WORT’s The Mosh Pit

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