WORT’s The Mosh Pit

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 2/5/07

Artist  –  Album  –  Label
1) Fear My Thoughts  –  Vulcanus  –  Century Media
2) The County Medical Examiners  –  Olidous Operettas  –  Relapse
3) Abigail Williams  –  Legend EP  –  Candlelight
4) Melechesh  –  Emissaries  –  Osmose
5) Coldworker  –  The Contaminated Void  –  Relapse
6) Beneath The Sky  –  What Demons Do To Saints  –  Victory
7) The End  –  Elementary  –  Relapse
8) Year of Desolation  –  Year of Desolation  –  Prosthetic
9) Meliah Rage  –  The Deep and Dreamless Sleep  –  Screaming Ferret
10) This Ending  –  Inside The Machine  –  Metal Blade
11) Firewind  –  Allegiance  –  Century Media
12) Lyzanxia  –  Unsu  –  Listenable
13) Car Bomb  –  Centralia  –  Relapse
14) Born From Pain  –  War  –  Metal Blade
15) Destruction  –  Thrash Anthems  –  Candlelight
16) Since the Flood  –  No Compromise  –  Metal Blade
17) Mnemic  –  Passenger  –  Nuclear Blast
18) The Network  –  This is Your Pig’s Portrait  –  Blackmarket
19) Grave Digger  –  Liberty Or Death  –  Locomotive
20) Freya  –  Lift The Curse  –  Victory

Top 5 Adds
1) Impious  –  Holy Murder Masquerade  –  Metal Blade  –
2) The Handshake Murders  –  Usurper  –  Goodfellow
3) Therion  –  Gothic Kabbalah  –  Nuclear Blast
4) My Bitter End  –  The Renovation  –  Uprising  –
5) Trail of Tears  –  Existentia  –  Napalm
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Other Adds:  Verismo, Rwake, Ektomorf, Clutch, Pain of Salvation, Static X, Vixen, Point One

Handshake Murders
Usurper
Goodfellow Records
32:20 - 11 Tracks
These guys seem to have the newer wave of metalcore. So far this year, I’ve heard a few bands with this sound. It’s a bit metalcore, a bit Meshuggah clone and all fast and heavy. Dare I call them Meshuggahcore? Well, that’s what I’m going to call it from now on. What’s cool is that the album cover looks like our friend “Linderman” with a bunch of screws coming out of his mouth. Pretty neat. The playing on this album is heavy, fast, complex and as I said above, “Meshuggahcore.” You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit.

Impious
Holy Murder Masquerade
Metal Blade
37:35 - 11 Tracks
It seems like Metal Blade has been hanging out in Europe a bit more lately. Although these guys had their last album on Metal Blade in 2004, this seems to be their new trend. If you are a fan of the more melodic scandanavian death metal such as The Haunted or The Crown, then this is for you! Some great, well layered songs with some great chugga chugga metal moments along with some great hooks and melodies. The vocals are some standard deathy growls, not quite cookie monster though. You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

My Bitter End
The Renovation
Uprising Records
42:16 - 11 Tracks
Now this is an interesting CD. Mostly a brutal metalcore sound for music, complete with some melodic breakdowns. Add to it some great chugga chugga death metal breakdowns. The neat part of this is the vocals, going from some unintelligible screaming to some cookie monster growls and having that go over the normal emo-chorus parts of the songs. You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Pain Of Salvation
Scarsick (Single)
Inside Out Music
12:10 - 2 Tracks
In the past, we never really got music from PoS sent to us, I’ve been a small fan of them for a while, as their music is prog-metal-ish and a bit eclectic in that genre. All sorts of different things going on in this track, typical for PoS. A lot of vocal layers, as well as many layers of different music. It’s pretty cool and since it’s just a single, you’ll probably hear it on the ‘Pit.

Rwake
Voices of Omens
Relapse Records
59:06 - 9 Tracks
These guys have a bit of a sludgey sound similar to Eyehategod, but with a little bit of similarity to Mastodon. Throw in some annoying long boring go-nowhere parts here and there a-la Neurosis. I think this might be the first metal band that I know of from Arkansas though. Big fat meaty riffs and some male-female vocal screeaaammming barely more audible than the music are other ways to describe them. You may hear this on the Mosh Pit, as it is a little bit different than what’s out there.

Therion
Gothic Kabbalah
Nuclear Blast
Disc 1: 38:26 - 8 Tracks
Disc 2: 45:10 - 7 Tracks
Well, it’s Therion through and through. Melodic gothic prog metal.  This is a good release from them and with 2 cds!  Tune into the Mosh Pit to hear it!

Trail of Tears
Existentia
Napalm Records
45:10 - 10 Tracks
I’ve been looking forward to hearing this for some time. This is one of those bands you hear a lot about, and you just don’t know until you hear them. It’s got a little bit of everything in it. It’s mostly melodic death metal for the music, but there’s some proggy keyboard stuff going on, with some strings sounds as well. The vocals are pretty brutal, but then mixed in with some female clean singing along with some. Great levels of complexity and it’s all put together just right. You’ll definitely hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Verismo
City Of Kings
Verismetal Music
43:02 - 10 Tracks
Here’s a pretty neat band. Overall, it’s probably best classified in the stoner metal vein. They also work in some more thrash metal and almost a bit of a slight jazz feel. Every song has some sort of catchy hook to it that makes you just want to hear the next song. The production is a little raw, but it may be that way on purpose as it fits the music well. I’d like to say there is a little bit of a Godsmack sound to it as well, a more raw, “stonery” Godsmack. You’ll probably hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Vixen
Live & Learn
Demolition Records
43:46 - 12 Tracks
Well, this is probably what you’d expect. Vixen doing new songs. It’s pretty much hard rock and staying true to the same old sound of the Vixen of past. I’m not sure if this will see airtime on the Mosh Pit, but then again, it’s Vixen! We’ll see, it’s pretty ordinary.