WORT’s The Mosh Pit

ARTIST  –  TRACK  –  ALBUM  –  LABEL  –  NEW  –  REQ
The Faceless  –  Shape Shifters  –  Planetary Duality  –  Sumerian  –  Y  –  N
The Faceless  –  Coldly Calculated Design  –  Planetary Duality  –  Sumerian  –  Y  –  N
Gojira  –  Wolf Down The Earth  –  The Way Of All Flesh  –  Prosthetic  –  Y  –  N
Misery Index  –  Ruling Class Cancelled  –  Traitors  –  Relapse  –  Y  –  N
Austrian Death Machine  –  Jingle Bells  –  A Very Brutal Christmas  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Various Artists  –  Silent Night  –  We Wish You A Metal Xmas…  –  Armoury  –  Y  –  N
Savatage  –  Rage  –  Sirens  –  Par  –  N  –  Y
Trans-Siberian Orchestra  –  Wish Liszt  –  The Lost Christmas Eve  –  Lava  –  Y  –  N
Bloodbath  –  Treasonous  –  The Fathomless Mastery  –  Peaceville  –  Y  –  N
Burning The Masses  –  Cyanide  –  Mind Control  –  Mediaskare  –  Y  –  N
Morbid Angel  –  Rapture  –  Covenant  –  Giant  –  N  –  Y
Deicide  –  Carnage In The Temple of the Damned  –  Deicide  –  Roadrunner  –  N  –  Y
Six Feet Under  –  None Will Escape  –  Death Rituals  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Brother Von Doom  –  Norse Demise  –  Relentless  –  Deathcote  –  Y  –  N
Psycroptic  –  Immortal Army of One  –  Ob(Servant)  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
Cradle of Filth  –  Godspeed on Devil’s Thunder  –  Godspeed on Devil’s Thunder  –  Roadrunner  –  Y  –  N
Abigail Williams  –  Smoke and Mirrors  –  In The Shadow of a Thousand Suns  –  Candlelight  –  Y  –  N
Benediction  –  Wrath and Regret  –  Killing Music  –  Locomotive  –  Y  –  N
Resurrection  –  Death By Desire  –  Mistaken For Dead  –  Locomotive  –  Y  –  N
Light This City  –  Firehaven  –  Stormchaser  –  Prosthetic  –  Y  –  N
Antagonist  –  Angels  –  Exist  –  Prosthetic  –  Y  –  N
The Haunted  –  Crusher  –  Versus  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Mercenary  –  Burning Angel  –  Covering 20 Years of Extremes  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Bleeding Through  –  Beneath The Grey  –  Declaration  –  Trustkill  –  Y  –  N
In Flames  –  Food For The Gods  –  Whoracle  –  Nuclear Blast  –  N  –  Y
Kill What I Adore  –  Whatever It Takes  –  Whatever It Takes  –  Ironclad  –  Y  –  N
If He Dies He Dies  –  Clarity  –  The Rise… The Fall  –  Friction  –  Y  –  N
Unearth  –  The March  –  The March  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Death Angel   –  Ex-Tc  –  Act III  –  DGC  –  N  –  Y
Wrathchild America  –  3D-Man  –  3-D  –  Atlantic  –  N  –  Y
Nevermore  –  Seed Awakening  –  Enemies Of Reality  –  Century Media  –  N  –  Y
Slayer  –  Blood Red  –  Seasons in the Abyss  –  American  –  N  –  Y
Exodus  –  Pirahna  –  Let There Be Blood  –  Zaentz  –  Y  –  N
Warship  –  We’ve Never Been Equal  –  Supply and Depend  –  Vagrant  –  Y  –  N
American Speedway  –  One Foot In, One Foot Out  –  Ship of Fools  –  Prophase  –  Y  –  N
The Answer  –  Highwater or Hell  –  Never Too Late EP  –  The End  –  Y  –  N
Clutch  –  Escape From The Prison Planet  –  Clutch  –  EastWest  –  N  –  Y
Agnostic Front  –  Addiction  –  Warriors  –  Nuclear Blast  –  N  –  Y
Mudvayne  –  The Hate In Me  –  The New Game  –  Epic  –  Y  –  N
Slipknot  –  The Heretic Anthem  –  9.0 Live  –  Roadrunner  –  N  –  Y
Strapping Young Lad  –  Fucker  –  The New Black  –  Century Media  –  N  –  Y
Devildriver  –  I Could Care Less  –  Devildriver  –  Roadrunner  –  N  –  Y
Infectious Grooves  –  Monster Skank  –  The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move…  –  Epic  –  N  –  Y

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 11/24/08

Artist  –  Album  –  Label
1) Cradle of Filth  –  Godspeed on the Devils Thunder  –  Roadrunner
2) Exodus  –  Let There Be Blood  –  Zaentz
3) Unearth  –  The March  –  Metal Blade
4) Gojira  –  The Way Of All Flesh  –  Prosthetic
5) Misery Index  –  Traitors  –  Relapse
6) The Haunted  –  Versus  –  Century Media
7) Resurrection  –  Mistaken For Dead  –  Locomotive
8) Psycroptic  –  Ob(Servant)  –  Nuclear Blast
9) Abigail Williams  –  In The Shadow of a Thousand Suns  –  Candlelight
10) Bleeding Through  –  Declaration  –  Trustkill
11) Benediction  –  Killing Music  –  Locomotive
12) Brother Von Doom  –  Relentless  –  Deathcote
13) Antagonist  –  Exist  –  Prosthetic
14) Bloodbath  –  The Fathomless Mastery  –  Peaceville
15) Light This City  –  Stormchaser  –  Prosthetic  –
16) Six Feet Under  –  Death Rituals  –  Metal Blade
17) Various Artists  –  Century Media Covers CM  –  Century Media
18) Enslaved  –  Vertebrae  –  Nuclear Blast
19) Burning the Masses  –  Mind Control  –  Mediaskare
20) The Faceless  –  Planetary Duality  –  Sumerian

Top 5 Adds
1) Various  –  We Wish You A Metal Xmas  –  Armoury
2) Kill What I Adore  –  Whatever It Takes  –  Ironclad
3) If He Dies He Dies  –  The Rise…The Fall  –  Friction
4) Austrian Death Machine  –  A Very Brutal Christmas  –  Metal Blade
5) The Answer  –  Never Too Late  –  The End

Other Adds:  Distrust, Terabyte, One In Vain, Gaggle of Cocks

If He Dies…He Dies
The Rise The Fall
Friction
43:49 - 10 Tracks
This is kind of stoner metal meets melodic-ish hardcore metal type of stuff. It’s got many layers to it, got a great heavy/hard edge to it, yet still keeps a nice melodic groove going. Songs are kind of catchy, sludgey and yet still heavy. They almost have a Pantera feel to some tracks too.

Austrian Death Machine
A Very Brutal Christmas EP
Metal Blade
8:46 - 3 Tracks
This is a 3 song EP… It’s got a Christmas song… “Jingle Bells” and a Judas Priest Cover of “Hell Bent For Leather” And “Get to the Choppa” which is from the Total Brutal CD. You can’t ever go wrong with a good Priest cover and a well done Metal Christmas Song…. The ADM was one of the better CDs of the year, and this EP is a good cherry on top just in time for the holidays…

The Answer
Never Too Late EP
The End
17:06 - 4 Tracks
This is kind of a hard rock metal band. They are out opening for AC/DC… and have been compared to Led Zep and other early blues based hard rock stuff. There is something special about this… there are some big quotes from some big names on their bio sheet… Jimmy Page, Rolling Stone, Def Leppard… and you listen to it and hear Zeppelin ooozing out all over the place. It’s worth a little airplay!

Kill What I Adore
Whatever It Takes
Ironclad/Metal Blade
11 Tracks
This is kind of brutal metalcore. Big huge fat meaty riffs, some good other guitar shredding… Vocals are brutal, drums too. It’s kind of a sludgey brutal sound that occasionally breaks out in to a more clean metal sound, or into a traditional breakdown.

Various Artists
We Wish You A Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year
Armoury
51:13 - 12 Tracks
Over the Years, I’ve been on a quest for more and more Christmas Metal… well, the last couple of years have been good as more metal bands are cashing in on holiday songs… This compilation is a bunch of different artists from all over the place… I think this is one of the best Xmas metal compilations to ever come out. They add a good metal edge to every track! The best, easy way to let you know what’s on here is to just copy/paste the tracks with artists:
Tracks:
1. We Wish You A Merry Xmas
* Jeff Scott Soto (TALISMAN, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, JOURNEY)
* Bruce Kulick (KISS, UNION)
* Bob Kulick
* Chris Wyse (THE CULT)
* Ray Luzier (KORN, DAVID LEE ROTH, ARMY OF ANYONE)
2. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
* Alice Cooper
* John 5 (ROB ZOMBIE, MARILYN MANSON)
* Billy Sheehan (DAVID LEE ROTH, TALAS, MR. BIG)
* Vinny Appice (DIO, HEAVEN AND HELL, BLACK SABBATH)
3. Run Rudolph Run
* Lemmy Kilmister (MOTÖRHEAD)
* Billy F. Gibbons (ZZ TOP)
* Dave Grohl (FOO FIGHTERS)
4. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
* Ronnie James Dio (DIO, HEAVEN AND HELL, BLACK SABBATH)
* Tony Iommi (HEAVEN AND HELL, BLACK SABBATH)
* Rudy Sarzo (QUIET RIOT, WHITESNAKE, DIO)
* Simon Wright (AC/DC, DIO)
5. Little Drummer Boy
* Doug Pinnick (KING’s X)
* George Lynch (DOKKEN)
* Billy Sheehan (DAVID LEE ROTH, TALAS, MR. BIG)
* Simon Phillips (THE WHO, TOTO)
6. Santa Claus Is Back In Town
* Tim “Ripper” Owens (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH)
* Steve Morse (DEEP PURPLE)
* Juan Garcia (AGENT STEEL)
* Marco Mendoza (WHITESNAKE, TED NUGENT)
* Vinny Appice (DIO, HEAVEN AND HELL, BLACK SABBATH)
7. Silent Night
* Chuck Billy (TESTAMENT)
* Scott Ian (ANTHRAX)
* Jon Donais (SHADOWS FALL)
* Chris Wyse (THE CULT)
* John Tempesta (ROB ZOMBIE, THE CULT)
8. Silver Bells
* Geoff Tate (QUEENSRŸCHE)
* Carlos Cavazo (QUIET RIOT, RATT)
* James Lomenzo (MEGADETH, WHITE LION)
* Ray Luzier (KORN, DAVID LEE ROTH, ARMY OF ANYONE)
9. Deck the Halls
* Oni Logan (LYNCH MOB)
* Craig Goldy (DIO)
* Tony Franklin (THE FIRM)
* John Tempesta (ROB ZOMBIE, THE CULT)
10. Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer
* Stephen Pearcy (RATT)
* Tracii Guns (L.A. GUNS, BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION)
* Bob Kulick
* Billy Sheehan (DAVID LEE ROTH, TALAS, MR. BIG)
* Greg Bissonette (DAVID LEE ROTH)
11. Rockin’ Around the Xmas Tree
* Joe Lynn Turner (RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE)
* Bruce Kulick (KISS, UNION)
* Bob Kulick
* Rudy Sarzo (QUIET RIOT, WHITESNAKE, DIO)
* Simon Wright AC/DC, DIO)
12. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
* Tommy Shaw (STYX)
* Steve Lukather (TOTO)
* Marco Mendoza (WHITESNAKE, TED NUGENT)
* Kenny Aronoff (TONY IOMMI, SMASHING PUMPKINS)

And there you have it…

ARTIST  –  TRACK  –  ALBUM  –  LABEL  –  NEW  –  REQ
Dance Club Massacre  –  Risk Is My Business…And Business Is Risky  –  Circle of Death  –  Blackmarket Activities  –  Y  –  N
Cradle of Filth  –  Honey and Sulphur  –  Godspeed On The Devil’s Thunder  –  Roadrunner  –  Y  –  N
Abigail Williams  –  Acolytes  –  In The Shadow of a Thousand Suns  –  Candlelight  –  Y  –  N
Light This City  –  Fragile Heroes  –  Stormchaser  –  Prosthetic  –  Y  –  N
Bleeding Through  –  Death Anxiety  –  Declaration  –  Trustkill  –  Y  –  N
Heaven Shall Burn  –  Downfall of Christ (Merauder)  –  Covering 20 Years of Extremes  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Psycroptic  –  Blood Stained Lineage  –  Ob(Servant)  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
Six Feet Under  –  Involuntary Movement of Dead Flesh  –  Death Rituals  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Amon Amarth  –  Live for the Kill  –  Twilight of the Thunder God  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Bloodbath  –  Slaughtering The Will To Live  –  The Fathomless Mastery  –  Peaceville  –  Y  –  N
November 17  –  Kontrol  –  Trust No One  –  Slipdisc  –  N  –  Y
Static X  –  Behemoth  –  Cannibal  –  Warner Bros.  –  N  –  Y
Daath  –  Dead On The Dance Floor  –  The Hinderers  –  Roadrunner  –  N  –  Y
Children of Bodom  –  Needled 24/7  –  Hate Crew Deathroll  –  Spinefarm  –  N  –  Y
Dethklok  –  Birthday Dethday  –  Dethalbum  –  Williams St.  –  N  –  Y
Miseration  –  Thrones  –  Your Demons — Their Angels  –  Lifeforce  –  Y  –  N
Misery Index  –  Occupation  –  Traitors  –  Relapse  –  Y  –  N
Burning The Masses  –  Moltres  –  Mind Control  –  Mediaskare  –  Y  –  N
Brother Von Doom  –  Echoes of the Undead  –  Relentless  –  Deathcote  –  Y  –  N
Benediction  –  Dripping With Disgust  –  Killing Music  –  Locomotive  –  Y  –  N
Gojira  –  Vacuity  –  The Way Of All Flesh  –  Prosthetic  –  Y  –  N
Enslaved  –  The Watcher  –  Vertebrae  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
The Haunted  –  Ceremony  –  Versus  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Resurrection  –  Perils of Burden  –  Mistaken For Dead  –  Locomotive  –  Y  –  N
Antagonist  –  Immaculate Misconception  –  Exist  –  Prosthetic  –  Y  –  N
Carcass  –  Black Star  –  Swansong  –  Earache  –  N  –  Y
Unearth  –  We Are Not Anonymous  –  The March  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Pro-Pain  –  Where We Stand  –  No End In Sight  –  Regain  –  Y  –  N
Born From Pain  –  Sound of Survival  –  Survival  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Architect  –  Lamplighter  –  Ghost of the Saltwater Machines  –  Blackmarket Activities  –  Y  –  N
Otep  –  Confrontation  –  The Ascension  –  Capitol  –  N  –  Y
Exodus  –  Metal Command  –  Let There Be Blood  –  Zaentz  –  Y  –  N
Science Faxtion  –  At Any Cost  –  Living On Another Fre  –  Mascot  –  Y  –  N
Jorn  –  Lonely Are The Brave  –  Lonely Are The Brave  –  Blistering  –  Y  –  N
Revolution Renaissance  –  Heroes  –  New Era  –  Blistering  –  Y  –  N
Twisted Sister  –  Like A Knife In The Back  –  Live At The Astoria  –  Demolition  –  Y  –  N
Mudvayne  –  A New Game  –  The New Game  –  Epic  –  Y  –  N
Don Airey  –  Ripples In The Fabric Of Time  –  A Light In The Sky  –  Mascot  –  Y  –  N
Iron Maiden  –  The Prisoner  –  Number of the Beast  –  Capitol  –  N  –  Y

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 11/17/08

Artist  –  Album  –  Label
1) Cradle of Filth  –  Godspeed on the Devils Thunder  –  Roadrunner
2) Unearth  –  The March  –  Metal Blade
3) Exodus  –  Let There Be Blood  –  Zaentz
4) Gojira  –  The Way Of All Flesh  –  Prosthetic
5) Misery Index  –  Traitors  –  Relapse
6) The Haunted  –  Versus  –  Century Media
7) Bleeding Through  –  Declaration  –  Trustkill
8) Resurrection  –  Mistaken For Dead  –  Locomotive
9) Psycroptic  –  Ob(Servant)  –  Nuclear Blast
10) Amon Amarth  –  Twilight of the Thunder God  –  Metal Blade
11) Pro-Pain  –  No End In Sight  –  Regain
12) Brother Von Doom  –  Relentless  –  Deathcote
13) Antagonist  –  Exist  –  Prosthetic
14) Abigail Williams  –  In The Shadow of a Thousand Suns  –  Candlelight
15) Light This City  –  Stormchaser  –  Prosthetic  –
16) Benediction  –  Killing Music  –  Locomotive
17) Bloodbath  –  The Fathomless Mastery  –  Peaceville
18) Enslaved  –  Vertebrae  –  Nuclear Blast
19) Burning the Masses  –  Mind Control  –  Mediaskare
20) Various Artists  –  Century Media Covers CM  –  Century Media

Top 5 Adds
1) Miseration  –  Your Demons, Their Angels  –  Lifeforce
2) Dance Club Massacre  –  Circle of Death  –  Blackmarket Act.
3) Born from Pain  –  Survival  –  Metal Blade
4) Mudvayne  –  The New Game  –  Epic
5) Twisted Sister  –  Live At The Astoria  –  Demolition

Other Adds:  Jorn, Architect, Science Faxtion, Don Airey, Leverage

Miseration
Your Demons, Their Angels
Lifeforce
41:04 - 9 Tracks
This takes euro-melodic death and mixes it with some of the new wave of brutal US metal… And it sounds great!   Melodic, brutal, technical and catchy.   It features Christian from Scar Symmetry on vocals and it’s “for fans of Aborted, Hate Eternal, Behemoth and Bloodbath”   Great stuff!!

Architect
Ghost of the Saltwater Machines
Black Market Activities
38:43 - 9 Tracks
These guys have that In your face stoner / punk / hardcore metal sound.   They say it’s for fans of Converge, Baroness, Mastodon, The Sword, Coliseum…   Meaning, they kind of sound like a pissed off Relapse band.  A bit of a groove, nothing really too catchy, just loud, fast in your face metal.   They’re good at the whole Motorhead + extra heavy type thing.

Science Faxtion
Pixel Dick
Mascot
51:40 - 13 Tracks
Bootsy Collins, Buckethead, Brain?  Is this really given to me to play on a metal show?  Yup.  It’s more like some heavy hard rock stuff.   It’s funky, catchy, got a lil bit of metal guitars… thanks to Buckethead.   This might be something to let you hear on the Mosh Pit leading out of Something Wonderful or just something different and catchy… yeah, I said it was catchy a couple times.

Don Airey
Light in the Sky
Mascot
60:40 - 17 Tracks
You might know this guy as the most recent keyboardist for Deep Purple (since 2002) and playing keyboards on “Blizzard of Ozz”  Well, this is a solo album from him and his friends.  It’s mostly instrumental, a few tracks have vocals.   It’s pretty much classic prog-rock sounding as you can figure… a solo album from a 60 year old rock keyboardist!   Of course, one of my fav bands is Emerson Lake and Palmer, so I have a soft spot for this sort of thing… however, it is not metal, but could be cool for some background/filler music on the show!

Dance Club Massacre
Circle of Death
Blackmarket Activities
60:41 - 11 Tracks
Chicago’s own DCM… fast, almost black metal sounding… kind along of the lines of Black Dahlia Murder, Dimmu Borgir.  Fast, technical, brutal, a good variety of vocal styles, a bit like Cradle of Filth too… with some of the keyboardy stuff.  Production is good, and having more bands like this from the US is cool.

Leverage
Blind Fire
Blistering
52:59 - 10 Tracks
Some euro-hard-prog rock type stuff, their website calls them “old school melodic heavy rock with a shade of progressive flavour”  They’re from Finland, and their description says it all… it’s decent stuff, great at what they do, and 10 years ago, we’d be all over this!   The playing is great, the technical chops are there, guitarwork is classic and well, there’s nothing wrong with it… It’s just that the Mosh Pit has evolved into some brutal machine… haha  But actually this is pretty decent, we’ll try and get it on the air for ya.

Jorn
Lonely Are The Brave
Blistering
45:47 - 9 Tracks
You might know this guy from a few different projects and playing Progpower USA a bunch.  He’s got one of the most distinctive voices in this genre… The genre?  Pretty much the same as Leverage above… “melodic heavy rock with a shade of progressive flavour”  He kind of has the David Coverdale thing going on, songs are a bit catchy, nothing really heavy, but nothing too cheesey either, however, it is just on the border.   You may hear this on the Mosh Pit

Twisted Sister
Live at the Astoria
Demolition
74:24 - 16 Tracks
Live CD and DVD… nothing really wrong with this, TS always has their spot in the history of metal, they don’t take themselves seriously and since their reunion, they’ve had some good shows and tours…. This set showcases that, it sounds live, doesn’t sound over produced or all corrected up or anything.   The CD has a good set of their greatest hits and stuff… so there’s something for everyone to enjoy.

Born From Pain
Survival
Metal Blade
11 Tracks
Pretty much a hardcore/metal core release from these guys… you know, if you like Hatebreed, you’ll like these guys.   Not much different from their previous release, just more of the metal anthem jump up and down hardcore stuff with breakdowns and catchy parts, and all that.

Mudvayne
The New Game
Epic
11 Tracks
The first couple tracks on here are like… WTF… ugh… you get to “A New Game” (track 3) and it picks up a bit, some songs are on the heavier side, but nothing like their older stuff.   A lot of the songs are more melodic and almost ballad-ey.  it’s mostly got clean vox, and well, it’s a good solid rock/ hard rock album, but not completely metal…. however, yeah, some tracks are good for the Mosh Pit.

ARTIST  –  TRACK  –  ALBUM  –  LABEL  –  NEW  –  REQ
Misery Index  –  Ghosts of Catalonia  –  Traitors  –  Relapse  –  Y  –  N
Amon Amarth  –  The Hero  –  Twilight of the Thunder God  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Six Feet Under  –  Death By Machete  –  Death Rituals  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Six Feet Under  –  In League With Satan  –  Graveyard Classics  –  Metal Blade  –  N  –  Y
Benediction  –  They Must Die Screaming  –  Killing Music  –  Locomotive  –  Y  –  N
Resurrection  –  X-Ile  –  Mistaken For Dead  –  Locomotive  –  Y  –  N
Cradle of Filth  –  Sweetest Maleficia  –  Godspeed On The Devil’s Thunder  –  Roadrunner  –  Y  –  N
Abigail Williams  –  The World Beyond  –  In The Shadow Of A Thousand Suns  –  Candlelight  –  Y  –  N
Psycroptic  –  Horde In Devolution  –  Ob(Servant)  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
Dimmu Borgir  –  Burn In Hell  –  Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia  –  Nuclear Blast  –  N  –  Y
Gojira  –  All The Tears  –  The Way Of All Flesh  –  Prosthetic  –  Y  –  N
Enslaved  –  New Dawn  –  Vertebrae  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
Cynic  –  The Space For This  –  Traced In Air  –  Season of Mist  –  Y  –  N
The Haunted  –  Trenches  –  Versus  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Bloodbath  –  Process of Disittumination  –  The Fathomless Mastery  –  Peaceville  –  Y  –  N
Brother Von Doom  –  A Beautiful Masquerade  –  Relentless  –  Deathcote  –  Y  –  N
The Faceless  –  The Ancient Covenant  –  Planetary Duality  –  Sumerian  –  Y  –  N
Death  –  God of Thunder  –  At Death’s Door II  –  Roadrunner  –  N  –  Y
Jeff Loomis  –  Devil Theory  –  Zero Order Phase  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Bleeding Through  –  Reborn From Isolation  –  Declaration  –  Trustkill  –  Y  –  N
Antagonist  –  Marana  –  Exist  –  Prosthetic  –  Y  –  N
Unearth  –  Grave Of Opportunity  –  The March  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
All That Remains  –  Relinquish  –  Overcome  –  Prosthetic  –  Y  –  N
Fear My Thoughts  –  The Hunted  –  Isolation  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Cathedral  –  Soul Sacrifice  –  Soul Sacrifice  –  Earache  –  N  –  Y
Mercyful Fate  –  Into The Coven  –  Melissa  –  Roadrunner  –  N  –  Y
Fates Warning  –  Fata Morgana  –  Awaken The Guardian  –  Metal Blade  –  N  –  Y
Queensryche  –  Blinded  –  Queensryche EP  –  EMI  –  N  –  Y
Exodus  –  A Lesson In Violence  –  Let There Be Blood  –  Zaentz  –  Y  –  N
Metallica  –  My Apocalypse  –  Death Magnetic  –  Warner Bros.  –  Y  –  N
Pro-Pain  –  Hour Of The Time  –  No End In Sight  –  Regain  –  Y  –  N
Bring Me The Horizon  –  The Comedown  –  Suicide Season  –  Epitaph  –  Y  –  N
Cellpan  –  Parricide  –  3rd Impression Sampler  –  Viturvian  –  Y  –  N
Kypck  –  Christmas In Murmansk  –  Cherno  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
American Speedway  –  Ship of Fools  –  Ship of Fools  –  Prophase  –  Y  –  N
Robot Lords of Tokyo  –  Princess of Hollywood  –  Whiskey Blood & Napalm  –  RLOT Music  –  Y  –  N

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 for the Week of 11/10/08

Artist  –  Album  –  Label
1) Cradle of Filth  –  Godspeed on the Devils Thunder  –  Roadrunner
2) Unearth  –  The March  –  Metal Blade
3) Amon Amarth  –  Twilight of the Thunder God  –  Metal Blade
4) Misery Index  –  Traitors  –  Relapse
5) Bleeding Through  –  Declaration  –  Trustkill
6) Gojira  –  The Way Of All Flesh  –  Prosthetic
7) The Haunted  –  Versus  –  Century Media
8) All That Remains  –  Overcome  –  Prosthetic
9) Resurrection  –  Mistaken For Dead  –  Locomotive
10) Exodus  –  Let There Be Blood  –  Zaentz
11) Psycroptic  –  Ob(Servant)  –  Nuclear Blast
12) Metallica  –  Death Magnetic  –  Warner Bros.
13) Antagonist  –  Exist  –  Prosthetic
14) Jeff Loomis  –  Zero Order Phase  –  Century Media
15) Pro-Pain  –  No End In Sight  –  Regain
16) Benediction  –  Killing Music  –  Locomotive
17) Brother Von Doom  –  Relentless  –  Deathcote
18) Bloodbath  –  The Fathomless Mastery  –  Peaceville
19) Abigail Williams  –  In The Shadow of a Thousand Suns  –  Candlelight
20) Enslaved  –  Vertebrae  –  Nuclear Blast

Top 5 Adds
1) The Faceless  –  Planetary Duality  –  Sumerian
2) Six Feet Under  –  Death Rituals  –  Metal Blade
3) Cynic  –  Traced In Air  –  Season of Mist
4) Bring Me The Horizon  –  Suicide Season  –  Epitaph
5) American Speedway  –  Ship of Fools  –  Prophase

Other Adds: Robot Lords of Tokyo, Cellpan, Kypck, Fear My Thoughts

Cellpan
3 Song Sampler
Vitruvian
6:50 - 3 Tracks
I’m not quite sure how to describe this besides maybe being a Rob Zombie/Cradle of Filth/Mudvayne mix. There’s a lot of stuff going on here, which makes it pretty cool, catchy and fun to listen to. It’s mostly industrial-ish metal, but some dani filth-like vocals from time to time and some cool heavy parts. The bassline and some nu-metal stuff reminds me of Mudvayne, and the Zombie stuff is just the heavy/catchy sound effect / jumpy stuff mixed in.

Kypck
Cherno
Century Media
54:42 - 10 Tracks
It’s been a while since “the west” has gotten a metal-ish release from any band from Russia. Of course Gorky Park is one of the big ones that people remember from the 90s… after that, for the lay person such as myself, I haven’t heard of much. This band, pronounced “Kursk” comes along and has a kind of dark sludgey doomy sound. The lyrics are all sung in Russian, it just seems to plod along kind of like the slower Type O Negative songs… it never really kicks it up a notch… it just is what it is.

Fear My Thoughts
Isolation
Century Media
50:41 - 11 Tracks
I recall really liking their last album, comparing them to older Soilwork… this CD… with a new singer, seems to have taken a new direction on the first track or so. However, the music kicks it up a notch, but the vocals seem to stay clean, and I guess the comparisons to Soilwork move forward to their newest stuff… but even less “metal” and moreso just melodic metal/hard rock. Some tracks to stand up to their older stuff, but overall… not really. It’s still pretty decent, but for what their last album was… #1 on the Mosh Pit chart for a few weeks, this one just isn’t up to what they used to be, and doesn’t stand out.

American Speedway
Ship of Fools
Prophase
35:57 - 12 Tracks
Beer swillin’ loud, hard rockin’ metal. They have the Motorhead, Zeke, Nashville Pussy fun metal thing going on. The short write-up that comes with the CD says it’s “punk meets metal attitude” and that is pretty much right on, but yeah, it does fit into the Zeke, Motorhead type of stuff. Not super catchy, but I’m sure with a few PBRs these guys only get better!

Cynic
Traced In Air
Season of Mist
34:16 - 8 Tracks
The band that everyone could never get enough of… Cynic! Their debut album, “Focus” was a genre defining album in the prog-death-metal realm. 15 years later they seem to have picked up a bit where they left off… but seeming to branch more into some experimentation. Some clean vocals, almost seeming like Porcupine Tree, then getting all crazy with some poly-rhythm stuff, and occasionally going into the deathy vocals here and there. There isn’t as much of an overall metal feel, but it’s still worthy of Mosh Pit time!

Robot Lords of Tokyo
Whiskey Blood & Napalm
RLOT Music
48:02 - 10 Tracks
This kind of has the Black Sabbath, Down, stoner metal thing going on. Songs seem to be pretty catchy, great riffage as their “influencers” seem to have. There’s a little hint of a southern hard rock influence here too. You’ll probably hear this on the Mosh Pit!

Bring Me The Horizon
Suicide Season
Epitaph
42:16 - 10 Tracks
The writeup that came with this CD likes to show off how this band can make screamo and metal fans agree… well, I can see that. This band has the metalcore chops and the metal chops to pull it off. Some of the guitar tone sounds like good ol Peter Wichers of Soilwork… the music is mostly screamo, which actually was like the old Soilwork too, right? Yes…. the riffs are catchy, there are the obligatory breakdowns… and the music stays pretty heavy for the most part.

Six Feet Under
Death Rituals
Metal Blade
49:13 - 13 Tracks
Six Feet Under are almost the AC/DC of Death metal… (unless they decide to just play all covers or a full on AC/DC album!) You always seem to know what you’ll get from them. A good sludgey doomy death metal groove album with some guttural vocals from Chris Barnes… and of course his screachy high pitch scream which he seems to like to do more and more these days. Of course this new one follows the SFU formula. Good solid catchy tunes… for some reason, to me, some of these songs just seem to have a nice punch to them and are just extra catchy… The drumming is extra good this time around… great fills! It’s good that these guys are still around making music in only the way they can!

The Faceless
Planetary Duality
Sumerian
31:41 - 9 Tracks
After seeing these guys on Summer Slaughter two years in a row and being completely blown away, I’m happy to have this CD in my hands. Off the hook technical death metal happening here. It sounds as if every guy in this band is playing as fast as they possibly can, but they still make a great cohesive mix of music. It’s totally brutal, blast beats, guitar melodies at the speed of light, growly guttural vocals, cool stop/start fillers and stuff. This is what brutal technical death metal is all about!

ARTIST  –  TRACK  –  ALBUM  –  LABEL  –  NEW  –  REQ
Dog Fashion Disco  –  Rat On A Sinking Ship  –  Beating A Dead Horse To Death… Again  –  Rotten  –  Y  –  N
Dir En Grey  –  Doukoku To Sarinu  –  Uroboros  –  The End  –  Y  –  N
Pro-Pain  –  Halo  –  No End In Sight  –  Regain  –  Y  –  N
Metal Church  –  A War Never Won  –  This Present Wasteland  –  SPV  –  Y  –  N
Jeff Loomis  –  Race Against Disaster  –  Zero Order Phase  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Sonic Syndicate  –  Power Shift  –  Love And Other Disasters  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
Metallica  –  Suicide & Redemption  –  Death Magnetic  –  Warner Bros.  –  Y  –  N
Trivium  –  Of Prometheus and the Crucifix  –  Shogun  –  Roadrunner  –  Y  –  N
All That Remains  –  Do Not Obey  –  Overcome  –  Prosthetic  –  Y  –  N
Asylum  –  Feel So Safe  –  Asylum  –  Music Gallery  –  Y  –  N
Unearth  –  Crow Killer  –  The March  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Corrosion of Conformity  –  Vote With A Bullet  –  Blind  –  Relativity  –  N  –  Y
Machine Head  –  A Nation On Fire  –  Burn My Eyes  –  Roadrunner  –  N  –  Y
Sepultura  –  Propaganda  –  Chaos AD  –  Roadrunner  –  N  –  Y
Exodus  –  And Then There Were None  –  Let There Be Blood  –  Zaentz  –  Y  –  N
Bleeding Through  –  French Inquisition  –  Declaration  –  Trustkill  –  Y  –  N
Dead By Wednesday  –  Pawns  –  The Killing Project  –  Eclipse  –  Y  –  N
Light This City  –  Stormchaser  –  Stormchaser  –  Prosthetic  –  Y  –  N
Antagonist  –  Amnesia Ln.  –  Exist  –  Prosthetic  –  Y  –  N
Anorexia Nervosa  –  A Doleful Night In Thelema  –  Drudenhaus  –  Osmose  –  N  –  Y
Zyklon  –  The Prophetic Method  –  Aeon  –  Metal Blade  –  N  –  Y
Vital Remains  –  Devoured Elysium  –  Dechristianize  –  Olympic  –  N  –  Y
Behemoth  –  Chant for Ezkaton 2000  –  Ezkaton  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Benediction  –  Controlopolis (Rats in the Mask)  –  Killing Music  –  Locomotive  –  Y  –  N
Brother Von Doom  –  Judas Kiss  –  Relentless  –  Deathcote  –  Y  –  N
The Haunted  –  Little Cage  –  Versus  –  Century Media  –  Y  –  N
Resurrection  –  Buried Alive  –  Mistaken For Dead  –  Locomotive  –  Y  –  N
Gojira  –  Yama’s Messengers  –  The Way Of All Flesh  –  Prosthetic  –  Y  –  N
Bloodbath  –  At The Behest Of Their Death  –  The Fathomless Mastery  –  Peaceville  –  Y  –  N
Amon Amarth  –  No Fear For The Setting Sun  –  Twilight Of The Thundergod  –  Metal Blade  –  Y  –  N
Misery Index  –  Traitors  –  Traitors  –  Relapse  –  Y  –  N
Psycroptic  –  The Shifting Equilibrium  –  Ob(servant)  –  Nuclear Blast  –  Y  –  N
Cradle of Filth  –  Tragic Kingdom  –  Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder  –  Roadrunner  –  Y  –  N
Darkthrone  –  The Winds They Called The Dungeon Shaker  –  Dark Thrones and Black Flags  –  Peaceville  –  Y  –  N
Carcass  –  R**k The Vote  –  Swansong  –  Earache  –  N  –  Y