Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Jan 27, 2025
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Alien Weaponry / Mau Moko / Te R? / Napalm
Kerry King / Everything I Hate About You / From Hell I Rise / Reigning Phoenix Music
Cosmophage / Sidereal Malignancy / Sidereal Malignancy / Blood Harvest
Arkona / Prometeus / Stella Pandora / Debemur Morti Productions
Reversed / Final Death / Wildly Possessed / Invictus Productions
melechesh / triangular tattvic fire / sphinx / The End
Tsjuder / Lord Of Swords / Desert Northern Hell / Season of Mist
Rohan / Waste Of Life / Suffering With A Smile / Self Released
Cradle Of Filth / To Live Deliciously / The Screaming Of The Valkyries / Napalm Records
Deadspawn / Unsleep / Bile Of The Gods / Independent
Sarcator / Burning Choir / Swarming Angels & Flies / Century Media Records
Ephialtes / Homo Deus / Melas Oneiros / Black Lion
Pyre / Where Obscurity Sways / Where Obscurity Sways / Osmose Productions
Mork Gryning / Before The Crows Have Their Feast / Fasornas Tid / Season Of Mist
Harakiri For The Sky / Keep Me Longing / Scorched Earth / Aop
Nachash / Stygian Nightmare / Eschaton Magicks / Signal Rex
Tormentor Tyrant / Torture Divine / Excessive Escalation Of Cruelty / Everlasting Spew
Relics Of Humanity / Summoning Of Those Who Absorbed / Absolute Dismal Domain / Willowtip
Spesimin / Skull Worship / Spesimin / Strangemono Records
Mutagenic Host / The Twisted Helix / The Diseased Machine / Memento Mori
Ex Deo / Otho / Year Of Four Emperors / Reigning Phoenix Music
Concrete / Omnia Occide / Mortualis / Upstate
Killswitch Engage / I Believe (Radio Edit) / I Believe – Radio Single / Metal Blade
Hazzerd / Scars / The 3rd Dimension / M-Theory Audio
Neckbreakker / Nephilim / Within The Viscera / Nuclear Blast Records
Grave Digger / The Rich The Poor The Dying / Bone Collector / Rpm-Roar
Retador / Somos Eternos / Earëndel / Xtreem Music
Lunar / A Summer To Forget / Tempora Mutantur / Self-Release
Dream Theater / Midnight Messiah (Album Version) / Parasomnia / Inside Out Music
Bumblefoot / Planetary Lockdown / Bumblefoot…returns! / Bumblefoot Music Llc
Dragonknight / Pirates Bloody Pirates! / Legions / Scarlet
Nanowar Of Steel / Stormwarrior Of The Storm / Xx Years Of Steel / Napalm
Watch My Dying / Egyenes Kerül? / Egyenes Ker?l? / Self-Released
Arcania / Turned To Hate / Lost Generation / Independent
The Halo Effect / Our Channel To The Darkness / March Of The Unheard / Nuclear Blast
Druparia / Bereavement / The River Above / Self-Release
The Barbarians Of California / The Library / And Now I’m Just Gnashing My Teeth / Onerpm
Weed Demon / Tower Of Smoke / The Doom Scroll / Electric Valley
Patriarkh / Wierszalin Iv / Prophet Ilja / Napalm
Resistor / S.c.f.u. / Head Case (Ep) / Independent
Clusterfux / Blood / Defy / Beer City Records
Answers In Blood / 51 Days / Acts Of Violence / Revolution
Nova Twins / Monsters / Monsters (Single) / Marshall Amplification
Peter Wilson / Now There’s Nothing / Freedoms Door / Dr. Music Records
The Night Flight Orchestra / Cosmic Tide / Give Us The Moon / Napalm
Paradise Slaves / Dreamers / Dreamers (Single) / Spinefarm

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 1/27/25

Artist — Album — Label
1) Ex Deo — Year Of Four Emperors — Reigning Phoenix Music
2) Mork Gryning — Fasornas Tid — Season Of Mist
3) Answers In Blood — Acts of Violence — Revolution Records
4) NanowaR of Steel — XX Years of Steel — Napalm
5) Neckbreakker — Within The Viscera — Nuclear Blast
6) The Halo Effect — March Of The Unheard — Nuclear Blast
7) Sarcator — Swarming Angels & Flies — Century Media
8) Mutagenic Host — The Diseased Machine — Memento Mori
9) Arcania — Lost Generation — Independent
10) Concrete — Mortualis — Upstate
11) Ephialtes — Melas Oneiros — Black Lion
12) Druparia — The River Above — Self-Release
13) Hazzerd — The 3rd Dimension — M-Theory Audio
14) Harakiri For The Sky — Scorched Earth — Aop
15) Clusterfux — Defy — Beer City Records
16) Grave Digger — Bone Collector — Rpm-Roar
17) Patriarkh — Prophet Ilja — Napalm
18) Dragonknight — Legions — Scarlet
19) Resistor — Head Case (Ep) — Independent
20) Peter Wilson — Freedoms Door — Dr. Music Records

Top 5 Adds
1) Spesmin — Spesmin — Strangemono Records
2) Barbarians of California — And Now I’m Just Gnashing My Teeth — ONErpm
3) Night Flight Orchestra — Give Us The Moon — Napalm
4) Deadspawn — Bile Of The Gods — Independent
5) Paradise Slaves — Dreamers (Single) — Spinefarm

Other Adds/Reviewed: Voltagehawk, Bumblefoot, Nachash, Nova Twins, Alien Weaponry (single), Balefire, Pyre, Relics Of Humanity, Aedes, Cosmophage, Lunar, Oni, Riverside, Weed Demon, Naked Whipper, Watch My Dying, Rohan, The Ironfist, Killswitch Engage (Single)

Spesmin
Spesmin
Strangemono Records
Kind of a brutal grindy thing

The Barbarians of California
And Now I’m Just Gnashing My Teeth
ONErpm
Kind of a punked up groovin’ up in your face type metal stuff.

Bumblefoot
Bumblefoot…Returns!
Bumblefoot Music LLC
24 January 2025
All instrumental, fairly proggy, nice edge, some cool guests too

DEADSPAWN
BILE OF THE GODS
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 24th 2025
Melodic blackened death metal. Heavy cool stuff!

NACHASH
Eschaton Magicks
Signal Rex
31 January 2025
Black metal, with some rockin’ grooves whilst still being cold and evil sounding

Nova Twins
”Monsters”
Marshall Amplification
This seems to be kind of a poppy hard rock

Paradise Slaves
”Dreamers”
With Hell In His Eyes
(Spinefarm)
Basic groovin’ modern metal/hard rock, fits more of an active/solid rock type thing then pushing a bit into some metalcore-ish stuff.

Alien Weaponry
Mau Moko (single)
Napalm
Groovin’ catchy stuff

Balefire
Balefire 12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead
31 January 2025
Brutal Death metal, a smidge of black metal coldness

PYRE
Where Obscurity Sways
Osmose Productions
31 January 2025
Nice straightforward death metal with a blackened thrashy thing too

Relics of Humanity
Absolute Dismal Domain
Willowtip Records
31 January 2025
Brutal and meaty death metal

Aedes
Odius Imprecation
Blood Harvest
31 January 2025
Blackened death metal, a bit more dark thank cold and harsh… some good grooves and technicality

Cosmophage
Sidereal Malignancy CD/TAPE
Blood Harvest / Me Saco Un Ojo
31 January 2025
Brutal and meaty and technical death metal. good stuff

LUNAR
Tempora Mutantur
Self-Release
31 January 2025
A kind of epic technical death metal, catchy proggy, brutal too. As you get deeper into the album, there are some more slower regular prog type stuff.

ONI
Geesis
Self-Release
24 January 2025
Modern metal, a bit emo-core ish

Riverside
Live ID.
InsideOut
Jan 24
Classic prog (sorta metalish) band with a new live album!

Weed Demon
The Doom Scroll
Electric Valley Records
31 January 2025
Doomy stoner metal, cool grooves, longer tracks

Naked Whipper
Chapel Defilement LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
31 January 2025
This is kind of a dirty blackened death, a bit raw / punky as black/death metal goes.

Watch My Dying
Egyenes Kerőlő
Self-Released
24 January 2025
This is kind of a technical blackened industrial death metal… And yeah Proggy and melodeath-ish

Rohan
Album: Suffering with a Smile
Self Released
Release date: January 24, 2025
Blackened thrashy death metal, to the point and cool stuff!

The Ironfist
Release Title: Akumalize
Label: Huzzcult Records
Release Date: January 1, 2025
Black Thrash Metal… more of a black metal sound to me…. a bit raw

Killswitch Engage
I Believe – radio single
Metal Blade Records
23 January 2025
Trademark sound from them on this new single, melodic, hooks, catchy, gritty too.

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Jan 20, 2025
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Retador / Eare¨ndel / Earëndel / Xtreem Music
Druparia / Under The Shade Of Sand / The River Above / Self-Release
Pestilent Scars / Internal Torment / Meadows Of Misfortune / Inverse
Necrot / Winds Of Hell / Lifeless Birth / Tankcrimes
1349 / Inferior Pathways / The Wolf & the King / Season Of Mist
The Troops of Doom / Faithless Requiem / A Mass To The Grotesque / Alma Mater Records
Replicant / Shrine to the Incomprehensible / Infinite Mortality / ?
Tormentor Tyrant / Capital Of Pain / Excessive Escalation Of Cruelty / Everlasting Spew
Gorgon / Vatican’s Fall / For Those Who Stay / Osmose Productions
Gravethorn / The Great Thaw / Atrocitas / Wormholedeath
Mork Gryning / Fasornas Tid / Fasornas Tid / Season Of Mist
Harakiri For The Sky / Heal Me (Feat. Tim Yatras Of Austere) / Scorched Earth / Aop
Putred / Dominare Malefic? / Megalit Al Putrefac?iei / Memento Mori
Whitechapel / Hymns In Dissonance / Hymns In Dissonance – Single / Metal Blade
Becerus / Primordial Instinct / Troglodyte / Everlasting Spew
Neckbreakker / Shackled To A Corpse / Within The Viscera / Nuclear Blast Records
Mutagenic Host / Genestealer / The Diseased Machine / Memento Mori
Faithxtractor / The Loathing / Loathing & The Noose / Redefining Darkness
The Machinist / Brace / Contempt For Life / Invima
Concrete / Cyber Vermin / Mortualis / Upstate
Molder / Bursted Innards / Catastrophic Reconfiguration / Prosthetic
Ex Deo / Galba / Year Of Four Emperors / Reigning Phoenix Muisc
Rats Of Gomorrah / Face No Consequence / Infectious Vermin / Testimony Records
Crucial Velocity / Hollow / Controller / Self Released
Hazzerd / Interdimension / The 3rd Dimension / M-Theory Audio
Sarcator / Swarming Angels / Swarming Angels & Flies / Century Media
Shadow Of The Talisman / Fiery Descent / As Above, So Below / Eclipse
Grave Digger / Bone Collector / Bone Collector / Rpm-Roar
Thy Kingdom Will Burn / Obscure Existence / The Loss And Redemption / Scarlet
Clusterfux / With Intent / Defy / Beer City Records
Answers In Blood / 1133 / Acts Of Violence / Revolution
Ephialtes / Children Of Arachne / Melas Oneiros / Black Lion
Resistor / Are You Hapy Now (Radio Edit) / Head Case (Ep) / Independent
Brat / Barracuda / Barracuda (Single) / Prosthetic
Opeth / §7 / The Last Will And Testament / Reigning Phoenix Music
The Halo Effect / Detonate / March Of The Unheard / Nuclear Blast
Arcania / Hope Won’t Last / Lost Generation / Independent
Medusian / Facestealer / Library / Self Released
Dragonknight / The Imperator / Legions / Scarlet
Nanowar Of Steel / Gabonzo Robot / Xx Years Of Steel / Napalm
Dominum / One Of Us / The Dead Don’t Die / Napalm
Crimson Storm / Raging Eyes Of Darkness / Livin’ On The Bad Side / Fighter
Vampires Everywhere! / Antichrist / The Devil Made Me Do It (Single) / Dark Kingdom
Patriarkh / Wierszalin Ii / Prophet Ilja / Napalm
Nite / Crow (Fear The Night) (Single) / Crow (Fear The Night) (Single) / Season Of Mist
The Phoenix Within / Next / Next (Single) / Independent
Voltagehawk / Phantasmagoria / Garage Metal / Self-Released
The Night Flight Orchestra / Stratus / Give Us The Moon / Napalm
Hellfire 76 / The Keepers / Rags To Rage / Self-Release

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 1/20/25

Artist — Album — Label
1) Opeth — The Last Will And Testament — Reigning Phoenix Music
2) Ex Deo — Year Of Four Emperors — Reigning Phoenix Music
3) Molder — Catastrophic Reconfiguration — Prosthetic
4) Mork Gryning — Fasornas Tid — Season Of Mist
5) Gorgon — For Those Who Stay — Osmose Productions
6) Neckbreakker — Within The Viscera — Nuclear Blast
7) Dominum — The Dead Don’t Die — Napalm
8) Answers In Blood — Acts of Violence — Revolution Records
9) Mutagenic Host — The Diseased Machine — Memento Mori
10) NanowaR of Steel — XX Years of Steel — Napalm
11) Hellfire 76 — Rags To Rage — Self-Release
12) The Halo Effect — March Of The Unheard — Nuclear Blast
13) Sarcator — Swarming Angels & Flies — Century Media
14) Arcania — Lost Generation — Independent
15) Concrete — Mortualis — Upstate
16) Ephialtes — Melas Oneiros — Black Lion
17) Druparia — The River Above — Self-Release
18) Patriarkh — Prophet Ilja — Napalm
19) Becerus — Troglodyte — Everlasting Spew
20) Dragonknight — Legions — Scarlet

Top 5 Adds
1) Hazzerd — The 3rd Dimension — M-Theory Audio
2) Clusterfux — Defy — Beer City Records
3) Resistor — Head Case (Ep) — Independent
4) Night Flight Orchestra — Give Us The Moon — Napalm
5) Harakiri For The Sky — Scorched Earth — Aop

Other Adds/Reviewed: Grave Digger, The Phoenix Within, Expurgate, Putred, Retador, Shadow Of The Talisman, Aevum, Tormentor Tyrant, Century, Marko Bojkovic, Medusian, Thy Kingdom Will Burn, Knogjärn, The Machinist, Purified In Blood, Pestilent Scars, Crucial Velocity, Brat (Single), Nite, Vampires Everywhere! (Single), Voltagehawk, Whitechapel

Harakiri For The Sky
Scorched Earth
AOP Records
24 January 2025
Melodic blackend metal, a bit chill and relaxed in parts, flipping into full on black metal, longer tracks, decent stuff.

Hazzerd
The 3rd Dimension
M-Theory Audio
17 January 2025
Good ol classic thrash, catchy and all the good stuff.

Resistor
Head Case (EP)
Independent
A bit hardcore, and pushing into death core. Good stuff

Clusterfux
Defy
Beer City Records
A little hardcore/thrash with a pinch of a stoner metal groove

The Night Flight Orchestra
Give Us The Moon
(Napalm)
I’ve been a fan of this band since day one (i’m a bjorn strid fan i guess)… and its like a guilty pleasure, just so throwback and catchy fun. Not all that metal, so you won’t hear a whole lot on the mosh pit, but still cool.

Grave Digger
Bone Collector
RPM-ROAR
17 January 2025
this is just good ol metal, a little melodic, some thrashy… but overall just metal from these long time veterans

The Phoenix Within
Next (Single)
Independent
Classic metal, a bit of a modern solid rock sound with a heavier edge

Expurgate
Nynäs Death
Nomad Snakepit Productions
19 January 2025
Raw doomy and low fi black-ish metal

Putred
Megalit al Putrefacției
Memento Mori
20 January 2025
Meaty death metal, some grooves, and a bit dark/doomish.

RETADOR
Release Title: Earëndel
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: January 21, 2025
heavier Thrash Metal, catchy, melodic, kinda technical, and more “extreme” vox… great stuff.

Shadow of the Talisman
As Above, So Below
Eclipse Records
21 February 2025 (radio Adds Jan 20)
Kind of thrashy, a bit melodic, some straightforward metal stuff… kinda cool.

Aevum
Release Title: Kaleidoscope
Release Title: Kaleidoscope
Label: DarkTunes Music Group
Release Date: January 17, 2025
This is kind of a Gothic Metal, borderline melodeath. Female vox, some nice grooves, and catchy melodic stuff.

Tormentor Tyrant
Excessive Escalation Of Cruelty
Everlasting Spew Records
24 January 2025
Kind of a classic death metal, but with a thrashy feel. cool stuff.

Century
Sign of the Storm
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 24/01/2025
Classic metal, with a doomy throwback sound

Marko Bojkovic
Powercore
Self-Release
24 January 2025
Classic or “trad” metal here… maybe getting a bit heavier (melodeathish) in parts.

MEDUSIAN
Album (EP): Library
Self released
Release date: January 17th, 2025
this starts off with some Symphonic Metal, but vox are harsh, so it’s more of an epic melodeath to me… cool stuff!!

THY KINGDOM WILL BURN
The Loss And Redemption
Scarlet Records
17 January 2025
This has a kind of doomy melodic death thing going on with some cool grooves too

Knogjärn
BLY
Indie Recordings
24 January 2025
A kind of hard rock, a little metalcore, a smidge djent.

THE MACHINIST
CONTEMPT FOR LIFE
LABEL: INVIMA RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 24th 2025
This is a kind of blackened industrialish death. also melodic

Purified in Blood
Spiritual Thirst & Ascend To Nothing
Indie Recordings
10 January 2025
A doomish groovin’ death metal (2 songs)

Pestilent Scars
Meadows of Misfortune
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: January 17th 2025
This is a bit Melodic Death Metal, leaning a little heavier.

CRUCIAL VELOCITY
Controller
Self-Released
10 January 2025
Classic metal, drummer from King Diamond side project. pretty striaghtforward

BRAT (single)
Barracuda (Heart cover)
Prosthetic Records
15 January 2025
Brat has Sammy from Goatwhore… this is kind of a doomy sludgey groovin’ version of an already cool crunchy classic tune.

NITE
“Crow (Fear the Night) (Single)”
Season of Mist
13 January 2025
Kind of a cool blackened just metal thing, melodic and catchy too.

VAMPIRES EVERYWHERE! (single)
ANTICHRIST
DARK KINGDOM RECORDS
This is that band that seems to be about image… but can be like good and heavy, then throws in super emo vox… this has some good extreme vox, and electronic hits… the clean emo stuff is hard for me to get past

Voltagehawk
Garage Metal
(Self-released)
kind of a classic metal

Whitechapel
Hymns in Dissonance – single
Metal Blade Records
15 January 2025
Wall of technical prog death metal… fast and heavy… brutal too!

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Jan 13, 2025
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
The Halo Effect / Conspire To Decieve / March Of The Unheard / Nuclear Blast
Arcania / Lost Generation / Lost Generation / Independent
Magnum / Vigilante / Live At Kk’s Steel Mill / Spv/steamhammer
Apocryphal / My Hero Inside / Facing The End / The Circle Music
Opeth / §6 / The Last Will And Testament / Reigning Phoenix Music
Suidakra / The Heart Of Darkness / Darkanakrad / Mdd
Ephialtes / To The Victims Of Sirens / Melas Oneiros / Black Lion
Cerebral Hemorrhage / Beaten And Dismembered / Exempting Reality / Comatose Music
Ex Deo / Vespasian / Year Of Four Emperors / Reigning Phoenix Music
Concrete / Illusion Of God / Mortualis / Upstate
Lurking Terror / This Is War / A World In Darkness / M-Theory Audio
Neckbreakker / Putrefied Body Fluid / Within The Viscera / Nuclear Blast Records
Brutal Carnage / The Butchering Of Lambs / Butchery / Blood And Brutality
Molder / Masked In Mold / Catastrophic Reconfiguration / Prosthetic
Ruin Dweller / Cadaveric Autolysis / Apocalyptic Ruin / Self Released
Mutagenic Host / Neurological Necrosis / The Diseased Machine / Memento Mori
Caelestia / Siren / Infernalia Ep / Wormholedeath
Putrid Defecation / Airborne Backdoor Evacuation / Tales From The Toilet / Stadin Rec
Becerus / Obfuscated By Imbecility / Troglodyte / Everlasting Spew
Second Day / You Are The Architect / Flamboyance / Self-Released
Faithxtractor / Noose Of Being / Loathing & The Noose / Redefining Darkness
The Mosaic Window / Night Disease / Hemasanctum / Willowtip
Vitriolic / Crown Of Fire / Black Steel Vengeance / Dying Victims Productions
Gravethorn / Atrocitas / Atrocitas / Wormholedeath
Gorgon / Hypnotic Fire / For Those Who Stay / Osmose Productions
Mork Gryning / Tornet / Fasornas Tid / Season Of Mist
Rats Of Gomorrah / Swarming Death / Infectious Vermin / Testimony Records
Final Siege / War / Nuclear Doom State / Wormholedeath
Sarcator / Comet Of End Times / Swarming Angels & Flies / Century Media
Under Assault / Criminal Corporation / Deadly Experiments / Witches Brew
As I Lay Dying / Through Storms Ahead / Through Storms Ahead / Napalm
The Cimmerian / Neck Breaker Of The Mountain / An Age Undreamed Of / Hyborian Rage
Against I / Crimson Queen / Songs For The Dying / Self Released
Becoming Wolves / Ignite The Fire / Ignite The Fire (Single) / Curtain Call
Answers In Blood / Beneath The Hanging Trees (Short Radio Edit) / Acts Of Violence / Revolution
Druparia / Voiceless Regret / The River Above / Self-Release
Sorceress Of Sin / Odyl / Ennea / Wormholedeath
Dragonknight / The Legions Of Immortal Dragonlords / Legions / Scarlet
Crimson Storm / Speed Hammerin’ Metal / Livin’ On The Bad Side / Fighter
Impellitteri / Hell On Earth / War Machine / Frontiers Music
Demonbitch / Into The Archway / Master Of The Games / Gates Of Hell
Wolf Hex / Pashupati (The Lord Of Beasts) / Profane Heresies / Armageddon Label
Desert Near The End / Oceans Of Time / Tides Of Time / Theogonia
Hellfire 76 / Magic And Religion / Rags To Rage / Self-Release
Nanowar Of Steel / Nanowar / Xx Years Of Steel / Napalm
Dominum / We Are Forlorn / The Dead Don’t Die / Napalm
Imbolg / Red Devil 2024 / Red Devil 2024 (Single) / Forever Autumn Records
Peter Wilson / Mirror / Freedoms Door / Dr. Music Records
Tremonti / Nails / The End Will Show Us How / Napalm

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 1/13/25

Artist — Album — Label
1) Opeth — The Last Will And Testament — Reigning Phoenix Music
2) Impellitteri — War Machine — Frontiers
3) The Mosaic Window — Hemasanctum — Willowtip
4) Lurking Terror — A World in Darkness EP — M-Theory Audio
5) Apocryphal — Facing The End — The Circle Music
6) Suidakra — Darkanakrad — Mdd
7) Ruin Dweller — Apocalyptic Ruin — Self Released —
8) As I Lay Dying — Through Storms Ahead — Napalm
9) Molder — Catastrophic Reconfiguration — Prosthetic
10) Gorgon — For Those Who Stay — Osmose Productions
11) Mork Gryning — Fasornas Tid — Season Of Mist
12) Neckbreakker — Within The Viscera — Nuclear Blast
13) Ex Deo — Year Of Four Emperors — Reigning Phoenix Music
14) Dominum — The Dead Don’t Die — Napalm
15) Answers In Blood — Acts of Violence — Revolution Records
16) NanowaR of Steel — XX Years of Steel — Napalm
17) Becoming Wolves — Ignite The Fire (Single) — Curtain Call
18) Desert Near The End — Tides Of Time — Theogonia
19) Under Assault — Deadly Experiments — Witches Brew
20) Ephialtes — Melas Oneiros — Black Lion

Top 5 Adds
1) The Halo Effect — March Of The Unheard — Nuclear Blast
2) Sarcator — Swarming Angels & Flies — Century Media
3) Arcania — Lost Generation — Independent
4) Concrete — Mortualis — Upstate
5) Peter Wilson — Freedoms Door — Dr. Music Records

Other Adds/Reviewed: Magnum, Tremonti, Mutagenic Host, Second Day, Cerebral Hemorrhage, Crimson Storm, Caelestia, Onirophagus, Putrid Defecation, Vitriolic, Axetasy, Dragonknight, Faithxtractor, Rats Of Gomorrah, Genocide Kommando, Druparia, Deus Sabaoth, Lamashtu, Necromaniac, The Cimmerian, Ember Sea (Single), Final Siege, Fragmentary Solid Abyss, Gravethorn, Sorceress Of Sin, Tigguo Cobauc, Wolf Hex, Brutal Carnage, Garden Of Stone, Rauhbein, Voodoo Circle

The Halo Effect
March Of The Unheard
Nuclear Blast Records
10 January 2025
Well the first album was pretty great for fans of the 90’s In Flames sound… and this follow up picks right up where they left off… how can they keep making so many catchy and melodic yet still heavy melodeath songs? Great stuff.

Sarcator
Swarming Angels Flies
Century Media Records
Blackened thrash, extreme and up in your business… cool stuff.

Arcania
Lost Generation
Independent
Thrashy, a little melodic and catchy cool stuff too.

CONCRETE
MORTUALIS
UPSTATE RECORDS
Nice meaty and brutal death metal.

Peter Wilson
Freedom’s Door
Dr. Music Records
mostly straightforward rock

Magnum
Live At KK’s Steel Mill
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Live album with these classic hard rockers…

Tremonti
The End Will Show Us How
(Napalm)
Melodic hard rock type stuff

Mutagenic Host
The Diseased Machine
Gurgling Gore / Dry Cough / Memento Mori
3 January 2025
Kind of a deathy thrash thing, nice solid grooves and catchiness with an old school sound too… cool stuff!

Second Day
Release Title: Flamboyance
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: January 7, 2025
They call it “Post Prog Metal” Not sure what that really means… but in this case, it’s kind of a proggy melodic death.

CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE
EXEMPTING REALITY
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 17th 2025
Brutal death metal throwing some classic death grovoes

Crimson Storm
Release Title: Livin’ On the Bad Side
Label: Fighter Records
Release Date: January 14, 2025
kind of a classic metal pushing into some speedier stuff, not quite thrash… with siren-like vox similar to Bruce Dickinson… cool stuff.

Caelestia
Infernalia EP
Wormholedeath
Nice meaty death metal, with a bit of a melodic touch.

Onirophagus
Revelations From the Void
Personal Records
17 January 2025
Doomy death post-metal

Putrid Defecation
Release Title: Tales from the Toilet
Label: Stadin Rec
Release Date: January 17, 2025
they call it “Slamming Death Metal / Toilet Slam” aside from their name, the song titles should explain a bit “Airborne Backdoor Evacuation” for example… you know you’re gonna get some dirty death metal I little gore and grind, but overall just good meaty, or poopy in this case, death metal.

Vitriolic
Black Steel Vengeance
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 17/01/2025
A classic black metal sound, but with a little groove/death throwin in

Axetasy
Withering Tides
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 17/01/2025
There’s a bit of a NWOBHM type sound, but a little rawness, black metal influences, and speedy thrash.

DRAGONKNIGHT
Legions
Scarlet Records
17 January 2025
Epic power metal

FAITHXTRACTOR
Loathing & the Noose
Redefining Darkness Records
10 January 2025
Fast intense death metal, punchy and brutal

RATS OF GOMORRAH
Infectious Vermin
Testimony Records
17 January 2025
Kind of a blackened death metal with a nice deathy catchy groove

GENOCIDE KOMMANDO
Third World War
Osmose Productions
27 December 2024
Black metal, a bit fast and in your face.

Druparia
The River Above
Self-Release
27 December 2024
Straightforward metal, getting more extreme with vox, and a bit thrashy but still melodic.

DEUS SABAOTH
Album: Cycle of Death
Self-Released
Release date: January 17, 2025
Melodic Black Metal, fits that bill good

Lamashtu
Längtan
Wormholedeath
Kind of a progressive folk-ish symphonic metal… doomy and epic

Necromaniac
Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable
Invictus Productions / The Ajna Offensive
Jan 13
Classic old school black metal

The Cimmerian
An Age Undreamed Of
Hyborian Rage Records / BVR (fka Black Voodo Records)
10 January 2025
Some big doomy grooves and sludge.

Ember Sea (single)
Ahab
Green Bronto Records
Release Date: 16 Dec. 2024
Melodic Metal, classic stuff, a little prog metal, female vox

Final Siege
Nuclear Doom State
Wormholedeath
27 December 2024
Death-Thrash Metal, catchy cool stuff

Fragmentary Solid Abyss
Concento Pavor Nocturnus
Wormholedeath
20 December 2024
Raw black metal with haunting vocals

Gravethorn
Atrocitas
Wormholedeath
20 December 2024
Blackened Death Metal, fast and intense, leaning more towards the black metal side of things

Sorceress of Sin
Ennea
Wormholedeath
20 December 2024
Melodic Power Metal, a bit epic

Tigguo Cobauc
Fountains of Anguish
Exitus Stratagem Records
20 December 2024
Kind of a classic black metal, a bit melodic

Wolf Hex
Profane Heresies
Armageddon Label
6 December 2024
Raw thrashy metal, a little on the extreme side with the vocal style.

Brutal Carnage
Release Title: Butchery
Label: Blood and Brutality Records
Release Date: December 13, 2024
Death Metal, technical yet a bit of a thrashiness.

Garden of Stone
The Grave Mistake
Release Date: January 10th 2025
Record label: Inverse Records
This one is kind of straightforward metal type stuff

RAUHBEIN
Adrenalin
Reigning Phoenix Music (RPM)
27 December 2024
Folky German party metal

Voodoo Circle
Hail To The King
AFM Records
20 December 2024
Reminds me of Whitesnake right away, then has that classic hard rock AOR type vibe.

WORT Mosh Pit 2024 Favorites

Matt’s Top of 2024 (in no particular order)
Opeth — The Last Will And Testament — Reigning Phoenix Music
The Crown — Crown of Thorns — Metal Blade
Blood Incantation — Absolute Elsewhere — Century Media
Lords Of The Trident — V.G.E.P. — Junko Johnson
Fleshgod Apocalypse — Opera — Nuclear Blast
Witherfall — Sounds Of The Forgotten — Deathwave Records
Kerry King — From Hell I Rise — Reigning Phoenix
Flotsam And Jetsam — I Am The Weapon — AFM Records
Judas Priest – Invincible Shield – Epic
Octoploid — Beyond The Aeons — Reigning Phoenix

Mike’s Picks Top 10
Opeth — The Last Will And Testament — Reigning Phoenix Music
Octoploid — Beyond The Aeons — Reigning Phoenix
Blood Incantation — Absolute Elsewhere — Century Media
200 Stab Wounds — Manual Manic Procedures — Metal Blade
Kerry King — From Hell I Rise — Reigning Phoenix
Ripped To Shreds — Force Fed — Sanshi — Relapse
Spectral Wound — Songs of Blood and Mire – Profound Lore
Vorga — Beyond The Palest Star — Transcending Obscurity
Thy Catafalque — XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek — Season of Mist
Gaera – Coma – Season of Mist

Matt’s Honorable Mentions:
Orpheus Omega — Emberglow — Wormholedeath
Category 7 — Category 7 — Metal Blade
Gojira — Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) (feat. Marina Viotti) — BMG
Dark Tranquillity — Endtime Signals — Century Media
The Black Dahlia Murder — Servitude — Metal Blade
Deicide — Banished By Sin — Reigning Phoenix
Nile — The Underworld Awaits Us All — Napalm
Job for a Cowboy — Moon Healer — Metal Blade
Skeletal Remains — Fragments of the Ageless — Century Media
Amiensus — Reclamation: Part 1 — M-Theory Audio
Benighted — Ekbom — Season of Mist
Werewolves — Die For Us — Independent
Seven Spires — A Fortress Called Home — Frontier
Ingested — Tide of Death & Fractured Dreams — Metal Blade
Exocrine — Legend — Season of Mist
Rotting Christ, Pro Xristou (Season Of Mist)

Mike’s Honorable Mentions:
Judas Priest – Invincible Shield – Epic
Bruce Dickinson — The Mandrake Project — BMG
DGM — Promises – Frontiers
Undeath — More Insane — Prosthetic
Job for a Cowboy — Moon Healer — Metal Blade
Yoth Iria — Blazing Inferno — Edged Circle Productions
Vicious Blade — Relentless Force — Redefining Darkness
Bewitcher – Spell Shock — Century Media Records
Oxygen Destroyer — Guardian Of The Universe — Redefining Darkness Records
Blasphemous — To Lay Siege And Conquer — Adirondack Black Mass
Panzerchrist — Maleficium – Part 1 — Emanzipation Productions
Nachtmystium — Blight Privilege — Lupus Lounge
Wintersun — One With The Shadows — Nuclear Blast
Flotsam And Jetsam — I Am The Weapon — AFM Records
Morbid Saint — Swallowed By Hell — High Roller Records