Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Feb 26, 2024
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Ministry / B.d.e. / Hopiumforthemasses / Nuclear Blast
Prong / Another Worldly Device / Cleansing / Epic
Scarefield / Ancient Evil / A Quiet Country / Self Release
Slayer / Read Between The Lies / South Of Heaven / American
Morbid Saint / Burn Pit / Swallowed By Hell / High Roller Records
Austrian Death Machine / Conquer (Feat. Hellbørn, Clayton King) / Quad Brutal / Napalm
Iron Curtain / Gypsy Rocker / Savage Dawn / Dying Victims Productions
Big Big Train / Oblivion / The Likes Of Us / Insideout
Bruce Dickinson / Rain On The Graves / The Mandrake Project (Singles) / Bmg
Rifforia / Cc Cowboys / Axeorcism / Metalville Records
Anubis / Venom And The Viper’s Kiss / Dark Paradise / M-Theory Audio
Messiah / Once Upon A Time… Nothing / Christus Hypercubus / High Roller Records
Negative Prayer / Violence / Self // Wound / Chaos Records
Job For A Cowboy / Beyond The Chemical Doorway / Moon Healer / Metal Blade
Exocrine / Warlock / Legend / Season Of Mist
Cognizance / The Towering Monument / Phantazein / Willowtip Records
Cryptic Confinement / A Glimpse Into The Void Below / Tempestuous Demise / Sliptrick
Azell / Death Control / Death Control / Rottweiler
Sujin / Dead World Beyond / Save Our Souls / Scarlet Records
Hiraes / Ocean Child / Dormant / Napalm
Ihsahn / Twice Born / Ihsahn / Candlelight Records
Amaranthe / Damnation Flame / The Catalyst / Nuclear Blast Records
Absolon / Destroyer / The Blood Seed / Nolifetilmetal
Vitriol / Weaponized Loss / Suffer & Become / Century Media Records
Morta Skuld / The End Of Reason / Creation Undone / Peaceville Records
Abhoria / The Foundling / Depths / Prosthetic Records
Sanity / Kingdom / The Beast / Self-Released
The Infernal Sea / Black Witchery / Hellfenlic / Candlelight
Necrowretch / Swords Of Dajjal / Swords Of Dajjal / Season Of Mist
Far Beyond / Tempus Fugit / The End Of My Road / Prosthetic Records
Life Cycles / Portal To The Unknown / Portal To The Unknownm Ep / 1126 Records
Hypoxia / Bleed For Blasphemy / Defiance / Selfmadegod
Endlevel / Drink Beer / Weekend War / Self Released
Decrowned / Mouth Leaks Black / Persona Non Grata / Rockshots Records
Incendiary Device / Incendiary Device (Explicit) / Incendiary Device / Bridge Nine Records
Diamond Falcon / The Wind In My Back / Gates Of Hell / Self Released
Hand Of Kalliach / Fell Reigns / Corryvreckan / Prosthetic
Suldusk / Verdalet / Anthesis / Napalm
Borknagar / Afar / Fall / Century Media Records
North Sea Echoes / Open Book / Really Good Terrible Things / Metal Blade Records
Meanstreak / Giant Speaks / Blood Moon / Step Off Records
Art Of Anarchy / Rivals / Let There Be Anarchy / Pavement Entertainment
Infected Rain / Lighthouse / Time / Napalm

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 2/26/24

Artist — Album — Label
1) Hiraes — Dormant — Napalm
2) Vitriol — Suffer & Become — Century Media
3) The Infernal Sea — Hallfenlic — Candlelight
4) Exocrine — Legend — Season of Mist
5) Cognizance — Phantazein — Willowtip Records
6) Morbid Saint — Swallowed By Hell — High Roller
7) Ihsahn — Ihsahn — Candlelight
8) Abhoria — Depths — Prosthetic Records
9) Necrowretch — Swords of Dajjal — Season of Mist
10) Meanstreak — Blood Moon — Step Off
11) Art of Anarchy — Let There Be Anarchy — Pavement
12) Sujin — Save Our Souls — Scarlet
13) Infected Rain — Time — Napalm
14) Morta Skuld — Creation Undone — Peaceville
15) Borknagar — Fall — Century Media
16) Rifforia — Axeorcism — Metalville
17) Austrian Death Machine — Quad Brutal — Napalm
18) Far Beyond — The End of My Road — Prosthetic
19) Amaranthe — The Catalyst — Nuclear Blast
20) Iron Curtain — Savage Dawn — Dying Victims Productions

Top 5 Adds
1) Ministry — Hopiumforthemasses — Nuclear Blast
2) Bruce Dickinson — The Mandrake Project — BMG
3) Job for a Cowboy — Moon Healer — Metal Blade
4) Anubis — Dark Paradise — M-Theory Audio
5) Suldusk — Anthesis — Napalm

Other Adds/Reviewed: Incendiary Device, Cryptic Confinement, Negative Prayer, Azell , Saturnalia Temple, Big Big Train, Autumnblaze, Endlevel, Messiah, Absolon, Lokheira , Ukć, Diamond Falcon, Sanity, Life Cycles, Hypoxia, Hand Of Kalliach, Alase, Decrowned, North Sea Echoes, Scarefield

Ministry
Hopiumforthemasses
Nuclear Blast USA
Classic ministry, a more metal/industrial sound… good stuff!

Bruce Dickinson
The Mandrake Project
BMG
Bruce is sounding top notch with some great classic metal music too

Job For A Cowboy
Moon Healer
Metal Blade
Release date: Friday, February 23rd 2024
Heavy, technical, catchy, brutal all the good stuff.

ANUBIS
Album: Dark Paradise
Label: M-Theory Audio
Release date: February 23rd, 2024
Thrashy power metal, cool stuff!

Suldusk
Anthesis
Napalm
A bit black metal, a little bit of folk and some atmospheric power metal type stuff

Incendiary Device
Incendiary Device
Bridge Nine Records
Kind of a punky crossover thing, short and to the point tracks

CRYPTIC CONFINEMENT
Album: Tempestuous Demise
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: February 27th, 2024
Instrumental melodic thrash… catchy heavy stuff nice grooves and stuff too

Negative Prayer
Self // Wound
Chaos Records
1 March 2024
A kind of chilled out doomy death metal, nice catchy grooves

AZELL
DEATH CONTROL
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 1st 2023
Kind of a doomy extreme thing… vocals are screamy, but music downtempo

SATURNALIA TEMPLE
Paradigm Call
Listenable Records
1 March 2024
Sludgy and doomy with a black metal vocal style…

Big Big Train
The Likes Of Us
Inside Out Music
3/1
Classic prog hard rock/ rock stuff, pretty good… maybe not super for the Mosh Pit, but Matt likes it! hah

AUTUMNBLAZE
Album: Auf zerfetzten Schwingen
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: February 23, 2024
Kind of a dark melodic doomy post metal

Endlevel
Weekend War
Self Released
Feb 24
Deathy thrash with some catchy grooves.

Messiah
Christus Hypercubus
High Roller Records
1 March 2024
Thrashy groovin’ death metal. Cool stuff.

Absolon
THE BLOOD SEED
NoLifeTilMetal Records
Feb 23
Classic metal, a little power metal feel and some decent grooves

Lokheira
Dark of the Night
Wormholedeath
Feb 23
A bit of a classic metal, a little power metal and melodic death thing happening too

UKĆ
Release Title: Coming Out – Love & Hate Diaries
Label: Theogonia Records
Release Date: 16 February 2024
Progressive Black Metal… a bit of a doomy thing going on too.

Diamond Falcon
Release Title: Gates Of Hell
Label: Self Released
Release Date: February 3, 2024
Classic metal with a strong Iron Maiden vibe

Sanity
Release Title: The Beast
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 2nd March 2024
Starts off as full on black metal, but then pulls back a bit into some proggy Symphonic-ish Metal while staying fairly extreme… maybe a little cradle of filth-ish

Life Cycles
Portal To The Unknownm EP
1126 Records
Release date: Thursday, February 22nd 2024
Groovin’ metal, a little thrashy, some harsh vox. decent stuff

Hypoxia
Defiance
Selfmadegod
Release date: Friday, February 23rd 2024
Good meaty and groovin’ death metal.

Hand Of Kalliach
Corryvreckan
Prosthetic
Release date: Friday, February 23rd 2024
A little epic black metal, some classic stuff, Some dark deathy grooves and black metal atmosphere too

Alase
Beyond Our Imagination
Inverse
Release Date: February 23rd 2024
A lighter melodic death (lots of atmosphere!)

Decrowned
Persona Non Grata
Rockshots Records
23 February 2024
Kind of a groovin’ death metal, melodic deathy stuff happening too. cool!

North Sea Echoes
Really Good Terrible Things
Metal Blade Records
23 February 2024
Ray Alder and Jim Matheos of Fates Warning in a project together… pretty laid back and just mostly slower rock type stuff

Scarefield
A Quiet Country
Independent Self Release
9 February 2024
Classic Thrashy with a smidge power/prog metal stuff too

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Feb 19, 2024
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Austrian Death Machine / No Pain No Gain (Feat. Craig Golias, Angel Vivaldi) / Quad Brutal / Napalm
Kittie / Eyes Wide Open / Eyes Wide Open (Single) / Sumerian
Toby Knapp / Damnation’s Corridor / Transmission To Purgatory / Moribund Records
The Moor / Jupiters Immigrants (Feat.mikael Stanne) / Jupiter’s Immigrants / Self Released
The Darkhorse Collective / Polyanthroponomia / Polyanthroponomia / Self Released
Devin Townsend Project / Truth / Transcendence / Insideout
Soilwork / Electric Again / Övergivenheten / Nuclear Blast
Stygian Crown / Bushido / Funeral For A King / Cruz Del Sur Music
Ihsahn / Pilgrimage To Oblivion / Ihsahn (Studio Version) / Spinefarm
Hiraes / Chance To Fail / Dormant / Napalm
Sujin / Ashes From The Abyss / Save Our Souls / Scarlet Records
Amaranthe / Insatiable / The Catalyst / Nuclear Blast Records
Iron Curtain / Devil’s Eyes / Savage Dawn / Dying Victims Productions
Morta Skuld / We Rise We Fall / Creation Undone / Peaceville Records
Morbid Saint / Bloody Floors / Swallowed By Hell / High Roller Records
Midnight / Nuclear Savior / 2024 Singles / Metal Blade
Wristmeetrazor / Trepanation / Degeneration / Prosthetic
Karkosa / Poison Of God / Esoterrorcult / Redefining Darkness Records
Borknagar / Summits / Fall / Century Media Records
Far Beyond / A Symphony Of Light / The End Of My Road / Prosthetic Records
Rhino / Gentle Sound Of The Knife / Human Farm / Argonauta
Malphas / Red Shield Syndicate / Portal / M-Theory Audio
Sgaile / Silence / Traverse The Bealach / Avantgarde Music
Electric Deathbeat / Acid Feast / A Ghost Triangle / Sliptrick
Deicide / Sever The Tongue (Explicit) / Banished By Sin / Reigning Phoenix Music
Upon Stone / To Seek And Follow The Call Of Lions / Dead Mother Moon / Century Media Records
Vitriol / Survival_S Careening Inertia / Suffer & Become / Century Media Records
Abhoria / Devour / Depths / Prosthetic Records
Desolate Tomb / Scorned By Misery (Ft- Jon Davenport) / Scorned By Misery / Rottweiler
Exocrine / Dust In The Naught / Legend / Season Of Mist
Chaos Sanctuary / Blood Of Secrecy / Instrumentality / Self-Release
Cognizance / Futureless Horizon / Phantazein / Willowtip Records
Necrowretch / Dii Mauri / Swords Of Dajjal / Season Of Mist
The Infernal Sea / Bastard Of The East / Hellfenlic / Candlelight
Lionheart / Flight 19 / The Grace Of A Dragonfly / Metalville Records
Lord Dying / A Bond Broken By Death / Clandestine Transcendence / Mnrk Heavy
Rifforia / The Devil’s Sperm / Axeorcism / Metalville Records
Saxon / Pirates Of The Airwaves / Hell, Fire And Damnation / Silver Lining Music
Meanstreak / Rubberneck / Blood Moon / Step Off Records
Monkey3 / Collision / Welcome To The Machine / Napalm
Hero And The Horror / Head In The Sand / Old Ghosts / Salt Of The Earth Records
Art Of Anarchy / Echo Your Madness / Let There Be Anarchy / Pavement Entertainment
Illumishade / Enemy / Another Side Of You / Napalm
Infected Rain / Never To Return / Time / Napalm

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 2/19/24

Artist — Album — Label
1) Upon Stone — Dead Mother Moon — Century Media
2) Saxon — Hell, Fire and Damnation — Silver Lining Music
3) Hiraes — Dormant — Napalm
4) Chaos Sanctuary — Instrumentality — Self-Released
5) Vitriol — Suffer & Become — Century Media
6) The Infernal Sea — Hallfenlic — Candlelight
7) Cognizance — Phantazein — Willowtip Records
8) Exocrine — Legend — Season of Mist
9) Lord Dying — Clandestine Transcendence — Mnrk Heavy
10) Hero and the Horror — Old Ghosts — Salt of the Earth
11) Abhoria — Depths — Prosthetic Records
12) Sgaile — Traverse The Bealach — Avantgarde Music
13) Morbid Saint — Swallowed By Hell — High Roller
14) Infected Rain — Time — Napalm
15) Necrowretch — Swords of Dajjal — Season of Mist
16) Meanstreak — Blood Moon — Step Off
17) Ihsahn — Ihsahn — Candlelight
18) Art of Anarchy — Let There Be Anarchy — Pavement
19) Sujin — Save Our Souls — Scarlet
20) Illumishade — Another Side of You — Napalm

Top 5 Adds
1) Morta Skuld — Creation Undone — Peaceville
2) Borknagar — Fall — Century Media
3) Rifforia — Axeorcism — Metalville
4) Austrian Death Machine — Quad Brutal — Napalm
5) Far Beyond — The End of My Road — Prosthetic

Other Adds/Reviewed: Amaranthe, Midnight (single), Wristmeetrazor (single), Malphas (single), Kittie (single), Darkspace, Monkey3, Lionheart, Stygian Crown, Karkosa, Coltre, Iron Curtain, Praise The Plague, Thorndale, Desolate Tomb, Toby Knapp, Hrizg, Druadan Forest, Fragment Soul , Tvinna, Electric Deathbeat, Jamart, Gods & Punks, Rhino, Moonin Down, Gore Machine, Out Of Darkness, Keres , Astral Spectre, Dwarrowdelf, Cryptic Process, Detraktor, Jordsjuk

Kittie
Eyes Wide Open
Sumerian
First single in a long long time… I’ll always have a sweet spot for bands that actually came into our station live. This is a good song, nice groove, extreme vox. Heavy cool stuff.

Midnight
Hellish Expectations – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
8 March 2024
After tseeing this band live finally… it all clicked… fast, in your face good ol metal. New material here follows that path.

Wristmeetrazor
Trepanation / No Ceremony
Prosthetic Records
15 February 2024
this is a little similar to the Midnight, quick songs, in your face, heavy and catchy-ish too.

Malphas
“Red Shield Syndicate” (single)
Portal
M-Theory Audio
A sort of blackened deathy /melodic death thing, an epic sound with symphonic/keyboard stuff… cool!!

DARKSPACE
Dark Space -II
Season of Mist
16 February 2024
This album is one 47 minute track of mostly post metal/black metal and noise

Austrian Death Machine
Quad Brutal
(Napalm)
ALways brutal, duh! catchy wall of sound metal in the style of AAAHHHNOLD. Great stuff

Monkey3
Welcome to the Machine
(Napalm)
A bit of an ambient sort of industrial prog thing… some guitar, and a wall of sound type production, has a little Devin Townsend feel – all instrumental

Far Beyond
The End of My Road
Prosthetic Records
16 February 2024
Kind of an epic proggy melodic extreme blackened metal… big sound, cool stuff.

Rifforia
Axeorcism
Metalville Records
Classic metal, a little thrash, although from sweden, it has that German metal edge.

Amaranthe
The Catalyst
Nuclear Blast USA
Epic wall of sound power metal/prog/melodic death. Harsh, clean vox, male, female… the more I hear this band the more I like.

Lionheart
The Grace of the Dragonfly
Metalville Records
Classic metal, a bit of an active rock/old school aor type sound, with a hint of power metal

Borknagar
Fall
Century Media Records
A little folk metal, epic melodic death and black metal too

Stygian Crown
Funeral for a King
Cruz Del Sur Music
23 February 2024
A little thrash, a little prog and classic metal, clean vox nice grooves

KARKOSA
Esoterrorcult
Redefining Darkness Records
23 February 2024
Fast blackened death, Brutal too and a little melodic stuff…pretty cool

Coltre
To Watch With Hands… To Touch With Eyes
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 23/02/2024
Kind of a stoner groove metal

Iron Curtain
Savage Dawn
Dying Victims Productions
23/02/2024
Classic metal, a bit of a motorhead style

PRAISE THE PLAGUE
Suffocating In The Current Of Time
Lifeforce
Feb 24
Sludgey doomy blackened stuff

THORNDALE
Album: Lightning Spawn
Self Released
Release date: February 23, 2024
Groovin’ stoner metal.

DESOLATE TOMB
SCORNED BY MISERY
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 23rd 2024
Groovin and brootal death metal death/core type stuff. Cool brutality!!

TOBY KNAPP
Transmission to Purgatory
Moribund Records
23 February 2024
Fast and proggy / thrashish instrumental metal, some really cool stuff here that stays interesting throughout

HRIZG
Damnatio Memoriae
Moribund Records
23 February 2024
old school black metal with a doomy gloomness

DRUADAN FOREST
Dismal Spells Part 2 – The Night Circus (CD, LP)
Werewolf
23 February 2024
Just some ambient synthy symphonic type sounds.

FRAGMENT SOUL
Galois Paradox
Wormholedeath
Feb 24
Laid back prog pushing a little doom

Tvinna
Two – Wings of Ember
By Norse Music
23 February 2024
Laid back female fronted rock

Morta Skuld
Creation Undone
Peaceville Records
23 February 2024
Thrashy, deathy, headbanging goodness right out of the gate!

ELECTRIC DEATHBEAT
Album(s): 1) A Ghost Triangle, 2) The Past Beats Of The Death
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: February 20th, 2024
Modern metal with a little melodic death thing going on, pretty decent stuff

Jamart
OmiNoUS
Self Released
2/23/2024
Progressive Metal, solid grooves and nice heavy edge too

Gods & Punks
Release Title: Mountains of Garbage – EP
Label: Abraxas Records
Release Date: February 23, 2024
Chilled out doomy stoner rock

RHINO
Album: Human Farm
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: February 23rd, 2024
Stoner metal, with a more upbeat pace and groove.

MOONIN DOWN
Album: The Third Planet
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: February 23rd, 2024
Chilled classic doom-ish stoner sounding rock

GORE MACHINE
Macerated & Liquified
Horror Pain Gore Death
February 23rd 2024
Obviously gore metal, brutal with almost piq squeal vox.

OUT OF DARKNESS
Out of Darkness
Label: Unsigned
Release Date: February 23rd, 2024
Prog metal with a bit of a Fates Warning sound, Brent Smedley formerly of Iced Earth is the drummer

KERES
Homo Homini Lupus?
Label: Gruesome Records
Release Date: February 23rd, 2024
Black Metal, to the point, a bit heavy and deathy too

Astral Spectre
Release Title: Ars Notoria
Label: Northern Silence Productions
Release Date: February 2, 2024
They call it “Occult Blackened Heavy Metal” sounds like black metal vox on some classic doom music.

Dwarrowdelf
Release Title: The Fallen Leaves
Label: Northern Silence Productions
Release Date: February 2, 2024
A kind of epic metal with folk, blackened death and melodic death stuff going on

Cryptic Process
Human Snack
Drowning in Chaos
Brutal and tech death with some grooves and pig squeal vox

Detraktor
Of Gods And Serpents
Massacre Records
14 February 2024
groovin’ death metal with a thrashy thing too

Jordsjuk
Råtner På Rot
Indie Recordings
15 February 2024
Black metal, but with some grooves, shorter to the point tracks too… cool

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Feb 12, 2024
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Kerry King / Idle Hands / From Hell I Rise / Rising Phoenix
Morbid Saint / Swallowed By Hell / Swallowed By Hell / High Roller Records
Boundaries / Easily Erased / Easily Erased (Single) / 3dot
Vio-lence / Serial Killer / Eternal Nightmare / Neo Megafo
Forbidden / Chalice of Blood / Forbidden Evil [Limited Edition] / Century Media
Hellyeah / 333 Explicit / Welcome Home / Eleven Seven
Death Angel / Discontinued / Act III / ?
Volucrine / Riptide / Etna / Inverse
Ihsahn / The Promethean Spark / Ihsahn / Candlelight Records
Persefone / Lingua Ignota / Lingua Ignota: Part I / Napalm
Sgaile / The Ptarmigans Cry / Traverse The Bealach / Avantgarde Music
Grin / Hush / Hush / The Lasting Dose Records
Meanstreak / Oh Father / Blood Moon / Step Off Records
Lord Dying / Facing The Incomprehensible / Clandestine Transcendence / Mnrk Heavy
Gengis Khan / In The Land Of Darkness / Masters Of My Sins / Self-Released
Hero And The Horror / Don’t Get Hurt / Old Ghosts / Salt Of The Earth Records
Nefarious Mash / In Front Of The Mirror / In Memory Of Your Hopes / Wormholedeath
Upon Stone / Paradise Failed / Dead Mother Moon / Century Media Records
Cognizance / Introspection / Phantazein / Willowtip Records
Exocrine / Eidolon / Legend / Season Of Mist
Abhoria / They Hunt At Night / Depths / Prosthetic Records
Cercenatory / Inquisitor Vortex Soul Torturing / Goresphere / Comatose Music
Amiensus / Vermillion Fog Of War (Radio Edit) / Vermillion Fog Of War (Single) / M Theory Audio
Hiraes / Nightflight / Dormant / Napalm
House Of Atreus / Under An Accursed Dynasty / Orations / Iron Bonehead
Exhorder / Forever And Beyond Despair / Defectum Omnium / Nuclear Blast Usa
Ponte Del Diavolo / Demone / Fire Blades From The Tomb / Season Of Mist
Saxon / Kubla Khan And The Merchant Of Venice / Hell, Fire And Damnation / Silver Lining Music
Atrophy / Punishment For All / Punishment For All (Single) / Massacre Records
Chaos Sanctuary / Signal Extinction / Instrumentality / Self-Release
Vitriol / The Isolating Lie Of Learning Another / Suffer & Become / Century Media Records
Elettra Storm / Higher Than The Stars / Powerlords / Scarlet Records
The Infernal Sea / The Hunter / Hellfenlic / Candlelight
Luciferian Rites / Under The Devil’s Cross / Oath Of Midnight Ashes / Moribund Records
Necrowretch / The Fifth Door / Swords Of Dajjal / Season Of Mist
Samael / Shining Kingdom / Passage – Live / Napalm
Hulder / Boughs Ablaze / Verses In Oath / 20 Buck Spin
Sujin / Save Our Souls / Save Our Souls / Scarlet Records
Tyr / Axes / Axes (Single) / Metal Blade Records
Leah / Archangel / The Glory And The Fallen / Ex Cathedra Records
Infected Rain / Dying Light / Time / Napalm
Pink Elefants / Same Person / Same Person (Single) / Chirp
Art Of Anarchy / Echo Your Madness / Let There Be Anarchy / Pavement Entertainment
O Zorn! / Never Saw It Coming / Vermillion Haze / Hard Drugs Records
Metal Warrior / The Battle Will Be Won (Radio Version) / The Battle Will Be Won (Radio Version) / Tsdc
Illumishade / Elegy / Another Side Of You / Napalm

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 2/12/24

Artist — Album — Label
1) Upon Stone — Dead Mother Moon — Century Media
2) Saxon — Hell, Fire and Damnation — Silver Lining Music
3) Gengis Kahn — Masters of My Sins — Self-Released
4) Chaos Sanctuary — Instrumentality — Self-Released
5) Vitriol — Suffer & Become — Century Media
6) Hiraes — Dormant — Napalm
7) Persefone — Lingua Ignota: Part 1 EP — Napalm
8) The Infernal Sea — Hallfenlic — Candlelight
9) Cognizance — Phantazein — Willowtip Records
10) Luciferian Rites — Oath of Midnight Ashes — Moribund
11) Lord Dying — Clandestine Transcendence — Mnrk Heavy
12) Exocrine — Legend — Season of Mist
13) Abhoria — Depths — Prosthetic Records
14) Hero and the Horror — Old Ghosts — Salt of the Earth
15) Sgaile — Traverse The Bealach — Avantgarde Music
16) House Of Atreus — Orations — Iron Bonehead
17) Morbid Saint — Swallowed By Hell — High Roller
18) Infected Rain — Time — Napalm
19) Necrowretch — Swords of Dajjal — Season of Mist
20) Meanstreak — Blood Moon — Step Off

Top 5 Adds
1) Ihsahn — Ihsahn — Candleligfht
2) Metal Warrior — The Battle Will Be Won (single) — TSDC
3) Amiensus — Vermillion Fog of War (single) — M-Theory Audio
4) Art of Anarchy — Let There Be Anarchy — Pavement
5) Samael — Passage (Live) — Napalm

Other Adds/Reviewed: O Zorn!, Sujin, Kerry King (single), Tyr (single), Boundaries (single), Illumishade, Pink Elefants (single), Cercenatory, Dead Earth, Grin, Elettra Storm, Farsot, Profiler, River City Rebels, The Scream, Leah, Bokassa, Witchorious, Ponte Del Diavolo, Volucrine, Omage Diatribe, Hulder, Memento Mori, Atrophy (single), Nefarious Mash

Kerry King
Idle Hands (single)
Rising Phoenix
I think we all knew whatever Kerry was going to do would be Slayer 2.0, but this is even better than expected, Mark Osegueda on vox is great and the rest of the lineup is superb. Worth the wait!

Týr
Axes – radio single
Metal Blade Records
12 April 2024
Epic and melodic death type stuff.

AMIENSUS
“VERMILLION FOG OF WAR”
M-THEORY AUDIO
Progressive blackened death from Rochester Min! Technical, blackened, catchy cool stuff.

Boundaries
”Easily Erased”
(3Dot)
Deathcore, heavy and brutal til the emo part… then back to some more typical death core

ILLUMISHADE
Another Side of You
(Napalm)
Female fronted power metal, a bit epic and staying fairly melodic

Pink Elefants
”Same Person”
(Chirp)
Modern metal, clean vox, melodic and accessible

Samael
Passage – Live
(Napalm)
as the title states, live performance of their arguably best album, good sound and another reason to revisit them and this album.

Art Of Anarchy
Let There Be Anarchy
Pavement Entertainment
Melodic hard rock type stuff… Jeff Scott Soto handling vocals this time around, seems to step things up a little bit. Good stuff

Ihsahn
Ihsahn
Candlelight Records
Epic symphonic prog metal with a little blackened smidge of edge/vox. Great stuff

O Zorn!
Vermillion Haze
Hard Drugs Records
A kind of groovin’ doom, a little alice in chain-ish

Metal Warrior
The Battle Will Be Won (Radio Version) (Single)
TSDC Records
This is a bit power metal and some just straight classic metal type stuff.

CERCENATORY
GORESPHERE
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 16th 2024
Brutal guttural death metal with a bit of a groove and some technicaltiy.

Dead Earth (Sweden)
Et Disperdam Illud
Chaos Records
16 February 2024
here we have some good melodic black metal, catchy, melodic and a nice full sound

Grin
Release Title: Hush
Label: The Lasting Dose Records
Release Date: 16 February 2024
This has some doom, death/black metal, groovin’ psychedelic stuff too… nice grooves.

SUJIN
Save Our Souls
Scarlet Records
16 February 2024
Melodic death with a nice groove too… cool stuff!

ELETTRA STORM
Powerlords
Scarlet Records
16 February 2024
Female fronted speedy power metal, a bit of an epic sound.

FARSOT
Life Promised Death
Lupus Lounge
16 February 2024
A kind of classic black metal, but with a nice groove and bit of a black n roll thing too.

Profiler
A Digital Nowhere
SharpTone Records
16 February 2024
This is a modern metal thing, nice grooves, but an emo-ish vox thing

River City Rebels
Pop Culture Baby
Screaming Crow Records
16 February 2024
4 song ep of a kind of punky pop

THE SCREAM
Album: WHELLCOME
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: February 13th, 2024
A little pink, some hard rock.

LEAH
The Glory And The Fallen
Ex Cathedra Records
16 February 2024
Female fronted symphonic power metal type stuff, a bit goth and epic, but generally laid back.

Bokassa
All Out of Dreams
Indie Recordings
16 February 2024
Groove metal, a bit melodic and a bit active rockin’

WITCHORIOUS
Album: Witchorious
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: February 16th, 2024
Doom meets some modern metal

PONTE DEL DIAVOLO
Fire Blades From the Tomb
Season of Mist
16 February 2024
A bit doomy, some black metal, female fronted, and a bit of a proggy atmosphere

Volucrine
ETNA
Inverse
Release Date: February 16th 2024
Modern Melodic Death Metal, some edgy heavier stuff, a bit of more modern metal-core-ish clean melodic parts

OMEGA DIATRIBE
Deviant
Wormholedeath
Kind of a deathy groove metal, not quite death metal, but not like just thrash… so, yeah, that said, it’s cool heavy groovin’ stuff.

Hulder
Verses In Oath
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, February 9th 2024
Black metal, with a wall of sound, a bit epic/amospheric too, with a classic brutal cold sound

Memento Mori (US)
Memento Mori
Shattered Earth Records LLC
16 February 2023
Primarily death core, brutal, punishing and groovin’

Atrophy
Punishment For All [New Single & Video]
Massacre Records
15 March 2024
Classic thrashy sound from these vets… just a single for a release next month

Nefarious Mash
In Memory of Your Hopes
Wormholedeath
Blackened death, nice grooves, evil yet, not soo super harsh and cold. Cool stuff.

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Feb 5, 2024
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Job For A Cowboy / Beyond The Chemical Doorway / Beyond The Chemical Doorway (Single) / Metal Blade Records
Volcandra / Fouled Sanctity / The Way Of Ancients / Prosthetic Records
Night Slasher / Ice / Night Slasher / Sliptrick Records
AORTHA / Those That Should Not Exist / Monolit / Self Released
Revocation / Spurn the Outstretched Hand / Teratogenesis / Scion AV
Allegaeon / A Path Disclosed / Formshifter / Metal Blade
Psycroptic / Forward To Submission / The Inherited Repression / Nuclear Blast
Gates Open / The Awakening / Voice After Silence / Inverse
Exocrine / Life / Legend / Season Of Mist
Cognizance / Chiselled In Stone / Phantazein / Willowtip Records
Vitriol / Nursing From The Mother Wound / Suffer & Become / Century Media Records
Persefone / The Equable / Lingua Ignota: Part I / Napalm
Takida / Third Strike / The Agony Flame / Napalm
Hiraes / Undercurrent / Dormant / Napalm
Therion / Baccanale / Leviathan III / Napalm
Ryujin / Kunnecup / Ryujin / Napalm
Infected Rain / Because I Let You / Time / Napalm
Meth. / Doubt / Shame / Prosthetic
Morbid Saint / Rise From The Ashes / Swallowed By Hell / High Roller Records
H1Z1 / Hard / Hard (Single) / Self Released
Rattle Trapp / The Rage Within / The Rage Within / Self Released
Aberrate (Green Bay) / Somniphobia / Somniphobia (Single) / Self Released
Emergency Rule / Garden / The King Of Ithaca / Wormholedeath
Lord Dying / Final Push Into The Sun / Clandestine Transcendence / Mnrk Heavy
Gengis Khan / Rising From Hell / Masters Of My Sins / Self-Released
Saxon / There’s Something In Roswell / Hell, Fire And Damnation / Silver Lining Music
Meanstreak / The Dark Gift / Blood Moon / Step Off Records
Graywitch / Children Of Gods / Children Of Gods / Sleaszy Rider
Ghoul / The Eyes Of The Witch / Noxious Concoctions Ep / Tankcrimes
The Infernal Sea / Witchfinder / Hellfenlic / Candlelight
Helfro / Sindur / Tálgröf / Season Of Mist
Luciferian Rites / Bats Of Crimson Wisdom / Oath Of Midnight Ashes / Moribund Records
Drakon / Gold / Thunderdome / Sleaszy Rider
Carnal Savagery / Column Of Maggots / Into The Abysmal Void / Moribund Records
Upon Stone / Dusk Sang Fairest / Dead Mother Moon / Century Media Records
Chaos Sanctuary / Reassimilated (To Be Detonated) / Instrumentality / Self-Release
Abhoria / Within Our Dominion / Depths / Prosthetic Records
Satarial / Dance Of Steel – Invocation Of Dragon / Dance Of Steel – Invocation Of Dragon / Sleaszy Rider
There Is No Us / Fame Whore (Radio Edit) / Fame Whore (Radio Edit) / Cleopatra Records
House Of Atreus / Thy Wounded Sovereignty / Orations / Iron Bonehead
Voltumna / Vanth / For Death Is Fate (Ep) / Self Released
Necrowretch / Ksar Al-Kufar / Swords Of Dajjal / Season Of Mist
Masser / Creed Of A Worshipped Weapon / The Forlorn Path – Ep / Self-Released
Transit Method / Into Your Mind / Othervoid / Brutal Panda Records
Hero And The Horror / Strength Of A God / Old Ghosts / Salt Of The Earth Records
Sgaile / Psalms To Shout At The Void / Traverse The Bealach / Avantgarde Music