WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 5/31/21

Artist — Album — Label
1) Gojira — Fortitude — Roadrunner
2) Evile — Hell Unleashed — Napalm
3) Vreid — Wild North West — Season of Mist
4) Artillery — X — Metal Blade
5) The Ember, The Ash — Fixation — Prosthetic
6) Ghost Iris — Comatose — Long Branch
7) Cannibal Corpse — Violence Unimagined — Metal Blade
8) Sunbomb — Evil and Divine — Frontiers
9) Vexed — Culling Culture — Naplam
10) Burning Witches — The Witch of the North — Nuclear Blast
11) Vulture — Dealin’ Death — Metal Blade
12) Stormruler — Under a Burning Eclipse — Napalm
13) Monster Magnet — A Better Dystopia — Napalm
14) Mental Cruelty — A Hill To Die On — Unique Leader
15) Befell — Solitude — Self Released
16) Thundermother — Heatwave — AFM
17) Cirith Ungol — Half Past Human — Metal Blade
18) Debauchery — Monster Metal — Massacre
19) Bloodbound — Creatures of the Dark Realm — AFM
20) Unfathomable Ruination — Decennium Ruinae — Willowtip

Top 5 Adds
1) Flotsam and Jetsam — Blood In The Water — AFM
2) Sorizon — Thanatos Rising — Starscape
3) Atreyu — Baptize — Spinefarm
4) Van Canto — To The Power of Eight — Napalm
5) Desaster — Churches Without Saints — Metal Blade

Other Adds/Reviewed: Khandra, Imonolith (single), Black Sabbath, Hooded Menace (single), Goats of Doom, Starlight Ritual, Winter Eternal, Necronemesis, Killing Addicion, Leslie Ripp, Vergeblichkeit, Messier 16, End You, Geometry of Chaos, Hagel, Unidad Trauma, Cold Night for Alligators, Slizard, Schismoppathic, Angstskrig

Desaster
Churches Without Saints
Metal Blade Records
4 June 2021
Extreme thrash from a band that’s been around a long time. A bit of a deathy thrash. great stuff.

IMONOLITH
“Angevil”
Self Released
A modern groove metal thing… a bit melodic vocally.. with shouty growls and clean… Pretty cool.

KHANDRA
All Occupied by Sole Death
Season of Mist Underground Activists
28 May 2021
Brutal black metal, cold, but heavy and a death metal attitude too…

HOODED MENACE (Radio Single)
“Blood Ornaments”
Season of Mist
27 August 2021
A longer track, but some melodic doomy death. A bit proggy and almost a bit like Ghost, then the cookie monster vox come in… pretty cool stuff.

Atreyu
Baptize
Spinefarm Records
Metalcore… a bit of a modern sound, but mostly straightforward and catchy like they’re known for.

Van Canto
To The Power Of Eight
Napalm Records
All a-capella metal, (with the exception of a drummer)… a bit laid back for the most part on these singles, else, it’s more of a power metal feel… unique and interesting…it’d be cool to see them live.

Sorizon
Thanatos Rising
Starscape Records
This has a proggy melodic death thing going on… definitely under the prog metal umbrella with clean and harsh vox with a melodic music sound getting a bit heavier and thrashy/heavy too. Cool stuff.

Black Sabbath
Sabotage Super Deluxe
Rhino Entertainment
Another in the reissue chain… remastered… and a good excuse to revisit some Sabbath you forgot, or never really got into in the first place because it was before your time (guilty!)

Flotsam And Jetsam
Blood In The Water
AFM Records
4 June 2021
I’ve always been a fan… their last album was pretty damn good… this one follows a similar formula of catchy melodic thrashy classic metal… good stuff as always!

Goats of Doom
Shiva
Purity Through Fire
31 May 2021
Classic black metal, shrieky vox, cold guitars

Starlight Ritual (Canada)
Sealed in Starlight
Temple of Mystery
2 June 2021
Good ol classic metal with a tiny thrashy groove going on cool stuff.

WINTER ETERNAL
Land of Darkness (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
4 June 2021
Harsh, deathy black metal, a melodic and techincal groove too… cool stuff!

NECRONEMESIS
“Some Things Should Stay Underground”
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
June 4
Brutal death metal with a monster groove and more of a black metal style vocal mixed with the cookie monster style… great stuff.

Killing Addiction
Mind of a New God
Xtreem Music
1 June 2021
Brutal death metal with a little dark black metal sound… but don’t mistake that… it’s meaty brutal death metal with a little sludge too.

LESLIE RIPP (USA)
There Goes The Neighborhood
Sliptrick Records
Released on May 18th, 2021
You know, here is what words the promo had to describe this… hard to argue…”Instrumental Rock/Metal/Blues | Melodic Instrumental Rock | Guitar Showcase”

Vergeblichkeit
Die Almosen der Wunde
Narcoleptica Productions
15 April 2021
Primarily black metal but with a goth thing going on too.

Messier 16
iota
Self-Release
28 May 2021
Blackened death, with a melodic metalcore element which makes it a bit more interesting.

End You
Aimless Dread
Pax Aeternum
Release date: Friday, May 21st 2021
A bit of a doom, stoner groove/riffage, with some harsher vox.

GEOMETRY OF CHAOS
Soldiers of the New World Order
Independent
Progresive metal, a long the lines of you know, a Dream Theater style.. with technicality, a bit longer songs, good metal crunchiness… but without all the keyboard booopy boopy stuff.

Hagel
Veneration of the Black Light
Personal Records
21 May 2021
Melodic death kind of style with a more black metal vocal and tech doomy ethereal sounding music. Interesting and creepy at the same time

Unidad Trauma
Arte Médica Siniestra
Concreto
Release date: Friday, May 28th 2021
Here is some technical death with a little extreme thrash going on with a pinch of a black metal vox sound.

Cold Night For Alligators
The Hindsight Notes
Arising Empire
Release date: Friday, May 21st 2021
At first it’s some laid back progressive rock, modern metal… as it gets deeper in, thre’s some heavier prog metal stuff with harsh vox too.. reminds me a bit of Fair to Midland… pretty good.

SLIZARD
Slizard
Mega Metal
28 May 2021
Classic metal/hard rock with some groovin’ female vox.

Schismopathic
The Human Legacy
Selfmadegod
Release date: Friday, May 28th 2021
Brutal meat and potatoes death metal… grooving cookie monsters!

Angstskrig
Skyggespil
Despotz
Release date: Friday, May 28th 2021
Thrashy death metal with a pinch of black metal darkness and yeah, some doomy grooves too

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / May 24, 2021
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Monster Magnet / Born To Go / A Better Dystopia / Napalm Records
Gwar / Fuck This Place (Explicit) / The Disc With No Name / Pit Records
Times Of Grace / Burden Of Belief / Songs Of Loss And Separation (Single) / Wicked Good Records
Burnt By The Sun / Battleship / The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good / ?
Alchemist / Tongues & Knives / 2007 Tripsis / ?
VOIVOD / The Unknown Knows / Nothingface / MCA
Amorphis / And I Hear You Call / My Kantele / Relapse
Silver Lake By Esa Holopainen / Alkusointu / Silver Lake By Esa Holopainen / Nuclear Blast Records
Debauchery / Skull Mountain / Monster Metal / Massacre Records
Alestorm / Drink (Live In Tilburg) / Live In Tilburg / Napalm Records
Vexed / Fake / Culling Culture / Napalm Records
Befell / Endless Cycle / Solitude / Self-Release
Pantheon / Awakening The Gods / Age Of Wolves / Necrotic Records
Evile / Disorder / Hell Unleashed / Napalm Records
Artillery / In Your Mind / X / Metal Blade
Vulture / Count Your Blessings / Dealin’ Death / Metal Blade
Slayer / Exile / God Hates Us All / American
Crouch / Mind Your Business / In G.o.d. You Trust / Slovak Metal Army
Karpenter / Mechanical Sense / Sleepless / Rockshots Records
Sunrise / We Are The Fire / Equilibria / Self Released
Powerwolf / Beast Of Ge?vaudan / Call Of The Wild / Napalm
Sweet Oblivion / Remember Me / Relentless / Frontiers Records
Sunbomb / Take Me Away / Evil And Divine / Frontiers Records
Bloodbound / Creatures Of The Dark Realm / Creatures Of The Dark Realm / Afm Records
Immortal Synn / Nuclear Terror / Force Of Habit / Independent
Ghost Iris / Former Self / Comatose / Long Branch Records
Gojira / Born For One Thing / Fortitude / Roadrunner
Gottweist / Condemned / Prophecy Ep / Collective Wave Records
The Sonic Overlords / The Sonic Overlords – Utopia / Utopia (Single) / M-Theory Audio
Cirith Ungol / Route 666 / Half Past Human / Metal Blade
Burning Witches / Tainted Ritual / The Witch Of The North / Nuclear Blast Records
Thundermother / Dog_From_Hell / Heatwave [deluxe Edition] / Afm Records
Scar Of The Sun / Singularity Collapse / Inertia / Napalm Records
Parish / Apothecary / God’s Right Hand / Dying Victims Productions
Mental Cruelty / Ultima Hypocrita / A Hill To Die Upon / Unique Leader Records
Osiah / Paracusia / Loss / Unique Leader Records
Cannibal Corpse / Ritual Annihilation / Violence Unimagined / Metal Blade
Unfathomable Ruination / A Withered Embrace / Decennium Ruinae / Willowtip
Kill The Imposter / Evil Ways / The Violence Session / The Legend Agency
Stormruler / Reign Of The Winged Duke / Under The Burning Eclipse / Napalm Records
Endseeker / Moribund / Mount Carcass / Metal Blade
Vreid / Shadows Of Aurora / Wild North West / Season Of Mist Publishing France
Impaled Nazarene / Eight Headed Serpent / Eight Headed Serpent / Osmose Productions
Pacess / Sommelier / Poup? / Slovak Metal Army
The Ember, The Ash / Becoming The Eidolon / Fixation / Prosthetic Records
Adarrak / Final Ethos Demise / Ex Oriente Lux / Sathanas Records
Hedonihil / Self-Harm Meditation / Ii – Symptomatic / Inverse
Yautja / A Killing Joke / The Lurch / Relapse
Impure Wilhelmina / Solitude / Antidote / Season Of Mist

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 5/24/21

Artist — Album — Label
1) Cannibal Corpse — Violence Unimagined — Metal Blade
2) Evile — Hell Unleashed — Napalm
3) Gojira — Fortitude — Roadrunner
4) Vreid — Wild North West — Season of Mist
5) Artillery — X — Metal Blade
6) Ghost Iris — Comatose — Long Branch
7) Osiah — Loss — Unique Leader
8) Sweet Oblivion — Relentless — Frontiers
9) Endseeker — Mount Carcass — Metal Blade
10) Immortal Synn — Force of Habit — Independent
11) Gottweist — Prophecy — Collective Wav
12) Scar of the Sun — Inertia — Napalm
13) The Ember, The Ash — Fixation — Prosthetic
14) Sunbomb — Evil and Divine — Frontiers
15) Hedonihil — II – Symptomatic — Inverse
16) Vexed — Culling Culture — Naplam
17) Vulture — Dealin’ Death — Metal Blade
18) Burning Witches — The Witch of the North — Nuclear Blast
19) Befell — Solitude — Self Released
20) Thundermother — Heatwave — AFM

Top 5 Adds
1) Stormruler — Under a Burning Eclipse — Napalm
2) Monster Magnet — A Better Dystopia — Napalm
3) Mental Cruelty — A Hill To Die On — Unique Leader
4) Gwar — Disc With No Name EP — Slave Pit
5) Cirith Ungol — Half Past Human — Metal Blade

Other Adds/Reviewed: Alestorm, The Sonic Overlords (single), Impure Wilhelmina, Powerwolf (single), Times of Grace (single), Let Us Prey (single), Yautja, Silver Lake, Sunrise, Crouch, High n’ Heavy, Kill The Impostor, Awaketh, Heavy Sentence, Unfathomable Ruination, Bleeth, Cross Vault, Adarrak, Parish, Eisenhand, Pacess, Séance Of…, Karpenter, Blazon Rite, Bloodbound, Pantheon, Hellryder, The Wring, Sectlinefor, Black Flare, Eclipser, Impaled Nazarene, Debauchery, CMPT

THE SONIC OVERLORDS
UTOPIA
M-THEORY AUDIO
A grooving hard rock thing, a little stoner-ish with the chunky riffs and catchy yet laid back grooves.

IMPURE WILHELMINA
Antidote
Season of Mist
21 May 2021
A laid back kind of doomy classic groove rock, a bit of sludge and a bit post metal too.

Powerwolf
“Beast Of Gévaudan”
Napalm
Awesome… epic proggy power metal!! need more please

Times of Grace
“The Burden of Belief”
Wicked Good Records
Jesse and Adam from KsE in their project… pretty melodic hard rock modern power ballad type sound (with clean vox and some harsh parts there too)

Cirith Ungol
Half Past Human
Metal Blade Records
28 May 2021
Classic old school doomy hard rock from these long time veterans

LET US PREY
IN SUFFERING
M-THEORY AUDIO
A single release (from last year’s great album) in honor of mental health awareness month with a new video…. it’s A kind of groove metal with a melodic classic metal thing going on too…

Yautja
The Lurch
Relapse
Release date: Friday, May 21st 2021
Kind of hardcore, metal, punk, noise, death… all make a an eclectic sound of metal for you.

Alestorm
Live In Tilburg
Napalm Records
Live album from these Beer metal gods!

Stormruler
Under A Burning Eclipse
Napalm Records
Classic black metal, with some good melody and grooves too.

Monster Magnet
A Better Dystopia
Napalm Records
Stoner/classic monster magnet sound… a more upbeat track and a more epic 6.5 minute song too…

Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen
Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen
Genre: Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 28 May 2021
Solo album by Amorphis alum, main songwriter and founder… this is more of an outlet for stuff that isn’t quite Amorphis… this is more of a melodic rock… almost folk-ish.

Mental Cruelty
A Hill To Die Upon
Unique Leader Records
This label… you know it’s going to be big and brutal, and it is… chaotic, brutal and harsh with some techy grooves.

GWAR
Disc With No Name (EP)
Slave Pit Records
unplugged EP of some classics, reworked and rearragned… neato.

Band: SUNRISE
Album: Equilibria
Self Released
Release date: May 25, 2021
Power metal with big voices, fast riffy galloping guitars and lots of keyboards… pretty good stuff… we just don’t get much straight up power metal anymore.

Crouch
In G.O.D. You Trust
Slovak Metal Army
25 May 2021
meaty grooving thrashy stuff with a big hardcore thing happening.

High n’ Heavy
V
Electric Valley Records
28 May 2021
Classic doomy metal… decent stuff

Kill The Imposter
The Violence Sessions – Out May 28th
The Legend Agency
28 May 2021
Groovin’ death metal, a little metalcore/thrash thingy going on

AWAKETH
Awaketh
Signal Rex
28 May 2021
Wall of echoey black metal noise

Heavy Sentence
Bang to Rights
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS
A classic doomy regular old melodic metal… a little bluesy sound tool

Unfathomable Ruination
Decennium Ruinae
Willowtip Records
28 May 2021
Brutal death metal, grooving, heavy and yeah, again, brutal.. Great stuff.

BLEETH
Harbinger
Seeing Red Records
28 May 2021
Doomy sludgy post metal

Cross Vault
As Strangers We Depart LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
28 May 2021
Doom with a bit of a bit of atmospheric tendcency

Adarrak
Ex Oriente Lux
Sathanas Records / Blood Blast Distribution
27 May 2021
Fast and heavy brutal death metal with a thrashy melodic thing happening too… really cool!

Parish
God’s Right Hand
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS
May 28
Old school doom… 4 song ep,

Eisenhand
Fires Within
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS
May 28
Raw classic metal with a little doom slant

Pa?ess
Poup?
Slovak Metal Army
25 May 2021
Melodic death with a black metal slant, cool stuff

SEANCE OF…
The Colour of Magick
Signal Rex
28 May 2021
Melodic blackened death metal, a bit more on the black metal side of things

KARPENTER
Sleepless
Rockshots Records
28 May 2021
Classic groovin’ metal, a little thrashy, a little Iron Maiden-ish too.

Blazon Rite
Endless Halls of Golden Totem
Gates of Hell Records
28 May 2021
Just good ol classic metal

Bloodbound
Creatures Of The Dark Realm
AFM Records
28 May 2021
CLassic metal with a basic prog/power metal sound. Catchy and a bit epic

Pantheon
Age of Wolves (Vinyl Release May 27th)
Necrotic Records (NA), Doc Records (EU), Old Shadow Records (SA)
27 May 2021
Here’s a some melodic death and groove metal wiht a black metal harshness when it gets going… good stuff.

HELLRYDER
The Devil Is A Gambler
Rock Of Angels Records
28 May 2021
This is groovin’ deathy thrash metal. Kind of on the classic metal side of things too.

The Wring
Wring² Project Cipher (2021) – Out May 28th
Self-Release
28 May 2021
A cool groovin’ progressive metal.

SECTLINEFOR
KISSING STRANGERS DURING AN OUTBREAK
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: MAY 28th 2021
Some industrial, some experimental Dog Fashion Disco/old Mr Bungle sounds, one may say progressive…

Black Flare
Black Flare
Firecum Records
25 May 2021
A little doom, classic bluesy down tempo rock

Eclipser
Pages (EP) – Out May 28th
Self-Release
28 May 2021
I guess I’d call this blackened thrash… it has a primarily thrashy sound, but gets a bit cold and blast beat-y musically. Good stuff… production is a little raw.

IMPALED NAZARENE
Eight Headed Serpent
Osmose Productions
28 May 2021
Long time black metal band… we’re mostly a blackened death thing… a bit thrashy at its core too.

DEBAUCHERY
Monster Metal
Massacre Records
28 May 2021
A deathed up grooving thrash here, catchy, heavy and riffs! Great stuff.

CMPT
Mrtvaja
Osmose Productions
28 May 2021
CLassic black metal with 2 pretty long tracks

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / May 17, 2021
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Vulture / Malicious Souls / Dealin’ Death / Metal Blade
Various Artists / Masked And Deadly (Midnight) / Metal Massacre Xv / Metal Blade
Sumo Cyco / Bystander / Initiation / Napalm Records
Prong / Steady Decline / Beg To Differ / SPV
Fear Factory / Back the fuck up / Digimortal / Roadrunner
Stuck Mojo / Feel It Comin’ Down / Declaration of a Headhunter / Century Media
Machine Head / Bite the Bullet / Through the Ashes of Empires [Bonus Disc] Disc 1 / Roadrunner International
Sabhankra / Burn Down Their Halls / Death To Traitors / Saturnal Records
Evile / Incarcerated / Hell Unleashed / Napalm Records
Artillery / Silver Cross / X / Metal Blade
Gojira / Into The Storm / Fortitude / Roadrunner
Befell / Ticks / Solitude / Self-Release
Night Resident / Into Her Eyes / Darkness Is My Home / Self-Released
Herman Frank / Teutonic Order / Two For A Lie / Afm Records
Immortal Synn / The Ballad Of Marvin Heemeyer / Force Of Habit / Independent
Cyber Strike / The Curse And The Aftermath / Salvation Of The Wicked / Diamond Music
Slayer / Bitter Peace / Diabolus In Musica / American
Perversor / Anzu / Psicomoro / Hells Headbangers
Murkocet / Dominator (Feat. Mark Hunter Ex-Chimaira) (Explicit) / Dominator (Singles) / Self Released
Capra / Mutt / In Transmission / Metal Blade
Ghost Iris / Cult / Comatose / Long Branch Records
Vexed / Hideous (Radio Edit) / Culling Culture (Singles) / Napalm Records
Somnuri / Beyond Your Last Breath / Nefarious Wave (Singles) / Blues Funeral
Bulb / Parabolica / Moderately Fast, Adequately Furious (Single) / 3dot
Poverty’s No Crime / The Great Escape / A Secret To Hide / Metalville Records
Sweet Oblivion / Another Change / Relentless / Frontiers Records
Burning Witches / The Witch Of The North / The Witch Of The North / Nuclear Blast Usa
Sunbomb / Life / Evil And Divine / Frontiers Records
Cvlt Ov The Svn / Don’t Be Tender Love Me Cruel / We Are The Dragon / Napalm Records
Illusory / Besetting Sins / Crimson Wreath / Rockshots Records
Gottweist / Black Flag / Prophecy Ep / Collective Wave Records
Scar Of The Sun / I Am The Circle / Inertia / Napalm Records
Hedonihil / Shattered Mindscapes / Ii – Symptomatic / Inverse
The Ember, The Ash / Fixation / Fixation (Singles) / Prosthetic
Morbid Breath / In The Hand Of The Reaper / In The Hand Of The Reaper / Redefining Darkness Records
Osiah / The Second Law / Loss / Unique Leader Records
Cannibal Corpse / Surround, Kill, Devour / Violence Unimagined / Metal Blade
Obsolete / Silent Freeway / Animate//isolate / Unspeakable Axe Records
Born Of Osiris / Angel Or Alien / Angel Or Alien (Single) / Sumerian
Zgard / Trap Of Cold / Place Of Power / Schwarzdorn Production
Seth / La Morsure Du Christ / La Morsure Du Christ / Season Of Mist
Altarage / Drainage Mechanism / Succumb / Season Of Mist
Vreid / The Morning Red / Wild North West / Season Of Mist Publishing France
Endseeker / Count The Dead / Mount Carcass / Metal Blade
Jess And The Ancient Ones / World Paranormal / Vertigo / Svart Records
Thundermother / Loud_And_Alive / Heatwave [deluxe Edition] / Afm Records
Conquerors / Stormbringer / Stormbringer / Music-Records

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 5/17/21

Artist — Album — Label
1) Cannibal Corpse — Violence Unimagined — Metal Blade
2) Evile — Hell Unleashed — Napalm
3) Endseeker — Mount Carcass — Metal Blade
4) Gojira — Fortitude — Roadrunner
5) Obsolete — Animate/Isolate — Unspeakable Axe
6) Poverty’s No Crime — A Secret To Hide — Metalville
7) Vreid — Wild North West — Season of Mist
8) Altarage — Succumb — Season of Mist
9) Capra — In Transmission — Metal Blade
10) Sweet Oblivion — Relentless — Frontiers
11) Osiah — Loss — Unique Leader
12) Immortal Synn — Force of Habit — Independent
13) Artillery — X — Metal Blade
14) Ghost Iris — Comatose — Long Branch
15) Gottweist — Prophecy — Collective Wav
16) Cvlt Ov The Svn — We Are The Dragon — Napalm
17) Scar of the Sun — Inertia — Napalm
18) Sunbomb — Evil and Divine — Frontiers
19) Hedonihil — II – Symptomatic — Inverse
20) The Ember, The Ash — Fixation — Prosthetic

Top 5 Adds
1) Vexed — Culling Culture — Naplam
2) Murkocet — Dominator — Independent
3) Burning Witches — The Witch of the North — Nuclear Blast
4) Vulture — Dealin’ Death — Metal Blade
5) Various Artists — Metal Massacre XV — Metal Blade

Other Adds/Reviewed: Somnuri, Capital Theatre, Bulb, Cyber Strike, Born of Osiris (single), Johnny O’Neil, Per Wiberg, Sumo Cyco, Seth, Herman Frank, Thundermother, Ice War, An Autumn for Crippled Children, Final Gasp, Anatoma, Conquerors, Majestic Downfall, Morbid Breath, Thanatomass, Sabhankra, Illusory, Temple Nightside, One Morning Left, Befell, Hundred Headless Horsemen, Mephitic Grave, Hanging Garden, Zmiarcviely, 1976, Zgard, Night Resident, Jess and the Ancient Ones, Perversor

Vulture
Dealin’ Death
Metal Blade Records
21 May 2021
flying the flag of classic metal / thrash, these guys get it done with catchy riffs and a full sound with big vox reminiscent of the early days of thrash

Various Artists
Metal Massacre XV
Metal Blade Records
21 May 2021
A new compilation in the series that started it all for metal blade records… a good variety of different new bands and songs across many genres

Somnuri
Nefarious Wave [Advance Tracks]
Blues Funeral
A kind of blusey/doomy groove metal…. with some good melodies too..

Capital Theatre
“Long Way To Fall”
Reslau Records
Light melodic hard rock.

BULB
“Parabolica”
3DOT
A guy from Periphery… a bit technical and djenty instrumental stuff… cool stuff.

CYBER STRIKE
SALVATION OF THE WICKED
DIAMOND MUSIC
Here’s some basic classic metal with a thrashy yet melodic hybrid… catchy

BORN OF OSIRIS
ANGEL OR ALIEN (single)
Sumerian
this has a very melodic death – in flames/soilwork vibe to it… cool stuff.

JOHNNY O’NEIL
TRUTH OR DARE
INDEPENDENT
Mostly a classic rock sounding thing, maybe pushing a little into AOR type stuff.

Per Wiberg
All Is Well In The Land Of The Living, But For The Rest Of Us… Lights Out
Despotz
Release date: Friday, May 14th 2021
You might remember this keyboard guy from this time in Opeth and Clutch… this release seems to be more of an ambient, post metal/rock type thing. meh.

Murkocet
Dominator
Independent
This has Mark Hunter (from Chimaira) … a cool grooving thrashy metal… catchy, heavy a little metalcore too

Burning Witches
The Witch of The North
Nuclear Blast USA
A bit prog a bit classic metal, a little power metal, a bit of a melodic death feel going on too.. some big powerful female vox… great stuff.

Vexed
Culling Culture
Napalm Records
Metalcore at its core… a bit djent, and a pinch of black metal attitude and coldness with a definite meshuggah vibe too

Sumo Cyco
Initiation
Napalm Records
A modern metal and metalcore sound with female vox, has that “mallcore” type sound,

SETH
La Morsure du Christ
Season of Mist
7 May 2021
Old school black metal sound, but a full brutal feel while staying cold, dark and evil (melodic too) cool stuff.

Herman Frank
Two For A Lie
AFM Records
21 May 2021
Former Accept guitarist back with another solo album. Good solid edgy claesic metal

Thundermother
Heatwave [Deluxe Edition]
AFM Records
21 May 2021
Female fronted classic hard rock/ rock type stuff.

ICE WAR
Sacred Land
Fighter Records
Release date: Tuesday, May 18th 2021
A doomy classic metal thing… clean vox

RADIO: AN AUTUMN FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes
Prosthetic Records
21 May 2021
Some atmospheric blackened melodic metal type stuff. A bit catchy in parts too

FINAL GASP (us)
Baptism of Desire
Helter Skelter / Regain Records
18 May 2021
A heavier and maybe punked up raw mastodon sound to me…. shorter tracks..

Anatomia
Corporeal Torment
Me Saco Un Ojo / Dark Descent
20 May 2021
Deathy/Post metal with a black metal dark and coldness

Band: Conquerors
Album: Stormbringer
Label: Music-Records
Release date: May 21, 2021
Brutal blackened thrash death metal, a tiny bit of that lo-fi black metal sound while still having good production, it’s got a cold, harsh darkness while staying fast and in your face.

Majestic Downfall
Aorta
Personal Records
21 May 2021
Four rather long tracks of doomy post death metal type stuff.

MORBID BREATH
In the Hand of the Reaper
Redefining Darkness Records
21 May 2021
There’s an old school deathy/thrash sound… a venom/meets slayer type thing going on. Cool stuff, catchy too.

Thanatomass
Black Vitriol & Iron Fire
Living Temple Records / LVX MorgenStern
21 May 2021
Wall of blackened death noise metal all up in your face, then into some actual grooves in some parts too

Sabhankra
Death to Traitors
Saturnal Records
21 May 2021
Blackened death metal a bit more of a black metal leaning sound, a kind of catchy thrashy sound keeps it grounded.

Illusory
Crimson Wreath – May 21st
Rockshots Records
21 May 2021
melodic classic metal, pushing a tiny bit in to prog/power metal

TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE
Prophecies of Malevolence
Nuclear Winter Records.
Reissue of their debut from 2011. drony post metal

One Morning Left
Hyperactive
Arising Empire
Release date: Friday, May 21st 2021
Modern metalcore, catchy with synths

Befell
Solitude – Out May 20th
Self-Release
20 May 2021
An extreme thrashy catchy metal… cool stuff.

Hundred Headless Horsemen
Apokalepsia
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: May 21st 2021
Pretty straight up doomy psychedlic metal… some growly vox too

Mephitic Grave
Into The Atrium Of Inhuman Morbidity
Carbonized
Release date: Friday, May 7th 2021
Classic black metal with death metal brutality… it’s a little lo-fi on the sound, maybe just quiet to eek out some more dymanic range? Kind of sounds like a live in the studio recording

HANGING GARDEN
Skeleton Lake
Lifeforce
May 21
Melodic doomy death metal.

?MIAR?VIE?Y
?ornaje po?ymia
Caligari Records
6 May 2021
Old school, lo-fil black metal for those tr00 fans…

1976
1976
Audible
Release date: Friday, May 14th 2021
Seemingly some acoustic-ish ambient

Zgard
Place of Power
Schwarzdorn Production
Release date: Friday, May 21st 2021
Kind of an old school black metal, but with a slowed down more melodic sound… not so cold and harsh.

Night Resident
Darkness Is My Home
Self-Released
21 May 2021
Here’s a doom/classic metal sound with vox that take it in the direction of Ghost. cool melodic stuff.

Jess and The Ancient Ones
Vertigo
Svart Records
21 May 2021
Another classic hard rock thing… female vox, some keyboards and almost more of an alt-rock feel.

PERVERSOR (Chile)
Psicomoro (CD, 12″ MLP)
Hells Headbangers
21 May 2021
Basic heaby blackened death metal.

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / May 10, 2021
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Cannibal Corpse / Condemnation Contagion / Violence Unimagined / Metal Blade
Obsolete / Old Horizon / Animate//isolate / Unspeakable Axe Records
Grave Miasma / Guardians Of Death / Abyss Of Wrathful Deities / Dark Descent Records
Six Feet Under / Nonexistence / Warpath / ?
Kataklysm / It Turns to Rust / In the Arms of Devastation / ?
Dying Fetus / Destroy the Opposition / Destroy the Opposition / ?
Misery Index / Hammering The Nails / New Salem / Season Of Mist
Dawn Ray’d / Wild Fire I / Wild Fire / Prosthetic Records
Endseeker / Mount Carcass / Mount Carcass / Metal Blade
Vreid / Wolves At Sea / Wild North West / Season Of Mist Publishing France
Altarage / Maneuvre / Succumb / Season Of Mist
Osiah / The Eye Of The Swarm (Feat. Ben Duerr) / Loss / Unique Leader Records
To The Grave / Slaughter Forever (Explicit) / Epilogue / Unique Leader Records
Oriflamme / L’égide Ardente / L’égide Ardente / Sepulchral Productions
Oldskull / None Shall Live / Nether Hollow Of No Return / Inhuman Assault Productions
Snet / K?? Kadaver / Mokvání V Okovech / Blood Harvest
Cadaveric Incubator / World Necrosis / Nightmare Necropolis / Hells Headbangers
Hedonihil / Blood Mural / Ii – Symptomatic / Inverse
Kardashev / Torchpassing / The Baring Of Shadows / Metal Blade
Bewitcher / Mystifier (White Night City) / Cursed Be Thy Kingdom / Century Media Records
Evile / Gore / Hell Unleashed / Napalm Records
Capra / Paper Tongues / In Transmission / Metal Blade
Slayer / Ghosts Of War / South Of Heaven / American
Kataan / Erase / Kataan / Prosthetic Records
Artillery / Turn Up The Rage / X / Metal Blade
Sweet Oblivion / Let It Be / Relentless / Frontiers Records
Sunbomb / Better End / Evil And Divine (Single) / Frontiers Records
Bloodsport / Lion’s Den / Lethal Tender (Ep) / Nightstrike Records
Amenra / De Evenmens / De Doorn (Single) / Relapse
Gojira / Sphinx / Fortitude / Roadrunner
Pathfinders / Precious Star / Ares Vallis / Music-Records
Immortal Synn / F.u.d.c. / Force Of Habit / Independent
Cvlt Ov The Svn / My Venom / We Are The Dragon / Napalm Records
Tragedy / You’re The One That I Want / Disco Balls To The Wall (Single) / Napalm
The Ember, The Ash / Strychnine / Fixation (Singles) / Prosthetic
Ghost Iris / Paper Tiger / Comatose / Long Branch Records
Osyron / To War / Kingsbane: Deluxe Edition / Self-Release
Solanum / Cold Career / Ruled By The Cruel / Horror Pain Gore Death
Judas Iscariot / For The Last Judgement Draweth Nigh… / Of Great Eternity / Moribund Records
Scar Of The Sun / Inertia / Inertia / Napalm Records
Gottweist / Road To Neverland / Prophecy Ep / Collective Wave Records
Hildr Valkyrie / Over Lands, Mountains And Shade / Revealing The Heathen Sun / Moribund Records
Halcyon Days / Awakening / Awakening (Single) / Indie Recordings
Before & Apace / Limbics / The Denisovan / Self-Release
Marty Friedman / Echo / Tokyo Jukebox 3 / The Players Club/mlg
Poverty’s No Crime / Flesh And Bone / A Secret To Hide / Metalville Records
Frost / Terrestrial / Day And Age / Insideout
Vola / Straight Lines / Witness / Mascot
Liquid Tension Experiment / Key To The Imagination / Liquid Tension Experiment 3 / Inside Out Music

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 5/10/21

Artist — Album — Label
1) Liquid Tension Experiment — LTE3 — InsideOut
2) Bewitcher — Curse Be Thy Kingdom — Century Media
3) Cannibal Corpse — Violence Unimagined — Metal Blade
4) Marty Friedman — Tokyo Jukebox 3 — The Players Club
5) To The Grave — Epilogue — Unique Leader
6) Evile — Hell Unleashed — Napalm
7) Endseeker — Mount Carcass — Metal Blade
8) Poverty’s No Crime — A Secret To Hide — Metalville
9) Capra — In Transmission — Metal Blade
10) Obsolete — Animate/Isolate — Unspeakable Axe
11) Gojira — Fortitude — Roadrunner
12) Altarage — Succumb — Season of Mist
13) Sweet Oblivion — Relentless — Frontiers
14) Osiah — Loss — Unique Leader
15) Pathfinders — Ares Vallis — Music-Records
16) Immortal Synn — Force of Habit — Independent
17) Cvlt Ov The Svn — We Are The Dragon — Napalm
18) Vreid — Wild North West — Season of Mist
19) Gottweist — Prophecy — Collective Wav
20) Artillery — X — Metal Blade

Top 5 Adds
1) Scar of the Sun — Inertia — Napalm
2) Sunbomb — Evil and Divine — Frontiers
3) Hildr Valkyrie — Revealing the Heathen Sun — Moribund
4) Ghost Iris — Comatose — Long Branch
5) The Ember, The Ash — Fixation — Prosthetic

Other Adds/Reviewed: Tragedy (single), Amenra (single), Vola, Dawn Ray’d, Frost*, Before & Apace, Kataan, Askog, Snet, Crucifixion Ritual, Judas Iscariot, Oldskull, Oriflamme, Grave Miasma, Osyron, Cadaveric Incubator, Solanum, Otargos, Gastric Phantasm, Halcyon Days, King Zebra, Bloodsport, Kosmodemonic, Coscradh, Hedonihil