WORT’s The Mosh Pit

Artist  –  Album  –  Label
1) Machine Head  –  The Blackening  –  Roadrunner
2) November’s Doom  –  The Novella’s Reservoir  –  The End
3) Daath  –  The Hinderers  –  Roadrunner
4) Dying Fetus  –  War Of Attrition  –  Relapse
5) Aborted  –  Slaughtered & Apparatus…   –  Century Media
6) Symphorce  –  Become Death  –  Metal Blade
7) Chimaira  –  Resurrection  –  Ferret
8) Type O Negative  –  Dead Again  –  SPV
9) Clutch  –  From Beale St. To Oblivion  –  DRT
10) Psyopus  –  Our Puzzling Encounters Considered  –  Metal Blade
11) Bloodjinn  –  This Machine Runs On Empty  –  Pluto
12) Funeral Pyre  –  The Nature of Betrayal  –  Prosthetic
13) Infernaeon  –  A Symphony of Suffering  –  Prosthetic
14) Emmure  –  Goodbye To The Gallows  –  Victory
15) Naglfar  –  Harvest  –  Century Media
16) Dominici  –  O3 A Trilogy Part 2  –  InsideOut
17) Shatterpoint  –  Dead Precedence  –  Power Play
18) All Out War  –  Assassins In The House Of God  –  Victory
19) Disbelief  –  Navigator  –  Locomotive
20) Shadows Fall  –  Threads of Life  –  Atlantic

Top 5 Adds
1) Shadows Fall  –  Threads of Life  –  Atlantic
2) Dew Scented  –  Incinerate  –  Nuclear Blast
3) As Blood Runs Black  –  Allegiance  –  Mediaskare
4) In This Moment  –  Beautiful Tragedy  –  Century Media
5) Black Sabbath  –  The Dio Years  –  Warner Bros.

Other Adds:  ATHF Soundrack, Thought Chamber, Sonic Reign, Haste The Day, Chevelle, Threshold

Some of these reviews will be short, I’ve got a little bit of a cold and got a late start on the reviews… you’ll still get the idea, and well, you should listen to the show anyways!

Black Sabbath
The Dio Years
Warner Bros.
79:27 - 16 Tracks
The new greatest hits from the Dio years and three new tracks. They sound great! Exactly what you’d expect from these forefathers of metal. You know the songs, you know the sound, so, you’ll hear the new stuff and maybe some of the classics from this CD on the Mosh Pit!

Thought Chamber
Angular Perceptions
InsideOut
54:58 - 10 Tracks
This is pretty good prog/power metal, fairly technical, good vocals, some singalongy chorus stuff, but back to some sick, cool chugga chugga heavy guitar stuff.  It’s got a lot of that stop start prog metal sound.  It’s got a lot of layers of complexity, and the production is nice and clean where you can pick out every part.  There are a lot of instrumental breaks without vocals, which lets you appreciate the music and playing on this cd.   You’ll probably hear this on the Mosh Pit.

As Blood Runs Black
Allegiance
Mediaskare
37:08 - 10 Tracks
This is a pretty cool heavy thrash release.  It combines a lot of that melodic death stuff with some cool Behemoth/Vader polish sound, with classic thrash and hardcore.  It’s just all out brutal.  The production is solid and crisp… You will hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Various
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Soundtrack
Williams St
44:26 - 17 Tracks
Well, it’s a great show, therefore, the soundtrack is just as crazy.  Some skits/soundbites from the show and some songs from artists such as Mastodon, Unearth, Early Man and more.  You’ll hear some of this on the Mosh Pit!

Sonic Reign
Raw Dark Pure
Metal Blade
40:32 - 8 Tracks
This is pretty straighforward black metal.  It’s not groundbreaking, but it’s pretty solid, sounds good and they aren’t fucking around.  You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Haste The Day
Pressure The Hinges
SolidState
48:21 - 13 Tracks
A full on metalcore release!  This might be the first one of the year.  It seems like we’ve had a lull in this genre of late.  I can’t say I’m too sad about it.  We had a total over saturation of this stuff in the last year or two.  For this type of music, this is pretty good.  They stay heavy, have some neato clean vocals layering with the growls.  The growling vox are good and abrasive, the music is catchy and has some cool melodic hooks.  The breakdowns are all out brutal!  You may hear this on the Mosh Pit.

In This Moment
Beautiful Tragedy
Century Media
41:50 - 11 Tracks
At first, I saw female singer, Century Media records… another prog-black-power metal with the chick singer… and it’s not! It’s more like some of the heavy melodic death music, but with mixed in with some metal-core but with more of an Otep feel… the singer does clean sing, but also will throw out some awesome growls. You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Dew Scented
Incinerate
Nuclear Blast
43:59 - 13 Tracks
What happens if Slayer were more of a Black Metal band from Germany?  You’d call them Dew Scented.  They are back with a new album mixed by audio genius Andy Sneap.  They are back with classic Dew Scented.  Fast, angry, technical and all that.  You will hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Chevelle
Vena Sera
Epic
44:17 - 11 Tracks
Good ol Chevelle, back in the day, this may have been Mosh Pit material, but the rest of the scene just got all that much more heavy and we just don’t have time to play stuff like this anymore.  It’s good, it’s heavier for them, so, if there is time, we might get to it, just to share with you!   Some songs are catchy, melodic, some good distorted guitar parts and stuff.  Just not really for the Mosh Pit