MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/17/23

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/17/23

HOUR 1
SLEEP SIGNALS – “one life” // one life - single
JOHNNYROOK – “never ends, never wrong“ // the more things change
THE FAILSAFE – “burn it to the ground” // burn it to the ground - single
ODDS OF AN AFTERTHOUGHT – “show me a sign“ // through eyes of change
TURNSTILE - "holiday" // glow on
SKILLET – “dominion“ // dominion
WIDOW7 – “fire” // fire - single
AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS – “felt like home” // ultraviolet

NONPOINT – “heartless” // heartless – single
SUMO CYCO – “vertigo" // initiation
RAD OWL – “hannah barbera" // madison beast
SLEEP TOKEN - "vore" // take me back to eden
PERIPHERY - "atropos" // periphery V: djent is not a genre
STORY OF THE YEAR – “war” // tear me to pieces

HOUR 2
AVATAR – “on the beach" // dance devil dance
VEIL OF MAYA – “godhead” // godhead - single
ORBIT CULTURE – “vultures of north” // vultures of north - single
VENDED – “overall” // overall - single
PROJECT 86 – “metatropolis” // omni part 1
FIT FOR A KING – “the hell we create” // the hell we create
PLAGUE OF STARS – “a divisive essence" // daedalus

CURRENTS – “remember me” // the death we seek
AUGUST BURNS RED – “backfire” // death below
IN FLAMES – “bleeding out” // foregone
UNEARTH – “the wretched; the ruinous” // the wretched; the ruinous - single
LOVEBITES – “judgement day” // judgement day
REAPING ASMODEIA – “dreamcaster" // darkened infinity
ENTHEOS – “I am the void” // time will take us all

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/10/23

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/10/23

HOUR 1
OTTTO - "my pain" // life is a game
THE WARNING - "animosity" // error
LOST ISLAND SOCIETY – “villain" // villain - single
EXACTLYNO – “there's no answer" // there's no answer - single
EVA UNDER FIRE - "death of me" // love, drugs and misery
THE SIERRA DAY - "fight" // unbalance
DIESL - "forget it" // the failsafe

KORN - "worst is on it's way" (live) // requiem mass
ALTER BRIDGE – “holiday” // pawns and kings
MAMMOTH WVH – “you're to blame" // mammoth wvh
RED – “feed the machine" // until we have faces
SLEEP SIGNALS – “fireproof” // fireproof - single
WEEKEND PICNIC – “savages” // weekend picnic
DREAMS ASIDE – “reflections” // lotus

HOUR 2
LIONS AT THE GATE - "the ledge" // the ledge - single
IN FLAMES – “end the transmission" // foregone
IN FLAMES – “the great deciever" // foregone
THE LONELY ONES - "change the station" // change the station - single
DISKORD - "dead to me" // limberdink road
THRICE feat SAM CARTER - "under a killing moon" // the artist in the ambulance revisited
ARCHITECTS - "be very afraid" // the classic symptoms of a broken spirit
SPIRITBOX feat SAM CARTER - "yellowjacket" // eternal blue

SLEEP TOKEN - "the summoning" // the summoning - single
WIDOW7 - "low life" // low life - single
DESTROPHY - "new gods" // new gods ep
THE CALLOUS DAOBOYS – “a brief article reguarding time loops" // celebrity therapist
COMMON CHOIR - "deformed//devoid" // deformed//devoid - single
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE feat BRYAN GARRIS - "slaughterhouse" // scoring the end of the world
JINJER - "ape" // micro

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/03/23

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/03/23

HOUR 1
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "start walking" // home
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "nightlife" // home
THROW THE FIGHT - "paper wings" // settle your sins
AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS - "on the inside" // within each lies the other
THRICE - "stare at the sun" // the artist in the ambulance - revisited
TURNSTILE - "dance off" // glow on
JOHNNYROOK - "anything that'll sink" // the more things change
ARROWS AT DAWN - "let live" // pieces
THE CHALLENGER DISASTER CONSPIRACY - "something's wrong with dougie" // the challenger disaster conspiracy ep

OZZY OSBOURNE feat ZAKK WYLDE - "evil shuffle" // patient number 9
ANGRY WATERS – “first blood" // the ghosts we chase
BUSH – “more than machines” // the art of survival
SAUL – “Jack and Jill” // jack and jill - single
KATATONIA – “austerity" // sky void of stars
KORN – “forgotten" // requiem
CURRENTS - "remember me" // the death we seek
VEIN - "rebirth protocol" // errorzone

HOUR 2
AUGUST BURNS RED – “backfire” // death below
THE BURN VAULT – “time bomb" // demo
IN FLAMES – “meet your maker” // foregone
FIT FOR A KING – “end” // the hell we create
AFTER THE BURIAL – “my frality" // in dreams
SHADOWS FALL – “king of nothing" // retribution
LAMB OF GOD – “to the grave" // omens

UNEARTH - "the wretched; the ruinous" // the wretched; the ruinous - single
NOPATHY - "alter the path" // projections
PERIPHERY – “zagreus” // periphery V: djent is not a genre
JESUS PIECE - "gates of horn" // ..so unknown
REAPING ASMODEIA - "false awakening" // darkened infinity
ENTHEOS – “in purgatory” // time will take us all

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/27/23 - ALTER BRIDGE

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/27/23
GUESTS :: ALTER BRIDGE

HOUR 1
COHEED AND CAMBRIA - "shoulders" // vaxis II: a window to the waking mind
LOST ISLAND SOCIETY – “villian" // villian - single
EXACTLYNO – “where we belong" // red line city
AGAINST THE CURRENT - "jump" // fever
YOURS TRULY feat YOU ME AT SIX – “hallucinate" // is this what I look like?
ITHACA - "fluorescent" // they fear us
WEEKEND PICNIC - "before your time" // weekend picnic
SHINEDOWN – “dead don't die" // planet zero

TREMONTI - "let that be us" // marching in time
ALTER BRIDGE - "addicted to pain" // fortress
ALTER BRIDGE - "holiday" // pawns and kings
MAMMOTH WVH - "don't back down" // mammoth wvh
ALTER BRIDGE - "silver tongue" // pawns and kings

HOUR 2
ALTER BRIDGE - "pawns and kings" // pawns and kings
RED - "death of me" // innocence and instinct
ALTER BRIDGE - "sin after sin" // pawns and kings
MYLES KENNEDY - "in stride" // the ides of march
TREMONTI - "take you with me" // a dying machine

AVATAR – “valley of disease" // dance devil dance
VEIL OF MAYA - "mikasa" // matriarch
ORBIT CULTURE - "vultures of north" // descent
NUISANCE – “ashes of empires" // 10 or 10,000
SLEEP TOKEN - "granite" // granite - single
STORY OF THE YEAR - "war" // tear me to pieces
JINJER – “vortex” // wallflowers

**SPECIAL THANKS to MARK TREMONTI from ALTER BRIDGE for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! ALTER BRIDGE's fantastic new album "Pawns and Kings" is out now via Napalm Records! ALTER BRIDGE play Mystic Lake in Prior Lake, MN on FEB 17 with MAMMOTH WVH and RED for a show that is not to miss!

Midwest Beatdown · Alter Bridge interview

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/20/23

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/20/23

HOUR 1
KATATONIA – “colossal shade" // sky void of stars
GOJIRA – “our time is now" // our time is now - single
MASTODON – “pushing the tides" // hushed and grim
COLD KINGDOM - "broken world" // life//love
JOHNNYROOK - "anything that'll sink" // the more things change
SLEEP TOKEN - "the summoning" // the summoning - single
RED - "infidel" // declaration

ALTER BRIDGE - "holiday" // pawns and kings
BEYOND THE BLACK – “raise your head” // beyond the black
RED HANDED DENIAL - "fix me" // I'd rather be asleep
PROJECT 86 - "metatropolis" // omni
CHARLIE DOESN'T SURF - "french song" // darker days
MOLS - "not impressed" // under ground
RED LIGHT DRIVE - "give it all we got" // give it all we got - single

HOUR 2
KATATONIA – “birds" // sky void of stars
IN FLAMES - "meet your maker" // foregone
DREAMS ASIDE - "heavy" // lotus
WAGE WAR – “high horse" // manic
ROYAL THUNDER - "turnaround" // wick
PERIPHERY – “wildfire" // periphery V: djent is not a genre
SEPULTURA – “raging void" // quadra

ENTHEOS - "I am the void" // time will take us all
REAPING ASMODIEA - "dreamcaster" // darkened infinity
IN SEARCH OF SOLACE - "no turning back" // the endless ache
TESTAMENT – “more than meets the eye" // the formation of damnation
KNOCKED LOOSE – “belleville" // a different shade of blue
DYING WISH – “fragments of a bitter memory" // fragments of a bitter memory
JINJER – “as I boil ice” // wallflowers

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 1/13/23

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 1/13/23
Albums (or singles) that we hope come out in 2023

HOUR 1
PERIPHERY - "wildfire" // periphery V: djent is not a genre
TIGERCUB - "the perfume of decay" // the perfume of decay - single
LILITH CZAR - "100 little deaths" // created from filth and dust
MAMMOTH WVH - "don't back down" // mammoth wvh
LOST ISLAND SOCIETY - "villain" // villain - single
EXACTLYNO - "red line city" // red line city
THE BURN VAULT - "even rock stars die too" // demo

PLUSH - "I don't care" // plush
LOATHE - "new faces in the dark" // I let it in and it took everything
FLYLEAF - "red sam" // flyleaf
GOODNIGHT RITUAL - "all my arms" // galore
WEEKEND PICNIC - "savages" // weekend picnic
DIVIDE THE FALL - "I won't fade away" // dead memories
THE FAILSAFE - "head under water" // erasing color

HOUR 2
PERIPHERY - "zagerus" // periphery V: djent is not a genre
SLEEP TOKEN - "chokehold" // chokehold - single
SAUL - "jack and jill" // jack and jill - single
NITA STRAUSS & ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ - "the wolf you feed" // the wolf you feed - single
VENDED - "overall" // overall - single
PLAGUE OF STARS - "corporatocracy" // corporatocracy - single
WITHIN TEMPATION feat ANNISOKAY - "shed my skin" // shed my skin - single

ANTHRAX - "earth on hell" // worship music
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE feat HOWARD JONES - "the signal fire" // atonement
BODY COUNT - "raining blood/postmortem" // bloodlust
ENTHEOS - "in purgatory" // in purgatory - single
ORBIT CULTURE - "vultures of north" // decent
JINJER - "disclosure" // wallflowers

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/06/23 - MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 2023 (that we hope come out in 2023)

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/06/23
MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 2023 (that we hope come out in 2023)

HOUR 1
BEYOND THE BLACK – “is there anybody out there” // beyond the black (Jan 13)
KATATONIA – “austerity” // sky void of stars (Jan 20)
IN FLAMES – “the great deciever” // foregone (Feb 10)
AVATAR – “valley of disease” // dance devil dance (Feb 17)
LOVEBITES – “judgement day” // judgement day (Feb 22)
ROADRUNNER UNITED – “the dagger” // roadrunner united (Mar 10)
AUGUST BURNS RED feat JESSE LEACH – “ancestry” // death below (Mar 24)

BABYMETAL – “monochrome” // the other one (Mar 24)
AD INFINITUM – “upside down" // chapter III – downfall (Mar 31)
METALLICA – “lux aeterna” // 72 seasons (Apr 14)
DESTROPHY – “new gods” // new gods ep
WIDOW7 – “therapy” // therapy - single
ALIGN - "neo-noir" // neo-noir - single
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "closed out" // shanaska

HOUR 2
JOHNNY BOOTH - "storyteller" // storyteller ep
SPIRITBOX – “rotoscope” // rotoscope ep
AFTER THE BURIAL – “my frality" // in dreams
BARONESS – “throw me an anchor" // gold and grey
SEVENDUST – “splinter" // cold day memory
NONPOINT - "paper tigers" // paper tigers - single
SUMO CYCO - "bad news" // initiation

STATIC-X – “otsego placebo" // project regeneration vol 1
FEAR FACTORY – “edgecrusher" // obsolete
DEVILDRIVER – “keep away from me" // dealing with demons I
BUTCHER BABIES – “lilith" // lilith
STITCHED UP HEART - "warrior" // darkness
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "blunt force drama" // blunt force drama - single
JESUS PIECE – “an offering to the night” // an offering to the night - single
CODE ORANGE - "3 knives" // the hurt will go on ep