WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 10/10/16

Artist — Album — Label
1) Allegaeon — Proponent for Sentience — Metal Blade
2) Devin Townsend Project — Transcendence — InsideOut
3) Solution .45 — Nightmares In The Waking State II — AFM
4) Finsterforst — #Yolo — Napalm
5) Evil Invaders — In for the Kill — Napalm
6) Heaven Shall Burn — Wanderer — Century Media
7) Brujeria — Pocho Azaltan — Nuclear Blast
8) The Agonist — Five — Napalm
9) Charred Walls of/Damned — Creatures Watching Over/Dead — Metal Blade
10) Norma Jean — Polar Similar — Tooth & Nail
11) Monte Pittman — Inverted Grasp of Balance — Metal Blade
12) Winterfylleth — The Dark Hereafter — Candlelight
13) Infant Death — Violent Rites — Apocalyptic Empire
14) Meshuggah — The Violent Sleep of Reason — Nuclear Blast
15) Toxic Shock — Feeling the Pain — Independent
16) Every Time I Die — Low Teens — Epitaph
17) Opeth — Sorceress — Nuclear Blast
18) King 810 — La Petite Mort or A Conv. w/God — Roadrunner
19) Suicidal Tendencies — World Gone Mad — Suicidal
20) Kyng — Breathe the Water — Razor & Tie

Top 5 Adds
1) Gatecreeper — Sonoran Depravation — Relapse
2) Dillinger Escape Plan — Dissociation — Party Smasher
3) Kai Hansen — XXX 3 Decades in Metal — earMusic
4) Red Fang — Only Ghosts — Relapse
5) Devil Wears Prada — Transit Blues — Rise

Other Adds/Reviewed: DangerAngel, Killer Bee, Take Over and Destroy, Wovenwar, Flayed, Darke Complex, Glenn Hughes (single), Agatus, Varego, Suma, Tortorum, Eden’s Curse, Waldgefluster, Polyptych, Iron Mask, Spectral Voice/Phrenelith Split, Our Place of Worship is Silence, Perpetual Despair is the Human Condition, Sleepwalkers, Sacred Steel, Atanor, Throneum, Blasphemer, Hobb’s Angel of Death, Theatres Des Vampires, Altar of Oblivion, False Gods, Sixty Miles Ahead, Spirit of the Forest, Michael Sweet, Obsidian, Mindscar, Buzzard Canyon

GATECREEPER
Sonoran Depravation
Relapse
Relapse was starting to worry me there for a while.  All I’ve been getting is keyboardy synth stuff and post-metal.  Well, faith is restored.  Good old school death metal here. Big Riffs and big grooves.

The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dissociation
Party Smasher
Never been a huge fan, but I respect these guys.  Techny screamy type stuff, actually there’s some proggy math stuff going on too too.

Red Fang
Only Ghosts
Relapse
A sort of stoner metal, a little doomy, a good catchy edge too.

Killer Bee
Eye In The Sky
Self-Released
Modern hard rock… Kind of like a new-modern day Guns n Roses feeling going on.

Darke Complex
Point Oblivion
Spinefarm
Modern melodic metal.  Kind of a nu-metal feel.  Catchy and some heavy moments, but maybe just a bit too pop-metal for us?

Wovenwar
Honor Is Dead
Metal Blade Records
Another modern metal thing.  Melodic hardcore /metalcore type stuff.  Clean vox, got some screams and clean vox.  It’s almost like as if Sevendust were to come out today… they’d sound like this.

Take Over And Destroy
Take Over And Destroy
Prosthetic Records
Melodic doom with a little throwback to some 70’s hard rock.  Good melodic catchy parts

GLENN HUGHES
Heavy – Radio Single
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Big full hard rockin’ sound.  This guy has been around forever and still brings it full on with such smooth vox too.

FLAYED
XI Million
Kaotoxin
A bluesy hard rockin’ thing, keyboard/organ heavy, but catchy big meaty sound (not metal though)

The Devil Wears Prada
Transit Blues
Rise Records
Another band that I’m not a huge fan of, but they’re pretty good at what they do.  More melodic modern metalcore type stuff.

DangerAngel
All The Kings Horses
Melodic Rock Records
Sort of a power metal thing.  Melodic hard rock/power metal feel. Keyboard heavy, good metal edged guitars.

Kai Hansen
XXX 3 Decades In Metal
earMUSIC
First solo album from the Helloween/Gamma Ray front man.  Good hard rockin’ power metal type stuff with Kai’s big voice

AGATUS
The Eternalist (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
A bit doom, and a bit melodic metal and prog too. Has some Ghost throwback catchy vibe.

VAREGO
Epoch
Argonauta Records
Some doomy post-metal, a bit melodic and not quite as aimless most post metal, but this one doesn’t seem to drone on and on… it’s got a bit of a stoner metal thing going on.

SUMA
The Order of Things
Argonauta Records
We’re on a roll here with some sludgey doom.  Just a lot of big slow downtempo stuff.

Tortorum
Rotten. Dead. Forgotten.
W.T.C.Productions
Good meaty and evil black metal.  Good groove, classic black metal sound

Eden’s Curse
Cardinal
AFM Records
Power metal with a good edge.  Catchy and good stuff.

Waldgeflüster
Ruinen
Nordvis Produktion
Melodic doomy black metal.  Big and evil with an eery post metal doom feeling

Polyptych
Defying the Metastasis CD
Blood Harvest
A kind of wall of blackened death metal.  A big heavy meaty sound with a black metal feel while having a big brutal death metal thing in your face. great stuff.

Iron Mask
Diabolica
AFM Records
A heavy thrashy power metal thing.  Great stuff with singalong great catchy riffs and heavier music than a typical power metal thing

Spectral Voice / Phrenelith
Split 7″ EP
Iron Bonehead / Dark Descent
one song from each band, both are good dark brutal death metal

Our Place of Worship is Silence
The Embodiment of Hate
Broken Limbs
Brutal blackened death metal

Perpetual Despair is the Human Condition
Cara Neir
Broken Limbs
Black metal, kind of classic, a bit screamy and decent production

Sleepwalkers
Hollowpath
Transcending
Melodic death metal, kind of like the medium Opeth type stuff.  Death metal vox, but more melodic doom-ish music.

Sacred Steel
Heavy Metal Sacrifice
Cruz Del Sur Music
Good ol classic power metal with a nice heaver thrashy metal edge.

Atanor
Atanor 12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead
Brutal deathy black metal.

THRONEUM
Morbid Death Tales (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
Raw death metal, meaning, not so great production.

Blasphemer
Ritual Theophagy
Comatose Music
Brutal black/death metal.  More on the death metal side, classic true brutal wall of sound production.  good evil brutal stuff.

HOBBS’ ANGEL OF DEATH
Heaven Bled (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
It’s kinda thrashy, a little death-metal like, but totally full on metal.  Maybe comparable to like, Slayer.

THEATRES DES VAMPIRES
Candyland
Scarlet Records
A modern metal, with a pinch of gothy metal, female fronted.

ALTAR OF OBLIVION
Barren Grounds (CD, TAPE)
Shadow Kingdom
Grooving melodic hard rock.  Almost power metal, but not quite.

FALSE GODS
Wasteland
Label:  Self-Released
Sludgey doom with a big meaty groove.

Sixty Miles Ahead
Insanity
Eclipse Records
Modern metal, catchy, a little metal edge, but all clean vox, and a bit “commercial”-ish.

SPIRIT OF THE FOREST
A Void Into The Fields Of Silence
Scum Productions
Classic black metal, brutal, heavy, good stuff.

Michael Sweet
One Sided War
RatPak Records
Good classic metal sound here with the frontman of Stryper’s solo project.   Great vox, some heaver songs, some power ballads, good stuff.

OBSIDIAN
Into Oblivion
Hammer Down Records
Groove metal, with some hints of black metal (guitar sound)  and death metal in overall feel

MINDSCAR
What’s Beyond The Light
Label:  Self-Released
Death metal with a little hardcore and technical prog stuff going on too.  Good stuff

Buzzard Canyon
Hellfire & Whiskey
Salt of the Earth Records
female fronted grooving stoner metal

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2016-10-03 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Suicidal Tendencies / Get Your Fight On / World Gone Mad / Suicidal
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles / Beneath The Wheel / Thrash Zone / Metal Blade
Megadeth / Take No Prisoners / Rust In Peace / Capitol
Pessimist / Death by Torture / Call to War / MDD Records
Metallica / Moth To Flame / Moth To Flame (Single) / Metallica
Toxic Shock / Feeling The Pain / Feeling The Pain (Ep) / Independent
Vengince / Rupture / Against the Tide / Unable Records
Infant Death / Troops Of Dead / Violent Rites / Apocalyptic Empire Records
Monte Pittman / Arisen in Broad Daylight / Inverted Grasp of Balance / Metal Blade Records
Evil Invaders / Pulses of Pleasure (Live) / In for the Kill – EP / Napalm Records
Vanlade / Bastille Day / Wayward Sons: Masters Of Time Vol. 1 / Online Metal Promo
Vicious Rumors / Take It or leave It / Concussion Protocol / SPV
Charred Walls of the Damned / The Soulless / Creatures Watching Over The Dead / Metal Blade
Mouth Of Madness / Dead Flesh Ritual / Mouth of Madness / Iron Bonehead
Inquisition / Mystical Blood / Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith / Season of Mist
Ur Draugr / Cult Of The Greatworm / With Hunger Undying / ATMF
Winterfylleth / Led Astray in the Forest Dark / The Dark Hereafter / Candlelight
Skamold / Nidavellir / Vogguvisur Yggdradils / Napalm Records
Brujeria / Angel de la Frontera / Pocho Aztlan / Nuclear Blast Records
Finsterforst / Der durch die Scheibeboxxxer / #Yølø / Vertigo/Capitol
Devin Townsend Project / Transcendence / Transcendence / InsideOut
Opeth / Chrysalis / Sorceress / Roadrunner
Allegaeon / All Hail Science / Proponent For Sentience / Metal Blade
Meshuggah / Clockworks / The Violent Sleep of Reason / Nuclear Blast
Candiria / While They Were Sleeping / While They Were Sleeping / Metal Blade Records
The Agonist / The Chain / Five / Napalm Records
Norma Jean / Death Is a Living Partner / Polar Similar / TOOTH & NAIL
SikTh / Under the Weeping Moon / Opacities – EP / Peaceville
Heaven Shall Burn / Passage of the Crane / Wanderer / Century Media
Solution .45 / Chain Connector / Nightmares in the Waking State, Pt. 2 / AFM Records
Kyng / Breathe in the Water / Breathe In the Water / Razor & Tie
Every Time I Die / C++ (Love Will Get You Killed) / Low Teens / Epitaph
Death Is Liberty / To The End / A Statement Darkness / Concorde Music Company
Korn / A Different World (Featuring Corey Taylor) / A Different World (Featuring Corey Taylor) Single / Roadrunner
KING 810 / Alpha & Omega / La Petite Mort Or A Conversation With God / Roadrunner
Decomposed / Upheaval / Wither / Chaos Records
Entrails / Cadaverous Stench / Raging Death / Metal Blade Records

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 10/3/16

Artist — Album — Label
1) Allegaeon — Proponent for Sentience — Metal Blade
2) Devin Townsend Project — Transcendence — InsideOut
3) Solution .45 — Nightmares In The Waking State II — AFM
4) Finsterforst — #Yolo — Napalm
5) Vicious Rumors — Concussion Protocol — SPV
6) Heaven Shall Burn — Wanderer — Century Media
7) Brujeria — Pocho Azaltan — Nuclear Blast
8) Inquisition — Bloodshed Across the Empyrean… — Season of Mist
9) Evil Invaders — In for the Kill — Napalm
10) Norma Jean — Polar Similar — Tooth & Nail
11) Monte Pittman — Inverted Grasp of Balance — Metal Blade
12) The Agonist — Five — Napalm
13) Charred Walls of/Damned — Creatures Watching Over/Dead — Metal Blade
14) Sikth — Opacities — Peaceville
15) Infant Death — Violent Rites — Apocalyptic Empire
16) Every Time I Die — Low Teens — Epitaph
17) Opeth — Sorceress — Nuclear Blast
18) King 810 — La Petite Mort or A Conv. w/God — Roadrunner
19) Winterfylleth — The Dark Hereafter — Candlelight
20) Toxic Shock — Feeling the Pain — Independent

Top 5 Adds
1) Meshuggah — The Violent Sleep of Reason — Nuclear Blast
2) Suicidal Tendencies — World Gone Mad — Suicidal
3) Kyng — Breathe the Water — Razor & Tie
4) Skalmold — Vogguvisur Yggdrasils — Napalm
5) Candiria — While They Were Sleeping — Metal Blade

Other Adds/Reviewed: Gabriel and the Apocalypse, Dayshell, The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Korn (Single), Vpaahsalbrox, Vanlade, Solar Mass,Decomposed, Naat, The Reticent, John Wesley, Project Theory, Mouth of Madness, Death is Liberty, Teksti-TV 666, Reapter, Sarcofago, Hanging Garden, ENdalok, Vultures Vengeance, Illyrian, Underwater Sleeping Society, Narthrall, Riti Occulti, Ur Draugr/Haar Split, Skogen, Atraraxia, Somehow Jo! (Single), Vengince, Wolf Counsel, Black Dreams, Spiritual Sickness (Reissue), Metallica (single), Pessimist (Germany)

Suicidal Tendencies
World Gone Mad
Suicidal/INgrooves
So, ST is back… and with a new famous drummer in Dave Lombardo.  So far, classic grooving ST.  A little punk feel, lots of groove and pretty heavy in parts too.

Auras
Heliospectrum
eOne
A djenty prog groove metal band, a lot like Meshuggah, but maybe a bit more proggy and dare I say interesting?

Korn
“A Different World (feat. Corey Taylor)” [single]
Roadrunner
Korn has kind of renewed their sound back to, well, their old sound.  Big meaty and bouncy grooves… this song has Corey Taylor doing some screams too

Dayshell
Nexus
Spinefarm
Melodic kinda proggy modern metal.  A little nu-metal/Deftones sound meets something like a Fair to Midland type band.

Kyng
Breathe In The Water
Razor&Tie
Band that seems to just do all the right stuff, a kind of stoner metal, big meaty grooves and melodies, while keeping a heavy edge too.  Great stuff.

The Last Ten Seconds of Life
The Violent Sound
Seige Music
Meaty deathy metalcore…brutalcore?  Some slipknot meets korn type stuff too.

Grabiel And The Apocalypse
The Ghost Parade
Pavement Music
Female fronted rock, a little throwback, a bit just straightforward hard rock or “solid rock”

Meshuggah
The Violent Sleep Of Reason
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Four years since their last album.  Often imitated, but never duplicated, Meshuggah pretty much started their own genre and it’s nice when a band that does that is still around to do their own thing.  This is classic Meshuggah, heavy, techy, and some longer tracks too… (

Candiria
While They Were Sleeping
Metal Blade Records
Technical, extreme and jazzy all in one.  It’s just like Meshuggah, they kind of invented their own genre and do it well!

SKÁLMÖLD
Vögguvísur Yggdrasils
Napalm Records
Catchy melodic death with a big groove too.  A little viking metal feeling too.

VPAAHSALBROX
14 Sovereign
Pale Horse Recordings
Old school raw blackened screamy metal.  production is tinny and hollow.  kinda evil sounding.

Vanlade
Wayward Sons: Masters of Time (Vol. 1)”
Online Metal Promo
Lots of cool metal covers here, Baracuda, Bastille Day, Riding on the Wind

Solar Mass
Pseudomorphosis TAPE/CD/12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead
Released as a “tape”  so one 18 minute mp3 which is 5 tracks.  Kinda raw doom/black/death metal, a little groove… but the one track thing… meh.

Decomposed
Wither
Chaos Records
Death metal with a little doomy edge.  Heavy, brutal, but a big meaty groove too

NAAT
Naat
Argonauta Records
Doomy post metal, kinda like some laid back tool type music, but more spacy and atmospheric… and post-metal doom-like.

The Reticent
On the Eve of a Goodbye
Heaven & Hell Records
Some classic thrash/classic metal sound, then some death metal, and black metal, a cool mix of stuff all mushing together to make a dynamic proggy metal album.  Overall it’s more of a laid back prog rock thing with clean vox.

Kremlin
Kremlin
Svart Records
Laid back bluesy rock, maybe a bit proggy, spacy, definitely not metal.  So I’ll stop here.

John Wesley
a way you’ll never be
InsideOut
Some decent prog rock, a few tracks are a bit more upbeat and rockin’.  Mostly compareable to some like porcupine tree / spock’s beard type stuff.

Band: Project Theory
Album: Something Between Us
Label: Sliptrick records
Kind of a classic nu-metal sound going on here.  To think half of the mosh pit was probably stuff like this back in the day!  now?  Not so much.  It’s decent if you like this sort of stuff.   It’s got a nice catchy groove.

Mouth of Madness
Mouth of Madness TAPE
Iron Bonehead
Typically these “tape” releases are crap, but I still listen to everything that gets sent to me.  This is some good hard edged brutal death metal.  Big full sound, evil vox.  Good groove too.

Death Is Liberty
A Statement Darkness
Concorde Music Company
Kind of a melodic modern hard rock with a groove

Teksti-TV 666
1,2,3
Svart Records
Kind of sounds like surf punk a little bit.

REAPTER
Cymstics
Revalve Records
Proggy thrash metal, great catchy riffs, nice heavy edge… great stuff!

Sarcofago
Die Hard
Greyhaze Records
Sounds like something old school…extreme thrash, probably mastered from some old tape, as I can hear hiss and dropouts all over the place.  Music is good old school stuff, but the quality is a little lacking.

HANGING GARDEN
Hereafter EP (Metal / Rock)
Lifeforce
Proggy melodic metal, but with some Amorphis-like growly death metal parts too.  Cool stuff.

ENDALOK
Englaryk
Signal Rex
post metal and raw black metal… too atmospheric and out there for me.

Vultures Vengeance
Where The Time Dwelt In
Gates of Hell Records
Classic metal sound.  A little melodic, thrashy and just decent stuff.

Illyrian
Round 2: Fight!
Self-Release (Asher)
A little thrash, a little black metal.  Lots of catchy riffs, great edge and a great headbanger

Underwater Sleeping Society
Instrumental Healthcare
Svart Records
Laid back and chilled out proggy rock

Narthraal
Chainsaw Killing Spree
Inverse
Two tracks of brutal grooving death metal

RITI OCCULTI
Tetragrammaton
Triton’s Orbit
Doomy and maybe a bit experimental with a proggy epic and creepy feel.

Ur Draugr / Haar
Haar / Ur Draugr
ATMF
Haar is some good evil black metal (with good production too)  and the Ur Draugr is one 19+ minute track of brutal blackened death metal, both are pretty good (i normally don’t like split eps either!)

Skogen
Svitjod
Nordvis Produktion
Doomy black metal, a little bit post metal, but a bit classic metal too

ATARAXIA
Deep Blue Firnament
Sleaszy Rider
Ambient melodic doom

Release: Somehow Jo! – Go with the Jo
Format: Digital single
Record label: Inverse Records
So, this one track had a pop/alt metal feel to start, but was catchy enough to keep listening, maybe a little SOAD feel… then it built up and got heavier and heavier, then back to just a neat bouncy riff.

Vengince
Against the Tide
Unable Records
Indie type death metal band.  This is full on headbanging grooving melodic death metal

WOLF COUNSEL
Ironclad
Label:  Czar Of Bullets
Big meaty classic doom/stoner metal

Black Dreams
Soul Stealer (single)
Inverse
Grooving classic metal, a little goth with a hard rock thing going on.

SPIRITUAL SICKNESS
“Spiritual Sickness”  EP Reissue
Online Metal Promo
Kind of melodic death, but with clean vox, so a proggy power metal thing?

SURVIVE
RR7349
Relapse
Relapse records… yer killin’ me.  More dark synthy “metal?”  not even.

Metallica
Moth Into Flame
Another new instant classic thrashy metallica song!

PESSIMIST (GErmany)
Call To War
Label:  MDD Records
Not to be confused with the US Death Metal Band… this one is a classic thrash outfit from Germany who’ve been around since 2006.  Great catchy old school thrash

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2016-09-27 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Devin Townsend Project / Failure / Transcendence / InsideOut
Devin Townsend Project / Gato / Ki / HevyDevy
Strapping Young Lad / S.Y.L. / Heavy As a Really Heavy Thing / Century Media
Strapping Young Lad / All Hail The New Flesh / City / Century Media
Strapping Young Lad / Love? / Alien / Century Media
Devin Townsend / Bastard / Ocean Machine / MVP Japan
Devin Townsend / Recipe For Bait / Punky Brüster: Cooked On Phonics / HevyDevy
Steve Vai / Here & Now / Sex & Religion / Relativity
Devin Townsend / Life / Ocean Machine / MVP Japan
Devin Townsend / By Your Command / Ziltoid The Omniscient / HevyDevy
Strapping Young Lad / Relentless / SYL / Century Media
Strapping Young Lad / C:enter:### / C:enter:### / Restrain
Strapping Young Lad / Wrong side / The New Black / Century Media
Devin Townsend Project / Rejoice / Z2: Sky Blue (Disc 1) / Inside Out
Stuck Mojo / Violated / Pigwalk / Century Media
Gwar / Tormentor / Beyond Hell / Metal Blade
Lamb of God / A Devil In Gods Country / As The Palaces Burn / Prosthetic
Soilwork / Black Star Deceiver / Natural Born Chaos / Nuclear Blast Americ
Devin Townsend Project / Sumeria / Deconstruction / InsideOut
The Devin Townsend Project / Numbered! / AddicTeD / HevyDevy
Devin Townsend / Bad Devil / Infinity / HevyDevy
Devin Townsend / Namaste / Physicist / HevyDevy
Devin Townsend / Storm / Accelerated Evolution / INSIDE OUT MUSIC
Devin Townsend Project / More! / Epicloud / Inside Out
Devin Townsend / Earth Day / Terria / HevyDevy
Strapping Young Lad / Monument / The New Black / Century Media
Strapping Young Lad / Far Beyond Metal / The New Black / Century Media
Strapping Young Lad / Oh My Fucking God / City / Century Media
Strapping Young Lad / Shitstorm / Alien / Century Media
Devin Townsend Band / Hypergeek / Synchestra / HevyDevy Records
Devin Townsend / The Greys / Ziltoid The Omniscient / HevyDevy
Various Artists / Natural Science / Working Man / Magna Carta

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 9/26/16

Artist — Album — Label
1) Devin Townsend Project — Transcendence — InsideOut
2) Vicious Rumors — Concussion Protocol — SPV
3) Solution .45 — Nightmares In The Waking State II — AFM
4) Allegaeon — Proponent for Sentience — Metal Blade
5) Sodom — Decision Day — SPV
6) Heaven Shall Burn — Wanderer — Century Media
7) Make Them Suffer — Old Souls/ Lord of Woe — Rise
8) Inquisition — Bloodshed Across the Empyrean… — Season of Mist
9) Finsterforst — #Yolo — Napalm
10) Evergrey — The Storm Within — AFM
11) Brujeria — Pocho Azaltan — Nuclear Blast
12) Norma Jean — Polar Similar — Tooth & Nail
13) Monte Pittman — Inverted Grasp of Balance — Metal Blade
14) Evil Invaders — In for the Kill — Napalm
15) Sikth — Opacities — Peaceville
16) Charred Walls of/Damned — Creatures Watching Over/Dead — Metal Blade
17) The Agonist — Five — Napalm
18) Infant Death — Violent Rites — Apocalyptic Empire
19) Every Time I Die — Low Teens — Epitaph
20) King 810 — La Petite Mort or A Conv. w/God — Roadrunner

Top 5 Adds
1) Opeth — Sorceress — Nuclear Blast
2) Winterfylleth — The Dark Hereafter — Candlelight
3) Toxic Shock — Feeling the Pain — Independent
4) Decivilize — Decivilize — Pavement
5) Operation: Mindcrime — Resurrection — Frontiers

Other Adds/Reviewed: Brant Bjork, Indivia, Deathcult, Silence the Yearning, Kzohh, Halshug, Harri Kauppinen, Triple Cripple, Nordwich, Fuzz Evil, Kryptos, Altar of Oblivion, Abigail, Moase, Excuse, Cryfemal, Phil Rudd, Truck Fighters, Ordo Obsidium, Conquereor, Seremonia, Re-Armed, Lordi, Katla, Freya, Brutally Deceased, Mumincunt, Aggravator, Asphyx, Swine Overlord, Far Beyond, Crator, Nonexist, Ruptured Birth, Barishi, Saint Vitus, RavenEye

OPERATION: MINDCRIME
Resurrection
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
As much as I want to slag on Geoff (aka “the Vest”)  this album sounds like the later pre- Todd Queensryche.  Good groove, catchy hard rock type stuff.  I could probably do without the Sax in some songs, but pretty decent.  Yeah, it’s not really a metal record like the other Ryche guys are doing… but it’s good.

Winterfylleth
The Dark Hereafter
Candlelight
Classic black metal with a little bit of a drony doomy feeling going on… otherwise full on melodic black metal.  Good stuff.

Brant Bjork
Tao Of The Devil
Napalm Records
A throwback classic hard rock type thing, with maybe a little Alice In Chains vibe too.

Opeth
Sorceress
Nuclear Blast Entertainment
As with the past couple “new Opeth” sounding records (sans growls and death metal stuff) this follows the Proggy throwback hard rock type stuff that Opeth has now been known for.  I think this one throws in a few more pink floyd-ish slower/melodic tracks… but a track like Chrysalis gets the heavy prog back in gear to make up for it.

Decivilize
Decivilize
Pavement Music
A groove metal with a little prog thing/modern commerical metal thing all going on too.

Toxic Shock
Feeling The Pain (EP)
Independent
Classic thrash, a bit raw and maybe a pinch of punk

INDIVIA
Horta
Argonauta Records
Stoner metal.  good meaty groove.

Deathcult (Switzerland)
Beasts of Faith
Invictus Productions
Good ol brutal death metal, maybe a little bit of a blackened death metal thing.  Good production, brutal!

Silence The Yearning
Unto My Death I Yield
SlowDriver Productions
Kind of a melodic heavy deathy doom thing

KZOHH
Trilogy: Burn Out The Remains
Label:  Ashen Dominion
three really long songs of black metal… at first I thought it was just going to be annoying, but it gets kind of brutal and a good headbanger in a creepy black metal way.

HALSHUG
Sort Sind
Southern Lord
Blackened punky sounding death metal, fairly short songs, in your face.

Harri Kauppinen
Helvetin laulut
Concorde Music Company
Down tempo doomy stuff with finnish clean vox.  Meh.

Triple Cripple
Nursing Home For Retired Hookers
Horror Pain Gore Death
Decent death metal, a bit raw, but a bit on the gore/humor side of extreme death metal.

Band: NordWitch
Album: Mørk Profeti
Label: Satanath records / Darzamadicus records
brutal melodic death metal, cookie monster female vox with other screams going on.  Fast, intense, catchy too.  GOod stuff.

FUZZ EVIL
Fuzz Evil
Battleground Records
Stoner metal, good groove and a little throwback thing too

Kryptos
Burn Up The Night
AFM Records
Melodic kind of power metal meets black metal.  Music is more melodic classic metal and vox are more of an abrasive feel.  A bit thrash vox in one song, screamy black metal style in another.  decent stuff…

ALTAR OF OBLIVION
Barren Grounds (CD, TAPE)
Shadow Kingdom
Classic metal / power metal-ish.  Melodic, a bit doomy on track 3

Abigail (Japan)
The Final Damnation LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Heavy heavy thrash, a bit catchy, some old school feeling too … good stuff

MOASE
Vertigo
Signal Rex
Post-metal ambient doomy type stuff.

EXCUSE
Goddess Injustice (12″ MLP)
Shadow Kingdom / Hells Headbangers
Brutal heavy blackened thrash… a bit raw in the production, but it’s all good.

CRYFEMAL
D6s6nti6rro
Osmose Productions
Black metal.  Cold guitars, crazy screamy vox, some good melody, heavy drumming.  GOod classic black metal with good production too!

Phil Rudd
Head Job
Wave 365 Media
Just a straight-ahead classic rock type thing… coming from the former AC/DC drummer.

Truckfighters
V
Century Media
Laid back groovin’ prog rock.  A bit of a stoner metal vibe too.   Good stuff, maybe just not for regular mosh pit play.

ORDO OBSIDIUM
A crooked path to desolation
Eisenwald
Good melodic black metal.   brutal while still staying with some melodies.

Conqueror (Canada)
War.Cult.Supremacy DLP/DCD+DVD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Brutal blackened death metal… it’s raw and heavy

Seremonia
Pahuuden äänet
Svart
Melodic ambient maybe gothy stoner stuff.  female fronted sounding.

Re-Armed
The Era of Pracarity
Saarni Records
There’s a classic thrash vibe here, but more modern and heavier.  Great stuff!

Lordi
Monstereophonic (Theaterror vs. Demonarchy)
AFM Records
Commercial-ish Over the top hard rockin’ metal I think I used to say it was Europe’s answer to Gwar?  Well, it’s still “metal” but more like what you’d see at some big solid rock fest.

Katla
Embryo
Svart Records
Stoner metal with high clean vox, a bit doomy tempo-wise

FREYA
Grim
Fast Break! Records
Heavy, melodic in parts, maybe a little bit metalcore, but really just a heavy groove metal thing going on…bordering on a melodic death sound.

Brutally Deceased
Satanic Corpse CD
Doomentia
Brutal death metal with a pinch of evil black metal.  Good stuff!

Band: Mumincunt
Album: Visor Fran Muminskogarnas Morker
Label: Heathen Tribes
Blackened death metal… pretty brutal, muddy production, but you can hear there’s something cool in there.

Band: Aggravator
Album: Sterile Existence
Label: Dead Center productions
Heavy thrash.  Like, a little nod to the old school, but this is basically thrashed up death metal.   Great stuff.  Monster fast riffage, catchy and brutal vox (not cookie monster) but just heavy and abrasive!

Asphyx
Incoming Death
Century Media
Kind of a groovin’ doomy death metal.  First album in 4 years from these veterans.  It’s decent with a big meaty sound

SWINE OVERLORD
Entheogenesis
Gore House Productions
Good meaty brutal death metal.  Good production and solid brutality with a huge grove.

FAR BEYOND
A Frozen Flame Of Ice
Label:  Aeterna Records
Melodic death metal, decent stuff, a little of an “epic” feel, and the heavy stuff is brutal. good mix of both.

Crator
The Ones Who Create : The Ones Who Destroy
Self-Release
Blackened death metal that doesn’t fuck around.  Brutal, (yes, I use that word a lot!) great riff, catchy stuff and harsh growly vox.

Abigorum & Cryostasium
Unholy Ghost Liturgy (Collaboration Album)
Satanath Records & Abstruse Eerie Radiance
Collaboration between two bands (Abigorum & Cryostasium) to make an album together of psychedelic doomy black metal.  Mostly noisy frenetic black metal… and noise… lots of noise… ugh.

NONEXIST
The New Flesh
Self Released
A little thrash, a bit groove, prog metal and some death metal… a great mix of technicality and brutality.

RUPTURED BIRTH
Transmutant
CDN Records
Brutal death metal with technciality too!

BARISHI
Blood from the Lion’s Mouth
Season of Mist
Kind of laid back, kind of black metal, brutal in parts, chilled out proggy stuff too

SAINT VITUS
Live Vol. 2
Season of Mist
Live album, a bit raw and bootleg-ish sounding.  Captures a live vibe well I guess… Doomy throwback from a band that’s been around since before it was a throwback, when it was just it., right?

RavenEye
NOVA – Download
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Good classic hard rock, you know that AOR stuff we all knew and loved in the early 90’s?  Good catchy anthemic songs but also a good groove with a singer that can really sing. Yeah.  this is that kinda stuff and it’s cool.  (just not really for the Mosh Pit!)

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2016-09-19 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Charred Walls of the Damned / My Eyes / Creatures Watching Over The Dead / Metal Blade
Helstar / From The Pulpit To The Pit / Vampiro / EMP
Heaven Below / Nefarious Angels (Feat. Jason Mcmaster) / Good Morning Apocalypse / EMP
Allegaeon / Proponent For Sentience I – The Conception / Proponent For Sentience / Metal Blade
Meshiaak / Maniacle / Alliance of Thieves / Mascot Label Group
Evil Invaders / Raising Hell / In For The Kill (Ep) / Napalm Records
Airbourne / Breakin’ Outta Hell / Breeakin’ Outta Hell / Spinefarm
Airbourne / Rivalry / Breeakin’ Outta Hell / Spinefarm
Sodom / Who Is God? / Decision Day / SPV
Vicious Rumors / 1000 Years / Concussion Protocol / SPV
Monte Pittman / Guilty Pleasure / Inverted Grasp of Balance / Metal Blade Records
Evergrey / Someday / The Storm Within / AFM
Source / Forgiveness / Return To Nothing / Pavement
Epica / Universal Death Squad / Universal Death Squad (Single) / Nuclear Blast Usa
The Agonist / The Moment / Five / Napalm Records
Devin Townsend Project / Stormbending / Transcendence / InsideOut
Numenor / Dragonheart / Sword And Sorcery / Stygian Crypt Productions
Soilwork / Sadistic Lullabye 2010 / Death Resonance / Nuclear Blast Records
Solution .45 / Inescaple Dream / Nightmares In The Waking State Part II / AFM Records
SikTh / Philistine Philosophies / Opacities / Peaceville Records
KING 810 / Heavy Lies The Crown / La Petite Mort Or A Conversation With God / Roadrunner
Steve ‘n’ Seagulls / Symphony of Destruction / Symphony of Destruction /
Asenblut / Drachenborn / Berserker / AFM Records
Finsterforst / Hangover / Yolo / Napalm Records
Brujeria / Profecia Del Anticristo / Pocho Aztlan / Nuclear Blast Records
Division Vansinne / Första Terror Pergamentet / Dimension Darkness / Black Lion Records
Heaven Shall Burn / Bring The War Home / Wanderer / Century Media
Vahrzaw / End Room / Twin Suns & Wolves’ Tongues / Blood Harvest
Inquisition / Vortex From The Celestial Flying Throne Of Storms / Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith / Season of Mist
Make Them Suffer / Threads / Old Souls – Lord Of Woe / Rise Records
Every Time I Die / Fear And Trembling / Low Teens / Epitaph
Every Time I Die / Glitches / Low Teens / Epitaph
Norma Jean / 1,000,000 Watts / Polar Similar / TOOTH & NAIL

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 9/19/16

Artist — Album — Label
1) Sodom — Decision Day — SPV
2) Vicious Rumors — Concussion Protocol — SPV
3) Meshiaak — Alliance of Theives — Mascot
4) Soilwork — Death Resonance — Nuclear Blast
5) Helstar — Vampiro — EMP
6) Solution .45 — Nightmares In The Waking State II — AFM
7) Asenblut — Berserker — AFM
8) Inquisition — Bloodshed Across the Empyrean… — Season of Mist
9) Finsterforst — #Yolo — Napalm
10) Devin Townsend Project — Transcendence — InsideOut
11) Vahrzaw — Twin Suns & Wolves’ Tongues — Blood Harvest
12) Norma Jean — Polar Similar — Tooth & Nail
13) Allegaeon — Proponent for Sentience — Metal Blade
14) Evergrey — The Storm Within — AFM
15) Make Them Suffer — Old Souls/ Lord of Woe — Rise
16) Heaven Shall Burn — Wanderer — Century Media
17) Brujeria — Pocho Azaltan — Nuclear Blast
18) Monte Pittman — Inverted Grasp of Balance — Metal Blade
19) Evil Invaders — In for the Kill — Napalm
20) Sikth — Opacities — Peaceville

Top 5 Adds
1) Allegaeon — Proponent for Sentience — Metal Blade
2) Charred Walls of/Damned — Creatures Watching Over/Dead — Metal Blade
3) Epica — The Holographic Principle — Nuclear Blast
4) The Agonist — Five — Napalm
5) King 810 — La Petite Mort or A Conv. w/God — Roadrunner

Other Adds/Reviewed: Every Time I Die, Heaven Below, Airbourne, Watts, Aggravator, Source, Tyketto (single), The Kreoles, Division Vansinne, True Widow, The Holeum, Almah, Darkwell, Insomnium, Predatory Light, Neurosis, Sin of God, Numenor, Brain Tentacles, Stojar, Okkultokrati, The Extinct Dreams, Sumerlands