blood Sun Empire)”
Self-Release
8 July 2020
Melodic modern metal with some technical and metalcore and proggy stuff too

HORRIPILANT
Embrace The Obsession
BlackSeed Productions
They call it “Evil Death Metal from Spain” I love these, because a lot of times it just sums it up so well. 4 song ep, of just good ol evil death metal and well, it gets to be some catchy thrashy stuff too.

Purnama
Lioness
Slovak Metal Army
19 August 2020
Groovin’ death metal, harsh vox, basic death metal downtempo groove… brutal good stuff

False Gods
No Symmetry… Only Disillusion
Seeing Red Records
16 October 2020
Sludgey and doomy, a bit harsh on the vox.

Altar Of Gore
Obscure & Obscene Gods
Nameless Grave
Release date: Friday, October 16th 2020
Brutal and gory death metal.

Arcanum Sanctum
“Ad Astra”
Self Released (MDPR)
Melodic Death Metal with a little bit of an Opeth (when they growled) thing going on, maybe not as prog, but great stuff.

CHRIS CATENA’S ROCK CITY TRIBE
Truth In Unity
Grooveyard Records
31 July 2020
here is just some good ol classic hard rock. would be nice to have a show to play all of this otherwise great rock/hard rock stuff… it just doesn’t fit the Mosh Pit.

Memoremains
The Cost of Greatness
Self-Released
Pop Metal from Finland… yup, sure is pop metal, they description said it was pop metal, maybe a bit disco, all while having some hard rock metal going on… and it does, it’s a fun listen, just not for our show.

HELL FREEZES OVER
Hellraiser
Carnal Beast (A Division of Spiritual Beast)
Release date: 26/08/2020
This fits in the category of the Rock City Tribe above, some pretty cool hard rock stuff, just doesn’t have much of a place… this does get a bit heavier in parts…

Shotgun Rodeo
Double Barreled Vengeance
Self-Released
Release date: Friday, September 25th 2020
Classic metal and more thrashy, pretty good catchy stuff, big clean male vox, a little like Joey Belladona. Good stuff!

Band: ALLEYWAY
Album: After Dark
Label: Sliptrick records
Release date: October 13th, 2020
Classic metal with a fast attitude

Proclamation
Advent of the Black Omen LP/CD/TAPE
Nuclear War Now! Productions / Ross Bay Cult
22 September 2020
Old school raw, black metal with some low-fi cassette style production.

Matriarchs
Year Of The Rat
Self Released
Metalcore/hardcore with a heavier edge and groove with a little bit of a nu-metal punch

Gotthard
Steve Lee – The Eyes Of A Tiger – A Gotthard tribute to our unforgotten friend!
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 2 October 2020
mostly acoustic rock stuff.

Wail (Norway)
“Civilization Maximus”
Self Released
Classic metal with a NWOBHM type sound, band name matches the vocals style, a sort of Bruce Dickinson like wail… cool stuff.

Tension Rising
“Penumbra”
Self Released
Here’s some good old just “metal” Solid grooves, a modern sound with some growly vox, but still kind of sung… decent stuff.

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Oct 5, 2020
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Devildriver / Keep Away From Me / Dealing With Demons 1 / Napalm Records
Mr Bungle / Eracist / Eracist (Single) / Ipecac Recordings
Ocean Gates / Night Shift / Ocean Gates / Boomland
Faith No More / Caffeine / Angel Dust / WMG
Clawfinger / Two Sides / Two Sides [EP] / ?
Mordred / Falling Away / In This Life / Sanctuary
Suicidal Tendencies / Trip at the Brain / How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can’t Even Smile Today / Epic
Ivory Moon / Here We Are / Lunar Gateway / Volcano Records
Helion Prime / The Final Theory / Question Everything / Saibot Reigns
John Petrucci / Glassy-Eyed Zombies / Terminal Velocity / Sound Mind Music
Raven / Top Of The Mountain / Metal City / Spv
Deftones / Urantia / Ohms / Warner
Gatecloser / The Crow / From The Wasteland / Sliptrick
Diesel Machine / Shut It (Explicit) / Evolve / Metalville Records
Psychosomatic / Labyrinth / The Invisble Prison / Nefarious Industries
Heathen / Dead And Gone / Empire Of The Blind / Nuclear Blast Records
Slayer / Take Control / Repentless / Nuclear Blast Records
Hath / Replicated / Hive [reissue] / Willowtip
Cult Of Lilith / Atlas / Mara / Metal Blade Records
Lik / Decay / Misanthropic Breed / Metal Blade
Undeath / Acidic Twilight Visions / Acidic Twilight Visions (Singles) / Prosthetic Records
Eye Of The Destroyer / Reversed (Explicit) / The Wolf You Feed / Nocturnal Audio
Vermocracy / The River / Vermocracy / Self Released
Six Feet Under / Amputator / Nightmares Of The Decomposed / Metal Blade
Napalm Death / That Curse Of Being In Thrall / Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism / Century Media
Skeletal Remains / Synthetic Impulse / The Entombment Of Chaos / Century Media Records
Kataklysm / Cut Me Down / Unconquered / Nuclear Blast Records
Necrot / Dying Life / Mortal / Tankcrimes
Fate / Mask Of The Silver Death / Ii / Caligari Records
Anaal Nathrakh / Endarkenment / Endarkenment / Metal Blade
Varg / Schildwall / Zeichen / Napalm
Ossuary Anex / Firestorm / Obscurantism Apogee / Xtreem Music
Furnace / Suburban Nightmare / Dark Vistas / Soulseller Records
Gorephilia / Walls Of Weeping Eyes / In The Eye Of Nothing / Dark Descent
Necrophobic / Mirror Black / Dawn Of The Damned / Century Media Records
Enslaved / Jettegryta / Utgard / Nuclear Blast
Repuked / Livers Bleed / Dawn Of Reintoxication / Repuked
Behemoth / Pure Evil And Hate / And The Forests Dream Eternally / Metal Blade
Second To Sun / The Emperor In Hell / Leviathan / Self-Release
Finntroll / Att Doda Med En Sten / Vredesvävd / Century Media Records
Nachtblut / Leierkinder / Vanitas / Napalm Records
Amaranthe / Fearless / Manifest / Nuclear Blast Records
The Unguided / Childhood’s End / Father Shadow / Napalm Records
Protokult / Feed Your Demons / Transcending The Ruins / Self-Release
Raven Black / Hear Me Cry / The Key (Single) / Wurm Group
Tallah / No One Should Read This / Matriphagy / Earache Records
Nasty / Ultimate / Menace / Century Media
Melted Bodies / 99 Scents / Enjoy Yourself / Self Released
Citizen Rage / Sustain / Black Ep / Wasted Wax Records
Detachment / Work Horse / Work Horse (Single) / Detachment Music
Becoming / Through The Now / In The Name Of God / Hardouin Music

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 10/5/20

Artist — Album — Label
1) Cult of Lilith — Mara — Metal Blade
2) Diesel Machine — Evolve — Metalville
3) Psychosomatic — The Invisible Prison — Nefarious Industries
4) Skeletal Remains — The Entombment of Chaos — Century Media
5) Heathen — Empire of the Blind — Nuclear Blast
6) Napalm Death — Throes in the Joy of Defeatism — Century Media
7) Finntroll — Vredesvaevd — Century Media
8) John Petrucci — Terminal Velocity — Sound Music
9) Behemoth — And the Forests Dream Eternally — Metal Blade
10) Kataklysm — Unconquered — Nuclear Blast
11) Varg — Zichen — Napalm
12) Necrot — Mortal — Tankcrimes
13) Lik — Misanthropic Breed — Metal Blade
14) Raven — Metal City — SPV
15) Six Feet Under — Nightmares of the Decomposed — Metal Blade
16) Anaal Nathrakh — Endarkenment — Metal Blade
17) Ossuary Anex — Obscurantism Apogee — Xtreem
18) Tallah — Matriphagy — Earache
19) Undeath — Acidic Twilight Visions — Prosthetic
20) Enslaved — Utgard — Nuclear Blast

Top 5 Adds
1) Devildriver — Dealing with Demons 1 — Napalm
2) Helion Prime — Question Everything — Saibot Reigns —
3) Necrophobic — Dawn of the Damned — Century Media
4) Eye of the Destroyer — The Wolf You Need — High Potency
5) The Unguided — Father Shadow — Napalm

Other Adds/Reviewed: Melted Bodies, Becoming, Detachement, Sun & Flesh (single), Ocean Gates, DeathEpoch, Johansson & Speckmann, Furnace, Repuked, Fluffer, Zeus the Temple, Gotterdammerung, Among Phantoms, Invernoir, Hath, Scimitar, Gatecloser, Ivory Moon, Griiim, Citizen Rage, Dialogia, Vermocracy