Anaka
The Unwavering
Godsend
Heavy metal with a thrashy groove metal vibe.

Apocalyptica
Shadowmaker
Eleven Seven
Kind of commercial sounding, proggy and metal too.  Pretty… this one takes a bit to digest, but they have a good track record, lots of stuff going on and more vocals this time around.  Theyv’e come a long way from doing metallica covers.

Aqualamb Records
Spring Label Sampler 2015
Aqualamb
A few different bands from this label sampler… seems to be mostly stoner doom type stuff.  Some better than others.

Native Construct
Quiet World
Metal Blade Records
Proggy, eclectic metal, catchy, technical and even jazzy in parts.  This is one of those bands where it’s all over the place, yet still cool.  Definitely 100% prog though.

The Fine Constant
Woven In Light
Self Released – LOCAL
Technical proggy instrumental metal.  a 3 piece on their sophomore effort.  Seems a bit more cohesive on this album, songs are short, tight and catchy too.  Great stuff from the local girl and boys!

GRUESOME
Savage Land (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
A throwback to late 80’s Florida death metal, almost like Death meets Obituary going on here.  Featuring members of Exhumed, Possessed, Malevolent Creation and Derketa.  It’s got a raw feel, but sounds great, has technical chops, it’s brutal and catchy too.

ZOMBI
The Zombi Anthology
Relapse Records
Synthy background music type stuff… sounds like background music to horror or sci-fi movies.

While She Sleeps
Brainwashed
Razor And Tie
Hardcore infused with thrashy stuff and melodic stuff too.  So Metalcore?  yeah.  There are melodic singy parts, but in this case, I don’t think it real ruins it like some do.

Shattered Sun
Hope Within Hatred
Victory Records
Metalcore with some melodic stuff, techy proggy guitar work… but then you get into some of that seemingly almost autotune sounding chorus.  And dammit, the metal on this is pretty good to have to have it mucked up by emo vox in a chorus.

The Devil In California
Longer Ride Down
Murder of Crows Records
Some melodic hard rock with a pinch of southern hard rock and lots of grooves.  (feat. Snake From Skinlab)

Kamelot
Haven (Singles)
Napalm Records
A couple tracks from the new Kamelot… great stuff, new singer fits in great, nice to have some power metal that feels epic, but yet has some balls too.

MF RUCKUS
Thieves Of Thunder
Self Released
Raw hard rock with a smidge of punk.

The Prestige
Amer
Imminence Records
Hardcore with a little bit of a grindy metalcore punk sound.

Kult of Taurus
Adversarial Paths: The Sinister Essence CD
Forever Plagued
Doomy metal with black metal going on too.

Chaos Echoes
Transient LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Drony doomy yawn.

Antiversum
Total Vacuum
Invictus Productions
Noisy black metal with shitty production.

The Tangent
A Spark in the Aether
InsideOut
Some classic prog rock with some hard rock tendencies… a lot like Spocks Beard or Transatlantic.  Probably not for the Mosh Pit, but great stuff!

GRETHOR
Cloaked In Decay
Self Released
Heavy, a bit grindy, a bit black metal… wall of noisy evil metal.

HYBRID NIGHTMARES
The Second Age
Self Released
Australian “extreme” metal.  It’s got elements of melodic death, thrash, and harsh black metal-like vocals.  Pretty cool catchy stuff going on too.

Tribulation
The Children Of The Night
Century Media
a Doomy black metal thing.  Lots of great press on this one, there’s almost like Ghost (BC)-like melodic stuff, but a bit more heavy and evil too.

Percussor
Proclamation Of Hate
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Good ol classic death metal.

DEEZ NUTS
Word Is Bond
Century Media
Classic hardcore, good stuff, no fucking around.

Gift Giver
Shitlife
Century Media
A sort of modern metal thing here, yeah, a bit metalcore, a little bit of a math metal feel, some raw hardcore too.

Entropy O.A.C.
Dark Clouds and Clarity
Pavement Entertainment
Modern “solid rock” sounding metal.  Clean vox, standard metal type stuff.

WHORION
THE REIGN OF THE 7th SECTOR
INVERSE RECORDS
Melodic death metal, leaning on the brutal side of things.  good stuff.

A Secret Revealed
The Bleakness
Bastardized Recordings
Post metal, noisy guitars, shout/screaming vocals… a little dooomy/grindy/drony guitars.  (not really for me.)

VERMORD
Dawn Of The Black Harvest
Grimoire Records
Fast brutal black metal.  good stuff.

Grieved
Samaritans
Prosthetic
A big doomy extreme metal type sound.  I’ve been conditioned that stuff like this has to be long long songs, and these are all sub-3-min tracks… so it’s not too shabby.

ALIEN DEVIANT CIRCUS (from France)
Ananta Abhâva
Necrocosm Productions
(*Jan 2015 release*)
Industrial Black Metal, kind of noisy, drowned out in black metal noise with low res production.

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2015-04-13 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Armored Saint / Win Hands Down / Win Hands Down (Single) / Metal Blade Records
Stone Sour / Creeping Death / Meanwhile In Burbank / Roadrunner
All That Remains / Divide / The Order of Things / Razor & Tie
Byzantine / Justinian Code / To Release Is to Resolve / Self Released
COAL CHAMBER / I.O.U. Nothing (Single) / Rivals / Metal Blade Records
Sepultura / Slave New World / Chaos A.D. / Roadrunner Records
Prong / Kids of the Black Hole / Songs From the Black Hole / Steamhammer
Mammoth Mammoth / Lookin’ Down the Barrel / Volume IV – Hammered Again / Vertigo/Capitol
Embrace Of Thorns / Sons of Fire and Brimstone Levitate / Darkness Impenetrable / Nuclear War Now! Productions
Black Flame / My Temple of Flesh / The Origin Of Fire / Avantgarde Music
Arvas / Redemption Black / Black Satanic Mysticism / ATMF
Perdition Temple / The Doomsday Chosen / The Tempter’s Victorious / Hell’s Headbanger’s
Abhor / De Exorcismis Et Supplicationibus Quibusdam / Ritualia Stramonium / Moribund
Morgoth / Descent into Hell / Ungod / Century Media Records
Apophys / Miscreants / Prime Incursion / Metal Blade Records
Infernus / Candles, Horns and Tongues / Grinding Christian Flesh / Moribund
Abominator / Evil Proclaimed / Evil Proclaimed / Hell’s Headbanger’s
Exodus / War Is My Shepherd / Tempo of the Damned / Nuclear Blast
Inculter / Pastoral Slaughter / Persisting Devolution / Edged Circle Productions
Ranger / Storm of Power / Where Evil Dwells / Spinefarm Records
Bio-Cancer / Boxed Out / Tormenting the Innocent / Candlelight Records
CONTINUUM / The Epiphany / The Hypothesis / Unique Leader
Abiotic / Reanimated Destruction / Casuistry / Metal Blade Records
Witch Of The Waste / She Burst Into Snakes / Made Of Teeth / Self Released
Theories / Abortive Crescent / Regression / Metal Blade Records
Segression / Killing Kingdom / Painted in Blood / Murder Machine Records
Melechesh / The Outsiders / Enki / Nuclear Blast
Wrathage / Walking To Death / Discipline / MAA Productions
Barren Earth / Chaos, The Songs Within / On Lonely Towers / Century Media
Moonspell / A Dying Breed / Extinct (Bonus Track Version) / Napalm Records
Sorcerer / The Gates of Hell / In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross / Metal Blade Records
Where Evil Follows / Lifting the Veil / Portable Darkness / Moribund
Sonic Prophecy / Temple of the Sun / Apocalyptic Promenade / Maple Metal Records
Red Moon Architect / This Won’t Fade / Fall / Playground Music Finland
Band of Spice / True Will / Economic Dancers / Scarlet Records
Spiritual Beggars / Sedated / Ad Astra / Music For Nations

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 4/13/15

Artist  —  Album  —  Label
1) Byzantine  —  To Release Is To Resolve  —  Self Released
2) Moonspell  —  Extinct  —  Napalm
3) Sorcerer  —  In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross  —  Metal Blade
4) Bio-Cancer  —  Tormenting the Innocent  —  Candlelight
5) Segression  —  Painted In Blood  —  Murder Machine
6) Melechesh  —  Enki  —  Nuclear Blast
7) Theories  —  Regression  —  Metal Blade
8) Ranger  —  Where Evil Dwells  —  Spinefarm
9) Perdition Temple  —  The Tempter’s Victorious  —  Hells Headbangers
10) All That Remains  —  The Order of Things  —  Razor & Tie
11) Prong  —  Songs from the Black Hole  —  eOne
12) Barren Earth  —  On Lonely Towers  —  Century Media
13) Where Evil Follows  —  Portable Darkness  —  Moribund
14) Wrathage  —  Discipline  —  MAA Productions
15) Abhor  —  Rituale Stramonium  —  Moribund
16) Inculter  —  Presisting Devolution  —  Edged Circle
17) Abominator  —  Evil Proclaimed  —  Hells Headbangers
18) Sonic Prophecy  —  Apocalyptic Promenade  —  Maple Metal
19) Apophys  —  Prime Incursion  —  Metal Blade
20) Morgoth  —  Ungod  —  Century Media

Top 5 Adds
1) Abiotic  —  Casuistry  —  Metal Blade
2) Continuum  —  The Hypothesis  —  Unique Leader
3) Red Moon Architect  —  Fall  —  Playground Music
4) Mammoth Mammoth  —  Volume IV- Hammered Again  —  Napalm
5) Embrace of Thorns  —  Darkness Impenetrable  —  Nuclear War Now!  —

Other Adds:  Armored Saint (Single), Stone Sour EP, Airstream, Band of Spice, Black Flame, Downfall of Nur, Eohum, Sacred Blood, Bladecatcher, Starsick System, Infernus, Wende, Witch of the Waste, Acid King, NocternityNuclear War Now! Productions

Abiotic
Casuistry
Metal Blade Records
Technical death metal.  Fast, in your face modern death metal with some almost Cynic like musical proggy techy interludes.  Vocals are just full on brutal.  I want to break things now.

Continuum
The Hypothesis
Unique Leader
Brutal core death metal, screamy angry vox along with great cookie monster growls.

Red Moon Architect
Fall
Playground Music
So it’s starting off with some femetal vocals, all quiet and unassuming, then boom, death metal.  YEEESSSS.  So yeah, the comparisons to Opeth come into play, as it’s some standard doomy female fronted rock type stuff, then we get into cool doomy death metal stuff.  Cool dynamics.

Stone Sour
Meanwhile In Burbank…
Roadrunner
Covers EP with 5 tracks… Alice In Chains, Priest, Kiss, Metallica, Sabbath.  A good straightfoward slab of 5 covers.  I’m a sucker for cover songs, so this is pretty cool.

Armored Saint
Win Hands Down – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Well, when John Bush was in Anthrax, he was out there a lot more, and since he’s gone, we really only get to hear him in is “own” band… and it’s great.  Just solid classic metal.  This is just a single for now, but Armored Saint doesn’t disappoint.

Airstream
Kingdom Of Isolation
Metalville Records
One of those early-mid 90’s hard rock/AOR sounding type bands.  We got clean vox, keyboards, catchy hooks, but probably just not quite Mosh Pit Material.

MAMMOTH MAMMOTH
Volume IV – Hammered Again
Napalm Records
A grungy punk/stoner metal type thing.  More musically, it’s stoner metal, vocally, I think the punk or whatever the style is kind of ruins it a bit for me.

Embrace of Thorns
Darkness Inpenetrable LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Fast and furious black metal leaning towards death metal.

NELSON
Rockstar Radio Single
Frontiers Music
Well, yes, it’s THE Nelson.  This is just a single, and it’s some catchy hard rock.  Sounds like old Nelson but with shorter haircuts.

Shrine Of The Serpent
Shrine Of The Serpent
Materia Prima Records
Sludgey death metal, 3 long songs.

BLACK FLAME
The origin of Fire
Avantgarde Music
Blackened Death metal from Italy.  Good fast pace, evil sounding vox, cold guitars, yet some melody mixed in with the blast beats.

DOWNFALL OF NUR
Umbras de Barbagia
Avantgarde Music
Atmospheric Folk Black Metal from Argentina.  A mix of some melodic death/black metal with noisy death metal.

Éohum
Revelations, Aurora of An Epoch
Mycelium Networks (Asher Media)
Black/death metal with some epic stuff going on, trumpet in a track or two, some doom stuff, but also full on black and death metal too.

BAND OF SPICE
Economic Dancers
Scarlet Records
Remember that band Spritual Beggars and how awesome their first couple albums were?  And the singer’s name was Spice.  This band’s name has that word in it too… coincidence?  Nope.  A catchy hard rockin’ stoner metal type band with Spice on lead vox.  Not quite as good as Spiritual Beggars, but this reminds me a little bit of some basic Trouble and just some catchy stoner metal.

Seigmen
Enola
Indie Recordings
Melodic doomy not-quite-metal stuff.

BANTORIAK
Weedooism
Argonauta Records
Heavy doomy down tempo slow “metal”   One track is “try to sleep”  well, yeah, nuff said.

Sacred Blood
Argonautica
Pitch Black Records
Anthemic power metal.  I found myself pumping my fist and wanting to sing along.  SOme epic symphonic keyboardy stuff, catchy stuff too.

BLADECATCHER
Obverse
EEE Recordings
Fast, technical death metal, but the production kind of sucks.  bummer. It’s intense, fast and cool.

STARSICK SYSTEM
Daydreamin’
Bakerteam Records
A little bit Fates Warning, a little 80’s hard rock going on.

Infernus
Grinding Christian Flesh
Moribund
Scary, old school black metal.  Raw, evil, creepy and full on metal. Production isn’t great, but it’s not unlistenable either.

Wende
Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft
Moribund
Old school black metal, a bit more atmospheric and doomy… still fast and screamy vox, but just even a darker more depressing feel than the stereotypical “old school black metal”

Black Witchery + Revenge (Canada)
Holocaustic Death March to Humanity’s Doom – split MLP/MCD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
BLack witchery is some sludgey, yet old school black metal with some “meh” production.  Revenge just one 10 min. track of full on death metal…

Witch of The Waste
Made of Teeth
Self Released (Asher)
Thrashy, a bit metalcore, a bit death metal.

Acid King
Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere
Svart Records
Big meaty, doomy sludge metal

Nocternity (Greece)
Harps of the Ancient Temples
Iron Bonehead
doomy black metal.  Lots of that cold guitar, down tempo and depressing.

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2015-04-06 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Satanic Warmaster / Funeral Wolves / Fimbulwinter / Hell’s Headbangers
Morgoth / Snakestate / Ungod / Century Media Records
Impalers / God From The Machine / God From The Machine / Crime Records
Inculter / Traducers Attack / Persisting Devolution / Edged Circle Productions
Bio-Cancer / Bulletproof / Tormenting the Innocent / Candlelight Records
Evil Invaders / Shot To Paradise / Pulses of Pleasure / Napalm Records
Allegaeon / Preaching the Machine / 2008 EP / Allegaeon
Mutilated By Zombies / Encore Horror / Cymatics Of Death / Self-released
Burial Ritual / Exterminating the Masses / Exterminating the Masses / Friendly Fire Distro
Casket Robbery / Blood Bathory / Blood Bathory – Single / Casket Robbery
War Of Abaddon / Pyrrhic Victory / This Hell Dies With Me / Self Released
Abominator / Black Mass Warfare / Evil Proclaimed / Hell’s Headbanger’s
Theories / Shame / Regression / Metal Blade Records
Apophys / Requiem for the Absurd / Prime Incursion / Metal Blade Records
Sworn In / Sunshine / The Lovers / The Devil / Razor & Tie
Segression / Refuse to React / Painted in Blood / Murder Machine Records
Psychomancer / Inject the Worms / Inject the Worms – EP / Orchestrated Misery Recordings
Perdition Temple / Godess In Death / The Tempter’s Victorious / Hell’s Headbanger’s
Cyhyraeth / As the World Burns / Servant to the Fire / Cyhyraeth
Melechesh / Enki – Divine Nature Awoken / Enki / Nuclear Blast
Heidevolk / Winter Woede / Velua / Napalm Records
Wrathage / Of The Great Chief / Discipline / MAA Productions
Barren Earth / A Shapeless Derelict / On Lonely Towers / Century Media
Abhor / Diabolus Est Qui id Invocate / Ritualia Stramonium / Moribund
Moonspell / Funeral Bloom / Extinct (Bonus Track Version) / Napalm Records
Sonic Prophecy / Eventide / Apocalyptic Promenade / Maple Metal Records
Where Evil Follows / Reborn / Portable Darkness / Moribund
Lords of the Trident / Light This City / Frostburn / Junko Johnson/Killer Metal
Sorcerer / In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross / In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross / Metal Blade Records
Whitesnake / Stormbringer / The Purple Album / Frontiers Records
Agnostic Front / The American Dream Died / The American Dream Died / Nuclear Blast Records
Prong / Goofy’s Concern / Songs From the Black Hole / Steamhammer
Byzantine / The Agonies / To Release Is to Resolve / Self Released
Between the Buried and Me / Memory Palace / Memory Palace (Single) / Metal Blade Records
All That Remains / No knock / The Order of Things / Razor & Tie

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 4/6/15

Artist — Album — Label
1) Melechesh — Enki — Nuclear Blast
2) Lords of the Trident — Frostburn — Killer Metal
3) Moonspell — Extinct — Napalm
4) Sorcerer — In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross — Metal Blade
5) Evil Invaders — Pulses of Pleasure — Napalm
6) Byzantine — To Release Is To Resolve — Self Released
7) Bio-Cancer — Tormenting the Innocent — Candlelight
8) Theories — Regression — Metal Blade
9) Segression — Painted In Blood — Murder Machine
10) All That Remains — The Order of Things — Razor & Tie
11) Ranger — Where Evil Dwells — Spinefarm
12) Perdition Temple — The Tempter’s Victorious — Hells Headbangers
13) Prong — Songs from the Black Hole — eOne
14) Barren Earth — On Lonely Towers — Century Media
15) Wrathage — Discipline — MAA Productions
16) Abhor — Rituale Stramonium — Moribund
17) Inculter — Presisting Devolution — Edged Circle
18) Where Evil Follows — Portable Darkness — Moribund
19) Sonic Prophecy — Apocalyptic Promenade — Maple Metal
20) Abominator — Evil Proclaimed — Hells Headbangers

Top 5 Adds
1) Apophys — Prime Incursion — Metal Blade
2) Morgoth — Ungod — Century Media
3) Heidevolk — Velua — Napalm
4) Agnostic Front — The American Dream Died — Nuclear Blast
5) Sworn In — The Lovers/The Devil — Razor & Tie

Other Adds: Between the Buried and Me (Single), Whitesnake, Cracked Alice, Station, Lay Siege, Denizen, Malthusian, Satanic Warmaster, Abominator, Ether, Oshiego, Psychomancer, Impalers, Plage, Sinners Moon, Velvet Six, Despot, Vasomortus, Pohjoinen, Cyhyraeth

Station
Station
Electric Cheetah
Sounds just like some 90’s hard rock AOR type stuff. It’s a little like some Whitesnake or that sort of band from that era.  While it’s good and all, I’m not sure it’s long term Mosh Pit material.

Sworn In
The Lovers/The Devil
Razor & Tie
A little djenty, math metal, (a Winds of Plague tone) brutalcore type stuff… then into a melodic chorus with singy vox… while it’s that sort of catchy pop-metal chorus thing, I’m not quite sure if it’s a full on deal breaker yet.  Ok, more tracks are like it… so, hmmm…

Kings Destroy
“Mr. O” (single)
War Crime
Catchy melodic stoner metal.

Agnostic Front
The American Dream Died
Nuclear Blast USA
Great hardcore stuff as always, with the very distinctive vocals which really makes these guys stand out and you know exactly who you got.  The music is heavy and great…

Cracked Alice
Soul Debris (EP)
Independent
Kind of commercial metal sounding, melodic stuff, some catchy guitars and maybe a little bit prog rockish too.

HEIDEVOLK
Velua
Napalm Records
Folk metal with some thrashy stuff and death metal stuff going on musically, pretty catchy and the folk stuff works well with this band.

Whitesnake
Radio Sample
Frontiers Music
Just a two song sampler from the forthcoming album… Coverdale decided to go back and re-do a bunch of his old Deep Purple tracks with the current Whitesnake lineup… I have to say it sounds pretty good, as I was a little late on a lot of the deeper or not so popular DP tracks.  This has “Stormbringer” and “Burn”

Malthusian
Below the Hengiform
Invictus Productions
Brutal and chaotic doomy black/death metal. Three long tracks, sometimes pretty blah, but it does get heavy and fast and a little melody too.  Sometimes bands like this just stay in that drony noise, but this one breaks free and gets brutal.

Ill Omen
Compendium Melificarum – Esoterica CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Old school black metal, a little mooshy on the production… you know that “old school” feel, where you can’t really pick anything out, it’s just all kind of mooshed together in a black metal noise.

DENIZEN
Troubled Waters
Argonauta Records
Stoner metal with some attitude.  Catchy stuff, not all that “brutal”… just some southern stoner metal feelin’ type stuff… like the more up-tempo Clutch stuff.

SKYFORGER
Senpr?sija
Thunderforge Records
Catchy melodic black metal, then we get into some folk metal too… There’s a little bit of thrash and melodic death stuff going on here too.  Great stuff.

Apophys
Prime Incursion
Metal Blade Records
Brutal death metal with oh, technical stuff too.

LAY SIEGE
hopeisnowhere
Lifeforce
Metal/hardcore meat and potatoes type stuff.  pretty cool

Ether
Hymns of Failure DCD
Sepulchral Productions
Some pretty long tracks of classic black metal.

ABOMINATOR
Evil Proclaimed (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
Classic heavy blackened death metal. There’s a bit of an evil feel or as mike would say “What’s THEIR Problem?” hehe.  cool stuff.

SATANIC WARMASTER
Fimbulwinter (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers / Werewolf Records
Another from the “What’s THEIR problem” department.  Fast, heavy classic black metal. Cold guitars, good production, evil vocals and your good ol fashioned blast beats.  A bit of a melodic break here and there to make it more interesting.

Morgoth
Ungod
Century Media
Classic death metal from a classic death metal band! First real album since 1996 !   New vocalist, classic death metal going on here and it’s 100% brutal.  Great stuff.

INCANTATION
Entrantment of Evil MLP
Hells Headbangers
Reissue from 1990… Sounds like good stuff… classic death metal from a great band.

Psychomancer
Inject the Worms
Orchestrated Misery Recordings
Thrashy death metal leaning more towards the classic death metal side of things.

Oshiego
Crossing The Bridge Of Siraat CD
Horror Pain Gore Death
Thrashened death metal with some middle-eastern riffs/sounds. This band is actually from Singapore and has some catchy brutal stuff going on.

IMPALERS
GOD FROM THE MACHINE
CRIME RECORDS
Fast, heavy thrash from Denmark.  Great catchy galloping riffs,

Spitfire
Fuel To Burn
Indie Recordings
Hard rock with a catchy side… probably a bit on the “solid rock” side of things for the Mosh Pit… but it would fit on that show that I’d do if I had another show for this type of stuff. haha.

PLAGE
Den Kristne Stank
Alusia Productions
And old school black metal thing, pretty much that classic black metal thing going on.

Strong Addiction
Anesthesia
Inverse Records
Hard Rock/Melodic metal… reminds me a little of Last Crack actually.

Sinners Moon
Atlantis
Inverse
Fe-metal… power metal-ish music, female fronted stuff with epic orchestra stuff going on…and what’s this?  growls?  Yup… sweet.  We got some epica sounding stuff now… and now we’re talking. Good stuff.

Velvet Six
Demons Los Divas
Inverse
Gothy Hard rock… some organ stuff to make it you know, all creepy and gothy.  It’s interesting, haven’t heard any real decent gothy stuff lately.

DESPOT
PICTURES OF THE VOID
SELF RELEASED
Old school black metal but fast and thrashy too.  Production is a bit raw, but still good enough.

Shroud of Despondency
Family Tomb
Self-released
1 February 2015

Between the Buried and Me
Memory Palace – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Starting off here, I thought I was listening to some new Opeth!  Proggy organs and stuff… if the rest of their album this will be cemeting these guys more and more into the prog metal halls of fam. Album comes up July 7.  Can’t Waid!

VASOMORTUS
Instrument Torture Of Pyramid
Brute Productions
Heavy, brutal, old school death metal

Pohjoinen
Pohjoinen
Inverse Records
Doomy doom metal with a throwback to some 70s’ metal.

CYHYRAETH
Servant To The Fire
Self Released
Female fronted melodic death metal.  Vocally, it’s a little bit like Arch Enemy, musically, a bit more on the death metal side.  Good stuff.

Playlist Date / On Air / Off Air / Show Name / Category / DJ Name
2015-03-30 / 23:00:00 / 02:00:00 / Mosh Pit / Music / The Book (Mike)
Artist / Song / Disk / Label
Melechesh / Multiple Truths / Enki / Nuclear Blast
Moonspell / Medusalem / Extinct (Bonus Track Version) / Napalm Records
Prong / Doomsday / Songs From the Black Hole / Steamhammer
Full Devil Jacket / Valley of Bones / Valley of Bones / eOne Music
Killer Bee / Scream It / Rock Another Day / Self Released
Uli Jon Roth / Hell-Cat / Scorpions Revisited / UDR
Damian Murdoch Trio / Funky Desert Rider / Electric Tentacles / Prosthetic
Wrathage / Born Girt For War / Discipline / MAA Productions
The Agonist / A Necessary Evil / Eye of Providence / Century Media
Byzantine / A Curious Lot / To Release Is to Resolve / Self Released
Ovid’s Withering / Murder to Dissect / Scryers of the Ibis / Unique Leader Records
Gideon / World of Hurt / Calloused / Facedown Records
Conniption / State of Sin / Time Has Come / Conniption
Lords of the Trident / Kill to Die / Frostburn / Junko Johnson/Killer Metal
Nightwish / Shudder Before the Beautiful / Endless Forms Most Beautiful (Deluxe Edition) / Nuclear Blast GmbH
Where Evil Follows / Symbiotic / Portable Darkness / Moribund
Evil Invaders / Stairway To Insanity / Pulses of Pleasure / Napalm Records
Inculter / Commander / Persisting Devolution / Edged Circle Productions
Dr. Living Dead / Force Fed / Crush the Sublime Gods / Century Media
Ranger / Phantom Soldier / Where Evil Dwells / Spinefarm Records
Bio-Cancer / Tormenting the Innocent / Tormenting the Innocent / Candlelight Records
Theories / Cycle of Decay / Regression / Metal Blade Records
Massenhinrichtung / The Blizzard / Zakon Zbroi / Darker Than Black Records
Mürg / Grannen är din fiende / Varg & Björn / Nordvis
Katavasia / Symphony Des Gravens / Sacrilegious Testament / Floga Records
Enslaved / Nauthir Bleeding / In Times / Nuclear Blast Records
Allegaeon / Tyrants of the Terrestrial Exodus / Elements of the Infinite / Metal Blade Records
Arvas / Flames of Black / Black Satanic Mysticism / ATMF
Lago / Father of All / Tyranny / Blood Harvest
Perdition Temple / Scythes of the Antichrist / The Tempter’s Victorious / Hell’s Headbanger’s
Nepente / Show Me That You’re Suffering / I Will Get Your Soul / Cimmerian Shade Recordings
Cognitive / Blood Hungry / Cognitive / Self Released
Barren Earth / Howl / On Lonely Towers / Century Media
Sorcerer / Exorcise the Demon / In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross / Metal Blade Records
Abhor / Between Flames and Moon / Ritualia Stramonium / Moribund
Infesting Swarm / Ending / Desolation Road /

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 3/30/15

Artist  —  Album  —  Label
1) Melechesh  —  Enki  —  Nuclear Blast
2) The Agonist  —  Eye of Providence  —  Century Media
3) Lords of the Trident  —  Frostburn  —  Killer Metal
4) Enslaved  —  In Times  —  Nuclear Blast
5) Ovid’s Withering  —  Scyers of the Ibis  —  Unique Leader
6) Moonspell  —  Extinct  —  Napalm
7) Gideon  —  Calloused  —  Facedown
8) Dr. Living Dead!,  —  Crush the Sublime Gods  —  Century Media
9) Evil Invaders  —  Pulses of Pleasure  —  Napalm
10) Sorcerer  —  In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross  —  Metal Blade
11) Ranger  —  Where Evil Dwells  —  Spinefarm
12) Uli John Roth  —  Scorpions Revisted  —  UDR
13) Byzantine  —  To Release Is To Resolve  —  Self Released
14) Bio-Cancer  —  Tormenting the Innocent  —  Candlelight
15) Theories  —  Regression  —  Metal Blade
16) Katavasia  —  Sacrilegious Testament  —  Floga
17) Lago  —  Tyranny  —  Blood Harvest
18) Predition Temple  —  The Tempter’s Victorious  —  Hells Headbangers
19) Inculter  —  Presisting Devolution  —  Edged Circle
20) Barren Earth  —  On Lonely Towers  —  Century Media

Top 5 Adds
1) Prong  —  Songs from the Black Hole  —  eOne
2) Nightwish  —  Endless Forms Most Beautiful  —  Nuclear Blast
3) Killer Bee  —  Rock Another Day  —  Self Released
4) Damian Murdock Trio  —  Electric Tentacles  —  Prosthetic
5) Full Devil Jacket  —  Valley of Bones  —  eOne

Other Adds:  Royal Thunder, Wrathage, Where Evil Vollows, Minsk, Abhor, Temerance, Pregierz, Cognitive, Haar, Potergeist, Mellevon, Chugger, Nepente, De La Muerte, Crowbar (Reissue), Infesting Swarm, Murg, Ergot, Nyseius, Arvas

Killer Bee
Rock Another Day
Self-released
A bit thrash, a bit of a throwback to some 70’s metal with some prog thrown in. Catchy classic metal.

Prong
Songs From The Black Hole
eOne Music / SPV
The new Prong album is an album of covers from bands like Butthole Surfers, Black Flag, Fugazi, and Neil Young to name a few. It’s got that cool catchy Prong sound, but of songs you may know… I’m not a huge fan of the punky genre that most of these covers are of, but this could be an excuse to help me learn some stuff.  (I’m a Prong fan, so I’ll give it a shot!)

ROYAL THUNDER
Crooked Doors (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
Female fronted stoner grungy metal.

Damian Murdoch Trio
Electric Tentacles
Prosthetic Records
Instrumental guitar stuff.  catchy, proggy, melodic… a nice change to the norm.

MINSK
The Crash and The Draw (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
Doomy metal with a little bit of a black metal tendency. Really depressing, but there’s still a bit of hope, it’s not all just a big drony snoozefest like this genre tends to be.

Full Devil Jacket
Valley Of Bones
eOne Entertainment
Catchy commercial metal… melodic with a little edge, but really “solid rock” material here.

Nightwish
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Nuclear Blast
Pioneers of fe-metal are back with a new effort.  This band has been around for quite some time and haven’t really messed around with their formula, so you know what you’re in for.  This has some epic metal stuff going on and

The Darkness
“Open Fire” (single)
Kobalt

Akrotheism / Septuagint
Sphinx: The Great Enigma Of Times split CD
Forever Plagued
Both bands sound fairly similar, just three tracks, and it’s some old school black metal… fast, cold and evil.

TOME OF THE UNREPLENISHED
Innerstanding
I, Voidhanger Records
Kind of a drony black metal with some melodic stuff too, but overall it’s just a lil tedious to listen to.

Wrathage (from Finland)
Discipline
Label: MAA Productions
Thrashy extreme metal.  A pinch of black metal, a bit heavier thrash and some death metal… a good mix of genres taking care of metal business.

TEMPERANCE
Limitless
Scarlet Records
Female fronted power metal, which really just turns into fe-metal?  What’s fe-metal?  Well, it’s female fronted metal where the vocals are more of the operattic clean style and some standard power metal music behind it.  The music on this one has a little bit of an edge to it.

Pregierz
Blood Sanctions double-7″ EP
Blood Harvest
Blackened death metal.  Cold black metal riffage with cookie monster vox.

Arvas
Black Satanic Mysticism
ATMF
Raw punky thrashy black metal, decent production, and some classic black metal sound too.

Nyseius
De Divinatione Daemonium?
ATMF
Classic old school black metal

Ergot
Victims of Our Same Dreams
De Tenebrarum Principio
Black metal, but with a melodic laid back groove to most parts, then it does get going to classic black metal in other parts.

Murg
Varg & Björn
Nordvis Produktion
Classic black metal

Infesting Swarm
Desolation Road
Art of Propaganda
Melodic black metal metal… a bit doomy, and a bit death metally in parts too.

Predatory Light
MMXIV EP
Pesanta Urfolk
2 song ep, black metal, drony and growly.

TRISTANA
Virtual Crime
Bakerteam records
Not to be confused with TristanIa… this band is more of a commercial metal thing with some clean vox and a few growls.  A bit of electronic stuff too

Where Evil Follows
Portable Darkness
Moribund
Thrashy power metal, great to have power metal kicking it up a notch.

Crowbar
Equilibrium
eOne Music
Reissue of their album from 2000.  Crazy to think it’s been 15 years… this was a pretty good album and it’s a good exuse to play it again.

DE LA MUERTE
De La Muerte
Bakerteam Records
Catchy heavy thrash

Abhor
Rituale Stramonium
Moribund
Classic evil black metal with some keyboards, blast beats, cold guitars, good production, of all of the black metal in the inbox this week, this one might be the best.

Nepente
I Will Get Your Soul
Cimmerian Shade Recordings
Brutal death metal.  Just 4 songs, but this is 4 tracks of brutal death metal that is literally music to my ears.  Some catchy riffs, melody but cookie monster all the way.

CHUGGER
HUMAN PLAGUE
RAMBO MUSIC / GAIN MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT / SONY MUSIC
The band is called Chugger and they have a cool heavy sound with yeah, some chugga chugga going on.  Maybe a bit like Pantera with a bit of a thrashy groove.

ACID WITCH
Midnight Movies (12″ MLP)
Hells Headbangers
Seems like some horror movie, party rock type stuff.

UNMERCENARIES
Fallen in Disbelief
MFL-Records / Frozen Light
Release Date: 25 December 2014
Drony funeral doom.

MELLEVON
Solace
Self-Released
Kind of a proggy death metal… it’s keyboardy prog metal with growly vocals… interesting.  Production is decent, just sounds a bit overprocessed.

Haar
The Wayward Ceremony
ATMF
Yup, more black metal.  This one is a bit melodic, catchy and heavy…

Potergeist (from Greece)
Swampires
Label: Distroball Productions (CD), B Otherside Records (Vinyl)
Stoner metal from Greece

Cognitive
Cognitive
Self-released
4 November 2014
Death metal, a bit technical musically, great cookie monster vox, and just some catchy, classic death metal.