Devin Townsend
PowerNerd
Century Media Records
Big wall of sound, catchy, kinda heavy on the title track, the second single isn’t quite as intense, but looking forward to the rest!

Ensiferum
Winter Storm
Metal Blade Records
18 October 2024
Epic proggy folky power metal with a smidge of melodic death. They’ve been around a while and keep doin’ good stuff.

Kings Never Die
The Life & Times
Metalville Records
Classic metal with a party metal vibe

Das Mööse
Moösehenge
(Self-Released)
A mix of some classic metal type stuff, with a little punk and stoner metal as well, kinda neat

League of Distortion
Galvanize
(Napalm)
Here is a kind of modern metal… groovin’, female fronted, and more active rock-ish to me

Aversed (single)
Cross To Bear
M-Theory Audio
They call it gothic extreme metal, i’d say probably more of a melodic death. Cool stuff!

OBEYER
”Witness”
Chemical Well
A smidge djent, but mostly a kind of deathcore/death metal

Pøltergeist
Nachtmusik
Bad Omen Records (North American Distribution: Metal Blade Records)
25 October 2024
They call it post punk… to me, it’s a bit of a doomy goth/alt rock

Wizzerd
Album(s): Saturnalia (October 25, 2024)
Kronia (June 21st, 2024)
Label: Fuzzorama Records
Two albums. Saturnalia is more down tempo and doomy, Kronia is more of a classic s

IOTUNN
Kinship
Metal Blade Records
25 October 2024
A sort of prog metal, with a scandanavian doomish vibe

Gigan
Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus
Willowtip Records
25 October 2024
Technical blackened deathy – wall of sound brutal and a little grindy too

Reckless Manslaughter
Sinking Into Filth
Memento Mori / Fucking Kill
21 October 2024
meaty groovin’ death metal

Blackevil
Praise the Communion Fire for the Unhallowed Sacrament
Dying Victims Productions
Release Date: 25/10/2024
Kind of a proggy blackened melodic thrashy thing… pretty cool

MERCYLESS
Those Who Reign Below
Osmose Productions
25 October 2024
Meaty and brutal death metal, nice catchy headbangin’ jams

Blasphemous
To Lay Siege and Conquer
Adirondack Black Mass
25 October 2024
Techish and a little epic on this blackened death thing with some groooves

BÜTCHER
On Fowl of Tyrant Wing
Osmose Productions
25 October 2024
Old school thrashy stuff and a vibe of black metal, but not quite that far

War Dogs
Release Title: Only the Stars Are Left
Label: Fighter Records
Release Date: October 15, 2024
Just a kind of “metal” … do they call that TradMetal now?

Anialator
Release Title: Death is Calling
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: October 22, 2024
Thrash Metal with more extreme type vox, cool stuff.

Frost*
Life In The Wires
InsideOut
Oct 18
Prog metal, diverse, chill in parts and faster heavier prog metal

KRYPTA
Album: Krypta
Self Released
Release date: October 25th, 2024
Sort of a melodic death maybe gothish thing harsh vox and clean female vox.

Melted Bodies
The Inevitable Fork
Self-Release
18 October 2024
A little industrial, right up in the Avant Garde territory… heavy and dark and prog and electronicish.

NEVER OBEY AGAIN
Trust
Scarlet Records
18 October 2024
Could be melodic death, or maybe some sort of core… clean and harsh female vox, a bit power/goth with tones of Lacuna Coil

Recently Vacated Graves
Release Title: Musk of Death
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: October 25, 2024
They call it Zombie Metal… more on its base, a heavier melodic death/deathcore with the occasional creepy keyboardy sounds

The Spirit
Songs Against Humanity
AOP Records
25 October 2024
Blackended death, some melodic atmosphere to give it some groove and body for a full evil sound. Cool stuff.

CHAINED TO THE DEAD
Only Hunger Remains
Horror Pain Gore Death
Oct 25
Meaty groovin’ death metal

Loudblast
Altering Fates And Destinies
Listenable Records
25 October 2024
More meaty groovin’ death metal, with a pinch of melodies and catchiness while staying heavy

Exodus Rising
The Book Of Life
WormholeDeath
18 October 2024
Proggy power metal seemingly of the chirstian metal vein

Immortal Sÿnn
Single Title: Burning Soul
Label: Sammi Snake Records
Release Date: October 25, 2024
Kind of a classic hard rock/metal, heavier side of AOR, cool grooves

Hate Angel
Extinction Ritual
WormholeDeath
Oct 25
Blackened Thrash Metal, catchy cool stuff

Scars Of Solitude
Under Disheartening Skies
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: October 10th 2024
melodic Metal a bit on the goth side

Capilla Ardiente
Where Gods Live and Men Die
High Roller Records
18 October 2024
four long tracks of a little bit stoner, classic metal type stuff

Human Harvest
Release Title: Void Of The Vile
Label: Iron, Blood & Death
Release Date: October 15
Sludgey wall of sound black/death metal.

Black Elephant
The Fall Of The Gods
Small Stone Recordings
Release date: Friday, October 18th 2024
Psychedelic stoner type metal

Mother Of Graves
The Periapt Of Absence
Profound Lore Records
Release date: Friday, October 18th 2024
Kind of a dark/doomish death metal with a smidge of black metal too

Immortal Bird
Sin Querencia
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, October 18th 2024
blackened death with a kind of dark vibe

Deivos
Apophenia
Selfmadegod
Release date: Friday, October 18th 2024
Brutal death metal full on!

Contrition
Pariahs
Disorder Recordings
Release date: Friday, October 18th 2024
3 song ep with just meaty groovin’ death metal.

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Oct 14, 2024
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Dream Theater / Night Terror (Album) / Night Terror (Single) / Insideout
Astral Doors / Temple Of Lies / The End Of It All / Metalville Records
Cyborg Octopus / Cyborg Octopus / Bottom Feeder / Silent Pendulum
Rivers Of Nihil / Sand Baptism / Monarchy / Metal Blade
Fallujah / Starlit Path / The Flesh Prevails / Unique Leader
Alluvial / Bog Dweller / Death Is But A Door / Nuclear Blast Records
Master Boot Record / Bios / Hardwarez / Metal Blade
The Crown / I Hunt With The Devil / Crown Of Thorns / Metal Blade
Carnosus / Birthless / Wormtales / Willowtip
The Black Dahlia Murder / Cursed Creator / Servitude / Metal Blade
Dungeon Crawl / Saving Throw / Maze Controller / Carbonized
Veonity / Chains Of Tyranny / The Final Element / Scarlet
Thrasherwolf / G-B-H- Gratuitous Bodily Harm / Inside The Sickened Mind / Vicious Witch
Hazzerd / Deathbringer / Deathbringer (Single) / M-Theory Audio
Triskelyon / The Battle For Monte Cassino / Shattered Elysium / Moribund
Flotsam And Jetsam / Gates Of Hell / I Am The Weapon / Afm Records
Rifftera / Carved In Skin / Coda / Inverse
Distant Dominion / Alchemystic / Ripping Through Time / Fetzner Death
Mass Punishment / God Less America (Radio Edit) / Proving Ground Devastation / Wormholedeath
Buried / Tallies / Tallies (Single) / Self-Released
Vicious Blade / Lunacy / Relentless Force / Redefining Darkness
Ignitor / Horns And Hammers / Horns And Hammers / Metal On Metal
Thy Will Be Done / The Initiates / Pillar Of Fire / Eye.on Lion Recordings
Oceans / Click Like Share / Happy / Nuclear Blast Records
September Mourning / Spit You Out (Explicit) / Spit You Out (Single) / Mortem Media
BornBroken / How Strong You Are / Am I Invisible / Self-Release
Misanthropic Aggression / Social Ruin / Insect Politics / Boris
Undeath / More Insane / More Insane / Prosthetic
Heriot / Sentenced To The Blade / Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell / Century Media
Ripped To Shreds / Visions Of Sin, Mirror Of Darkness / Sanshi / Relapse
Claustrofobia / Corrupted Self / Unleeched / M-Theory Audio
Sathanas / Cast In Black / Into The Nocturne / Moribund
Oranssi Pazuzu / Bioalkemisti / Muuntautuja / Nuclear Blast
Blood Incantation / The Stargate [tablet I] / Absolute Elsewhere / Century Media
Ashen Tomb / Body Bog / Ecstatic Death Reign / Everlasting Spew
Dreamless Veil / Saturnism / Every Limb Of The Flood / Relapse
Destruktor / Speaking With The Dead / Indomitable / Hells Headbangers
Ad Infinitum / The One You’ll Hold On To / Abyss / Napalm
Opeth / §3 / The Last Will And Testament / Reigning Phoenix Music
Swallow The Sun / What I Have Become / Shining / Century Media
Smash Atoms / Bring The River / Smash Atoms / M-Theory Audio
Frozen Crown / War Hearts / War Hearts / Napalm
Lords Of The Trident / Jet Set City / V.G.E.P. / Junko Johnson
Wind Rose / The Great Feast Underground / Trollslayer / Napalm
The Mourning / Chaos Machine / Hush / The Mourning Llc
Transport League / Bodies Recede / We Are Satan’s People / Sound Pollution, Black Lodge
Legions Of Doom / Insectiside / The Skull 3 / Tee Pee
Allt / Echoes / From The New World / Centrury Media
Cemetery Skyline / In Darkness / Nordic Gothic / Century Media

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 10/14/24

Artist — Album — Label
1) Flotsam And Jetsam — I Am The Weapon — AFM Records
2) Thy Will Be Done — Pillar Of Fire — Eye.On Lion Recordings
3) Legions Of Doom — The Skull 3 — Tee Pee Records
4) The Black Dahlia Murder — Servitude — Metal Blade
5) Claustrofobia — Unleeched — M-Theory Audio
6) Heriot — Devoured by the Mouth of Hell — Century Media
7) Sathanas — Into The Nocturne — Moribund
8) BornBroken — Am I Invisible — Self-Release
9) Lords Of The Trident — V.G.E.P. — Junko Johnson
10) Triskelyon — Shattered Elysium — Moribund
11) Dungeon Crawl — Maze Controller — Carbonized
12) Allt — From The New World — Centrury Media
13) Wind Rose — Trollslayer — Napalm
14) Ripped To Shreds — Sanshi — Relapse
15) Cemetery Skyline — Nordic Gothic — Century Media
16) Mass Punishment — Proving Ground Devastation — WormHoleDeath
17) Blood Incantation — Absolute Elsewhere — Century Media
18) Ad Infinitum — Abyss — Napalm
19) Undeath — More Insane — Prosthetic
20) Vicious Blade — Relentless Force — Redefining Darkness

Top 5 Adds
1) The Crown — Crown of Thorns — Metal Blade
2) Swallow The Sun — Shining — Century Media
3) September Mourning — Spit You Out (Single) — Mortem Media
4) Frozen Crown — War Hearts — Napalm
5) The Mourning — Hush — The Mourning LLC

Other Adds/Reviewed: Hazzerd (Single), Buried (Single), Astral Doors, Dream Theater (single), Smash Atoms, Camos, Carnosus, Master Boot Record, Obnoxious Youth, Veonity, Ashen Tomb, Deathrite, Destruktor, Funeral, Misanthropic Aggression, Aberrator, Ignitor, Ignominous, Maysnow, Nasty Ratz, Transport League, Doedsmaghird, Oranssi Pazuzu, Rifftera

The Crown
Crown of Thorns
Metal Blade Records
11 October 2024
Not sure if they’ve ever done anything bad… always fast, thrashy, heavier than thrashy, headbanging goodness.

Swallow The Sun
Innocence Was Long Forgotten
Century Media Records
Kind of doom, a little death metal too

September Mourning
Spit You Out (Radio Edit) (Single)
Mortem Media
Death/metalcore / modern metal type stuff

The Mourning
Hush
The Mourning LLC
Kind of a melodic prog, a bit of a coheed and cambria thing going on

Frozen Crown
War Hearts
Napalm
Epic power metal, like a Dragonforce type thing with more concise tracks.

HAZZERD (single)
“DEATHBRINGER”
M-THEORY AUDIO
Classic thrash, more on the melodic side, catchy cool stuff.

Buried (Single)
Tallies
Self-Released
11 October 2024
Catchy techy thrash, harsh vox, nice grooves, full album next year

Astral Doors
The End Of It All
Metalville Records
Classic metal, a little bit of a power metal meets Accept

Dream Theater
Night Terror
Inside Out
As y’all know, Dream Theater is my favorite band with Mike Portnoy back in the fold, it just has that groove back. It’s still same old Dream Theater which is great, just a bit more fun and exciting with the new old shiny drummer back.

SMASH ATOMS
SMASH ATOMS
M-THEORY AUDIO
A 90’s grunge thing reminds me of Alice in Chains

CAMOS
Hide From The Light
Murder Records
18 October 2024
Raw classic metal a bit thrashy if it gets heavier

Carnosus
Wormtales
Willowtip Records
18 October 2024
Technical death metal, progressive, heavy, and relatively short songs for this genre.

MASTER BOOT RECORD
HARDWAREZ
Metal Blade Records
11 October 2024
Instrumental, synth/industrial type stuff.

Obnoxious Youth
Burning Savage
Svart Records
18 October 2024
Raw um, i’d say blackened punk? Yeah

VEONITY
The Final Element
Scarlet Records
18 October 2024
Epic power metal

Ashen Tomb
Ecstatic Death Reign
Everlasting Spew Records
18 October 2024
Brutal death metal with a bit or gory grooves

Deathrite
Flames Licking Fever
Into Endless Chaos
18 October 2024
Kind of death metal, a little bit of a punk groove and an Entombed vibe

DESTRUKTOR
Indomitable
Hells Headbangers
18 October 2024
Meaty groovin’ death metal Cool stuff.

FUNERAL
Gospel of Bones
Season of Mist
18 October 2024
Chilled doom… vocals are almost operratic and a lot of room to breathe musically when not being epic/symphonic.

Misanthropic Aggression
Insect Politics
Boris Records
15 October 2024
Brutal grindy

Aberrator
Beckoning Tribulation
Dark Descent Records
11 October 2024
Blackened death metal, a bit melodic in parts too, therwise brutalish

Ignitor
Horns and Hammers
Metal on Metal Records / Revolt Vinyl Records / Metal World Records
3 October 2024
Classic metal, nice groovin’ stuff clean vox

Ignominous
Dawn With No Light
Vinyl Store
4 October 2024
Black metal with a technical and melodic groove

Maysnow
A Dream Within A Dream
Sleaszy Rider
Kind of a hard rock, maybe progressive a bit and post rock

Nasty Ratz
Third Cut
Sleaszy Rider
Glam rock/hard rock type stuff.

Transport League
We Are Satan’s People
Sound Pollution / Black Lodge
4 October 2024
Groove metal, a little modern melodic metal, maybe a smidge of a stoner metal

Doedsmaghird
Omniverse Consciousness
Peaceville Records
11 October 2024
An eclectic black ish metal

Oranssi Pazuzu
Muuntautuja
Nuclear Blast Records
11 October 2024
Psychedelic black metal, a bit raw, melodic

Rifftera
Coda
Inverse
Release Date: October 11th 2024
Melodic Death/Thrash Metal, I mean “rifftera” is in their name, lots of thrashy riffs and melodic chorus parts n stuff too

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Oct 7, 2024
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Vicious Blade / Relentless Force / Relentless Force / Redefining Darkness
Battlesword / Brethren Of The Sword / (Xx)v – Of Tales And Tragedies / Mdd Records
Thrasherwolf / Final Act Of Aggression / Inside The Sickened Mind / Vicious Witch
Rob Halford / Silent Screams / Resurrection / ?
Iced Earth / 03 – Disciples of the Lie / Something Wicked This Way Come / Century Media
Iron Savior / Children Of The Wasteland / Iron Savior / ?
Primal Fear / Final Embrace / Jaws of Death / ?
Valkyrie’s Fire / Ride Of The Valkyrie / Ascension / Eclipse Loud
Dragony / Dreamchasers / Hic Svnt Dracones / Spv/steamhammer
Entering Polaris / The Fires Of Alexandria / Myths In Motion / Freya
Lords Of The Trident / Master Of Speed / V.G.E.P. / Junko Johnson
Wind Rose / Trollslayer / Trollslayer / Napalm
Oceans / Spit / Happy / Nuclear Blast Records
Flotsam And Jetsam / The Head Of The Snake / I Am The Weapon / Afm Records
The Distinguished Order Of Disobedience / Parasite 6-4-2 / Dissonance / Selfmaderecords
Eradicator / Kill Cloud / The Paradox / Metalville Records
Triskelyon / Hungry Like The Wolf / Shattered Elysium / Moribund
BornBroken / Will You Remember / Am I Invisible / Self-Release
Nasty Savage / Jeopardy Room / Jeopardy Room / FHM
Dungeon Crawl / Red Shadows / Maze Controller / Carbonized
The Black Dahlia Murder / Aftermath / Servitude / Metal Blade
Blood Incantation / The Stargate [tablet Iii] / Absolute Elsewhere / Century Media
Wolfbrigade / Unruled And Unnamed / Life Knife Death / Metal Blade
Decayed Existence / Escape The Dead / The Beginning Of Sorrows / Rottweiler
Undeath / Dead From Beyond / More Insane / Prosthetic
Ripped To Shreds / Sacrificial Fire / Sanshi / Relapse
Riotous Indignation / Indoctrinate / Indoctrinate (Single) / Repel Media
Mass Punishment / Blood Dirt / Proving Ground Devastation / Wormholedeath
Mardom / If Hate Now Reigned / Dead Soul Age / Personal Records
Within The Ruins / The Last Son / Phenomena Ii / Mnrk Heavy
Thy Will Be Done / A Fool To Fall / Pillar Of Fire / Eye.on Lion Recordings
Heriot / Siege Lord / Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell / Century Media
Pyrrhon / Strange Pains / Exhaust / Willowtip
Claustrofobia / Psychosapiens / Unleeched / M-Theory Audio
Godsin / Blind Faith / Blind Faith / Firecum
Sathanas / Arise From Fire / Into The Nocturne / Moribund
Spite / Desert Demons / The Third Temple / Invictus Productions
Magnetar / The Shadow Mountains / There Will Be No Peace In My Valley / Vendetta
Livløs / Orbit Weaver / The Crescent King / Noctum Productions
Ad Infinitum / Follow Me Down / Abyss / Napalm
Oceans Of Slumber / The Impermanence Of Fate / Where Gods Fear To Speak / Season Of Mist
Announce The Apocalypse / Without Fear / Experience Machine / Sliptrick
Allt / Aquila / From The New World / Centrury Media
Kozoria / Demonize Them / The Source / Black Lion
High Parasite / Grave Intentions / Forever We Burn / Candlelight
Cemetery Skyline / Torn Away / Nordic Gothic / Century Media
Temple Of Dread / Sacrificial Dawn / God Of The Godless / Testimony Records
Legions Of Doom / A Voice Of Reason / The Skull 3 / Tee Pee
The Blacktones / Living On The Surface / The Longest Year / Sleaszy Rider

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 10/7/24

Artist — Album — Label
1) Flotsam And Jetsam — I Am The Weapon — AFM Records
2) Oceans Of Slumber — Where Gods Fear To Speak — Season of Mist
3) Within The Ruins — Phenomena II — Mnrk Heavy
4) Thy Will Be Done — Pillar Of Fire — Eye.On Lion Recordings
5) The D. O. O. D. — Dissonance — SelfMade Records
6) Eradicator — The Paradox — Metalville Records
7) Legions Of Doom — The Skull 3 — Tee Pee Records
8) Claustrofobia — Unleeched — M-Theory Audio
9) The Black Dahlia Murder — Servitude — Metal Blade
10) Wolfbrigade — Life Knife Death — Metal Blade
11) Sathanas — Into The Nocturne — Moribund
12) Heriot — Devoured by the Mouth of Hell — Century Media
13) BornBroken — Am I Invisible — Self-Release
14) Dungeon Crawl — Maze Controller — Carbonized
15) Lords Of The Trident — V.G.E.P. — Junko Johnson
16) Entering Polaris — Myths In Motion — Freya
17) Triskelyon — Shattered Elysium — Moribund
18) Allt — From The New World — Centrury Media
19) Wind Rose — Trollslayer — Napalm
20) Ripped To Shreds — Sanshi — Relapse

Top 5 Adds
1) Cemetery Skyline — Nordic Gothic — Century Media
2) Mass Punishment — Proving Ground Devastation — WormHoleDeath
3) Blood Incantation — Absolute Elsewhere — Century Media
4) Ad Infinitum — Abyss — Napalm
5) Riotous Indignation — Indoctrinate (Single) — Repel Media

Other Adds/Reviewed: Dragony, Undeath, Mardom, Corpsefucking Art, Decayed Existence, Barathrum, The Mist From The Mountains, Portae Obscuritas, Valkyrie’s Fire, Thrasherwolf, Temple Of Dread, Godsin, Alias Noone, Decimator, Kozoria, Vorgrum, Maitreya, Nasty Savage, Sandveiss, In Chaos, Livløs, Maul, Mechanix, Nevborn, Oceans, Rampant Beast, The Electric Mud, Vicious Blade

Cemetery Skyline
Nordic Gothic
Century Media Records
New kind of super group of melodeath guys… fronted by Mikael of Dark Tranquillity/Halo Effect. This is more of a goth-ish melodic death, more along like a moonspell, and not quite as heavy. Still nice groovin’ catchy stuff

Riotous Indignation
Indoctrinate (Single)
Repel Media
Out of Chicago, a bit thrashy, some groovin’ some classic metal, cool stuff.

Mass Punishment
Proving Ground Devastation
WormHoleDeath
Kind of a brutal thrashy groove going on here.

Ad Infinitum
Abyss
Napalm
Kind of a melodeath/power metal, mostly clean female vox, and some harsh stuff too. Proggish as well

Blood Incantation
Absolute Elsewhere
Century Media
Death metal with a lot of progressive stuff going on, atmospheric and ambient in parts, tech death in others, just full on brutal death metal and some long tracks

Dragony
Hic Svnt Dracones
SPV/Steamhammer
Epic symphonic power metal

Undeath
More Insane
Prosthetic Records
4 October 2024
Good brutal meaty death metal

Mardom
Dead Soul Age
Personal Records
Oct 4
A classic melodic black metal, a bit doom-ish, cold, but not too harsh or meedly.. gentle black metal. hah

CORPSEFUCKING ART
TOMATIZED
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 4th 2024
Dark gloomy brutal groovin’ death metal.

DECAYED EXISTENCE
THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 11th 2024
Brutal death metal, good stuff with a little melody too

Barathrum
Überkill
Hammer of Hate
11 October 2024
A little thrashy, some black/doom vibe

The Mist From the Mountains
Portal – The Gathering of Storms
Primitive Reaction
11 October 2024
Epic and symphonic-ish and kinda proggy black metal.

Portae Obscuritas
Release Title: KHAOS
Label: Northern Fog Records
Release Date: October 4, 2024
Old school dark black doomy metal

Valkyrie’s Fire
Ascension
Eclipse Records
8 November 2024 (Radio adds Oct 7)
Female fronted proggy power metal, a bit epic

THRASHERWOLF
INSIDE THE SICKENED MIND
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE / VICIOUS WITCH RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 4th 2024
This is kind of a technical thrash… cool stuff!

TEMPLE OF DREAD
God of the Godless
Testimony Records
4 October 2024
Extreme thrash/death metal with meaty grooves

Godsin
Release Title: Blind Faith
Label: Firecum Records
Release Date: October 12, 2024
Heavy thrash with a grooove

Alias Noone
Weight of the World
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: October 11th 2024
Melodic Death Metal with a meaty groovin sound and keyboards

Decimator
‘Til The Enemies Are Gone
Wormholedeath
Oct 4
raw punky thrash

Kozoria
The Source
Black Lion Records
11 October 2024
Melodic metal with a heavier edge, pushing into prog metal territory. reminds me of Trivium/A7X a little

Vorgrum
Release Title: Summit of Dreams
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: September 28, 2024
Kind of a folky blackened melodic death

Maitreya
Auxesis
Self-Release
11 October 2024
Diverse progressive metal, jazzy parts, melodeath moments, some metalcore, classic prog rock,

Nasty Savage
Jeopardy Room
FHM Records
11 October 2024
Catchy thrashy stuff

SANDVEISS
Standing in the Fire
Folivora Records
11 October 2024
Melodic metal, classic just straight up rockin

In Chaos
Release Title: Hope Wears Black
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: September 13, 2024
Classic metal pushing into thrashy stuff

Livløs
The Crescent King
Noctum Productions
Release date: Friday, October 4th 2024
Technical blackened death with grooves cool stuff!

Maul
In The Jaws Of Bereavement
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, October 4th 2024
Death metal with brutality and a smidge of blackened death

Mechanix
Release Title: Architects of Chaos
Label: Witches Brew
Release Date: September 13, 2024
Classic thrash type stuff

NevBorn
ELIS
Luminol Records
30 September 2024
Just a single, but it’s 15 minutes… kind of a prog metal, low key, clean vox, and building up to some blackened death type stuff

Oceans
HAPPY
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 27 Sep. 2024
Deathcore

Rampant Beast
Release Title: Into the Infernal Pyre
Label: Witches Brew
Release Date: September 20, 2024
Blackened Thrash Metal, fast and furious, more harsh vocals kind of push it a little past thrash territory but still not full on black metal

The Electric Mud
Ashes And Bone
Small Stone Recordings
Release date: Friday, October 4th 2024
Kind of a stoner metal, or just classic groovin’ hard rock

VICIOUS BLADE
Relentless Force
Redefining Darkness Records
27 September 2024
Heavier thrashy stuff, “extreme” a bit like older Witchery

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Sep 30, 2024
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Lords Of The Trident / To Kill A God / V.G.E.P. / Junko Johnson
Entering Polaris / A Friend In Time / Myths In Motion / Freya
The New Roses / When You Fall In Love / Attracted To Danger / Napalm
Mork / Tidens Tann / Syv / Peaceville
Groza / Dysthymian Dreams / Nadir / Aop Records
Gaerea / Unknown / Unknown (Single) / Season Of Mist
Dreamless Veil / Dim Golden Rave / Every Limb Of The Flood / Relapse
Spite / The Blackened Talmudist / The Third Temple / Invictus Productions
Amiensus / Leprosarium / Reclamation Pt. Ii / M-Theory Audio
Wolfbrigade / Life Knife Death / Life Knife Death / Metal Blade
Magnetar / Scum / There Will Be No Peace In My Valley / Vendetta
Temple Of Decay / Strach I Sumienie (Stosy) / Anti Deus / Godz Ov War Productions
BornBroken / Am I Invisible / Am I Invisible / Self-Release
Dreadmask / Reign Of Fear / Thy Prime Dread / Self Released
Torrefy / Street Reaper / Necronomisongs / Self-Release
Sathanas / To Bring The Sabbat / Into The Nocturne / Moribund
Blighted Eye / The Wounding / Agony’s Bespoke / Beyond The Top Records
Nile / Under The Curse Of The One God / The Underworld Awaits Us All / Napalm
The Black Dahlia Murder / Panic Hysteric / Servitude / Metal Blade
Nightwraith / One Flower / Divergence / Self-Release
Ripped To Shreds / Force Fed / Sanshi / Relapse
Pythonic / Love H8 / Ep 1 / Self-Release
Flotsam And Jetsam / Burned My Bridges / I Am The Weapon / Afm Records
Eradicator / When The Shooting Begins / The Paradox / Metalville Records
Announce The Apocalypse / In The Wake / Experience Machine / Sliptrick
The Distinguished Order Of Disobedience / The Pentecostal / Dissonance / Selfmaderecords
Distant Dominion / Esoteric Quake / Ripping Through Time / Fetzner Death
Dungeon Crawl / The Arcane Temptation / Maze Controller / Carbonized
Oceans Of Slumber / Poem Of Ecstasy / Where Gods Fear To Speak / Season Of Mist
Anciients / Beyond Our Minds / Beyond The Reach Of The Sun / Season Of Mist
Wind Rose / Dance Of The Axes / Trollslayer / Napalm
Forsaken Rite / The Storm / The Forgotten West (Ep) / Self-Release
Thy Will Be Done / Echoes & Narcissists / Pillar Of Fire / Eye.on Lion Recordings
Within The Ruins / Eater Of Worlds / Phenomena Ii / Mnrk Heavy
Allt / Remnant / From The New World / Centrury Media Records
Persecutory / Infernal Gateways To Watchers / The Glorious Persecution / Godz Ov War Productions
Kanonenfieber / Panzerhenker / Die Urkatastrophe / Century Media Records
Claustrofobia / Neuro Massacre / Unleeched / M-Theory Audio
Heriot / Harm Sequence / Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell / Century Media
Human Impact / Lost All Trust / Gone Dark / Ipecac
High Parasite / Forever We Burn / Forever We Burn / Candlelight
Legions Of Doom / Lost Soul / The Skull 3 / Tee Pee
Richie Kotzen / These Doors / Nomad / Bmg
The Wring / Badlands / Nemesis / Wormholedeath
Mammoth Caravan / Siege In The Stars / Frostbitten Galaxy / Blade Setter
Triskelyon / Endgame Euphoria / Shattered Elysium / Moribund
Uncured / Manifesto / Manifesto (Single) / Conclave Studios
Vended / Am I The Only One / Vended / Self-Release

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 9/30/24

Artist — Album — Label
1) Nile — The Underworld Awaits Us All — Napalm
2) Anciients — Beyond the Reach of the Sun — Season of Mist
3) Flotsam And Jetsam — I Am The Weapon — AFM Records
4) Amiensus — Reclamation Pt. II — M-Theory Audio
5) Oceans Of Slumber — Where Gods Fear To Speak — Season of Mist
6) Within The Ruins — Phenomena II — Mnrk Heavy
7) The D. O. O. D. — Dissonance — SelfMade Records
8) Thy Will Be Done — Pillar Of Fire — Eye.On Lion Recordings
9) Eradicator — The Paradox — Metalville Records
10) Kanonenfieber — Die Urkatastrophe — Century Media
11) Legions Of Doom — The Skull 3 — Tee Pee Records
12) Claustrofobia — Unleeched — M-Theory Audio
13) Wolfbrigade — Life Knife Death — Metal Blade
14) The Black Dahlia Murder — Servitude — Metal Blade
15) Sathanas — Into The Nocturne — Moribund
16) Heriot — Devoured by the Mouth of Hell — Century Media
17) BornBroken — Am I Invisible — Self-Release
18) Richie Kotzen — Nomad — BMG
19) Dungeon Crawl — Maze Controller — Carbonized
20) Entering Polaris — Myths In Motion — Freya

Top 5 Adds
1) Lords Of The Trident — V.G.E.P. — Junko Johnson
2) Triskelyon — Shattered Elysium — Moribund
3) Allt — From The New World — Centrury Media
4) Human Impact — Gone Dark — Ipecac
5) Wind Rose — Trollslayer — Napalm

Other Adds/Reviewed: Uncured, The New Roses, Spite, Ripped To Shreds, Mammoth Caravan, Blighted Eye, Ancient Malignity, Marche Funèbre, Magnetar, Valletta, Life Abuse, Pythonic, Dreadmask, Fache, Temple Of Decay, Announce The Apocalypse, Forsaken Rite, Coffin Rot, Dreamless Veil, Gates Open, Haggus, Haggus, The Wring, Bye Bye Tsunami, Deamonolith, Onslaught Kommand, Persecutory, Wings Denied, Distant Dominion, Lizzard, High Parasite, Swarm Effect

Lords of the Trident
V.G.E.P.
Independent
1 October 2024
Favorite local band with some new tracks and a cover! They’ve been playing these songs live for a while and also released it to their patreon folks months ago. But now it’s out for real and melodic, catchy, heavy and fun too!

TRISKELYON
Shattered Elysium
Moribund Records
27 September 2024
Melodic and thrashy with some classic metal too… and a cover of Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf!”

ALLT
From The New World
Century Media Records
Deathcore type stuff… decent

Human Impact
Gone Dark
(Ipecac)
Kind of a metalcore-ish modern metal, just groovin’

Wind Rose
Trollslayer
(Napalm)
Folky melodic death- fun and catchy

Uncured
Manifesto (Single)
Conclave Studios
Groovin’ metalcore

The New Roses
Attracted to Danger
(Napalm)
Kind of bluesy classic rock/power ballady type stuff

Spite
The Third Temple
Invictus Productions
27 September 2024
This has a deathy doomy blackened groove, cool stuff

Ripped to Shreds
Sanshi
Relapse
27 September 2024
Formerly a one man band, it’s now a full band, groovin’ meaty death metal

Mammoth Caravan
Frostbitten Galaxy
Blade Setter Records
4 October 2024
Kind of a deathy doom

Blighted Eye
Agony’s Bespoke
Beyond The Top Records
20 September 2024
SOme progressive melodic death with some cool grooves too, and a bit of an “epic” feel and a pinch of blackened death too

Ancient Malignity
Dehumanization Dawn
Inhuman Assault
1 October 2024
Death metal, brutal and a bit of a tech death sound too

MARCHE FUNÈBRE
AFTER THE STORM
LABEL: ARDUA MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 27th 2024
A doomy death thing

Magnetar
Release Title: There Will Be No Peace In My Valley
Label: Vendetta Records
Release Date: September 27, 2024
a nice blend of black metal, Death Metal and Blackened Thrash

Valletta
Summer
Forcefield Records
4 October 2024
A straightforward doomy groove.

Life Abuse
Systemization
Armageddon Label
4 October 2024
A hardcore, borderline punky thing.

Pythonic
EP 1
Self-Release
27 September 2024
A kind of groovin’ doomy death thing, a bit of melodic stuff too

Dreadmask
Album: Thy Prime Dread
self released
Release date: October 1, 2024
Melodic Death Metal, with a darker type sound, a bit of a doom style

Fache
Violent Au Volant
Horror Pain Gore Death
September 27th
Many sub one-minute punky grindy tracks

TEMPLE OF DECAY
Anti Deus
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
This is a kind of blackened death, some underlying groove and catchiness too. Cool stuff.

ANNOUNCE THE APOCALYPSE
Album: Experience Machine
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: October 1st, 2024
A mashup of Prog, thrash and melodic death

Forsaken Rite
The Forgotten West (EP)
Self-Release
27 September 2024
Melodic death/folk metal, clean female vox and some growls too

Coffin Rot
Dreams Of The Disturbed
Maggot Stomp
Release date: Friday, September 20th 2024
Brutal gore death metal

Dreamless Veil
Every Limb Of The Flood
Relapse
Release date: Friday, September 20th 2024
Classic old school black metal – decent melodic stuff yet cold.

Gates Open
Black Clouds Over The World (EP)
Inverse
Release Date: October 4th 2024
Death Metal with a little groove and a pinch of a melodeath

Haggus
No End In Suffering EP
Tankcrimes
Release date: Monday, September 16th 2024

Haggus
Three Cadavers, Two Corpses And A Carcass EP
Tankcrimes
Release date: Monday, September 16th 2024
Pig squeally vocal grindy gore death metal, a little groove in here surprisingly, but brutal!!

The Wring
Nemesis
Wormholedeath
Sept 27
Progressive Metal with a bit of a Voivod style

Bye Bye Tsunami
Eating
Nefarious Industries
Release date: Friday, October 4th 2024
Experimental, which I guess is also “prog” these days too? If I had to compare to something, a bit like old Mr Bungle. Some horns, jazzy stuff, noise metal,

DEAMONOLITH
The Monolithic Cult of Death
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
35 minute track, Blackened death, pretty decent stuff with some good deathy grooves, but LONG

ONSLAUGHT KOMMAND
Malignancy
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
Grind Death Metal with a black metal coldness

PERSECUTORY
The Glorious Persecution
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
Blackened Death Metal, pushing more to classic black metal

Wings Denied
Just the Basics
Independent
20 September 2024
A kind of modern metal, melodic hard rock-ish stuff.

Distant Dominion
Ripping Through Time
Fetzner Death Records
Release date: Friday, September 27th 2024
Catchy groovin’ death metal

Lizzard
Mesh
Pelagic
Release date: Friday, September 27th 2024
A little post-rock almost alt-rock type stuff.

High Parasite
Forever We Burn
Candlelight
27 September 2024
Aaron Stainthorpe of My Dying Bride does vox… this is a melodic doomish death with more of an upbeat type feel

Swarm Effect
Album: Cotard’s Syndrome
Self Released
Release date: September 27th, 2024
Good ol meaty brutal death metal.