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WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 5/8/06

Artist — Album — Label
1) Queensryche — Operation Mindcrime 2 — Rhino
2) Various — Headbanger’s Ball 3 — Roadrunner
3) Cannibal Corpse — Kill — Metal Blade
4) Moonspell — Memorial — SPV
5) Terror 2000 — Terror For Sale — Nuclear Blast
6) Dead To Fall — The Phoenix Throne — Victory
7) Fragments of Unbecoming — Sterling Black Icon — Metal Blade
8) Cretin — Freakery — Relapse
9) Ministry — Rio Grande Blood — Megaforce
10) One Man Army — 21st Century Killing Machine — Nuclear Blast
11) Evergrey — Monday Morning Apocalypse — Inside Out
12) Venom — Metal Black — Sanctuary
13) Ihsahn — The Adversary — Candlelight
14) Yakuza — Samsara — Prosthetic
15) Lacuna Coil — Karmacode — Century Media
16) Phoenix Mourning — When Excuses Become Ant. — Metal Blade
17) Beyond Fear — Beyond Fear — SPV
18) Rebel Meets Rebel — Rebel Meets Rebel — Big Vin
19) Enslaved — Ruun — Candlelight
20) Scar Symmetry — Pitch Black Progress — Nuclear Blast

Top 5 Adds
1) Misery Index
2) As I Lay Dying
3) Zyklon
4) Tool
5) Grave Digger

Other Adds: Yyrkoon, Trivium, Abominable Iron Sloth, Dir En Grey, Lynam, Don Caballero, Starkweather

Misery Index
Discordia
Relapse
33:10 - 10 Tracks
Newest release from Misery Index doesn’t let up. It’s a nice brutal assault upon my speakers. Solid performance, mixing some grindcore with all out thrash/death metal. The playing on all sides is just intense. You will hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Lynam
Slave To The Machine
DRT
41:31 - 12 Tracks
Good ol Rock n Roll. A more melodic hard rock/rock band. While they are good at this, it’s not really Mosh Pit material.

The Abominable Iron Sloth
The Abominable Iron Sloth
Goodfellow
26:47 - 9 Tracks
A sludgey stoner metal band similar in sound to Bongzilla. They’ve got a pretty heavy groove going on, but it gets to be 26 minutes of the same stuff throughout the album. You’ll probably hear this on the Mosh Pit… mostly because you only have to hear one song at a time! haha.

As I Lay Dying
A Long March: The First Recordings
Metal Blade
68:32 - 22 tracks
This is a re-recording of their first EP to start off the CD, then the original recording of their first album, “Beneath the Encasing of Ashes” followed by the original recording of that first EP. Pretty neat idea. These guys are one of the best of this “metalcore” genre, as they don’t really give up to whiney chorus stuff. They stay pretty heavy with great playing. The re-recorded stuff of course sounds better, and since the original stuff is right there on the same disc, it’s easy to compare! The older stuff is of course more raw and probably more brutal, as the growling is a bit more gravelly and not as polished. This is something you’ll hear on the Mosh Pit.

Zyklon
Disintigrate
Candlelight
10 Tracks
This CD is pretty sick. Just balls out thrash/death metal. If you dig the stuff like Behemoth or Vader, you’d probably enjoy this release. There’s not much more I can say about it…it’s just great damn heavy stuff done right. You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Tool
10,000 Days
Volcano
75:50 - 11 Tracks
Some people might think this CD seems like it took 10,000 days to listen to! While it has its great heavy “Tool” moments, a lot of it is just experimental messing around. As you know, we like songs to not fuck around on the Mosh Pit. But of course, we’ll play a track or two. Rolling With Scissors (the show after us on WORT) will be playing it a lot. So stick around to hear the most out of this CD!

Grave Digger
25 To Live
Locomotive
68:51 - 14 Tracks
Live CD from these guys in Brazil in May of 2005. Sounds pretty good. Good old crazy power metal! It doesn’t sound like this was remixed, overdubbed and all that. It sounds pretty much like you’d think they’d sound live! Nothing like the “deeeger” chants from the Brazilians. Good live album, so yeah, you’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Yyrkoon
Unhealthy Opera
Osmose
48:36 - 13 Tracks
Their last release (”Occult Medicine”) kind of slipped through the cracks, and we picked up on it a little late. This new release was sent over, but not a lot of fanfare with this either. I am glad to have gotten it of course though. It is along the same vein as the above Zyklon release. Fast, intense, brutal playing, with vocal growls to match. The drummer has moved on to be a member of Soilwork, but still plays on this album and he’s fast and furious!