Skálmöld
Ýdalir
Napalm
A bit folk metal, some melodic death/viking vibes

Desolation’s Edge
Release Title: Utopia (Exile the Virus)
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: July 21, 2023
it’s a bit of a basic progressive death, kind of raw

Anomaly
On the Cursed Wings of Stolas
Self Released
Tech Death from Milwaukee, heavy and catchy and yeah, great stuff!

Cannibal Corpse
Summoned for Sacrifice
Metal Blade Records
9 August 2023
Groovin’ and meaty to start, then kicking in faster and a bit more technical… great stuff!

Spirit Adrift
Ghost At The Gallows
Century Media Records
Kind of a classic metal/stoner metal type thing, decent grooves

BLACKBRAID
Blackbraid II
Independent
7 July 2023
Solo black metal project, just good classic black metal on this independent sophomore effort

Urne
A Fest On Sorrow
Spinefarm Records
Kind of a melodic blackened death type thing… good stuff

Leatherwolf
Thunder MMXXII Vinyl Edition Bonus Track
N.I.L.8
straight up classic metal! \m/

Seraina Telli
Addicted To Colour
Metalville Records
Female fronted classic hard rock/metal, great powerful and soulful vox.

blacktoothed
‘Novocaine’
ARISING EMPIRE is distributed by Edel/Kontor New Media
4 August 2023
Modern metal with an emotive vox/metalcore thing

CYHRA
The Vertigo Trigger
Nuclear Blast Records
18 August 2023
Third album from this swedish supergroup of sorts. Mostly a modern accessible active rock type metal. catchy melodic stuff.

Ringworm
Seeing Through Fire
Nuclear Blast
18 August 2023
Kind of a death metal/metal/deathcore type thing, a smidge of a blackened death sound too all while having some hardcore groove

Cales
Chants of Steel
Edged Circle
18 August 2023
A bit of a classic black metal, with more of a progressive/melodic sound.

Atria
Ground Zero
Self-Release
18 August 2023
This has a “solid rock” vibe… good clean vox, nice groove and some basic cool catchy stuff.

FLO
Long Way Down
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
August 18th
Cool catchy stoner metal, reminds me of COC

GRANADA
Album Title: Like Wars
Label: Tommy Gun Records / 01Records
Release Date: 30-06-2023
They call the genre “Cyclothymic Metal” LOL I had to look it up… basically it means bipolar. So yeah, bipolar metal, ups and downs, it’s got some melodic grooves and a bit of a stoner metal sound. I wouldn’t go as far to call it bi-polar! hah

The Advent Equation
Single Title: A Sudden Perception
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 28-07-2023
Progressive metal, clean vox, melodic, and building throughout this single. With a nice anthemic type epic dream theater-like keyboard wank. Cool stuff, want more.

Colosso
Album Title: Zero
Label: Prophetical Productions
Release Date: June 11, 2023
Brutal death metal!

SORROW
Release: Death of Sorrow
Release Date: 8th August 2023
Label: Xtreem Music
Kind of a deathy/doomy pinch of thrash thing. Cool stuff.

Flor de Loto
Album Title: Lines of Nasca
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 26-07-2023
This has some prog metal, folk stuff, and maybe a smidge into trashy stuff

Silverburn
Self Induced Transcendental Annihilation
MSH Music Group
11 August 2023
Kind of a tech/metalcore type thing, decent stuff.

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Aug 7, 2023
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Galactic Empire / The Imperial March / Galactic Empire / Rise
Amon Amarth / Heidrun (2023 Remix) / Heidrun / Metal Blade
Winterage / Dark Enchantment / Nekyia / Scarlet Records
Powerglove / The Decisive Battle / TV Game Metal / ?
High Spirits / Since You’ve Been Gone / Hard To Stop / High Roller Records
Of Romulus / Of Romulus / Of Romulus (Single) / Self-Release
Eleine / Stand By The Flame / We Shall Remain / Atomic Fire Records
Kamelot / March Of Mephisto / The Black Halo (Limited Edition) / ?
Greyhawk / Call Of The Hawk / Call Of The Hawk / Fighter Records
A Sound Of Thunder / It Was Metal / It Was Metal / ?
Graveshadow / Sea Of Apparitions / The Uncertain Hour / M-Theory Audio
Voyager / Dreamer / Fearless In Love / Season Of Mist
Wilderun / Passenger (Radio Edit) / Epigone / Century Media Records
Seven Spires / The Cursed Muse / Gods Of Debauchery / Frontiers
Seven Kingdoms / Diamond Handed / Zenith / Distortion Music Group
Nuclear Power Trio / Apocalypse Mao / Wet Ass Plutonium / Metal Blade Records
Shield Of Wings / Crushing Hail / Unfinished / Self Released
Lords Of The Trident / Charlatan / The Offering / Self Released
Unleash The Archers / Faster Than Light / Abyss / Pavement Entertainment
Girlschool / Bump In The Night / Wtfortyfive? / Silver Lining Music
The Zenith Passage / Lexicontagion / Datalysium / Metal Blade
Rannoch / Daguerreotype / Conflagrations / Willowtip Records
The Gorge / Presence / Mechanical Fiction / Pelagic Records
Signs Of The Swarm / Pray For Death / Amongst The Low & Empty / Century Media Records
Crypta / Poisonous Apathy / Shades Of Sorrow / Napalm
Kataklysm / Die As A King / Goliath / Nuclear Blast
Cadaver / The Age Of The Offended / The Age Of The Offended / Nuclear Blast Records
Pyrexia / System Of The Animal / System Of The Animal / Grazits Entertainment
Astralborne / War Vessel / Across The Aeons / Prosthetic Records
End Reign / Serpent Messiah / The Way Of All Flesh Is Decay / Relapse
Skindred / Our Religion / Smile / Earache Records
Butcher Babies / Beaver Cage (Explicit) / ’til The World’s Blind / Blood Blast Distribution
Cavalera / War / Morbid Visions / Nuclear Blast Records
Code Orange / Take Shape Feat Billy Corgan / Take Shape (Single) / Blue Grape Music
Megaherz / In Teufels Namen / In Teufels Namen / Napalm
Vendetta / No Hands But A Gun / Black As Coal / Massacre Records
Evile / Sleepless Eyes / The Unknown / Napalm
James Rivera’s Metal Wave / Shock The Monkey / New Wave Gone Metal / Massacre Records

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 8/7/23

Artist — Album — Label
1) Butcher Babies — ‘Til The Worlds Blind — Blood Blast
2) Voyager — Fearless In Love — Season of Mist
3) End Reign — The Way Of All Flesh Is Decay — Relapse
4) Will Haven — VII — Minus Head
5) Winterage — Nekyia — Scarlet
6) Pyrexia — System of the Animal 25 — Grazits Entertainment
7) Cavalera — Morbid Visions — Nuclear Blast
8) Evile — The Unknown — Napalm
9) The Zenith Passage — Datalysium — Metal Blade
10) Outer Heaven — Infinite Psychic Depths — Relapse
11) Signs Of The Swarm — Amongst the Low Empty — Century Media
12) Rannoch — Conflagrations — Willowtip
13) Girlschool — WTFourtyFive — Silver Lining
14) Cadaver — The Age of the Offended — Nuclear Blast
15) Vendetta — Black As Coal — Massacre
16) Crypta — Shades of Sorrow — Napalm
17) Nuclear Power Trio — Wet Ass Plutonium — Metal Blade
18) James Rivera Metal Wave — New Wave Gone Metal — Massacre
19) Eleine — We Shall Remain — Atomic Fire
20) The Gorge — Mechanical Fiction — Pelagic

Top 5 Adds
1) Kataklysm — Goliath — Nuclear Blast
2) The Ghost Inside — Earn It — Epitaph
3) Astralborne — Across The Aeons — Prosthetic
4) Amon Amarth — Heidrum EP — Metal Blade
5) Megaherz — In Teufels Namen — Napalm

Other Adds/Reviewed: Skindred, Code Orange (single), IPCC, Induction, Denial of Death, Calligram, Necronomicon Ex Mortis, The Shredderz, Danicide, Devin Townsend, Besta, Hallucinate, Runespell, Cystic, The Rite, To Kill Achilles, Lancer, Temple of Dread, The Mystical, Hot Chocolate Endeavors, Excrement, Dymna Lotva

Amon Amarth
Heidrun
Metal Blade Records
4 August 2023
Single from their last album with a remix and an EP with a life grack and other remixes… cool to have this drop right before theyr’e in the area later this week.

Megaherz
In Teufels Namen
(Napalm)
German metal, kind of just a classic metal with a pinch of an industrial alt-metal sound

Kataklysm
goliath
Nuclear Blast USA
Fast heavy brutal like always, and that’s a great thing!

The Ghost Inside
Earn It (Stand Alone Single)
Epitaph Records
Kind of a hard core modern metalcore type thing.

Astralborne
Across the Aeons
Prosthetic Records
28 July 2023
Gritty and still melodic type of blackened death metal

Code Orange
Take Shape feat Billy Corgan (single)
SONY/THE ORCHARD
A sort of modern-ish metalcore with some hard edge.

IPCC
Release Title: Impact Adaptation Vulnerability
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 27-07-2023
Grindy and catchy short tracks of death metal

INDUCTION
The Power Of Power [EP]
Atomic Fire Records
4 August 2023
Classic metal, a cool melodic power metal sound and a little edge too

Denial of Death
Single Title: Warriors of Steel
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: July 31, 2023
Orchestral and epic black metal (single)

Calligram
Position | Momentum
Prosthetic Records
14 July 2023
This sounds like a kind of technical and fast blackened death

Necronomicon Ex Mortis
Silver Bullet – Out Aug 11th
Self-Release
11 August 2023
Thrashy death metal with catchy groove

The Shredderz
The Shredderz
Self Released
4 August 2023
classic metal with nice shreddy guitars and

Skindred
Smile
Earache Records
4 August 2023
Cool funky nu-metal reggae-ish and yeah, progressive metal type stuff. They are their own genre and this new album keeps it up… cool stuff

DANICIDE
Album: Broken
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: August 8th, 2023
Classic metal with a little bit of a goth slant

Devin Townsend
Devolution Series #3 – Empath Live In America
Inside Out Music
Aug 4
IT’s a live album, and after just seeing him live last month… it’s great, he’s great, a good variety of songs from his career.

BESTA
Terra Em Desapego
Lifeforce
August 4th, 2023
Thrashy death metal all while being fast and technical too. Cool stuff!!

HALLUCINATE (Germany)
From the Bowels of the Earth
Caligari Records
4 August 2023
Groovin’ death metal with a kind of dark evil sound, but technical and even melodic in some parts too. cool stuff

Runespell
Shores of Nastrond LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
11 August 2023
Sort of a classic black metal, melodic, cold, but not full on pulsing blast beat stuff.

Cystic
Palace of Shadows
Chaos Records
11 August 2023
Brutal groovin’ death metal but with a doom and black metal thing happening too

The Rite
The Astral Gloom LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
11 August 2023
Kind of a doomy black metal, a dark gritty groove.

TO KILL ACHILLES
Album “Recovery”
Arising Empire (Edel / Kontor Media)
11 August 2023
Melodic metalcore, with a bit of the modern thing going on (more slower emo-ish parts)

LANCER
Tempest
Fireflash Records
11 August 2023
A bit of a progressive and classic metal, clean powerful vox, and a good mix of faster and melodic grooves

TEMPLE OF DREAD
Beyond Acheron
Testimony Records
11 August 2023
Blackened death, a groovin meaty death metal thing too. cool stuff

The Mystical Hot Chocolate Endeavors
A Clock Without A Craftsman
Massacre Records
11 August 2023
Mostly progressive hard rock/metal, melodic, a bit doomy, then getting into some heavier parts over the longer length songs

Excrement (Finland)
Flesh & Blood
Chaos Records
28 July 2023
Brutal death metal with a little gore/grind element

DYMNA LOTVA
The Land under the Black Wings: Blood (Зямля Пад Чорнымі Крыламі: Кроў)
Prophecy Productions
4 August 2023
Progressive blackened death, a bit of some atmosphere, symphonic stuff, down tempo flowing into full on black metal too. neat stuff.

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Jul 31, 2023
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Jag Panzer / Weather The Storm / The Hallowed / Atomic Fire
Voyager / Ultraviolet / Fearless In Love / Season Of Mist
Tailgunner / Guns For Hire / Guns For Hire / Fireflash Records
SAVATAGE / Dungeons Are Calling / Dungeons Are Calling / ?
Metal Church / Over My Dead Body / The Dark / ?
Forbidden / Chalice of Blood / Forbidden Evil [Limited Edition] / Century Media
Seven Witches / Mental Messiah / Passage to the Other Side / ?
The Spectre Beneath / Forsaken We All Fall / The Ashen Child / Self-Released
From Hell / Come To The Sabbath (Mercyful Fate Cover) / Come To The Sabbath (Single) / Scourge Records
James Rivera’s Metal Wave / Black Celebration / New Wave Gone Metal / Massacre Records
Nuclear Power Trio / W.a.p. (Wet Ass Plutonium) / Wet Ass Plutonium / Metal Blade Records
Girlschool / Cold Dark Heart / Wtfortyfive? / Silver Lining Music
Moose Cult / Moose Cult / Moose Cult / Self-Released
The Zenith Passage / Algorithmic Salvation / Datalysium / Metal Blade
Eleine / Never Forget / We Shall Remain / Atomic Fire Records
There Is No Us / Fame Whore (Radio Edit) / Fame Whore (Radio Edit) / Cleopatra Records
Winterage / Numen / Nekyia / Scarlet Records
Sevendust / No Revolution / Truth Killer / Napalm
Radiant Knife / Slumber / Pressure / Self Released
Slaughter To Prevail / Viking / Viking (Single) / Sumerian
Crypta / Dark Clouds / Shades Of Sorrow / Napalm
Cadaver / Scum Of The Earth / The Age Of The Offended / Nuclear Blast Records
Rannoch / Threads / Conflagrations / Willowtip Records
Chupacabra / Burn The Clowns / Fortified With Ashes / Self-Release
Death Ray Vision / Praise The War Machine / No Mercy From Electric Eyes / Metal Blade Records
Vendetta / Stranglehold Of Terror / Black As Coal / Massacre Records
Butcher Babies / Wrong End Of The Knife (Explicit) / ’til The World’s Blind / Blood Blast Distribution
Evile / Monolith / The Unknown / Napalm
Inpathos / Frostweald / Ascension / Self Released
Cavalera / Troops Of Doom / Morbid Visions / Nuclear Blast Records
Will Haven / For All Future Time / Vii / Minus Head
End Reign / Divine Abysmal End / The Way Of All Flesh Is Decay / Relapse
Pyrexia / Downsized / System Of The Animal / Grazits Entertainment
Dead Heat / Endless Torment / Endless Torment Ep / Tankcrimes
Repentance / Buried By Fear / The Process Of Human Demise (Single) / Noble Demon
Graveworm / A Nameless Grave / Killing Innocence / Afm
Signs Of The Swarm / Tower Of Torsos / Amongst The Low & Empty / Century Media Records
Empire State Bastard / The Looming / Rivers Of Heresy (Singles) / Roadrunner
Carbon Black / Red Flag / We Remain (Special Edition) / Wormholedeath
Outer Heaven / Fragmented Suspension / Infinite Psychic Depths / Relapse
Cognitive / Rot Eternal / Rot Eternal (Single) / Metal Blade Records
Daath / Where The Slime Live / Where The Slime Live (Single) / Metal Blade Records
The Gorge / Synapse Misfire / Mechanical Fiction / Pelagic Records
Gory Blister / Push Out The Venom / Reborn From Hatred / Eclipse
Korgull The Exterminator / Existential Risk / Built To Kill / Xtreem Music
Mayhem / Malum / Malum (Live 2022) [radio Single] / Century Media
Tsjuder / Chaos Fiend / Helvegr / Season Of Mist
Deitus / Straight For Your Throat / Irreversible / Candlelight

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 07/31/23

Artist — Album — Label
1) Death Ray Vision — No Mercy from Electric Eyes — Metal Blade
2) Graveworm — Killing Innocence — AFM
3) Jag Panzer — The Hallowed — Atomic Fire
4) Butcher Babies — ‘Til The Worlds Blind — Blood Blast
5) Will Haven — VII — Minus Head
6) Voyager — Fearless In Love — Season of Mist
7) End Reign — The Way Of All Flesh Is Decay — Relapse
8) Tsjuder — Helvegr — Season of Mist
9) Winterage — Nekyia — Scarlet
10) Pyrexia — System of the Animal 25 — Grazits Entertainment
11) Cavalera — Morbid Visions — Nuclear Blast
12) Evile — The Unknown — Napalm
13) The Zenith Passage — Datalysium — Metal Blade
14) Outer Heaven — Infinite Psychic Depths — Relapse
15) Rannoch — Conflagrations — Willowtip
16) Signs Of The Swarm — Amongst the Low Empty — Century Media
17) Girlschool — WTFourtyFive — Silver Lining
18) Cadaver — The Age of the Offended — Nuclear Blast
19) Cognitive — Rot Eternal — Metal Blade
20) Vendetta — Black As Coal — Massacre

Top 5 Adds
1) Crypta — Shades of Sorrow — Napalm
2) From Hell — Come to the Sabbath (single) — Scourge
3) Nuclear Power Trio — Wet Ass Plutonium — Metal Blade
4) There Is No Us — Fame Whore — Cleopatra
5) Slaughter to Prevail — Viking (single) — Sumerian

Other Adds/Reviewed: Empire State Bastard, Sevendust, The Gorge, Repentance (single), James Rivera’s Metal Wave, Tailgunner, Dead Heat, Nuclear Remains, Cinema Cinema, Radiant Knife, Eleine, Sludge Keeper, Gory Blister, Vargr, Ould Ghoul, Konvolted, Inpathos, Chupacabra, The Crawling, Moose Cult, Carbon Black, Rutenance, Countess Erzsebet, The Spectre Beneath, Ancestral Blood, Deteriorot, Korgull The Exterminator, Caivano, Mayhem (single), L.A. Project, Nattsjal

Crypta
Shades of Sorrow
Napalm
Blackened death/thrash… cool stuff!

Empire State Bastard
“The Looming”
Rivers of Heresy
Roadrunner
Kind of a noise metal, something-core.

Sevendust
Truth Killer
Napalm
Haven’t received much Sevendust material over the last lots of years. They haven’t been too much in the way of mosh pit material. I’ve always been a fan and this album sounds just like Sevendust. I’m sure there are some heavier tracks we can play!

SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL
“Viking”
Sumerian
Over the top insane heaviness while still being brutal, catchy, groovin’ and fun!

There Is No Us
Fame Whore (Radio Edit) (Single)
Cleopatra Records
Kind of a groovin’ industrial nu-metal type thing

From Hell
Come To The Sabbath (Mercyful Fate Cover) (Single)
Scourge Records
A cool groovin’ classic metal thrashy sound with a cool M.F. cover. (steve Smyth’s band)

The Gorge
Mechanical Fiction
Pelagic
Release date: Friday, July 28th 2023
This is kind of a progressive metal/death/thrash metal thing sounds good!

Repentance
Buried By Fear (single)
Noble Demon
Chicago’s own… They opened Milwaukee metalfest one of the days, good solid groovin’ death/thrash metal.

Nuclear Power Trio
Wet Ass Plutonium
Metal Blade Records
28 July 2023
A kind of joke-theme band, but it’s got serious chops. Allegaeon and Havoc members team up to be “Putin, Trump and Kim Jong Un” We have some cool technical instrumental prog metal. great stuff !

James Rivera’s Metal Wave
New Wave Gone Metal
Massacre Records
28 July 2023
You know you will get great vox with James Rivera, and musically it’s cool too, some good classic metal

TAILGUNNER
Guns For Hire
Fireflash Records
14 July 2023
Classic metal/power metal

Dead Heat
Endless Torment EP
Tankcrimes
Release date: Friday, July 28th 2023
Kind of a thrashy thing, cool grooves and vibe

Nuclear Remains
Dawn Of Eternal Suffering
Maggot Stomp
Release date: Friday, July 14th 2023
Brutal death/gore metal

Cinema Cinema
Mjölnir
Nefarious Industries
Release date: Friday, July 14th 2023
A bit of a progressive/avant garde rock type thing

Radiant Knife
Pressure
Self released
Release date: Friday, July 14th 2023
Kind of a progressive thrashy metal, pretty cool stuff

Eleine
We Shall Remain
Atomic Fire
Release date: Friday, July 14th 2023
A nice catchy and epic power metal / melodic death with female vox and growly vox too.

Sludge Keeper
Slough Of Despair
Selfmadegod
Release date: Friday, July 14th 2023
Kind of a grindy death metal, brutal and a bit technical too

Gory Blister
Reborn from Hatred
Eclipse Records
8 September 2023
Brutal and techn-ish death metal. Good stuff!!

VARGR (Sweden)
FTW
Blooddawn Productions / Regain Records
31 July 2023
Wall of noise. wtf

OLD GHOUL
Old Ghoul
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
31 July 2023
Old school doom

KONVOLTED
Album: Human Reification
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: August 1st, 2023
Here’s some kind of classic metal with a modern groove

Inpathos
Album (EP): Ascension
self Released
Release date: August 1, 2023
Melodic Death Metal, heavier parts, nice catchy melodic stuff too

Chupacabra
Fortified with Ashes
Self-Release
4 August 2023
Thrash, a nice heavy edgy vocal, solid groovin’ music to back it up

THE CRAWLING
ALL OF THIS FOR NOTHING
LABEL: GRINDSCENE RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 4th 2023
Melodic black/doom metal. decent stuff.

Moose Cult
Release Title: Moose Cult
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: August 4, 2023
This is kind of a death metal with a doomy darkness… a little bit of a progressive element and some big grooves.

Carbon Black
We Remain Special Edition
Wormholedeath
A modern groove metal thing, mixed up with a bit of a thrashy death metal. Neat stuff.

PURTENANCE
Release: The Rot Within Us
Release Date: July 11, 2023
Label: Xtreem Music
Death metal with more a dark doomy sound

Countess Erzsebet
Countess Erzsebet
Self-released
28 July 2023
Atmospheric doomy black / post-metal

The Spectre Beneath
Release Title: The Ashen Child
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 14th July 2023
Classic metal, a little groovin’ power metal-ish sound. clean female vox… and overall a bit into prog metal too

Ancestral Blood
Forgotten Myths And Legends, Ch.1
Wormholedeath
Melodic black metal, some atmosphere.

DETERIOROT
Album: The Rebirth
Release Date: 18th July 2023
Label: Xtreem Music
Dark groovin’ death metal

KÖRGULL THE EXTERMINATOR
Release Title: Built to Kill
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: August 1, 2023
Extreme thrash… nice catchy fast stuff

Caivano
Caivano
Self-Release
21 July 2023
Kind of a classic metal with a stoner/grungy sound

MAYHEM
“Malum (Live 2022)” [Radio Single]
Century Media
21 July 2023
single from their latest live album, has a good sound/production and classic black metal!

L. A. PROJECT
Release Title: Electric Life
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 24-07-2023
Classic melodic hard rock

Nattsjäl
Album: I marors djup
Self-Released
Release date: 17-07-2023
They call it “Black Viking Folk Thrash Heavy Metal” and yeah, a bit of all of that, clean female vox out front and some other male epic folky viking vox too.

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Jul 24, 2023
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Pantera / Primal Concrete Sledge / Cowboys From Hell / ATCO Records, Rhino Records (2)
Pantera / Domination / Cowboys From Hell / ATCO Records, Rhino Records (2)
Evile / The Mask We Wear / The Unknown / Napalm
Pantera / Throes Of Rejection / Far Beyond Driven / EastWest, EastWest, Rhino Records (2), Rhino Records (2)
Pantera / Death Rattle / Reinventing The Steel / Elektra, EastWest
Lamb Of God / Now You’ve Got Something to Die for – Lamb Of God / Ashes Of The Wake / ?
Lamb Of God / Black Label / New American Gospel / Metal Blade
Girlschool / It Is What It Is / Wtfourtyfive? / Silver Lining Music
Pantera / Use My Third Arm / Far Beyond Driven / EastWest, EastWest, Rhino Records (2), Rhino Records (2)
Pantera / 13 Steps To Nowhere / The Great Southern Trendkill / EastWest Records America, Rhino Records (2)
Pantera / Heresy / Cowboys From Hell / ATCO Records, Rhino Records (2)
Snafu / Closed Casket Habits / Exile — Banishment / Housecore
Cavalera / Mayhem / Morbid Visions / Nuclear Blast Records
Lamb Of God / What I’ve Become – Lamb Of God / Ashes Of The Wake / ?
Pantera / Slaughtered / Far Beyond Driven / EastWest, EastWest, Rhino Records (2), Rhino Records (2)
Signs Of The Swarm / Amongst The Low & Empty (Radio Edit) / Amongst The Low & Empty (Singles) / Century Media Records
Lamb Of God / Omens [explicit] / Omens / Epic
Voyager / The Best Intentions / Fearless In Love / Season Of Mist
Pantera / Becoming / Far Beyond Driven / EastWest, EastWest, Rhino Records (2), Rhino Records (2)
Pantera / Fucking Hostile / Vulgar Display Of Power / ATCO Records, Rhino Records (2)
Death Ray Vision / Premature Evisceration / No Mercy From Electric Eyes / Metal Blade Records
Lamb of God / The Faded Line – Lamb Of God / Ashes Of The Wake / Sony
Pantera / The Great Southern Trendkill / The Great Southern Trendkill / EastWest Records America, Rhino Records (2)
Outer Heaven / Pillars Of Dust / Infinite Psychic Depths / Relapse
Lamb of God / Pathetic / Sacrament / Epic Records
Pantera / Walk / Vulgar Display Of Power / ATCO Records, Rhino Records (2)
Pantera / War Nerve / The Great Southern Trendkill / EastWest Records America, Rhino Records (2)
End Reign / The Hunger / The Way Of All Flesh Is Decay / Relapse
Graveworm / Where Agony Prevails / Killing Innocence / Afm
Lamb of God / Blacken The Cursed Sun / Sacrament / Epic Records
Pantera / Power Metal / Power Metal / GEMA (8)
Pantera / Yesterday Don’t Mean Sh** / Reinventing The Steel / Elektra, EastWest
Butcher Babies / Backstreets Of Tennessee (Explicit) / ’til The World’s Blind / Blood Blast Distribution
Tsjuder / Gamle-Erik / Helvegr / Season Of Mist
Lamb Of God / Memento Mori / Lamb Of God / Epic
Pantera / Cowboys From Hell / Cowboys From Hell / ATCO Records, Rhino Records (2)
Pantera / Regular People (Conceit) / Vulgar Display Of Power / ATCO Records, Rhino Records (2)
Pyrexia / Confrontation / System Of The Animal 25 / Gravitas Entertainment
Frozen Land / White Lightning / Out Of The Dark / Massacre
Lamb Of God / Purified / As The Palaces Burn – Remastered / ?
Pantera / Hollow / Vulgar Display Of Power / ATCO Records, Rhino Records (2)
Raven / All Hell’s Breaking Loose / All Hell’s Breaking Loose / Silver Lining Music
The Zenith Passage / The Axiom Of Error / Datalysium / Metal Blade
Jag Panzer / Onward We Toil / The Hallowed / Atomic Fire
Dying Fetus / Feast Of Ashes / Make Them Beg For Death / Relapse
Cadaver / Postapocalyptic Grinding / The Age Of The Offended / Nuclear Blast Records
Immortal / Immortal / War Against All / Nuclear Blast Records

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 07/24/23

Artist — Album — Label
1) Raven — All Hell’s Breaking Loose — Silver Lining
2) Immortal — War Against All — Nuclear Blast
3) Pyramaze — Bloodlines — AFM
4) Death Ray Vision — No Mercy from Electric Eyes — Metal Blade
5) Graveworm — Killing Innocence — AFM
6) Jag Panzer — The Hallowed — Atomic Fire
7) Thy Catafalque — Alfold — Season of Mist
8) Butcher Babies — ‘Til The Worlds Blind — Blood Blast
9) Will Haven — VII — Minus Head
10) Phantom Corporation — Fallout — Supreme Chaos
11) Winterage — Nekyia — Scarlet
12) Frozen Land — Out of the Dark — Massacre
13) Voyager — Fearless In Love — Season of Mist
14) End Reign — The Way Of All Flesh Is Decay — Relapse
15) Tsjuder — Helvegr — Season of Mist
16) Pyrexia — System of the Animal 25 — Grazits Entertainment
17) Cavalera — Morbid Visions — Nuclear Blast
18) Evile — The Unknown — Napalm
19) Outer Heaven — Infinite Psychic Depths — Relapse
20) Rannoch — Conflagrations — Willowtip

Top 5 Adds
1) Signs Of The Swarm — Amongst the Low Empty — Century Media
2) The Zenith Passage — Datalysium — Metal Blade
3) Girlschool — WTFourtyFive — Silver Lining
4) Cadaver — The Age of the Offended — Nuclear Blast
5) Cognitive — Rot Eternal — Metal Blade

Other Adds/Reviewed: Vendetta, Daath (single), Dying Fetus (single), Harms Way (single), Akercocke, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Deitus, Baroness (single), Eternal Rot, Formless Oedon, Dev Crawford, Porta Nigra, Black Sorcery, Atonement, Black Spell, Machinations of Fate, Organ Dealer, Hooker Spit, Fleshvessel, Wyrgher, Tongues, Contrarian, Acidbrain, Sadistic Vision, Astralborne, Countess Erzsebet, Obscure Form, Y&T

Cadaver
The Age Of The Offended
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 21 July 2023
Brutal death metal, straight to the point with a dark cold groove

Signs Of The Swarm
Amongst The Low Empty
Century Media Records
Blackened deathcore… good n brutal!

Girlschool
WTFourtyFive
Silver Lining Music
Classic metal, obviously female fronted, cool stuff.

The Zenith Passage
Datalysium
Metal Blade
Release date: Friday, July 21st 2023
Technical death metal, way cool!

Somnuri
Desiderium
MNRK Heavy
Release date: Friday, July 21st 2023
Kind of an extreme stoner metal… cool groovin’ stuff

Cognitive
Rot Eternal
Metal Blade Records
12 July 2023
A single from their forthcoming album. Technical brutal death metal!

Vendetta
Black As Coal
Massacre Records
14 July 2023
Cool classic metal with a thrashy sound.

Akercocke
Decades Of Devil Worship
Peaceville Records
21 July 2023
Live album with a brutal death metal thing going on

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
Slaughter on First Avenue
Rise Above
28 July 2023
Stoner metal

Harms Way
Silent Wolf – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Gritty death metal, cool

Dying Fetus
”Feast of Ashes”
Make Them Beg for Death
(Relapse)
Technical and brutal and to the point, great new single!

Baroness
“Beneath The Rose”
Stone
(Abraxan Hymns)
Another single… stoner metal, a bit of a groove and that stoner sound

Dååth
Where the Slime Live
Metal Blade Records
14 July 2023
Cool new single – cover of the Morbid Angel classic… kind staying true to the original

Deitus
Irreversible
Candlelight
14 July 2023
Death metal with a bit of a melodic /progressive angle. Cool

Eternal Rot
Moribound
Memento Mori / Godz Ov War
24 July 2023
Doomy death metal, with a gore sound

Formless Oedon
Streams of Rot
Memento Mori
24 July 2023
Death metal with a bit of a black metal feel

DEV CRAWFORD
Album: Punishment Essay Volume III (Memento Mori)
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: July 25th, 2023
Just some straight up hard rock/classic metal

Porta Nigra
Weltende
Soulseller
28 July 2023
Gritty death metal. neat stuff.

Black Sorcery
Deciphering Torment Through Malediction
Eternal Death
28 July 2023
Classic old school black metal

Atonement
Sadistic Invaders
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 28/07/2023
More old school black metal… this one is fast and furious.. Cool.

BLACK SPELL (Italy)
Walpurgis Night
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
28 July 2023
Dark, and I think satantic doom. just straight up groovin’ doom.

Machinations of Fate
Celestial Prophecies
Redefining Darkness Records
28 July 2023
Blackened death/thrash. A heavy extreme thrashy sound, pushing into black metal…some good melodic technicality too!

Organ Dealer
The Weight Of Being
Everlasting Spew Records
28 July 2023
Brutal punishing death metal, no songs over a minute 30… cool fun!

Hooker Spit
“Krötch Splitter” Out July 28th
Self-Release
28 July 2023
Brutal groovin’ thrashy death metal. Cool stuff!

FLESHVESSEL
Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed
I, Voidhanger Records
28 July 2023
Epic (long songs) Symphonic with black metal moments, progressive death stuff, regular progressive metal stuff…

WYRGHER
Panspermic Warlords
I, Voidhanger Records
28 July 2023
Blackened death with a bit of a symphonic (keyboardy) thing going on too

TONGUES
Formløse Stjerner
I, Voidhanger Records
28 July 2023
Classic black metal type stuff.

Contrarian
Demos & Oddities 1995-1999
Self-Release
28 July 2023
I don’t normally like demo and outtake stuff, I guess I’m a little snobby for decent production, well this does have a decent sound and quite a proggy death

ACIDBRAIN
THE LUST MURDERS
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: JULY 28th 2023
Brutal gore-grind type stuff, and the song titles are not quite PC. hah

Sadistic Vision
Destroyer of All Worlds
Boris Records
28 July 2023
Death metal with a little gritty groove going on.

Astralborne
Across the Aeons
Prosthetic Records
28 July 2023
Technical death, melodic and catchy… this is just a sampler… more soon!

Countess Erzsebet
Countess Erzsebet
Self-released
28 July 2023
Kind of a lo-fi doomish post-black metal

Obscure Form
The Infinite Unknown
Self Released
Progressive Death Metal brutal and melodic too.

Y&T
Yesterday and Today Live (Expanded Edition)
Metal Blade Records
9 June 2023
Classic metal band with a live album newly released from the original from 1991