Matt’s Top of 2020 (in no particular order)
Sons of Apollo — MMXX – InsideOut
Testament — Titans of Creation — Nuclear Blast
Mr. Bungle — Raging Wrath of Easter Bunny — Ipecac
John Petrucci – Terminal Velocity – Sound Mind
Judicator — Let There Be Nothing — Prosthetic
Fates Warning — Long Day Good Night — Metal Blade
Haken — Virus — InsideOut
Mors Principium Est — Seven — AFM
Carcass — Despicable — Nuclear Blast

Matt’s Just Missed top 10
Wilderun — Veil of Imagination — Century Media
Sepultura — — Quadra — Nuclear Blast
Lamb of God — Lamb of God — Epic
Genus Ordinis Dei — Glare of Deliverance — Eclipse
Dark Tranquillity – Moment – Century Media

Next batch of great stuff
Neaera — Neaera — Metal Blade
Heaven Shall Burn — Of Truth and Sacrifice — Century Media
Black Dahlia Murder — Verminous — Metal Blade
Abysmal Dawn — Phylogenesis — Season of Mist
Warbringer — Weapons of Tomorrow — Napalm
Hyperion — Into the Maelstrom — Fighter
Havok — V — Century Media
Vader — Solitude In Madness — Nuclear Blast
Protosequence — A Blunt Description of Something Obscene — Lacerated Enemy
Deathing — All Hail The Decay — Inverse.
BPMD — American Made — Napalm

Matt;’s Honorable mentions
Carrion Vael — God Killer — Horror Pain Gore Death
Falconer — From a Dying Ember — Metal Blade
Ensiferum — Thalassic — Metal Blade
Let Us Prey — Virtues of the Vicious — M-Theory Audio
Onslaught — Generation Antichrist — AFM
Black Crown Initiate — Violent Portraits/ Doomed Escape — Century
Unleash the Archers — Abyss — Napalm
Vicious Rumors — Celebration Decay — SPV
Skeletal Remains — The Entombment of Chaos — Century Media
Katalepsy — Terra Mortuus Est — Unique Leader
Ingested — Where Only Gods May Tread — Unique Leader
Lik — Misanthropic Breed — Metal Blade
Ossuary Anex — Obscurantism Apogee — Xtreem
Darkened — Kingdom of Decay — Edged Circle
Helion Prime — Question Everything — Saibot Reigns —
Necrophobic — Dawn of the Damned — Century Media
Armored Saint — Punching the Sky — Metal Blade
Sodom — Genesis XIX — eOne
Hatebreed — Weight of The False Self — Nuclear Blast

Mike’s Picks Top 10
Necrophobic — Dawn of the Damned — Century Media
Mr. Bungle — Raging Wrath of Easter Bunny — Ipecac
Lik — Misanthropic Breed — Metal Blade
Black Crown Initiate — Violent Portraits/ Doomed Escape — Century
Benighted – Obscene Replressed – Season of Mist
Descend – The Deviant — Aftermath
Carach Angren — Frankensteina Strataemontanus – Season of MIst
Testament — Titans of Creation — Nuclear Blast
Lamb of God — Lamb of God — Epic
Haken — Virus — InsideOut

Mike’s Honorable Mentions
Benediction – Scriptures – Nuclear Blast
Heaven Shall Burn — Of Truth and Sacrifice — Century Media
Igorr – Spirituality and Distortion – Metal Blade
Perdition Temple — Sacraments Of Descension — Hells Headbangers
Vader — Solitude In Madness — Nuclear Blast
Tallah – Matriphagy — Earache Records
Theotoxin — Obscure Divinations — Fragment : Erhabenheit — Aop Records
Iron Savior – Skycrest — AFM
Vicious Rumors — Celebration Decay — SPV
Lord Vigo – Danse De Noir – High Roller
Carnation — Where Death Lies — Season of mist
Inquisition
Sodom — Genesis XIX — eOne
Paradise Lost – Obsidian – Nuclear Blast
Armored Saint — Punching the Sky — Metal Blade

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 1/4/21

Artist — Album — Label
1) Sodom — Genesis XIX — eOne
2) Hatebreed — Weight of The False Self — Nuclear Blast
3) Iron Savior — Skycrest — AFM
4) Gama Bomb — Sea Savage — Prosthetic
5) Scour — The Black EP — Housecore
6) Soilwork — A Whisp of the Atlantic — Nuclear Blast
7) Shaark — Deathonation — Slovak Metal Army
8) Keiser — Our Wretched Demise — Non Serviam
9) Inhalement — Live Resin — Horror Pain Gore Death
10) Dead Shape Figure — Post Nihil EP — Inverse
11) Toxikull — Cursed and Punished — Dying Victims
12) Dormanth — Complete Downfall — Xtreem
13) Mud Factory — The Sins of Our Fathers — Wormholedeath
14) Cesspool of Corruption — Eradication of the Subservient — Gore House Prod.
15) Sufism — Republik Rakyat Jelata — Brutal Mind
16) Skinning — Homicidal Experimentations — Larvae/Nightfear
17) Frozen Soul — Crypt of Ice — Century Media
18) DeathOrchestra — Symphony of Death — Self Released
19) Deathblow — Insect Politics — Sewer Mouth
20) Return to Void — Infinite Silence — Inverse

Top 5 Adds
1) Frozen Soul — Crypt of Ice — Century Media
2) Lynch & Pilson — Heavy Hitters — Cleopatra
3) Skinning — Homicidal Experimentations — Larvae/Nightfear
4) Sufism — Republik Rakyat Jelata — Brutal Mind
5) Deathblow — Insect Politics — Sewer Mouth

Other Adds/Reviewed: Project Alcazar, Terminarch, Panssarituho, Unfleshed, Sennight, Beyond the Grey, Castrofate, Theatre of Tragedy (20th Anniv.), Averted, Return to Void, Lipshok, Deathblow, Arhat, Vis Mystica, Arawn, Corrupted Saint, W0MB, Hate Forest, Empyrian Fire (single), Coffins/Depression Split, Cemetery Dwell, Triumph, Solucae Fina, Dusk, Mons Veneris, Transilvania, Unbounded Terror, Exsul, Malakhim, Stellar Death

Frozen Soul
Crypt Of Ice
Century Media Records
Meaty heavy brutal and catchy death metal from Fort Worth, TX. They have a sort of Bolt Thrower thing going on… great stuff to kick off the new year!

George Lynch & Jeff Pilson
Heavy Hitters
Deadline/Cleopatra Records
A covers album from these two vets… covering a wide variety of stuff from Prince to Madonna, to Carole King and REM…putting a classic hard rock sound to it. Since I’m a sucker for covers, especially of songs that aren’t metal to begin with… I think it’s cool.

Band: Dusk
Album: The Hermit
Self Released
Release date: January 1st, 2021
three easy words to describe this… Industrial Black Metal.

MONS VENERIS
Mons Veneris 10″ EP
Harvest of Death
1 January 2021
A couple of longer tracks of plodding sludgy blackend death.

Transilvania (Austria)
Of Sleep and Death
Invictus Productions
1 January 2021
Mostly classic black metal

Unbounded Terror
Infernal Judgment
Self Released (Xtreem PR)
Release date: Saturday, January 2nd 2021
Just cool meat and potatoes brutal death metal, a pinch of grind, a tiny bit of black metal, all good.

EXSUL
Exsul
Caligari Records
7 January 2021
Sludgey doom/death

Malakhim
Theion LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
8 January 2021
Classic black metal with doomy dark death

Stellar Death
Fragments of Light
Self-Release
8 January 2021
There’s some prog, doom, atmospheric stuff and post metal all in this instrumental album. Pretty chilled and laid back… might be good for some mosh pit music bed!