MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/31/21 - NICK's FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2021

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/31/21
NICK's FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2021

HOUR 1
PLUSH - "champion" // plush
AYRON JONES - "supercharged" // child of the state
AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS - "on the inside" // within each lies the other
10. ARCHITECTS feat WINSTON McCALL - "impermanance" // for those that wish to exist
9. SUMO CYCO - "vertigo" // initation
8. JINJER - "vortex" // wallflower
7. DEAD SARA - "gimme gimme" // ain't it tragic

6. MASTODON - "pushing the tides" // hushed and grim
5. THE PRETTY RECKLESS - "only love can save me now" // death by rock and roll
4. EVERY TIME I DIE - "post bordom" // radical
3. SPIRITBOX - "hurt you" // eternal blue
2. TURNSTILE - "blackout" // glow on
1. GOJIRA - "born for one thing" // fortitude

HOUR 2
GOJIRA - "new found" // fortitude
NONPOINT - "get better" // ruthless ep
WEEKEND PICNIC - "plastic entourage" // weekend picnic
EX-REGIME feat JT CAVEY - "keeping out the wolves" // keeping out the wolves - single
CHEVELLE - "mars simula" // niratias
TRIVIUM - "in the court of the dragon" // in the court of the dragon

ICE NINE KILLS - "rainy day" // the silver scream 2: welcome to horrorwood
CONVERGE - "tongues playing dead" // bloodmoon I
DREAMS ASIDE - "heavy" // heavy - single
COMMON CHOIR - "deformed//devoid" // deformed//devoid - single
REAPING ASMODEIA - "false awakening" // darkened infinity
TWO MINUTES TO LATE NIGHT - "mouth for war" // covers vol 8
DYING WISH - "until mourning comes" // fragments of a bitter memory

**ZIS will join us in the next week or two once he's feeling better to give us his Top 10 list for 2021!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/24/21 - CHRISTMAS EVE EDITION

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/24/21

HOUR 1
WEEKEND PICNIC - "frosty the snowman" // frosty the snowman - single
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "the end of heartache" // beyond the flames dvd
AUGUST BURNS RED - "rudolph the red nosed reindeer" // sleddin' hill
LIGHT THE TORCH - "more than dreaming" // you will be the death of me
SPICY TUNA MELT - "sleigh ride" // sleigh ride - single
CASANATRA - "rusty cage" // black days: a tribute to Soundgarden
TWISTED SISTER - "deck the halls" // a twisted Christmas
THE ALMOST - "yule be sorry" // Happy Christmas: a tooth and nail Christmas

QUIETDRIVE - "all I want for Christmas is you" // all I want for Christmas is you - single
STAND ATLANTIC - "like that" // pink elephant
FIRST TO ELEVEN - "frosty the snowman" // a first to eleven christmas 2021
ANBERLIN - "Christmas, baby please come home" // lost songs
KAT PERKINS - "santa baby" // a Kat Perkins Christmas vol 2
TREMONTI - "let that be us" // marching in time
DIAMANTE - "auld lang syne" // auld lang syne - single
CHILDREN 18:3 - "follow the star" // follow the star - single
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "snoopy's Christmas" // Snoopy's Christmas - single

HOUR 2
LEMMY & DAVE GROHL - "run, rudolph, run" // we wish you a metal Christmas
LEMMY - "tie your mother down" // snaggletooth: a tribute to Lemmy
MOTORHEAD - "ace of spades" // ace of spades
SHINEDOWN - "happy x-mas (war is over)" // happy x-mas - single
RANCID - "last one to die" // let the dominoes fall
BABES IN TOYLAND - "he's my thing" // painkillers
AGAINST ME - "unconditional love" // transgender dysphoria blues
EVERY TIME I DIE - "post bordom" // radical
TURNSTILE - "holiday" // glow on

ANGRY WATERS - "ours to be had" // angry waters III
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS - "galvanize" // jousthouse
ARROWS AT DAWN - "on the run" // pieces
COHEED AND CAMBRIA - "shoulders" // shoulders - single
EMERGENT - "home" // home - single
FALSE FLOOR - "equals" // equals - single
MESHUGGAH - "do not look down" // koloss
VEIN - "rebirth protocol" // errorzone

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/17/21

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/17/21

HOUR 1
SPICY TUNA MELT - "sleigh ride" // sleigh ride - single
GOODNIGHT RITUAL - "across the fields" // galore
HALESTORM - "back from the dead" // back from the dead - single
NEW MEDICINE - "life like this" // life like this - single
PAPA ROACH - "kill the noise" // kill the noise - single
DIVIDE THE FALL - "fake love" // dead memories
WEEKEND PICNIC - "before your time" // weekend picnic
NONPOINT - "ruthless" // ruthless

FLIPP - "jingle bells" // merry flippmas
THE MYSTERINES - "hung up" // reeling
TRIVIUM - "feast of fire" // in the court of the dragon
DESTROPHY - "new gods" // new gods ep
DIESL - "nomenclature" // the failsafe
SUPERLUNG - "time is of the essence" // demo
SHADOWS FALL - "king of nothing" // retribution
KILLING STARES - "for the record" // for the record - single

HOUR 2
CODE ORANGE - "out for blood" // out for blood - single
KORN - "start the healing" // requiem
CHEVELLE - "mars simula" // niratias
NOPATHY - "steps" // nopathy
STAIJA - "CWR" // CWR - single
VIA - "appetite" // after you drown
KILLER BE KILLED - "left of center" // reluctant hero
INFECTED RAIN feat HEIDI SHEPARD - "the realm of chaos" // ecdysis

SEEYOUSPACECOWBOY - "the end to a brief moment of lasting intamacy" // the romance of affliction
DYING WISH - "until mourning comes" // fragments of a bitter memory
KNOCKED LOOSE - "belleville" // a different shade of blue
DISEMBODIED - "anvil chandelier" // diablere
VEIN - "end eternal" // errorzone
JOHNNY BOOTH - "deepfake" // deepfake - single
EVERY TIME I DIE - "hostile architecture" // radical
SPIRITBOX - "silk in the strings" // eternal blue

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/10/21

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/10/21

HOUR 1
AUGUST BURNS RED - "all I want for Christmas is you" // all I want for Christmas is you – single
SKYWIND - "slo motion" // escape plan v2
THE GLORIOUS SONS - "panic attack" // a war on everything
yesteryear
THE MYSTERINES - "hung up" // reeling
CITY OF THE WEAK - "censor this" // pulling teeth
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "fight" // unbalance

NEW MEDICINE - "life like this" // life like this - single
THE LONELY ONES - "dyin' all night long" // dyin' all night long - single
AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS - "on the inside" // within each lies the other
UNDEROATH - "numb" // voyuerist
FALSE FLOOR - "equals" // equals - single
FOZZY - "sane" // boombox
ARCHITECTS feat WISTON McCALL - "impermenance" // for those that wish to exist
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money

HOUR 2
DESTROPHY - "new gods" // new gods ep
INFECTED RAIN feat HEIDI SHEPARD - "the realm of chaos" // ecdysis
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forver shall be
ICE NINE KILLS - "rainy day" // the silver scream 2: welcome to horrorwood
NITA STRAUSS - "our most desperate hour" // controlled chaos
BLACK SATELLITE - "sonne" // sonne - single
RED FANG - "arrows" // arrows
DREAMS ASIDE - "heavy" // heavy - single

ARCH ENEMY - "house of mirrors" // house of mirrors - single
EX-REGIME - "sink or swim" // the path I walk
COMMON CHOIR - "dive bar knight life II" // gravemind
CONVERGE - "tounges playing dead" // bloodmoon I
IN SEARCH OF SOLACE - "survive" // enslaved to tragedy
REAPING ASMODEIA - "false awakening" // darkened infinity
COMEBACK KID feat JOE DUPLANTIER - "crossed" // heavy steps
HATEBREED - "final prayer" // perseverance

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/03/21

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/03/21

HOUR 1
AUGUST BURNS RED - "it's the most wonderful time of the year" // winter wonderland
THROW THE FIGHT - "wake up" // wake up - single
DEFTONES – “ohms" // ohms
GOJIRA – “into the storm" // fortitude
NITA STRAUSS – “mariana trench" // controlled chaos
BLACK SATELLITE – “void" // void - single
3 PILL MORNING - "dichotomy (tear me in two)" // dichotomy (tear me in two) - single
EYES SET TO KILL feat HOWARD JONES - "face the rain" // damna

UNDEROATH feat GHOSTMANE – “cycle" // voyerist
EVERY TIME I DIE – “hostile architecture" // radical
RAD OWL - "hannah barbera" // madison beast
SMILING POLIETLY - "need to be" // need to be - single
TETRARCH – “negative noise" // unstable
SAUL – “the toll" // rise as equals
HALESTORM – “mayhem" // into the wild life

HOUR 2
SPICY TUNA MELT - "lost in the ether" // cod is my co-pilot
WAGE WAR - "high horse" // manic
IRON MAIDEN - "stratego" // senjutsu
WITHIN TEMPTATION - "shed my skin" // shed my skin - single
TRIVIUM – “like a sword over damocles" // in the court of the dragon
GWAR - "if you want blood (you got it)" // the blood of gods
CODE ORANGE - "out for blood" // out for blood - single

GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "beauty under glass" // the ghost parade
DYING WISH – “until mourning comes" // fragments of a bitter memory
INDEX CASE - "for nothing" // index case
WIDOW7 - "therapy" // therapy - single
DESTROPHY - "send in the wolves" // destrophy
MOON TOOTH - "musketeers" // crux
JOHNNY BOOTH - "deepfake" // deepfake - single
BANEHINGE - "reborn" // reborn - single
VEIN - "untitled" // errorzone