WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 9/4/23

Artist — Album — Label
1) Nuclear Power Trio — Wet Ass Plutonium — Metal Blade
2) Kataklysm — Goliath — Nuclear Blast
3) Besta — Terra Em Desapego — Lifeforce
4) Urne — A Fest On Sorrow — Candlelight
5) Spirit Adrift — Ghost At The Gallows — Century Media
6) Skálmöld — Ýdalir — Napalm
7) Ringworm — Seeing Through Fire — Nuclear Blast
8) Dethklok — Dethalbum IV — WaterTower
9) Werewolves — My Enemies Look & Sound Like Me — Prosthetic
10) UDO — Touchdown — Atomic Fire
11) Exmortus — Necrophony — Nuclear Blast
12) Blackbraid — Blackbraid II — Self Released
13) Knife — Heaven Into Dust — Napalm
14) Unblessed Divine — Portal To Darkness — Massacre
15) Till The Dirt — Outside the Spiral — Nuclear Blast
16) Tegmentum — Evolvement — M-Theory
17) Marduk — Memento Mori — Century Media
18) Phil Campbell & B.Sons — Kings of the Asylum — Nuclear Blast
19) Warmen — Here For None — Reaper
20) Incantation — Unholy Deification — Relapse

Top 5 Adds
1) Sylosis — A Sign of Things To Come — Nuclear Blast
2) Primal Fear — Code Red — Atomic Fire
3) Empire State Bastard — Rivers of Heresy — Roadrunner
4) Art of Shock — Shine Black Light — Another Century
5) Sodomisery — Mazzaroth — Testimony

Other Adds/Reviewed: Triskelyon, Nefariant, In Theory (single), Job for a Cowboy (single), Oomph!, Narcotic Wasteland (single), Ice Giant, Lord of Shadows, Glista, Domkraft, Overman, Mustang, We Do Not Belong Here, Excarnated Entity, Sielunviollinen, Valravn, Finsterforst, Dantalion, Black Pestilence, The Flower Kings, Fixation, The Watcher, Luring, Skull & Crossbones, Damnation Plan, Historian, Antipod

IN THEORY
STAIN ON MY SOUL
FRETBAR RECORDS
Classic hard rock with a throwback bluesy AOR groove

Job For A Cowboy
The Agony Seeping Storm – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Technica, brutal and awesome

PRIMAL FEAR
Code Red
Atomic Fire
1 September 2023
Classic metal, melodic and just what you’d expect from them

OOMPH!
Richter und Henker
(Napalm)
That Germal rammstein like sound is happening… decent stuff

Empire State Bastard
Rivers of Heresy
(Roadrunner)
Kind of an extreme hardcore type thing with a lil punky rawness

Narcotic Wasteland
Victims of The Algorithm (single)
Megaforce Records
Brutal, technical heavy death metal. Eric Shultek on drums and in the studio again… Great stuff

Nefariant
Beg (Single)
Nefariant Inc.
A kind of modern metal with a pinch of hardcore/metalcore

Art of Shock
Shine Black Light
Another Century Records
Also some bit of a modern metal, and a catchy groove

sylosis
A Sign Things To Come
Nuclear Blast USA
Melodic death, grooving, heavy good stuff

DOMKRAFT
Sonic Moons
Magnetic Eye Records
8 September 2023
Sludgey doom stonery metal stuff but some cool grooves… longer songs.

SODOMISERY
Mazzaroth
Testimony Records
8 September 2023
Kind of a melodic death… great catchy cool sound, a little blackened death, technical stuff too

Ice Giant
Ghost of Humanity
Self Released
8 September 2023
Proggy power metal, cool heavy edge too

LORD OF SHADOWS
ECHOES OF YORE
LABEL: MEUSE MUSIC RECORDS / TRAGEDY PRODUCTIONS
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 1st 2023
Kind of a doomy goth. Melodic, harsh and clean vox, with a smidge of a black metal depression

GLISTA
Album: Never Apologise for Defending Yourself From Being Violated
Label: On Parole Productions
Release date: September 1st, 2023
Thrashy grind/death metal

OVERMAN
Album: It Is All Overman
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: September 5th, 2023
Kind of a stoner post rock

MUSTANG
Album Title: Beyond Raging Thunder
Label: Fighter Records
Release Date: September 7, 2023
From India… an old school thrashy speed metal/classic metal sound with BIG screamy voice, a little like old Flotsam and Jetsam

We Do Not Belong Here
Strange to Cope in Today’s World
Self-Release
8 September 2023
dark doomy experimental black metal type stuff

Excarnated Entity
Mass Grave Horizon
Nuclear Winter
8 September 2023
Doomy and brutal death metal

Sielunvihollinen
Helvetinkone
Hammer of Hate
8 September 2023
Melodic blackened death metal, a little gloomy

Valravn (Finland)
The Awakening
Primitive Reaction
8 September 2023
An old school blackened death metal, brutal black metal stuff, but with a deathy groove

Finsterforst
Jenseits
AOP Records
8 September 2023
A 4 song EP with some decent melodic death sounding metal, but with a folky angle, longer songs

DANTALION
Fatum
Non Serviam Records
8 September 2023
Melodic blackened death, a bit of an old school black metal sound with some modern melodic stuff

TRISKELYON
Artificial Insanity
Moribund Records
8 September 2023
This is kind of an extreme thrashy sound, a cool heavy gritty sound

Black Pestilence
Chaotic Wisdom
Self-Release
8 September 2023
Blackended thrashy stuff with a little groove

The Flower Kings
Look At You Now
InsideOut
Sept 8
I’m a fan of regular old prog type stuff, and yeah thhs falls in that category good stuff for that!

Fixation
More Subtle Than Death
Indie Recordings
8 September 2023
This has a little bit of a modern metalcore type sound, but a nice melodic just good “metal” sound with a bit of progressive metal thing

The Watcher (Finland)
Kaosaura
Spread Evil
8 September 2023
This has a cool melodic blackened death sound and a catchy groove Cool stuff!!

Luring
Triumphant Fall of the Malignant Christ LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
1 September 2023
Raw old school black metal

SKULL & CROSSBONES (feat. former members of STORMWITCH)
Sungazer
Massacre Records
8 September 2023
Straight up classic metal, clean vox, catchy straightforward stuff

Damnation Plan
The New Horizon
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: September 8th 2023
Prog metal with techy music stuff, clean vox keyboards all that cool stuff. Nice!

Historian
Release Title: Total Resistance
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: April 27, 2023
Melodic Death Metal, harsh vox, good grooves, solid meedly and edgy guitar work. cool stuff.

Antipod
Eveil
Wormholedeath
September 8th, 2023.
Kind of a prog metal with clean (operattic) female and harsh vox, keyboards, groovin’ stuff too.

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Aug 28, 2023
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
The Zenith Passage / Divinertia I / Datalysium / Metal Blade
Tegmentum / Moments Ago / Evolvement / M-Theory Audio
Raven Banner / Rise Up Clan / Rise Up Clan / Self Released
The Crown / Devil Gate Ride / Deathrace King / ?
Witchery / Draw Blood / Don’t Fear The Reaper (Japan) / ?
Arch Enemy / Sinister Mephisto / Stigmata [Deluxe Edition] / ?
Hypocrisy / Killing Art / Abducted / ?
Velvet Viper / Nothing Compares To Metal / Nothing Compares To Metal / Massacre Records
Warmen / Warmen Are Here For None / Here For None / Reaper Entertainment
Exmortus / Oathbreaker / Necrophony / Nuclear Blast
Galundo Tenvulance / Red Raven / Lunar Eclipture / Spiritual Beast
Besta / Patologia Profunda / Terra Em Desapego / Lifeforce
Harms Way / Devour / Devour (Single) / Metal Blade Records
Udo / Isolation Man / Touchdown / Atomic Fire
Till The Dirt / Outside The Spiral / Outside The Spiral / Nuclear Blast Records
Nuclear Power Trio / Snark Side Of The Un / Wet Ass Plutonium / Metal Blade Records
Spirit Adrift / Hanged Mans Revenge / Ghost At The Gallows / Century Media Records
Firewind / I Am The Anger / Still Raging / Afm Records
Angelus Apatrida / Cold / Cold (Radio Single) / Century Media
Knife / Night Vision / Heaven Into Dust / Napalm
Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons / Hammer And Dance / Kings Of The Asylum / Nuclear Blast Usa
Doomsday / Blood Tactics / Doomsday / Creator-Destructor
Colony Drop / Colony Drop (Brace For Impact) / Brace For Impact / Nameless Grave
Kataklysm / Goliath / Goliath / Nuclear Blast
Ringworm / No Solace No Quarter No Mercy / Seeing Through Fire / Nuclear Blast
Dethklok / Aortic Desecration / Dethalbum IV / Watertower Music
Incantation / Offerings (The Swarm) Iv / Unholy Deification / Relapse
Dripping Decay / Autocannibal Ecstacy / Festering Grotesqueries / Satanik Royalty
Unblessed Divine / Replace The Light / Portal To Darkness / Massacre Records
Anomaly / Architect / On The Cursed Wings Of Stolas / Self Released
Crypta / Trial Of Traitors / Shades Of Sorrow / Napalm
Redsphere / Into The Maelstorm / Immortalized / Malmorta Records
Astralborne / Gemini / Across The Aeons / Prosthetic Records
Urne / To Die Twice / A Feast On Sorrow / Candlelight
Skalmold / Ratatoskur / Ydalir / Napalm Records
Nixil / Collapsing The Poles / From The Wound Spilled Forth Fire / Prosthetic
Asinhell / Island Of Dead Men / 2023 Singles / Metal Blade Records
Blackbraid / Moss Covered Bones On The Altar Of The Moon / Blackbraid II / Independent
Marduk / Heart Of The Funeral / Memento Mori / Century Media Records
Demoniac / Marchageddon / Nube Negra / Edged Circle
Flowerleaf / Stargazers / Dreamerie: The Prelude / Self-Released
Stitched Up Heart / To The Wolves (Radio Edit) / To The Wolves / Another Century Records
Within Temptation / Bleed Out / Bleed Out (Single) / Force Music
Fierce Atmospheres / Fear Is A One Way / The Speed Of Dreams / Sliptrick Records
Induction / At The Bottom / The Power Of Power [ep] / Atomic Fire Records

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 8/28/23

Artist — Album — Label
1) The Zenith Passage — Datalysium — Metal Blade
2) Crypta — Shades of Sorrow — Napalm
3) Nuclear Power Trio — Wet Ass Plutonium — Metal Blade
4) Kataklysm — Goliath — Nuclear Blast
5) Astralborne — Across The Aeons — Prosthetic
6) Besta — Terra Em Desapego — Lifeforce
7) Urne — A Fest On Sorrow — Candlelight
8) Spirit Adrift — Ghost At The Gallows — Century Media
9) Anomaly — On the Cursed Wings of Stolas — Self Released
10) Induction — The Power Of Power EP — Atomic Fire Records
11) Ringworm — Seeing Through Fire — Nuclear Blast
12) Skálmöld — Ýdalir — Napalm
13) Blackbraid — Blackbraid II — Self Released
14) Dethklok — Dethalbum IV — WaterTower
15) Werewolves — My Enemies Look & Sound Like Me — Prosthetic
16) UDO — Touchdown — Atomic Fire
17) Knife — Heaven Into Dust — Napalm
18) Exmortus — Necrophony — Nuclear Blast
19) Unblessed Divine — Portal To Darkness — Massacre
20) Till The Dirt — Outside the Spiral — Nuclear Blast

Top 5 Adds
1) Tegmentum — Evolvement — M-Theory
2) Marduk — Memento Mori — Century Media
3) Phil Campbell & B.Sons — Kings of the Asylum — Nuclear Blast
4) Stitched Up Heart — To The Wolves — Another Century
5) Warmen — Here For None — Reaper

Other Adds/Reviewed: Incantation, Doomsday, Within Temptation (single), Masheena, Oni (Single), Gypsy Pistoleros (single), Harms Way (single), Lizzy Borden (single), Nixil, Asinhell (single), Gwar (Reissue), Velvet Viper, Velvet Insane, Angelus Apatrida (single), Oblivion Protocol, Fierce Atmospheres, Mind/Knot, Demoniac, Belial’s Throne, Luring, Dikasterion, Undergang, Firewind, VAK, Refuser, Cunabula, Dripping Decay, Oxx, Raven Banner, Colony Drop, Redsphere, Flowerleaf, Galundo Tenvulance

Tegmentum
Album: Evolvement
Label: M-Theory Audio
Release date: August 25, 2023
Technical and progressive melodic death type stuff… clean and harsh vox, great stuff!!

Masheena
West Coast Hard Rock
Majestic Mountain Records (Vinyl) | Electric Talon Records (CD)
25 August 2023
Kind of a nice catchy groovin’ stoner metal

ONI
“Aura” ft. Howard Jones & Josh Gilbert
The Silver Line
(Ironshore)
Wall of sound modern metal with some guests..

Incantation
Unholy Deification
Relapse
Release date: Friday, August 25th 2023
Old school brutal death metal.

Gypsy Pistoleros
Come On Eileen (single – cover)
Criminal Records
Kind of a poppy hard rock version of this 80s classic

Harms Way
Devour – radio single
Metal Blade Records
29 September 2023
Gritty groovin’ thrashy death metal…

Lizzy Borden
Death of Me (single)
Metal Blade Records
23 August 2023
Classic metal!

Nixil
From the Wound Spilled Forth Fire
Prosthetic Records
25 August 2023
Kind of raw black metal with a bit of an experimental tint to it

Doomsday
Doomsday
Creator-Destructor
Release date: Friday, August 18th 2023
Trash metal, catchy cool stuff

Velvet Viper
Nothing Compares To Metal
Massacre Records
25 August 2023
Classic metal, female vocals, borderline power metal or a little thrashy in either direction… so it falls in classic metal!

Velvet Insane
High Heeled Monster
Sound Pollution / Wild Kingdom
25 August 2023
kind of some old school sounding party rock.

Asinhell
Island of Dead Men & Fall of the Loyal Warrior – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
29 September 2023
This is that death metal band with the frontman from Volbeat… another single, good solid meaty death metal!

GWAR
Battle Maximus 10th Anniversary Edition
Pit Records
1 September 2023
Yeah, anniversary album! good to hear oderus again

Warmen
Here For None
Reaper Entertainment
Release date: Friday, August 18th 2023
First Warmen album since Children of Bodom sort of disbanded… And the first with Vocals! This is the keyboardists side project, which probably is now a main thing.. but has a similar to CoB sound, catchy keyboard heavy melodic death. Great stuff!

ANGELUS APATRIDA
“Cold” (Radio Single)
Century Media Records
20 October 2023
YES! Great thrash band, and new stuff… a bit of a melody going on, but then going back to some full on thrash

OBLIVION PROTOCOL
The Fall Of The Shires
Atomic Fire Records
18 August 2023
Kind of a laid back prog… maybe a light porcupine tree sound

Within Temptation
Bleed Out (Single)
Force Music
power metally type stuff, with a bit of a nu-metal feel this time around (on this single) and of course powerful female vox.

Stitched Up Heart
To The Wolves
Another Century Records
Modern metal/core type stuff… harsh, clean vox, a nu-metal electronic thing going on

Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons
Kings Of The Asylum
Nuclear Blast USA
Classic metal from the ol Motorhead alum.

Marduk
Memento Mori
Century Media Records
Classic old school black metal with a gritty edge

FIERCE ATMOSPHERES
Album: The Speed Of Dreams
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: August 29th, 2023
Prog metal with a bit of a ripper owens meets Iron Maiden thing… decent stuff

Reverence to Paroxysm
Lux Morte
Me Saco Un Ojo / Dark Descent
31 August 2023
Brutal gore metal sound

MIND/KNOT
Esigenza
Time To Kill Records
September 1st, 2023
Kind of a punked up hardcore… short quick in your face tracks

Demoniac (Chile)
Nube Negra
Edged Circle
1 September 2023
A kind of basic classic metal, but then it just kicks it into a thrashy old school black metal gear. cool stuff.

Belial’s Throne
Forgotten Land of the Lost Souls
Spread Evil
1 September 2023
A bit of a doomy old school black metal

Luring
Triumphant Fall of the Malignant Christ LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
1 September 2023
Old school lo-fi black metal

Dikasterion
Chaos as a New World
Amor Fati
1 September 2023
Classic black metal with a kind of deathy groove

Undergang
De syv stadier af fordærv
Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo Records
1 September 2023
Brutal death metal with a bit of a laid back groove

Firewind
Still Raging
AFM Records
1 September 2023
20th anniversary live concert recording from 2022 in Greerce

VAK
The Islands
Indie Recordings
1 September 2023
A kind of stoner metal meets some progressive stuff and noise, interesting

Refuser
Refuser
Sleaszy Rider
This is a bit of a classic metal thing, solid grooves

Cunabula
The Weight Of Sleep
Sleaszy Rider
Laid back stoner doomy grooves

Dripping Decay
Festering Grotesqueries
Satanik Royalty
Release date: Friday, August 18th 2023
Brutal grindy/gore-ish death metal, neat stuff.

OXX
The Primordial Blues
Nefarious Industries
Release date: Friday, August 18th 2023
Kind of a wall of sound sludge/noise groove thing with some prog elements

RAVEN BANNER
Album: Rise Up Clan
Self Released
Release date: September 1st
Classic swedish death metal with a little bit of a melodic air and some big grooves. Cool stuff

Colony Drop
Brace For Impact
Nameless Grave
Release date: Friday, August 25th 2023
This is a little thrashy, a bit melodic and classic metal too.

REDSPHERE
IMMORTALIZED
Malmorta Records (Malpermesita Records)
18 June 2023
Meaty and groovin’ death metal… great stuff

FlowerLeaf
EP Title: “Dreamerie: The Prelude”
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: August 23, 2024
Melodic symphonic power metal stuff… big epic sound

Galundo Tenvulance
Album Title: Lunar Eclipture
Label: Spiritual Beast
Release Date: 23-08-2023
Symphonic epic melodic death metal, nice big full sound, harsh, catchy and

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Aug 21, 2023
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Dethklok / Gardener Of Vengeance / Dethalbum IV / Watertower Music
Werewolves / Under The Ground / My Enemies Look And Sound Like Me / Prosthetic Records
Critical Defiance / Spiral Of Hatred / Misconception / Dying Victims Productions
Wrathchild America / Surrounded by Idiots / 3D / Atlantic
Cyclone Temple / I Hate Therefore I Am / I Hate Therefore I Am / ?
Atrophy / Violent By Nature / Violent By Nature / Displeased Records
Flotsam And Jetsam / Doomsday For The Deceiver / Doomsday For The Deceiver / Metal Blade
Baroness / Shine / Stone (singles) / Abraxan Hymns
Knife / Hawks Of Hades / Heaven Into Dust / Napalm
Exmortus / Mask Of Red Death / Necrophony / Nuclear Blast
Till The Dirt / Starring Role / Outside The Spiral / Nuclear Blast Records
Cavalera / Show Me The Wrath / Morbid Visions / Nuclear Blast Records
Sinheresy / Black Spirit / Event Horizon / Scarlet Records
The Zenith Passage / Deletion Cult / Datalysium / Metal Blade
Anomaly / Beyond The Kardashev Scale / On The Cursed Wings Of Stolas / Self Released
Nuclear Power Trio / Air Force Fun / Wet Ass Plutonium / Metal Blade Records
Devin Townsend / Hyperdrive! / Empath Live, Volume 3 – Live In America / Insideout
Marc Hudson / Freedom Heart / Starboard Stories / Napalm
Ringworm / Carved In Stone / Seeing Through Fire / Nuclear Blast
Crypta / The Other Side Of Anger / Shades Of Sorrow / Napalm
Besta / Veias Em Catarse / Terra Em Desapego / Lifeforce
Skalmold / Urður / Ydalir / Napalm Records
Veritas / Limit / Silent Script / Sliptrick
Astralborne / Skybreaker / Across The Aeons / Prosthetic Records
Urne / The Flood Came Rushing In / A Feast On Sorrow / Candlelight
Blackbraid / The Wolf That Guides The Hunters Hand / Blackbraid II / Independent
Tesseract / The Grey (Radio Edit) / War Of Being (Singles) / Kscope
Signs Of The Swarm / Dreamkiller (Explicit) / Amongst The Low & Empty / Century Media Records
Cadaver / The Shrink / The Age Of The Offended / Nuclear Blast Records
Kataklysm / Dark Wings Of Deception / Goliath / Nuclear Blast
The Gorge / A Decision Was Made / Mechanical Fiction / Pelagic Records
Unblessed Divine / Book Of Lies / Portal To Darkness / Massacre Records
Noveria / Origins / The Gates Of The Underworld / Scarlet Records
Nonpoint / A Million Watts / Heartless (Ep) (Single) / 361 Degrees Records
Spirit Adrift / Give Her To The River / Ghost At The Gallows / Century Media Records
After Earth / The Rarity Of Reason / The Rarity Of Reason / Self-Released
Filth Is Eternal / Pressure Me / Find Out / Mnrk Heavy
The Unity / Masterpiece / The Hellish Joyride / Spv/steamhammer
Udo / Touchdown / Touchdown / Atomic Fire
Eleine / Promise Of Apocalypse / We Shall Remain / Atomic Fire Records
Girlschool / Invisible Killer / Wtfortyfive? / Silver Lining Music
Induction / Queen Of Light / The Power Of Power [ep] / Atomic Fire Records
Josh Keech / Torture Chamber / Warrior In The Clouds Pt.2 / Self Released
Sekond Skin / My Head (Radio Edit) / Letting Go / Independent
Vandenberg / Sin / Sin / Mascot Label Group

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 8/21/23

Artist — Album — Label
1) Cavalera — Morbid Visions — Nuclear Blast
2) The Zenith Passage — Datalysium — Metal Blade
3) Signs Of The Swarm — Amongst the Low Empty — Century Media
4) Girlschool — WTFourtyFive — Silver Lining
5) Cadaver — The Age of the Offended — Nuclear Blast
6) Crypta — Shades of Sorrow — Napalm
7) Nuclear Power Trio — Wet Ass Plutonium — Metal Blade
8) Eleine — We Shall Remain — Atomic Fire
9) Kataklysm — Goliath — Nuclear Blast
10) The Gorge — Mechanical Fiction — Pelagic
11) Astralborne — Across The Aeons — Prosthetic
12) Induction — The Power Of Power EP — Atomic Fire Records
13) Besta — Terra Em Desapego — Lifeforce
14) Anomaly — On the Cursed Wings of Stolas — Self Released
15) Devin Townsend — Empath Live 3, Live In America — Insideout
16) Urne — A Fest On Sorrow — Candlelight
17) Spirit Adrift — Ghost At The Gallows — Century Media
18) Ringworm — Seeing Through Fire — Nuclear Blast
19) Skálmöld — Ýdalir — Napalm
20) Blackbraid — Blackbraid II — Self Released

Top 5 Adds
1) Dethklok — Dethalbum IV — WaterTower
2) Werewolves — My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me — Prosthetic
3) UDO — Touchdown — Atomic Fire
4) Knife — Heaven Into Dust — Napalm
5) Exmortus — Necrophony — Nuclear Blast

Other Adds/Reviewed: Vandenberg, Sekond Skyn, Nonpoint (single), The Unity, Tesseract, Unblessed Divine, Till The Dirt, Filth is Eternal, Baroness (single), Marc Hudson, After Earth, Veritas, Meurtrières, Vision Master, Opensight, Necrony, Sinheresy, Bottomless, Noveria, Transgressor, Critical Defiance, Josh Keech, Wooden Throne, Anon, Aganthros

Werewolves
My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me
Prosthetic Records
11 August 2023
Brutal edgy death metal, thrashy and awesome!

Knife
Heaven Into Dust
(Napalm)
A bit of an extreme blackened thrash.

Filth Is Eternal
”Pressure Me”
(MNRK Heavy)
Kind of a hardcore punky Slayer sound

Baroness
”Shine”
Stone
(Abraxan Hymns)
Another single, solid grooves and chilled vibe.

Marc Hudson
Starboard Stories
(Napalm)
Big time symphonic power metal sounds

TesseracT
”The Grey”
War of Being
(Kscope)
technical, a bit of a modern metal sound too

The Unity
The Hellish Joyride
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Classic metal, a bit of a power metal thing too, nice mix

Vandenberg
Sin
Mascot Label Group
Classic stuff here.

Sekond Skyn
Letting Go
Independent
Kind of a classic metal, yet a bit of a modern solid rock type sound

U.D.O.
Touchdown
Atomic Fire Records
UDO never lets up! Classic sound… and with football season coming up

After Earth
The Rarity of Reason
Self-Released
18 August 2023
Kind of a melodic death with a nice deathy chug

Nonpoint
A Million Watts (Single)
361 Records
Been a while since Nonpoint sent something this way… nice and catchy groove on this single

DETHKLOK
Dethalbum IV
WaterTower Music
Release: 22 August 2023
Whoa! New movie, new soundtrack/album! Amazing! you know it’s great!

Unblessed Divine
Portal To Darkness
Massacre Records
18 August 2023
Meaty cool heavy death metal Great stuff !

Exmortus
Necrophony
Nuclear Blast
Release: 25 August 2023
Extreme and catchy/technical thrash… Great stuff again!

Till The Dirt
Outside The Spiral
Nuclear Blast Records
25 August 2023
Thrashy and heavy but with a melodic element too… cool stuff!

VERITAS
Album: Silent Script
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: August 22nd, 2023
Kind of a proggy classic metal with a little bit of a heavier thrash thing too

Meurtrières
Ronde De Nuit
Gates of Hell Records
25 August 2023
Kind of a classic metal, a bit prog-ish and doomy stoner groovin’ too

Vision Master
Sceptre
Gates of Hell Records
25 August 2023
A bit classic metal, a little prog-ish

OPENSIGHT
MONDO FICTION: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 25th 2023
This one has a prog/experimental almost like a mr bungle / faith no more -ish sound. neat stuff.

NECRONY
Corrupted Crescendos
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
25 August 2023
Gore with a bit of a doomy down tempo sound

SINHERESY
Event Horizon
Scarlet Records
25 August 2023
Prog metal type stuff… female clean vox, dude harsh vox, nice catchy and heavy grooves

Bottomless
The Banishing
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 25/08/2023
Doomy fuzzed stoner metal.

NOVERIA
The Gates of the Underworld
Scarlet Records
25 August 2023
Epic power/prog metal, some longer songs, but all good.

Transgressor (Japan)
Beyond Oblivion
Me Saco Un Ojo / Sewer Rot / Unholy Domain
24 August 2023
Kind of a raw death metal, a little brutal and some big riffin’ grooves

Critical Defiance
Misconception
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 25/08/2023
This has kind of a technical thrash thing going on, pretty cool stuff.

Josh Keech
Album: Warrior In The Clouds Pt.2
Self Released
Release date: August 25th, 2023
Instrumental metal, just kind of straightforward stuff, no real super meedly shredding… just kind of thrashy overall. neat stuff.

Wooden Throne
Eternal Wanderer of the Night Sky
Purity Through Fire
25 August 2023
Epic black metal, a bit of a doom sound

Anon
Album: The End of Innocence
Self Released
Release date: July 28th, 2023
Black metal going in with a melodic sound, decent stuff.

Aganthros
Syntiset Saatanat Kurjat
Purity Through Fire
25 August 2023
Black metal, a bit experimental, but unmistakedly black metal

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Aug 14, 2023
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Born Of Osiris / White Nile / Angel Or Alien / Sumerian Records
Upon A Burning Body / The Outcast (Single) / The Outcast (Single) / Sumerian
Cyhra / Ready To Rumble / The Vertigo Trigger / Nuclear Blast
HELLOWEEN / Falling Higher / Better Than Raw / Sanctuary
Stratovarius / Legions / Visions (Japanese Edition) / ?
HammerFall / Child Of The Damned / Glory To The Brave (Deluxe Edition) / ?
Brainstorm / Worlds Are Comin’ Through / Liquid Monster / ?
The Advent Equation / A Sudden Perception / A Sudden Perception (Single) / Self-Released
Devin Townsend / Love / Empath Live, Volume 3 – Live In America / Insideout
Nuclear Power Trio / Nyetflix And Chill / Wet Ass Plutonium / Metal Blade Records
Eleine / We Are Legion / We Shall Remain / Atomic Fire Records
Induction / Set You Free / The Power Of Power [ep] / Atomic Fire Records
Colosso / O Nada / Zero / Prophetical Productions
Cannibal Corpse / Summoned For Sacrifice / Summoned For Sacrifice (Singles) / Metal Blade Records
Cadaver / Death Revealed / The Age Of The Offended / Nuclear Blast Records
Kataklysm / Bringer Of Vengeance / Goliath / Nuclear Blast
Outer Heaven / Liquified Mind / Infinite Psychic Depths / Relapse
Silverburn / Anniliation / Self Induced Transcendental Annihilation / Msh Music Group
Crypta / The Outsider / Shades Of Sorrow / Napalm
The Gorge / Beneath The Crust / Mechanical Fiction / Pelagic Records
Pyrexia / Closure / System Of The Animal / Grazits Entertainment
Necronomicon Ex Mortis / The Swamp / Silver Bullet / Self-Release
Flo / Pull Myself Up / Long Way Down / Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Besta / Olhar Seráfico / Terra Em Desapego / Lifeforce
Cavalera / Crucifixion / Morbid Visions / Nuclear Blast Records
Signs Of The Swarm / Borrowed Time / Amongst The Low & Empty / Century Media Records
The Zenith Passage / Synaptic Depravation / Datalysium / Metal Blade
Sorrow / Doom The World / Death Of Sorrow / Xtreem Music
Rannoch / Prism Black / Conflagrations / Willowtip Records
Urne / The Burden / A Feast On Sorrow / Candlelight
Anomaly / On The Cursed Wings Of Stolas / On The Cursed Wings Of Stolas / Self Released
Ringworm / Seeing Through Fire / Seeing Through Fire / Nuclear Blast
Cales / Black Riders / Chants Of Steel / Edged Circle
Blackbraid / The Spirit Returns / Blackbraid II / Independent
Astralborne / Nocturneous / Across The Aeons / Prosthetic Records
Satyricon / Mother North / Nemesis Divina / ?
Flor De Loto / Empire Made Of Glass / Lines Of Nasca / Self-Released
Spirit Adrift / Barn Burner / Ghost At The Gallows / Century Media Records
Leatherwolf / Thunder (Mmxxii) (Vinyl Edition Bonus Track) / Kill The Hunted / N.i.l.8.
Seraina Telli / Song For The Girls (Explicit) / Addicted To Color / Metalville
Girlschool / Barmy Army / Wtfortyfive? / Silver Lining Music
The Ghost Inside / Earn It / Earn It (Single) / Epitaph Records
Atria / Ground Zero / Ground Zero / Self-Release
Lords Of The Trident / Burn It Down (With Fire) Feat. Brittney Slayes / Shadows From The Past / Junko Johnson
Skalmold / Ýdalir / Ydalir / Napalm Records
James Rivera’s Metal Wave / Black Planet / New Wave Gone Metal / Massacre Records

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 8/14/23

Artist — Album — Label
1) Pyrexia — System of the Animal 25 — Grazits Entertainment
2) Cavalera — Morbid Visions — Nuclear Blast
3) The Zenith Passage — Datalysium — Metal Blade
4) Signs Of The Swarm — Amongst the Low Empty — Century Media
5) Outer Heaven — Infinite Psychic Depths — Relapse
6) Girlschool — WTFourtyFive — Silver Lining
7) Rannoch — Conflagrations — Willowtip
8) Cadaver — The Age of the Offended — Nuclear Blast
9) Crypta — Shades of Sorrow — Napalm
10) Nuclear Power Trio — Wet Ass Plutonium — Metal Blade
11) Eleine — We Shall Remain — Atomic Fire
12) Kataklysm — Goliath — Nuclear Blast
13) James Rivera Metal Wave — New Wave Gone Metal — Massacre
14) The Gorge — Mechanical Fiction — Pelagic
15) The Ghost Inside — Earn It — Epitaph
16) Astralborne — Across The Aeons — Prosthetic
17) Induction — The Power Of Power EP — Atomic Fire Records
18) Besta — Terra Em Desapego — Lifeforce
19) Necronomicon Ex Mortis — Silver Bullet — Self-Release
20) Devin Townsend — Empath Live 3, Live In America — Insideout

Top 5 Adds
1) Urne — A Fest On Sorrow — Candlelight
2) Spirit Adrift — Ghost At The Gallows — Century Media
3) Ringworm — Seeing Through Fire — Nuclear Blast
4) Leatherwolf — Thunder MMXXII — N.I.L.8
5) Seraina Telli — Addicted to Colour — Metalville

Other Adds/Reviewed: Skálmöld, Desolations Edge (single), Anomaly (EP), Cannibal Corpse (single), Blackbraid, Blacktoothed (single), Cyhra, Cales, Atria, Flo, Granada, The Advent Equation (single), Colosso, Sorrow, Flor de Loto, Silverburn