WORT’s The Mosh Pit

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 10/22/07

Artist  –  Album  –  Label
1) Arch Enemy  –  Rise of the Tyrant  –  Century Media
2) Between The Buried & Me  –  Colors  –  Victory
3) Iced Earth  –  Framing Armageddon  –  SPV
4) Black Dahlia Murder  –  Nocturnal  –  Metal Blade
5) Down  –  Down III: Over The Under  –  Down / ILG
6) Prong  –  Power of the Damager  –  13th Planet
7) Metalocalypse: Dethklok  –  Dethalbum  –  Williams St.
8) Ministry  –  The Last Sucker  –  13th Planet
9) Paths of Possession  –  The End of the Hour  –  Metal Blade
10) Overkill  –  Immortalis  –  Bodog
11) Suicide Silence  –  The Cleansing  –  Century Media
12) Alchemist  –  Tripsis  –  Relapse
13) Nightwish  –  Dark Passion Play  –  Roadrunner
14) Nuclear Blast All-Stars   –  Out of the Dark  –  Nuclear Blast
15) Otep  –  The Ascension  –  Koch
16) After Forever  –  After Forever  –  Nuclear Blast
17) Skeletonwitch  –  Beyond The Permafrost  –  Prosthetic
18) Belay My Last  –  The Downfall  –  Mediaskare
19) Demiricous  –  Two (Poverty)  –  Metal Blade
20) Within Chaos  –  Virulent  –  Koch

Top 5 Adds
1) Soilwork  –  Sworn to the Great Divide  –  Nuclear Blast
2) Caliban  –  The Awakening  –  Century Media
3) Wolfpack Unleashed  –  Anthems of Resistance  –  Napalm
4) Coheed and Cambria  –  No World For Tomorrow  –  Columbia
5) Schoolyard Heroes  –  Abominations  –  Stolen Trans.

Other Adds:  Porcupine Tree, Of Hearts and Shadows, Bobaflex

Soilwork
Sworn To The Great Divide
Nuclear Blast
46:26 - 12 Tracks
I’m a big fan of Soilwork, my favorite album being Natural Born Chaos, but as the years have come along, they have gotten a bit more “accessible” I still like them a lot, but to me, NBC was their turning point. A few tracks were out there from this CD, one of them being “Exile” Well, hearing that, I didn’t have high hopes for this, as it just seemed to be kind of plain… well, I think the rest of the album is a LOT stronger than that one track. Maybe this is the track they want to get regular radio airplay from? Anyways, the new CD has a great sound, a good balance between clean vox and not-clean vox. The melodies and harmonies are cool, yet still stays pretty heavy. You’ll hear a lot of this on the Mosh Pit!

Coheed and Cambria
No World For Tomorrow
Columbia
59:59 - 13 Tracks
I can’t say I’ve been a huge fan of these guys, I just haven’t listened to them much, because sometimes I’m just a metal snob and only want stuff to be heavy! I have respect for what they’ve done. This new CD seems like it’s very well put together, it’s a bit technical, complex, yet still melodic and easy to listen to. I guess they are considered a Progressive Rock band, so you can definitely “get” that from their sound… but mix in a little pop-hard-rocky sound and you got it. I think this could be worthy of some play on the Mosh Pit!

Caliban
The Awakening
Century Media
45:15 - 12 Tracks
Heavy! Fast, brutal metal overall, then it does get into some metal-core-y sing-a-log choruses. Overall though, it’s just pretty good brutal-core. A fast heavy driving rhythm section with a phat low-end with some mega riffs gluing it together. Most of this is brutal-heavy, but there are some slower more melodic parts. This is something you will hear on the Mosh Pit

Of Hearts and Shadows
Touching Base with a Chainsaw
Tyburn
45:15 - 12 Tracks
This has a lot of metal-core elements, clean vox mixed with some growling stuff. There’s a lot of boomy bass as part of the production of this… some of the songs are pretty catchy and easy to get into. It’s not too bad, but there’s not really much new ground being broken here. There could have been a better job engineering this to clean the sound up a bit. You’ll probably hear this on the Mosh Pit though.

Wolfpack Unleashed
Anthems of Resistance
Napalm
46:49 - 10 Tracks (promo split up into 80 tracks… with voiceovers on the split tracks…IRK)
Well, new, up and coming bands… take a lesson from these guys. They know how to start a CD. It just starts off with some way cool heavy trash metal. No melodic slowly building intro… just right into metal! The vocals alternate from growls and a thrash yell. They call themselves melodic thrash… and I’d have to agree. (you know, sometimes bands are WAY different than what they say!) It’s cool thrash… not groundbreaking, but yet cool enough to get some airplay!

Porcupine Tree
Blank Planet Recurring
Atlantic / Lava
41:40 - 7 Tracks
This is a new EP called “Nil Recurring” which is mostly fairly tame, slower, jammy type stuff, of stuff left over from their newest album. Packaged for radio, there are edits of some of the cooler songs from Fear of a Blank Planet. We’re fans of Porcupine Tree, and since they can lean prog-metal on some stuff, and heck, where else are you gonna hear it? You’ll hear some of this on the Mosh Pit!

Schoolyard Heroes
Abominations
Stolen Transmission
44:41 - 11 Tracks
This is the full CD of a sampler we got a few weeks ago…   To recap from that mini-review…I almost think this is Gwen Stefani in a cool hard-rock metal-ish band. They are eclectic, getting pretty heavy in some parts, but just being fairly straightforward hard rock/metal.   This is something a little different than what we normally play, and it’s catchy overall. This might be a cool track to transition from Something Wonderful (the show before the Mosh Pit!)

Rob Gee
Rob Gee
Rock Ridge
54:03 - 13 Tracks
This is kind of an industrial metal DJ type guy.  It’s pretty cool… It’s like NY Hardcore mixed with industrial techno and DJ type stuff.  You’ll probably hear this on the Mosh Pit!