WORT’s The Mosh Pit

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 10/6/08

Artist  –  Album  –  Label
1) Metallica  –  Death Magnetic  –  Warner Bros.
2) Slipknot  –  All Hope Is Gone  –  Roadrunner
3) Into Eternity  –  The Incurable Tragedy  –  Century Media
4) Amon Amarth  –  Twilight of the Thunder God  –  Metal Blade
5) All That Remains  –  Overcome  –  Prosthetic
6) Iced Earth  –  The Crucible of Man  –  SPV
7) Overcast  –  Reborn to Kill Again  –  Metal Blade
8) Stormlord  –  Mare Nostrum  –  Locomotive
9) Toxic Holocaust  –  An Overdose of Death  –  Relapse
10) Trivium  –  Shogun  –  Roadrunner
11) Droidsattack  –  Fatal/Error  –  Crustacean
12) Metal Church  –  This Present Wasteland  –  SPV
13) Burst  –  Lazarus Bird  –  Relapse
14) Dragonforce  –  Ultra Beatdown  –  Roadrunner
15) Motorhead  –  Motorizer  –  SPV
16) Exmortus  –  In Hatred’s Flame  –  Heavy Artillery
17) Evergrey  –  Torn  –  SPV
18) Bison BC  –  Quiet Earth  –  Metal Blade
19) Hollow Corp.  –  Cloister of Radiance  –  Prosthetic
20) This Or The Apocalypse  –  Monuments  –  Lifeforce

Top 5 Adds
1) Cradle of Filth  –  Godspeed on the Devils Thunder  –  Roadrunner
2) Gojira  –  The Way Of All Flesh  –  Prosthetic
3) Psycroptic  –  Ob(Servant)  –  Nuclear Blast
4) Jeff Loomis  –  Zero Order Phase  –  Century Media
5) Brother Von Doom  –  Relentless  –  Deathcote

Other Adds:  The Duskfall, Blessed By A Broken Heart, Lords, Inhale Exhale

The Becoming
Vol. 1
Solid State
55:56 - 13 Tracks
This is more or less an emo-hard rock type CD.   As with most albums of this genre, they sound good, are good at what they do, and I’m just being nice because I don’t care too much for this, at least for radio play on the Mosh Pit.  If I were to play this during the Mosh pit, it would be such a momentum breaker, I’m afraid I’d hear a lot of clicks of people changing the station.  Again, not bad at what they do, just not for the Mosh Pit.

Blessed By A Broken Heart
Pedal To The Metal
Century Media
42:19 - 11 Tracks
This is almost as over the top as Dragonforce, however, with the keyboards and very electronic drum sound, they are a lot more “80’s”, but with some good thrash influences.  It’s like a mix of 80’s hard rock, metal-emo core and yeah, some Dragonforce.  There is definitely a lot of cheese flowing on this disc, which in Wisconsin can be a good thing!

Brother Von Doom
Relentless
Deathcote Records
36:59 - 10 Tracks
Brutal death metal stuff to start, then some cool thrashy melodic guitar parts to make it a nice well rounded brutal metal album!   Catchy thrashy music with all out melodic death metal thrashy stuff in between.  Did I just say the same thing in two sentences?  I guess so, but how else can you describe it?  You just have to listen for yourself.

Cradle of Filth
Godspeed on the Devils Thunder
Roadrunner
71:21 - 13 Tracks
They’ve really stepped it up on this new one, it’s darker, more “metal” and just an all out evil sounding CD.  It’s based on Marquis de Sade, so you’ve got some good dark subject material, but the music backs it up.  I gotta hand it to CoF, some of their albums there were a little to um, I dunno, euro-femetal sounding, this one hearkens back to their Dusk and Her Embrace era stuff.

The Duskfall
The Dying Wonders Of The World
Locomotive
41:41 - 9 Tracks
Some melodic death metal from Sweden… hey, if you’re going to be in this genre, you might as well be from Sweden!   This CD was released last year sometime to the rest of the world, and since then (Aug 08) the band has decided to disband.   While this is a cool release in a cool genre, there isn’t too much new going on here.  It’s a bit like Hypocrisy and of course some of the older In Flames/Soilwork type of stuff.

Gojira
The Way Of All Flesh
Prosthetic Records
75:15 - 12 Tracks
There’s a lot of buzz about these guys lately… their last album was pretty groundbreaking for them, so they have a lot of hype to live up to on this followup.  The 1st track is fairly melodic, yet still has a heavy feel to it.  Next up and for a lot of the rest of the album, they have that more Sepultura influenced heavy, stop/start metal thing going on.  Still some good melodic catchy hooks, along with some brutal parts mixed in, but a lot of slower melodic parts too.  It’s very dynamic and you’ll need to probably take in the whole album to appreciate it the most.

Inhale Exhale
I Swear…
Solid State
44:23 - 11 Tracks
Sometimes the stuff from SolidState is really cool and brutal, other times, it’s like the first band on the review list this week (The Becoming)… this one kind of falls in the middle.  It’s got some good brutal-core moments, then gets to some melodic borderline emo vocal chorus parts.   Some songs go more emo (melodic singy chorus parts)… but then it gets to some cool chugga chugga breakdowney metal verses.   Every song does seem to go back and forth between brutal and singy emo (it’s not like super whiney emo, just melodic singing type stuff).

In This Moment
The Dream
Century Media
42:55 - 11 Tracks
The last album from these guys seemed to be a good crossover hit… going from metal to the “solid rock” stations… this album seems to just stay over the more accessible “solid rock” genre.  So, yeah, while still great and catchy, it’s more like a hard rock  “No Doubt” than it is metal.

Jeff Loomis
Zero Order Phase
Century Media
54:02 - 10 Tracks
You may know Jeff as the main axeman for Nevermore, some may know him as “that dude from Wisconsin that’s in Nevermore”… either way, he’s a great guitar player and this is his solo album.  He does have a certain style when playing with Nevermore, and that carries over to this solo album.  Therefore, if you like the music of Nevermore, chances are you’ll like this.  If you only like Nevermore for Warrell Dane, you won’t find it here, it’s all instrumental.  Some great solos on this album of course, and the rest of the music is well put together.

Lords
Fuck All Y’all Motherfuckers
Metal Blade
23:03 - 16 Tracks
This is a collection of quick short songs with just well, I dunno.  A bit of punk, metal, grind, stoner metal… just a lot of different things happening in a short amount of time!  And the song titles and lyrics seem to be done up in a fun way too.  It’s worth a listen!

Psycroptic
Ob(Servant)
Nuclear Blast
49:49 - 9 Tracks
Ever since seeing these guys on Summer Slaughter, I’ve been anxiously waiting having this CD in my hands… It’s everything I thought it would be.  Heavy, catchy, brutal, melodic in some parts, and just a great aural assault on the ears.   It’s similar to a lot of different things, but not the same as anyone else.  Great to hear something different in this day and age of music saturation!