WORT’s The Mosh Pit

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 3/12/07

Artist  –  Album  –  Label
1) Chimaira  –  Resurrection  –  Ferret
2) Dying Fetus  –  War Of Attrition  –  Relapse
3) Aborted  –  Slaughtered & Apparatus…   –  Century Media
4) Daath  –  The Hinderers  –  Roadrunner
5) Destruction  –  Thrash Anthems  –  Candlelight
6) Mnemic  –  Passenger  –  Nuclear Blast
7) Beneath The Massacre  –  Mechanics Of Dysfunction  –  Prosthetic
8) Psyopus  –  Our Puzzling Encounters Considered  –  Metal Blade
9) November’s Doom  –  The Novella’s Reservoir  –  The End
10) Emmure  –  Goodbye To The Gallows  –  Victory
11) Comeback Kid  –  Broadcasting…  –  Victory
12) Impious  –  Holy Murder Masquerade  –  Metal Blade
13) The Handshake Murders  –  Usurper  –  Goodfellow
14) This Ending  –  Inside The Machine  –  Metal Blade
15) Freya  –  Lift The Curse  –  Victory
16) Fu Manchu  –  We Must Obey  –  Century Media
17) Vivesect  –  Six Points of Direction  –  Obscured
18) Bloodjinn  –  This Machine Runs On Empty  –  Pluto
19) Otep  –  3-Song  –  Capitol
20) Machine Head  –  The Blackening  –  Roadrunner

Top 5 Adds
1) Machine Head  –  The Blackening  –  Roadrunner
2) Symphorce  –  Become Death  –  Metal Blade
3) Funeral Pyre  –  The Nature of Betrayal  –  Prosthetic
4) This Moment  –  Star<Parallel  –  Uprising
5) Masterplan  –  Mark II  –  Candlelight

Other Adds:  Lordi, Swallow The Sun, Dead Man Dreaming

Symphorce
Become Death
Metal Blade
48:02 - 10 Tracks
Well well, this thing starts off fast and heavy! Not the typical whiney power metal you would expect right off the bat. The intro to the first song even has some blast beats! The music on this sure is heavier and darker than their past stuff. It’s a bit more thrashy and not as power metally. Some of the songs get to be a bit more like Hammerfall and the like, but these guys still have the metal inside of them. You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

This Moment
Star<Parallel
Uprising
37:43 - 12 Tracks
This is all screamo-hardcore. It’s pretty heavy, well engineered, some cool riff/hook/melodies and nice and angry sounding too. This sounds better than the average metal hardcore stuff these days too. You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

The Funeral Pyre
The Nature of Betrayal
Prosthetic
43:06 - 8 Tracks
Well, I don’t know how they do it, but Prosthetic Records just keep churning out some of the purest metal of any label around. This album is pretty much straight up black metal. They have that swedish melody working for it in the background, but maintain a thrashy deathmetalness about it. The drumming is intense, keyboards exist just enough to add a layer of darkness. It’s heavy. You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Dead Men Dreaming
Dead Men Dreaming
SOR
39:56 - 10 Tracks
Alright, who signs these bands? They sound very “local” and in this day and age, with computers and ProTools and all that, can’t a band have a clean, not boomy sounding album? I mean, I wouldn’t say anything about it, but it’s just so distracting when the bass drum hits. The vocals are “clean”, the hooks, melodies and all that sound kind of catchy, and more in the vein of pre-metal hard rock. I guess it would fit in the same genre category of Tool. This is along the lines of if we can squeeze it in, we’ll play it.

Machine Head
The Blackening
Roadrunner
61:02 - 8 Tracks
Machine Head!! This album kicks off with their 10 minute plus epic “Clenching The Fists of Dissent” and has everything one could ever ask for in a metal song. After that, the album just crushes through more of the classic thrash that is Machine Head. They aren’t breaking any new ground here, but it does hearken back to the days of Burn My Eyes. There are a few long songs on there too… two 10+ minute tracks and two 9+ minute epics. You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!!

Lordi
The Arockalypse
The End
I don’t know much about these guys, except they are kind of a Euro phenomenon, as they won some sort of an “Idol” contest over there. They sound a bit like a power metal motorhead. Just plain hard rock songs with some gravelly vocals. It just seems a little cheesey, but I think that’s part of the joke… right? You may hear this on the Mosh Pit

From last week… which finally arrived!

Mendeed
The Dead Live By Love
Nuclear Blast
57:38 - 13 Tracks
The bio sheet says it’s something like Slayer-tinged thrash mixed with some Avenged Sevenfold and Darkest Hour. And of course, since I repeated it here, I have to agree. This is a little different for Nuclear Blast, but again, one shouldn’t pigeonhole a sound to a certain record label these days. It’s fast, metal and not too bad, you will probably hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Sirenia
Nine Destinies and a Downfall
Nuclear Blast
46:21 - 10 Tracks
This came in the same package as the above Mendeed CD. Now this thing starts right off with what I was expecting. Former Tristania vocalist’s project, this sounds pretty much like ever other female fronted euro metal band. For that reason, we’re a bit burned out and file this in the “maybe we’ll play this” category.

Manowar
Gods of War
Magic Circle
73:49 - 16 Tracks
Over Seventy Three minutes of shirtless cheese! They seem to have become more of an epic concept album band of late. They aren’t doing anything all that new, but they ARE Manowar, so I think it’s illegal to say anything bad about ‘em. Unlike Machine Head who you want to hear new stuff that doesn’t necessarily break new ground, this Motorhead has the same chugga power metal beat and sound of their last few albums. This is a maybe too… We did play one track last week… so we’ll see.

Infernaeon
A Symphony of Suffering
Prosthetic
31:03 - 6 Tracks
This kind of takes the classic Floridian death metal sound with a Glenn Benton type at the vocals, with some euro-black metal sound. It’s pretty cool… now that we have it, we might just have to play it!!