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Loud Rock Charts – Third Week of August

KZSC is your one-stop shop for goth, metal, and punk rock! Check it: Top Ten: ARCHER — Culling the Weak DELETIST — 3rd Class Cover Song DOG PARTY — Vol. 4 MUTOID MAN — Bleeder KORPIKLAANI — Noita HIGH ON FIRE — Luminiferous SONICK PLAGUE — Sonick…

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Loud Rock Charts – Second Week of August

Whew! It's that time of the week again. Rest assured, the new releases gracing our air-room are as hot as the mid-August sun. Check 'em out! Top Ten: MUTOID MAN — Bleeder ARCHER — Culling the Weak HIGH ON FIRE — Luminiferous ANGRA — Secret…

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Loud Rock Charts – First Week of August

Whether your August so far has been sleepy and warm, or a frenzied blur of summer school, it's natural that you may be starting to tune most things out. But something something loud rock something something feel awesome! Something our DJs something…

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Loud Rock Charts – Last Week of July

It's the second week of the second summer session, and some exhausted students may be regretting signing up for classes that are hurtling along at a break-neck pace. But at least our DJs are playing choice tracks that would tickle anyone's fancy--whether…

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Loud Rock Charts – 4th Week of July

The only thing hotter than the weather during this past week of July has been the sizzling tracks our DJs have been spinning. Check out some of the selections off our new releases shelf that have been burning up the…

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Album cover for "Delivering the Black" by Primal Fear, featuring a metallic eagle with outstretched wings, a dark sky with a full moon, and the album title in bold letters at the bottom with a cross.

Loud Rock Charts February 11th

Hello Santa Cruz.  Here are the CMJ charts and adds for February 11th.   ADDS 1    WOUNDED KINGS    Consolamentium    Candlelight Records 2    SARKE    Aruagint    INDIE 3    VAN CANTO    Dawn Of The Brave    Napalm 4    BIBLICAL    Monsoon Season    New Damage 5   …

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Loud Rock Charts January 14th

CHARTS 1    IMPENDING DOOM    Death Will Reign    eOne 2    NEGATIVE SKY    Death Of The Sun    Zenergy 3    LORDS OF RUIN    Life Is A War [EP]    1605 4    LEGION OF THE DAMNED    Ravenous Plague    Napalm 5    EVERY MAN IS AN ISLAND  …

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December Loud Rock Charts

Hello everyone, here are the top charts and adds for December.  Here's looking forward to a new year of loud rock!  Have a wonderful holiday. ADDS 1    AFTER THE BURIAL    Wolves Within    Sumerian CHARTS 1    PROTEST THE HERO    Volition    Razor…

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A surreal, colorful illustration of a broken ship floating above water with debris, a submerged ship below, and a dramatic sky with a black sun. Text at the bottom reads “Protest the Hero Volition.”.

November Loud Rock Charts

Our top chart for November, Protest the Hero, is playing in San Francisco on Friday at Slim's. If you're a fan of good music, definitely check them out! They put on great live performances.   1    LEAVES' EYES    Symphonies Of…

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Loud Rock Charts Late September

This week in Loud Rock: prog metal giants Dream Theater released their highly anticipated self-titled album. Other prog metal bands making waves include Safety Fire (currently on tour with Between the Buried and Me) and Twelve Foot Ninja who will…

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A dark, cloudy sky looms over an endless stone maze. Above the maze, large bold text reads "Fleshgod Apocalypse," with the word "Labyrinth" in smaller letters underneath.

Loud Rock Charts: 8/20

This week in new metal music is one of the more diverse in recent memory. You've got extreme metal in Watain, electro-deathcore with Born of Osiris, and a huge epic album from Fleshgod Apocalypse. Speaking of which, they're coming to…

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Loud Rock Charts: 5/28

How rad are three-day weekends? Instead of putting off work until Sunday, everyone gets an extra day to regret not doing a single productive thing. Now that you're well rested, you can check out this week's new music! Remember The…

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Album cover for "One of Us Is the Killer" by The Dillinger Escape Plan, featuring a black ink splatter forming the shape of a bird on a plain white background, with text in the upper left corner.

Loud Rock Charts: 5/14

Greetings all! Decisions are in and the people have spoken, KZSC's new Loud Rock Director is I, DJ trev_gore! I'm hoping I can fill in the shoes of your former overlord Brootalisk sufficiently. As first order of action, check out…

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Album cover for Sodom's "Epitome of Torture," featuring a chaotic, dark scene with skeletons, skulls, weapon-wielding figures, and a fiery background; the band logo and album title appear on top and bottom.

Loud Rock Charts: 5/7

Sodom's Epitome of Torture dropped on our (metal)heads two weeks ago. What the hell? How did I miss that? More importantly, who's the assbag that forget to send me a memo and do my job for me? Also, if you have yet…

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A stylized, mystical illustration of a person with white eyes holding up a hand marked with a swirling symbol; ornate patterns, branches, and a full moon surround them. The text "amorphis CIRCLE" is at the bottom.

Loud Rock Charts: 4/30

With these last adds/charts comes the end of April, and the beginning of something beautiful. And metal. Can we dub this month "Metal May"? Because there are some seriously mindblowing tours coming to the Bay Area and Santa Cruz over…

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Album cover for "Pelagial" by The Ocean, featuring a deep blue underwater scene with bubbles and abstract shapes, and the title text "THE OCEAN" and "PELAGIAL" in ornate white lettering.

Loud Rock Charts: 4/23

This week has been unexpectedly awesome in terms of our metal adds for the week. We've got The Ocean's highly anticipated record, which comes in two versions, one with vocals and one without. If for some reason growly vocals don't…

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Loud Rock Charts: 4/16

This week in new loud rock features the newest album from the band from hell Ghost B.C. with Infestissumam. We've also got the latest, and some might say greatest, from Whitechapel in The Somatic Defilement. Other interesting releases include Suicidal…

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A stylized, monochrome illustration of a stern man with a mustache and hat, set against a cloudy sky. The text reads “VOLBEAT Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies” at the bottom.

Loud Rock Charts: 4/9

Coming right out of left field this week is a new album by Volbeat, who found mainstream success with their last album, Beyond Hell/Above Heaven. This time around, however, they're coming back with some of the heaviest stuff they've ever put forth…

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Album cover for "As Daylight Dies" by Killswitch Engage, featuring a surreal image of a veiled figure surrounded by swirling smoke and flames, with the band's name and album title in stylized text.

Loud Rock Charts: 4/2

This just in: all members from Kvelertak found rendered unconscious in a freak belly dancing accident. Also, April Fools. However, you know what isn't a really bad joke? This week's charts!   1 KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Disarm The Decent Roadrunner 2…

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