Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Feb 5, 2024
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Job For A Cowboy / Beyond The Chemical Doorway / Beyond The Chemical Doorway (Single) / Metal Blade Records
Volcandra / Fouled Sanctity / The Way Of Ancients / Prosthetic Records
Night Slasher / Ice / Night Slasher / Sliptrick Records
AORTHA / Those That Should Not Exist / Monolit / Self Released
Revocation / Spurn the Outstretched Hand / Teratogenesis / Scion AV
Allegaeon / A Path Disclosed / Formshifter / Metal Blade
Psycroptic / Forward To Submission / The Inherited Repression / Nuclear Blast
Gates Open / The Awakening / Voice After Silence / Inverse
Exocrine / Life / Legend / Season Of Mist
Cognizance / Chiselled In Stone / Phantazein / Willowtip Records
Vitriol / Nursing From The Mother Wound / Suffer & Become / Century Media Records
Persefone / The Equable / Lingua Ignota: Part I / Napalm
Takida / Third Strike / The Agony Flame / Napalm
Hiraes / Undercurrent / Dormant / Napalm
Therion / Baccanale / Leviathan III / Napalm
Ryujin / Kunnecup / Ryujin / Napalm
Infected Rain / Because I Let You / Time / Napalm
Meth. / Doubt / Shame / Prosthetic
Morbid Saint / Rise From The Ashes / Swallowed By Hell / High Roller Records
H1Z1 / Hard / Hard (Single) / Self Released
Rattle Trapp / The Rage Within / The Rage Within / Self Released
Aberrate (Green Bay) / Somniphobia / Somniphobia (Single) / Self Released
Emergency Rule / Garden / The King Of Ithaca / Wormholedeath
Lord Dying / Final Push Into The Sun / Clandestine Transcendence / Mnrk Heavy
Gengis Khan / Rising From Hell / Masters Of My Sins / Self-Released
Saxon / There’s Something In Roswell / Hell, Fire And Damnation / Silver Lining Music
Meanstreak / The Dark Gift / Blood Moon / Step Off Records
Graywitch / Children Of Gods / Children Of Gods / Sleaszy Rider
Ghoul / The Eyes Of The Witch / Noxious Concoctions Ep / Tankcrimes
The Infernal Sea / Witchfinder / Hellfenlic / Candlelight
Helfro / Sindur / Tálgröf / Season Of Mist
Luciferian Rites / Bats Of Crimson Wisdom / Oath Of Midnight Ashes / Moribund Records
Drakon / Gold / Thunderdome / Sleaszy Rider
Carnal Savagery / Column Of Maggots / Into The Abysmal Void / Moribund Records
Upon Stone / Dusk Sang Fairest / Dead Mother Moon / Century Media Records
Chaos Sanctuary / Reassimilated (To Be Detonated) / Instrumentality / Self-Release
Abhoria / Within Our Dominion / Depths / Prosthetic Records
Satarial / Dance Of Steel – Invocation Of Dragon / Dance Of Steel – Invocation Of Dragon / Sleaszy Rider
There Is No Us / Fame Whore (Radio Edit) / Fame Whore (Radio Edit) / Cleopatra Records
House Of Atreus / Thy Wounded Sovereignty / Orations / Iron Bonehead
Voltumna / Vanth / For Death Is Fate (Ep) / Self Released
Necrowretch / Ksar Al-Kufar / Swords Of Dajjal / Season Of Mist
Masser / Creed Of A Worshipped Weapon / The Forlorn Path – Ep / Self-Released
Transit Method / Into Your Mind / Othervoid / Brutal Panda Records
Hero And The Horror / Strength Of A God / Old Ghosts / Salt Of The Earth Records
Sgaile / Psalms To Shout At The Void / Traverse The Bealach / Avantgarde Music

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 2/5/24

Artist — Album — Label
1) Helfró — Tálgröf — Season of Mist
2) Ryujin — Ryujin — Napalm
3) Therion — Leviathan III — Napalm
4) Carnal Savagery — Into The Abysmal Void — Moribund
5) Upon Stone — Dead Mother Moon — Century Media
6) Saxon — Hell, Fire and Damnation — Silver Lining Music
7) Gengis Kahn — Masters of My Sins — Self Released
8) Chaos Sanctuary — Instrumentality — Self-Released
9) Vitriol — Suffer & Become — Century Media
10) Hiraes — Dormant — Napalm
11) The Infernal Sea — Hallfenlic — Candlelight
12) Cognizance — Phantazein — Willowtip Records
13) Luciferian Rites — Oath of Midnight Ashes — Moribund
14) Lord Dying — Clandestine Transcendence — Mnrk Heavy
15) Abhoria — Depths — Prosthetic Records
16) Exocrine — Legend — Season of Mist
17) Persefone — Lingua Ignota: Part 1 EP — Napalm
18) Hero and the Horror — Old Ghosts — Salt of the Earth
19) Sgaile — Traverse The Bealach — Avantgarde Music
20) House Of Atreus — Orations — Iron Bonehead

Top 5 Adds
1) Morbid Saint — Swallowed By Hell — High Roller
2) There Is No Us — Lunatic (single) — Cleopatra
3) Infected Rain — Time — Napalm
4) Necrowretch — Swords of Dajjal — Season of Mist
5) Job for a Cowboy — Beyond the Chemical Doorway (sngl) — Metal Blade

Other Adds/Reviewed: Takida, Volcandra (single), Meanstreak, Rattle Trapp (single), H1Z1 (single), Aberrate (single), Contaminated, Spectral Voice, Nocturnal Sorcery, Seltsame Erden, Throat, Night Slasher, Haystack, Gates Open, Emergency Rule, The Black Flamingo, Transit Method, Kalt Vindur, Corax B.M., Ghoul, Marco Cusato, Drakon, Atkins May Project, Graywitch, Satarial, Meth., Masser

Infected Rain
TIME
(Napalm)
Kind of a modern metal, melodic death, harsh and clean female vox. Nice grooves

Takida
The Agony Flame
(Napalm)
A little doom, modern metal/rock

MEANSTREAK
Blood Moon
Step Off Records
2 February 2024
The band famous for majority of the members being married to Dream Theater members… but a great all female thrashy metal band. new 4 song EP, some classic metal/thrash going on in these 4 songs.

Job for a Cowboy
Beyond the Chemical Doorway – radio single
Metal Blade Records
23 February 2024
oooo another single! Not messing around… brutal, technical, prog/death. great stuff

Necrowretch
Swords of Dajjal
Season of Mist
2 February 2024
Classic black metal, but with a full almost epic sound, and a bit of a melodic death thing

RADIO: Volcandra
The Way of Ancients
Prosthetic Records
1 March 2024
Technical, groovin’ deathy thrash with a pinch of black metal harshness… cool stuff!

There Is No Us
Lunatic (Single)
Cleopatra Records
A kind of modern groove metal. Catchy with a heavy groove.

Rattle Trapp
Singles
Self Released
From Nashville, a groovin’ catchy hard rockin’ thing.

Morbid Saint
Swallowed By Hell
High Roller Records
9 February 2024
Fast and catchy deathy thrash metal, great stuff!

Contaminated (Australia)
Celebratory Beheading CD/LP/TAPE
Blood Harvest
9 February 2024
Brutal death metal, a little kind of doomy groove too

Spectral Voice
Sparagmos
Dark Descent Records
9 February 2024
Dark, doom-ish, atmospheric black metal/post metal

Nocturnal Sorcery
Captive in the Breath of Life
KVLT
9 February 2024
Raw old school black metal

Seltsame Erden
Gedankentempeln
Chaos Records
9 February 2024
More old school black metal, this has a little atmosphere to it, a little dark and doomy

Throat (Poland)
Blood Exaltation
Primitive Reaction
9 February 2024
Raw black / death metal

NIGHT SLASHER
Album: Night Slasher
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: February 6th, 2024
Thrashy metal with a little death/thrash thing going on. cool stuff.

AUREOLE
Alunarian Bellmaster
Lupus Lounge
9 February 2024
A whole lot of atmosphere here, almost like a creepy background soundtrack to a sacrifice

Haystack
Doomsday Goes Away
THE DOGMA REPERTORY INSTITUTE/THREEMAN RECORDINGS
9 February 2024
A little doom/stoner thing going on, a nice groove, a little Rollins sound too

Gates Open
Voice After Silence
Inverse
Release Date: February 9th 2024
This has a bit of a death metal, and pinch of melodic death. Vox are mostly in a black metal style, but musically it has some groovin’ and melody. Cool stuff.

Emergency Rule
The King of Ithaca
Wormholedeath
February 9, 2023
Straightforward metal, a little bit of a stoner/doomy groove.

The Black Flamingo
An-nûr
Label: Subsound Records
Release date: February 2nd, 2024
instrumental stoner psychedelic… neat stuff.

Transit Method
Othervoid
Brutal Panda Records
2 February 2024
Kind of a proggy stoner metal thing. So yeah, prog rock/metal with a stonery groove.

Kalt Vindur
Magna Mater
The Circle Music
26 January 2024
Old school black metal, a little raw, but some good classic stuff

Corax B.M
Pagana
The Circle Music
26 January 2024
A little melodic death, some goth/black metal and doom post/metal

Ghoul
Noxious Concoctions EP
Tankcrimes
Release date: Friday, February 2nd 2024
A little black metal, death metal, thrash, lots of cool stuff happening here. Great stuff!

Marco Cusato
Marco Cusato
Untamed Souls
Sleaszy Rider
Classic hard rock/metal, a little bit of a doomy/goth sound

Drakon
Thunderdome
Sleaszy Rider
Blackened death/thrash, more on the black metal side of things, cool stuff

Atkins May Project
Serpents Kiss
Sleaszy Rider
A sort of classic metal, a bit of a groove thing too

Graywitch
Children Of Gods
Sleaszy Rider
Fairly straightforward classic metal/power metal. Fast and catchy too

Satarial
Dance…
Sleaszy Rider
Kind of a proggy folk black metal. A bit epic sounding, interesting!

meth.
SHAME
Prosthetic Records
2 February 2024
Kind of a noise/ blackened post metal thing

Masser
Release Title: The Forlorn Path
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: February 2, 2024
Symphonic Metal, Progressive Metalcore, Folk Metal, some atmosphere and catchiness

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Jan 29, 2024
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Persefone / One Word / Lingua Ignota: Part I / Napalm
External / To Weigh, To Wear / Dreamscapes / Self Released
Byron / The_Lotus_Covenant / Chapter Ii: The Lotus Covenant / The Goatmancer
Inquisition / Crown of Light and Constellations / Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence / Agonia
Vargrav / Through The Woods Of Breathing Shadows / The Nighthold / Werewolf
Dimmu Borgir / Master Of Disharmony / Enthrone Darkness Triumphant / Nuclear Blast
Belphegor / Bondage Goat Zombie / Bondage Goat Zombie / ?
Hasturian Vigil / Nine Bellowing Hounds / Unveiling The Brac’thal / Invictus Productions
The Infernal Sea / Shadow Of The Beast / Hellfenlic / Candlelight
Helfro / Guðlegt Réttlæti / Tálgröf / Season Of Mist
Abhoria / The Well / Depths / Prosthetic Records
Luciferian Rites / Omnia Oscura / Oath Of Midnight Ashes / Moribund Records
Litosth / In Waves / Cesariana / Personal Records
Exocrine / Legend / Legend / Season Of Mist
Cognizance / A Brain Dead Memoir / Phantazein / Willowtip Records
Vitriol / The Flowers Of Sadism / Suffer & Become / Century Media Records
Sea Of Consciousness / Sea Of Consciousness / Sea Of Consciousnes / Self Released
Ektomorf / Fade Away / Vivid Black / Afm Records
Hiraes / We Owe No One / Dormant / Napalm
Ryujin / The Rainbow Song (Feat. Matthew K. Heafy) / Ryujin / Napalm
Therion / Maleficium / Leviathan III / Napalm
Vipassi / Lightless / Lightless / Season Of Mist
Carnal Savagery / Stench Of Burnt Decay / Into The Abysmal Void / Moribund Records
Upon Stone / My Destiny; A Weapon / Dead Mother Moon / Century Media Records
Chaos Sanctuary / Phlegmatic Invader / Instrumentality / Self-Release
Hauntologist / Deathdreamer / Hollow / No Solace
Animamortua / Blackhole / Gods Among Us / Underground Symphony Records
Lord Of The Lost / (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight / Weapons Of Mass Seduction / Napalm
Saxon / Fire And Steel / Hell, Fire And Damnation / Silver Lining Music
Magnum / Run Into The Shadows / Here Comes The Rain / Spv/steamhammer
Striker / Best Of The Best / Ultrapower / Record Breaking Records.
Night Fever / Dead End / Dead End / Svart
Sgaile / Lamentations By The Lochan / Traverse The Bealach / Avantgarde Music
Shadow Eden / Warrior Poets / Skunkworx / Shred Guy Records
Lord Dying / Unto Becoming / Clandestine Transcendence / Mnrk Heavy
Acerus / Dying Consciousness Of An Old God / The Caliginous Serenade / Nameless Grave
Gengis Khan / The Seventh Heaven / Masters Of My Sins / Self-Released
Whitechapel / Forgiveness Is Weakness (Live) / Live In The Valley / Metal Blade Records
Dissimulator / Neural Hack / Lower Form Resistance / 20 Buck Spin
Dripping Decay / Emanating Necrosis / Ripping Remains Ep / Satanik Royalty
Perveration / Consuming Maggots Seeds / Putrefaction Of Infinite Apogee / Comatose Music
Fit For A King / Keeping Secrets / Keeping Secrets (Single) / Tooth And Nail
Hero And The Horror / On Fire / Old Ghosts / Salt Of The Earth Records
Any Given Day / Get That Done / Limitless / Arising Empire
Alluvial / Death Is But A Door / Death Is But A Door / Nuclear Blast Records
House Of Atreus / Orations Reascension Of Mastery / Orations / Iron Bonehead
Testament / Disciples Of The Watch / First Strike Still Deadly / Prosthetic
Testament / Into The Pit / First Strike Still Deadly / Prosthetic
Exodus / Metal Command / Let There Be Blood / ?

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 1/29/24

Artist — Album — Label
1) Ektomorf — Vivid Black — AFM
2) Helfró — Tálgröf — Season of Mist
3) Alluvial — Death Is But A Door — Nuclear Blast
4) Ryujin — Ryujin — Napalm
5) Carnal Savagery — Into The Abysmal Void — Moribund
6) Therion — Leviathan III — Napalm
7) Upon Stone — Dead Mother Moon — Century Media
8) Lord Of The Lost — Weapons Of Mass Seduction — Napalm
9) Saxon — Hell, Fire and Damnation — Silver Lining Music
10) Gengis Kahn — Masters of My Sins — Self Released
11) Chaos Sanctuary — Instrumentality — Self-Released
12) Vitriol — Suffer & Become — Century Media
13) Hiraes — Dormant — Napalm
14) The Infernal Sea — Hallfenlic — Candlelight
15) Cognizance — Phantazein — Willowtip Records
16) Magnum — Here Comes the Rain — SPV/Steamhammer
17) Luciferian Rites — Oath of Midnight Ashes — Moribund
18) Lord Dying — Clandestine Transcendence — Mnrk Heavy
19) Shadow Eden — Skunkworx — Shred Guy Records
20) Abhoria — Depths — Prosthetic Records

Top 5 Adds
1) Exocrine — Legend — Season of Mist
2) Persefone — Lingua Ignota: Part 1 EP — Napalm
3) Hero and the Horror — Old Ghosts — Salt of the Earth
4) Striker — Ultrapower — Record Breaking
5) Any Given Day — Limitless — Arising Empire

Other Adds/Reviewed: Fit for A King (single), Whitechapel (Live), External, Dissimulator, Sgaile, Hollow Woods, Litosth, Hasturian Vigil, Perveration, Stages of Decomposition, House of Atreus, Unaussprechlichen Kulten, Byron, Hauntologist, Night Fever, TumbleTown, Inver, Seid, Shrouded, Dripping Decay, Acerus, HeKz, Retched, Sea of Consciousness, Animamortua, Vipassi, Kill The Thrill

EXOCRINE
Legend
Season of Mist
26 January 2024
Sick and fast technical brutal progressive death metal. awesome

Gost
Prophecy – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
8 March 2024
A little industrial, some black metal, and just vibe that seems a bit throwbacky, and atmospheric

Sgàile
Traverse The Bealach
Avantgarde Music
January 19th, 2024
Prog metal, heavy, laid back, technical, melodic, musical, just overall fits the prog metal definition, yes, long songs too. Good stuff.

Malist
Of Scorched Earth
Avantgarde Music
January 19th, 2024
Melodic black metal from Czech Republic, classic old school black metal, longer songs, a little epic feel in with the meedly meedlys

Whitechapel
Live in the Valley
Metal Blade Records
26 January 2024
Live album! Sounds good, technical, heavy stuff.

Persefone
Lingua Ignota: Part I
(Napalm)
Progressive metal, a bit aggressive in parts with some harsh vox, melodic overall, great stuff as always

STRIKER
ULTRAPOWER – Out Feb 2nd, 2024
Record Breaking Records.
2 February 2024
Classic metal, kind of a wall of sound with a modern metal / power metal things

Hero And The Horror
Old Ghosts
Salt Of The Earth Records
Gritty groovin’ deathy thrash kicking into some classic metal too. catchy cool stuff.

Fit For A King
Keeping Secrets (Stand Alone Single)
Tooth And Nail
Modern metal core, good groove, a little hardcore edge, some emo-electronica stuff too

Any Given Day
Get That Done (Single)
Arising Empire
Metalcore with a melodic death feel too.

HOLLOW WOODS
Like Twisted Bones of Fallen Giants
Signal Rex
2 February 2024
Black metal, classic sounding cold and dark

Litosth
Cesariana
Personal Records
2 February 2024
Mostly black metal, but featuring more of a melodic sound, a bit of a prog/doom thing?

Hasturian Vigil
Unveiling the Brac’thal
Invictus Productions
2 February 2024
Classic blackened metal with a bit of a classic metal overlayed… some catchy groove and longer songs on this 4 song EP

PERVERATION
PUTREFACTION OF INFINITE APOGEE
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 2nd 2024
guttural and brutal death metal like a freight train pushing through your soulllll

Stages of Decomposition (Gore House Productions)
Raptures of Psychopathy
Gore House Productions
2 February 2024
Brutal death metal

House of Atreus
Orations MLP/MCD
Iron Bonehead
2 February 2024
Pretty cool heavier thrash… maybe a little blackened melodic death on top too. cool stuff!

Unaussprechlichen Kulten
Häxan Sabaoth LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
2 February 2024
Melodice blackened death with a little bit of a groove

BYRON
Album: Chapter II: The Lotus Covenant
Label: The Goatmancer
Release date: January 26, 2024
Female fronted, groovin’ catchy classic metal/ hard rock. There’s powerful vox, and just solid groove.

Hauntologist
Hollow
No Solace
2 February 2024
Melodic and classic black metal, a bit doomy, but pretty solid stuff.

Night Fever
Dead End
Svart Records
2 February 2024
A kind of hardcore punky groovin’ metal with a smidge of thrash.

TumbleTown
Release Title: On The Highwire
Label: FREIA Music
Release Date: February 1, 2024
A kind of prog rock and jazzy thing, horns, neat stuff, but not MOsh Pit material

INVER
ON THIS EARTH
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 19th 2024
Kind of a melodic post metal doom with a smidge of black metal atmosphere

Seid
Svartr Sól
ATMF – De Tenebrarum Principio
19 January 2024
Classic cold melodic black metal

Shrouded
Release Title: Further Removed
Label: Eschatonic Records
Release Date: October 5, 2023
Old school black metal

Dissimulator
Lower Form Resistance
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, January 26th 2024
Deathy thrashy stuff with grooves… cool stuff

Dripping Decay
Ripping Remains EP
Satanik Royalty Records
Release date: Friday, January 26th 2024
Brutal death metal, short songs… decent

Acerus
Album: The Caliginous Serenade
Label: Nameless Grave Records
Release date: January 26th, 2024
Classic metal, a little judas priest/power metal-ish

External
Dreamscapes
Self Released
1/19/24
Progressive metal, a little melodic death with a bit of atmosphere. a little like Haken or porcupine tree

HeKz
Terra Nova
Self Released
24 January 2024
Melodic classic metal, almost AOR, but a little prog too

RETCHED
The Overlord Messiah EP
Sliptrick Records
1/18
Raw thrashy groove

Sea of Consciousness
Sea of Consciousness
Self Released
1/12/24
Progressive Technical Death Metal, reminds me a little of Death. Fast with a smidge of a black metal darkness but meedly prog with clean and harsh vox too. Cool stuff!

Animamortua
Gods Among Us
Underground Symphony Records
10/20/2023
kind of a groove metal, with a little thrash, a little prog

VIPASSI
Lightless
Season of Mist
26 January 2024
Progressive and technical blackened metal with some atmospheric stuff

KILL THE THRILL
Autophagie
Season of Mist
26 January 2024
A little industrial, goth, alt type stuff.

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Jan 22, 2024
Playlist Start Time / 10:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 1:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Ingested / Paragon Of Purity / Paragon Of Purity (Single) / Metal Blade
Apogean / Thousand-Yard Glare / Cyberstrictive / The Artisan Era
Tanin’iver / Another World’s Hell / Dark Evils Desecrate / Morning Star Heresy
Carnation / Metropolis / Cursed Mortality / ?
Faithxtractor / Relative First Occurrence / Contempt For A Failed Dimension / Redefining Darkness Records
Vomitory / Disciples Of The Damned / All Heads Are Gonna Roll / Metal Blade Records
Sodomisery / Psychogenic / Mazzaroth / Testimony Records
Abhoria / The Inexorable Earth / Depths / Prosthetic Records
Helfro / Þögnin Ytra, Kyrrðin Innra / Tálgröf / Season Of Mist
The Infernal Sea / Lord Abhorrent / Hellfenlic / Candlelight Records
Luciferian Rites / Oath Of Midnight Ashes / Oath Of Midnight Ashes / Moribund Records
Upon Stone / Onyx Through The Heart (Explicit) / Dead Mother Moon / Century Media Records
Ribspreader / The Skeletal Towers / Reap Humanity / Xtreem Music
Burden Of Grief / Mass Murder Society / Destination Dystopia / Massacre Records
Empires Of Euphrates / Wars And Rumors Of Wars / Echoes Of Ancient Past / Horror Pain Gore Death
Olathia / Satan On My Mind / The Forest Witch / Self Released
Alluvial / Area Code / Death Is But A Door / Nuclear Blast Records
Almost Dead / Commandments Of Coercion / Destruction Is All We Know / Innerstrength Records
Hiraes / Through The Storm / Dormant / Napalm
Children Of Bodom / Downfall / A Chapter Called Children Of Bodom (Final Show In Helsinki Ice Hall 2019) / Spinefarm
Descent / Asshole / Burning Babylon / Wormholedeath
Ryujin / Raijin & Fujin (Feat. Matthew K. Heafy) / Ryujin / Napalm
The Oldest House / Objects Of Power / A Worm Through Time / I, Voidhanger Records
Cognizance / Ceremonial Vigour / Phantazein / Willowtip Records
Vitriol / Shame And Its Afterbirth / Suffer & Become / Century Media Records
Xenocracy / Solitude / Impermanence / Kvlt Und Kaos Productions
Chaos Sanctuary / The Second Impact / Instrumentality / Self-Release
Breath From The Void / I Would Have Tried / World Down / Self Released
Lord Of The Lost / Smalltown Boy / Weapons Of Mass Seduction / Napalm
Saxon / Madame Guillotine / Hell, Fire And Damnation / Silver Lining Music
Magnum / I Wanna Live / Here Comes The Rain / Spv/steamhammer
Shadow Eden / Brooklyn 1978 / Skunkworx / Shred Guy Records
Jenner / No Time For Prayer / Prove Them Wrong / Fighter
Ektomorf / I Don’t Belong To You / Vivid Black / Afm Records
Gengis Khan / Nightmare / Masters Of My Sins / Self-Released
Engulf / Bellows From The Aether / The Dying Planet Weeps / Everlasting Spew Records
Carnal Savagery / Morbid Death / Into The Abysmal Void / Moribund Records
Lifesick / Rude Awakening / Love And Other Lies / Metal Blade Records
Dymytry / Enemy List / Five Angry Men / Afm Records
Iron Front / Slug Rounds / Hooked / Creator-Destructor
Lord Dying / I Am Nothing I Am Everything / Clandestine Transcendence / Mnrk Heavy
Nature Of The Beast / Suffocate / Radio Hauntings / Wormholedeath
Drown In Sulphur / Unholy Light / Dark Secrets Of The Soul / Scarlet Records
Mega Colossus / Fortune And Glory / Showdown / Cruz Del Sur Music
Conquest / Walking Dead / Walking Dead (Single) / Dark Star
Lucifer / Fallen Angel / Lucifer V / Nuclear Blast
Hellman / Desktop Activist / Born, Suffering, Death / Black Lodge, Sound Pollution
Therion / An Unsung Lament / Leviathan III / Napalm

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 1/22/24

Artist — Album — Label
1) Ektomorf — Vivid Black — AFM
2) Helfró — Tálgröf — Season of Mist
3) Burden of Grief — Destination Dystopia — Massacre
4) Empires Of Euphrates — Echoes Of Ancient Past — Horror Pain Gore Death
5) Olathia — The Forest Witch — Self Released
6) Alluvial — Death Is But A Door — Nuclear Blast
7) Ryujin — Ryujin — Napalm
8) Xenocracy — Impermanence — Kvlt und Kaos
9) Children of Bodom — A Chapter Called Children Of Bodom — Spinefarm
10) Therion — Leviathan III — Napalm
11) Drown In Sulphur — Dark Secrets Of The Soul — Scarlet Records
12) Descent — Burning Babylon — Wormholedeath
13) Lord Of The Lost — Weapons Of Mass Seduction — Napalm
14) Engulf — The Dying Planet Weeps — Everlasting Spew
15) Carnal Savagery — Into The Abysmal Void — Moribund
16) Upon Stone — Dead Mother Moon — Century Media
17) Saxon — Hell, Fire and Damnation — Silver Lining Music
18) Iron Front — Hooked — Creator-Destructor
19) Gengis Kahn — Masters of My Sins — Self Released
20) Chaos Sanctuary — Instrumentality — Self-Released

Top 5 Adds
1) Vitriol — Suffer & Become — Century Media
2) Hiraes — Dormant — Napalm
3) Luciferian Rites — Oath of Midnight Ashes — Moribund
4) Magnum — Here Comes the Rain — SPV/Steamhammer
5) The Infernal Sea — Hallfenlic — Candlelight

Other Adds/Reviewed: Shadow Eden, Ingested (single), Cognizance, Lord Dying, Abhoria, The Gems, Apogean Conquest (single), Nature of the Beast, Lifesick, Lucifer, Tanin’iver, Vampires Everywhere!, Jenner, Dymytry, Stuporous, Mega Colossus, The Oldest House, Almost Dead, Godfrost, Ancient VVisdom, Greengoat, Funeral Winds, Breath From The Void, Ribspreader, Hellman, In Vain (single), Azzaya, Niphredil, Emil Bulls

Ingested
Paragon of Purity – radio single
Metal Blade Records
5 April 2024
Gritty and brutal thrashy death metal. great stuff

Abhoria
Depths
Prosthetic Records
19 January 2024
Black metal, a heavy and brutal attack

The Gems
Phoenix
(Napalm)
Straight up classic hard rockin’ stuff with female vox

Hiraes
Dormant
(Napalm)
Great melodic death metal with a bit of an Arch Enemy sound.

Magnum
Here Comes The Rain
(SPV/Steamhammer)
we have some classic metal straightforward… and Tony Clarkin, lead guitarist and fouding member just passed away a couple weeks ago, just before this album’s release.

CONQUEST
WALKING DEAD
DARK STAR RECORDS
Classic metal, with a little bit of a modern slant and groove

RADIO: Far Beyond
The End of My Road
Prosthetic Records
16 February 2024
Epic symphonic blackend death metal, (just a single so far!)

Shadow Eden
Skunkworx
Shred Guy Records
Classic guitar-based instrumental metal/hard rock

Luciferian Rites
Oath of Midnight Ashes
Moribund Records
Classic old school black metal, cold, harsh and yet, still some groovin’.

Vitriol
Suffer & Become
Century Media Records
Blackened death, fast, intense, catchy and brutal, great stuff!!

The Infernal Sea
Hellfenlic
Candlelight
26 January 2024
Dark gritty blackened death and a catchy groove

VAMPIRES EVERYWHERE!
BELLADONNA
DARK KINGDOM RECORDS
Poppy modern metal core. emo!

Lifesick
Love and Other Lies
Metal Blade Records
12 January 2024
3 song ep, first track is slow and doomy/depressing, the other two are straight forward deathy groove/metal core ish. cool stuff.

Lucifer
Lucifer V
Nuclear Blast Records
26 January 2024
Classic old school female fronted doom-ish classic rock type stuff

TANIN’IVER
DARK EVILS DESECRATE
LABEL: MORNING STAR HERESY
RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 25th 2024
Classic black metal but with a clean catchy deathy groove

JENNER
Release Title: Prove Them Wrong
Label: Fighter Records
Release Date: January 24, 2024
Classic metal/thrash, female fronted vox with a nice grit and bordering on thrash

Dymytry
Five Angry Men
AFM Records
26 January 2024
Modern metal, nice grooves, catchy with a lil electronic stuff too

Stuporous
Asylum’s Lament
Void Wanderer Productions / War Productions
25 January 2024
Dark black metal, a bit doomy and evil

Mega Colossus
Showdown
Cruz Del Sur Music
26 January 2024
A bit power metal, a bit classic metal, clean and catchy

THE OLDEST HOUSE
A Worm Through Time
I, Voidhanger Records
26 January 2024
Kind of a blackened death, a little prog/technical and kind of a stoner metal grit too. neat stuff

Almost Dead
Destruction is All We Know
Innerstrength Records
26 January 2024
Thrashy blackened death, solid groove, cool stuff.

Cognizance
Phantazein
Willowtip Records
26 January 2024
Brutal and technical death metal. Great stuff.

GODFROST
Album: Godfrost
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: January 23rd, 2024
Industrial, alternative female fronted stuff from Japan

ANCIENT VVISDOM
Album: Master of the Stone
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: January 26, 2024
Clasic doomy metal

GREENGOAT
Album: A.I.
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: January 26, 2024
Psychedelic stoner… doomish laid back stuff.

FUNERAL WINDS (Netherlands)
333
Osmose Productions
26 January 2024
Raw old school black metal

Breath From The Void
Release Title: WORLD DOWN
Release Date: December 18th, 2023
They say the Genre is “Groove Metal with Stoner and Progressive influences” and yup, pretty spot on, neat stuff.

RIBSPREADER
Release Title: Reap Humanity
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: January 16th, 2024
Death Metal, classic brutal stuff.

Hellman
Born, Suffering, Death
Black Lodge / Sound Pollution
26 January 2024
Groovin’ thrashy death metal, catchy and to the point

Nature of the Beast
Radio Hauntings
Wormholedeath
January 19, 2024
a little thrashy, groovin’ proggish stuff pushing into some death/melodic death. Cool stuff!

In Vain
At the Going Down of the Sun
Indie Recordings
19 January 2024
Doomy death/melodic death (single)

Azzaya
Release Title: I Begin
Label: Prophetical Productions
Release Date: January 13, 2024
Black metal with a brutal death thing.

Niphredil
Release Title: The Final Star
Label: Prophetical Productions
Release Date: January 13, 2024
Black metal/death doom/post metal and kind of progressive, as it’s a bit all over the place.

Emil Bulls
Love Will Fix It
Arising Empire
Release date: Friday, January 12th 2024
Modern metalcore, nice grooves

Lord Dying
Clandestine Transcendence
MNRK Heavy
Release date: Friday, January 19th 2024
Groovin’ blackened death with a doomy thing too. Cool stuff.

Apogean
Singles from Cyberstrictive
The Artisan Era
16 January 2024
technical and brutal death metal… cool stuff!

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Jan 15, 2024
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Witherfall / Ceremony Of Fire / Sounds Of The Forgotten / Deathwave Records
Gengis Khan / Masters Of My Sins / Masters Of My Sins / Self-Released
The Rods / Now And Forever / Rattle The Cage / Massacre Records
Warcrab / Orbital Graveyard / The Howling Silence / ?
Bloodgutter / Rot Awaits / Death Mountain / ?
Raider / Trial by Chaos / Trial by Chaos / Self-Released
Omnicidal / The Reaping / The Omnicidalist / Non Serviam Records
Domination Campaign / The Iron Beast / A Storm Of Steel / Prosthetic Records
Helfro / Fangelsaður Í Tilvist Að Eilífu / Tálgröf / Season Of Mist
Xenocracy / Vanitas / Impermanence / Kvlt Und Kaos Productions
Upon Stone / Dead Mother Moon / Dead Mother Moon / Century Media Records
Dimmu Borgir / Dead Men Don`t Rape / Inspiratio Profanus / Nuclear Blast Records
Sovereign / Futile Dreams / Altered Realities / Dark Descent Records
Ektomorf / Never Be The Same Again / Vivid Black / Afm Records
Ryujin / Dragon, Fly Free / Ryujin / Napalm
Therion / Ruler Of Tamag / Leviathan III / Napalm
Children Of Bodom / Bodom Beach Terror / A Chapter Called Children Of Bodom (Final Show In Helsinki Ice Hall 2019) / Spinefarm
Necro Weasel / Brave New World / A Brave New World / Foxhole Productions
Sadus / Pain / The Shadow Inside / Nuclear Blast Records
Gama Bomb / Don’t Get Your Hair Cut / Bats / Prosthetic Records
Toxikull / Night Shadows / Under The Southern Light / Dying Victims Productions
Olathia / Who’s The Devil / The Forest Witch / Self Released
Horrorgraphy / Prison / A Knight’s Tale / Wormholedeath
Burden Of Grief / Fevered Dreams / Destination Dystopia / Massacre Records
Hatred Reigns / Ushered By Charon / Awaken The Ancients / Self-Release
Progeny Of Sun / False Radiance / Throne Of Desolation / Inverse
Empires Of Euphrates / Never Meant To Be / Echoes Of Ancient Past / Horror Pain Gore Death
Necrotum / Warped In Entrails / Defleshed Exhumation / Memento Mori
Alluvial / Fogbelt / Death Is But A Door / Nuclear Blast Records
Drown In Sulphur / Eclipse Of The Sun Of Eden / Dark Secrets Of The Soul / Scarlet Records
Engulf / Withered Suns Collapse / The Dying Planet Weeps / Everlasting Spew Records
Stengah / Inner Space / Downward Mechanic / Mascot Label Group
Boundless Chaos / Down / Sinister Upheaval / Dying Victims Productions
Deicide / Bury The Cross / Bury The Cross (Single) / Reigning Phoenix Music
Chaos Sanctuary / Synchronization / Instrumentality / Self-Release
Voltumna / Black Science / For Death Is Fate (Ep) / Self Released
Carnal Savagery / Morbid Death / Into The Abysmal Void / Moribund Records
Tropic Santos / Dead Tropic / Caccia Grossa / Argonauta Records
Masterplan / Spirit Never Die / Masterplan [anniversary Edition] / Afm Records
Saxon / Hell, Fire And Damnation / Hell, Fire And Damnation / Silver Lining Music
Lord Of The Lost / Unstoppable / Weapons Of Mass Seduction / Napalm
Descent / Paper Cut Throat / Burning Babylon / Wormholedeath
Kontact / Emperor Of Dreams / Full Contact / Dying Victims Productions
Arkham / Ira / Ira (Ep) / Self-Released
Iron Front / Dissolved In Resin / Hooked / Creator-Destructor
Sardonic Witchery / Sacrificial Storm Ritual / Barbaric Evil Power / War March Records