WORT’s The Mosh Pit

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 1/29/07

Artist  –  Album  –  Label
1) The County Medical Examiners  –  Olidous Operettas  –  Relapse
2) Fear My Thoughts  –  Vulcanus  –  Century Media
3) Abigail Williams  –  Legend EP  –  Candlelight
4) Coldworker  –  The Contaminated Void  –  Relapse
5) Melechesh  –  Emissaries  –  Osmose
6) Lyzanxia  –  Unsu  –  Listenable
7) Born From Pain  –  War  –  Metal Blade
8) God Dethroned  –  The Toxic Touch  –  Metal Blade
9) Meliah Rage  –  The Deep and Dreamless Sleep  –  Screaming Ferret
10) Beneath The Sky  –  What Demons Do To Saints  –  Victory
11) Firewind  –  Allegiance  –  Century Media
12) I Killed The Prom Queen  –  Music For The Recently Deceased  –  Metal Blade
13) Year of Desolation  –  Year of Desolation  –  Prosthetic
14) Children of Bodom  –  Chaos Ridden Years  –  Spinefarm
15) This Ending  –  Inside The Machine  –  Metal Blade
16) The End  –  Elementary  –  Relapse
17) Car Bomb  –  Centralia  –  Relapse
18) Since the Flood  –  No Compromise  –  Metal Blade
19) Destruction  –  Thrash Anthems  –  Candlelight
20) Fairyland  –  The Fall Of An Empire  –  Napalm

Top 5 Adds
1) Mnemic  –  Passenger  –  Nuclear Blast  –
2) The Network  –  This is Your Pig’s Portrait  –  Blackmarket
3) Freya  –  Lift The Curse  –  Victory
4) Grave Digger  –  Liberty Or Death  –  Locomotive  –
5) Architect  –  All Is Not Lost  –  Blackmarket
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Other Adds:  Minsk, RE: Ignition

Architect
All Is Not Lost
Blackmarket Activities
30:56 - 11 Tracks
This is just pretty straight ahead sludgey metal. It has some hardcore mixed in, but for the most part, it’s a bit like some of the louder Mastodon stuff. You may hear this on the Mosh Pit.

Edenbridge
The Grand Design
Napalm Records
This is pretty decent symphonic power metal.  But yet another one of these bands with a female singer.  I guess this must be a trend, I think there’s been a new female fronted metal band every week!   There are a lot of keyboards with some older Dream Theater type music in the background.
Freya
Lift The Curse
Victory Records
29:28 - 10 Tracks
From the ashes of Earth Crisis, one of the bands that helped start up this metalcore type genre. They have a good crisp solid sound, the mix is great, and the songs are all Freya. Pretty decent and brutal. You will hear this on the Mosh Pit.

Grave Digger
Liberty Or Death
Locomotive
56:46 - 10 Tracks
Well, yet another release from Grave Digger. This album is just like their others. Plain ol’ run of the mill power metal. They production and playing and everything is pretty solid, it just falls into the category of “another album from these guys…” You may hear it on the Mosh Pit.

Minsk
The Ritual Fires of Abandonment
Relapse Records
59:05 - 6 Tracks
The last few weeks, Relapse has had some pretty good albums. They are more or less “un-relapse” like. Typically Relapse would have bands that were kind of loud and sludgey with no real direction, kind of like Neurosis and whatever. Well, they’re back. This is a sludgy, plodding experimental “typical” Relapse band. I doubt you’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit… but as always, request it, and you’ll hear it!

Mnemic
Passenger
Nuclear Blast
47:33 - 11 Tracks
Ever since first hearing Mnemic and all of the comparisons to Meshuggah and Fear Factory and others, I’ve liked them. This is their newest highly anticipated release. It’s got a good groove, the clean vox and choruses are catchy, and reminds me a little bit of the good old stuff from Mushroomhead. You will hear this on the Mosh Pit.

The Network
This is Your Pig’s Portrait
Blackmarket Activities
37:21 - 16 Tracks
This is pretty brutal and “experimental-ish” It has the random chaotic sound that yet, is focused and intense. As with any of this type of metal, it has to draw some comparisons to Meshuggah, but mixed with some metal core music… not the whiney chorus part of metalcore, but the brutal stuff. This is overall a pretty brutal CD. You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Re:Ignition
Empty Heart Loaded Gun
Corporate Punishment
52:46 - 12 Tracks
Hey, this sounds like a mix between The Cult and Soundgarden. It’s good sounding hard rock stuff, but it’s not really the normal metal we like to throw at you on the Mosh Pit. If we’re in a mood, we’ll play this, but since it’s not really that heavy, we might have to pass. As always… request it and you’ll hear it!