MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/23/21

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/23/21

HOUR 1
COHEED AND CAMBRIA - "shoulders" // shoulders - single
THRICE - "scavengers" // horizons/east
FALSE FLOOR - "equals" // equals - single
JOHNNYROOK - "silhouette" // silhouette - single
FUZZRD – “life turned black” // life turned black – single
SEETHER – “wasteland” // si vis pacem, para bellum
MAMMOTH WVH – “don't back down” // mammoth wvh

TREMONTI - "if not for you" // marching in time
COLD KINGDOM - "desire" // into the black sky
WITHIN TEMPTATION feat ANNISOKAY- "shed my skin" // shed my skin - single
DROPKICK MURPHYS – “turn up that dial” // turn up that dial
RANCID – “fall back down" // indestructible
RAD OWL - "aladdin's castle" // madison beast
LIGHT THE TORCH - "let me fall apart" // you will be the death of me

HOUR 2
GEMINI SYNDROME - "die with me" // 3rd degree - the raising
BEARTOOTH – “dominate" // below
EX-REGIME feat JT CAVEY - "keeping out the wolves" // keeping out the wolves - single
KILLER BE KILLED - "deconstructing self-destruction" // reluctant hero
TORCHE - "admission" // admission
WARROOSTER - "intergalatic performance review" // demo
RED FANG - "arrows" // arrows

REAPING ASMODEIA – “false awakening” // darkened infinity
MESHUGGAH - "born in dissonance" // the violent sleep of reason
CONVERGE - "trespasses" // all we love we leave behind
DYING WISH - "fragments of a bitter memory" // fragments of a bitter memory
CODE ORANGE - "last ones left" // underneath
HARMS WAY - "human carrying capacity" // posthuman
KILLING STARES - "for the record" // for the record - single
DROWN THE LIFEGUARD - "the nine of swords" // eroding palaces
KNOCKED LOOSE - "counting worms" // laugh tracks

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/16/21

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/16/21

HOUR 1
IRON MAIDEN - "the writing on the wall" // the writing on the wall - single
DEFTONES - "ohms" // ohms
GOJIRA - "amazonia" // fortitude
THROW THE FIGHT - "the fallout" // the fallout - single
WITHIN TEMPTATION feat ANNISOKAY- "shed my skin" // shed my skin - single
DIVIDE THE FALL – “I won't fade away" // dead memories

THE FAILSAFE – “head under water" // erasing color
SUPERLUNG - "time is of the essence" // demo
ANGRY WATERS - "invasive species" (live) // angry waters live
EAON – “happy” // lesson no 1
EXACTLYNO - "red line city" // red line city
KING BROWN - "sweet action" // sweet action
VIA - "closets" // sanitize this

HOUR 2
BULB - "unleash the pwnies redux" // moderately fast, adequately furious
TIMES OF GRACE - "medusa" // songs of loss and seperation
WEEKEND PICNIC - "savages" // weekend picnic
SAUL - "trial by fire" // rise as equals
ANTHRAX - "caught in a mosh" // among the living
ANTRHAX - "nobody knows anything" // we've come for you all
ANTHRAX - "earth on hell" // worship music

UNDEROATH - "damn excuses" // damn excuses - single
HATEBREED - "weight of the false self" // weight of the false self
TRIVIUM - "in the court of the dragon" // in the court of the dragon - single
LAMB OF GOD - "the death of us" // bill and ted face the music soundtrack
KNOCKED LOOSE - "belleville" // a different shade of blue
TURNSTILE - "T.L.C. (turnstile love connection)" // turnstile love connection ep
ARCHITECTS feat SIMON NEIL - "goliath" // for those that wish to exist
COMMON CHOIR - "lower roads home" // lower roads home - single

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/09/21

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/09/21

HOUR 1
TURNSTILE - "T.L.C. (Turnstile Love Connection)" // turnstile love connection ep
WIDOW7 - "therapy" // therapy - single
NONPOINT - "ruthless" // ruthless - single
FOZZY - "sane" // sane - single
ERIS - "the roche limit" // formation
THE PRETTY RECKLESS feat MATT CAMERON and KIM THAYIL - "only love can save me now" // death by rock and roll
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "fight" // unbalance
THE LONELY ONES - "dyin' all night long" // dyin' all night long - single

GOODNIGHT RITUAL - "international" // galore
FUZZRD - "life turned black" // life turned black
TREMONTI - "take you with me" // a dying machine
THEM THAT DARE - "tiny army" // endings
FALSE FLOOR - "equals" // equals - single
JOHNNYROOK - "disneyland pencil erasers" // disneyland pencil erasers - single
AVATAR - "when all but force has failed" // hunter gatherer

HOUR 2
TRIVIUM - "in the court of the dragon" // in the court of the dragon - single
SUMO CYCO - "bad news" // initation
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "march of the dolls" // the ghost parade
CITY OF THE WEAK - "drag us under" // pulling teeth
AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS - "on the inside" // within each lies the other
JINJER - "vortex" // wallflower
SPIRITBOX - "circle with me" // eternal blue

MAKE THEM SUFFER feat COURTNEY LaPLANTE - "contraband" // contraband - single
AFTER THE BURIAL - "behold the crown" // evergreen
EX-REGIME feat JT CAVEY - "keeping out the wolves" // keeping out the wolves - single
DEE SNIDER - "I gotta rock (again)" // leave a scar
KILLING STARES - "for the record" // for the record - single
EMPLOYED TO SERVE - "exist" // conquering
REAPING ASMODEIA - "of talons and teeth" // impuritize
VEIN - "rebirth protocol" // errorzone

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/02/21

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/02/21

HOUR 1
JOHNNY BOOTH - "crowd control" // crowd control - single
ANGRY WATERS – “invasive species” // hold the high ground
SUPERLUNG – “time is of the essence” // demo
FLOGGING MOLLY – “seven deadly sins” // within a mile of home
RAD OWL – “grape mister misty” // madison beast
ALIGN - "the quest for townies” // blue book value
THE FAILSAFE - "head underwater” // erasing color
DIVIDE THE FALL - "fake love” // dead memories

BEARTOOTH – “devastation” // below
KING BROWN - "hit the bricks" // sweet action
LIGHT THE TORCH – “let me fall apart” // you will be the death of me
SEETHER – “wasteland” // si vis pacem, para bellum
DIAMANTE - "American dream" // American dream
THE HU – “shoog shoog” // the gereg
SKILLET – “breaking free" // unleashed beyond

HOUR 2
MESHUGGAH – “do not look down” // koloss
CONVERGE – “I won't let you go” // cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack
TORCHE – “slide" // admission
WARROOSTER - "hyperdrive" // demo
RED FANG - "arrows" // arrows
ENEMY X - "almost" // endless circle
DREAMS ASIDE - "heavy" // heavy - single
TESTAMENT – “more than meets the eye” // the formation of damnation

BULB – “parabolica” // moderately fast, adequately furious
PERIPHERY - "scarlet" (live) // live in London
JINJER - "vortex" // wallflower
HARMS WAY - "become a machine" // posthuman
PYRALIS - "daggers" // everything is emptiness
YEAR OF THE KNIFE - "nothing to nobody" // internal incarceration
CODE ORANGE - "last ones left" // underneath
KNOCKED LOOSE - "and still I wander south" // a different shade of blue

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/25/21

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/25/21

HOUR 1
BEARTOOTH - "hell of it" // below
LIGHT THE TORCH – “something deep inside" // you will be the death of me
THE LONELY ONES – “dyin’ all night long” // dyin’ all night long - single
COLD KINGDOM – “voliatile" // into the black sky
THROW THE FIGHT - "the fallout" // the fallout - single
VERSION 5 - "why don't you drop" // version 5 ep
EXACTLYNO - "red line city" // red line city
QUICKSAND – “missile command" // distant populations

RED FANG - "arrows" // arrows
LET IT BREATHE - "second hit" // let it breathe
GOJIRA - "into the storm" // fortitude
DEFTONES - "urantia" // ohms
POPPY - "bloodmoney" // I disagree
ARROWS AT DAWN - "on the run" // pieces
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money

HOUR 2
DEE SNIDER feat CORSPEGRINDER - "time to choose" // leave a scar
MAKE THEM SUFFER feat COURTNEY LaPLANTE - "contraband" // contraband - single
COMMON CHOIR - "lower roads home" // lower roads home - single
EX-REGIME feat JT CAVEY - "keeping out the wolves" // keeping out the wolves - single
JINJER – “vortex” // wallflowers
WEEKEND PICNIC - "savages" // weekend picnic
ALIEN WEAPONRY – “tangaroa” // tangaroa

EMPLOYED TO SERVE - "exist" // conquering
CODE ORANGE - "last ones left" // underneath
DISEMBOIDED - "anvil chandilier" // diablerie
KNOCKED LOOSE - "belleville" // a different shade of blue
HARMS WAY - "human carrying capacity" // posthuman
HARVEST - "epicure" // transitions
CONVERGE - "I won't let you go" // cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack
DROWN THE LIFEGUARD - "the nine of swords" // eroding palaces
EVERY TIME I DIE - "AWOL" // awol - single

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/18/21

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/18/21

HOUR 1
JINJER – “vortex” // wallflowers
SPIRITBOX – “circle with me” // eternal blue
THE FAILSAFE – “head under water" // erasing color
DIVIDE THE FALL – “I won't fade away" // dead memories
RANCID – “last one to die" // let the dominoes fall
DROPKICK MURPHYS – “the boys are back" // signed and sealed in blood
EAON – “fan the flames" // lesson no 1
THE LONELY ONES - "dyin' all night long" // dyin' all night long - single

FIRE FIGHT – “feel something” // feel something – single
NONPOINT – “ruthless” // ruthless – single
WIDOW7 – “therapy” // therapy – single
FOZZY - "sane" // sane - single
FUZZRD - "monster carnvial" // monster carnival - single
THE PRETTY RECKLESS feat MATT CAMERON and KIM THAYIL - "only love can save me now" // death by rock and roll
DIRTY HONEY – “the wire” // dirty honey

HOUR 2
TWO MINUTES TO LATE NIGHT - "mouth for war" // covers vol 8
EX-REGIME feat JT CAVEY - "keeping out the wolves" // keeping out the wolves - single
LIGHT THE TORCH – “let me fall apart” // you will be the death of me
TIMES OF GRACE - "medusa" // songs of loss and seperation
VOLA - "straight lines" // witness
DESTROPHY – “innocence" // the way of your world
ALIEN WEAPONRY – “tangaroa” // tangaroa

FEAR FACTORY - "purity" // aggression continuum
IN SEARCH OF SOLACE – “survive" // enslaved to tragedy
IMONOLITH - "angevil" // angevil - single
BY THE THOUSANDS – “visions of inner depth" // visions of inner depth
REFLECTIONS – “my cancer" // exi(s)t
YOUR MEMORIAL - "turn it all around" // seasons
HATEBREED - "put it to the torch" // the divinity of purpose

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/11/21 - SUMO CYCO

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/11/21
GUESTS :: SUMO CYCO

HOUR 1
EX-REGIME feat JT CAVEY - "keeping out the wolves" // keeping out the wolves - single
ARCHITECTS feat WINSTON McCALL - "impermanance" // for those that wish to exist
SLEEP SIGNALS - "fireproof" // erethal
P.O.D. - "southtown" // the southtown ep
SAUL – “the toll" // rise as equals
ERIS - "miru-me" // formation
FOZZY - "sane" // sane - single

TIMES OF GRACE - "medusa" // songs of loss and seperation
LIGHT THE TORCH – “let me fall apart” // you will be the death of me
SUMO CYCO - "bad news" // initation
SUMO CYCO - "no surrender" // initation

HOUR 2
SUMO CYCO - "vertigo" // initation
SUMO CYCO - "cyclone" // initation
JINJER - "perennial" // micro
AVATAR – “colossus" // hunter gatherer
JUDAS PRIEST – “firepower" // firepower

MY ZERO - "demotivation" // demotivation
AFTER THE BURIAL - "the great repeat" // evergreen
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - "godspeed hellbound" // order of the black
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "counting scars" // alpha bionic
UNLEASH THE ARCHERS - "faster than light" // abyss
BULB - "breeze (redux)" // moderately fast, adequately furious

**SPECIAL THANKS to SKYE and MATT from SUMO CYCO for zooming in to the Midwest Beatdown this week to talk about their excellent new album "Initiation" out now via Napalm Records! We hope to see them on tour soon!

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