MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/27/13 - 2013 YEAR IN REVIEW

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/27/13
2013 YEAR IN REVIEW

HOUR 1 - LOCAL
EMERGENT - "the fall" // emergent
DESSA - "warsaw" // parts of speech
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot - ep
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "nightlife" // home
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide

AND WE DANCED - "way back home" // back to the middle
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
CAROLINE SMITH - "magazine" // half about being a woman
POLICA - "very cruel" // shulamith
LIZZO - "w.e.r.k. pt II" // lizzobangers
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops
SPOKEN - "illusion" // illusion
BIFFY CLYRO - "sounds like balloons" // opposites

HOUR 2 - NATIONAL METAL
10. (tie) CLUTCH - "crucial velocity" // earth rocker
10. (tie) TRIVIUM - "brave this storm" // vengeance falls
9. NORMA JEAN - "if you got it at five, you got it at fifty" // wrongdoers
8. REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t
RED FANG - "blood like cream" // whales and leeches
7. BUTCHER BABIES - "magnolia blvd" // goliath
6. AMARANTHE - "electroheart" // the nexus

5. GEMINI SYNDROME - basement" // lux
4. AFTER THE BURIAL - "parise" // wolves within
KATATONIA - "leathean" // dethroned and uncrowned
3. LETLIVE - "banshee (ghost fame)" // the blackest beautiful
3. LETLIVE - "younger" // the blackest beautiful
2. THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "prancer" // one of us is the killer
1. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "you don't bleed for me" // disarm the descent

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/20/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/20/13

HOUR 1
LEMMY & DAVE GROHL - "run rudolph run" // we wish you a metal xmas
FLOGGING MOLLY - "drunken lullabies" // drunken lullabies
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "depending on the weather" // keep your devils around
ANGRY WATERS - "ours to be had" // angry waters III
7TH ASCENT - "how I got these scars" // 7th ascent
PHANTOGRAM - "fall in love" // voices

WITHIN TEMPTATION feat HOWARD JONES - "dangerous" // hydra
MARMOZETS - "move, shake, hide" // move, shake, hide - single
THE ODDFATHERS - "another tear goes dry" // double live 45 rpm
LIZZO - "w.e.r.k. pt II" // lizzobangers
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "start walking" // home
THE PRETTY RECKLESS - "since you're gone" // light me up
THE LETTER BLACK - "pain killer" // rebuild
WILL FERRELL & THE CHANNEL 4 NEWS TEAM - "afternoon delight" // anchorman - soundtrack

HOUR 2
ENEMY X - "sacrificial burning" // the ends of the earth (2013)
AFTER THE BURIAL - "anti pattern" // wolves within
YOUR MEMORIAL - "endeavor for purpose" // atonement
THIRA - "good morning my name is John" // vein I: varying states of decay
AUGUST BURNS RED - "sleigh ride" // sleddin' hill
AUGUST BURNS RED - "we wish you a Merry Christmas" // sleddin' hill
SKINDRED - "doom riff" // union black

THROWDOWN - "avow" // intolerance
REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t
ANIMALS AS LEADERS - "do not go gently" // weightless
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the ones are and forever shall be
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops
INDEX CASE - "blood and a siren" // augustagein
CLOSE YOUR EYES - "frame and glass" // line in the sand
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE - "thunder chunky" // late for nothing
AUGUST BURNS RED - "rudolph the red nosed reindeer" // sleddin' hill

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/13/13 - TEPETRICY

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/13/13
GUESTS :: TEPETRICY

HOUR 1
AFTER THE BURIAL - "anti pattern" // wolves within
NOPATHY - "steps" // steps - single
STEEL PANTHER - "don't stop believin'" // don't stop believin' - single
TEPETRICY - "hole digger" // hole digger - single

TEPETRICY - "the bronze outfit" // same cuts new blood
TEPETRICY - "montage for a monster" // same cuts new blood
7TH ASCENT - "misery loves company" // misery loves company - single
EYES SET TO KILL - "little liar" // masks
PUSCIFER - "rev 22:20" (live) // what is puscifer

HOUR 2
AUGUST BURNS RED - "rudolph the red nosed reindeer" // sleddin hill
BOMBA DE LUZ - "swear you away" // what a heavy weight
DOOMTREE - "fresh new trash" // no kings
FLEETWOOD MAC - "the chain" // rumours (father in law pick)
AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE - "jingle bells" // a very brutal Christmas
ALTER BRIDGE - "addicted to pain" // fortress
CAROLINE SMITH - "magazine" // half about being a woman

EMERGENT - "dead letters" // emergent
NEW YEARS DAY - "do your worst" // victim to villain
JACK WHITE - "I'm shakin'" // blunderbuss
CLUTCH - "unto the breach" (live) // earth rocker live
RED FANG - "blood like cream" // whales and leeches
NUISANCE - "priapism" // kill the silence
THROWDOWN - "avow" // intolerance
AFTER THE BURIAL - "parise" // wolves within

**SPECIAL THANKS to TEPETRICY for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown in their magic bus this week! Help Tepetricy make their new album here!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/06/13 - ARROWS AT DAWN

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/06/13
GUESTS :: ARROWS AT DAWN

HOUR 1
AUGUST BURNS RED - "sleigh ride" // sleddin' hill
7TH ASCENT - "misery loves company" // misery loves company - single
NOPATHY - "steps" // steps - single
COHEED AND CAMBRIA - "here we are juggernaut" // year of the black rainbow (Matt's pick)
RISE AGAINST - "help is on the way" // endgame (Matt's pick)
GEMINI SYNDROME - "basement" // lux

ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" (acoustic live in studio)
THE CIVIL WARS - "the one that got away" // the civil wars (Nick's pick)
DOOMTREE - "beacon" // no kings
BIFFY CLYRO - "booom blast run" // only revolutions (Tim's pick)
EMERGENT - "the fall" // emergent

HOUR 2
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "i sat by the ocean" // ...like clockwork (Tim's pick)
ARROWS AT DAWN - "these days" // no place to hide
ECHO EFFECT - "seven" // the beauty in disaster
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot - ep

ARROWS AT DAWN - "you" // no place to hide
RED FANG - "blood like cream" // whales and leeches
THRICE - "in exile" // beggars (group pick)
BUTCHER BABIES - "c8h18 (gasoline)" // goliath
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "hero of the soviet union" // one of us is the killer

**SPECIAL THANKS to MATT and TIM from ARROWS AT DAWN for helping break in the new studio, playing guest DJ and throwing down on the acoustics!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/29/13 - KILLSWITCH ENGAGE

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/29/13
GUESTS :: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE

HOUR 1
MARMOZETS - "move, shake, hide" // move, shake, hide - single
EMERGENT - "dead letters" // emergent
POLICA - "very cruel" // shulamith
NORMA JEAN - "wrongdoers" // wrongdoers
THE LETTER BLACK - "sick charade" // rebuild
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide
TEPETRICY - "the bronze outfit" // same cuts new blood

ATMOSPHERE - "national disgrace" // seven's travels
FLOGGING MOLLY - "within a mile of home" // within a mile of home
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "you don't bleed for me" // disarm the descent
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "the hell in me" // disarm the descent
LAMB OF GOD - "ruin" (remastered) // as the palaces burn (10th anniversary edition)

HOUR 2
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "the new awakening" // disarm the descent
FAITH NO MORE - "midlife crisis" // who cares a lot?
AFTER THE BURIAL - "of fearful men" // wolves within
RED FANG - "blood like cream" // whales and leeches
AMARANTHE - "electroheart" // the nexus

OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
LIVING SACRIFICE feat RYAN CLARK - "screwtape" // ghost thief
DEMON HUNTER - "someone to hate" // true defiance
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // the moribund resurrection
YOUR MEMORIAL - "turn it all around" // seasons
KVELTERTAK - "bruane brenn" // meir

SPECIAL THANKS to JOEL from KILLSWITCH ENGAGE for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week! KSE's phenomenal new album "Disarm the Descent" is out now!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/22/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/22/13

Unfortunately due to some technical issues with the remote top secret location's studio ... the Midwest Beatdown did not air on 11/22. What can you do? When life gives you lemons, paint that s#!t gold!

Check out some of these sweet shows going on this week and we will return next week with the Killswitch Engage interview!

NOV 23 - ALL THE WAY RIDER, LET IT BREATHE, WARROOSTER @ Midtown Tavern in Mankato -- 21+
NOV 23 - MEGADETH, FEAR FACTORY, NONPOINT @ Myth in Maplewood
NOV 23 - PARAMORE, METRIC, HELLOGOODBYE @ Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul -- ALL AGES
NOV 25 - EVERY TIME I DIE, LETLIVE, CODE ORANGE KIDS @ Vaudeville Mews in Des Moines, IA
NOV 27 - 3 PILL MORNING, TEPETRICY, 7th ASCENT, AVENUE ARMY @ Skyway Theater in Minneapolis
NOV 29 – NORMA JEAN, VANNA, KEN MODE, EXOTIC ANIMAL PETTING ZOO @ The Garage in Burnsville – ALL AGES
NOV 29 – POLICA, MARIJUANA DEATHSQUADS @ Mill City Nights in Minneapolis – 18+
NOV 30 - HIGH ON FIRE, KVELERTAK, WINDHAND @ First Ave in Mpls -- 18+
NOV 30 – POLICA, MARIJUANA DEATHSQUADS @ Mill City Nights in Minneapolis – 18+
NOV 30 - TEPETRICY, HEAVEN'S GATE, LETHAL CHEMISTRY, MOONRISE BLUE @ The Electric Lair in Austin -- ALL AGES

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/15/13 - CITY OF GHOSTS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/15/13
GUESTS :: CITY OF GHOSTS

HOUR 1
THROW THE FIGHT - "the wreckage" // in pursuit of tomorrow (2008)
NEW MEDICINE - "laid" // race you to the bottom (2010)
GINGERJAKE - "grey on blue" // paralysis (2004)
ATTENTION - "cracks in everything" // midwest movement 10th anniversary (2010)
QUIETDRIVE - "rise from the ashes" // when all that's left is you (2006)
SMAKDAB - "the perfect time" // perfect time - ep (2000)
ATMOSPHERE - "say shhh" // seven's travels (2003)

CITY OF GHOSTS - "ourselves at open sea" // the calm in the current (2013)
CITY OF GHOSTS - "the calm in the current" // the calm in the current (2013)
CITY OF GHOSTS - "bones in bloom" // the calm in the current (2013)

HOUR 2
THE LETTER BLACK - "pain killer" // rebuild (2013)
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "flicker" // flicker - single (2013)
3 PILL MORNING - "skin" // black tie love affair (2012)
DOOMTREE - "beacon" // no kings (2011)
CHILDREN 18:3 - "all my balloons" // children 18:3 (2008)
WRITE THIS DOWN - "the older I get, the better I was" // lost weekend (2012)
ALIGN - "worth 3 scene points" // some breaking news (2001)

BANEHINGE - "lemmings" // live at star central (2005)
AFTER THE BURIAL - "a wolf amongst ravens" // wolves within (2013)
STAIJA - "hemmorhage" // a new energy (2004)
DEVILINSIDE - "kiss the cynic" // volume one (2004)
35 INCH MUDDER feat ERIC DAVIDSON - "full scale war" // full scale war (2013)
INDEX CASE - "when dreams bleed" // glass (2002)
LAMB OF GOD - "11th hour" // as the palaces burn (10th anniversary edition) (2013/2003)

**SPECIAL THANKS to MIKE and CHRIS from CITY OF GHOSTS for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! CITY OF GHOSTS' new album "The Calm in the Current" is out now!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/08/13 - 13th ANNIVERSARY SHOW

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/08/13
13TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW

HOUR 1
AFTER THE BURIAL - "a wolf amongst ravens" // wolves within (2013)
ENCROACH - "this holds true" // anamnesis/encroach split (2000)
SUNSET BLACK - "thereafter" // demo (2000)
WITH - "mind reeling" // death by relaxation (2001)
KILL SWITCH - "root of evil" // what doesn't kill us (2005)
FLIPP - "I wish I was a planet" // flipp (1997)

EMERGENT - "the fall" // emergent (2013)
EMERGENT - "dead letters" // emergent (2013)
EMERGENT - "erode" // emergent (2013)
DOWN AND ABOVE - "breakdown on interstate 80" // hold your breath for a rising tide (2008)

HOUR 2
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "flicker" // flicker - single (2013)
DROPPING DAYLIGHT - "til you feel something" // brace yourself (2006)
DIESL - "more than life" // tortured (2002)
DISKORD - "who am I?" // distance to nowhere (2007)
REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t (2013)

REFLECTIONS - "lost pages" // exi(s)t (2013)
REFLECTIONS - "vein words from empty minds" // exi(s)t (2013)
MARTYR A.D. - "American hollow" // on earth as it is in hell (2004)
YOUR MEMORIAL - "endevour for purpose" // atonement (2010)
DESTROPHY - "send in the wolves" // destrophy (2009)
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "cubicle fire" // torch (2011)

**SPECIAL THANKS to GARY from EMERGENT and CHARLES from REFLECTIONS for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown for the 13th Anniversary Show! EMERGENT's brand new self titled album is out now! REFLECTIONS' new album "Exi(s)t" is out now on eOne/Good Fight records!

SPECIAL THANKS to AFTER THE BURIAL and SUMERIAN RECORDS for sending over ATB's new track from their Dec 17 release "Wolves Within" and to THE MAYBERRY RIOT for sending over their hot off the presses new track "Flicker"!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/01/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/01/13

HOUR 1
THE MISFITS – “monster mash” // cuts from the crypt
THE SLAIN – “the vampire bat” // the vampire bat - single
STEEL PANTHER - "I want it that way" // I want it that way - single
INCUBUS - "let's go crazy" // monuments and melodies
35 INCH MUDDER - "when doves cry" // when doves cry - single
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "wait so long" // motion city soundtrack/trampled by turtles split
PARAMORE - "stuck on you" // the summer tic - ep
PUSCIFER - "bohemian rhapsody" // donkey punch the night

REDOVERLUNAR - "where's eric? (take on me)" // fighting fire with gasoline
3 PILL MORNING - "let's live for today" // the side effects of chronic ambition
TONIGHT ALIVE - "little lion man" // punk goes pop
QUIETDRIVE - "Africa" // your record/our spin
SPOKEN - "time after time" // last chance to breathe
THROW THE FIGHT - "I just died in your arms" // what doesn't kill us
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "you're so vague" // rated R (deluxe edition)

HOUR 2
GHOST - "if you have ghosts" // if you have ghost
AFTER ALL - "how soon is now" // live with a vengeance
IN THIS MOMENT - "postmortem" // postmortem - single
HUNTRESS - "running wild" // starbound beast
TYPE O NEGATIVE - "black no. 1 (little miss scare-all)" // bloody kisses
MACHINE HEAD - "imperium" (live) // exclusive

MACHINE HEAD - "bite the bullet" (live) // the black procession
MACHINE HEAD - "elegy" // through the ashes of empires
MACHINE HEAD - "seasons wither" // through the ashes of empires
MACHINE HEAD - "all falls down" // through the ashes of empires
MACHINE HEAD - "descend the shades of night" // through the ashes of empires
MACHINE HEAD - "hostile" // getcha pull: a tribute to dimebag darrell


**Celebrating Halloween with covers and also the 10th Anniversary of Machine Head's phenomenal record Through the Ashes of Empires!!!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/25/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/25/13

HOUR 1
POLICA - "very cruel" // shulamith
FOUR FISTS - "mmmmmhmmmm" // four fists 7"
CITY OF GHOSTS - "ourselves at open sea" // the calm in the current
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "extinction" // the old ones are and forever shall be
WARROOSTER - "intergalactic performance review" // demo
WIPING OUT THOUSANDS - "feed" // this came first
THE COMPANY WE KEEP - "control" // sound/no sound

THE LETTER BLACK - "sick charade" // rebuild
ICON FOR HIRE - "watch me" // icon for hire
TRANSPLANTS - "come around" // come around
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
CITY OF THE WEAK - "white fire alarm" // white fire alarm
TW - "masked" // destined to be real
MANIC EUPHORIA - "(over)" // simple solutions
DEATH RAY VISION - "shattered frames" // get lost or get dead

HOUR 2
TESTAMENT - "more than meets the eye (live)" // dark roots of thrash
ENEMY X - "distorted reality" // the ends of the earth (2013)
GWAR - "madness at the core of time" // battle maximus
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "the head of the snake" // vi-ops
35 INCH MUDDER - "full scale war 2013" // full scale war MMXIII
NUISANCE - "priapism" // kill the silence
CLOSE YOUR EYES - "line in the sand" // line in the sand

SEPULTURA - "impending doom" // the mediator between the head and the hands must be the heart
SOULFLY - "soulifliktion" // savages
REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t
PROTEST THE HERO - "drumhead trial" // volition
KILL DEVIL HILL - "no way out" // revolution rise
BLEEDING THROUGH - "love in slow motion" // the truth
WINDS OF PLAGUE - "sewer mouth" // resistance
PSYCHOSTICK - "ABCDEath" // we couldn't think of a title

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/18/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/18/13

HOUR 1
CITY OF GHOSTS - "ourselves at open sea" // the calm in the current
THE COMPANY WE KEEP - "control" // sound/no sound
ANBERLIN - "dead american" // devotion
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money
AND WE DANCED - "the ring" // back to the middle
EMERGENT - "the fall" // forthcoming disc
THROW THE FIGHT - "lights out for summer" // what doesn't kill us
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide

LIZZO - "w.e.r.k. pt II" // lizzobangers
POLICA - "chain my name" // shulamith
THE PRETTY RECKLESS - "since you're gone" // light me up
LOUNA - "business" // behind a mask
RIGHTEOUS VENDETTA - "what you've done" // the fire inside
SLEEPWAVE - "rock and roll is dead and so am i" // single
CAROLINE SMITH - "magazine" // half about being a woman
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "karate never here" // the short side ep
WARROOSTER - "hyperdrive" // demo

HOUR 2
REFLECTIONS - "delirium" // exi(s)t
REFLECTIONS - "stories through storms" // exi(s)t
MOTORHEAD - "end of time" // aftershock
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops
HUNTRESS - "zenith" // starbound beast
LAMB OF GOD - "ruin" // as the palaces burn
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "my curse (live)" // disarm the descent

IWRESTLEDABEARONCE - "thunder chunky" // late for nothing
UPON A BURNING BODY - "texas blood money" // red green blue
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "here comes the crash" // new world disaster
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "sand" // shoot - ep
MACHINE HEAD - "darkness within" // unto the locust
NORMA JEAN - "if you got it at five, you got it at fifty" // wrongdoers
CONVERGE - "trespasses" // all we love we leave behind
THE CHARIOT - "in" // one wing

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/11/13 - DESSA

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/11/13
GUEST :: DESSA

HOUR 1
THE COMPANY WE KEEP - "control" // sound/no sound
SLEEPWAVE - "rock and roll is dead and so am i" // forthcoming album
LIZZO - "werk pt II" // lizzobangers
ANBERLIN - "city electric" // devotion
RIGHTEOUS VENDETTA - "what you've done" // the fire inside
3 PILL MORNING - "nothing's real" // black tie love affair

DESSA - "the lamb" // parts of speech
DESSA - "skeleton key" // parts of speech
FOUR FISTS - "mmmhmmm" // four fists ep
DESSA - "call off your ghost" // parts of speech
ICON FOR HIRE - "cynics and critics" // icon for hire

HOUR 2
TRIVIUM - "vengeance falls" // vengeance falls
EYES SET TO KILL - "nothing left to say" // masks
ECHO EFFECT - "seven" // the beauty in disaster
RED FANG - "behind the light" // whales and leeches
NUISANCE - "priapism" // kill the silence
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // the moribund resurrection
TESTAMENT - "rise up" (live) // dark roots of thrash

IWRESTLEDABEARONCE - "letters to stallone" // late for nothing
PERIPHERY - "ragnarok" // periphery II
THIRA - "good morning my name is John" // vein I : varying states of decay
THE CHARM THE FURY - "living saints" // shade of my former self
GOJIRA - "L'enfant sauvage" // L'enfant sauvage
MOTORHEAD - "heartbreaker" // aftershock
WINDS OF PLAGUE - "say hello to the undertaker" // resistance

**SPECIAL THANKS to DESSA for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week! Dessa's new album "Parts of Speech" is out now!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/4/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/4/13

HOUR 1
THE MAYBERRY RIOT – “let me in" // the mayberry riot - ep
ANGRY WATERS – “ours to be had" // angry waters III
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS – “don't need it" // torch
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "sisyphus" // torch
WARROOSTER – “intergalatic performance review" // demo
DESSA – “fighting fish" // parts of speech
ECHO EFFECT – “face of the girl" // the beauty in disaster
FOZZY – “sandpaper" // sin and bones
ANBERLIN – “self starter" // vital

WITHIN TEMPTATION - "paradise (what about us)" // paradise - ep
THROW THE FIGHT – “lights out for summer" // what doesn't kill us
ARROWS AT DAWN – “dead in the water" // no place to hide
NIGHT VERSES – “time erases time" // lift your existence
BOLO - "taker" // depopulous
BEAUTIFUL CORPSE - "your blood" // demo
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "inside out" // inside out - single
BUCKAROUX BANSHEES - "rude girl" // demo

HOUR 2
ENEMY X – “dead end" // the ends of the earth (2013)
TRIVIUM - "no way to heal" // vengeance falls
BUTCHER BABIES - "axe wound" // goliath
REFLECTIONS – “my cancer" // exi(s)t
ROYAL THUNDER - "whispering world" // cvi
RED FANG - "blood like cream" // whales and leeches
GHOST B.C. - "if you have ghosts" // if you have ghosts - single

SCAR THE MARTYR – “anatomy of erinyes" // scar the martyr
UNEARTH - "sandblasted skin" // getcha some: a tribute to dimebag darrell
MESHUGGAH - "do not look down" // koloss
HUNTRESS - "zenith" // starbound beast
TESTAMENT - "more than meets the eye" // the formation of damnation
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "the new awakening" // disarm the descent
LAMB OF GOD – “desolation" // resolution

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/27/13 - CAROLINE SMITH

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/27/13
GUESTS :: CAROLINE SMITH

HOUR 1
NINE INCH NAILS - "wish" (live) // and all that could have been
NINE INCH NAILS - "came back haunted" // hesitation marks
JEREMY MESSERSMITH - "dillinger eyes" // the reluctant graveyard
DESSA - "the lamb" // parts of speech
TONIGHT ALIVE - "come home" // the other side
LIZZO - "batches and cookies" // lizzobangers
CAROLINE SMITH - "magazine" // half about being a woman

CAROLINE SMITH - "half about being a woman" // half about being a woman
CAROLINE SMITH - "buy me something" // half about being a woman
ICON FOR HIRE - "cynics and critics" // icon for hire
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot - ep
ANGRY WATERS - "ours to be had" // angry waters III
WARROOSTER - "hyperdrive" // demo

HOUR 2
MOTORHEAD - "heartbreaker" // aftershock
NEW YEARS DAY - "angel eyes" // victim to villain
LETLIVE - "younger" // the blackest beautiful
LOVE AND DEATH - "watching the bottom fall" // between here and lost
EYES SET TO KILL - "little liar" // masks
KATATONIA - "lethean" // dethroned and uncrowned
RED FANG - "no hope" // whales and leeches
GHOST B.C. - "if you have ghosts" // if you have ghosts - single

REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t
SOULFLY - "spiral" // savages
REAPING ASMODIEA - "poison of the earth" // the moribund resurrection
HATEBREED - "own your world" // the divinity of purpose
SHADOWS FALL - "war" // retribution
BATTLECROSS - "never coming back" // war of will
THE CHARM THE FURY - "living saints" // shade of my former self
EVERY TIME I DIE - "romeo a go-go" // hot damn!

**SPECIAL THANKS to CAROLINE SMITH for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week!! Caroline's excellent new album "Half About Being a Woman" comes out Oct 8!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/20/13 - CAROLINE SMITH, AND WE DANCED, TRIVIUM

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/20/13
GUESTS :: CAROLINE SMITH, AND WE DANCED, TRIVIUM

HOUR 1
GEMINI SYNDROME – “falling apart” // lux
WARROOSTER – “intergalactic performance review” // demo
NORMA JEAN – “if you got it at five, you got it at fifty” // wrongdoers
GOODNIGHT RITUAL – “smoke” // goodnight ritual
TONIGHT ALIVE – “hell and back” // the other side
TONIGHT ALIVE – “lonely girl” // the other side

CAROLINE SMITH – “magazine” // half about being a woman
ICON FOR HIRE – “cynics and critics” // icon for hire
AND WE DANCED – “intro / the ring” // back to the middle
AND WE DANCED – “little streetlight” // back to the middle

HOUR 2
AND WE DANCED – “back to the middle” // back to the middle
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK – “inside out” // inside out – single
EYES SET TO KILL – “little liar” // masks
AFTER THE BURIAL – “a steady decline” // this life is all we have
DEVILDRIVER – “winter kills” // winter kills

TRIVIUM – “brave this storm” // vengeance falls
TRIVIUM – “strife” // vengeance falls
RED FANG – “blood like cream” // whales and leeches
TRIVIUM – “like light to flies” // ascendancy
HUNTRESS – “zenith” // starbound beast

**SPECIAL THANKS to CAROLINE SMITH, ZAQ from AND WE DANCED and PAOLO from TRIVIUM for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week!!!

CAROLINE SMITH’s new album “Half About Being a Woman” comes out Oct 8 with a special CD release party at First Avenue in Minneapolis on Sept 27 (18+ show with SOLID GOLD and TOKI WRIGHT x BIG CATS)!

AND WE DANCED’s new ep “Back to the Middle” comes out Sept 24! Check out AND WE DANCED LIVE on NOV 9 with THROW THE FIGHT, EMERGENT and 7TH ASCENT (18+ show)!

TRIVIUM’s new album “Vengeance Falls” hits shelves on Oct 15!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/13/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/13/13

HOUR 1
TONIGHT ALIVE - "the fall" // the other side
QUIETDRIVE - "lie to me" // up or down
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "nightlife" // home
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "extinction" // the old ones are and forever shall be
WARROOSTER - "hyperdrive" // demo
RANCID - "journey to the end of the east bay" // and out come the wolves
DESSA - "the lamb" // parts of speech
LIZZO - "batches and cookies" // lizzobangers

BOBAFLEX - "rogue" // charlatan's web
EYES SET TO KILL - "the secrets between" // white lotus
SICK OF SARAH - "overexposure" // 2205
ANGRY BUKOWSKI - "alligator" // find what you love and let it kill you
TW - "masked" // destined to be real
AND WE DANCED - "way back home" // statusfear media summer sampler 2013
ECHO EFFECT - "seven" // the beauty in disaster
BOMBA DE LUZ - "phantoms" // what a heavy weight

HOUR 2
GEMINI SYNDROME - "falling apart" // lux
GEMINI SYNDROME - "pay for this" // lux
REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t
TRIVIUM - "brave this storm" // vengeance falls
DEVILDRIVER - "winter kills" // winter kills
AFTER THE BURIAL - "bread crumbs and white stones" // in dreams
THE CHARM THE FURY - "living saints" // shade of my former self

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - "first sight" // 8:18
UNEARTH - "imposters kingdom" // III: in the eyes of fire
SCAR THE MARTYR - "blood host" // scar the martyr
KVELERTAK - "bruane brenne" // meir
DEATH RAY VISION - "break every chain" // we ain't leavin' till you're bleedin'
GALLOWS - "true colors" // birth is death - ep
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE - "letters to stallone" // late for nothing
CROSSFAITH - "eclipse" // apocalyze

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/06/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/06/13

HOUR 1
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE – “sugars of someday” // shoot - ep
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE – “here comes the crash” // new world disaster
THROW THE FIGHT – “lights out for summer” // what doesn’t kill us
AUTOMATIC IMAGERY – “split second" // split second - single
ALL THE WAY RIDER – “honkball" // the short side - ep / statusfear media summer sampler 2013
EMERGENT – “the fall” // forthcoming disc
TEPETRICY – “the bronze outfit" // same cuts new blood
NONPOINT – “lights, camera, action” // nonpoint

TONIGHT ALIVE – “lonely girl” // the other side
CAROLINE SMITH – “magazine” // half about being a woman
GOODNIGHT GOLD DUST – “towards the sun” // towards the sun
ANBERLIN – “self starter” // vital
ANGRY BURKOWSKI – “alligator” // find what you love and let it kill you
ANGRY WATERS – “ours to be had” // angry waters III
THE MAYBERRY RIOT – “let me in” // the mayberry riot - ep
BEAUTIFUL CORPSE – “your blood” // demo

HOUR 2
GEMINI SYNDROME – “basement” // lux
BOBAFLEX – “bad man” // charlatan’s web
KATATONIA – “lethean” // dethroned and uncrowned
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS – “knight boat” // the old ones are and forever shall be
WARROOSTER – “intergalactic performance review” // demo
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS – “seek advice elsewhere” // home
BLEEDING THROUGH - "kill to believe" // the truth
WINDS OF PLAGUE - "refined in the fire" // against the world
DEATH RAY VISION – “break every chain” // we ain’t leavin’ till you’re bleedin’

DEATH RAY VISION – “choke” // we ain’t leavin’ till you’re bleedin’
SHADOWS FALL – “destroyer of senses" // the art of balance
HATEBREED - "put it to the torch" // the divinity of purpose
ENEMY X – “sacrificial burning” // the ends of the earth (2013 re-release)
SLAYER – “bloodline”
GOJIRA – “vacuity" // the way of all flesh
CHIMAIRA – “all that’s left is blood” // crown of phantoms
BUTCHER BABIES - "the deathsurround" // goliath

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/30/13 - PERIPHERY

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/30/13
GUESTS :: PERIPHERY

HOUR 1
CROSSFAITH - "eclipse" // apocalyze
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "karate never here" // the short side - ep
3 PILL MORNING - "skin" // black tie love affair
VISTA CHINO - "dargona dragona" // peace
AUTOMATIC IMAGERY - "split second" // split second - single
SUIT AND TIE GENOCIDE - "freak show" // dust off your soul
RED FANG - "blood like cream" // whales and leeches

REVILWEN - "woodgrain" // woodgrain - single
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // no place to hide
TORCH THE SPIRES - "the great snipe hunt" // bastard sons of Minneapolis
PINWHEEL - "playground"
TRANSPLANTS - "come around" // in a warzone
NONPOINT - "I said it" // nonpoint
BOBAFLEX - "bad man" // charlatan's web
LETLIVE - "younger" // the blackest beautiful

HOUR 2
ENEMY X - "sacrificial burning" // ends of the earth (2013)
TRIVIUM - "strife" // vengeance falls
DEVILDRIVER - "sail" // winter kills
PERIPHERY - "ragnarok" // periphery II
PERIPHERY - "face palm mute" // periphery II

PERIPHERY - "scarlet" // periphery II
PERIPHERY - "mile zero" // periphery II
THIRA - "cognition : one" // cognition : one - single
THE CHARIOT - "in" // one wing
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "sand" // shoot - ep
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops

**SPECIAL THANKS to MARK from PERIPHERY for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! Check out PERIPHERY as they return to Minneapolis at the Skyway Theater on Nov 8 with BORN OF OSIRIS, DEAD LETTER CIRCUS, TWELVE FOOT NINJA and THIRA!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/23/13 - THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/23/13
GUESTS :: THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN

HOUR 1
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS – “start walking” // home
REVILWEN – “those who control” // follow the money
QUIETDRIVE – “lie to me” // up or down
ICON FOR HIRE – “make a move” // scripted
POLICA – “the maker" // give you the ghost
RANCID – “fall back down" // indestructible
BOBAFLEX – “bad man” // charlatan’s web
LOVE AND DEATH – “watching the bottom fall” // between here and lost

KATATONIA – “lethatean” // dethroned and uncrowned
ECHO EFFECT – “face of the girl” // the beauty in disaster
FOZZY – “sandpaper” // flesh and bone
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE – “sugars of someday” // shoot - ep
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE – “here comes the crash” // new world disaster
THROW THE FIGHT - "lights out for summer" // what doesn't kill us
BUTCHER BABIES - "C8H18 (gasoline)" // goliath
NUISANCE - "priapism" // kill the silence

HOUR 2
DEVILDRIVER – “winter kills” // winter kills
AFTER THE BURIAL – “a steady decline" // this life is all we have - ep
SOULFLY – “bloodshed” // savages
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN – “hero of the soviet union” // one of us is the killer
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN – “prancer” // one of us is the killer

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN – “one of us is the killer” // one of us is the killer
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "nothing's funny" // one of us is the killer
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN – “crossburner” // one of us is the killer
REFLECTIONS – “good push" // the fantasy effect
HATEBREED - "put it to the torch" // the divinity of purpose

**SPECIAL THANKS to BEN from THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week! DEP's excellent new album "One Of Us Is The Killer" is out now!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/16/13 - OH SLEEPER

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/16/13
GUESTS :: OH, SLEEPER

HOUR 1
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "prancer" // one of us is the killer
MATCHPOINT - "my last redemption" // demo
BROTHER ALI - "lookin' at me sideways" // the undisputed truth
MIKE MICTLAN - "dwnsze" // snaxxx
ICON FOR HIRE - "get well" // scripted
STITCHED UP HEART - "grave" // grave - single
CAROLINE SMITH - "magazine" // half about being a woman
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "depending on the weather" // keep your devils around

EMERGENT - "the fall" // forthcoming disc
WARROOSTER - "hyperdrive" // demo
TAPROOT - "smile" // gift
ANBERLIN - "self starter" // vital
THROW THE FIGHT - "one step away" // what doesn't kill us
NEW YEARS DAY - "angel eyes" // victim to villain
AMARANTHE - "electroheart" // the nexus
CHILDREN 18:3 - "LCM" // children 18:3

HOUR 2
35 INCH MUDDER - "when doves cry" // when doves cry - single
HUNTRESS - "zenith" // starbound beast
SCAR THE MARTYR - "blood host" // scar the martyr
BLACK FLOOD DIESEL - "chasing the atrophy" // new asylum
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - "home for grave" // 8:18
OH SLEEPER - "the rise" // the titan - ep

OH SLEEPER - "the pitch" // the titan - ep
NORMA JEAN - "sword in mouth, fire eyes" // wrongdoers
AUGUST BURNS RED - "count it all as lost" // rescue and restore
REFLECTIONS - "advance upon me brethren" // the fantasy effect
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "you don't bleed for me" // disarm the descent
LAMB OF GOD - "bloodletting" // burn the priest

**SPECIAL THANKS to MICAH from OH, SLEEPER for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! OH, SLEEPER's new ep "The Titan" is out now!**

AUG 22 - TAPROOT, SMILE EMPTY SOUL, BLACK FLOOD DIESEL, MATCHPOINT @ Nielsen's in Savage, MN

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MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/09/13 - MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/09/13
GUESTS :: MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK

HOUR 1
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot - ep
SPOKEN - "accuser" // illusion
CAROLINE SMITH - "magazine" // half about being a woman
BIFFY CLYRO - "sounds like balloons" // opposites
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // no place to hide
STITCHED UP HEART - "grave" // grave - single

MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "timelines" // go
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "true romance" // go
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "feel like rain" // commit this to memory
POCKET GENIUS - "lost and found" // nordic
TURNED OUT T.V. - "the swarm" // demo
BEAUTIFUL CORPSE - "your blood" // demo
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
REVILWEN - "woodgrain" // woodgrain - single

HOUR 2
SCAR THE MARTYR - "blood host" // scar the martyr
NORMA JEAN - "if you got it at five, you got it at fifty" // wrongdoers
NORMA JEAN - "the potter has no hands" // wrongdoers
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "set yourself on fire" // shoot
THIRA - "release" // the ascension construct
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE - "thunder chunky" // late for nothing
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE - "boat paddle" // late for nothing

DEVILDRIVER - "the appetite" // winter kills
TRIVIUM - "brave this storm" // vengeance falls
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - "martyrs" // 8:18
ASKING ALEXANDRIA feat HOWARD JONES - "until the end" // from death to destiny
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "when I lost my bet" // one of us is the killer
AFTER THE BURIAL - "my frailty" // in dreams

**SPECIAL THANKS to MATT from MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week!! MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK's latest album "Go" is out now on Epitaph Records.**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/02/13 - CROSSFAITH

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/02/13
GUESTS :: CROSSFAITH

HOUR 1
FLIPP - "hairdo" // volume
FLIPP - "whole world's sick" // volume
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "seek advice elsewhere" // home
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
TORCH THE SPIRES - "the great snipe hunt" // bastard sons of Minneapolis
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot - ep
ANGRY WATERS - "golden (gone on a binge)" // distilled in Judson, MN
BOBAFLEX - "bad man" // charlatan's web
MIXED BLOOD MAJORITY feat LIZZO - "keep diggin" // keep diggin - single

BOMBA DE LUZ - "swear you away" // what a heavy weight
DESSA - "fighting fish" // parts of speech
3 PILL MORNING - "rain" // black tie love affair
ECHO EFFECT - "face of the girl" // the beauty in disaster
SPOKEN - "illusion" // illusion
CITY OF THE WEAK - "white fire alarm" // white fire alarm
STITCHED UP HEART - "grave" // grave - single
POCKET GENIUS - "lost and found" // nordic

HOUR 2
AFTER THE BURIAL - "encased in ice" // in dreams
GEMINI SYNDROME - "stardust" // lux
TRIVIUM - "brave this storm" // vengeance falls
CROSSFAITH - "monolith" // zion - ep
CROSSFAITH - "we are the future" // apocalyze
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "one of us is the killer" // one of us is the killer

ANIMALS AS LEADERS - "somnarium" // weightless
PERIPHERY - "facepalm mute" // periphery II
THIRA - "cognition: one" // cognition: one - single
REFLECTIONS - "good push" // the fantasy effect
FAIL TO DECAY - "eyes of the masses" // eyes of the masses - single
NIGHT VERSES - "from the shadows where I'm low" // out of the sky - ep

**SPECIAL THANKS to CROSSFAITH for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! CROSSFAITH's ep "Zion" is out now and the full length "Apocalyze" hits shelves Sept 3!!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/26/13 - AMARANTHE

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/26/13
GUESTS :: AMARANTHE

HOUR 1
GEMINI SYNDROME - "stardust" // stardust - single
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "set yourself on fire" // shoot - ep
BOBAFLEX - "bad man" // charlatan's web
ANGRY WATERS - "ours to be had" // angry waters III
VALOR TRACKS - "flood gates" // here all along
ANGRY BUKOWSKI - "alligator" // find what you love and let it kill you
TEPETRICY - "the bronze outfit" // same cuts new blood
WARROOSTER - "hyperdrive" // demo

THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot - ep
NIGHT VERSES - "antidepressants" // lift your existence
AMARANTHE - "hunger" // amaranthe
AMARANTHE - "electroheart" // the nexus
AMARANTHE - "invincible" // the nexus

HOUR 2
AMARANTHE - "burn with me" // the nexus
AMARANTHE - "future on hold" // the nexus
AMARANTHE - "splinter in my soul" // amaranthe (special edition)
BARONESS - "take my bones away" (live) // live at maida vale
BARONESS - "march to the sea" (live) // live at maida vale
TRIVIUM - "in waves" // in waves

DEVILDRIVER - "ruthless" // winter kills
AFTER THE BURIAL - "my frailty" // in dreams
SYLOSIS - "born anew" // monolith
CHIMAIRA - "all that's left is blood" // crown of phantoms
DEADLOCK - "I'm gone" // the arsonist
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "sand" // shoot - ep

**SPECIAL THANKS to ELIZE and MORTON from AMARANTHE for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! AMARANTHE's excellent album "The Nexus" is out now!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/19/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/19/13
WARPED TOUR 2013 PREVIEW

HOUR 1
LETLIVE - "empty elvis" // the blackest beautiful
AUGUST BURNS RED - "count it all as lost" // rescue and restore
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "my favorite accident" (live) // live from warped tour 2006
NEW YEARS DAY - "I'm no good" // victim to villain
TONIGHT ALIVE - "sure as hell" // what are you so scared of?
REEL BIG FISH - "beer" // greatest hit and more
MAC LETHAL - "pound that beer" // 11:11
FIVE KNIVES - "all fall down" // the rising

HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS - "ohio is for lovers" // the silence in black and white
STORY OF THE YEAR - "until the day I die" // page avenue
BRING ME THE HORIZON - "shadow moses" // sempiternal
CROSSFAITH - "monolith" // zion - ep
CHIODOS - "bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered" // bone palace ballet
WE CAME AS ROMANS - "tracing back roots" // tracing back roots
THE CHARIOT - "daggers" // wars and rumors of wars
OH SLEEPER - "vices like vipers" // when I am God

HOUR 2
UPON A BURNING BODY - "texas blood money" // red, white and green
PHILIP H ANSELMO AND THE ILLEGALS - "bedridden" // walk through exits only
BATTLECROSS - "never coming back" // war of will
BATTLECROSS - "flesh and bone" // war of will
VALOR TRACKS - "flood gates" // here all along
AMARANTHE - "splinter in my soul" // amaranthe (special edition)
KOBRA AND THE LOTUS - "welcome to my funeral" // kobra and the lotus
EVERY TIME I DIE - "romeo a go-go" // hot damn

EVERY TIME I DIE - "ebolorama" // hot damn
FOR ALL THOSE SLEEPING - "once a liar (always a fake)" // outspoken
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE - "firebees" // late for nothing
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // no place to hide
TURNED OUT T.V. - "the swarm" // demo
WARROOSTER - "intergalactic performance review" // demo
LAMB OF GOD - "contractor" // wrath

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/12/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/12/13

HOUR 1
BOBAFLEX - "bad man" // charlatan's web
BOBAFLEX - "low life" // hell in my heart
EMERGENT - "the fall" // forthcoming album
EMERGENT - "erode" // forthcoming album / decibel compilation vol 4
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you" // no place to hide
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide
FLYLEAF - "sorrow (live)" // who we are
FLYLEAF - "something better" (feat Sonny Sandoval) // who we are

WARROOSTER - "intergalactic performance review" // demo
WARROOSTER - "hyperdrive" // demo
LETLIVE - "banshee (ghost fame)" // the blackest beautiful
LETLIVE - "younger" // the blackest beautiful
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "start walking" // home
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "nightlife" // home
DESSA - "skeleton key" // parts of speech
DESSA - "call off your ghost" // parts of speech
NIGHT VERSES - "time erases time" // lift your existence

HOUR 2
NIGHT VERSES - "antidepressants" // lift your existence
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "sugars of someday" // shoot
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "reach and touch" // trepanation
AMARANTHE - "the nexus" // the nexus
AMARANTHE - "afterlife" // the nexus
ROYAL THUNDER - "whispering world" (acoustic) // cvi:a
ROYAL THUNDER - "no good" // cvi

BUTCHER BABIES - "I smell a massacre" // goliath
BUTCHER BABIES - "C8H18 (gasoline)" // goliath
DEVILDRIVER - "ruthless" // winter kills
DEVILDRIVER - "pure sincerity" // pray for villains
CROSSFAITH - "we are the future" // apocalyze
CROSSFAITH - "monolith" // zion - ep
PHILIP H ANSELMO AND THE ILLEGALS - "usurper's bastard rant" // walk through exits only
PHILIP H ANSELMO AND THE ILLEGALS - "friends, family and "associates"" // war of the gargantuas

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/05/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/05/13

HOUR 1
NIGHT VERSES - "antidepressants" // lift your existence
LETLIVE - "younger" // the blackest beautiful
EMERGENT - "the fall" // forthcoming disc
OTHERWISE - "die for you" // true love never dies
SEVENDUST - "bender" // home
ARROWS AT DAWN - "these days" // no place to hide
ANGRY BURKOWSKI - "alligator" // find what you love and let it kill you
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money

ANGRY WATERS - "ours to be had" // angry waters III
DEFTONES - "swerve city" // koi no yokan
TRANSPLANTS - "come around" // in a warzone
ALICE IN CHAINS - "stone" // the devil put dinosaurs here
ECHO EFFECT - "seven" // the beauty in disaster
LETLIVE - "empty elvis" // the blackest beautiful
NIGHT VERSES - "time erases time" // lift your existence

HOUR 2
EVERY TIME I DIE - "romeo a go-go" // hot damn!
EVERY TIME I DIE - "off broadway" // hot damn!
EVERY TIME I DIE - "I've been gone a long time" // hot damn!
EVERY TIME I DIE - "godspeed us to sea" // hot damn!
EVERY TIME I DIE - "she's my rushmore" // hot damn!
EVERY TIME I DIE - "floater" // hot damn!
EVERY TIME I DIE - "in the event that everything should go terribly wrong" // hot damn!
EVERY TIME I DIE - "ebolarama" // hot damn!
EVERY TIME I DIE - "hit of the search party" // hot damn!
EVERY TIME I DIE - "pornogratheraphy" // hot damn!
EVERY TIME I DIE - "for the record" // new junk aesthetic

CHIMAIRA - "no mercy" // crown of phantoms
BUTCHER BABIES - "the deathsurround" // goliath
DEMON HUNTER - "someone to hate" // true defiance
HUNTRESS - "zenith" // starbound beast
SEPULTURA - "arise" // arise
ENEMY X - "unbroken" // the ends of the earth
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // the moribound resurrection - ep

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/28/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/28/13

HOUR 1
ARROWS AT DAWN - "these days" // no place to hide
EMERGENT - "the fall" // forthcoming disc
3 PILL MORNING - "I want that for you" // black tie love affair
WARROOSTER - "intergalactic performance review" // demo
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "honkball" // the short side ep / statusfear media summer sampler 2013
SOCIAL DISTORTION - "california (hustle and flow)" // hard times and nursery rhymes
DESSA - "fighting fish" // parts of speech
FIVE KNIVES - "all fall down" // the rising - ep

THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "all clear" // the mayberry riot - ep
EDEN - "voodoo queen" // guilty pleasure(s)
THROW THE FIGHT - "lights out for summer" // what doesn't kill us
NEW YEARS DAY - "angel eyes" // victim to villain
NINE INCH NAILS - "came back haunted" // hesitation marks
LETLIVE - "banshee (ghost fame)" // the blackest beautiful
TRANSPLANTS - "come around" // in a warzone
AUGUST BURNS RED - "count it all as lost" // rescue and restore

HOUR 2
BUTCHER BABIES - "the deathsurround" // goliath
THIRA - "release" // the ascension construct
BLACK FLOOD DIESEL - "medication" // baptism - ep
SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN - "imaginary problems" // the policy of unilateral hate
SEVENDUST - "till death" // black out the sun
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops
HATEBREED - "put it to the torch" // the divinity of purpose
SHADOWS FALL - "divide and conquer" // fire from the sky

HUNTRESS - "zenith" // starbound beast
EARTHRISE - "polar low" // eras lost
EYES ON FIRE - "phantom" // victimizer / statusfear media summer sampler 2013
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "one of us is the killer" // one of us is the killer
ANIMALS AS LEADERS - "an infinate regression" // weightless
PERIPHERY - "facepalm mute" // periphery II
NORMA JEAN - "songs sound much sadder" // redeemer
KYLESA - "we're taking this" // ultraviolet

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/21/13 - CITY OF THE WEAK

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/21/13
GUESTS :: CITY OF THE WEAK

HOUR 1
DESSA - "fighting fish" // parts of speech
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "shirts" // home
ILIA - "ezekiel" // we were shipwrecks
CHILDREN 18:3 - "moment to moment" // on the run
CITY OF THE WEAK - "white fire alarm" // white fire alarm
CITY OF THE WEAK - "in a world of bottles and bedsores" // white fire alarm

DESSA - "the lamb" // parts of speech
CITY OF THE WEAK - "amateur night VIP" // white fire alarm
CITY OF THE WEAK - "better than this" // white fire alarm
CITY OF THE WEAK - "the difference between me and you is" // white fire alarm

HOUR 2
AUGUST BURNS RED - "fault line" // rescue and restore
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "sugars of someday" // shoot - ep
PHILIP H ANSELMO AND THE ILLEGALS - "usurper's bastard rant" // walk through exits only
BOLO - "taker" // depopulous
MARCATO - "bury my bones" // the world is drowning
GALLOWS - "outsider art" // gallows
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "one of us is the killer" // one of us is the killer
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be

AUGUST BURNS RED - "spirit breaker" // rescue and restore
NUISANCE - "priapism" // kill the silence
THIRA - "cognition: one" // cognition: one - single
THE AGONIST - "the escape" // prisoners
BEAUTIFUL CORPSE - "your blood" // demo
KVELERTAK - "bruane brenne" // meir
SNAPCASE - "typecast modulator" // designs for automation

**SPECIAL THANKS to CITY OF THE WEAK for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! COTW's new ep "White Fire Alarm" is out now!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/14/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/14/13

HOUR 1
NINE INCH NAILS – “came back haunted” // hesitation marks
LETLIVE – “banshee (ghost fame)” // the blackest beautiful
CITY OF THE WEAK – “white fire alarm” // white fire alarm - ep
ARROWS AT DAWN – “dead in the water” // forthcoming disc
BIFFY CLYRO - "sounds like balloons" // opposites
NEW YEARS DAY – “angel eyes” // victim to villain
THE MAYBERRY RIOT – “let me in” // the mayberry riot - ep
SUIT AND TIE GENOCIDE – “freak show” // dust off your soul

AND WE DANCED - "way back home" // statusfear media summer sampler 2013
MIXED BLOOD MAJORITY - "the runaround" // mixed blood majority
RANCID – “fall back down” // indestructible
NORMA JEAN - "birth of the anti mother" // the anti mother
THE CHALICE - "push it" // we are the chalice
CITY OF GHOSTS – “living pieces” // daylight
THE REPLACEMENTS - "can't hardly wait" // pleased to meet me

HOUR 2
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE – “here comes the crash” // new world disaster
REVILWEN – “woodgrain” // woodgrain - single
WARROOSTER - "interglatic performance review" // demo
VOLBEAT feat KING DIAMOND – “room 24” // outlaw gentlemen and shady ladies
DELAIN - "breathe on me" // interlude
EYES ON FIRE – “phantom” // victimizer / statusfear media summer sampler 2013
THE GOODBARS - "O.C.D." // the goodbars
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - 'you don't bleed for me" // disarm the descent

PHILIP H ANSELMO AND THE ILLEGALS - "usurper's bastard rant" // walk through exits only
THIRA - "cognition: one" // cognition: one - single
INCITE - "the aftermath" // all out war
ELUVETITE - "havoc" // helvetios
AMARANTHE - "the nexus" // the nexus
REFLECTIONS - "good push" // the fantasy effect
DISEMBODIED - "anvil chandelier" // diablerie

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/07/13 - CHILDREN OF BODOM

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/07/13
GUESTS :: CHILDREN OF BODOM

HOUR 1
LETLIVE - "banshee (ghost fame)" // the blackest beautiful
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "honkball" // the short side ep / statusfear summer sampler 2013
AND WE DANCED - "way back home" // statusfear summer sampler 2013
TURNED OUT TV - "the swarm" // forthcoming disc
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "amazing" // the mayberry riot - ep
BOMBA DE LUZ - "phantoms" // what a heavy weight
SUIT AND TIE GENOCIDE - "woe is you" // forthcoming disc

CITY OF THE WEAK - "white fire alarm" // white fire alarm / statusfear summer sampler 2013
NEW YEARS DAY feat Chris Motionless - "angel eyes" // victim to villain
SIMS and ASTRONAUTALIS - "this is the place" // this is the place - single
DESSA - "call off your ghost" // parts of speech
LAKE AVENUE - "passing through" // you can't take it with you / statusfear summer sampler 2013
THE ALMOST - "I'm down" // fear inside our bones
ANGRY BUKOWSKI - "alligator" // find what you love and let it kill you
DEATH RAY VISION - "shattered frames" // get lost or get dead

HOUR 2
EYES OF FIRE - "phantom" // victimizer / statusfear media summer sampler 2013
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // the moribound resurrection / statusfear media summer sampler 2013
SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN - "any resemblance to those living or dead is purely coincidental" // in defiance of science
REVILWEN - "woodgrain" // woodgrain - single
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops
BEAUTIFUL CORPSE - "your blood" // beautiful corpse - ep
ENEMY X - "unbroken" // the ends of the earth

CHILDREN OF BODOM - "transference" // halo of blood
CHILDREN OF BODOM - "halo of blood" // halo of blood
CHILDREN OF BODOM - "one bottle and a knee deep" // halo of blood
GHOST B.C. - "secular haze" // infestissumam
AMARANTHE - "afterlife" // the nexus
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "when I lost my bet" // one of us is the killer

**SPECIAL THANKS to ALEXI from CHILDREN OF BODOM for calling into the Midwest Beatdown this week!!! CHILDREN OF BODOM's new album "HALO OF BLOOD" comes out TOMORROW!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/31/13 - GEMINI SYNDROME

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/31/13
GUESTS :: GEMINI SYNDROME

HOUR 1
ADRENALINE MOB - "stand up and shout" // coverta
DROPKICK MURPHYS - "the boys are back" // signed and sealed in blood
ATMOPSHERE - "sunshine" // sad clown bad summer number 9
TRANSPLANTS - "come around" // in a warzone
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot - ep
DESSA - "call off your ghost" // parts of speech
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "karate never here" // the short side - ep

THE ALMOST - "I'm down" // fear inside our bones
NIGHT VERSES - "from the shadows where I'm low" // out of the sky - ep
SIMS and ASTRONAUTALIS - "this is the place" // this is the place - single
3 PILL MORNING - "rain" // black tie love affair
CITY OF THE WEAK - "white fire alarm" // white fire alarm
ICON FOR HIRE - "off with her head" // scripted
TORCHE - "walk it off" // harmonicraft
BARONESS - "take my bones away" // yellow and green

HOUR 2
MEGADETH - "super collider" // super collider
LOUNA - "buisness" // behind a mask
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops
GEMINI SYNDROME - "pleasure and pain" // the metal ep
GEMINI SYNDROME - "basement" // the metal ep

GEMINI SYNDROME - "resurrection" // the metal ep
GEMINI SYNDROME - "left of me" // the metal ep
BUTCHER BABIES - "axe wound" // butcher babies - ep
KYLESA - "we're taking this" // ultraviolet
TORCH THE SPIRES - "the great snipe hunt" // bastard sons of Minneapolis
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE - "it gets worse" // how I learned to stop giving a shit and love Mindless Self Indulgence
DEATH RAY VISION - "shattered frames" // get lost or get dead

**SPECIAL THANKS to AARON and BRIAN from GEMINI SYNDROME for taking some time out to sit down with the Midwest Beatdown this week! Keep an eye on this band, they will be huge!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/24/13 - SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/24/13
GUESTS :: SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN

HOUR 1
DESSA - "call off your ghost" // parts of speech
GOODNIGHT GOLD DUST - "towards the sun" // towards the sun
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot - ep
P.O.S - "weird friends (we don't even live here)" // we don't even live here
MINDRITE - "everything" // author of addiction
MINDRITE - "hunger and fear" // the 660 anthology
AMERICAN REVIVAL - "japanese/shark" // thank ya kindly
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "depending on the weather" // keep your devils around

AMARANTHE - "the nexus" // the nexus
ALICE IN CHAINS - "stone" // the devil put dinosaurs here
PHILIP H ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS - "conflict" // war of the gargantuans
BLACK FLOOD DIESEL - "chasing the atrophy" // new asylum
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide

HOUR 2
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "prancer" // one of us is the killer
TORCH THE SPIRES - "the great snipe hunt" // bastard sons of Minneapolis
SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN - "get out of the way" // the policy of unilateral hate

SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN - "t.e.t.r.i.s." // the process of assimilation
SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN - "salt the earth" // the policy of unilateral hate
AFTER THE BURIAL - "a steady decline" // this life is all we have - ep
YOUR MEMORIAL - "turn it all around" // seasons
REFLECTIONS - "advance upon me brethren" // the fantasy effect
GEMINI SYNDROME - "basement" // the metal ep

**SPECIAL THANKS to REV JOHN from SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! SMB rips apart the What's Up Lounge in Mankato one last time on June 7 with REVILWEN, DEAD HORSE TRAUMA and BEAUTIFUL CORPSE (All Ages)!!!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/17/13 - DEAD HORSE TRAUMA and REAPING ASMODEIA

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/17/13
GUESTS :: DEAD HORSE TRAUMA and REAPING ASMODEIA

HOUR 1
DELAIN - "breathe on me" // interlude
CITY OF THE WEAK - "white fire alarm" // white fire alarm
WARROOSTER - "intergalatic performance review" // demo
TRANSPLANTS - "come around" // in a warzone
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops
SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN - "imaginary problems" // the policy of unilateral hate

DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "the murder of crows" // vi-ops
INDEX CASE - I, insist" // augustagein
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "the head of the snake" // vi-ops
MINDRITE - "steamroller" // good times/bad times
MARCATO - "rapture" // in the absence of violent motion

HOUR 2
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "when I lost my bet" // one of us is the killer
THIRA - "cognition : one" // cognition : one - single
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // ep
REAPING ASMODEIA - "eternal fixator" // ep
VALOR TRACKS - "my way home" // here all along

REAPING ASMODEIA - "restrictions of the flesh" // ep
MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE - "it gets worse" // how I learned to stop giving a shit and love mindless self indulgence
EYES ON FIRE - "in the end" // victimizer
IN THIS MOMENT - "adrenalize" // blood
NUISANCE - "priapism" // kill the silence
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "start walking" // home

**SPECIAL THANKS to SETH from DEAD HORSE TRAUMA and DANIEL from REAPING ASMODEIA for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown tonight!

DEAD HORSE TRAUMA destroys the What's Up Lounge on June 8 with SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN (last show in Mankato!), REVILWEN and BEAUTIFUL CORPSE (ALL AGES!).

REAPING ASMODEIA's EP RELEASE and last show with their current vocalist Tim is at Station 4 in St. Paul on June 7 with OUR JUDGEMENT, GET THE GUN, I AM VENGENCE and DAYTRIPPER (ALL AGES!)**

INTERVIEW AUDIO COMING SOON...

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/10/13 - THIRA and GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/10/13
GUESTS :: THIRA and GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE

HOUR 1
CITY OF THE WEAK - "white fire alarm" // white fire alarm
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "one of us is the killer" // one of us is the killer
THIRA - "release" // the ascension construct - ep
THIRA - "cognition : one" // cognition : one - single
GEMINI SYNDROME - "basement" // the metal ep

THIRA - "left to kneel" // the ascension construct - ep
AFTER THE BURIAL - "a steady decline" // this life is all we have - ep
CHILDREN OF BODOM - "transference" // halo of blood
EYES ON FIRE - "in the end" // victimizer
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // forthcoming disc

HOUR 2
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "Ms. Lawson" // the old ones are and forever shall be
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "nothing's funny" // one of us is the killer
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "zer0 and zer0" // new world disaster
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "when the world disappears" // new world disaster

GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "the collapse" // new world disaster
REVILWEN - "woodgrain" // woodgrain - single
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "karate never here" // the short side - ep
H.I.M. - "I will be the end of you" // tears on tape
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // poison of the earth - single

**SPECIAL THANKS to PIF and HALL from THIRA and MITCH, LINDY and CODY from GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE for stopping up to the Midwest Beatdown this week before their show at Buster's that night!**

THIRA interview


GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE interview

WarRooster / Old Towne Ghosts interview 05/03/13

The interview with WarRooster and Old Towne Ghosts from 05/03/13 is now up! This was probably one of the best times I've had doing the Midwest Beatdown during the 12 years of the show's existence.

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/03/13 - WARROOSTER and OLD TOWNE GHOSTS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/03/13
GUESTS :: WARROOSTER and OLD TOWNE GHOSTS

HOUR 1
ALL THE WAY RIDER – “karate never here” // the short side - ep
LAKE AVENUE – “your wretched ways” // you can’t take it with you
CLUTCH – “unto the breach” // earth rocker
WARROOSTER – “hyperdrive” // demo

WARROSTER – “intergalactic performance review” // demo
GHOST B.C. – “I’m a marionette” // infestissumam (deluxe)
ROYAL THUNDER – “whispering world” // CVI
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE – “here comes the crash” // new world disaster

HOUR 2
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS – “start walking” // home
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS – “extinction” // the old ones are and forever shall be
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS – “Ms. Lawson” // the old ones are and forever shall be
BABES IN TOYLAND – “bruise violet” // fontanelle
ANGRY BUKOWSKI – “alligator” // find what you love and let it kill you

OLD TOWNE GHOSTS – “knight boat” // the old ones are and forever shall be
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS – “cubicle fire” // torch
MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE – “it gets worse” // how I learned to stop giving a shit and love mindless self indulgence
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS – “don’t need it / sisyphus” // torch

**SPECIAL THANKS to BASSETT and BUNDE from WARROOSTER and JASON and KELLY from OLD TOWNE GHOSTS for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! OLD TOWNE GHOSTS' new ep "The Old Ones Are and Forever Shall Be" release party Sat, May 11 @ What's Up Lounge in Mankato - 21+ show with CRASH CUDDLE and BEAUTIFUL CORPSE!!!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/26/13 - Spring Pledge Drive

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/26/13
SPRING PLEDGE DRIVE

HOUR 1
DESSA - "warsaw" // warsaw - single
GOODNIGHT GOLD DUST - "towards the sun" // towards the sun
LAKE AVENUE - "hold me, hum" // you can't take it with you
AMERICAN REVIVAL - "japanese/shark" // thank ya kindly
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "depending on the weather" // keep your devils around
TW - "masked" // destined to be real
IS/IS - "fire" // III

ANGRY BUKOWSKI - "alligator" // find what you love and let it kill you
ANGRY WATERS - "ours to be had" // angry waters III
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // forthcoming disc
REVILWEN - "woodgrain" // woodgrain - single
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "amazing" // the mayberry riot - ep
WARROOSTER - "intergalactic performance review" // warrooster demo
THROW THE FIGHT - "lights out for summer" // what doesn't kill us
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "nightlife" // home

HOUR 2
THIRA - "release" // the ascension construct
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "here comes the crash" // new world disaster
PINWHEEL - "playground" // un-comp vol 1
NUISANCE - "priapism" // kill the silence
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "the murder of crows" // vi-ops
MINDRITE - "hunger and fear" // the 660 anthology

ENEMY X - "unbroken" // the ends of the earth
ECHO EFFECT - "face of the girl" // the beauty in disaster
DIESL - "melt" // tortured
VALOR TRACKS - "my way home" // here all along
FOR ALL THOSE SLEEPING - "mark my words" // unspoken
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // poison of the earth - single
SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN - "happy happy joy joy" // smb's barnyard of musical oddities

**You can donate any amount of money to help KMSU's Spring Pledge Drive at http://www.kmsu.org and click on the Donate Now button.**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/19/13 - HELLYEAH

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/19/13
GUESTS :: HELLYEAH

HOUR 1
DEFTONES - "bored" (live 1997) // live
DEFTONES - "engine number 9" // adrenaline
DEFTONES - "teething" // the crow : city of angels - soundtrack
DEFTONES - "be quiet and drive (far away)" // around the fur
WARROOSTER - "intergalatic performance review" // warrooster demo
ANGRY BUKOWSKI - "alligator" // find what you love and let it kill you
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "das arbeitslied" // torch

POLICA feat Justin Vernon - "tiff" // tiff - single
DESSA - "warsaw" // parts of speech
3 PILL MORNING - "I want that for you" // black tie love affair
REVILWEN - "woodgrain" // woodgrain - single
SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN - "get out of the way" // the policy of unilateral hate
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "the murder of crows" // vi-ops
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot - ep
P.O.S - "weird friends (we don't even live here)" // we don't even live here

HOUR 2
ROYAL THUNDER - "whispering world" // CVI
VOLBEAT - "lonesome rider" // outlaw gentlemen and shady ladies
HELLYEAH - "war in me" // band of brothers
HELLYEAH - "bigger God" // band of brothers

HELLYEAH - "drink drank drunk" // band of brothers
CLUTCH - "unto the breach" // earth rocker
GHOST - "secular haze" // infestissumam
PYRITHION - "bleed out" // the burden of sorrow
PHIL ANSELMO - "conflict" // war of the gargantuans
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // forthcoming ep

**SPECIAL THANKS to TOM from HELLYEAH for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! R.I.P. Chi!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/12/13 - ALL THAT REMAINS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/12/13
GUESTS :: ALL THAT REMAINS

HOUR 1
DESSA - "warsaw" // parts of speech
RUSSKAJA - "energia" // energia!
WARROOSTER - "intergalatic performance review" // demo
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot - ep
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // forthcoming disc
ANBERLIN - "self starter" // vital
NOW, NOW - "giants" // neighbors - ep

STONE SOUR - "the house of gold and bones" // house of gold and bones part two
I AM EMPIRE - "gasoline" // anchors
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
THE WHITE STRIPES - "black math" // elephant
PARAMORE - "ain't it fun" // paramore
IN THIS MOMENT - "adrenalize" // blood
GEMINI SYNDROME - "basement" // the metal ep
BUCKAROUX BANSHEES - "rude girl" // demo

HOUR 2
VOLBEAT - "room 24" (feat King Diamond) // outlaw gentlemen and shady ladies
VOLBEAT - "doc holiday" // outlaw gentlemen and shady ladies
KOBRA AND THE LOTUS - "welcome to my funeral" // kobra and the lotus
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "like God" // new world disaster
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops
DEATH RAY VISION - "shattered frames" // get lost or get dead

ALL THAT REMAINS - "you can't fill my shadow" // a war you cannot win
ALL THAT REMAINS - "sing for liberty" // a war you cannot win
ALL THAT REMAINS - "calculating loneliness" // a war you cannot win
BLEEDING THROUGH - "sweet vampirous" // this is love, this is murderous

***SPECIAL THANKS to OLI from ALL THAT REMAINS for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! All That Remains' new album "A War You Cannot Win" is out now!***

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/05/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/05/13

HOUR 1
DEATH RAY VISION – “shattering frames” // get lost or get dead
NONPOINT – “I said it” // nonpoint
CLUTCH – “unto the breach” // earth rocker
ANGRY WATERS - "ours to be had" // angry waters III
ANGRY BURKOWSKI - "alligator" // find what you love and let it kill you
BOBAFLEX – “chemical valley” // hell in my heart
SPOKEN – “accuser” // illusion
3 PILL MORNING - "I want that for you" // take control
WRITE THIS DOWN - "the older I get, the better I was" // lost weekend

AMARANTHE – “invincible” // the nexus
FAMILY FORCE 5 - "love addict" // buisness in the front, party in the back
THROW THE FIGHT - "breaking the cycle" // the vault
ALL THAT REMAINS – “down through the ages” // a war you cannot win
P.O.S - "weird friends (we don't even live here)" // we don't even live here
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "cubicle fire" // torch
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "nightlife" // home
GALLOWS - "outsider art" // gallows
REVILWEN - "woodgrain" // woodgrain - single

HOUR 2
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE – "my curse" (live) // disarm the descent (special edition)
KVELERTAK - "bruane brenn" // meir
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops
LACUNA COIL – “kill the light” // dark adrenaline
COAL CHAMBER – “blisters” // giving the devil his due
SEVENDUST – “till death” // black out the sun
REFLECTIONS – “good push” // the fantasy effect

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "prancer" // one of us is the killer
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // poison of the earth - single
3 INCHES OF BLOOD - "metal woman" // long live heavy metal
HELLYEAH – “war in me” // band of brothers
DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT - "liberation" // epicloud
EVERY TIME I DIE - "for the record" // new junk aesthetic
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE - "danger in the manger" // it's all happening
MARTYR AD - "american hollow" // on earth as it is in hell

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/29/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/29/13

HOUR 1
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "you don't bleed for me" // disarm the descent
BRING ME THE HORIZON - "sleepwalking" // sempiternal
THE GOODBARS - "O.C.D." // the goodbars
TORCH THE SPIRES - "the great snipe hunt" // bastard sons of minneapolis
SPOKEN - "illusion" // illusion
SEVENDUST - "till death" // black out the sun
INDEX CASE - "blood and a siren" // augustagein

ANTHRAX - "jailbreak" // anthems
INTRONAUT - "sore sight for eyes" // habitual levitations (instilling words with tones)
BARONESS - "take my bones away" // yellow and green
MASTODON - "blood and thunder" // leviathan
ENEMY X - "unbroken" // the ends of the earth
CROSSFAITH - "monolith" // zion

HOUR 2
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "the hell in me" // disarm the descent
INCITE - "the aftermath" // all out war
BRING ME THE HORIZON - "go to hell, for heaven's sake" // sempiternal
SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN - "get out of the way" // the policy of unilateral hate
CANDY MACHINE GUNS - "here we come" // here we come
AS I LAY DYING - "a greater foundation" // awakened
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - "sassafras" // with roots above and branches below
FOR TODAY - "stand defiant" // immortal
THE CHARIOT - "daggers" // wars and rumors of wars

IRON MAIDEN - "run to the hills (live)" // maiden england '88
THIRA - "release" // the ascension construct
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "here comes the crash" // new world disaster
NUISANCE - "the message" // kill the silence
GEMINI SYNDROME - "basement" // basement - single
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // poison of the earth - single
SUPERJOINT RITUAL - "waiting for the turning point" // a lethal dose of american hatred


DEAD HORSE TRAUMA's new video for "Reckoning Day"! New album Vi-Ops comes out 4/23!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/22/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/22/13

HOUR 1
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "the new awakening" // disarm the descent
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "in due time" // disarm the descent
SPOKEN - "beneath the surface" // illusion
COREY TAYLOR, DAVE GROHL, RICK NEILSEN, SCOTT READER - "from can to can't" // sound city : real to reel
LACUNA COIL - "kill the light" // dark adrenaline
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot
THE HUSH SOUND - "wine red" // like vines
SUIT AND TIE GENOCIDE - "woe is you" // forthcoming disc

THROW THE FIGHT - "breaking the cycle" // the vault - ep
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // forthcoming disc
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "start walking" // home
BOBAFLEX - "slave" // hell in my heart
ANGRY WATERS - "ours to be had" // angry waters III
GEMINI SYNDROME - "basement" // the metal ep
BOLO - "taker" // depopulous
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "pretty disaster" // new world disaster

HOUR 2
THIRA - "release" // the ascension construction
CLUTCH - "unto the breach" // earth rocker
AMARANTHE - "the nexus" // the nexus
KATATONIA - "forsaker" // night is the new day
SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN - "imaginary problems" // the policy of unilateral hate
PINWHEEL - "playground" // un-comp vol 1
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "coercion" // vi-ops

MESHUGGAH - "the hurt that finds you first" // koloss
KVELTERTAK - "spring fra livet" // meir
HATEBREED - "own your world" // the divinity of purpose
AS I LAY DYING - "within destruction" // an ocean between us
FOR TODAY - "fearless" // immortal
SOILWORK - "this momentary bliss" // the living infinite
BUTCHER BABIES - "mr. slowdeath" // butcher babies - ep
PSYCHOSTICK - "ABCDEATH" // we couldn't think of a title

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/15/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/15/13

HOUR 1
CLUTCH - "cruical velocity" // earth rocker
CLUTCH - "earth rocker" // earth rocker
3 PILL MORNING - "I want that for you" // black tie love affair
THROW THE FIGHT - "lights out for summer" // what doesn't kill us
AMERICAN REVIVAL - "japanese/shark" // thank ya kindly
GOODNIGHT GOLD DUST - "towards the sun" // towards the sun
WIPING OUT THOUSANDS - "feed" // this came first
DESSA - "dutch" // a badly broken code

COREY TAYLOR, DAVE GROHL, RICK NEILSEN, SCOTT READER - "from can to can't" // sound city: real to reel
BIFFY CLYRO - "sounds like balloons" // opposites
ANGRY BUKOWSKI - "alligator" // find what you love and let it kill you
ECHO EFFECT - "face of the girl" // the beauty in disaster
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot
JACK WHITE - "I'm shakin" // blunderbuss
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "wooden year" // lahuna

HOUR 2
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "reach and touch" // trepanation
KVELERTAK - "spring fra livet" // meir
AS I LAY DYING - "a greater foundation" // awakened
THE CHARIOT - "in" // one wing
SYLOSIS - "born anew" // monolith
INCITE - "the aftermath" // all out war
PERIPHERY - "facepalm mute" // periphery II
TORCHE - "in pieces" // harmonicraft

EARTHRISE - "polar low" // eras lost
TORCH THE SPIRES - "the great snipe hunt" // bastard sons of minneapolis
THE GOODBARS - "O.C.D." // the goodbars
THE AGONIST - "panophobia" // prisoners
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // poison of the earth - single
PHILIP H ANSELMO - "conflict" // war of the gargantuas
REFLECTIONS - "advance upon me brethern" // the fantasy effect

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/08/13 - PROJECT 86

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/08/13
GUESTS :: PROJECT 86

HOUR 1
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "start walking" // home
BIFFY CLYRO - "sounds like balloons" // opposites
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // forthcoming disc
EDEN - "voodoo queen" // guilty pleasure(s)
AILING JUPITER - "get out" // get out
THE GOODBARS - "O.C.D." // the goodbars
FLYLEAF - "call you out" // new horizons
THE REPLACEMENTS - "I'm not sayin" // songs for slim

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "seek advice elsewhere" // home
PROJECT 86 - "fall Goliath fall" // wait for the siren
PROJECT 86 - "the crossfire gambit" // wait for the siren
PROJECT 86 - "new transmission" // wait for the siren

HOUR 2
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "shirts" // home
BIFFY CLYRO - "modern magic formula" // opposites
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot
REVILWEN - "woodgrain" // woodgrain - single
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "in due time" // disarm the descent
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "like God" // new world disaster
NIGHT VERSES - "from the shadows where I'm low" // out of the sky
LETLIVE - "renegades 86" // fake history

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "come find me" // home
SOILWORK - "long live the misanthrope" // the living infinite
DEMON HUNTER - "someone to hate" // true defiance
GEMINI SYNDROME - "basement" // the metal ep
SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN - "salt the earth" // the policy of unilateral hate
MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE - "revenge" // if
LAMB OF GOD - "the undertow" // resolution

**SPECIAL THANKS to PROJECT 86 for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week!! PROJECT 86's new album "Wait fot the Siren" is out now!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/01/13 - ARROWS AT DAWN

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/01/13
GUESTS :: ARROWS AT DAWN

HOUR 1
THE REPLACEMENTS - "I'm not sayin" // songs for slim
TW - "masked" // destined to be real
AMERICAN REVIVAL - "japanese/shark" // thank ya kindly
REVILWEN - "woodgrain" // woodgrain - single
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide
EDEN - "voodoo queen" // guilty pleasure(s)

ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // no place to hide
AILING JUPITER - "get out" // get out
ARROWS AT DAWN - "battered man" // out of touch
ECHO EFFECT - "face of the girl" // the beauty in disaster
ANBERLIN - "desires" // vital
BUCKAROUX BANSHEES - "rude girl" // demo
LOVE AND DEATH - "watching the bottom fall" // between here and lost

HOUR 2
SOILWORK - "this momentary bliss" // the living infinite
SOILWORK - "spectrum of eternity" // the living infinite
GEMINI SYNDROME - "resurrection" // the metal ep
BUTCHER BABIES - "mr. slowdeath" // butcher babies ep
BRING ME THE HORIZON - "shadow moses" // sempiternal
NUISANCE - "the message" // kill the silence
KVELTERTAK - "bruane brenn" // meir

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE - "riot" // temper temper
EARTHRISE - "polar low" // eras lost
TORCH THE SPIRES - "the great snipe hunt" // bastard sons of Minneapolis
EMERY - "butcher's mouth" // in shallow seas we sail
LESSONS - "divisions" // five points
KYLESA - "unspoken" // ultraviolet
SPOKEN - "illusion" // illusion
CONVERGE - "trespasses" // all we love we leave behind

**SPECIAL THANKS to TIM and PAT from ARROWS AT DAWN for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week!!! Catch them live at the What's Up Lounge in Mankato on Sat Mar 9 with Eden, Ailing Jupiter and The Outpulse and at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Mpls on Fri Mar 15 with Echo Effect, Eden and American Gothic.**

A couple of interviews posted online...

I have posted a couple of interviews on our Soundcloud page.

The Mayberry Riot from 2/8.




Stone Sour from 2/1.




Echo Effect from 12/14.




More coming soon!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 2/22/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 2/22/13

HOUR 1
REVILWEN - "woodgrain" // woodgrain - single
CHILDREN 18:3 - "moment to moment" // on the run
PUSCIFER - "bohemian rhapsody" // donkey punch the night
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "nightlife" // home
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "nordeaster" // city of champions
3 PILL MORNING - "I want that for you" // black tie love affair
STONE SOUR - "do me a favor" // house of gold and bones part two
CITY OF GHOSTS - "living pieces" // daylight

MIXED BLOOD MAJORITY - "the runaround" // mixed blood majority
GOODNIGHT GOLDDUST - "towards the sun" // towards the sun
JACK WHITE - "trash tounge talker" // blunderbuss
CLUTCH - "earth rocker" // earth rocker
EYE EMPIRE - "I pray" // moment of impact
SUIT AND TIE GENOCIDE - "woe is you" // woe is you - single
THE ATLANTIC - "wasting time" // wasting time - single

HOUR 2
MESHUGGAH - "pitch black" // pitch black - single
ANIMALS AS LEADERS - "an infinite regression" // weightless
KYLESA - "scapegoat" // static tensions
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "pretty disaster" // new world disaster
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "sugars of someday" // sugars of someday - single
PROJECT 86 - "S.O.T.S." // wait for the siren
AS I LAY DYING - "a greater foundation" // awakened
NUISANCE - "priapism" // kill the silence

AFTER THE BURIAL - "my frailty" // in dreams
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "coercion" // vi-ops
TESTAMENT - "rise up" // dark roots of earth
YOUR MEMORIAL - "shipwreck" // redirect
REFLECTIONS - "good push" // the fantasy effect
LAMB OF GOD - "ghost walking" // resolution

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/15/13

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/15/13

HOUR 1
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "nightlife" // home
STONE SOUR - "do me a favor" // house of gold and bones part two
3 PILL MORNING - "I want that for you" // black tie love affair
THROW THE FIGHT - "lights out for summer" // what doesn't kill us
JACK WHITE - "freedom at 21" live // live at Third Man Records
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot
FLYLEAF - "call you out" // new horizons
ECHO EFFECT - "seven" // the beauty in disaster

BUCKAROUX BANSHEES - "rude girl" // demo
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // forthcoming disc
PARAMORE - "now" // paramore
NEW MEDICINE - "end of the world" // race you to the bottom
PROJECT 86 - "say goodnight to the bad guy" // songs to burn your bridges by
CHILDREN 18:3 - "what about justice" // on the run
DEFTONES - "poltergeist" // koi no yokan

HOUR 2
KVELERTAK - "bruane brenn" // mein
SPOKEN - "beneath the surface" // illusion
INDEX CASE - "blood and a siren" // augustagein
TESTAMENT - "more than meets the eye" // the formation of damnation
ENEMY X - "unbroken" // the ends of the earth
EYE EMPIRE - "I pray" // moment of impact
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE - "breaking point" // temper temper

GEMINI SYNDROME - "left of me" // left of me - single
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "in due time" // disarm the descent
BRING ME THE HORIZON - "shadow moses" // sempiternal
3 INCHES OF BLOOD - "trial of champions" // fire up the blades
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // poison of the earth - single
FEATHERS ARE BEAUTIFUL - "unlike you" // the silence ends here and now
LAMB OF GOD - "contractor" // wrath

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 2/8/13 - THE MAYBERRY RIOT & SPOKEN

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 2/8/13
GUESTS :: THE MAYBERRY RIOT & SPOKEN

HOUR 1
LAMB OF GOD - "ruin" // as the palaces burn VINYL
RED - "release the panic" // release the panic
GEMINI SYNDROME - "pleasure and pain" // pleasure and pain - single
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // the mayberry riot
DIESL - "dismiss me" // dismiss me - single

KILL SWITCH - "old testament" // the disaster image
BRING THE SUN - "irish carbomb" // like a lion ep
DISKORD - "who am I?" // distance to nowhere
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "amazing" // the mayberry riot
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE - "breaking point" // temper temper

HOUR 2
BRING ME THE HORIZON - "shadow moses" // sempiternal
IN THIS MOMENT - "burn" // blood VINYL
SPOKEN - "through it all" // illusion
CHILDREN 18:3 - "stronger" // rain's a comin'
PROJECT 86 - "fall, golliath, fall" // wait for the siren

SPOKEN - "illusion" // illusion
HATEBREED - "own your world" // the divinity of purpose
LOVE AND DEATH - "I w8 4 u" (feat Mattie Montgomery) // between here and lost
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // poison of the earth - single
LAMB OF GOD - "walk with me in hell" // sacrament VINYL

**SPECIAL THANKS to MARK, FROKE, BODE and THE WOLF from THE MAYBERRY RIOT for stopping up to the studio to talk about the new band! Check out their debut show March 23 at the Red Sky Lounge in Mankato, 21+ FREE show! Also, SPECIAL THANKS to MATT from SPOKEN for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week to talk about their new album Illusion which comes out on Tuesday! Spoken plays Wooly's in Des Moines, IA with INDEX CASE and REST on Feb 17 and at a sold out Mill City Nights in Minneapolis on April 3 with VOLBEAT and DANKO JONES!**