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WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 6/30/08

Artist  –  Album  –  Label
1) Moonspell  –  Night Eternal  –  SPV
2) Opeth  –  Watershed  –  Roadrunner
3) Kataklysm  –  Prevail  –  Nuclear Blast
4) Unleashed  –  Hammer Battalion  –  SPV
5) Warrel Dane  –  Praises To The War Machine  –  Century Media
6) Deicide  –  Till Death Do Us Part  –  Earache
7) Ihsahn  –  AngL  –  Candlelight
8) Terror  –  The Damned, The Shamed  –  Century Media
9) Shai Hulud  –  Misanthropy Pure  –  Metal Blade
10) Judas Priest  –  Nostradamus  –  Epic
11) Grave  –  Dominion VII  –  Regain
12) Coldworker  –  Rotting Paradise  –  Relapse
13) Keep of Kalessin  –  Kolossus  –  Nuclear Blast  –
14) The Famine  –  The Raven and the Reaping  –  Solid State
15) Rage  –  Carved In Stone  –  Locomotive
16) Fall of Serenity  –  The Crossfire  –  Lifeforce
17) Venomous Concept  –  Poisoned Apple  –  Century Media
18) Cryptopsy  –  Unspoken King  –  Century Media
19) Dissonant  –  Copy Burn Distrubute Repeat  –  Unsigned
20) Catelepsy  –  Iniquity  –  Stillborn

Top 5 Adds
1) Whitechapel  –  This is Exile  –  Metal Blade
2) Scar Symmetry  –  Holographic Universe  –  Nuclear Blast
3) Motley Crue  –  Saints of Los Angeles  –  10th Street
4) Opiate for the Masses  –  Manifesto  –  Century Media
5) Proofed  –  American Metal A Band  –  Metal Ink

Other Adds: Grenouer, Valient Thorr, Hate Squad, Figure of Six

Whitechapel
This is Exile
43:03 - 11 Tracks
Extreme, brutal, heavy, kind of along the lines of Job for a Cowboy and Cattle Decapitation. Just heavy and intense with the occasional brutal-core breakdown. I can’t say much more than you’ll hear it on the Mosh Pit!

Opiate for the Masses
Manifesto
Century Media
40:18 - 11 Tracks
This is kind of electronic/metal. One thing in the bio says it’s like Alice in Chains meets NIN. And as I always say about these bio quote thingers, they’re right on! Reminds me a little bit of Gravity Kills, but not quite as heavy/cool. haha. Songs are catchy enough, they’re just not like, all that heavy. We might be able to squeeze this in on the Mosh Pit.

Motley Crue
Saints of Los Angeles
Motley
44:08 - 13 Tracks
A pleasant surprise listening to this CD. It’s like the old Motley Crue came out of its cocoon after all these years. This is just waht the Crue should be sounding like. Vince’s out front vox, catchy raw-ish hard rock backing it up. The lyrics get kind of silly, but really… Motley Crue? Message? Yeah. The best song is probably the title track. You’ll hear something from this on the Mosh Pit!

Scar Symmetry
Holographic Universe
Nuclear Blast
58:44 - 12 Tracks
This is something that’s for fans of good ol Soilwork, In Flames, etc. Melodic death metal mixing clean vox with the death vox. Overall, it’s more of a “clean” metal album than death metal. Some good guitar shredding, catchy riffs, good mix of clean vox and death vox… although I think there are more clean than death vox as mentioned earlier. You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Proofed
American Metal A Blend
Metal Ink
48:19 - 10 Tracks
Good ol hard rockin’ metal infused music. Unfortunately it’s hard for me to get past the production/mastering right off the bat. The cymbols have this ringy compressed sound, as if someone converted it to an mp3, then converted it to a lower quality mp3, then streamed it through some dialup internet. Sorry! Okay, now, trying to concentrate past the sound… the music is pretty good, solid, standard metal-type sound. Catchy choruses, fun lovin’ metal. Huh, looks like that annoying cymbal sound is gone after track two. The sound is better, still not ideal, but much better! You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit though!

ARTIST  –  TRACK  –  ALBUM  –  LABEL  –  NEW  –  REQ
Slipknot  –  All Hope Is Gone  –  All Hope Is Gone EP  –  Roadrunner  –  Y  –  N
Lamb of God  –  Now You’ve Got Something To Die For  –  Walk With Me In Hell Sampler  –  Epic  –  Y  –  N
Sweet Cobra  –  Fucking Fertilizer  –  Forever  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Shai Hulud  –  We Who Finish Last  –  Misanthropy Pure  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Fall of Serenity  –  The Crossfire  –  The Crossfire  –  Lifeforce  –  Y  –  N
The Famine  –  Consume Devour Repeat  –  The Raven and the Reaping  –  Solid State  –  Y  –  N
Venomous Concept  –  Drop Dead  –  Poisoned Apple  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Terror  –  Relentless Through And Through  –  The Damned The Shamed  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Head On Collison  –  Arise From The Wreckage  –  Ritual Sacrifice  –  Beer City  –  Y  –  N
Testament  –  The Evil Has Landed  –  The Formation of Damnation  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
John 5  –  Sounds of Impalement  –  Requiem  –  Adrenaline  –  Y  –  N
Judas Priest  –  Pestilence And Plague  –  Nostradamus  –  Epic  –  Y  –  N
Warrel Dane  –  Lucretia My Reflection  –  Praises To The War Machine  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Imagika  –  Waking A Dead Man  –  Feast For The Hated  –  Locomotive  –  Y  –  N
Rage  –  Drop Dead!  –  Carved In Stone  –  Locomotive  –  Y  –  N
Suicidal Tendencies  –  Alone  –  Lights Camera Revolution  –  Epic  –  N  –  Y
Slayer  –  Skeletons of Society  –  Seasons in the Abyss  –  American  –  N  –  Y
Metallica  –  Dyer’s Eve  –  And Justice For All  –  Eleketra  –  N  –  Y
Liquid Tension Experiment  –  Acid Rain  –  LTE 2  –  Magna Carta  –  N  –  Y
Oblige  –  Flesh Peel  –  Expectants  –  Stillborn  –  N  –  Y
Hatefist  –  Fall To This World  –  Under The Flood  –  Hatefist  –  Y  –  N
Throwdown  –  Hellbent (On War)  –  Venom & Tears  –  Trustkill  –  N  –  Y
Arsis  –  Servants To The Night  –  We Are The Nightmare  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
Daylight Dies  –  A Portrait In White  –  Lost To The Living  –  Candlelight  –  Y  –  N
Opeth  –  Heir Apparent  –  Watershed  –  Roadrunner  –  Y  –  N
Moonspell  –  Moon In Mercury  –  Night Eternal  –  SPV  –  Y  –  N
Ishahn  –  Alchemist  –  angL  –  Candlelight  –  Y  –  N
Coldworker  –  The Black Dog Syndrome  –  Rotting Paradise  –  Relapse  –  Y  –  N
Unleashed  –  Hammer Battalion  –  Hammer Battalion  –  SPV  –  Y  –  N
Aborted  –  Ophiolatry On A Hemocite Platter  –  Strychnine.213  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Keep of Kalessin  –  Warmonger  –  Kolossus  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
Kataklysm  –  Blood In Heaven  –  Prevail  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
Deicide  –  In The Eyes of God  –  Til Death Do Us Part  –  Earache  –  Y  –  N
Grave  –  Bloodpath  –  Dominion VIII  –  Regain  –  Y  –  N
Cryptopsy  –  Worship Your Demons  –  The Unspoken King  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Six Feet Under  –  Insect  –  Alive & Dead  –  Metal Blade  –  N  –  Y
Cannibal Corpse  –  Hammer Smashed Face  –  Tomb of the Mutilated  –  Metal Blade  –  N  –  Y

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 6/23/08

Artist  –  Album  –  Label
1) Kataklysm  –  Prevail  –  Nuclear Blast
2) Opeth  –  Watershed  –  Roadrunner
3) Moonspell  –  Night Eternal  –  SPV
4) Warrel Dane  –  Praises To The War Machine  –  Century Media
5) Coldworker  –  Rotting Paradise  –  Relapse
6) Arsis  –  We Are The Nightmare  –  Nuclear Blast
7) Deicide  –  Till Death Do Us Part  –  Earache
8) Ihsahn  –  AngL  –  Candlelight
9) Unleashed  –  Hammer Battalion  –  SPV
10) Shai Hulud  –  Misanthropy Pure  –  Metal Blade
11) Terror  –  The Damned, The Shamed  –  Century Media
12) Grave  –  Dominion VII  –  Regain
13) Judas Priest  –  Nostradamus  –  Epic  –
14) Kryptos  –  The Ark Of Gemini  –  Old School Metal
15) Testament  –  The Formation of Damnation  –  Nuclear Blast
16) Fall of Serenity  –  The Crossfire  –  Lifeforce
17) The Famine  –  The Raven and the Reaping  –  Solid State
18) Keep of Kalessin  –  Kolossus  –  Nuclear Blast
19) Rage  –  Carved In Stone  –  Locomotive
20) Venomous Concept  –  Poisoned Apple  –  Century Media

Top 5 Adds
1) Aborted  –  Strychnine.213  –  Century Media
2) Imagika  –  Feast For The Hated  –  Locomotive
3) Daylight Dies  –  Lost To The Living  –  Candlelight
4) Sweet Cobra  –  Forever  –  Metal Blade
5) Slipknot  –  “All Hope Is Gone”  –  Roadrunner

Other Adds:  John 5, Head On Collision, Storms Approach, Made Out Of Babies, Hydrogyn, Blacklist Union

Yo… After a week off, I’m back to posting this stuff, and I came back into a shitstorm of new releases… most of the reviews this week will be pretty short!  :)

Daylight Dies
Lost To The Living
Candlelight
51:33 - 9 Tracks
If I had to compare this to any bands, I’d say it’s like a Moonspell meets Opeth.  Pretty cool stuff, and I’m sure you’ll be hearing it on the Mosh Pit!

Imagika
Feast For The Hated
Locomotive
48:38 - 10 Tracks
This is what power metal should be.  Some over the top thrashin’ stuff mixed with some abrasive, yet classic metal sounding vocals.   The songs are catchy… get to some little melodic interlude, then just all out metal within a few seconds.  It gets to almost death/black metal musically in some parts… you’ll hear this on the ‘pit!!

Storms Approach
Storms Approach
n/a
29:05 - 8 Tracks
An indie release, which is mostly some metal edged hard rock with an operatic female vocalist.  The music is pretty good, the vocals sound great too, but it just may not be mosh pit material… especially with all of the competition this week.  We’ll try and work it in sometime!

Sweet Cobra
Forever
Metal Blade
45:10 - 8 Tracks
Fans of Mastodon’ed stoner metal will dig this!  Not quite as heavy as Mastodon, it’s just as catchy… oh, what the hell, it is just about as heavy… The more I think about it, it’s probably more like High On Fire.  You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Head On Collision
Ritual Sacrifice
Beer City
39:54 - 11 Tracks
Heavy, raw thrashy stuff!  I guess this could be comparable to old Exodus and the like.  Songs are to the point, no screwin’ around.  Tends to follow the trend of good ol school thrash that’s been pretty big lately.  You’ll probably hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Slipknot
All Hope Is Lost SINGLE
Roadrunner
4:45 - 1 Track
Just one track from their forthcoming album… it’s what you would come to expect from Slipknot.  It’s totally heavy and over the top and everything that makes Slipknot, Slipknot.  You’ll hear it on the ‘Pit

Aborted
Strychnine.213
Century Media
37:12 - 10 Tracks
Awesome over the top death metal, there’s an awesome groove underlying the all out brutality on this CD.  There’s just great heavy abrasive brutal vocals, with fast drumming, but all the while, there’s just this groove.  It’s kind of hard to explain, but once you hear it, it’s so damn catchy… you’ll not want to stop listening!

Made Out Of Babies
The Ruiner
The End
42:32 - 9 Tracks
Something you might think would be on Relapse Records… Female fronted experimental-ish hardrocky noise stuff.  Though, by the “for fans of…”listing, I’d normally be turned off right away… Jesus Lizard, Melvins, Neurosis, Today is the Day… blech…. kind of a who’s who of bands I don’t like.   Anyways, listening to it, there’s just something about it that makes me not want to turn it off.  The female vocals are not really metal, but something about her voice just makes it work.  The music is kind of “stoner metal”  But overall, it’s fairly “noisey”

Blacklist Union
Breakin Bread With The Devil
Blu Records
30:33 - 10 Tracks
Old school Hard Rock stuff, a la Motley Crue, etc.  Good at what they do, however, not totally mosh pit material.  Songs are catchy, melodic and all that stuff…

John 5
Requiem
Adrenaline
43:01 - 10 Tracks
The well known John 5 from Marilyn Manson and more recently in Rob Zombies band.  An accomplished guitarist, this is some good hard rock/metal solo guitar stuff.  The backing band is John 5 on everything but Drums… the skins are handled by the guy from Rob Zombie’s band…Tommy Clufetos.  Overall it’s pretty cool, nothing super awesome, nothing that really sucks.  Some great shredding and catchy stuff on here.

Hydrogyn
Deadly Passions
Demolition
41:38 - 10 Tracks
This is some hard rock’ fe-metal stuff.  Music is fairly straghtforward hard rock, catchy melodic hooks and all that jazz.  Good at what they are doing, but may not be mosh pit material, again, with a lot of the competition!

ARTIST — TRACK — ALBUM — LABEL — NEW — REQ
Dimmu Borgir — Fear And Wonder — Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia — Nuclear Blast — N — Y
Dimmu Borgir — Blessings Upon The Throne Of Tyranny — Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia — Nuclear Blast — N — Y
Dimmu Borgir — Kings Of The Carnival Creation — Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia — Nuclear Blast — N — Y
Dimmu Borgir — Hybrid Stigmata - The Apostasy — Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia — Nuclear Blast — N — Y
Dimmu Borgir — Architecture Of A Genocidal Nature — Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia — Nuclear Blast — N — Y
Dimmu Borgir — Puritana — Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia — Nuclear Blast — N — Y
Dimmu Borgir — IndoctriNation — Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia — Nuclear Blast — N — Y
Dimmu Borgir — The Maelstrom Mephisto — Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia — Nuclear Blast — N — Y
Dimmu Borgir — Absolute Sole Right — Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia — Nuclear Blast — N — Y
Dimmu Borgir — Sympozium — Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia — Nuclear Blast — N — Y
Dimmu Borgir — Perfection Or Vanity — Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia — Nuclear Blast — N — Y
Entombed — Diving Dead / Sinners Bleed — Clandestine — Earache — N — Y
Deathspell Omega — A Chore For The Last — Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum — Flame — N — Y
Satyricon — Possessed — Volcano — Red Ink — N — Y
Watain — Devil’s Blood — Casus Luciferi — Drakkar — N — Y
Emperor — The Loss and Curse of Reverence — Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk — Century Media — N — Y
Profundi — Unaniation — The Omega Rising — Profound Lore — N — Y
Keep of Kalessin — Kolossus — Kolossus — Nuclear Blast — Y — N
Sigh — Dies Irae / The Master Malice — Hangman’s Hymn — The End — Y — N
Rotting Christ — Gaia Tellus — Theogonia — Season of Mist — N — Y
Hollenthon — To Fabled Lands — Opus Magnum — Napalm — Y — N
Moonspell — Night Eternal — Night Eternal — SPV — Y — N
Witchery — The Reaper — Restless & Dead — Necropolis — N — Y
Mercyful Fate — Desecration of Souls — Don’t Break The Oath — Roadrunner — N — Y
Venom — Black Metal — Black Metal — Sanctuary — N — Y
Slayer — Praise of Death — Hell Awaits — Metal Blade — N — Y
Exodus — Metal Command — Bonded By Blood — Combat — N — Y
Bonded By Blood — Immortal Life — Feed The Beast — Earache — Y — N
Testament — More Than Meets The Eye — The Formation of Damnation — Nuclear Blast — Y — N
Kataklysm — Prevail — Prevail — Nuclear Blast — Y — N
Unleashed — Your Children Will Burn — Hammer Battalion — SPV — Y — N
Soul Embraced — Everything Reminds Me Of You — Dead Alive — SolidState — Y — N
Arsis — Sightless Wisdom — We Are The Nightmare — Nuclear Blast — Y — N

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 6/16/08

Artist  –  Album  –  Label
1) Opeth  –  Watershed  –  Roadrunner
2) Arsis  –  We Are The Nightmare  –  Nuclear Blast
3) Kataklysm  –  Prevail  –  Nuclear Blast
4) Warrel Dane  –  Praises To The War Machine  –  Century Media
5) Coldworker  –  Rotting Paradise  –  Relapse
6) Moonspell  –  Night Eternal  –  SPV
7) Testament  –  The Formation of Damnation  –  Nuclear Blast
8) Deicide  –  Till Death Do Us Part  –  Earache
9) Burning Skies  –  Greed. Filth. Abuse. Corruption.  –  Lifeforce
10) Kryptos  –  The Ark Of Gemini  –  Old School Metal
11) Ihsahn  –  AngL  –  Candlelight
12) Shai Hulud  –  Misanthropy Pure  –  Metal Blade
13) Soul Embraced  –  Dead Alive  –  Solid State
14) Aletheian  –  Dying Vine  –  Metal Blade
15) 36 Crazyfists  –  The Tide and Its Takers  –  Ferret
16) Fall of Serenity  –  The Crossfire  –  Lifeforce
17) The Famine  –  The Raven and the Reaping  –  Solid State
18) Terror  –  The Damned, The Shamed  –  Century Media
19) Unleashed  –  Hammer Battalion  –  SPV  –
20) Grave  –  Dominion VII  –  Regain

Top 5 Adds
1) Judas Priest  –  Nostradamus  –  Epic
2) Rage  –  Carved In Stone  –  Locomotive
3) Bleed The Sky  –  Murder The Dance  –  Nuclear Blast
4) Dissonant  –  Copy Burn Distrubute Repeat  –  Unsigned
5) Withered  –  Folie Circulaire  –  Prosthetic

Other Adds: Cancer Bats, Cryptopsy, Lamb of God Sampler, Willie Basse

ARTIST  –  TRACK  –  ALBUM  –  LABEL  –  NEW  –  REQ
Shai Hulud  –  Misanthropy Pure  –  Misanthropy Pure  –  Solid State  –  Y  –  N
Soul Embraced  –  Curtain of Deceit  –  Dead Alive  –  Solid State  –  Y  –  N
36 Crazyfists  –  We Gave It Hell  –  The Tide and Its Takers  –  Ferret  –  Y  –  N
Lauren Harris  –  Steal Your Fire  –  Calm Before The Storm  –  Demolition  –  Y  –  N
Moonspell  –  Shadow Sun  –  Night Eternal  –  SPV  –  Y  –  N
Opeth  –  Hessian Peel  –  Watershed  –  Roadrunner  –  Y  –  N
Type O Negative  –  We Hate Everyone  –  Bloody Kisses  –  Roadrunner  –  N  –  Y
Engel  –  The Paraclete  –  Absolute Design  –  SPV  –  Y  –  N
Romans  –  All Those Wrists  –  All Those Wrists  –  Blackmarket Act.  –  Y  –  N
Verse  –  The New Fury  –  Aggression  –  Bridge 9  –  Y  –  N
Kryptos  –  Order of the D.N.A.  –  The Art of Gemini  –  Old School Metal  –  Y  –  N
MyChildren MyBride  –  On Wings of Integrity  –  Unbreakable  –  Solid State  –  Y  –  N
The Famine  –  Behemoth  –  The Raven and the Reaping  –  Solid State  –  Y  –  N
Soilent Green  –  When All Roads Lead To Rome  –  Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Judas Priest  –  Nostradamus  –  Nostradamus  –  Epic  –  Y  –  N
Warrel Dane  –  The Day The Rats Went To War  –  Praises To The War Machine  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Testament  –  Henchmen Ride  –  The Formation of Damnation  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
Sepultura  –  Roots Bloody Roots  –  Roots  –  Roadrunner  –  N  –  Y
Machine Head  –  A Nation On Fire  –  Burn My Eyes  –  Roadrunner  –  N  –  Y
Savatage  –  Power of the Night  –  Power of the Night  –  Atlantic  –  N  –  Y
Iron Maiden  –  Seventh Son of a Seventh Son  –  Seventh Son of a Seventh Son  –  EMI  –  N  –  Y
Vicious Rumors  –  Dust To Dust  –  Welcome To Hell  –  Atlantic  –  N  –  Y
Helloween  –  I’m Alive  –  Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. 1  –  Noise  –  N  –  Y
Stuck Mojo  –  Metal Is Dead  –  Southern Born Killers  –  N/A  –  Y  –  N
Children of Bodom  –  Roadkill Morning  –  Blooddrunk  –  Spinefarm  –  Y  –  N
Fall of Serenity  –  Recreation  –  The Crossfire  –  Lifeforce  –  Y  –  N
Arsis  –  My Oath To Madness  –  We Are The Nightmare  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
Burning Skies  –  Rounding Up The Cattle  –  Greed.Filth.Abuse.Corruption  –  Lifeforce  –  Y  –  N
Aletheian  –  Shepherd’s Fold  –  Dying Vine  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Keep of Kalessin  –  A New Empire’s Birth  –  Kolossus  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
Ishahn  –  Malediction  –  angL  –  Candlelight  –  Y  –  N
Azaghal  –  Quetzalcoatl  –  Omega  –  Moribund  –  Y  –  Y
Catalepsy  –  Immolate  –  Iniquity  –  Stillborn  –  Y  –  N
Coldworker  –  Symptoms of Sickness  –  Rotting Paradise  –  Relapse  –  Y  –  N
Kataklysm  –  As Death Lingers  –  Prevail  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
Deicide  –  Hate of All Hatreds  –  Till Death Do Us Part  –  Earache  –  Y  –  N
Obituary  –  The End Complete  –  The End Complete  –  Roadrunner  –  N  –  Y

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 6/9/08

Artist  –  Album  –  Label
1) Opeth  –  Watershed  –  Roadrunner
2) Arsis  –  We Are The Nightmare  –  Nuclear Blast
3) Kataklysm  –  Prevail  –  Nuclear Blast
4) Warrel Dane  –  Praises To The War Machine  –  Century Media
5) Coldworker  –  Rotting Paradise  –  Relapse
6) Moonspell  –  Night Eternal  –  SPV
7) Testament  –  The Formation of Damnation  –  Nuclear Blast
8) Deicide  –  Till Death Do Us Part  –  Earache
9) Burning Skies  –  Greed. Filth. Abuse. Corruption.  –  Lifeforce
10) Kryptos  –  The Ark Of Gemini  –  Old School Metal
11) Children of Bodom  –  Blooddrunk  –  Spinefarm
12) Shai Hulud  –  Misanthropy Pure  –  Metal Blade
13) Soul Embraced  –  Dead Alive  –  Solid State
14) Soilent Green  –  Inevitable Collapse…  –  Metal Blade
15) Ihsahn  –  AngL  –  Candlelight
16) 36 Crazyfists  –  The Tide and Its Takers  –  Ferret
17) Aletheian  –  Dying Vine  –  Metal Blade
18) Fall of Serenity  –  The Crossfire  –  Lifeforce
19) Engel  –  Absolute Design  –  SPV  –
20) MyChildren MyBride  –  Unbreakable  –  Solid State

Top 5 Adds
1) Keep of Kalessin  –  Kolossus  –  Nuclear Blast
2) Catelepsy  –  Iniquity  –  Stillborn
3) Romans  –  All Those Wrists  –  Black Market Act.
4) Lauren Harris  –  Calm Before The Storm  –  Demolition
5) Verse  –  Aggression  –  Bridge Nine

Other Adds: Nachtmystium, Agenda of Swine, Human Zoo, Hollenthon, Tyr

Keep of Kalessin
Kolossus
Nuclear Blast
54:25 - 9 Tracks
We saw these guys open for Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir not to far back, and they kicked some major ass. Mike purchased their previous CD and it was pretty good, so the expectations were pretty high and they delivered. Now for their new CD, which I was happy to hear about at the show, that it’d be early June, and here we are, early June, and the album is in the CD player, with a nice cute melodic intro, building anticipation of the slaughter my hears are about to get. Sure enough, clean production, tight, fast technical majestic black metal. Some parts slow down and get a little melodic, but I think that adds to the greatness of what they do. You’ll hear this a lot on the Mosh Pit!

Catelepsy
Iniquity
Stillborn
26:45 - 10 Tracks
The bio sheet that came with this, says that they are “hardcore-influenced death metal” I would have to agree… some of the “breakdowny” sounds, along with a mostly” Six Feet Under” pace of death metal. On occasion, the music gets real fast, with some blast beats, other spots, it’s a bit plodding and sludgey Pretty good overall. You’ll hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Human Zoo
Over The Horizon
Locomotive
46:40 - 12 Tracks
These guys have the Whitesnake anthemic hard rock metal thing down. They’ve got some power ballads, some standard 80’s-like hard rock/hair metal Dokken type songs. Unless someone has some big time requests for this, it probably won’t get aired on the Mosh Pit.

Romans
All Those Wrists
Blackmarket Activities
23:41 - 12 Tracks
A bit experimental, metal, hard rock, stoner metal, hardcore. A lot of different stuff happening in not a lot of time. The songs are very short, and there’s a wide variety of things going on. Needless to say, they don’t mess around much, nor do they have much to say! It’s definitely worth checking out on the Mosh Pit!

Lauren Harris
Calm Before The Storm
Demolition
47:09 - 12 Tracks
This is the daughter of Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris. I’m pretty sure she’ll always be mentioned in the same breath as her dad. He plays on some tracks and helped write a few. Apparently, the person who discovered her didn’t know about her relation to Steve…. I guess I can believe that…. she’s got a good voice… The CD is pretty straightforward hard rock almost pop rock album. You’ll hear some of this on the Mosh Pit!

Others that didn’t arrive in time for review:…Verse, Nachtmystium, Agenda of Swine