He Is Legend
Few
Spinefarm
Melodic hard rock, a bit of a prog thing.  Some cool melodic proggy stuff, not quite like, proper metal, but a good hard rocking thing.

Ides of Gemini
Women
Rise Above
Melodic post metal doom type stuff… old school doom feeling with female vox.

Beastmaker
“Nature Of The Damned” [Single]
Rise Above
A little bit of a sabbathy sounding doom

Cirith Ungol
King of the Dead (Ultimate Edition)
Metal Blade Records
This is a reissue/packaging of their 1974 album.   Full remastering and some live tracks from their show last October.  This is one of those bands that’s under my radar and probably under a lot of radars… A good solid classic metal/doomy/stoner type sound… maybe a bit classic prog too.

HELSOTT
“THE HEALER”
M-THEORY AUDIO
Well this is something new… kind of a mix of folk metal, prog, death, thrash, symphonic and some good ol hard rock.  Lots of cool stuff all mixed together to really be under a flag of proggy death metal.  Great stuff!

Nine Shrines
Misery
Mascot Label Group
A sort of a modern metalcore solid rock

Hate
Tremendum
Napalm Records
Brutal melodic death metal.  Great stuff… they seem to always put out some heavy brutal stuff that’s also so catchy and dark.  About as close to Behemoth as you can get, right?

Ayreon
The Source
Mascot Label Group
I know a little of the history on this group… so I know that this album will probably take a lot to digest… a proggy metal opera type thing.  First album in 4 years, and features a whole slew of guest vocalists (James LaBrie, Tommy Karevik, Tommy Rogers, Simone Simons, Nils K. Rue, Tobias Sammet, Hansi Kürsch, Mike Mills, Russell Allen, Michael Eriksen, Floor Jansen) The whole thing is Arjen Lucassen’s brainchild and he plays most of the the instruments with a few guests.

Ungraved Apparition
PULSE_O
GrimmDistribution
Doomy melodic death.  Good dark evil feeling, but also some nice melodic and heavy Opeth-y type stuff.

Cry Excess
Vision
Label:  Bleeding Nose Records
Kind of a djenty metalcore… maybe a little industrial too.  Just a pinch of some techy/prog mathcore.

Ruin (US)
Drown in Blood
Memento Mori
A doomy chugga chugga blackened death metal.  Sludgy and maybe even a touch grindy.  Brutal if anything… and the production is a little raw.

Morbid Flesh
Rites of the Mangled
Unholy Prophecies
Some classic blackend death metal.  Dark and evil, real cookie monster growly stuff, a grindy death metal groove musically.  Great brutal stuff.

Morte Incandescente
Illum Adora
Remnants of a Flaming Past
War Arts
Doomy raw old school black metal. Not so great production…

Soulrot (Chile)
Nameless Hideous Manifestations
Memento Mori
Dark blackened death metal, kind of a good deep groove, guttural cookie monster growls.  Cool stuff!

DØDSRITUAL
Under Sort Sol
Black Market Metal Label
Mostly a melodic black metal, a bit cold/evil-ish, but some good ol melodic death metal passages.

Return To Void
Return To Void
Record label: Inverse Records
Classic hard rock leaning towards prog metal.  A solid hard rocking edge, maybe just some good ol classic metal.  good catchy guitar work, solid clean vox.

Enisum
Seasons of Desolation
Avantgarde Music
Kind of a black metal with a doomy dark depressing feel.  It’s fast and classic black metal with cold guitars, blast beats and shrieky growly vox.  Production is good though.

Aborted Fetus
The Art of Violent Torture
Comatose Music
Brutal death metal, meaty riffs, brutal deep vox, a big catchy groove too…all while staying totally brutal.

Lonely Robot
The Big Dream
InsideOut
As with most stuff on this label, we’re going to some good old Prog Rock here…. along the lines of a Porcupine Tree

ALL BUT ONE
Square One
Lifeforce
modern metal/metalcore.  Kind of catchy, a good heavy edge, but it’s got that mallcore-ish feeling…  clean vox aren’t whiney or autotuned, just very polished

NO GOOD ADVICE
From the Outer Space
Argonauta Records
Stoner metal, a bit of a goth feel, cool riffs.  clean vox

Barathrum
Fanatiko
Saturnal
Blackened Death metal, maybe a little melodic. Brutal, driving evil dark sound, but some sort of catchy groove that has you headbanging.

Cult of Eibon
Lycan Twilight Sorcery CD/12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead
Kind of classic black metal, but with a bit more polished production and more of a melodic thing… evil shrieky vox and some good growls.

ELEPHANT BELL
Gates of Dawn
Argonauta Records
Yeah, it’s stoner rock… a good hard rocking classic rock feel too.  Catchy and cool stuff here.

Sarcasm
Within the Sphere of Ethereal Minds
Dark Descent Records
Melodic death metal, more on the doom side, some heavier stuff… maybe blackened death on the heavier side and doomy melodic death in parts.  Overall, a good full dark metal sound.  I’d have to compare a little to and older deathy Opeth?

Chugger
“Grinder” [Single]
Good meaty melodic death metal, full heavy sound, maybe a little Amon Amarth-ish.

Archivist
Construct
Halo of Flies
Doomy black metal.  shrieky vox, doomy black metal… a bit melodic and down tempo, depressing

Serpentshrine
Besetting the Altar
Unsigned
BLackened death metal, a good melodic evil yet catchy and brutal sound.  Reminded me of maybe like a Dimmu Borgir without all of the extra symphonic stuff. Just classic blackened metal.

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2017-04-17 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Without Waves / Victorian Punishment / Lunar / Prosthetic
Ancient Ascendant / The Great Curve / Raise the Torch / Spinefarm Records
Tombs / Cold / Cold (Single) / Metal Blade
Mastodon / Steambreather / Emperor Of Sand / Reprise
Pyroxene / Fireborn / EP / Inverse
Night Demon / Hallowed ground / Darkness Remains (Deluxe Edition) / Century Media
Final Drive / This is how / Dig Deeper / Independent
Mammoth Mammoth / Spellbound / Mount the Mountain / Napalm Records
Fates Warning / Fata Morgana (Live at ProgPower XVII) / Awaken the Guardian Live / Metal Blade Records
Moonlight Prophecy / Witch Hunt / Spellbound – EP / Self Released
Sicocis / Dawn of the Final Day (Requiem of the World, Pt. I) / Requiem of the World / M-Theory Audio
Agresiva / Run Like the Wind / Decibel Ritual / Minotauro Records
Don Jamieson / Dave Mustaine Riffs, Intervention, Baby in the Drain / Communication Breakdown / Metal Blade Records
Body Count / All Love Is Lost (feat. Max Cavalera) / Bloodlust / Century Media
Game Over / Blessed Are the Heretics / Blessed Are the Heretics – EP / Scarlet Records
Havok / Circling the Drain / Conformicide / Century Media
Blood Feast / Brethren / The Future State Of Wicked / Hell’s Headbangers
Harlott / The Penitent / Extinction / Metal Blade Records
Warbringer / Shellfire / Woe To The Vanished / Napalm Records
Infernal Majesty / Sign of Evil / No God / High Roller Records
Blood of Angels / The Final War / Rise of the Fallen Gods – Single / Hollywood Collective
Novembers Doom / Plague Bird / Hamartia / The End Records
Hellfire / Unholy Cult / Goat Revenge / Witches Brew
Necroblood / Glorification Through Destruction / Collapse Of The Human Race / Iron Bonehead
Obituary / Turned to Stone / Obituary / Relapse Records
Avulsed / Addicted to Carrion / Night Of The Living Deathgenerations / Xtreem Music
Morta Skuld / Scars Within / Wounds Deeper Than Time / Peaceville
In Death… / The Pitfalls of Immortality / The Devil Speaks / Independent
Carnal Garden / Gasping for Last Breath / Where They Are Silent / Eclectic Prods
Lunatic Hooker / Embracing The Filth / Embracing The Filth / Black Bow Records
Slaughter to Prevail / King / King (King) / Summerian
While She Sleeps / You Are We / You Are We / Sharptone Records
Cut Up / Master Dissector / Wherever They May Rot / Metal Blade Records
Fit for An Autopsy / Iron Moon / The Great Collapse / eOne Music
Within The Ruins / ivory tower / Halfway Human / eOne Music
Replacire / Do Not Deviate / Do Not Deviate / Season of Mist

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 4/17/17

Artist — Album — Label
1) Obituary — Obituary — Relapse
2) Morta Skuld — Wounds Deeper Than Time — Peaceville
3) Body Count — Bloodlust — Century Media
4) Within The Ruins — Halfway Human — eOne
5) Mastodon — Emperor of Sand — Reprise
6) Demon Hunter — Outlive — Solid State
7) Cut Up — Wherever They May Rot — Metal Blade
8) Warbringer — Woe to the Vanished — Napalm
9) Havok — Conformicide — Century Media
10) Replicaire — Do Not Deviate — Season of Mist
11) Harlott — Extinction — Metal Blade
12) Hellfire — Goat Revenge (EP) — Witches Brew
13) Fit for an Autopsy — The Great Collapse — eOne
14) Without Waves — Lunar — Prosthetic
15) Novembers Doom — Hamarita — The End
16) Necroblood — Collapse of the Human Race — Iron Bonehead
17) Final Drive — Dig Deeper — Independent
18) Infernal Majesty — No God — High Roller
19) Blood Feast — The Future State of Wicked — Hells Headbangers
20) Sicosis — Requiem of the World — M-Theory Audio

Top 5 Adds
1) Mammoth Mammoth — Mount the Mountain — Napalm
2) Night Demon — Darkness Remains — Century Media
3) Ancient Ascendant — Raise The Torch — Candlelight
4) Fates Warning — Awaken the Guardian Live — Metal Blade
5) Witherfall — Nocturnes in Requiems — Independent

Other Adds/Reviewed: Tombs (Single), Slaughter to Prevail (single), While She Sleeps, Synn, BTBAM (Live), Don Jamieson, Igorrr (single), Shores of Null, Uneven Structure, Ides of Gemini, Sangue, Moonlight Prophecy, Carnal Garden, Abatuar, Ulvegr, Maxdmyz, Abulsed, Lunatic Hooker, Goldenpyre, The Projectionist, Pyroxene, Blood of Angels, Craving Angel, In Death…, My Silent Wake, Kill for Eden, Game Over, Tehom, Medusa1975, Cryonic Temple, Where the Sun Comes Down, Agresiva, Resurrect the Machine, Cry My Name, Celestial Grave, Emptybrook, Zaraza, Pereplut, Downcast Twilight

Don Jamieson
Communication Breakdown
Metal Blade Records
New comedy album, rude, crude and of course funny!

Tombs
Cold – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Catchy and grooving death metal.  Melodic and headbanging… can’t wait for more… brutal too!

Slaughter to Prevail
King (Single)
Sumerian
Brutal and extra brutal-core type stuff.  It’s Sumerian, so you kind of know about the “sumerian-core” sound… and this kind of has it, technical, brutal and heavy as shit.  Good stuff.

Fates Warning
Awaken the Guardian Live
Metal Blade
Two shows recorded live with John Arch and the original lineup.  and it sounds great

Between the Buried and Me
Coma Ecliptic: Live
Metal Blade Records
The more I listen to this band the more I like them… I think it’s because they get more and more proggy… well, here’s a live album proving they can pull it all off live… sounds great!

Igorrr
ieuD – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Well, this was unique (a single).  some  electronic dubstep type stuff with operattic female vox, then combining it all into some metalcore type stuff… different and kind of cool

Shores Of Null
Black Drapes For Tomorrow
Candlelight
A bit melodic and doomy, a little blackened doom.  Clean vox, and

Uneven Structure
La Partition
Long Branch
Kind of a toned down prog metal type thing.  Similar to BTBAM actually, melodic clean stuff, growly stuff, and techy prog too.

Ancient Ascendant
Raise The Torch
Candlelight
Melodic death metal, more along the lines of the heavier style of opeth… good chilled out melodic passages and brutal heavy vox in the death metal parts.  Great stuff.

Ides of Gemini
“Heroine’s Descent” [Single]
Rise Above
Kind of a melodic blackened post metal-doom

Witherfall
Noctumes In Requiems
Independent
We first started playing this back in February when it came out… now is when the radio promoters are throwing it out there, so here’s the review again…
Last recorded release of our friend Adam Sagan.  The samples that were early released sounded great.  Technical proggy melodic death metal… but the vox I guess don’t really fit the death metal… so musically it’s “melodic death-ish” but really it’s something more along the lines of a Nevermore.  great stuff! Catchy, heavy and melodic too!

While She Sleeps
You Are We
SharpTone Records
Modern metalcore type stuff… maybe a little melodic death thing going on, but a little bit of that moderm metalcore clean stuff going on too.

Mammoth Mammoth
Mount The Mountain
Napalm Records
This name was always appropriate for their sound. a bit mammothy stoner metal thing… Big grooves, catchy riffs and all around cool stuff.  This is my kind of stoner metal, heavy, and fast paced with great energy.

Night Demon
Darkness Remains
Century Media Records
Classic old school sounding thrashy, or just classic “metal”  great riffs and a throwback feel

Synn
Venom
Inebriated Music
Female fronted standard metal type stuff. Good grooves and guitar solos a little bit more on the solid rock side of things.  Some abrasive vox in parts, but overall clean vox stuff.

Sangue
Sangue 7″ EP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Scary doomy black metal.  Just a couple tracks with some “meh” production.

Moonlight Prophecy
Spellbound
Self-Release
TGhree songs, a little classic thrash, and a little prog metal feeling, or just a good classic metal.  Two of the three are instrumentals and are pretty cool as prog metal goes.

Band: Carnal Garden
Album: Where They Are Silent
Label: Eclectic prods
A little doomy a little grindy, but overall meaty grooving death metal.  A little bit of an old school Obituary feeling.

Abatuar
Perversiones De Muerte Putrefacta
Dunkelheit Produktionen
This is some blackened death metal, with some classic death metal grooves but then going into some classic blast beaty black metal.

Band: Ulvegr
Album: Titahion Kaos Manifest
Label: Ashen Dominion
This is some good modern black metal.  Good cold meedly guitars, good production, melodic death metal parts, shrieky yet gritty vox.  Good stuff.

MAXDMYZ
ALCHEMICAL METAL
LABEL: RENEGADE RECORDS
melodic groove metal type stuff.  Maybe a little gothy doom feel too.

AVULSED
Night of the Living Deathgenerations
Xtreem Music
Live album of this brutal death metal band.  Sounds decent.  Cookie monster gurgling and a grindy death metal sound.

LUNATIC HOOKER
EMBRACING THE FILTH
LABEL: BLACK BOW RECORDS
I guess this is just good ol Brutal death metal.  Chuggy riffs, pissed off growly screams and a good meaty low end.

GOLDENPYRE
In Eminent Disgrace
Signal Rex
PRetty much the same as above, meaty brutal death metal.  Maybe a little more dooomy and down tempo.

The Projectionist
Exalted Solitude
Label: Appalachian Noise Records & The True Plague Records
Classic cold sounding black metal with reaallly creepy shrieky screamy evil vox.  Production is a bit raw and vocal production is even more raw.

Pyroxene
EP
Record label: Inverse Records
A little classic metal, maybe a tiny prog metal, and just some decent grooves, clean-ish vox.

Blood of Angels
Rise of the Fallen Gods (EP)
Label: Hollywood Collective
Melodic death metal, heavy brutal stuff, but maybe a little melodic stuff more like Amon Amarth.  Vox are cookie monster throughout and brutal!

Band: Craving Angel
Album: Redemption
Label: Minotauro records
Classic metal, guitar work sounds decent, vocal production doesn’t seem to match the rest of the music.  it’s a little raw and just I don’t know, doesn’t really match.

In Death…
The Devil Speaks
Plastic Head
Now we’re talking thrashed up death metal, brutal, heavy, catchy, chugga chugga freight train but with a good groove and little melodic stuff too.  Great stuff.

Band: My Silent Wake (re-issue with 3 bonus tracks!)
Album: Damnatio Memoriae
Label: Minotauro records
Reissue from their 2015 album.  Little soon for a reissue?  Maybe a label change or whatever… anyway, doomy melodic death metal, reminds me a little bit of some of the newer Opeth, decent grooves, a bit of a death metal edge too.

Kill For Eden
Petty Crimes
Horus Music
Classic throwback metal with female vox.  Good groove

GAME OVER
Blessed Are The Heretics
Scarlet Records
This is some classic gritty metal type stuff… a little thrashy and hardcore-ish.  A Cover of “You Spin Me Round” too!

Tehom (Sweden)
The Merciless Light CD/LP
Blood Harvest
Classic death metal, big grooves, a bit of that Swedish death metal melody and edge too.

Medusa1975
Rising From The Ashes
Svart Records
Kind of a 70’s doomy classic stoner metal… organ, catchy stoner riffs, maybe some 70’s prog stuff too.

CRYONIC TEMPLE
Into The Glorious Battle
Scarlet Records
Here we have classic metal with power metal tendencies.  decent stuff.

Band: Where The Sun Comes Down
Album: Welcome
Label: Minotauro records
Stoner metal with big experimental doom type sound too.  A little sludge/noise stoner metal with sabbath-like main riffs, and some more shouty vox… kind of megaphone-like.

Band: Agresiva
Album: Decibel Ritual
Label: Minotauro records
A little classic metal with a thrashy vibe… vox are clean/sung… music has a good gallop-y metal… reminds me of annihilator in some parts.

Band: Resurrect The Machine
Album: Uncover The Truth
Label: Minotauro records
Another with a classi metal and a thrashy feeling.  Decent grooves, clean vox, guitar work, all that.  Just good ol “metal”.

Cry My Name
Reflections
Bastardized Recordings
Melodic death/ Deathcore stuff.  Catchy and brutal in parts, shouty growled vox, some melodic metalcore-ish guitars… The clean parts are ok, still has that metal/new metalcore feel, but not whiney emo-enough to hate on it.

Celestial Grave
Pvtrefactio 7″ EP
Iron Bonehead
Two songs of Old school black metal, a bit of a wall of sound.

Emptybrook
Emptybrook EP
Inverse
Kind of noisy post-metal/hardcore-ish stuff.  A bit of a “blackened punk” feeling.

Zaraza
Spasms of Rebirth
Self Released (Against PR)
Post metal / melodic blackened post-metal.  Growly vox, a bit of a cold black metal tone, but slow doomy tempo.

Band: Pereplut
Album: V Starodavnie Goda
Label: Stygian Crypt productions
Folk metal, a good heavy base and the flutey folky instruments with that bouncy yet heavy thrashy metal sound.  Great stuff.

Band: DOWNCAST TWILIGHT
Album: Under The Wings Of The Aquila
Label: Stygian Crypt productions
Melodic death/folk metal.  Good meaty straightforward melodic death metal with some of the keyboardy folk stuff going on too.  solid for “folk metal”

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2017-04-10 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Infernal Majesty / Enter the World of the Undead / No God / High Roller Records
God Dethroned / On the Wrong Side of the Wire (Single) / The World Ablaze / Metal Blade Records
Craven Idol / A Ripping Strike / The Shackles of Mammon / Dark Descent Records
Blood Feast / Off With Their Heads / The Future State Of Wicked / Hell’s Headbangers
Hellfire / Field of Screams / Goat Revenge / Witches Brew
Svart Crown / Upon This Intimate Madness / Abreaction / Century Media
Novembers Doom / Devils Light / Hamartia / The End Records
Obituary / Betrayed / Obituary / Relapse Records
Epi-Demic / Rotting in Plain Sight / Malformed Conscience / Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Entrails / Descend to the Beyond / Raging Death / Metal Blade Records
Of Fire / Straight From the Grave / Death Do Us All / Self Released
Memoriam / Flatline / For the Fallen / Nuclear Blast
Morta Skuld / Wounds Deeper Than Time / Wounds Deeper Than Time / Peaceville
Fit for An Autopsy / Terraform / The Great Collapse / eOne Music
Necroblood / Evil Against Evil / Collapse Of The Human Race / Iron Bonehead
Naudiz / Vali Ok Nari / Wulfasa Kunja / Iron Bonehead
Replacire / Moonbred Chains / Do Not Deviate / Season of Mist
Cut Up / Psychosurgery / Wherever They May Rot / Metal Blade Records
Within The Ruins / Absolution / Halfway Human / eOne Music
Darkest Hour / The Flesh & the Flowers of Death / Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora / Southern Lord
Without Waves / Poetry in Putrid Air / Lunar / Prosthetic
Avelion / Echoes and Fragrance / Illusion of Transparency / Revalve Records
Ninjaspy / Shuriken Dance / Spuken / Self Relesed
Persefone / Aathma, Pt. III. One with the Light / Aathma / ViciSolum Productions
Body Count / The Ski Mask Way / Bloodlust / Century Media
Harlott / First World Solutions / Extinction / Metal Blade Records
Slayer / Kill Again / Hell Awaits / Metal Blade Records
Warbringer / Woe to the Vanquished / Woe To The Vanished / Napalm Records
Psychosomatic / Built for Speed / Another Disease / Thrashcore
Havok / Wake Up / Conformicide / Century Media
A Killer’s Confession / Spawn of Seven / Unbroken / EMP
Final Drive / Built to Break / Dig Deeper / Final Drive
Dead Earth Politics / Balancing Broken Scales / The Mobius Hammersmith / PAVEMENT MUSIC
Demon Hunter / Slight the Odds / Outlive / Solid State Records
Mastodon / Precious Stones / Emperor Of Sand / Reprise
Life Of Agony / World Gone Mad (Single) / World Gone Mad / Napalm
Woodhawk / Living in the Sand / Beyond The Sun / Self Released
The Obsessed / Sacred / Sacred / Relapse Records

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 4/10/17

Artist — Album — Label
1) Obituary — Obituary — Relapse
2) Morta Skuld — Wounds Deeper Than Time — Peaceville
3) Havok — Conformicide — Century Media
4) Within The Ruins — Halfway Human — eOne
5) Cut Up — Wherever They May Rot — Metal Blade
6) Demon Hunter — Outlive — Solid State
7) Memoriam — For The Fallen — Nuclear Blast
8) Persefone — Aathma — ViciSolum
9) Darkest Hour — Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora — Southern Lord
10) Warbringer — Woe to the Vanished — Napalm
11) Dead Earth Politics — The Mobius Hammersmith — Pavement
12) Replicaire — Do Not Deviate — Season of Mist
13) Svart Crown — Abreaction — Century Media
14) Hellfire — Goat Revenge (EP) — Witches Brew
15) Without Waves — Lunar — Prosthetic
16) Necroblood — Collapse of the Human Race — Iron Bonehead
17) Fit for an Autopsy — The Great Collapse — eOne
18) Body Count — Bloodlust — Century Media
19) Mastodon — Emperor of Sand — Reprise
20) Harlott — Extinction — Metal Blade

Top 5 Adds
1) Novembers Doom — Hamarita — The End
2) Final Drive — Dig Deeper — Independent
3) A Killer’s Confession — Unbroken — EMP
4) Infernal Majesty — No God — High Roller
5) Blood Feast — The Future State of Wicked — Hells Headbangers

Other Adds/Reviewed: The Obsessed, SA Adams, Noumena, Coltsblood, Raven Black, He Is Legend (Single), God Dethroned (Single), Life of Agony (Single), Alfahanne, Despite, Epi-Demic, Naudiz, Funeral Tears, Pyriphlegethon, Vaiya, Craven Idol, Blood Feast, Dreaming Awake, Katakomb, Longhouse, Ninjaspy, Accept (4 reissues), Of Fire, Neuntoter, J.T. Lehtonen, Hexis, Void Crusher, Warrant (single), Secure

A Killer’s Confession
Unbroken
EMP
This is a former vocalist for Mushroomhead’s project, kind of an american new wave of metalcore type thing.  Agressive growly barked vox, great groovin’ mid tempo type metal with some clean vox in there too… A little industrial and nu-metal ish too.

Coltsblood
Ascending
Candlelight
Blackened doomy post metal.  Mostly long tracks, a little sludgy, and big meaty riffs, but never really getting too um, fast.

Raven Black
Seven Sins
WURM Group
Female fronted alternative type metal.  A bit gothy/arty, good mix of creepy sung/growly vox, some decent grooves… kind of reminds me of otep.

Noumena
Myrrys
Inverse
Melodic death metal, sounds a little like Amorphis but maybe with more growly cookie monster vox.

He Is Legend
“Air Raid” [Single]
Spinefarm
Some good solid melodic hard rockin’ metal.  Guitar solos, kind of an anthemic prog metal/hard rock thing.

ALFAHANNE
“Det Nya Svarta”
Indie Recordings
Sort of a gothy melodic death type thing, a bit more on the alternative metal/rock side of things.

God Dethroned
On the Wrong Side of the Wire – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Ooooo!  Good stuff here… new album in a month or two, but here’s some heavy melodic death metal. Gritty and blackened death, with some melodic heavy stuff too.

LIFE OF AGONY – Radio Promo
World Gone Mad
Napalm Records
Catchy and actually kind of commercial-ish sounding.  A bit heavier and less “Volbeaty” as their older stuff.

Ecstatic Vision
Raw Rock Fury
Relapse
raw fuzzy psychedelic stoner type stuff. Here’s  the “RIYL” the bio says… “Hawkwind, Fuzz, Fela Kuti, Goat, Boris, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Monster Magnet ”  I can hear a little bit of a Monster Magnet, but pull that back and get more stoner/psychedelic

The Obsessed
Sacred
Relapse
First album in 20 years.  Can’t say I know a lot about them… this is got some great catchy doomy stoner metal going on.  Great grooves and smooth vox… all while pounding sabbath-like riffs are going on.

Despite
Breathe (single)
Eclipse Records
Hard rocking modern metal.  Seems like maybe a lighter track, slightly djenty riffs, a bit modern metalcore… but kind of prog/melodic death metal stuff too.  I’d like to hear more.

Novembers Doom
Hamarita
The End Records
Some of their stuff got pretty slow and doomy in the past… Not this one.  starts off heavy and grooving. A good heavy melodic death feeling… digging deeper, the clean vox kick in and it’s a bit more doomy… and towards the end we work to a slower more melodic doom thing.  Overall pretty solid effort.

Final Drive
Dig Deeper
Independent
Great riffs, catchy grooves, sort of thrash, just good heavy METAL going on here.  Throw up the horns and get in the pit.

SA Adams
A Murder Of Crows
NIR America
Hard rockin stuff kind of along the lines of a Motorhead/AcDc type thing, maybe a little southern hard rock type stuff too.

FUNERAL TEARS
Beyond The Horizon
Label: Satanath Records (Rus) & Cimmerian Shade Recordings (USA)
Slow depressing funeral doom.  I guess that’s what Funeral doom is right?  Just slow melodic depressing dark stuff.  Growly vox.

Infernal Majesty
No God
High Roller Records
14 April 2017
This is kind of a blackened thrash, or just a heavy catchy proggy “metal” Great stuff.  It has a little Kreator raw heaviness, but a melodic proggy undertone..

Epi-Demic
Malformed Conscience
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Kind of hardcore, kind of thrash, kind of punk… and 100% raw.  Good riffs and old school thrash feels.

Naudiz
Wulfasa Kunja CD/LP
Classic brutal black metal.  Evil, dark, heavy and grooving too. Great stuff.

Pyriphlegethon (Netherlands)
The Murky Black of Eternal Night LP
Iron Bonehead
BLack metal with some raw extreme stuff… Production is a little raw, but vox are pissed off, music is a bit melodic maybe a little atmospheric in parts too. Drumming is frenetic and raw.

Vaiya
Remnant Light
Three tracks each clocking in at 13:00… this is old school black metal.  Raw production, fast and evil and cold playing… a bit doomy in the slow parts.

Craven Idol
The Shackles Of Mammon
Dark Descent Records
A bit thrashy, a bit standard “metal”… maybe a little bit prog metal too… but mostly blackened thrash.  Great catchy riffs and evil extreme thrash… Good stuff@Q

BLOOD FEAST
The Future State of Wicked (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
Classic thrash feeling, but heavier… really heavy extreme classic thrash, but not “brutal” if you know what I mean.  Great stuff!

Dreaming Awake
Friction Lives
Imminence Records
Seemingly a prog/metalcore type thing.  Sort of brutalcore in parts and djenty, but then you get into those emo-ish singy vox.

Katakomb
Chained to a Wolf TAPE
Iron Bonehead
A spacy atmospheric black metal.  Extreme and heavy, production is kind of weird.

LONGHOUSE II
Vanishing
Self-Release
Big meaty doom then it gets into some extreme blackened doom type stuff. (vox are screamy)

Ninjaspy
Spüken
Self-Release
a proggy extreme thing… maybe System of a Down-ish.  A bit quirky, catchy full on metal, a little almost jazzy in parts, then full on Lamb of God type stuff too.  Really cool stuff.

Accept
Accept (Platinum Edition)
Breaker (Platinum Edition)
I’m a Rebel (Platinum Edition)
Restless and Wild (Platinum Edition)
AFM Records
The first four classic Accept albums reissued with new stuff.  This was all before my time in “heavier” music, so this is a good excuse to go back and check these things out.

Of Fire
Album: Death Do Us All
Self Released (Grand Sounds PR)
Good meaty classic swedish death metal Huge grooves

NEUNTOTER
Stench to Stench
Xtreem Music [XM 235 CD]
Some grindy death metal demo reissues from their 90/91 times. Pretty raw!

J.T. Lehtonen
Land of Dust
Concorde Music Company
Great crunchy riffs, and great grooves, a bit along the lines of classic metal, maybe a bit prog metal, mostly clean vox a few growls, but great for a guitar fan for sure!

Hexis
Tando Ashanti
Halo of Flies
Noisy blackened death metal.  Wall of sound, lots of grindy guitars and an overall grindy sound.

VOID CRUISER
Wayfarer
Argonauta Records
Doomy Post metal.  A bit atmospheric and stoner-y, but slow, depressing and down tempo.

WARRANT
Devil Dancer – Radio Single
Frontiers Music s.r.l.s
Good catchy solid hard rock tune from this old school band… catchy and decent stuff.. maybe not so much for the Mosh Pit though… :/

Band: Secure
Album: Awake
Self Released
Kind of an alternative metal, a little of a modern solid rock type metal thing too.

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2017-04-03 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Body Count / Bloodlust / Bloodlust / Century Media
Slayer / World Painted Blood / World Painted Blood / American
Harlott / Extinction / Extinction / Metal Blade Records
Warbringer / Silhouettes / Woe To The Vanished / Napalm Records
Blessed Curse / Faster Than Hell / Beware Of The Night / M Theory Audio
Darkest Hour / Timeless Numbers / Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora / Southern Lord
Havok / Peace Is in Pieces / Conformicide / Century Media
Gruesome / Fragments of Psyche / Fragments of Psyche / Relapse Records
Cynic / Thinking Being / Uroboric Forms – The Complete Demo Recordings / Century Media
Sons Of Famine / Malicious Curse of Fate / Alcohol And Razorblades / Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Obituary / It Lives / Obituary / Relapse Records
Sigil / Lick the Blade / Kingdom Of The Grave / Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Fit for An Autopsy / Black Mammoth / The Great Collapse / eOne Music
Basement Torture Killings / The Taxi Driver / There’s Something About Beryl / Grindscene Records
Replacire / Cold Repeater / Do Not Deviate / Season of Mist
Memoriam / Corrupted System / For the Fallen / Nuclear Blast
Cut Up / By Hatred Bound / Wherever They May Rot / Metal Blade Records
Morta Skuld / In Judgment / Wounds Deeper Than Time / Peaceville
Evocation / Survival of the Sickest / The Shadow Archetype / Metal Blade Records
NervoChaos / The Midnight Hunter / Nyctophilia / Greyhaze Records
Corpus Diavolis / Thy Glorification / Atra Lumen / ATMF
Wolfheart / Tyhjyys / Tyhjyys / Spinefarm
Hellfire / War Apocalypse Battery / Goat Revenge / Witches Brew
Possession / Sacerdotium / Exorkzein / Invictus Productions
Persefone / Stillness Is Timeless / Aathma / ViciSolum Productions
Without Waves / Sewing Together the Limbs / Lunar / Prosthetic
X.kernel / In The Void / Face the Truth / Immerian Shade Recordings
Within The Ruins / Objective Reality / Halfway Human / eOne Music
Mastodon / Sultan’s Curse / Emperor Of Sand / Reprise
Dead Earth Politics / Runescarred / The Mobius Hammersmith / PAVEMENT MUSIC
Screamking / Instrument of Death / Tyranny of the Sea / Platinum Dungeon Records
Trial / Cold Comes The Night / Motherless / Metal Blade Records
Anthrax / Carry On / Carry On (Single) / Megaforce Records
Demon Hunter / One Less / Outlive / Solid State Records
Lancer / Mastery / Mastery / Nuclear Blast

Mastodon
Emperor Of Sand
Reprise
Mostly sounds like classic Mastodon, maybe a little toned down and more accessible.  More catchy rockin’ songs.  I guess not quite as “proggy” as some past work.

Royal Thunder
Wick
Spinefarm
Laid back down tempo-ish stoner rock.

SikTh
“Vivid” [Single]
Milennium Night
Full album comes out in June.  First taste here, catchy, a bit proggy, clean vox and some harshy stuff too.  Kind of a band that is a good gateway to more prog metal as it has some commercial solid rock type elements but more technical complex stuff too.

Anthrax
“Carry On” [Single]
Megaforce
I am a sucker for metal bands doing covers of classic rock or non-metal songs…. This has all the potential to be a classic… but… they kind of just went and did the song straight up and didn’t add a signature Anthrax sound.

WINDSWEPT
The Great Cold Steppe
Season of Mist
A brutal grooving black metal.  A little bit of a classic black metal sound, but some melodic death/viking-ish death metal grooves going on too.

BLESSED CURSE
BEWARE OF THE NIGHT
M-THEORY AUDIO
I want to call this brutal thrash… musically it’s kind of a classic thrash, vox are a bit more growly… so heavier thrash.  Or just straight up thrash but with harsher than normal vox?  LOL  good stuff.

Gruesome
Fragments of Psyche EP
Relapse
So, a band that sounds just like Death… a new EP with a new track (with Sean Reinhart drumming – who drummed on Death’s Human!), a Death cover and some demos.   Can’t go wrong!  The Demos even sound good!

The Flatliners
Invinting Light
Rise Records
A sort of alternative rock thing, a little bit of a stoner rock thing.  yeaaahh.

Body Count
Bloodlust
Century Media Records
Oh yeah!  Heavy, pissed off and just what you want from these guys.  Great grooves, riffs and hardcore rappy metal like only Body Count can do. (even if IceT is in Geico commercials and playing a cop on TV LOL)

Harlott
Extinction
Metal Blade Records
Slayer sounding thrash, but then getting into maybe a Grip Inc feel too. Great classic old school thrash feel with modern touches too.  heavy and catchy!!

Wounded Giant
Vae Victis
Magnetic Eye
Kind of a hard rocking post metal stoner fuzz/noise type thing

Perverted Ceremony
Sabbat of Behezaël LP/TAPE
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Sludgey death metal with some lo-fi production.

Coldfells
Coldfells
Bindrune Recordings/Eihwaz Recordings
Blackened post-metal.  Classic black metal stuff along with a doomy drone feeling too.

Inferno
Gnosis Kardias (Of Transcension and Involution)
W.T.C.Productions
Big wall of blackened death metal sound.  Evil, brutal, and a bit creepy melodic black-ish grind.

A Lie Nation
Begin Hate
Inverse Records
Melodic death metal, leaning more on the heavier blackened death metal side of things.  Brutal, heavy and catchy.  good stuff!

Slagduster
Deadweight
Waterlow Audio Records
Musically, it started off as some catchy and grooving prog metal.  Vox started, they’re a bit growly, but pretty cool technical proggy metal probably for fans of like, Gojira, BTBAM, Meshuggah.  Cool stuff!

CORPUS DIAVOLIS
Atra Lumen
ATMF
You got your melodic stuff, some big doomy parts, some hints of some black metal, but then some full on black metal, brutal death metal stuff too.  Pretty brutal stuff and good too.

ANEWRAGE
Life-Related Symptoms
Scarlet Records
Djenty modern hard rock, or maybe a little proggy along the lines of a Fair To Midland or Karnivool type thing.

Black Magic Six
Choose Death
Svart Records
Not quite metal, but a fun lovin’ bluesy garage band-ish heavier stoner rockabilly type thing.

Reflection
Bleed Babylon Bleed
Pitch Black Records
Epic proggy power metal.  Big fun heavy sound with a good gritty edge to it too.

BASEMENT TORTURE KILLINGS
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT BERYL
LABEL: GRINDSCENE RECORDS
Grindy brutal blackened melodic death metal. Yeah!  All that.  Heavy, and in your face but with grooves, brutality and heavy!!

Possession (Belgium)
Exorkizein
Invictus Productions / Iron Bonehead
Kind of a classic black metal but with some atmospheric grooves.  Brutal and evil sounding… edging into Death Metal too.

Nervochaos
Nyctophilia
Greyhaze Records
Big fat meaty grooving death metal that doesn’t waste any time.  First note, right into the brutality.  cookie monster barking and headbanging classics.

SINHERESY
Domino
Scarlet Records
Male/female vox melodic metal.  Keyboards, heavier guitar edge, a bit of a commercial feel.

Jesters of Destiny
The Sorrows That Refuse To Drown
Ektro
Kind of a throwback spacey stoner rock thing.

Band: AVELION
Album: Illusion of Transparency
Label: Revalve records
When the genre says “melodic progressive metal” I kind of get a little excited because that’s the kind of stuff I like… and this is decent stuff… Follows the genre, keyboard base, good driving guitar, clean vox and maybe a little bit of a metalcore feel

My Own Ghost
Life On Standby
Secret Entertainment
Female fronted hard rock, melodic clean vox.

ARTHEMIS
Blood-Fury-Domination
Scarlet Records
A wall of sound catchy kind of commercial-ish metal.  Has a full grooving metal sound.  There’s a little electronic metal feel, but hard to really pinpoint… maybe it’s just in the guitar tone.  Decent stuff.

Sigil
Kingdom of The Grave
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Classic death metal.  Big Grooves, chuggy riffs, not all fast and brutal, just catchy heavy stuff.

MERCURY RAIN
“St Matthieu (Remastered & Reborn)”
Label:  Bristol Archive Records
Kind of a gothy female fronted metal thing.  Symphonic/keyboardy stuff going on.  Decent proggish metal stuff going on too.

Band: Atonement Theory
Album: Illumination
Label: I Defy records
Downtempo sludgy doom type stuff. Growly vox, some groove and melody though.

ScreamKing
Tyranny of the Sea
Self Released (Online MEtal PRomo)
From chicago…Some standard classic heavier metal.  Grooving kind of thrashy stuff with some good screamy vox and an edge

ECLIPSE
Monumentum – DOWNLOAD
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
As with most stuff on this label, this is melodic hard rock type stuff.  This leans a little more into power metal, but good hooky classic hard rock.

Sons Of Famine
Alcohol And Razorblades
Horror Pain Gore Death
This is some grindy extreme stoner metal sounding stuff to me.  Yeah, death metal, fast and heavy, but there’s just some tone or feel that has a little subtle stoner groove too.

Convulsions
Culture Shock
Imminence Records
Big grooving djenty tech death metalcore.

She Screams Of Royalty
Lucid Dreams A Relationship
Imminence Records
A melodic metalcore type thing… with mostly clean vox, a little djent and some growls… kind of the opposite of most melodic screamo emo core… usually it’s growly verses and singy choruses, this seems to be singy verses and growly choruses… I dunno.

X.KERNEL
FACE THE TRUTH
LABEL: CIMMERIAN SHADE RECORDINGS
Techy grooving melodic death metal.  Keyboard stuff, cool guitars, growly vox. Catchy and proggy too.

Band: Sarkrista
Album: Summoners of the Serpents Wrath
Label: Purity Through Fire
Classic cold black metal sound, shrieking vox, blast beats, good grooves and melodic stuff that you expect from extreme black metal… and good production too.

Woodhawk
Beyond The Sun
Self-Release
I know I use the word grooving too much… but this is some good grooving catchy stoner metal, gets the head bobbin’ and has a cool energy about it without being too heavy.  Good stuff.

Trial (swe)
Motherless
Metal Blade Records
This was supposed to add last week, but I somehow missed the download.  Metal Blade is on a good streak lately, just so much good solid stuff.  This is some kind of classic metal, maybe reminds me a bit of the heavier Mastodon or more of the grooving King Diamond stuff.  There’s a little bit of a throwback vibe too.

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 4/3/17

Artist — Album — Label
1) Havok — Conformicide — Century Media
2) Evocation — The Shadow Archetype — Metal Blade
3) Wolfheart — Tyhjyys — Spinefarm
4) Within The Ruins — Halfway Human — eOne
5) Obituary — Obituary — Relapse
6) Demon Hunter — Outlive — Solid State
7) Morta Skuld — Wounds Deeper Than Time — Peaceville
8) Persefone — Aathma — ViciSolum
9) Memoriam — For The Fallen — Nuclear Blast
10) Cut Up — Wherever They May Rot — Metal Blade
11) Lancer — Mastery — Metalville
12) Replicaire — Do Not Deviate — Season of Mist
13) Darkest Hour — Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora — Southern Lord
14) Hellfire — Goat Revenge (EP) — Witches Brew
15) Warbringer — Woe to the Vanished — Napalm
16) Svart Crown — Abreaction — Century Media
17) Dead Earth Politics — The Mobius Hammersmith — Pavement
18) Without Waves — Lunar — Prosthetic
19) Necroblood — Collapse of the Human Race — Iron Bonehead
20) Fit for an Autopsy — The Great Collapse — eOne

Top 5 Adds
1) Body Count — Bloodlust — Century Media
2) Mastodon — Emperor of Sand — Reprise
3) Harlott — Extinction — Metal Blade
4) Gruesome — Fragments of Psyche EP — Relapse
5) Blessed Curse — Beware of the Night — M Theory Audio

Other Adds/Reviewed: Sikth (single), Anthrax (Single), Windswept, Royal Thunder, The Flatliners, Wounded Giant, Perverted Ceremony, Coldfells, Inferno, A Lie Nation, Slagduster, Corpus Diavolis, Anewrage, Black Magic Six, Reflection, Basement Torture Killings, Possession, Nervochaos, Sinheresy, Jesters of Destiny, Avelion, My Own Ghost, Arthemis, Sigil, Mercury Rain, Atonement Theory, Screamking, Eclipse, Sones of Famine, Convulsions, She Screams of Royalty, X.Kernel, Sarkrista, Woodhawk, Trial