WORT’s The Mosh Pit

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 1/22/07

Artist — Album — Label
1) Lyzanxia — Unsu — Listenable
2) I Killed The Prom Queen — Music For The Recently Deceased — Metal Blade
3) The County Medical Examiners — Olidous Operettas — Relapse
4) Children of Bodom — Chaos Ridden Years — Spinefarm
5) Born From Pain — War — Metal Blade
6) Fear My Thoughts — Vulcanus — Century Media
7) God Dethroned — The Toxic Touch — Metal Blade
8) Abigail Williams — Legend EP — Candlelight
9) Meliah Rage — The Deep and Dreamless Sleep — Screaming Ferret
10) Coldworker — The Contaminated Void — Relapse
11) I — Between Two Worlds — Nuclear Blast
12) Melechesh — Emissaries — Osmose
13) Jon Oliva’s Pain — Mechanical Renderings — Locomotive
14) Firewind — Allegiance — Century Media
15) The Haunted — The Dead Eye — Century Media
16) Autumn’s End — Act Of Attrition — Hammermill
17) Killswitch Engage — As Daylight Dies — Roadrunner
18) Since the Flood — No Compromise — Metal Blade
19) The End — Elementary — Relapse
20) Elis — Griefshire — Napalm

Top 5 Adds
1) This Ending — Inside The Machine — Metal Blade
2) Beneath The Sky — What Demons Do To Saints — Victory
3) Year of Desolation — Year of Desolation — Prosthetic
4) Car Bomb — Centralia — Relapse
5) Fairyland — The Fall Of An Empire — Napalm
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Other Adds: Kittie, Family Values 2006, Only Crime

Beneath The Sky
What Demons Do To Saints
Victory Records
45:57 - 11 Tracks
This is a pretty good CD. They have a hardcore / metalcore base, but alternate between classic screamygrowls and cookie monster growls. A nice heavy low end with all out brutality. It sounds like someone pissed these guys off big time, but seeing as they thank “God” and “Jesus” all over the place in the liner notes, Satan must have made them mad. Good thing, because they made a pretty good metal album! You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Car Bomb
Centralia
Relapse Records
32:01 - 11 Tracks
A full on aural assault! Fast furious all over the place, it has a bit of a Meshuggah feel on its style. Mostly death/screamo for vocals with a big fat low-end and some quick drumming. It sounds very technical. I think you’ll like it, so tune in and hear it!

Fairyland
The Fall Of An Empire
Napalm Records
62:41 - 13 Tracks
Fans of Rhapsody will like this. It’s good solid power metal, but in the symphonic epic metal realm. I mean, with a name like Fairlyland, what would you expect! Vocals are good, sing-a-long choruses work well and the musicianship is solid. The last Rhapsody album was a little iffy, this is a bit more like their older stuff. You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!
Indorphine
Glow Sticks For Clubbing Baby Seals
Rock Ridge Music

Kittie
Funeral For Yesterday
X Of Infamy/Merovingian Music
47:38 - 14 Tracks
Kittie has been through a lot over the years… and this new album shows a bit more maturity than previous efforts. The music is pretty well put together, but of course, still suffers from the same kind of bland vocals. More clean vocals than previous albums with more screamo stuff. It’s alright, and since we still have warm fuzzies from when they were in the WORT studio a few years ago, we’ll play this on the Mosh Pit!

This Ending
Inside The Machine
Metal Blade
43:24 - 10 Tracks
This has a bit of the euro melodic death-thrash sound similar to Hypocrisy. As well they should, since they are from Sweden. So they have a lot of those bands mixed together, but with a bit of a harsher vocal sound in some spots. The music is pretty quick and the drumming is pretty quick and intense. You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!Year Of Desolation
Year Of Desolation
Prosthetic Records
68:12 - 11 Tracks
Just plain brutal and aggressive. Some melodic guitar solos mixed in, but for the most part, it’s brutal vocals, brutal guitar riffs, brutal drums and all out metal. Most of the music I’d have to compare to newer Cannibal Corpse (but a bit more technical), but the vocals are more of the metalcore growl. No clean vocals. Just something you’ll have to hear to appreciate fully. Hint…. you’ll hear it on the Mosh Pit!

Various Artists
Family Values Tour 2006
Firm Music
70:55 - 16 Tracks
This covers most bands from last summer’s Family Values Tour. Since most of the bands on this tour were not to my liking, this CD already doesn’t rate up there real high. The StoneSour and Korn stuff is pretty good, the production mix sounds great for a live cd. You may hear songs from either of these bands on the Mosh Pit.