MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/18/15

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/18/15

HOUR 1
AMERICAN SCARECROWS – “snoopy’s Christmas” // snoopy’s Christmas – single
10. VIA – “closets” // sanitize this
9. REFLECTIONS – “actias luna” // the color clear
8. CHILDREN 18:3 – “watch over me” // come in
7. MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK – “TKO” // panic stations
6. KAT PERKINS – “drive” // drive
KAT PERKINS – “chestnuts roasting” // a Kat Perkins Christmas
5. THE MAYBERRY RIOT – “closed out” // shanaska

4. ARROWS AT DAWN – “let live” // pieces
3. ANGRY WATERS – “invasive species” // hold the high ground
2. LATE NIGHT FIGHTS – “galvanized” // jousthouse
1. COLD KINGDOM – “the light” // the moon and the fool
1. COLD KINGDOM – “surrender” // the moon and the fool
AEOUS – “monster” // the light you’ve always had
QUIETDRIVE – “all I want for Christmas is you” // all I want for Christmas is you - single

HOUR 2
10. SOILWORK – “the ride majestic” // the ride majestic
10. SEVENDUST – “chop” // kill the flaw
10. AUGUST BURNS RED – “identity” // found in far away places
10. 36 CRAZYFISTS – “also am I” // time and trauma
9. BRING ME THE HORIZON – “happy song” // that’s the spirit
8. FAITH NO MORE – “superhero” // sol invictus
7. BULLY – “too tough” // feels like

6. THE DEAD WEATHER – “I feel love (every million miles) // dodge and burn
5. DEAD SARA – “L.A. city slum” // pleasure to meet you
4. WOLF ALICE – “your love’s” // my love is cool
3. HALESTORM – “mayhem” // into the wild life
2. LAMB OF GOD – “still echoes” // VII: strum und drang
1. CLUTCH – “x-ray visions” // psychic warfare


THE FULL LIST

NATIONAL
1. CLUTCH – “psychic warfare” (Weathermaker)
2. LAMB OF GOD – “VII: strum und drang” (Epic)
3. HALESTORM – “into the wild life” (Atlantic)
4. WOLF ALICE – “my love is cool” (RCA)
5. DEAD SARA – “pleasure to meet you” (Pocket Kid)
6. THE DEAD WEATHER – “dodge and burn” (Third Man)
7. BULLY – “feels like” (Columbia)
8. FAITH NO MORE – “sol invictus” (Reclamation/Ipecac)
9. BRING ME THE HORIZON – “that’s the spirit” (Columbia)
10. 36 CRAZYFISTS – “time and trauma” (Spinefarm)
10. AUGUST BURNS RED – “found in far away places” (Fearless)
10. SEVENDUST – “kill the flaw” (7Bros)
10. SOILWORK – “the ride majestic” (Nuclear Blast)
14. SPOKEN – “breathe again” (Artery)
15. BOBAFLEX – “anything that moves” (BFX)
16. BUTCHER BABIES – “take it like a man” (Century Media)
17. PERIPHERY – “juggernaut: alpha” & “juggernaut: omega” (Sumerian)
18. ROYAL THUNDER – “crooked doors” (Relapse)
19. REFUSED – “freedom” (Epitaph)
20. PARKWAY DRIVE – “ire” (Epitaph)
20. TORCHE – “restarter” (Relapse)
22. COAL CHAMBER – “rivals” (Napalm)
23. TRIVIUM – “silence in the snow” (Roadrunner)
24. MARILYN MANSON – “the pale emperor” (Cooking Vinyl)
25. BARONESS – “purple” (Abraxan Hymns) … probably would have been higher if it didn’t come out the day I finalized this list

LOCAL
1. COLD KINGDOM – “the moon and the fool”
2. LATE NIGHT FIGHTS – “jousthouse”
3. ANGRY WATERS – “hold the high ground”
4. ARROWS AT DAWN – “pieces”
5. THE MAYBERRY RIOT – “shanaska”
6. KAT PERKINS – “drive”
7. MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK – “panic stations” (Epitaph)
8. CHILDREN 18:3 – “come in” (Tooth and Nail)
9. REFLECTIONS – “the color clear” (eOne/Good Fight)
10. VIA – “sanitize this”

HONORABLE MENTIONS
AEOUS – “the light you’ve always had”
SELF-EVIDENT – “the traveler”
CONVEYER – “when given time to grow” (Victory)
BY THE THOUSANDS – “connect”
IMMORALIS – “connected visions”

NORTHERN INVASION 2016 LINEUP ANNOUNCED!

NORTHERN INVASION 2016 LINEUP HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED!!



A HUGE CONGRATS to our friends in CITY OF THE WEAK for getting on this bill! It will be a huge opportunity for them.

It will be great to see Midwest Beatdown alumns ROB ZOMBIE, KORN, BRING ME THE HORIZON, LAMB OF GOD, SEVENDUST, HELLYEAH, TRIVIUM, BUTCHER BABIES and AVATAR all in the same festival!

Tickets go on sale December 15 at 10am! http://www.NorthernInvasion.com

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/11/15 - SPOKEN

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/11/15
GUESTS :: SPOKEN

HOUR 1
LEMMY & DAVE GROHL – “run Rudolph run” // we wish you a metal Christmas
ARROWS AT DAWN – “let live” // pieces
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS – “galvanized” // jousthouse
THE MAYBERRY RIOT – “pull me in” // shanaska
BRING THE SUN – “MF” // cancer face
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE – “strength of the mind” // strength of the mind – single

BARONESS – “morningside” // purple
SPOKEN – “the answer” // spoken
SPOKEN – “beyond the stars” // breathe again
SPOKEN – “falling apart” // breathe again

HOUR 2
SPOKEN – “surrender” // breathe again
THRICE – “in exile” // beggars
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS – “still remains” // purple
PANTERA – “piss” // vulgar display of power (20th anniversary edition)
PANTERA – “uplift” // reinventing the steel
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE – “downstream” // can’t stop the machine

THE COMPANY WE KEEP – “pattern against user” // making moves ep
NORMA JEAN – “the anthem of the angry brides” // meridional
TREASONS – “wolves are circling” // demo
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS – “start walking” // home
BABES IN TOYLAND – “he’s my thing” // painkillers
WALLS OF JERICHO – “a trigger full of promises” // with devils amongst us all
THROWDOWN – “avow” // intolerance
HOUSTON – “cover” // overhead
ISLANDER – “cold speak” // violence and destruction

**SPECIAL THANKS to MATT from SPOKEN for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! SPOKEN's new album "Breathe Again" is out now via Artery Recordings!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/04/15 - KAT PERKINS and LATE NIGHT FIGHTS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/04/15
GUESTS :: KAT PERKINS / LATE NIGHT FIGHTS

HOUR 1
STONE SOUR feat LZZY HALE - "gimme shelter" // straight outta burbank
BROTHER ALI - "take me home" // the undisputed truth
ATMOSPHERE feat deM atlaS - "finer things" // finer things - single
KAT PERKINS - "drive" // kat perkins
KAT PERKINS - "O holy night" // a kat perkins Christmas

KAT PERKINS - "chestnuts roasting" // a kat perkins Christmas
KAT PERKINS - "a different kind of Christmas" // a kat perkins Christmas
BRING THE SUN - "vestige" // death pigeon
ARSON RIVER - "chemicals" // any given day
BLAMESHIFT - "tell me it's alright" // tell me it's alright - single
CLUTCH - "sucker for the witch" // psychic warfare

HOUR 2
STONE SOUR - "too fast for love" // straight outta burbank
REVILWEN - "one more yesterday" // the script
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS - "galvanized" // jousthouse
ARROWS AT DAWN - "let live" // pieces
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS - "owe to owed" // jousthouse

COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // the moon and the fool
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS - "nothing to lose" // jousthouse
HALESTORM - "mayhem" // into the wild life
STITCHED UP HEART - "finally free" // finally free - single
EVERY TIME I DIE - "floater" // hot damn
AUGUST BURNS RED - "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer" // sleddin' hill
AUGUST BURNS RED - "winter wonderland" // sleddin' hill

**SPECIAL THANKS to KAT PERKINS and RYAN from LATE NIGHT FIGHTS for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! KAT PERKINS' new Christmas EP, A Kat Perkins Christmas is out now as well as LATE NIGHT FIGHTS' debut album Jousthouse!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/27/15

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/27/15
HOUR 1
FOO FIGHTERS - "saint cecilia" // saint cecilia
BULLY - "too tough" // feels like
LACEY STURM - "impossible" // impossible - single
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // yesteryear
QUIETDRIVE - "sleazy" // up or down
AVERAGE MAMMALS - "the senses" // life under the influence
GOODNIGHT RITUAL - "hits the spot" // trade mark
P.O.S - "let it rattle" // never better

ALL THE WAY RIDER - "I always" // floyd
SELF-EVIDENT - "hotel santabear...invisible bear" // angular
WARROOSTER - "save the date" // bilderberg workshop
STONE SOUR - "love gun" // meanwhile in burbank
ROMANTIC REBEL - "disappear" // romantic rebel
AEOUS - "us against the world" // the light you've always had
PINWHEEL - "bend" // pinwheel

HOUR 2
KYLESA - "inward debate" // exhausting fire
AFTER THE BURIAL - "lost in the static" // lost in the static - single
REFLECTIONS - "actias luna" // the color clear
TEXAS IN JULY - "c4" // texas in july
REAPING ASMODEIA - "indwelling" // indwelling - single
BY THE THOUSANDS - "theopany" // by the thousands
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money

ENEMY X - "refuse to fall" // refuse to fall - single
AUGUST BURNS RED - "identity" // found in far away places
EVERY TIME I DIE - "if there is room to move, things move" // from parts unknown
KING DIAMOND - "abigail" // abigail
ANTISTAR - "the pluto encounter" // the pluto encounter - single
PALE HORSE PROPHECY - "wet house" // pale horse prophecy
DEMON HUNTER - "lifewar" // the world is a thorn

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/20/15 - RON FUNCHES

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/20/15
GUESTS :: RON FUNCHES

HOUR 1
ATTENTION – “stand strong” // stand strong
KAT PERKINS – “drive” // drive
LA MADNESS – “how bad” // how bad – single
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS – “galvanized” // demo
COLD KINGDOM – “surrender” // the moon and the fool
ARROWS AT DAWN – “let live” // pieces
ATMOSPHERE feat deM atlaS – “finer things” // finer things – single

PROF – “bar breaker” // liability
RON FUNCHES – “Oregon / eclectic tastes” // the funches of us
KOO KOO KANGA ROO – “who farted” // gross
PSYCHOSTICK – “so. heavy.” // IV: revenge of the vengeance
STEEL PANTHER – “the burden of being wonderful” // all you can eat
SPOKEN – “falling apart” // breathe again

HOUR 2
STITCHED UP HEART – “finally free” // finally free – single
BLAMESHIFT – “tell me it’s alright” // tell me it’s alright – single
BARONESS – “shock me” // purple
NEW YEARS DAY – “save myself from me” // maleviolence
CITY OF THE WEAK – “the blame game” // disclosure
3 PILL MORNING – “bottom of the barrel” // bottom of the barrel – single
SIN CITY ESCAPE – “still here” // sin city escape

KATATONIA – “forsaker” // night is the new day
REAPING ASMODIEA – “indwelling” // indwelling – single
AFTER THE BURIAL – “lost in the static” // lost in the static – single
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS – “knight boat” // the old ones are and forever shall be
CONVEYER – “haven” // when given time to grow
BLUE FELIX – “hate inside” // hate inside – single
TREASONS – “wolves are circling” // demo
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS – “seek advice elsewhere” // home

**SPECIAL THANKS to RON FUNCHES for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! Ron's new comedy album "The Funches of Us" is out now via Comedy Dynamics. Catch Ron on Undateable live Friday nights at 7pm CST on NBC!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/13/15 - 15th ANNIVERSARY SHOW (part 2)

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/13/15
15th ANNIVERSARY SHOW (part 2)

HOUR 1
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE – “just so you know” // the art of war
BLAMESHIFT – “tell me it’s alright” // tell me it’s alright – single
FLIPP – “I wish I was a planet” // flipp
AMERICAN SCARECROWS – “devil on my shoulder” // yesteryear
GOING TO THE SUN – “new year” // going to the sun
LACEY STURM – “impossible” // life screams
DEFTONES – “976-evil” // diamond eyes

WRITE THIS DOWN – “cliffs and cars” // foundations
ANGRY WATERS – “invasive species” // hold the high ground
BRING THE SUN – “MF” // cancer face
DISKORD – “dead to me” // limberdink road
HOUSTON – “cover” // overhead
BULLY – “too tough” // feels like

HOUR 2
CASANATRA – “I do not care” // death ride
AFTER THE BURIAL – “lost in the static” // lost in the static – single
ALIGN – “worth 3 scene points” // some breaking news
ANTISTAR – “the pluto encounter” // the pluto encounter - single
KILL SWITCH – “old testament” // the disaster image
REAPING ASMODEIA – “poison of the earth” // poison of the earth

REFLECTIONS – “actias luna” // the color clear
DISEMBODIED – “anvil chandelier” // diablerie
MARTYR AD – “American hollow” // on earth as it is in hell
DEVILINSIDE – “vodka lung / kiss the cynic” // volume one
QUAZAR – “Santa Barbara” // places
DEVIL YOU KNOW – “how the end shall be” // they bleed red
MOTORHEAD – “ace of spades” // ace of spades

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/6/15 - 15TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW wsg ARROWS AT DAWN

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/6/15
15th ANNIVERSARY SHOW
GUESTS :: ARROWS AT DAWN

HOUR 1
DISEMBODIED – “anvil chandelier” // diablerie
SMAKDAB – “razor” // smakdab
INDEX CASE – “every breath” // Midwest Movement: live and unplugged
ARROWS AT DAWN – “on the run” // pieces
KICK – “sick religion” // away from the world
ARROWS AT DAWN – “who you are” // pieces

SUE GENERIS – “C#” // sue generis
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS – “galvanized” // demo
ARROWS AT DAWN – “let live” // pieces
BUSS – “radar” // low noise/high density
BIFFY CLYRO – “Saturday superhouse” // puzzle

HOUR 2
ARROWS AT DAWN – “never let it die” // pieces
FOUR LETTER LIE – “nothing but a ghost” // what a terrible thing to say
MANIC EUPHORIA – “(over)” // simple solutions
SOILWORK – “the ride majestic” // the ride majestic

DEAD SARA – “L.A. city slum” // pleasure to meet you
WOLF ALICE – “fluffy” // my love is cool
CLUTCH – “noble savage” // psychic warfare
MY ZERO – “can’t lose control” // forthcoming disc
K – “frontline” // prelude
MERCY’S OWN – “this kiss goodnight” // self inflicted

**SPECIAL THANKS to TIM, MATT and PAT from ARROWS AT DAWN for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! ARROWS AT DAWN's new album "Pieces" is out now!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/30/15 - FALL PLEDGE DRIVE with ANGRY WATERS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/30/15
2015 KMSU FALL PLEDGE DRIVE
GUESTS :: ANGRY WATERS

HOUR 1
MISFITS - "monster mash" // cuts from the crypt
ATMOSPHERE - "finer things" feat deM atlas // finer things - single
ANGRY WATERS - "recluse" // hold the high ground
PALE HORSE PROPHECY - "wet house" // pale horse prophecy

BLAMESHIFT - "tell me it's alright" // tell me it's alright - single
PUSCIFER - "the arsonist" // money shot
STITCHED UP HEART - "finally free" // finally free - single
BABES IN TOYLAND - "he's my thing" // painkillers
THE JOY FORMIDABLE - "cradle" // the big roar

HOUR 2
AVERAGE MAMMALS - "the senses" // life under the influence
SPOKEN - "falling apart" // breathe again
AVADO - "house of fools" // viscera
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "closed out" // the mayberry riot - ep
FIFTH HOUR - "out of fear" // out of fear - single
CITY OF THE WEAK - "white fire alarm" // white fire alarm

DOWN AND ABOVE - "dirge" // vena cava
BLUE FELIX - "hate inside" // hate inside - single
CROSSFAITH - "ghost in the machine" feat Caleb Shamo // xeno
ANTHRAX - "evil twin" // evil twin - single
TYPE O NEGATIVE - "black no 1 (little miss scare all)" // bloody kisses

**SPECIAL THANKS to WICK from ANGRY WATERS for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown tonight! ANGRY WATERS' new EP "Hold the High Ground" is out now along with PALE HORSE PROPHECY and the new BEN JACOBSON album!

KMSU's FALL PLEDGE DRIVE is still going on strong - support independent public radio that's commercial free and ran by people who live for music! You can call in your support by calling 507-389-5678 or pledge online at http://www.kmsu.org and tell them the Midwest Beatdown sent ya!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/23/15 - BUTCHER BABIES

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/23/15
GUESTS :: BUTCHER BABIES

HOUR 1
SKINDRED - "hit the ground" // volume
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "TKO" // panic stations
EMERGENT - "erode" // emergent
COLD KINGDOM - "crash poet" // the moon and the fool
FIFTH HOUR - "not the enemy" // not the enemy - single
ANTISTAR - "vixen" // vixen - single
DIVIDING EDEN - "hey ya (losing gravity)" // here comes the water

GOODNIGHT RITUAL - "hits the spot" // trade mark
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "closed out" // the mayberry riot - ep
DEEPHAVEN - "sundowner" // sundowner - single
3 PILL MORNING - "bottom of the barrel" // bottom of the barrel - single
SCARLET HAZE - "give me a reason" // out of the dark
SKYWIND - "drug store" // sleeping giants
TECHNICIAN - "crimson chord" // crimson
WARROOSTER - "save the date" // bilderburg workshop

HOUR 2
SEVENDUST - "chop" // kill the flaw
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS - "galvanized" // demo
MY ZERO - "can't lose control" // forthcoming disc
BUTCHER BABIES - "igniter" // take it like a man
BUTCHER BABIES - "the cleansing" // take it like a man
BUTCHER BABIES - "axewound" // goliath

BUTCHER BABIES - "dead man walking" // take it like a man
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "beauty under glass" // beauty under glass - single
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "psycho" // kill the precedence
YOUR MEMORIAL - "endeavor for purpose" // atonement
REAPING ASMODIEA - "indwelling" (2015) // indwelling - single
STRAIGHT LINE STITCH - "dark matter" // transparency

**SPECIAL THANKS to HEIDI and CARLA from BUTCHER BABIES for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week! BUTCHER BABIES' new album "Take It Like a Man" is out now on Century Media Records!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/16/15

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/16/15

HOUR 1
DEEPHAVEN – “sundowner” // sundowner – single
ARROWS AT DAWN – “on the run” // pieces
ANGRY WATERS – “invasive species” // hold the high ground
3 PILL MORNING – “bottom of the barrel” // bottom of the barrel – single
BRING THE SUN – “MF” // cancer face
EYEDEA AND ABILITIES – “now” // E&A

PROF – “bar breaker” // liability
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK – “anything at all” // panic stations
NIGHT VERSES – “time erases time” // lift your existence
BULLY – “too tough” // feels like
WOLF ALICE – “fluffy” // my love is cool
VERUCA SALT – “seether” // American thighs
BRUISE VIOLET – “maybe you’re the problem” // survival of the prettiest
BABES IN TOYLAND – “bruise violet” // fontanelle

HOUR 2
PVRIS – “my house” // white noise
BRING ME THE HORIZON – “happy song” // that’s the spirit
ARSON RIVER – “chemicals” // any given day
BUTCHER BABIES – “never go back” // take it like a man
CLUTCH – “mercury” // blast tyrant
CLUTCH – “x-ray visions” // psychic warfare
HARK – “palendromeda” // crystalline

BARONESS – “march to the sea” // yellow and green
KYLESA – “inward debate” // exhausting fire
DEVIL YOU KNOW – “the way we die” // they bleed red
AEOUS – “monster” // the light you’ve always had
PARKWAY DRIVE – “dying to believe” // ire
REFLECTIONS – “actias luna” // the color clear
HATEBREED – “last breath” // satisfaction is the death of desire

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/09/15 - REDOVERLUNAR, COLD KINGDOM, PINWHEEL

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/09/15
GUESTS :: REDOVERLUNAR, COLD KINGDOM, PINWHEEL

HOUR 1
3 PILL MORNING - "bottom of the barrel" // bottom of the barrel - single
CLUTCH - "sucker for the witch" // psychic warfare
VIA - "closets" // sanitize this
REDOVERLUNAR - "zero" // fighting fire with gasoline
REDOVERLUNAR - "the wringer" // theo's revenge

REDOVERLUNAR - "feeding and breeding" // theo's revenge
TECHNICIAN - "crimson chord" // crimson
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "closed out" // the mayberry riot - ep
SEVENDUST - "chop" // kill the flaw
DIVIDING EDEN - "hey ya (losing gravity)" // here comes the water
FIFTH HOUR - "not the enemy" // not the enemy - single

HOUR 2
COLD KINGDOM - "the light" // the moon and the fool
COLD KINGDOM - "surrender" // the moon and the fool
COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // the moon and the fool
IMMORALIS - "the unwanted" // connected visions

PINWHEEL - "bend" // pinwheel
PINWHEEL - "carried away" // pinwheel
PINWHEEL - "hollow embrace" // pinwheel

**SPECIAL THANKS to AARON from REDOVERLUNAR, ZAC from COLD KINGDOM and RYAN from PINWHEEL for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! REDOVERLUNAR recently reunited at the 331 Club, their new album Rope will be out in Nov/Dec and they will play more shows in the Spring. COLD KINGDOM and PINWHEEL are playing Buster's in Mankato on Sat (10/10) with Strange Daze (21+ show) for a stolen gear benefit! If you can't make the show you can donate money to COLD KINGDOM's GoFundMe page here!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/02/15 - 2 TON CRUTCH

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/02/15
GUESTS :: 2 TON CRUTCH

HOUR 1
SEVENDUST - "slave the prey" // kill the flaw
ANGRY WATERS - "invasive species" // hold the high ground
HAMMERDOWN - "straight edge" // full throttle fury
TRIVIUM - "the ghost that's haunting you" // silence in the snow
BRING THE SUN - "vestige" // death pigeon
NEW YEARS DAY - "save myself from me" // malevolence
DOOMTREE - "grey duck" // all hands

WOLF ALICE - "your love's whore" // my love is cool
CLUTCH - "noble savage" // psychic warfare
ANTISTAR - "vixen" // vixen - single
2 TON CRUTCH - "lunch money" // demos
SOUND AND FURY - "god complex" // sound and fury
2 TON CRUTCH - "drown me out" // demos

HOUR 2
LIQUID SUN - "promise me" // an untimely reply
2 TON CRUTCH - "shallow you" // demos
FOUR LETTER LIE - "inversion" // like structures
CHILDREN OF BODOM - "I hurt" // I worship chaos
WILD THRONE - "shadow deserts" // harvest of darkness
IMMORALIS - "the unwanted" // connected visions

KYLESA - "inward debate" // exhausting fire
AFTER THE BURIAL - "anti-pattern" // wolves within
REAPING ASMODEIA - "indwelling" (2015) // indwelling - single
FOR TODAY - "broken lens" // wake
CONVEYER - "haven" // when given time to grow
METAL ALLEGIANCE - "we rock" // metal allegiance

**SPECIAL THANKS to JAMES from 2 TON CRUTCH for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown! 2 TON CRUTCH recently reunited for a one off show!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/25/15 - ANGRY WATERS, THE ODDFATHERS, REFLECTIONS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/25/15
GUESTS :: ANGRY WATERS, THE ODDFATHERS, REFLECTIONS

HOUR 1
CLUTCH - "noble savage" // psychic warfare
CHILDREN 18:3 - "watch over me" // come in
ANGRY WATERS - "invasive species" // hold the high ground
ANGRY WATERS - "recluse" // hold the high ground
HAMMERDOWN - "straight edge" // full throttle fury

ANGRY WATERS - "pins and needles" // hold the high ground
WARROOSTER - "communion" // bilderberg workshop
LET IT BREATHE - "second hit" // river wizard
THE ODDFATHERS - "don't say you're lonely" // part II

HOUR 2
THE ODDFATHERS - "hey you" // part I
THE ODDFATHERS - "another tear goes dry" // part II
IMMORALIS - "the unwanted" // connected visions
THIRA - "cognition: one" // vein I: varying states of decay
FOR TODAY - "broken lens" // wake

CHILDREN OF BODOM - "I hurt" // I worship chaos
REFLECTIONS - "actias luna" // the color clear
REFLECTIONS - "autumnus" // the color clear
REFLECTIONS - "shadow self" // the color clear

**SPECIAL THANKS to WICK from ANGRY WATERS, BRYNN and TOM from THE ODDFATHERS and JAKE from REFLECTIONS all for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week!

ANGRY WATERS' new album "Hold the High Ground" comes out Oct 2 at Buster's in Mankato - 21+ show with HAMMERDOWN, WARROOSTER and JOEY BOOKER!

THE ODDFATHERS are not retiring and will be releasing "Part III" soon thru Rock Steady Records!

REFLECTIONS' new album "The Color Clear" is now available thru eOne/Good Fight Records! REFLECTIONS will be direct support on TEXAS IN JULY's final tour which will be at the Skyway Theater in Minneapolis on Nov 29 (ALL AGES)!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/18/15 - SAUL

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/18/15
GUESTS :: SAUL

HOUR 1
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK – “anything at all” // panic stations
ANGRY WATERS – “invasive species” // hold the high ground
PINWHEEL – “bend” // pinwheel
SAUL – “bolide” // bolide – single
SAUL – “the touching of parallels” // the touching of parallels

SAUL – “motives” // the touching of parallels
EMERGENT – “out of the grey” // emergent
THE ODDFATHERS – “another tear goes dry” // part II
BELLUSIRA – “sever” // the healing
DOOMTREE – “dots and dashes” // doomtree
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK – “gravity” // panic stations

HOUR 2
TECHNICIAN – “crimson chord” // crimson
BARONESS – “chlorine and wine” // purple
LET IT BREATHE – “second hit” // river wizard
ARROWS AT DAWN – “on the run” // pieces
DEVIL YOU KNOW – “stay of execution” // they bleed red
MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE – “this hurts” // pink 1990-1997

HUNTRESS – “sorrow” // static
PARKWAY DRIVE – “dying to believe” // ire
FOUR LETTER LIE – “inversion” // like structures
HASTE THE DAY – “take” // coward
METAL ALLEGIANCE feat D. RANDALL BLYTHE – “gift of pain” // metal allegiance
REFLECTIONS – “actias luna” // the color clear

**SPECIAL THANKS to BLAKE for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown before their show at the What's Up Lounge in Mankato! Saul's excellent new single "Bolide" is now up wherever you get your digital music!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/11/15 - BABES IN TOYLAND

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/11/15
GUESTS :: BABES IN TOYLAND

HOUR 1
ARROWS AT DAWN – “on the run” // pieces
WOLF ALICE – “your love’s whore” // my love is cool
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE – “beauty under glass” // beauty under glass – single
BRING ME THE HORIZON – “happy song” // that’s the spirit
THE MAYBERRY RIOT – “closed out” // the mayberry riot
REVILWEN – “just breathe” // the script
CITY OF THE WEAK – “the blame game” // disclosure

MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS – “downtown” // downtown – single
MOTORHEAD – “electricity” // bad magic
DOROTHY – “raise hell” // raise hell – single
LA LUZ – “I wanna be alone (with you)” // weirdo shrine
WARROOSTER – “save the date” // bilderberg workshop
ANGRY WATERS – “ours to be had” // angry waters III
CHILDREN 18:3 – “cover your eyes” // rain’s a comin’

HOUR 2
BABES IN TOYLAND – “he’s my thing” // painkillers
BABES IN TOYLAND – “bruise violet” // fontanelle
BABES IN TOYLAND – “spun” // fontanelle
BABES IN TOYLAND – “sweet 69” // nemesisters

BRUISE VIOLET – “maybe you’re the problem” // survival of the prettiest
PROF – “bar breaker” // liability
REFLECTIONS – “autumnus” // the color clear
BUTCHER BABIES – “the cleansing” // take it like a man
EVERY TIME I DIE – “thirst” // from parts unknown
ENEMY X – “refuse to fall” // refuse to fall – single
SLAYER – “repentless” // repentless

**SPECIAL THANKS to LORI from BABES IN TOYLAND for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown in Portland, OR at Mississippi Studios / BarBar. The vinyl reissue of "Fontanelle" is out now!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/04/15

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/04/15 No Midwest Beatdown this week due to KMSU at the Minnesota State Fair.

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/28/15

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/28/15

HOUR 1
THE DEAD WEATHER - "I feel love (every million miles)" // dodge and burn
CLUTCH - "x-ray visions" // psychic warfare
KICK - "electric love" // away from the world
HARAKIRI - "lorelei" // harakiri
DIVIDING EDEN - "hey ya (losing gravity)" // here comes the water
COLD KINGDOM - "the light" // the moon and the fool
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "closed out" // the mayberry riot
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS - "galvanized" // demo

MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "lose control" // panic stations
GOING TO THE SUN - "new year" // going to the sun
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // yesteryear
ANGRY WATERS - "dead flowers" // the tequila incidents
BRUISE VIOLET - "maybe you're the problem" // survival of the prettiest
MARMOZETS - "is it horrible" // the weird and wonderful marmozets
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "we all float down here" // four year strong

HOUR 2
UNDEROATH - "in reguards to myself" // define the great line
UNDEROATH - "a boy brushed red living in black and white" // they're only chasing safety
BATTLECROSS - "not your slave" // rise to power
CONVEYER - "haven" // when given time to grow
METALLICA - "battery" // master of puppets
PANTERA - "a new level" // vulgar display of power
SOILWORK - "alight in the aftermath" // the ride majestic

CHILDREN OF BODOM - "I worship chaos" // I worship chaos
REFLECTIONS - "actias luna" // the color clear
IN THIS MOMENT - "sick like me" // black widow
THIRA - "good morning, my name is john" // vein I: varying states of decay
REAPING ASMODEIA - "indwelling" (2015) // indwelling - single
THE AGONIST - "gates of horn and ivory" // eye of providence
AFTER THE BURIAL - "to carry you away" // in dreams

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/21/15

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/21/15

HOUR 1
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "drown" // the mayberry riot
WARROOSTER - "save the date" // bilderberg workshop
REDOVERLUNAR - "3 stars" // rope
THE ODDFATHERS - "don't say you're lonely" // part II
ERIC FAIRCHILD - "wrong side" // now and forever
AEOUS - "us against the world" // the light you've always had
ARSON RIVER - "chemicals" // any given day

ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // no place to hide
FOO FIGHTERS - "what did I do / God as my witness" // sonic highways
ROYAL BLOOD - "you could be so cruel" // royal blood
FIFTH HOUR - "not the enemy" // not the enemy - single
2 TON CRUTCH - "drown me out" // demos
SOUND AND FURY - "God complex" // sound and fury
LIQUID SUN - "promise me" // an untimely reply

HOUR 2
BUTCHER BABIES - "the cleansing" // take it like a man
SOILWORK - "alight in the aftermath" // the ride majestic
IMMORALIS - "burden" // burden - single
ENEMY X - "refuse to fall" // refuse to fall - single
REFLECTIONS - "actias luna" // the color clear
ASHES FROM STONE - "riddles and riots" // riddles and riots
GEMINI SYNDROME - "eternity" // eternity - single

METAL ALLEGIANCE feat PHIL ANSELMO - "dying song" // metal allegiance
HUNTRESS - "flesh" // static
CONVEYER - "haven" // when given time to grow
MOTORHEAD - "thunder and lightning" // bad magic
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE - "army of noise" // venom
SOILWORK - "the ride majestic (aspire angelic)" // the ride majestic

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/14/15 - 10 YEARS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/14/15
GUESTS :: 10 YEARS

HOUR 1
ENEMY X - "refuse to fall" // forthcoming disc
COLD KINGDOM - "surrender" // the moon and the fool
SKYWIND - "drug store" // sleeping giants
SAINT ASONIA - "better place" // saint asonia
CHILDREN 18:3 - "watch over me" // come in
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "inside out" // inside out - single
THE DEAD WEATHER - "buzzkill(er)" // dodge and burn

THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "closed out" // 2015 demo
10 YEARS - "miscellanea" // from birth to burial
10 YEARS - "from birth to burial" // from birth to burial
10 YEARS - "survivors?" // from birth to burial
BOBAFLEX - "dry your eyes" // anything that moves

HOUR 2
TREASONS - "wolves are circling" // demo
FOUR LETTER LIE - "inversion" // like structures
LAMB OF GOD - "footprints" // VII: sturm und drang
METAL ALLEGIANCE feat CHUCK BILLY - "can't kill the devil" // metal allegiance
CLUTCH - "x-ray visions" // psychic warfare
SOILWORK - "the ride majestic" // the ride majestic
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "sugars of someday" // shoot
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "psycho" // kill the precedence

ROMANTIC REBEL - "disappear" // romantic rebel
THE AGONIST - "gates of horn and ivory" // eye of providence
KYLESA - "scapegoat" // static tensions
INDEX CASE - "blood and a siren" // augustagein
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE - "no way out" // venom
FEAR FACTORY - "soul hacker" // genexus
AVATAR - "get in line" // hail the apocalypse
EVERY TIME I DIE - "pelican of the desert" // from parts unknown

**SPECIAL THANKS to KYLE from 10 YEARS for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week! 10 YEARS' new album "From Birth to Burial" is out now via Palehorse/Megaforce Records!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/07/15 - ARCH ENEMY

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/07/15
GUESTS :: ARCH ENEMY

HOUR 1
CLUTCH - "x-ray vision" // psychic warfare
MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE - "personal Jesus" // pink 1990-1997
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "depending on the weather" // keep your devils around
PVRIS - "my house" // white noise
BRING ME THE HORIZON - "throne" // that's the spirit
CITY OF THE WEAK - "spit it out" // disclosure
WHITHER THE TIDE - "lovers in the night" // the lunar phase vol 1
SIMS AND MIKE MICTLAN - "slow burn" // false hopes

MOTORHEAD - "electricity" // bad magic
NONPOINT - "misery" // the return
10 YEARS - "miscellanea" // from birth to burial
FOUR LETTER LIE - "inversion" // like structures
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "beauty under glass" // beauty under glass - single
WARROOSTER - "save the date" // bilderberg workshop
TRIVIUM - "silence in the snow" // silence in the snow
BUTCHER BABIES - "never go back" // take it like a man

HOUR 2
HUNTRESS - "flesh" // static
VEIL OF MAYA - "mikasa" // matriarch
ARCH ENEMY - "stolen life" (2015) // stolen life - single
ARCH ENEMY - "as the pages burn" // war eternal
ARCH ENEMY - "no more regrets" // war eternal

ARCH ENEMY - "never forgive, never forget" // war eternal
ENEMY X - "sacrifical burning" // the ends of the earth
REAPING ASMODEIA - "indwelling" (2015) // indwelling - single
IMMORALIS - "burden" // burden - single
BY THE THOUSANDS - "theopany" // by the thousands - ep
SOULFLY - "we sold our souls to metal" // archangel

**SPECIAL THANKS to JEFF LOOMIS and MICHAEL AMOTT from ARCH ENEMY for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week! ARCH ENEMY's latest album "War Eternal" is out now!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/31/15

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/31/15

HOUR 1
BRING ME THE HORIZON - "throne" // that's the spirit
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "TKO" // panic stations
DOOMTREE - "grey duck" // all hands
KAT PERKINS - "drive" // drive
THE USUAL THINGS - "staring down the morning" // home sweet alone
EMERGENT - "out of the grey" // emergent
COLD KINGDOM - "the light" // the moon and the fool

BRING ME THE HORIZON - "happy song" // that's the spirit
CROBOT - "nowhere to hide" // something supernatural
WILSON - "all my friends" // right to rise
FIFTH HOUR - "not the enemy" // not the enemy - single
SELF-EVIDENT - "house" // the traveler
GOODNIGHT RITUAL - "hits the spot" // trade mark
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "I always" // floyd
ANGRY WATERS - "bad moon rising" // the tequila incidents

HOUR 2
LAMB OF GOD - "embers" (feat Chino Moreno) // VII: sturm und drang
BUTCHER BABIES - "never go back" // take it like a man
MY ZERO - "can't get enough" // forthcoming disc
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "loyalty" // catch the throne II mixtape
LETLIVE - "banshee (ghost fame)" // the blackest beautiful
CWN ANNWN - "stay forever" // metamorphosis

LAMB OF GOD - "footprints" // VII: sturm /und drang
FEAR FACTORY - "protomech" // genexus
TREASONS - "wolves are circling" // demo
REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t
THIRA - "cognition: one" // vein I: varying states of decay
SUPERJOINT RITUAL - "waiting for the turning point" // a lethal dose of american hatred
PARKWAY DRIVE - "vice grip" // ire
AFTER THE BURIAL - "to carry you away" // in dreams

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/24/15 - WARROOSTER and REVILWEN

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/24/15
GUESTS :: WARROOSTER and REVILWEN

HOUR 1
AFTER THE BURIAL - "to carry you away" // in dreams
AFTER THE BURIAL - "a steady decline" // this life is all we have - ep
PALE HORSE PROPHECY - "wet house" // wet house - single
CRASH CUDDLE - "owning the bull" // crash cuddle - ep
WARROOSTER - "save the date" // bilderberg workshop

WARROOSTER - "communion" // bilderberg workshop
WARROOSTER - "evil wizard" // bilderberg workshop
LET IT BREATHE - "second hit" // river wizard

HOUR 2
REVILWEN - "one more yesterday" // the script
REVILWEN - "just breathe" // the script
REVILWEN - "embrace the fall" // the script
TREASONS - "wolves are circling" // demo
ARCH ENEMY - "stolen life" (2015) // stolen life - single

AFTER THE BURIAL - "bezerker" // rareform
AFTER THE BURIAL - "aspiration" // rareform
AFTER THE BURIAL - "my frailty" // in dreams
AFTER THE BURIAL - "encased in ice" // in dreams
AFTER THE BURIAL - "anti-pattern" // wolves within
AFTER THE BURIAL - "a wolf amongst ravens" // wolves within

**SPECIAL THANKS to MARK from WARROOSTER and ZIMMY from REVILWEN for calling in tonight to talk about their show at the Grand Re-opening of the What's Up Lounge in Mankato, MN!

Also, we paid special tribute to JUSTIN LOWE from AFTER THE BURIAL who left the world too soon. RIP Justin!

MIDWEST BEADOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/17/15

MIDWEST BEADOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/17/15

HOUR 1
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // yesteryear
DIVIDING EDEN - "hey ya (losing gravity)" // here comes the water
ANTISTAR - "vixen" // vixen - single
WOLF ALICE - "your love's whore" // my love is cool
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // no place to hide
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "beauty under glass" // beauty under glass - single
2 TON CRUTCH - "lunch money" // lunch money - single

BRUISE VIOLET - "maybe you're the problem" // maybe you're the problem - single
ANGRY WATERS - "dead flowers" // the tequila incidents
REVILWEN - "just breathe" // the script
WARROOSTER - "save the date" // bilderberg workshop
LET IT BREATHE - "second hit" // river wizard
CRASH CUDDLE - "owning the bull" // crash cuddle - ep
3 PILL MORNING - "rain" // black tie love affair

HOUR 2
LAMB OF GOD - "erase this" // VII: sturm und drang
SOILWORK - "the ride majestic" // the ride majestic
KYNG - "burn the serum" // burn the serum
CLUTCH - "cruical velocity" // earth rocker
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
YOUR MEMORIAL - "turn it all around" // seasons
BY THE THOUSANDS - "theopany" // by the thousands - ep

METAL ALLEGIANCE - "can't kill the devil" // metal allegiance
AFTER THE BURIAL - "parise" // wolves within
REAPING ASMODEIA - "indwelling" (2015) // indwelling - single
ONCE HUMAN - "terminal" // the life I remember
BUTCHER BABIES - "monster's ball" // take it like a man
PARKWAY DRIVE - "vice grip" // ire

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/10/15 - THE MAYBERRY RIOT, BOBAFLEX & ENEMY X

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/10/15
GUESTS :: THE MAYBERRY RIOT, BOBAFLEX & ENEMY X

HOUR 1
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "beauty under glass" // beauty under glass - single
EMERGENT - "dead letters" // emergent
KAT PERKINS - "marry me" // drive
REVILWEN - "one more yesterday" // the script
ARSON RIVER - "chemicals" // any given day

SCREAMING FOR SILENCE - "the king is crowned" // the king is crowned
BOBAFLEX - "forgiven" // anything that moves
BOBAFLEX - "dry your eyes" // anything that moves

HOUR 2
BOBAFLEX - "mama (don't take my drugs away)" // anything that moves
ROYAL BLISS - "monster" // waiting out the sun
COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // the moon and the fool
AEOUS - "monster" // the light you've always had
TORCHE - "blasted" // restarter
LAMB OF GOD - "overlord" // VII: strum und drang

ENEMY X - "sacrificial burning" // the ends of the earth
ENEMY X - "all seeing eye" // the ends of the earth
ENEMY X - "dead end" // the ends of the earth
SOULFLY - "we sold our souls to metal" // archangel

**SPECIAL THANKS to MARKY from THE MAYBERRY RIOT, MARTY from BOBAFLEX and CHRIS from ENEMY X all for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! BOBAFLEX's new album "Anything That Moves" comes out on July 17. BOBAFLEX, ENEMY X and THE MAYBERRY RIOT play Busters in Mankato on Thursday, July 16 for a 21+ show!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/03/15 - AEOUS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/03/15
GUESTS :: AEOUS

HOUR 1
BRUISE VIOLET - "maybe you're the problem" // maybe you're the problem - single
BABES IN TOYLAND - "sweet '69" // nemesisters
AGAINST ME - "fuckmylife666" // transgender dysphoria blues
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "nightlife" // home
AEOUS - "causality" // the light you've always had
AEOUS - "us against the world" // the light you've always had

COLD KINGDOM - "the light" // the moon and the fool
AEOUS - "if true love is real" // the light you've always had
ROYAL BLISS - "monster" // waiting out the storm
SEVENDUST - "splinter" // cold day memory
VIA - "closets" // sanitize this
BRING ME THE HORIZON - "shadow moses" // sempiternal

HOUR 2
AUGUST BURNS RED - "separating the seas" // found in far away places
AEOUS - "monster" // the light you've always had
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS - "galvanized" // demo
ASHES FROM STONE - "riddles and riots" // riddles and riots

AEOUS - "comeback" // the light you've always had
CONVEYOR - "what's inside" // worn out
FEAR FACTORY - "soul hacker" // genexus
LAMB OF GOD - "still echoes" // VII: sturm und drang
PSYCHOSTICK - "abcdeath" // we couldn't think of a title

**SPECIAL THANKS to STEVE, ADDISON and JOEY from AEOUS for driving down to be in studio with the Midwest Beatdown this week! AEOUS' new album "The Light You've Always Had" is out now. Catch AEOUS live in Mankato with ROYAL BLISS and COLD KINGDOM on Saturday, July 11 at Busters (21+ show)!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/26/15 - KAT PERKINS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/26/15
GUESTS :: KAT PERKINS

HOUR 1
DOROTHY - "after midnight" // dorothy - ep
ANGRY WATERS - "ours to be had" // angry waters III
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide
DIVIDNG EDEN - "hey ya (losing gravity)" // here comes the water
PVRIS - "smoke" // white noise
ERIC FAIRCHILD - "wrong side" // now and forever

KAT PERKINS - "drive" // drive
KAT PERKINS - "marry me" // drive
KAT PERKINS - "take this heart and leave" // drive
SKYWIND - "drug store" // sleeping giants
SIN CITY ESCAPE - "still here" // sin city escape

HOUR 2
REFUSED - "366" // freedom
BOBAFLEX - "dry your eyes" // anything that moves
ENEMY X - "sacrifical burning" // the ends of the earth
BUTCHER BABIES - "monster's ball" // take it like a man
ANTISTAR - "vixen" // vixen - single
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "seek advice elsewhere" // home
AUGUST BURNS RED - "identity" // found in far away places

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE - "you want a battle (here's a war)" // venom
WILSON - "all my friends" // right to riot
STRAIGHT LINE STITCH - "dark matter" // transparency
SCREAMING FOR SILENCE - "the king is crowned" // the king is crowned
IMMORALIS - "burden" // burden - single
REAPING ASMODEIA - "indwelling" 2015 // indwelling - single
LAMB OF GOD - "512" // VII: strum und drang

**SPECIAL THANKS to KAT PERKINS for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! KAT's new album "Drive" comes out on July 10! Check KAT out live at Taste of Minnesota in Waconia, MN on July 3 with Foghat and Georgia Satellites!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/19/15 - ASHES FROM STONE and SOIL

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/19/15
GUESTS :: ASHES FROM STONE and SOIL

HOUR 1
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "TKO" // mcslp6
WOLF ALICE - "moaning lisa smile" // my love is cool
WOLF ALICE - "fluffy" // my love is cool
ROMANTIC REBEL - "disappear" // romantic rebel
CHILDREN 18:3 - "afterall" // come in
ICON FOR HIRE - "now you know" // now you know - single

ASHES FROM STONE - "buried alive" // riddles and riots
ASHES FROM STONE - "riddles and riots" // riddles and riots
ASHES FROM STONE - "ride" // riddles and riots
AEOUS - "us against the world" // the light you've always had
VAUDEVILLE - "witness to distance" // masquerade part II - ep

HOUR 2
FIFTH HOUR - "not the enemy" // not the enemy - single
WILSON - "all my friends" // right to rise
CROBOT - "fly on the wall" // something supernatural
SOIL - "way gone" // whole
EMERGENT - "erode" // emergent

SOIL - "loaded gun" // whole
3 YEARS HOLLOW - "for life" // the cracks
SOIL - "halo" // scars
ROYAL THUNDER - "whispering world" // cvi
LAMB OF GOD - "512" // VII: sturm und drang
BABES IN TOYLAND - "bruise violet" // fontanelle

**SPECIAL THANKS to TOMMY from ASHES FROM STONE and RYAN from SOIL for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! ASHES FROM STONE's new album "Riddles and Riots" and SOIL's latest album "Whole" are out now!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/12/15 - THE ODDFATHERS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/12/15
GUESTS :: THE ODDFATHERS

HOUR 1
BOBAFLEX - "dry your eyes" // anything that moves
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS - "galvanized" // demo
GOING TO THE SUN - "new year" // going to the sun
GOODNIGHT RITUAL - "hits the spot" // trade mark
THE ODDFATHERS - "another tear goes dry" // part II

THE ODDFATHERS - "automatic man" // part II
THE ODDFAHTERS - "don't say you're lonely" // part II
KAT PERKINS - "drive" // drive
COLD KINGDOM - "surrender" // the moon and the fool
BRING THE SUN - "death pigeon" // death pigeon - ep
CITY OF THE WEAK - "spit it out" // disclosure

HOUR 2
VIA - "closets" // sanitize this
ARSON RIVER - "chemicals" // any given day
AEOUS - "causality" // the light you've always had
ASHES FROM STONE - "buried alive" // riddles and riots
P.O.S. feat MIKE MICTLAN - "get down" // we don't even live here
WARROOSTER - "communion" // bilderberg workshop
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE - "no way out" // venom

REAPING ASMODEIA - "indwelling" 2015 version // indwelling - single
MY ZERO - "can't lose control" // forthcoming disc
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE - "erase it all" // hail mary
CROWBAR - "walk with knowledge wisely" // symmetry in black
BATTLECROSS - "never coming back" // war of will
ENEMY X - "dead end" // the ends of the earth
PARKWAY DRIVE - "vice grip" // ire

**SPECIAL THANKS to the legendary BRYNN ARENS from THE ODDFATHERS for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week! THE ODDFATHERS' new ep "Part II" is out now from Rock Steady Records and available here!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/05/15 - STRAIGHT LINE STITCH

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/05/15
GUESTS :: STRAIGHT LINE STITCH

HOUR 1
KAT PERKINS - "drive" // drive
CHILDREN 18:3 - "great big world" // come in
CITY OF THE WEAK - "white fire alarm" // white fire alarm
BOBAFLEX - "forgiven" // anything that moves
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "here's to swimming with bow-legged women" // four year strong
BRING THE SUN - "death pigeon" // death pigeon - ep
VAUDEVILLE - "witness to distance" // masquerade pt 2 - ep
DEAD SARA - "LA city slum" // pleasure to meet you

HYPERDOSE - "take control" // take control
PIERRE - "skateboardian" // western medicine - ep
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "start walking" // home
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // no place to hide
ROYAL THUNDER - "forget you" // crooked doors
CROBOT - "fly on the wall" // something supernatural
35 INCH MUDDER feat ERIC DAVIDSON - "full scale war 2013" // full scale war MMXIII
P.O.S - "weird friends (we don't even live here)" // we don't even live here

HOUR 2
MY ZERO - "can't lose control" // forthcoming disc
LAMB OF GOD - "still echoes" // VII: sturm und drang
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "until we dream" // everything is red
STRAIGHT LINE STITCH - "dark matter" // transparency
ILL NINO - "I'm not the enemy" // til death la familia

STRAIGHT LINE STITCH - "conversion" // the fight of our lives
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "psycho" // kill the precedence
STRAIGHT LINE STITCH - "human bondage" // transparency
THE BLOODLINE - "becoming the disease" // we are one
THIRA - "cognition: one" // vein I: varying states of decay
AUGUST BURNS RED - "identity" // found in far away places

**SPECIAL THANKS to ALEXIS from STRAIGHT LINE STITCH for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! STRAIGHT LINE STITCH's new ep "Transparancy" comes out on June 30 on Pavement Entertainment!!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/29/15 - ERIC FAIRCHILD

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/29/15
GUESTS :: ERIC FAIRCHILD

HOUR 1
BOBAFLEX - "forgiven" // anything that moves
ROMANTIC REBEL - "disappear" // romantic rebel
THE ODDFATHERS - "8 track stereo" // part I
SECRETLY DROWNING - "big 2" // last recordings
ERIC FAIRCHILD feat KAT PERKINS - "hearts on fire" // now and forever
KAT PERKINS - "paris (ooh la la)" // fearless - ep

ERIC FAIRCHILD - "wrong side" // now and forever
ATTENTION - "whatever gets you through the night" // everything takes forever
ERIC FAIRCHILD - "river" // now and forever
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS - "galvanized" // debut sampler
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "I always" // floyd

HOUR 2
AUGUST BURNS RED - "identity" // found in far away places
REVILWEN - "one more yesterday" // the script
WARROOSTER - "save the date" // bilderberg workshop
LET IT BREATHE - "second hit" // river wizard
CRASH CUDDLE - "owning the bull" // crash cuddle - ep
AEOUS - "us against the world" // the same light you've always had
BY THE THOUSANDS - "theopany" // by the thousands - ep

ARCH ENEMY - "as the pages burn" // war eternal
AFTER THE BURIAL - "parise" // wolves within
REAPING ASMODEIA - "indwelling" // poison of the earth
IMMORALIS - "burden" // burden - single
EPICA - "victims of contingency" // the quantum enigma
ELUVEITIE - "inception" // origins
THE AGONIST - "gates of horn and ivory" // eye of providence

**SPECIAL THANKS to ERIC FAIRCHILD for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! Eric's new EP "Now and Forever" is available as a pay-what-you-want download here!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/22/15 - AVATAR

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/22/15
GUESTS :: AVATAR

HOUR 1
FAITH NO MORE - "separation anxiety" // sol invictus
ROMANTIC REBEL - "believe" // romantic rebel
DIVIDING EDEN - "hey ya (losing gravity)" // here comes the water
PATHOS ETHOS - "actions fight harder than words" // demo
THE ODDFATHERS - "another tear goes dry" // part II
LA MADNESS - "how bad" // love for losers - ep
OTHERWISE - "darker side of the moon" // peace at all costs

ATMOSPHERE - "sunshine" // sad clown bad summer 9
BROTHER ALI - "lookin' at me sideways" // the undisputed truth
DESSA - "fighting fish" // parts of speech
ERIC FAIRCHILD feat KAT PERKINS - "hearts on fire" // now and forever
KAT PERKINS - "fearless" // fearless - ep
CHILDREN 18:3 - "don't stop moving" // come in
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money

HOUR 2
LAMB OF GOD - "still echoes" // VII: sturm und drang
STRAIGHT LINE STITCH - "dark matter" // transparency
ANTISTAR - "vixen" // vixen - single
AVATAR - "death of sound" // hail the apocalypse

AVATAR - "vultures fly" // hail the apocalypse
AVATAR - "get in line" // hail the apocalypse
NUISANCE - "priapism" // kill the silence
PSYCHOSTICK - "dogs like socks" // IV: revenge of the vengeance

**SPECIAL THANKS to JOHANNES from AVATAR for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! AVATAR’s latest album “Hail the Apocalypse” is out now!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/15/15 - VAUDEVILLE, COLD KINGDOM, HALESTORM, ANTHRAX

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/15/15
GUESTS :: VAUDEVILLE, COLD KINGDOM, HALESTORM, ANTHRAX

HOUR 1
ANBERLIN - "the feel good drag" (live) // never take friendship personal: live in New York City
THE USUAL THINGS - "staring down the morning" // home sweet alone
SIN CITY ESCAPE - "still here" // sin city escape
VAUDEVILLE - "where darkness lies" // masquerade part 1 - ep
VIA - "closets" // sanitize this

VAUDEVILLE - "witness to distance" // masquerade part 2 - ep
SKYWIND - "drug store" // sleeping giants
VAUDEVILLE - "how does it feel" // masquerade part 2 - ep
FIFTH HOUR - "not the enemy" // not the enemy - single
OTHERWISE - "coming for the throne" // peace at all costs
AMARANTHE - "digital world" // massive addictive
AND WE DANCED - "the ring" // back to the middle

HOUR 2
ANTISTAR - "vixen" // vixen - single
MARMOZETS - "vibetech" // the weird and wonderful marmozets
COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // the moon and the fool
COLD KINGDOM - "surrender" // the moon and the fool
HALESTORM - "mayhem" // into the wild life
HALESTORM - "apocalyptic" // into the wild life

ANTHRAX - "earth on hell" // worship music
ANTHRAX - "soror irruminator" // catch the throne II mixtape
ENEMY X - "sacrificial burning" // the ends of the earth
LET IT BREATHE - "second hit" // river wizard
COAL CHAMBER - "another nail in the coffin" // rivals

**SPECIAL THANKS to TIM from VAUDEVILLE for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown tonight! VAUDEVILLE’s new EP, Masquerade part 2 comes out Saturday (May 16) at The Cabooze in Minneapolis with SKYWIND, VIA and PICARD (18+ show)!

SPECIAL THANKS to COLD KINGDOM, LZZY and JOE from HALESTORM and JOEY and FRANK from ANTHRAX for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown at NORTHERN INVASION! COLD KINGDOM’s “The Moon and The Fool”, HALESTORM’s “Into the Wild Life” and ANTHRAX’s “Worship Music” are all out now! New album from ANTHRAX later this year!

Hit the jump to see our pictures from the first ever Northern Invasion!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/08/15 - NORTHERN INVASION PREVIEW

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/08/15
NORTHERN INVASION PREVIEW

HOUR 1
COLD KINGDOM - "the light" // the moon and the fool
CROBOT - "fly on the wall" // something supernatural
THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH - "let the sparks fly" // the end is where we begin
SLEEPWAVE - "rock and roll is dead and so am I" // broken compass
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // let me in - single
SELF-EVIDENT - "house" // the traveler
YOUNG GUNS - "bones" // bones

THE PRETTY RECKLESS - "follow me down" // going to hell
HALESTORM - "apocalyptic" // into the wild life
DIVIDING EDEN - "hey ya (losing gravity)" // here comes the water
PATHOS ETHOS - "actions fight harder than words" // demo
ROMANTIC REBEL - "believe" // romantic rebel
10 YEARS - "miscellanea" // from birth to burial
NONPOINT - "misery" // the return
REFUSED - "elektra" // freedom

HOUR 2
AVATAR - "death of sound" // hail the apocalypse
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "we all float down here" // four year strong
NOPATHY - "steps" // nopathy
AFTER THE BURIAL - "anti-pattern" // wolves within
IN THIS MOMENT - "sick like me" // black widow
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE feat MARIA BRINK - "contemptress" // reincarnate
ANTHRAX - "fight em til you can't" // worship music

DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "psycho" // kill the precedence
THIRA - "cognition: one" // vein I: varying states of decay
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "here comes the crash" // new world disaster
VOLBEAT - "still counting" // beyond hell/above heaven
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH - "under and over it" // american capitalist
SLIPKNOT - "custer" // .5: the gray chapter

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/01/15 - VIA

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/01/15
GUESTS :: VIA

HOUR 1
REFUSED - "elektra" // freedom
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS - "galvanized" // debut sampler
NEW MEDICINE - "one too many" // breaking the model
ANGRY WATERS - "dead flowers" // the tequila incidents
BRING THE SUN - "death pigeon" // death pigeon - ep

VIA - "closets" // sanitize this
VAUDEVILLE - "where darkness lies" // masquerade part 1 - ep
VIA - "shroomates" // sanitize this
SIN CITY ESCAPE - "still here" // sin city escape - ep
VIA - "red room" // sanitize this
LA MADNESS - "how bad" // love for losers

HOUR 2
ARSON RIVER - "chemicals" // any given day
AEOUS - "casualty" // the light you've always had
REVILWEN - "one more yesterday" // the script
FIFTH HOUR - "not the enemy" // not the enemy - single
AMARANTHE - "massive addictive" // massive addictive
HALESTORM - "mayhem" // into the wild life
IN THIS MOMENT - "next life" // beautiful tragedy

ANTHRAX - "soror irrumator" // catch the throne II mixtape
AVATAR - "death of sound" // hail the apocalypse
BLACK FLOOD DIESEL - "last tomorrow" // new asylum
ENEMY X - "sacrificial burning" // the ends of the earth
BY THE THOUSANDS - "theophany" // by the thousands - ep
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // poison of the earth

**SPECIAL THANKS to VIA for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! VIA’s new album “Sanitize This” is out now!

EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS to all the RADIO HEROES who donated money to the KMSU Spring Pledge Drive!!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/24/15 - EMERGENT

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/24/15
GUESTS :: EMERGENT

HOUR 1
LA MADNESS - "how bad" // love for losers
DIESL - "forget it" // the failsafe
WARROOSTER - "save the date" // bilderberg workshop
JOHNNYROOK - "hot tubs (don't just walk away)" // from remorse we learn
CHILDREN 18:3 - "afterall..." // come in
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "seek advice elsewhere" // home

EMERGENT - "erode" // emergent
WHITHER THE TIDE - "say hello to this chemical" // the new chemical
EMERGENT - "let it fade" // emergent
SKYWIND - "hero's welcome" // sleeping giants

HOUR 2
EMERGENT - "out of the grey" // emergent
COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // the moon and the fool
DOOMTREE - "gray duck" // all hands
SICK OF SARAH - "not listening" // sick of sarah
BIFFY CLYRO - "modern magic formula" // opposites: live from Glasgow

OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "das arbeitslied" // torch
CRASH CUDDLE - "owning the bull" // crash cuddle - ep
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE (feat MARIA BRINK) - "contemptress" // reincarnate
VOLBEAT (feat KING DIAMOND) - "room 24" // outlaw gentlemen and shady ladies
SLIPKNOT - "custer" // .5: the gray chapter
EVERY TIME I DIE - "tourtettes" // salem 7 inch
EVERY TIME I DIE - "a strange loop" // salem 7 inch

**SPECIAL THANKS to MATT from EMERGENT for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! EMERGENT's excellent self titled album is out now, do yourself a favor and buy it immediately!

You can still donate to KMSU's spring pledge drive by calling 507-389-5678 or you can pledge online at http://www.kmsu.org! We need to hit our goal of $40,000 by May 1 so we can acquire a new transmitter! The pledge drive also helps keep KMSU commercial free by volunteers who play music they are passionate about!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/17/15 - WHITHER THE TIDE

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/17/15
GUESTS :: WHITHER THE TIDE

HOUR 1
COLD KINGDOM - "the light" // the moon and the fool
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // yesteryear
HALESTORM - "gonna get mine" // into the wild life
CROBOT - "nowhere to hide" // something supernatural
THE PRETTY RECKLESS - "since you're gone" // light me up
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // no place to hide

WHITHER THE TIDE - "look where we are" // the lunar phase vol 1
EMERGENT - "out of the grey" // emergent
WHITHER THE TIDE - "lovers in the night" // the lunar phase vol 1
SKYWIND - "drug store" // sleeping giants
WHITHER THE TIDE - "the matador" // the lunar phase vol 1

HOUR 2
AUGUST BURNS RED - "the wake" // found in far away places
STONE SOUR - "creeping death" // meanwhile in burbank
THE WHITE STRIPES - "the denial twist" // get behind me satan
EVERY TIME I DIE - "decaying with the boys" // from parts unknown
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "we all float down here" // four year strong
THE ODDFATHERS - "another tear goes dry" // part II
NUISANCE - "priapism" // kill the silence

GALLOWS - "mystic death" // desolation sounds
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "sisyphus / don't need it" // torch
REVILWEN - "just breathe" // the script
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "loyalty" // catch the throne II mixtape
LETLIVE - "the sick, sick, 6.8 billion" // fake history
COAL CHAMBER - "I.O.U. nothing" // rivals
STONE SOUR - "we die young" // meanwhile in burbank
TORCHE - "blasted" // restarter

**SPECIAL THANKS to MATT from WHITHER THE TIDE for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! WHITHER THE TIDE's new album "The Lunar Phase Vol 1" is out now! Catch WHITHER THE TIDE with SKYWIND and EMERGENT at Buster's in Mankato on April 25!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/10/15 - AMERICAN SCARECROWS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/10/15
GUESTS :: AMERICAN SCARECROWS

HOUR 1
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
CLUTCH - "unto the breach" // earth rocker
MASTODON - "the motherload" // once more round the sun
STONE SOUR - "we die young" // meanwhile in burbank
ALICE IN CHAINS - "it ain't like that" // facelift
KOO KOO KANGA ROO - "who farted" // gross - ep

CHILDREN 18:3 - "hold your breath" // come in
DROPPING DAYLIGHT - "apologies" // brace yourself
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "devil on my shoulder" // yesteryear
PAY ATTENTION - "stuck in the mud" // pay attention - ep
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "the peak" // yesteryear
SOUL ASYLUM - "misery" // black gold: the best of soul asylum

HOUR 2
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "depending on the weather" // keep your devils around
GOODNIGHT RITUAL - "hits the spot" // trade mark
JACK WHITE - "the lemon song" // live at bonnaroo 2014
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "we all float down here" // four year strong
AVATAR - "death of sound" // hail the apocalypse
KATATONIA - "evidence" // sanctitude

ANTHRAX - "nobody knows anything" // we've come for you all
THE END - "throwing stones" // elementary
GEMINI SYNDROME - "falling apart" // lux
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
THE HOT ROD HEATERS - "scorelord" // volume one: intake
STONE SOUR - "love gun" // meanwhile in burbank
OPETH - "would?" // burden - ep

**SPECIAL THANKS to SETH from AMERICAN SCARECROWS for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! AMERICAN SCARECROWS’ new album “Yesteryear” is out now!

AMERICAN SCARECROWS will be at the Mankato Event Center in Mankato on Thursday (4/16) and Whiskey Bones Roadhouse in Rochester on Friday (4/17) with SOUL ASYLUM, JOHN MARK NELSON and CARNAGE THE EXECUTIONER!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/03/15 - 36 CRAZYFISTS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/03/15
GUESTS :: 36 CRAZYFISTS

HOUR 1
DEAD SARA - "L.A. city slum" // pleasure to meet you
ANGRY WATERS - "dead flowers" // the tequila incidents
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide
ARSON RIVER - "chemicals" // any given day
COLD KINGDOM - "crash poet" // the moon and the fool
FIFTH HOUR - "not the enemy" // not the enemy - single
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // yesteryear

JACK WHITE - "that black bat liquorice" // lazaretto
SELF-EVIDENT - "house" // the traveler
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "I always" // floyd
ROMANTIC REBEL - "believe" // romantic rebel
PATHOS ETHOS - "actions fight harder than words" // demo
DIVIDING EDEN - "hey ya (losing gravity)" // here comes the water
AEOUS - "us against the world" // the same light you've always had
TORCHE - "blasted" // restarter

HOUR 2
ROYAL THUNDER - "the line" // crooked doors
KATATONIA - "the one you are looking for is not here" // sanctitude
NIGHTWISH - "weak fantasy" // endless forms most beautiful
36 CRAZYFISTS - "also am I" // time and trauma

36 CRAZYFISTS - "sorrow sings" // time and trauma
36 CRAZYFISTS - "swing the noose" // time and trauma
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "pretty disaster" // new world disaster
REAPING ASMODEIA - "indwelling" // poison of the earth
REAPING ASMODEIA - "convalescent alignment" // poison of the earth

**SPECIAL THANKS to BROCK from 36 CRAZYFISTS for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week! 36 CRAZYFISTS’ new album “Time and Trauma” is out now via Spinefarm!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/27/15 - SELF-EVIDENT

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/27/15
GUESTS :: SELF-EVIDENT

HOUR 1
VIA - "closets" // sanitize this
KICK - "electric love" // away from the world
EMERGENT - "erode" // emergent
CHILDREN 18:3 - "hold your breath" // come in
FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD - "intoxicate" // reveal
COLD KINGDOM - "the light" // the moon and the fool
FRAMING HANLEY - "collide" // the sum of who we are

SELF-EVIDENT - "house" // the traveler
SELF-EVIDENT - "swell" // the traveler
SELF-EVIDENT - "loaded down with static" // the traveler
REDOVERLUNAR - "the wringer" // theo's revenge
ANGRY WATERS - "bad moon rising" // the tequila incidents - ep

HOUR 2
NIGHTWISH - "weak fantasy" // endless forms most beautiful
AVATAR - "death of sound" // hail the apocalypse
BLACK FLOOD DIESEL - "chasing the atrophy" // new asylum
INDEX CASE - "I, insist" // augustagein
A.D.D. - "I regret" // core
NOPATHY - "steps" // nopathy - ep
FULL DEVIL JACKET - "killers" // valley of bones

AFTER THE BURIAL - "anti-pattern" // wolves within
BY THE THOUSANDS - "theopany" // by the thousands - ep
IMMORALIS - "burden" // burden - single
THE AGONIST - "gates of horn and ivory" // eye of providence
CROSSFAITH - "monolith" // zion - ep
AUGUST BURNS RED - "empire" // leveler
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "don't need it" // torch - ep

**SPECIAL THANKS to CONRAD from SELF-EVIDENT for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! SELF-EVIDENT’s new album “The Traveler” is available now at shows. Check out SELF-EVIDENT with CHON and NOMIA at The Neither Bar in Mill City Nights in Minneapolis on April 4 (16+ show)!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/20/15 - COAL CHAMBER

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/20/15
GUESTS :: COAL CHAMBER

HOUR 1
DEAD SARA - "something good" // pleasure to meet you
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "depending on the weather" // keep your devils around
SOUL ASYLUM - "can't even tell" // clerks - soundtrack
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money
CITY OF THE WEAK - "spit it out" // disclosure
QUIETDRIVE - "world war U" // the ghost of what you used to be
VAUDEVILLE - "where darkness lies" // masquerade vol 1 - ep

MARMOZETS - "why do you hate me" // the weird and wonderful marmozets
FOUR LETTER LIE - "inversion" // like structures
BUTCHER BABIES - "they're coming to take me away" // uncovered
AEOUS - "casualty" // the light you’ve always had
NONPOINT - "misery" // the return
36 CRAZYFISTS - "also am I" // time and trauma
EMERGENT - "out of the grey" // emergent
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "here comes the crash" // new world disaster

HOUR 2
PERIPHERY - "22 faces" // juggernaut: alpha
BY THE THOUSANDS - "theopany" // by the thousands - ep
COAL CHAMBER - "I.O.U. nothing" // rivals
FILTER - "jurassitol" // the crow: city of angels - soundtrack
COAL CHAMBER - "rivals" // rivals

AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "dirty" // the feeding
COAL CHAMBER - "loco" // coal chamber
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "loyalty" // catch the throne II mixtape
ANTHRAX - "soror irrumator" // catch the throne II mixtape
MASTODON - "white walker" // catch the throne II mixtape
TORCHE - "blasted" // restarter

**SPECIAL THANKS to DEZ from COAL CHAMBER for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week!!

COAL CHAMBER destroys First Avenue on Monday (Mar 23) with FILTER, COMBICHRIST, AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE and SAINT RIDLEY! (18+ show)

COAL CHAMBER’s new album “RIVALS” comes out on May 19 via Napalm.

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/13/15 - ROMANTIC REBEL

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/13/15
GUESTS :: ROMANTIC REBEL

HOUR 1
SELF-EVIDENT – “house” // the traveler
BRING THE SUN – “death pigeon” // death pigeon - ep
WARROOSTER – “save the date” // bilderberg workshop
3 YEARS HOLLOW – “for life” // the cracks
ROMANTIC REBEL – “believe” // romantic rebel
ISLANDER – “counteract” // violence and destruction

ROMANTIC REBEL – “alive” // romantic rebel
RED – “darkest part” // of beauty and rage
ROMANTIC REBEL – “sorry” // romantic rebel
BOBAFLEX – “rogue” // charlatan’s web
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - "Godspeed hellbound" // order of the black
AMARANTHE - "digital world" // massive addictive
LETLIVE - "younger" // the blackest beautiful

HOUR 2
COAL CHAMBER – “I.O.U. nothing” // rivals
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS – “nightlife” // home
TORCHE – “blasted” // restarter
ROYAL THUNDER – “forget you” // crooked doors
SECRETLY DROWNING – “k” // the camden – ep
ATTENTION – “whatever gets you through the night” // everything takes forever
OTHERWISE – “darker side of the moon” // peace at all costs
A.D.D. – “I regret” // core

PANGAEA – “the balance” // (forthcoming disc)
LET IT BREATHE – “second hit” // river wizard
THIRA – “good morning, my name is john” // vein I: varying states of decay
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA – “psycho” // kill the precedence
GALLOWS - "outsider art" // gallows
IMMORALIS – “burden” // burden - single
COAL CHAMBER – “rivals” // rivals
EVERY TIME I DIE - "pelican of the desert" // from parts unknown

**SPECIAL THANKS to ROMANTIC REBEL for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! ROMANTIC REBEL’s self titled album is out now on Pavement Entertainment!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/06/15 - FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/06/15
GUESTS :: FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD

HOUR 1
COAL CHAMBER - "rivals" // rivals
HALESTORM - "mayhem" // into the wild life
ROMANTIC REBEL - "believe" // romantic rebel
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
10 YEARS - "miscellanea" // from birth to burial
DIVIDING EDEN - "hey ya (losing gravity)" // here comes the water
PIERRE - "skateboardian" // western medicine

NEW MEDICINE - "like a rose" // breaking the model
GINGERJAKE - "get it get off" // get it get off live
FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD - "live again" // reveal
FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD - "sink or swim" // reveal
FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD - "intoxicate" // reveal

HOUR 2
KOO KOO KANGA ROO - "who farted?" // gross
PSYCHOSTICK - "so. heavy." // IV: revenge of the vengeance
BRIAN POSEHN - "more metal than you" // fart and weiner jokes
SCREAMING FOR SILENCE - "the king is crowned" // screaming for silence
FIFTH HOUR - "not the enemy" // not the enemy - single
EMERGENT - "the fall" // emergent
HELMET - "milquetoast" // betty

36 CRAZYFISTS - "sorrow sings" // time and trauma
NONPOINT - "never ending hole" // the return
COLD KINGDOM - "the light" // the moon and the fool
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // poison of the earth
BY THE THOUSANDS - "theopany" // by the thousands - ep
AFTER THE BURIAL - "a wolf amongst ravens" // wolves within
SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN - "trogdor" // smb's museum of barnyard oddities

**SPECIAL THANKS to IAN from FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD's new album "Reveal" comes out on Pavement on Tuesday (March 10)!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/27/15 - DIVIDING EDEN & FIFTH HOUR

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/27/15
GUESTS :: DIVIDING EDEN & FIFTH HOUR

HOUR 1
COLD KINGDOM - "surrender" // the moon and the fool
RED - "imposter" // of beauty and rage
MARMOZETS - "captivate you" // the weird and wonderful marmozets
DIVIDING EDEN - "hey ya (losing gravity)" // here comes the water
DIVIDING EDEN - "here comes the water" // here comes the water

GOING TO THE SUN - "new year" // going to the sun
DIVIDING EDEN - "lullaby" // here comes the water
DIVIDING EDEN - "puppets" // here comes the water
THE ODDFATHERS - "another tear goes dry" // part II
TORCHE - "blasted" // restarter

HOUR 2
NIGHTWISH - "Elan" // endless forms most beautiful
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "don't need it / sisyphus" // torch
FIFTH HOUR - "wait" // the line between love and hate
SCREAMING FOR SILENCE - "the king is crowned" // the king is crowned
FIFTH HOUR - "not the enemy" // not the enemy - single
EMERGENT - "dead letters" // emergent

FIFTH HOUR - "follow me" // the line between love and hate
PATHOS ETHOS - "actions fight harder than words" // demo
FIFTH HOUR - "gave it our all" // the line between love and hate
TEPETRICY - "hole digger" // hole digger - single

**SPECIAL THANKS to ELISSA and COLLIN from DIVIDING EDEN and BLAYNE from FIFTH HOUR for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week!!

DIVIDING EDEN's CD release party is next Saturday (March 7) at the Fine Line Music Café in Minneapolis with GOING TO THE SUN, PASADENA '68 and THE ATTLEY PROJECT (18+ show)!

FIFTH HOUR's tour kick off show is next Friday (March 6) at Pov's in Spring Lake Park, MN with EMERGENT, SCREAMING FOR SILENCE and PATHOS ETHOS (18+ show)! FIFTH HOUR and SCREAMING FOR SILENCE will be at Busters in Mankato on March 12.

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/20/15 - BRING THE SUN

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/20/15
GUESTS :: BRING THE SUN

HOUR 1
TORCHE – “blasted” // restarter
PVRIS – “smoke” // white noise
MOOSE BLOOD – “swim down” // I’ll keep you in mind, from time to time
WARROOSTER – “save the date” // bilderberg workshop
BRING THE SUN – “vestige” // death pigeon - ep
ANGRY WATERS – “dead flowers” // the tequila incidents - ep

BRING THE SUN – “death pigeon” // death pigeon - ep
REVILWEN – “one more yesterday” // the script
BRING THE SUN – “pony” // death pigeon - ep
THE MAYBERRY RIOT – “let me in” // the mayberry riot - ep
DIESL – “forget it” // the failsafe
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide

HOUR 2
AEOUS – “causality” // the light you’ve always had
COLD KINGDOM – “crash poet” // the moon and the fool
3 PILL MORNING – “skin” // black tie love affair
DOOMTREE – “off in the deep” // all hands
CHILDREN 18:3 – “LCM” // children 18:3
SLEEPWAVE – “rock and roll is dead and so am I” // broken compass
AMARANTHE – “drop dead cynical” // massive addictive
FLYLEAF – “thread” // between the stars

ARSON RIVER – “chemicals” // any given day
THE AGONIST – “gates of horn and ivory” // eye of providence
HELLYEAH – “say when” // blood for blood
LIKE A STORM – “wish you hell” // awaken the fire
SKYWIND - "drug store" // sleeping giants
GOODNIGHT RITUAL - "hits the spot" // trade mark
ROYAL THUNDER – “forget you” // crooked doors
TORCHE – “loose men” // restarter

**SPECIAL THANKS to MARKY from BRING THE SUN for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week!!**