Lizzy Borden
My Midnight Things
Metal Blade Records
First album in 11 years! I can’t say I know much of the back catalog of this band. It’s melodic hard rockin’ type stuff, a little bit of that glam feel, but more of a melodic metal classic metal type thing.

DEVILSTAR
BEYOND THE REALMS OF DEATH
M-THEORY AUDIO
Just the first single, a Priest cover by some actual former members of Judas Priest. It’s a Project by Paul Crook to get some names together. This track features KK Downing, Ripper Owens, Les Binks

Ghost
Prequelle
Concord/Loma Vista
Finally have the full album… It’s got that same catchy ghost sound, the Sabbath/Blue Oyster Cult type mix, but a heavier and catchier feel. That’s what this album as… a bit more catchy chunk.

Hatchet
Dying To Exist
Combat/EMP Label Group
These guys are back with another great throwback to classic thrash, fast and furious, catchy and heavy… all that good stuff.

Fargo
Constellation
SPV
You got some just straight up rock, a catchy funky sound, but overall mostly a classic rock type thing.

Gruesome
Twisted Prayers
Relapse
Oooh yeah, this is that band that sounds just like Death! Yup… a 2nd album now with a perfect homage to one of the greatest metal bands ever. Again, if you liked Death, you’ll love this band and this new album too.

Hulkoff
Beast Mode (Single)
Independent
Kind of an industrialized catchy death metal. Just one track so far, but I like it.

Artist: Yob
Album: “Our Raw Heart”
Label: Relapse
Going to be a tough sell on me to like Yob. Just not in my genre of liking. But big sludgey riffs on one track, the other is some melodic post-rock type stuff that goes on for almost 15 mins.

Jyotisavedanga
Thermogravimetry Warp Continuum LP
Larval Productions
Big wall of sludgey noise, but there’s actually something dishinguishable in one of the layers… still to much noise and not my thing

Wømb
Taciturn
Purodium Rekords
Good classic evil/cold black metal. Some catchy groove going on in parts

Woorms / A Hanging
Woorms / A Hanging 7″ Split
Independent
Woorms is a longer more instrumental with a little vox… bit sludgey doom and some screamy vox with a little groove to go with it. A Hanging is 3 punked up thrash fast and quick tracks all clocking in under 1:30 each… good stuff.

Caveman Cult
Supremacia Primordial 10″ EP
Larval Productions
Fast, brutal, furious, frenetic, heavy, a bit sludgey and a wall of brutal metal sound… and only 4 quick tracks!

Crurifragium (U.S.)
Black Seed of Bestiality LP
Larval Productions
Gurgly death metal. Not great production

Ossuary Insane
Decimation of the Flesh LP
Blood Harvest
A sort of black metal, thrash, exteme metal, death metal. just some heavy dark good stuff.

Deathwards
Towards Death
Invictus Productions
Fast and heavy extreme thrash poking into death metal, a little groove, good stuff!

HAUNTED
DAYBURNER
Twin Earth Records
Doomy stoner metal, seems like female vox.

EXMORTUS
The Sound Of Steel
Prosthetic Records
8 June 2018
Hard to go wrong with this band’s formula of old school thrash turned modern and probably heavier and more technical and catchy as hell. Great stuff!!!

Taphos
Come Ethereal Somberness CD/LP
Blood Harvest
Brutal blackended death metal, great grooves, a harsh black metal feel while keeping a brutal deathmetal groove.

Torii
A Judgement Divine
Self-Release
A pretty doomy black metal, vox are more of a growl than a death metal shriek, but the music is cold, dark, mostly depressing and doomy sometimes getting heavier and brutal.

Kanseil
Fulìsche
Rockshots Music
This is some good melodic death with a bit of a Viking metal thing and a pinch of some folk metal.

POSTHUMAN ABOMINATION
TRANSCENDING EMBODIMENT
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
With a band name like this, you expect something brutal and heavy, and well, this is what it is… fast, and brutal brutal brutal death metal! Great stuff!

CHARLOTTE IN CAGE
Times Of Anger
Sliptrick Records
All girl hard rock from Italy. The first couple tracks were just some kind of punky just rock type stuff, getting to track three, some big growly stuff, more pissed off, then settling back into some more clean vox. This whole thing is a decent mix of all female rock/metal.

Band: Winterblut
Album: Seid furchtbar und zerstöret Euch
Label: Nihilistische KlangKunst
Doomy post-black metal. kind of a “far away” production

Band: The Last Seed
Album: Hellboy
Label: Nihilistische KlangKunst
More of a traditional black metal, good melodic stuff, typical cold guitars/harsh vox.

Band: EUFORY
Album: Higher And Higher
Label: Sliptrick records
Some straight up proggy power metal, nothing new or special, but some good tracks, keyboards, great clean vox, a full wall of heavy metal too.

The Hirvi
Old School Killspree
Label: Inverse Records
We have some classic thrash/melodic death type stuff. It’s got that catchy grooving clasic thrash thing but the vox are a bit heavier. Cool stuff.

FADING BLISS
Journeys in Solitude
MALPERMESITA Records
Kind of post-metal, ambient, atmoshpheric doom? melodic, dark, depressing.

Meka Nism
The War Inside (EP)
Self-Release
Female fronted melodic death, clean and harsh vox, good mix of chugga chugga death metal riffage and some gothy fe-metal.

Lost Division
Wish You Were Dead
Record label: Inverse Records
Some female fronted hard rock/metal. Kind of a crunchy guitar, clean female vox, but with a friendly attitude? Yeah, it’s nice good vox, then the heavier side has a bit more attitude. Pretty straightforward hard rock

Release: ATLAS (FIN)
The Catalyst
Record label: Inverse Records
A blackened metalcore type thing. Djenty, wall of sound, screamy, heavy, brutal-ish, but a colder feel.

DECAYED
Of Fire And Evil
Lusitanian Music
Blackened death/thrash… pretty standard, but decent/good stuff.

Dallian
Automata
Self Released
Symphonic proggy melodic death. It’s got the epic prog stuff, brutal death metal… great stuff.

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2018-05-28 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Kataklysm / Guilotine / Meditations / Nuclear Blast
Skinless / Skull Session / Savagery / Relapse Records
Micawber / King of Ash / Beyond The Reach Of Flame / Prosthetic
Adramelech / The Book of the Black Earth / Pure Blood Doom (2018 Reissue) / Nuclear Abominations
Nervosa / Enslave / Downfall Of Mankind / Napalm Records
Hate Theory / Old Dog / Hate Theory III / Independent
The Flesh / A Knife to the Conformist / Dweller / Anubi Press
Amorphis / The Golden Elk / Queen Of Time / Nuclear Blast
Insomnium / While We Sleep / Shadows of the Dying Sun / Century Media
Alkaloid / As Decreed by Laws Unwritten / Liquid Anatomy / Season of Mist
Dimmu Borgir / I Am Sovereign / Eonian / Nuclear Blast
Soliloquium / Unfulfilling Prophecy / Contemplations / Transcending Records
Callidice / More Than a Bond of Blood / Anthem For Resistance / Inverse Records
Ihsahn / Wake / Ámr / Candlelight
Nocturnal Graves / Roar of the Wild / Titan / Season of Mist Underground Activists
Raven Throne / Vosie? / Miortvym Snicca Zolak / Non Serviam
Lik / Left to Die / Carnage / Metal Blade Records
Disowning / Battle of Neverness / Battle Of Neverness / XenoKorp
At The Gates / The Chasm / To Drink From the Night Itself / Century Media
June 1974 / Arcadia / Nemesi / Visionaire
Society’s Plague / Abomination (feat. Michael Smith) / Call to the Void / Eclipse Records
Alien Weaponry / Holding my Breath / Tu / Napalm Records
Burn the Priest / Axis Rot / Legion Xx / Epic
Anthrax / Efilgnikcufecin (N.F.L.) (Live) / Kings Among Scotland (Live) / Nuclear Blast Records
Bad Wolves / Jesus Slaves / Disobey / Eleven Seven
BornBroken / Whiewashed / The Years Of Harsh Truths And Little Lies / Self Released
Bleeding Through / Fade Into The Ash / Love Will Kill All / Sharptone Records
Parkway Drive / I Hope You Rot / Reverence / Resist Records
TesseracT / Smile / Sonder / Kscope
Graveyard / It Ain’t Over Yet / Peace / Nuclear Blast
Vessel of Light / Son of Man / Son Of Man (Single) / Independent
Black Orchid Empire / Wires / Yugen / Long Branch Records
Angel Of Mercy / Metamorphosis / The Avatar / Shadow Kingdom
Bullet / One More Round / Dust to Gold / Steamhammer
Trauma / Asylum / As The World Dies / Rivet Records

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 5/28/18

Artist — Album — Label
1) Dimmu Borgir — Eonian — Nuclear Blast
2) Ihsahn — Amr — Candlelight
3) Amorphis — Queen of Time — Nuclear Blast
4) Lik — Carnage — Metal Blade
5) At The Gates — To Drink From the Night Itself — Century Media
6) Skinless — Savagery — Relapse
7) Burn the Priest — Legion XX — Epic
8) Anthrax — Tales from Scotland — Megaforce
9) Parkway Drive — Reverence — Epitaph —
10) Tesseract — Sonder — KScope
11) Society’s Plague — Call to the Void — Eclipse
12) Bullet — Dust Into Gold — SPV
13) Trauma — As The World Dies — Rivet
14) Bleeding Through — Love Will Kill All — Sharptone
15) Nervosa — Downfall of Mankind — Napalm
16) Graveyard — Peace — Nuclear Blast
17) Alkaloid — Liquid Anatomy — Season of Mist
18) BornBroken — Years of Harsh Truths… — Self Released
19) Callidice — Anthem for Resistance — Inverse
20) Nocturnal Graves — Titan — Season of Mist

Top 5 Adds
1) Kataklysm — Mediations — Nuclear Blast
2) Hate Theory — III — Independent
3) Micawber — Beyond The Reach Of Flame — Prosthetic
4) Bad Wolves — Disobey — Eleven Seven
5) Alien Weaponry — Tu — Napalm

Other Adds/Reviewed: Vessel of Light, Black Orchid Empire, Space Elevator, Nereis, The Black Sorcery, Pneuma Hagion, Adramelech, Shitty Person, Infrared, Angel of Mercy, Soliloquium, Iron Void, Urarv, Truchlo Strzygi, Gravecoven, Lykhaeon, Wargoat/Black Ceremonial Kult Split, Sons of Alpha Centauri, The Flesh, The Chapter, The Inoculated Canaries, Connate Exasperation, Tetractys, Cinnamun Beloved, Nancybreathing, Raven Throne, Hornwood Fell, Ghostbound, Dying Awkward Angel, Garden of Hesperides, Disowning, June 1974

Bad Wolves
Disobey
Eleven Seven Records
A little modern djenty metal, big grooves, but a bit commercial/accessible too. I think there’s still room for this.

Black Orchid Empire
Yugen
Long Branch Records
Melodic hard rock, maybe a little prog-ish, a pinch of Tool, lots of melodic stuff, maybe a little like Fair to Midland in some of its grooving melodies .

Space Elevator
II
SPV
Catchy female fronted rock, good rock album to listen to, but probably not mosh pit material

MICAWBER
Beyond The Reach Of Flame
Prosthetic Records
Green Bay’s own brutal death metal band got signed! This album has brutal riffs, freight train drumming, harsh pissed off vox and yeah, even some good melodic stuff with monster grooves throughout.

Kataklysm
Mediations
Nuclear Blast USA
Fast, brutal, heavy, you know, it’s Kataklysm and sounds great like everything they do.

Hate Theory
III
Independent
Some kind of modern american metal, a bit melodic, a bit of a groove/metalcore thing going on.

Vessel of Light
Son Of Man (Single)
Independent
Grooving hard rock, maybe a bit stoner/doom-ish

Alien Weaponry
Tu
Napalm Records
I hate to use the word “groove” in every review I do, but I’m not a great writer and when I find my self bobbing my head to a good bass/drum line, that’s what is “grooving” to me. That being said, this has deep grooves, a catchier heavy sound while not getting all brutal or even wussy on the other end. Just some decent melodic stuff and grooving metal on the other side.

Nereis
Turning Point
Eclipse Records
Catchy modern metal, with some electronic stuff, a bit of a modern mallcore type thing though.

The Black Sorcery
And The Beast Spake Death From Above
Krucyator Productions
Brutal gurgly death metal. Production is raw and sludgey.

Pneuma Hagion
Trinity LP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Kind of a brutal grindy dark blackend death metal. lots of wall of brutal sounds all mooshed together held together with blast beats

Adramelech
Pure Blood Doom
Nuclear Abominations
Reissue from 1999, This is some heavy and beefy classic death metal. Great stuff.

Shitty Person
Judgement
Svart Records
1 June 2018
I can’t say anything better than the first paragraph of the words sent along with this download…
“Shitty Person is the latest solo-ish project from Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy (Lesbian, Fungal Abyss). Along with other members of Lesbian, Rose Windows, and Master Musicians of Bukkake, Shitty Person makes music about self-hatred and counterproductive self-reflection. It sounds like drugs, has lots of swears, and will probably make you feel terrible.”
And to add to that, it’s kind a slow depressing doom… not even metal.

Infrared
Saviours
Self-Release
Good classic metal meets a little classic thrash. Good production

ANGEL OF MERCY (U.S.)
The Avatar + bonus (2CD)
Shadow Kingdom
A kind of classic hard rock thing. A little atmospheric in parts, bluesy rock here, straight up rock there.

Soliloquium
Contemplations
Transcending Records
A technical proggy death metal thing, a bit atmospheric when it’s not being all heavy and brutal and stuff, otherwise it’s got some prog metal elements too

IRON VOID
Excalibur (CD, LP, TAPE)
Shadow Kingdom
25 May 2018 VINYL
Classic hard rockin’ doomy metal. Monster haunting riffs, a big stonery Black Sabbath sound

Urarv
Argentum
Svart Records
Definitely black metal, but there’s a certain groove and catchiness to the evil and cold sounding darkness… even some theatrical type stuff. Good stuff.

TRUCH?O STRZYGI
Pora Umiera?
Label: Godz Ov War Productions
They say the genre is “Blackened Punk Metal” and well three words are pretty accurate, has that simple punk attitude, with some heavier/dark/cold metal.

GRAVECOVEN
Coughing Blood
Label: Godz Ov War Productions
Gritty blackened doom on a 4 song EP. Decent stuff.

LYKHAEON
Ominous Eradication of Anguished Souls
Label: Godz Ov War Productions
Two 13 minute tracks of doomy slow black metal.

WARGOAT / BLACK CEREMONIAL KULT
Unapproachable Laws of the Abyss
Label: Godz Ov War Productions
Wargoat is more of a blackened death metal, decent production and brutal. BCK is more raw and more of a black metal.

Sons of Alpha Centauri
Continuum
H42 Records
A laid back rock kind of a Tool-lite with its prominent bass-type sound. It doesn’t really get into anything too heavy, just hard rockin’ prog.

The Flesh
Dweller
Anubi Press
There are members from Herder, Verwoed in this band. Now that’d be cool if I knew who those bands were… anyway, this is some grindy doomy death metal, quick songs and no messing around!

The Chapter
Angels and Demons
Self Released
I’d have to throw this into a melodic death category, it’s got some great melodic hooks, deathy vox, a dark doom thing going on too.

The Inoculated Canaries
Trying Times
iView Artist
The description says: “Tastes of Alternative and Classic Rock mixed with splashes of prog, punk and satire, their music reeks of diversity (and fun!).” And yeah, it is fun, has a great energy. While not metal, it does just have a neat quality to it. This is the type of music I wish we had another show for, all this not metal, but metal attitude type stuff.

CONNATE EXASPERATION
DILUSIONAL PRIMACY
Sleaszy Rider
Just fucking brutal death metal, Great stuff.

TETRACTYS
MADMAN
Sleaszy Rider
This is grooving death metal, maybe a little technical, definitely barked out growly vox.

CINNAMUN BELOVED
STAIN
Sleaszy Rider
Female fronted melodic symphonic metal. Some heavier stuff, but overall that fe-metal operattic vox with chunky symphonic grooves.

Nancybreathing
Awake
Boersma
This was described as nu-metal, while there’s a bit of nu-metal sound, the vox are more harsh, music more riffy… but the clean vox sometimes and breakdown stuff make it more nu-metal. Good stuff though!

Raven Throne
Biaskoncy snieh ?asu / Niazhasnaje
Possession Productions
Brutal blackened death metal, a good raw evil wall of guitars and cold grooves.

Hornwood Fell
Inferus (EP)
Self Released
Classic black metal, a bit atmospheric and old school.

GHOSTBOUND
All is Phantom
A Sad Sadness Song
A dark doomy melodic metal? Yeah not so metal, but reminded me of the Damnation type of Opeth stuff, dark yet melodic and stuff.

Soldat Hans
Es Taut
Wolves And Vibrancy Records
Really long tracks of doomy post-metal.

Dying Awkward Angel
Absence of Light
Rockshots Records
Melodic death, a good groove, brutal cookie monster vox, maybe a little bit of an Amon Amarth thing going on.

Garden of Hesperides
Forest Journey Pt.III -Final Moments
Bloody Mountain Records
Kind of a post-metal black metal doomy thing. Dark, cold, melodic, yet with that kind dark far away thunderstorm growl for a vocal style. Meh.

DISOWNING
Battle of Neverness
Xenokorp
brutal meaty grooving death metal.

June 1974
“Nemesi”
Visionaire Records
Atmospheric proggish type stuff, symphonic, project by an Italian composer with different metal guests on each track. Definitely for the open music mind.

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2018-05-21 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Burn the Priest / Honey Bucket / Legion Xx / Epic
Lamb of God / Ruin / As The Palaces Burn / Prosthetic
At The Gates / Palace of Lepers / To Drink From the Night Itself / Century Media
Wolf King / Betrayer / Loyal to the Soil / Prosthetic
Nervosa / Never Forget, Never Repeat / Downfall Of Mankind / Napalm Records
Beyond Deth / Search the Stars / The Age of Darkness / Self Released
Casket Robbery / Pockets Lined With Flowers / The Ascension EP / Self Released
Supreme Carnage / The World is Lost / Morbid Ways To Die / Redefining Darkness Records
Lik / Dr Duschanka / Carnage / Metal Blade Records
Valgrind / Third and Last / Blackest Horizon / Everlasting Spew Records
Skeletal Remains / Parasitic Horrors / Devouring Mortality / Dark Descent Records
Rotten Sound / Harvester of Boredom / Suffer to Abuse / Season of Mist
Skinless / Siege Engine / Savagery / Relapse Records
Dimmu Borgir / Lightbringer / Eonian / Nuclear Blast
Sacrocurse / Maze of Serpents / Gnostic Holocaust / Hell’s Headbangers
Ritual Necromancy / Command the Sigil / Disinterred Horror / Dark Descent Records
Nocturnal Graves / Resistance / Titan / Season of Mist Underground Activists
Amorphis / Daughter of Hate / Queen Of Time / Nuclear Blast
Uada / Cult Of A Dying Sun / Cult Of A Dying Sun / Eisenwald
Alkaloid / Azagthoth / Liquid Anatomy / Season of Mist
Skogen / Frostland / Skuggorna Kallar / Nordvis
Thunderwar / Wolfpack / Wolfpack / Lifeforce
Ihsahn / In Rites of Passage / Ámr / Candlelight
Bleeding Through / Dead Eyes / Love Will Kill All / Sharptone Records
Society’s Plague / Fear is Failure / Call to the Void / Eclipse Records
Parkway Drive / The Void / Reverence / Resist Records
BornBroken / The Only One / The Years Of Harsh Truths And Little Lies / Self Released
Gunjack / Totally Insane / Totally Insane / Sliptrick Records
Anthrax / Medusa (Live) / Kings Among Scotland (Live) / Nuclear Blast Records
Nuse / Rager / The Pain Collection / Cornhead Records
Exodus / Corruption / Fabulous Disaster / Combat
Clutch / Gimme the Keys (Single) / Book of Bad Decisions / Weathermaker
Graveyard / Please Don’t / Please Don’t (Single) / Nuclear Blast
Pink Cocoon / No Control / Alienation / Self Released
Bullet / Fuel the Fire / Dust to Gold / Steamhammer
Stryper / Sea of Thieves / God Damn Evil / Frontiers Music
Monument / Death Avenue / Hellhound / Rock Of Angels Records
Trauma / Run For Cover / As The World Dies / Rivet Records

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 5/21/18

Artist — Album — Label
1) Dimmu Borgir — Eonian — Nuclear Blast
2) Nuse — The Pain Collection — Cornhead
3) Kamelot — The Shadow Theory — Napalm
4) Ihsahn — Amr — Candlelight
5) Stryper — God Damn Evil — Frontiers
6) Kobra and the Lotus — Prevail II — Napalm
7) Amorphis — Queen of Time — Nuclear Blast
8) Wolf King — Loyal to the Soil — Prosthetic
9) Ross the Boss — By Blood Sworn — AFM —
10) Lik — Carnage — Metal Blade
11) Society’s Plague — Call to the Void — Eclipse
12) Skeletal Remains — Devouring Mortality — Dark Descent
13) Beyond Deth — The Age of Darkness — Self Released
14) Tesseract — Sonder — KScope
15) Bullet — Dust Into Gold — SPV
16) Anthrax — Tales from Scotland — Megaforce
17) Trauma — As The World Dies — Rivet
18) At The Gates — To Drink From the Night Itself — Century Media
19) Skinless — Savagery — Relapse
20) Parkway Drive — Reverence — Epitaph

Top 5 Adds
1) Burn the Priest — Legion XX — Epic
2) Bleeding Through — Love Will Kill All — Sharptone
3) Nervosa — Downfall of Mankind — Napalm
4) Graveyard — Peace — Nuclear Blast
5) Alkaloid — Liquid Anatomy — Season of Mist

Other Adds/Reviewed: Clutch (Single), From Beyond, Rotten Sound, Nocturnal Graves, Midnattsol, Spocks Beard, Architects of Chaoz, Lordi, Thunderwar, Djevelkult, Nibiru, Melan Selas, Sotrtregn, Skogen, Valgrind, Abhor, Sacrocurse, Face Off, Carnifex (Finland), Ritual Necromancy, Filii Nigrantium Infernalium, Monument, Majesty of Silence, Supreme Carnage, Gunjack, Uada, RavenSkul, Sinsid, Valyria, Callidice, The Insane Slave, Ancient Oak Consort, Pink Cocoon, Knightmare, Pentarium

Burn the Priest
Legion XX
Epic Records
We’ve heard a few of the singles out already, so we have an idea of how this one is gonna go… They’re staying true to the originals while adding a little bit of their own sound to it… which when you’re doing a similar genre is the right way to go… right?

Clutch
Gimme the Keys (single)
Weathermaker Music
First taste of the new Clutch, big monster grooves, killer riffs, not super fast and heavy and not too slow, just right there, catchy as catchy can be!

From Beyond
The Band From Beyond
Candlelight Records
Big sound, big doomy classic hard rock. Maybe a little bit of an Alice in Chains thing going on too.

Owl Company
Pieces (single)
Eclipse Records
This is some kind of groove metal that reminds me of Godsmack or something a bit lighter, probably perfect for commercial radio though.

Midnattsol
The Aftermath
Napalm Records
One of those euro fe-metal bands, but this one is most like Epica, as the music tends to be a bit heavier. This one is their first album in 7 years and the first with now two vocalists (Liv Christine is now a permanent member — the other singer, Carmen is her sister)

Graveyard
Peace
Nuclear Blast USA
Big meaty stoner metal, a bit like spiritual beggars but like, more full

Bleeding Through
Love Will Kill All
Sharptone Records
As with their previous stuff… it’s good heavy metalcore, a bit of technicality, and in this case, the melodic parts are decent too.

Nervosa
Downfall Of Mankind
Napalm Records
This is a cool extreme blackened death metal / melodic death metal thing. Catchy brutal grooves. All female!

Architects Of Chaoz
(R) Evolution
Metalville Records
Basic classic metal, maybe reminds me a litte bit of WASP. Big powerful voice, just normal cassic riffage

The Ocean
Rhyacian: Untimely Meditations (2017 Version)
Metal Blade Records
11 May 2018

Spock’s Beard
Noise Floor
InsideOut
More personnel changes… lost the drummer, but Nick D’Vriglio is back as a hired gun. This album doesn’t have too much epic old school prog on it… it has a lot of 80’s Kansas sound and then some old school Genesis as we dig deeper… I’ve always been a fan, so this is good for me!

Lordi
Sexorcism
AFM Records
Modern metal, fun, you know that band that was the Scandanavian “gwar”? Well, it’s more of a melodic classic metal with fun crazy lyrics. good stuff.

Thunderwar
Wolfpack
Lifeforce
Kind of thrashy groove metal, a Motorhead loud feeling, but more groove and more extreme, like a blackened thrashy Motorhead? LOL good stuff, as it floats into some Melodic death too

Djevelkult
Når Avgrunnen Åpnes
Saturnal
Good old extreme black metal, good melodies, harsh vox and cold cold cold!!

NIBIRU
Netrayoni (2018)
Argonauta Records
Lots of post metal doomy noise.

Melan Selas
Reon LP
Iron Bonehead
An old school raw thrashy black metal mix up. Some grooves, some melodies and good old raw black metal.

Stortregn
Emptiness Fills The Void
Non Serviam Records
WOw, this is one of those… oh, gee, wonder what crap this will be… well, after a play, it’s a nice surprise, kind of a melodic death mixing great classic death metal and a little black metal darkness with just straight up catchy melodic death. Great stuff!

Skogen
Skuggorna Kallar
Nordvis
A kind of dark, depressive doomy blackened death metal. More of a doomy black metal feel wiht the occastional death metal thing

Valgrind
Blackest Horizon
Everlasting Spew Records
This seemed like it’d just be death metal, but then kind of morphed into some technical melodic/blackend death metal, cool stuff.

Abhor (Italy)
Occulta religiO LP/CD/TAPE
Iron Bonehead
We have some raw blackened death metal. Production is a bit lo-fi.

SACROCURSE
Gnostic Holocaust (CD)
Hells Headbangers
We had this last October from Iron Bonehead… same thing I said then… “Brutal dark death metal with a bit of a black metal thing going on ”

Face Off
Massive
Transcending Records
Some laid back chilled out femaled fronted rock.

CARNIFEX (Finland)
Pathological Rites
Xtreem Music
The writeup with this release says:
“Finnish death metal band CARNIFEX – NOT the horrible, trendy US deathcore outfit – is going to see all their demo recordings from ’91 to ’93 officially reissued on CD through XTREEM MUSIC under the title of Pathological Rites.”
And it’s some good technical old school death metal. The production is a little rwaw, but not too bad.

Ritual Necromancy
Disinterred Horror
Dark Descent Records
Brutal and intense and dark death metal. Leaning a little into the black metal realm. We’ve got some long tracks that just follow a dark and evil path.

FILII NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM
Hostia
Osmose Productions
This has a thrashy brutal death and grindy black metal thing, yeah that’s right… all that and some classic metal on top of it to boot! This has it all in the same song even!

Monument
Hellhound
Rock Of Angels Records
Classic metal, a sort of Maiden/Priest-light. I’d say a lot more maiden feel.

Majesty of Silence
Zu Dunkel Für Das Licht
Rockshots Records/ Extreme Metal Music
Black metal with a modern symphonic/epic/atmospheric sound. It’s a Swiss black metal duo that makes this evil and dark sound. Good stuff.

Supreme Carnage
Morbid Ways to Die
Redefining Darkness Records (N. America) | Raw Skull Records (Europe)
With a band name like this, it’s just what you hope it would be. Grooving brutal death metal…. Great stuff.

Band: Gunjack
Album: Totally Insane
Label: Sliptrick Records
It’s been a little time now that we’ve been receiving stuff from Sliptrick records, and it’s become the norm for it to be good stuff! Good production, some variance of hard rock/metal that doesn’t suck. This is some more hard rock type stuff… This has a bit of a heavier Motorhead vibe.

Uada
Cult Of A Dying Sun
Eisenwald
Classic heavy black metal, melodic parts, cold guitars, shrieky vox… more of a full wall of sound production though (rather than some old school echo chamber type stuff)

RavenSkül
At the Gates of the Gods
Self Released
Sounds like something wasn’t mastered, just a very raw recording of something that could be promising classic metal. Vox seem to be more announced as voice over.

RavenSkül
In the Air Tonight (single)
Self Released
Same as above… and yes this is the Phil Collins song. vox are quite weird as a narration style. Meh.

Sinsid
Mission from Hell
Pitch Black
Great catchy classic metal. Not much more to say, it’s metal, it’s catchy, it’s not brutal, or cold, or epic, or anything fancy, just good solid metal. Clean vox, good riffs and stuff.

Valyria
Into The Dying of Time
Self-Release
This is some cool epic melodic death metal, a bit of a fast dragonforce thing but a bit blind guardian, and more brutal stuff too

Callidice
Anthem For Resistance
Inverse
Melodic death metal, with a bit of a proggy and Amorphis thing going on… Good stuff.

The Insane Slave
The Insane Slave
Raising Legends
Melodic hard rock, clean vox, a little bit of a stoner doomy feel

Band: Ancient Oak Consort
Album: Hate War Love
Label: Revalve records
Proggy hard rock, kind of an actual folk prog rock in parts, getting into some heavier metal stuff

Pink Cocoon
Alienation
Self-Release
Jammy stoner metal, big meaty riffs with a pretty “live” sound.

Knightmare
Walk Through The Fire
Self REleased (online Metal promo)
Classic metal, good stuff, decent grooves, not too heavy, not too slow, just good ol metal.

Pentarium
Zwischenwelt
Boersma
Solid melodic death, poking a bit into some black metal, a bit technical, a full symphonic keyboard sound too. Pretty cool stuff.

ALKALOID
Liquid Anatomy
Season of Mist
Progressive Death metal, brutal and meaty sound with huge grooves while amazingly being proggy and technical. While monster grooves are going on, you have some sick solos, just pretty cool stuff.

ROTTEN SOUND
Suffer to Abuse
Season of Mist
Quick short tracks on this EP, Brutal grindcore… not super fast and in your face, but holding back a little in some parts for some grooves to get through.

NOCTURNAL GRAVES
Titan
Season of Mist
I guess you could throw this into the blackened death/thrash metal pile. It’s got pretty even elements of all three, doing all three good justice. Keeping the Evil Black metal style with meaty brutal hooks on a good catchy thrashy pace.

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2018-05-14 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
BABYMETAL / Distortion / Distortion (Single) / Babymetal Records
Society’s Plague / The Fall / Call to the Void / Eclipse Records
Parkway Drive / Absolute Power / Reverence / Resist Records
Northwoods / Ground Zero / Wasteland / Anubi Press
BornBroken / The Years of Harsh Truths and Little Lies / The Years Of Harsh Truths And Little Lies / Self Released
Nuse / Top Hat Man / The Pain Collection / Cornhead Records
Burn the Priest / I Against I / I Against I (Single) / Epic
Anthrax / Be All End All (Live) / Kings Among Scotland (Live) / Nuclear Blast Records
Lamb of God / Now You’ve Got Something to Die for / Wrath Live / Epic
Slayer / Blood Red / Decade Of Aggression [Live] [Disc 2] / American
Testament / The New Order (Live) / Live at the Fillmore (Live) / Nuclear Blast
Behemoth / In the Absence ov Light (Live) / Messe Noire: Live Satanist / Metal Blade
Lik / Rid You of Your Flesh / Carnage / Metal Blade Records
Skeletal Remains / Grotesque Creation / Devouring Mortality / Dark Descent Records
Wolf King / Sorrow’s Reach / Loyal to the Soil / Prosthetic
Beyond Deth / Goddess Isis / The Age of Darkness / Self Released
Satyricon / Possessed / Volcano / Red
Aura Noir / Cold Bone Grasp / Aura Noir / Indie Recordings
At The Gates / Daggers of Black Haze / Daggers Of Black Haze (Single) / Century Media
Sabbat / Hosanna In Ecelsis / History of a Time to Come / Noise
Skinless / Siege Engine / Savagery / Relapse Records
Aghasura / Idols of Ibis / Revelations / Transcending Records
Lecherous Nocturne / Psionics / Occultaclysmic / Willowtip Records
Thy Catafalque / Szamojéd Freskó / Geometria / Season of Mist
Nihil Eyes / Border Line / Black Path / Ultraje
Amorphis / Message in the Amber / Queen Of Time / Nuclear Blast
The Shiva Hypothesis / Caduceus / Ouroboros Stirs / Wormholedeath
Dimmu Borgir / The Empyrean Phoenix / Eonian / Nuclear Blast
Kalmah / Waiting in the Wings / Palo / Spinefarm Records
Ihsahn / One Less Enemy / Ámr / Candlelight
In Vain / Blood & Steel / Iv / Self Released
Nils Patrik Johansson / Metalhead / Evil Deluxe / Metalville Records
Bullet / Rogue Soldier / Dust to Gold / Steamhammer
Ross the Boss / Fistful of Hate / By Blood Sworn / AFM Records
Trauma / Gun to Your Head / As The World Dies / Rivet Records
Candlemass / Flowers of Deception / Hammer of Doom EP / Napalm
Kamelot / Vespertine (My Crimson Bride) / The Shadow Theory / Napalm Records

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 5/14/18

Artist — Album — Label
1) Kamelot — The Shadow Theory — Napalm
2) Kalmah — Palo — Candlelight/Spinefarm
3) Behemoth — Messe Noire: Live Satanist — Metal Blade
4) Nuse — The Pain Collection — Cornhead
5) Stryper — God Damn Evil — Frontiers
6) Kobra and the Lotus — Prevail II — Napalm
7) Dimmu Borgir — Eonian — Nuclear Blast
8) Lecherous Nocturne — Occultaclysmic — Willowtip
9) Ross the Boss — By Blood Sworn — AFM —
10) Ihsahn — Amr — Candlelight
11) Wolf King — Loyal to the Soil — Prosthetic
12) Skeletal Remains — Devouring Mortality — Dark Descent
13) Beyond Deth — The Age of Darkness — Self Released
14) Lik — Carnage — Metal Blade
15) Amorphis — Queen of Time — Nuclear Blast
16) Society’s Plague — Call to the Void — Eclipse
17) Tesseract — Sonder — KScope
18) Bullet — Dust Into Gold — SPV
19) Trauma — As The World Dies — Rivet
20) Anthrax — Tales from Scotland — Megaforce

Top 5 Adds
1) At The Gates — To Drink From the Night Itself — Century Media
2) Candlemass — House of Doom EP — Napalm
3) Parkway Drive — Reverence — Epitaph
4) Thy Catafalque — Geometria — Season of Mist
5) Nils Patrik Johansson — Evil Deluxe — Metalville

Other Adds/Reviewed: Skinless, Babymetal, Crimshaw, Knelt Rote, Pseudogod, Sect Pig, Flame Acausal, BornBroken, Spiral Skies, Nihil Eyes, Aghasura, Khasm, Hirax, Heroes Don’t Ask Why, Serene Dark, Massive Scar Era, High Council, The Shiva Hypothesis, Heilung (x2), Northwoods, In Vain, Ostura, Circenses, Burn the Priest (single)

Artist: Babymetal
Album: “Distortion”
Label: Babymetal Records/Cooking Vinyl
A new single from these girls/guys… great music, heavy, brutal, modern with the “Baby” (now women) vox in the Japanese Kpop style… unmistakeably Baby Metal.S

Skinless
Savagery
Relapse
One of those bands that helped lay the original death metal groundwork is back with their first album in 3 years. It’s brutal, fast, technical and grooving too. Great stuff!

Nils Partik Johansson
Evil Deluxe
Metalville Records
This is the singer from Astral Doors doing a solo thing. He’s got a great power metal voice with some raspy edge. This album is a prog/power metal thing with the big voice happening.

At The Gates
To Drink From The Night Itself
Century Media Records
Just the three singles so far, the newest, “Dggers of black haze” is a bit more down tempo and melodic, but still heavy, dark and harsh

Candlemass
House Of Doom (EP)
Napalm Records
In the one single I have here, it’s big meaty doom but with melodic metal-ness… it is the HOUSE OF DOOM!!

Crimshaw
Monster
Independent
One track in, I was ready to say it was just a cool groove metal type thing, but as you go deeper, it’s a bit less heavy and more melodic and just a hard rock thing… good n catchy though!

Parkway Drive
Reverence
Epitaph Records
A bit metalcore, a bit more of a mainstream hard rock/metal feel, and actually some proggy metal feeling too

Knelt Rote
Alterity LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Big wall of sound brutal death metal… to the point of almost too much wall of sound… but, really just fast and brutal stuff.

Pseudogod
Sepulchral Chants DLP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Kind of a raw blackened death metal, dark and evil.

Sect Pig
Crooked Backs MLP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Pretty much one track of grindy atmospheric post metal with pig squeal sounding vox…

Flame Acausal
Contra Mundum in Aeternum CD
Blood Harvest
Raw blackened thrashy death metal. Four tracks of fast and furious

BornBroken
The Years of Harsh Truths And Little Lies… (2018)
Self-Release
Brutal, kind of blackened death/thrash, a little Sepultura stuff happening, otherwise, just great brutal and catchy death metal

Spiral Skies
Blues For A Dying Planet
AOP Records
A classic old school doom, almost like a doomy Jefferson Airplane, female vox, but with a cool atmospheric catchy rock thing with some sabbath thrown in.

Nihil Eyes
Black Path
Ultraje
Brutal catchy death metal, a little bit of a “blackened” edge going on too.

Aghasura
Revelations
Transcending Records
Brutal death metal with some black metal feels. Technical/frenetic musically… cool stuff

Band: Khasm
Album: Trinity
Label: Sliptrick records
Death metal with a thrashy thing going on, or is it a thrash metal with a death metal thing going on? Either way it’s heavy

Hirax
Born in the Streets 1983/1984
F.O.A.D. Records
Old school and raw demos from their first recordings and even before that as their original name LA Kaos. Very old/raw recordings.

Heroes Don’t Ask Why
Sound of a broken heart
Self Released
Kind of a modern standard “metal” thing, A little grooving, a little AOR, a little melodic modern hard rock type stuff.

Serene Dark (formerly Endemise)
Dualitatem (single)
Self-Release
Symphonic extreme black metal, screamy and growly vox, melodic and brutal

Massive Scar Era
Color Blind (single)
Self-Release
Female fronted melodic proggy hard rock, clean vox, then oooo some harsh vox too!

High Council
Held In Contempt
Via Nocturna
A sort of classic metal meets modern grooving hard rock. Melodic vox, a catchy basic metal base.

The Shiva Hypothesis
Ouroboros Stirs
Wormholedeath
Blackened Death Metal… great grooves, catchy brutal riffs. Some of this gets a bit more um, melodic and folkie

HEILUNG
Ofnir
Season of Mist
Ambient electronic type stuff with chanty type vox.

HEILUNG
LIFA
Season of Mist
The first live album of the same as above….

NORTHWOODS
Wasteland
Anubi Press
A little metalcore, a bit screamy… some just a little doomy in parts too… overall though, it’s some modern metalcore

In Vain
IV
Self Released
Released: Friday, September 29th 2017
This would be in a heavy thrash category to me…. There’s a bit of a euro heavy power metal influence in the sound, but just heavier!

Ostura
The Room
Universal Music MENA
Prog metal with a bit of an industrial/symphonic thing going on too. Virtuostic guitar work, great vox, self described as a “modern fusion of Film-score, industrial metal, and progressive metal.”

Release: Circenses
Tightrope Walk on the Ground
Record label: Inverse Records
Proggy death metal, meedly good guitar guitar work, barked out vox, a melodic/symphonic undertone, so, technical melodic death type stuff. Good stuff!

THY CATAFALQUE
Geometria
Season of Mist
An experimental/prog metal thing happening here, a bit chilled out, female vox, some growly vox, some straight up metal, some darker goth metal, usually all pretty proggy though. Very dynamic, lots of differnt metal stuff going on. Great stuff.

Artist: Burn the Priest
Single: “I Against I”
Label: Epic Records
bad brains cover, this one was a little tougher to pick out as “oh, listen, it’s Lamb of God doing a cover” Had its own feel and sound to me.