Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Mar 27, 2023
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Static-X / Push It / Wisconsin Death Trip / Warner Bros
Fear Factory / Demanufacture / Demanufacture (Digipak) / Roadrunner
Shakma / On Tenebrous Wings / On Tenebrous Wings / Duplicate Records
Lich King / Combat Mosh / Born of The Bomb / ?
Suicidal Angels / Years of Aggression  / Years Of Aggression / Napalm Records
Enforced / Curtain Fire / Kill Grid / Century Media Records
Power Trip / Hornet’s Nest / Hornet’s Nest / Dark Operative
Visions Of Atlantis / The Silent Mutiny (Live @ Wacken) / Pirates / Napalm
Queensryche / Child Of Fire / The Warning (2015 RM, Capitol, UICY-25520) / ?
Steel Panther / One Pump Chump / On the Prowl / ?
Kings Of Thrash / Rattle Head / The Mega Years Live At The Whiskey A Go Go (Disc 1) / Cleopatra Records
Blud Red Roses / Inside Of Me (Explicit) / Fall To The Hate / Independent
Thron / Dying In The Mud / Dust / Listenable Records
Gorod / Chrematheism / The Orb / Self Released
Revocation / Dismantle the Dictator / Existence is Futile / ?
Morbid Angel / Chapel of Ghouls / Altars of Madness / ?
Contrarian / Ibn Al Rawandi / Sage Of Shekhinah / Willowtip Records
Necronomicon Ex Mortis / Celestial Tomb / Necronomicon Ex Mortis / Self-Release
Necropanther / Breathe Evil / Betrayal / Self Released
Hatesphere / Cutthroat / Hatred Reborn / Scarlet Records
Abaddonia / Holy Water / Dawn Of The Serpent / Self-Release
Bury Tomorrow / Heretic (Feat. Loz Taylor) (Radio Edit) / The Seventh Sun / Music For Nations/sin
Unpure / Megalithic Gateways / Prophecies Ablaze / Invictus Productions, The Ajna Offensive
Blood Of The Wolf / With Lightning For Vengeance / Iv: The Declaration Of War Eternal / Self Released
The Faith Hills Have Eyes / Meth Lab For Cutie / The Riffth Element / Self Released
Suicide Silence / Fucked For Life (Explicit) / Remember…you Must Die / Century Media Records
Ov Sulfur / Stained In Rot / Stained In Rot / Century Media Records
Grieve / Wolves Of The Wintermoon / Wolves Of The Northern Moon / Werewolf
Entheos / Oblivion / Time Will Take Us All / Metal Blade Records
Downfall Of Gaia / Bodies As Driftwood / Silhouettes Of Disgust / Metal Blade Records
Maze Of Sothoth / Eliminate Contamination / Extirpated Light / Everlasting Spew Records
Whore Of Bethlehem / Ritual Of Homicide / Ritual Of Homicide / Comatose Music
Mariana’s Rest / White Cradle / Auer / Napalm
Insomnium / The Witch Hunter / Anno 1696 / Century Media Records
Ne Obliviscaris / Misericorde I – As The Flesh Falls / Exul / Season Of Mist Publishing France
Ihsahn / The Observer / Fascination Street Sessions / Candlelight
Sense Of Noise / War Within (Feat. Stu Block) – Single / War Within (Feat. Stu Block) – Single / Self Released
Crown Lands / Starlifter / Fearless / Spinefarm
Haken / Beneath The White Rainbow / Fauna / Insideout
Kamelot / One More Flag In The Ground / The Awakening / Napalm
Redemption / The Emotional Depiction Of Light / I Am The Storm / Afm Records
Babymetal / Divine Attack – Shingeki – / The Other One / Cooking Vinyl
Category Vi / Valkyrie / Firecry / Moribund Records
Night Demon / Obsidian / Outsider / Century Media Records
Ad Infinitum / Upside Down / Chapter Iii – Downfall / Napalm
Woe Unto Me / Mired Down In The Innermost Thicket / Along The Meandering Ordeals, Reshape The Pivot Of Harmony / M-Theory Audio
Vintersea / At The Gloaming Void / At The Gloaming Void (Single) / M-Theory Audio
Enslaved / Kingdom / Heimdal / Nuclear Blast

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 3/27/23

Artist — Album — Label
1) Insomnium — Anno 1696 — Century Media
2) The Faith Hills Have Eyes — The Riffth Element — Self Released
3) Haken — Fauna — InsideOut
4) Entheos — Time Will Take Us All — Metal Blade
5) Enslaved — Heimdal — Nuclear Blast
6) Suicide Silence — Remember…You Must Die — Century Media
7) Downfall of Gaia — Silhouettes of Disgust — Metal Blade
8) Kamelot — The Awakening — Napalm
9) Redemption — I Am The Storm — AFM
10) Night Demon — Outsider — Century Media
11) Contrarian — Sage Of Shekhinah — Willowtip
12) Necropanther — Betrayal — Self Released
13) Ne Obliviscaris — Exul — Season of Mist
14) Ov Sulfur — Stained In Rot — Century Media
15) Category VI — Firecry — Moribund
16) Hatesphere — Hatred Reborn — Scarlet
17) Maze Of Sothoth — Extirpated Light — Everlasting Spew Records
18) Kings of Thrash — The Mega Years Live… — Cleopatra
19) Whore Of Bethlehem — Ritual Of Homicide — Comatose Music
20) Abaddonia — Dawn Of The Serpent — Self-Release

Top 5 Adds
1) Gorod — The Orb — Self Released
2) Bury Tomorrow — The Seventh Sun — Music For Nations
3) Blud Red Roses — Fall to the Hate — Independent
4) Ad Infinitum — Chapter III – Downfall — Napalm
5) Ihsahn — Fascination Street Sessions — Candlelight

Other Adds/Reviewed: Blood of the Wolf, Babymetal, Visions of Atlantis, Vintersea, Dreams of Venus, Mariana’s Rest, Sunsleep (single), Woe Unto Me, Thron, Grieve, Crown Lands, Milanku, The Evil, Unpure, Heezer, Bloody Apostles, Heart Attack Genocide, Necronomicon Ex Mortis, Dyoxidon, Shakma, Lucifer Jones, WinterheartH, Voidscape, Sense of Noise (single)

Ad Infinitum
Chapter III – Downfall
(Napalm)
Female fronted power metal type stuff, but throw in some harsh vox and you get a little melodeath sound too.

BABYMETAL
THE OTHER ONE
(Cooking Vinyl)
Another new album from Babymetal… I think this one is a little more melodic and not quite as hugely deathcore… more of a metalcore thing… still fun

Visions Of Atlantis
Pirates Over Wacken
(Napalm)
Live album, and it sounds great… epic!

Marianas Rest
Auer
(Napalm)
This has a doom thing going on, but a little bit of a harshness in the vocals, and a tiny black metal coldness. Overall a lot of sullen melodies but pretty decent.

Bury Tomorrow
The Seventh Sun
Music For Nations
Metalcore with a heavy groovin’ edge. Cool stuff

Blud Red Roses
Fall To The Hate
Independent
Groove metal with a little bit of a metalcore edge, Catchy

Saxon
More Inspirations
Silver Lining Music

VINTERSEA
AT THE GLOAMING VOID
M-THEORY AUDIO
A bit metalcore, a little just classic metal with a little doom darkness… harsh and clean vox. cool stuf.f

DREAMS OF VENUS
Wanderlust
Dyamond Roxx & Hellven Records
24 March 2023
A kind of bluesy metal, great chillin groove, and guitar solo is amazing… cool stuff (just a single)

Sunsleep
“Hello Goodbye”
SBG
Modern pop “metal”

Sense of Noise
“War Within”
Self Released
Melodic death metal, guest vox with Stu Block, a bit of a Dark Tranquillity vibe. Cool stuff.

Gorod
The Orb
Self Released
Release date: Friday, March 10th 2023
Technical death metal, reminds me a bit of Arsis, heavy, catchy and brutal all while being proggy too.

Woe Unto Me
Along the Meandering Ordeals, Reshape the Pivot of Harmony
M-Theory Audio
24 March 2023
Blackened melodic doom… a mix of all sorts of stuff (Opeth and Katatonia moments), and some long tracks, all clocking in over 13 minutes.

Thron
Dust
Listenable Records
31 March 2023
Blackened death metal with a bit of an epic underpinning, a lean more towards just black metal, some catchy good stuff.

GRIEVE (Finland)
Wolves of the Northern Moon (CD, LP)
Werewolf
31 March 2023
classic old school black metal… not too bad, songs are fairly short..

Crown Lands
Fearless
Spinefarm
Do you like old Rush? Yeah, this is the closest I’ve heard a band sound like old rush and it’s just two guys! Go watch the live video of their song Starlifter and you’ll see.

Ihsahn
Fasciniation Street Sessions
Fasciniation Street Sessions
Candlelight
24 March 2023
Three song EP, pretty proggy and melodic with heavier parts and slower passages… cool stuff !

Milanku
À l’aube – Out March 31st
FOLIVORA (Canada), D7i (Canada/USA), Moment of Collapse (EU)
31 March 2023
Melodic / doomy black metal

THE EVIL (Brazil)
Seven Acts To Apocalypse
Osmose Productions
31 March 2023
Female fronted epic doom, the biggest monster riffs… with a powerful

Unpure (Sweden)
Prophecies Ablaze
Invictus Productions / The Ajna Offensive
31 March 2023
Classic swedish death metal, a heavy dark sound with a catchy punchy brutality while just having that pinch of melody

HEEZER
Album: Sungrinder
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: March 31, 2023
Straight up melodic rockin’ stoner rock… just shy of being “metal”… still catchy good music.

BLOODY APOSTLES
Bloody Apostles (7″ EP)
Hells Headbangers
31 March 2023
Kind of a raw just fun kind of thrashy punky metal, reminds me a bit of GWAR

Heart Attack Genocide
Release title: Primal
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 16-12-2022
Raw kind of death metal grooves

Narcotic Wasteland
Victims of The Algorithm (single)
Megaforce Records
Catchy and brutal and yeah, thrashy, death metal, great drumming by local Erik Schultek.

Necronomicon Ex Mortis
Self-Titled – Out March 31
Self-Release
31 March 2023
Epic/symphonic black metal, good technical and proggy stuff too. The production is a little bit raw.

DYOXIDON
The Decaying Multiverse​
Independent
Release Date: March 5, 2023
Industrial Black Death Metal being more of just a wall of noise!

SHAKMA
On Tenebrous Wings
Duplicate Records
3/24/23
A kind of extreme thrash thing… fast and catchy with maybe, yeah blackened thrash thing happening. cool stuff!

Lucifer Jones
Release title: Doom Generation
Release Date: 17-02-2023
Label: Rotten Xore Records
Doomy black metal

Blood of the Wolf
‘IV: The Declaration of War Eternal’
Self Released
nov 2022
Blackened death metal from Chicago, nice brutal and heavy stuff, catchy and technical… good stuff!!

WinterheartH
Rape Of Eden
Self Released
March 21st, 2023
Melodic black metal, a bit of a symphonic/melodic type groove going on, cool stuff!!

Voidscape
Odyssey Of Spite
Nefarious Industries
Release date: Friday, March 31st 2023

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Mar 20, 2023
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Kings Of Thrash / Wake Up Dead / The Mega Years Live At The Whiskey A Go Go / Cleopatra Records
Slipknot / Custer / .5: The Gray Chapter / Roadrunner
Excalion / Resolution / Once Upon A Time / Scarlet Records
Suicidal Tendencies / Master Of No Mercy / Controlled By Hatred Feel Like Shit…Deja-Vu [Epic-Sony, 25 8P-5285, Japan] / Epic
D.R.I. / Hardball / Definition / Rotten
Sacred Reich / Free / Independent / Enigma
Wrathchild America / No Deposit, No Return / Climbin’ The Walls [Rock Candy remastered] / Atlantic
Shores Of Null / Destination Woe / The Loss Of Beauty / Spikerot Records
Ne Obliviscaris / Graal / Exul / Season Of Mist
Category Vi / Firecry / Firecry / Moribund Records
Wishing Well / In The Line Of Fire / Sin And Shame / Inverse Records
Kamelot / Eventide / The Awakening / Napalm
Haken / The Alphabet Of Me / Fauna / Insideout
Nanowar Of Steel / Winterstorm In The Night (Feat. Madeleine Liljenstam, Eleine) / Dislike To False Metal / Napalm
Redemption / Seven Minutes From Sunset / I Am The Storm / Afm Records
Gatekeeper / Death On Black Wings / From Western Shores / Cruz Del Sur Music
Necropanther / Covenant / Betrayal / Self Released
Hatesphere / Hatred Reborn / Hatred Reborn / Scarlet Records
Hellripper / The Hissing Marshes / Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags / Peaceville
Siege Of Power / Zero Containment / This Is Tomorrow / Metal Blade Records
Endlevel / Unleash War / Weekend War / Violent Creek
The Faith Hills Have Eyes / My Bong Water Is Blood / The Riffth Element / Self Released
Heidevolk / Oeros / Wederkeer / Napalm
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs / Pipe Down! / Land Of Sleeper / Missing Piece
Sonambula / Respirando Muerte / Estasis Interrumpida / Xtreem Music
Downfall Of Gaia / The Whir Of Flies / Silhouettes Of Disgust / Metal Blade Records
Suicide Silence / Capable Of Violence (N.f.w.) (Explicit) / Remember…you Must Die / Century Media Records
Contrarian / In Gehenna / Sage Of Shekhinah / Willowtip Records
Eisenkult / Der Teufel Hat’s Gesandt / Vulgäre, Deutsche Hassmusik / Purity Through Fire
Maze Of Sothoth / The Unspeakable / Extirpated Light / Everlasting Spew Records
Ov Sulfur / Befouler (Feat. Alex Terrible Of Slaughter To Prevail) / Stained In Rot / Century Media Records
Cannibal Corpse / Make Them Suffer / Kill [Limited Japanese Edition] / Metal Blade
Mork / Indre Demoner / Dypet / Peaceville
Entheos / The Interior Wilderness / Time Will Take Us All / Metal Blade Records
Idolatrous / Eternal / Sorrow On Midgard / Wormholedeath
Mystic Circle / Erzdämon / Erzdämon / Fireflash Records
Abaddonia / Horsemen Pt 1- War / Dawn Of The Serpent / Self-Release
Angerot / They Shall Take Up Serpents / The Profound Recreant / Redefining Darkness Records
Insomnium / Starless Paths / Anno 1696 / Century Media Records
Enslaved / Forest Dweller / Heimdal / Nuclear Blast
Whore Of Bethlehem / Nails In Your Coffin / Ritual Of Homicide / Comatose Music
Animalize / Meatnight_Race / Tapes From The Crypt / Dying Victims Productions
Night Demon / Escape From Beyond / Outsider / Century Media Records
Lankester Merrin / We Ride The Storm / Dark Mother Rises / Black Sunset
Temtris / Khaos Divine / Khaos Divine / Wormholedeath
Elysion / Blink Of An Eye / Bring Out Your Dead / Massacre Records
Tragedy / Respect (Feat. Marcy Harriell) / I Am Woman / Napalm
Vinnie Moore / Astro Man / Double Exposure / Mind’s Eye Music

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 3/20/23

Artist — Album — Label
1) Hellripper — Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags — Peaceville
2) Siege of Power — This Is Tomorrow — Metal Blade
3) Insomnium — Anno 1696 — Century Media
4) The Faith Hills Have Eyes — The Riffth Element — Self Released
5) Haken — Fauna — InsideOut
6) Vinnie Moore — Double Exposure — Mind’s Eye Music
7) Entheos — Time Will Take Us All — Metal Blade
8) Heidevolk — Wederkeer — Napalm
9) Pigs x7 — Land of Sleeper — Missing Piece —
10) Idolatrous — Sorrow on Midgard — Wormholedeath
11) Enslaved — Heimdal — Nuclear Blast
12) Suicide Silence — Remember…You Must Die — Century Media
13) Tragedy — I Am Woman — Napalm
14) Downfall of Gaia — Silhouettes of Disgust — Metal Blade
15) Nanowar of Steel — Dislike to False Metal — Napalm
16) Kamelot — The Awakening — Napalm
17) Night Demon — Outsider — Century Media
18) Redemption — I Am The Storm — AFM
19) Contrarian — Sage Of Shekhinah — Willowtip
20) Necropanther — Betrayal — Self Released

Top 5 Adds
1) Ne Obliviscaris — Exul — Season of Mist
2) Ov Sulfur — Stained In Rot — Century Media
3) Category VI — Firecry — Moribund
4) Kings of Thrash — The Mega Years Live… — Cleopatra
5) Hatesphere — Hatred Reborn — Scarlet

Other Adds/Reviewed: Maze of Sothoth, Abaddonia, Whore of Bethlehem, Temtris, Lankester Merrin, Sonambula, Mystic Circle, Elysion, Wishing Well, Eisenkult, Yevabog, Animalize, Angerot, Gatekeeper, Atomic Trip, Hellcrash, Excalion, Shores of Null, Asylum Pyre, Mork, Endlevel, Ars Manifestia, Chasm of Discord, Metuzalem, Rotting Demise

Ne Obliviscaris
Exul
Season Of Mist
Progressive, technical melodic death/black metal. It’s got it all and it’s great!

Category VI
Firecry
Moribund Records
Classic metal with a bit of a thrashy edge, female vocals with a nice sharp edge, has a throwback sound that still sounds cool.

Kings Of Thrash
The Mega Years Live At The Whiskey A Go Go
Cleopatra Records
A couple of former Megadeth members doing a show of old Megadeth songs! They get a lot of crap from online folks, but the tour came through Madison and it was great! So this album is one of their early shows.

Ov Sulfur
Stained In Rot
Century Media Records
Epic blackened death metal with a bit of melody in there too. Great stuff.

SÖNAMBULA
Release title: Estasis Interrumpida
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: March 9th, 2023
Brutal death metal with a little bit of a doomy groove. Cool stuff!

Temtris
Khaos Divine
Wormholedeath
17 March 2023
Classic thrash/classic metal with BIG SOARING Vocals! YEAHHH!!! (catchy too)

MYSTIC CIRCLE
Erzdämon
Fireflash Records
17 March 2023
Epic black metal, a bit of a symphonic thing, but just barely. Nice big and catchy sound too. Me like!

Elysion
Bring Out Your Dead
Massacre Records
17 March 2023
CLassic metal, modern metal, groove metal, pinch of goth with female vocals

Wishing Well
Sin and Shame
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: March 17th 2023
Straight up just classic metal. Alright stuff.

Eisenkult
Vulgäre, deutsche Hassmusik
Purity Through Fire
21 March 2023
Classic black metal, but with a meaty heavy yet gold beat… with some synth/epic melodic death stuff too. Pretty cool stuff.

YEVABOG
Album (maxi-EP): Between Two Fires
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: March 21st, 2023
Black metal with a progressive element, some harsh brutal stuff, some atmospheric parts, doomy stuff

HATESPHERE
Hatred Reborn
Scarlet Records
24 March 2023
This band has been around a while and always has good stuff as I recall. Thrashy grooves, a bit on the deathy side of thrash with harsher vox… Great stuff!

Animalize
Tapes From The Crypt
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 24/03/2023
Classic metal with maybe a pinch leaning towards thrash, catchy and just good ol solid metal.

ANGEROT
The Profound Recreant
Redefining Darkness Records
24 March 2023
Just a single here so far, but a nice gritty death metal with a tiny bit of black metal evilness going on

Gatekeeper
From Western Shores
Cruz Del Sur Music
24 March 2023
Classic metal, clean vox, nice meaty groove too

Atomic Trip
Strike #3 (Vinyl release – March 24, 2023, Digital – October 27, 2022)
Tentacles Industries
24 March 2023
Oh my. a couple of 20+ minute sludgey doomy post metal

WHORE OF BETHLEHEM
RITUAL OF HOMICIDE
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 24th 2023
As with most things on this label, it’s brutal death metal, nice meaty headbangin’ grooves all fast and a bit technical. Great stuff.

Maze Of Sothoth
Extirpated Light
Everlasting Spew Records
24 March 2023
Full on brutal death metal and yeah, just a nice thrashy groove, and yeah technical too. Just a wall of brutality in your face Good stuff!

Hellcrash
Demonic Assassinatiön
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS
March 24
Take a bit of just straight up classic metal and mix in some black metal intensity and it’s Hellcrash here. Neat stuff.

EXCALION
Once Upon a Time
Scarlet Records
24 March 2023
Epic power metal, soaring vocals, boop boopy keyboards and solid grooves.

Shores of Null
The Loss of Beauty – Out March 24th
Spikerot Records
24 March 2023
Doomy blackened death metal with bits of melodic death and maybe a smidge of folk metal with an atmospheric chilled out element too

ASYLUM PYRE
Album: Call Me Inhuman
Self Released
Release date: March 24th, 2023
A bit power metal some mixes of clean and harsh vox, but overall proggy power metal with some pretty catchy unique elements that yeah, still stay metal! Cool

Lankester Merrin
Release title: Dark Mother Rises
Label: Black Sunset
Release Date: 24-03-2023
Melodic death with a kind of viking metal groove, with mixed vox (male and female, harsh and clean) Cool stuff!

Mork
Dypet
Peaceville
24 March 2023
Melodic blackened death metal, decent stuff.

Endlevel
Weekend War
Violent Creek Records
Overall, I’d throw this as extreme thrash, it’s got black/death/groove/thrash stuff all going on. Cool stuff!

Ars Manifestia
Release title: Il Mattino della Follia
Release Date: 03-02-2023
Label: Fog Foundation
Avantgarde Black Metal, mostly laid back atmospheric type stuff, but a kind of creepy dark and cold sound

Abaddonia
Dawn of The Serpent – Out March 3rd
Self-Release
3 March 2023
Symphonic blackened death. Nice heavy and brutal sound. Cool stuff!

Chasm of Discord
Admonishing the Dawn of Reverence (released Nov 4th, 2022)
(Blood Blast Distribution)
4 November 2022
Brutal death metal, a bit of a tech/prog thing going on there too

Band: Metuzalem
Album: Infra
Self Released
Release: March 6th, 2023
Old-School Death/Doom Metal, dark yet with some groove too

Rotting Demise
Release title: My Whole Wrath
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 03-02-2023
Brutal death metal, dark heavy and headbangin’ grooves too.

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Mar 13, 2023
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Kamelot / The Great Divide / The Awakening / Napalm
Redemption / I Am The Storm / I Am The Storm / Afm Records
Riffobia / Herald Of Pain / Riffobia / Floga Records
Black Sabbath / Supernaut 2021 Remaster / Vol. 4 Revisited / Rhino Entertainment
Judas Priest / Saints In Hell / Stained Class / ?
Motorhead / Fast And Loose / Ace Of Spades [Deluxe Edition, Disc One] / ?
Iron Maiden / Space Station No. 5 / Best of the B’Sides / ?
Jenner / Factory Of Death / To Live Is To Suffer / Fighter Records
Haken / Nightingale / Fauna / Insideout
Frozen Crown / Fire In The Sky / Call Of The North / Scarlet Records
Karbholz / Barrikaden / Kapitel 11- Barrikaden / Metalville Records
Marauder / Strike Back Again / Metal Constructions Vii / Pitch Black
Suicide Silence / You Must Die (Explicit) / Remember…you Must Die / Century Media Records
Veil Of Maya / Red Fur / Red Fur (Single) / Sumerian
Siege Of Power / Scavengers / This Is Tomorrow / Metal Blade Records
The Faith Hills Have Eyes / Dio De Janeiro / The Riffth Element / Self Released
Necro Weasel / Symbols Of Oppression / Obey, Suffer & Die / Pan-Portimo Productions
Downfall Of Gaia / Existence Of Awe / Silhouettes Of Disgust / Metal Blade Records
Hellripper / The Cursed Carrion Crown / Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags / Peaceville
Entheos / In Purgatory / Time Will Take Us All / Metal Blade Records
Contrarian / Sage Of Shekhinah / Sage Of Shekhinah / Willowtip Records
Weight Of Emptiness / Defrosting / Withered Paradogma / Sliptrick Records
In Flames / The Great Deceiver / Forgone / Nuclear Blast Records
Daath / No Rest No End / No Rest No End / Metal Blade
Insomnium / Lilian / Anno 1696 / Century Media Records
Majesties / In Yearning, Alive / Vast Reaches Unclaimed / 20 Buck Spin
Enslaved / Congelia / Heimdal / Nuclear Blast
Blood Of Heroes / Blood For Blood / Blood For Blood (Single) / New Ocean Media
Dot-Giffromgod / Knife Goes In, Guts Come Out / Digital Red / Prosthetic Records
Memoriam / Annihilations Dawn / Rise To Power / Reaper
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs / Mr Medicine / Land Of Sleeper / Missing Piece
Tribe Of Pazuzu / We Serve Under No God / Blasphemous Prophecies / Vic Records
Idolatrous / The Harrowing Reprisal / Sorrow On Midgard / Wormholedeath
Death Reich / World War / Disharmony / Non Serviam Records
Necropanther / One And Only / Betrayal / Self Released
Sacrificium / Martyrium / Oblivion / Nordic Mission
Micawber / The Cremation Of Care / The Cremation Of Care (Single) / Prosthetic Records
Mythraeum / Terrestrial Despair / Halls Of Mythras / M-Theory Audio
Carbellion / Barfight / Weapons Of Choice / Eclipse Loud
Night Demon / Outsider / Outsider / Century Media Records
Alex Nunziati / The Day The World Died Again / Black Space Void / Moribund Records
Vinnie Moore / Rise / Double Exposure / Mind’s Eye Music
Ice Age / Float Away / Waves Of Loss And Power / Sensory Records
John Diva & The Rockets Of Love / Thunder / The Big Easy / Spv/steamhammer
Heidevolk / De Strijd Duurt Voort / Wederkeer / Napalm
Tragedy / Venus / I Am Woman / Napalm
Nanowar Of Steel / Sober / Dislike To False Metal / Napalm

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 3/13/23

Artist — Album — Label
1) In Flames — Foregone — Nuclear Blast
2) Hellripper — Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags — Peaceville
3) Siege of Power — This Is Tomorrow — Metal Blade
4) Memoriam — Rise To Power — Reaper
5) Insomnium — Anno 1696 — Century Media
6) The Faith Hills Have Eyes — The Riffth Element — Self Released
7) Haken — Fauna — InsideOut
8) Vinnie Moore — Double Exposure — Mind’s Eye Music
9) Heidevolk — Wederkeer — Napalm
10) Pigs x7 — Land of Sleeper — Missing Piece —
11) Entheos — Time Will Take Us All — Metal Blade
12) Mythraeum — Halls of Mythras — M-Theory Audio
13) Enslaved — Heimdal — Nuclear Blast
14) Idolatrous — Sorrow on Midgard — Wormholedeath
15) Tragedy — I Am Woman — Napalm
16) Suicide Silence — Remember…You Must Die — Century Media
17) Nanowar of Steel — Dislike to False Metal — Napalm
18) Blood of Heroes — Blood for Blood (single) — New Ocean Media
19) Micawber — The Cremation of Care (single) — Prosthetic
20) Daath — The Rest No End (single) — Metal Blade

Top 5 Adds
1) Kamelot — The Awakening — Napalm
2) Night Demon — Outsider — Century Media
3) Downfall of Gaia — Silhouettes of Disgust — Metal Blade
4) Alex Nunziatti — Black Space Void — Moribund
5) Redemption — I Am The Storm — AFM

Other Adds/Reviewed: Karbholz, Veil of Maya (Single), Contrarian, John Diva & The Rockets of Love, Carbellion, Ingraves, Majesties, Vanishment, Decryptal, Riffobia, Death Reich, Verminous Serpent, Spulcru, Ulfuo, Death Vanish, Wild Beyond, Maleva, Ordalie, Wardress, Bred for Slaughter, Downshot, Genocidal Rites, Morcaint, Sacrificium, Ice Age, Stoned Jesus, Sorrow Enthroned, Frozen Crown

John Diva & The Rockets Of Love
The Big Easy
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Classic hard rock/metal, clean vox, a kind of a 90’s AOR sound

Kamelot
The Awakening
(Napalm)
Epic prog/power metal, always great stuff from this band, and nice to have some good crunchy heaviness too.

Downfall of Gaia
Silhouettes of Disgust
Metal Blade Records
17 March 2023
Technical death, but with a blackened doomy thing going on.

VEIL OF MAYA
“Red Fur”
Sumerian
Fairly melodic and pushing into some mathy tech deathcore

Night Demon
Outsider
Century Media Records
Classic metal, clean vox, melodic. decent

Alex Nunziatti
Black Space Void
Moribund Records
Clasic metal here… a cool groove too

Karbholz
Kapitel 11: Barrikaden
Metalville Records
Yeah! More classic metal this time seems to be all German, nothing too heavy, nothing too wimpy either. Just melodic classic metal

Redemption
I Am The Storm
AFM Records
17 March 2023
Nice to have new stuff from this prog metal powerhouse. Powerful catchy tracks, great soaring vox and technical prowess… great stuff!

Contrarian
Sage of Shekhinah
Willowtip Records
17 March 2023
Technical progressive death metal, a lot going on… harsh vox, a tiny black metal sound and overall mostly prog metal

Carbellion
Weapons of Choice
Eclipse Records
17 March 2023
Catchy groovin’ stoner metal… cool stuff. A little Trouble thing going on

INGRAVES
HUMAN ABYSS
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: 10th MARCH 2023
Mostly a deathcore thing, some melodic atmosphere, but also a dark groove too

Majesties
Vast Reaches Unclaimed
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, March 3rd 2023
This has a kind of a classic metal music sound with kind of harsh black metal type vocals… the music stuff gets heavier and in line with some good melodeath. Cool stuff!

Vanishment
No More Torture
Dead Sage
Release date: Friday, March 3rd 2023
Classic metal with a kind of gritty doom/melodic sound Cool

Décryptal
Sabazios Culte
Me Saco Un Ojo / Rotted Life
15 March 2023
Sludgey black/death metal

RIFFOBIA
Release title: RIFFOBIA
Label: FLOGA RECORDS
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 13-03-2023
guess what? lots of good thrashy riffs! and if you wanted to nitpick the “fobia” would mean “fear of” but there’s no fear of riffs here, great stuff.

DEATH REICH
DISHARMONY
Non Serviam Records
17 March 2023
Thrashy brutal blackened death. Heavy punishing sound. and a headbangin’ groove. Great stuff.

Verminous Serpent
The Malign Covenant
Amor Fati
17 March 2023
A bit of an old school black metal thing

Sepulcrum (Chile)
Lamentation of Immolated Souls
Chaos Records / Canometal / Burning Coffin
17 March 2023
Brutal blackend thrashy death. Dark punishing grooves cool stuff.

Úlfúð
Of Existential Distortion
Dark Descent Records
17 March 2023
A bit of a classic black metal… cold harsh evil

Death Vanish
Hermitic Fire
Eternal Death
17 March 2023
Raw lo-fi black metal.

Wild Beyond
Wild Beyond
Gates of Hell Records
Primarily black metal but it’s got a smidge of a death metal groove going on. decent stuff

Maleva
Release title: Saab maailm otsa
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 25-04-2022
Metal from Estona! Not sure what language this is in, but it’s kind of a thrashy melodic death

ORDALIE
Album: Mass of Perdition
Label: Paragon Records
Release date: March 17th, 2023
Straight up classic black metal, cold, bleak, harsh, with some melodic grooves too.

Wardress
Release title: Metal Till The End
Label: Black Sunset
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 17-03-2023
Classic metal from Germany. The German part as you probably guessed adds a bit of a heavier grit to it. cool stuff!

Bred For Slaughter
Here You’re Born… Here You Die
Horror Pain Gore Death
March 17
Raw and grindy in your face black/death metal.

Downshot
Endgame
WTF Records
17 March 2023
This is kind of a hardcore with a little punk attitude

GENOCIDAL RITES
Exsanguination of the Gods (TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
10 March 2023
Sludgy distorted wall of black metal death mean something? it’s just so mushed together… not a fan

Morcaint
Elessar
Nordvis Produktion
3 March 2023
Single of some black metal… production is a bit, harsh… no bass and that just makes it cold and tinny.

Sacrificium
Release title: Oblivion
Label: Nordic Mission
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 10-03-2023
Death Metal/ Melodic Death Metal, a heavy gritty sound with a maybe a pinch of blackened death.. Great stuff

Ice Age
Waves Of Loss And Power
Sensory Records
Release date: Friday, March 10th 2023
Here’s some pretty good prog metal, they have that dream theater style of prog going on, good playing, clean vox, a bit of a real metal grit and long songs!!

STONED JESUS
Father Light
Season of Mist
3 March 2023
Very laid back stoner rock

Sorrow Enthroned
Release title: Constricted Upon the Throat of the Lamb
Release Date: 30-01-2023
Label: Self-Released
Brutal death metal… production is a little raw

FROZEN CROWN
Call of the North
Scarlet Records
10 March 2023
A kind of epic power metal, female vox, nice and heavy/proggy too

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Mar 6, 2023
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Dio / Stand Up And Shout (2022 Remaster) / Holy Diver (Super Deluxe Edition): Holy Diver (2022 Remaster) Disc 2 / Rhino Entertainment
SAVATAGE / Sirens / Sirens / Atlantic
Quiet Riot / Metal Health / Metal Health / Epic
Metallica / Hit The Lights / Kill ‘Em All [2016, BLCKND003RD-1] / Elektra
Slayer / Die By The Sword / Show No Mercy / MetalBlade Records
Accept / Love Child / Balls to the Wall / ?
Ratt / Sweet Cheater / Ratt / ?
Mercyful Fate / Evil / Melissa / Roadrunner
Queensryche / Nightrider / Queensryche (EP) (2003 RM, Capitol, 72435-80528-2-4) / EMI
Krokus / Headhunter / Headhunter / ?
Ozzy Osbourne / Rock ‘N’ Roll Rebel / Bark At The Moon / Epic
Iron Maiden / Where Eagles Dare / Piece of Mind / Toshiba EMI
Saxon / Power And The Glory / Power And Glory / ?
Suicidal Tendencies / Institutionalised / Suicidal Tendencies / ?
Riot / Heavy Metal Machine / Born In America / ?
Anthrax / Room For One More / Sound Of White Noise / Elektra
Sepultura / Refuse-Resist / Chaos A.D. / Roadrunner
Fight / Kill It / War of Words / Epic
Annihilator / 01 – Set The World On Fire / Set the World on Fire / ?
Carcass / Buried Dreams / Heartwork / Epic
Death / Overactive Imagination / Individual Thought Patterns / Relativity Records
Entombed / Eyemaster / Wolverine Blues / Earache
Tool / Undertow / Undertow / ?
Type O Negative / Christian Woman / Bloody Kisses / Roadrunner
Cynic / Uroboric Forms / Focus / Roadrunner
Cathedral / Ride / The Ethereal Mirror / Epic
Morbid Angel / Rapture / Covenant / Reprise
Suffocation / Breeding The Spawn / Breeding The Spawn / Roadrunner
Gorguts / Orphans Of Sickness / The Erosion Of Sanity / ?
Immortal / 04 Frozen By Icewinds / Pure Holocaust / ?
Arch Enemy / Silent Wars / Anthems Of Rebellion [Limited Edition] / Century Media
Nevermore / Seed Awakening / Enemies of Reality / Century Media
Children Of Bodom / Needled 24/7 / Hate Crew Deathroll / ?
The Haunted / Shadow World / One Kill Wonder / Earache
Dream Theater / Honor Thy Father / Train Of Thought / ?
Hatebreed / Straight to Your Face / The Rise of Brutality / ?
Iron Maiden / Wildest Dreams / Dance of Death / Toshiba EMI
Chimaira / Power Trip / The Impossibility Of Reason / Roadrunner Japan
Lamb Of God / Ruin / As The Palaces Burn / Prosthetic
DevilDriver / I Could Care Less / DevilDriver / Roadrunner
Dew-Scented / New Found Pain / Impact / ?
Cradle of Filth / Hurt And Virtue / Damnation and a Day / ?
Dimmu Borgir / Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse / Death Cult Armageddon / Nuclear Blast
Strapping Young Lad / Relentless / SYL / Century Media
Opeth / Death Whispered A Lullaby / Damnation / ?
Overkill / Struck Down / Killbox 13 (Metal Mind, MASS CD 1350 DG, EU 2009) / Atlantic