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CMJ Loud Rock from WKNC’s Chainsaw 9/27

1. Anthrax – Worship Music (Megaforce)

2. Chelsea Grin – My Damnation (Razor and Tie)

3. Absu – Abraxas Connexus (Candlelight)

4. Textures – Dualism (Nuclear Blast)

5. Chimaira – The Age Of Hell (eOne)

6. Opeth – Heritage Sampler (Roadrunner)

7. Hatesphere – The Great Bludgeoning (Napalm)

8. Kittie – I’ve Failed You (eOne)

9. Kyng – Trampled Sun (ILG)

10. Slot – Break the Code (Neurodisc)

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CMJ Loud Rock from WKNC’s Chainsaw 9/20

1. Anthrax – Worship Music (Megaforce)

2. Chelsea Grin – My Damnation (Razor and Tie)

3. Absu – Abraxas Connexus (Candlelight)

4. Arkona – Solvo (Napalm)

5. Chimaira – The Age of Hell (eOne)

6. Opeth – Heritage Sampler (Roadrunner)

7. Mastodon – Black Tongue (Reprise)

8. Kittie – I’ve Failed You (eOne)

9. Textures – Dualism (Nuclear Blast)

10. Dirge Within – Absolution (Big Time)

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Top 30—WKNC’s Top Albums of the Week 9/13

1. Heads on Sticks – Brutish and Short

2. Tinariwen – Tassili (Anti)

3. Tasseomancy – Ulalume (Out Of This Spark)

4. Little Gold – Weird Freedom (Loud Baby)

5. Wooden Shjips – West (Thrill Jockey)

6. Stepkids – Stepkids (Stones Throw)

7. War On Drugs – Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)

8. Gold Leaves – The Ornament (Hardly Art)

9. Implodes – Black Earth (Kranky)

10. Black Lips – Arabia Mountain (Vice)

11. Luke Temple – Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care (Western Vinyl)

12. Toro y Moi – Freaking Out (Carpark)

13. Zomby – Dedication (4AD)

14. Fruit Bats – Tripper (Sub Pop)

15. Portugal. The Man – In The Mountain In The Cloud (Approaching AIRballoons-Atlantic)

16. Yacht – Shangri-La (DFA)

17. Woods – Sun And Shade (Woodsist)

18. Vetiver – The Errant Charm (Sub Pop)

19. Collections of Colonies of Bees – Giving (Hometapes)

20. Pepper Rabbit – Red Velvet Snowball (Kanine)

21. Hercules and Love Affair – Blue Songs (Moshi Moshi)

22. Lanie Lane – Ain’t Hungry

23. Moonface – Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped (Jagjaguwar)

24. White Denim – D (Downtown)

25. Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves (Domino)

26. Jacuzzi Boys – Glazin’ (Hardly Art)

27. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Mirror Traffic (Matador)

28. CSS – La Liberacion (V2-Downtown Cooperative)

29. Black Milk – Brain/Royal Mega (Third Man)

30. Iceage – New Brigade (Dais-What’s Your Rupture)

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CMJ RPM from WKNC Afterhours 9/13

1. Zomby – Dedication

2. SBTRKT – SBTRKT

3. Yacht – Shangri-La

4. Thievery Corporation – Culture of Fear

5. Com Truise – Galactic Melt

6. Wallpaper – #STUPiDFACEDD

7. Magnetic Man – Magnetic Man

8. Crookers – Dr. Gonzo: Bust Em Up

9. Borgore – Delicious

10. Glitch Mob – We Can Make the World Stop

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CMJ Loud Rock from WKNC’s Chainsaw 9/13

1. Arkona – Solvo (Napalm)

2. Textures – Dualism (Nuclear Blast)

3. Revocation – Chaos of Forms (Relapse)

4. Opeth – Heritage Sampler (Roadrunner)

5. Mastodon – Black Tongue (Reprise)

6. Chimaira – The Age of Hell (eOne)

7. Monstro – MonstrO (Vagrant)

8. Kittie – I’ve Failed You (eOne)

9. Dir En Grey – Dum Spiro Spero (The End)

10. iwrestledabearonce – Ruining It For Everybody (Century Media)

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Top 30—WKNC’s Top Albums of the Week 8/16

Each week, the WKNC music directors tally up spins for new releases and submit their top charts to CMJ.

CMJ Top 200 from WKNC’s Daytime Indie Rock

Artist Album Label
#1 SBTRKT SBTRKT XL-Young Turks
#2 MEMORY TAPES Player Piano Carpark
#3 MOTOPONY Motopony tinyOGRE
#4 BODIES OF WATER Twist Again Thousand Tongues
#5 MIDDLE EAST I Want That You Are Always Happy Missing Piece
#6 BALKANS Balkans Double Phantom
#7 TEAM ME Team Me Propeller
#8 BRILLIANT COLORS Again And Again Slumberland
#9 BANDANA SPLITS Mr. Sam Presents The Bandana Splits
#10 SALLIE FORD AND THE SOUND OUTSIDE Dirty Radio Partisan

CMJ Loud Rock from WKNC’s Chainsaw Rock

Artist Album Label
#1 TOXIC HOLOCAUST Conjure And Command Relapse
#2 FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE Agony Nuclear Blast
#3 ANTHRAX Worship Music Sampler Megaforce
#4 SKALMOLD Baldur Napalm
#5 DIR EN GREY Dum Spiro Spero The End
#6 SVARTSOT Maledictus Eris Napalm
#7 EXHUMED All Guts, No Glory Relapse
#8 UNKIND Harhakuvat Relapse
#9 WORLD UNDER BLOOD Tactical Nuclear Blast
#10 DIRGE WITHIN “Absolution” [Single] Century Media

CMJ Hip-Hop from WKNC’s Underground

Artist Album Label
#1 MF DOOM “Gazillion Ear” [Single]
#2 CANNIBAL OX Angels & Insects
#3 JEDI MIND TRICKS Put Em In The Grave
#4 PETE ROCK & C.L. SMOOTH “I Get Physical” [Single]
#5 ACTUAL PROOF “Get It Done” [Single]
#6 BIG L “Put It On” [Single]
#7 SHABAZZ PALACES Swerve The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile
#8 SHANE ELI I Can Do Better
#9 SOLE AND THE SKYRIDER BAND Hello Cruel World  Fake Four
#10 MEDIAN Median’s Relief  Halftooth
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Top 20—WKNC’s Top Albums of the Week 8/9

Each week, the WKNC music directors tally up spins for new releases and submit their top charts to CMJ.

CMJ Hip-Hop from WKNC’s Underground

Artist Album Label
#1 ACTUAL PROOF “Get It Done” [Single]
#2 9TH WONDER FT. STRANGE FRUIT PROJECT Special
#3 MEDIAN Median’s Relief Halftooth
#4 BIG L “Put It On” [Single]
#5 SOLE AND THE SKYRIDER BAND Hello Cruel World Fake Four
#6 P-FUNK THE KING Fall Classic
#7 SHANE ELI I Can Do Better
#8 REEK DA VILLIAN Fall In Line
#9 DJ MUGGS AND ILL BILL Secrets Worth Dying For
#10 ONCUE “Walk With Me” [Single]

CMJ Loud Rock from WKNC’s Chainsaw Rock

Artist Album Label
#1 MASTODON “Black Tongue” [Single] Reprise
#2 PSYCHOSTICK Space Vampires Vs Zombie Dinosaurs In 3D Rock Ridge
#3 TOXIC HOLOCAUST Conjure And Command Relapse
#4 SVARTSOT Maledictus Eris Napalm
#5 DIR EN GREY Dum Spiro Spero The End
#6 UNKIND Harhakuvat Relapse
#7 DYING FETUS History Repeats… Relapse
#8 EXHUMED All Guts, No Glory Relapse
#9 WORLD UNDER BLOOD Tactical Nuclear Blast
#10 FAIR TO MIDLAND Arrows And Anchors E1
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Top 40—WKNC’s Top Albums of the Week 7/26

Each week, the WKNC music directors tally up spins for new releases and submit their top charts to CMJ.

CMJ Loud Rock from WKNC’s Chainsaw Rock

Artist Album Label
#1 ALL SHALL PERISH This Is Where It Ends Nuclear Blast
#2 TOMBS Path Of Totality Relapse
#3 ENDSTILLE Infektion 1813 Season Of Mist
#4 SUICIDE SILENCE The Black Crown Century Media
#5 EXHUMED All Guts, No Glory Relapse
#6 A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH And Hell Will Follow Me SPV
#7 BOOK OF BLACK EARTH The Cold Testament Prosthetic
#8 DRACONIAN A Rose For The Apocalypse Napalm
#9 PESTILENCE Doctrine Mascot
#10 STREAM OF PASSION Darker Days Napalm

CMJ RPM from WKNC’s Afterhours

Artist Album Label
#1 SBTRKT SBTRKT Young Turks-XL
#2 FRIENDLY FIRES Pala XL
#3 WASHED OUT Within And Without Sub Pop
#4 ZOMBY Dedication 4AD
#5 MAGNETIC MAN Magnetic Man Star Time
#6 YACHT Shangri-La DFA
#7 FM BELFAST Don’t Want To Sleep Morr
#8 BORGORE Delicious [EP]
#9 FIORA Blue Muse
#10 THIEVERY CORPORATION Culture Of Fear ESL

CMJ Hip-Hop from WKNC’s Underground

Artist Album Label
#1 AMAD JAMAL Hood Tales
#2 SHANE ELI I Can Do Better
#3 EL DA SENSEI & THE RETURNERS GTO 2: Nu World Asfalt
#4 JAYLIB Champion Sound: Deluxe Stones Throw
#5 SOLE AND THE SKYRIDER BAND Napoleon
#6 KING MEZ King’s Khrysis
#7 CITIZEN AIM As Just Cause Cries Humble Beast
#8 SHABAZZ PALACES Swerve… The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile
#9 IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE “No Me Importa” [Single]
#10 SHAD “Telephone” [Single]

CMJ Radio 200 from WKNC’s Daytime Rock

Artist Album Label
#1 Gardens & Villa Gardens & Villa Secretly Canadian
#2 Unknown Mortal Orchestra Unknown Mortal Orchestra Fat Possum
#3 Motopony Motopony tinyOGRE
#4 Seapony Go With Me Hardly Art
#5 Balkans Balkans Double Phantom
#6 Sbtrkt Sbtrkt XL-Young Turks
#7 1, 2, 3 New Heaven Frenchkiss
#8 Bella Ruse Kuhzoo Self-Released
#9 Memory Tapes Player Piano Carpark
#10 Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Columbia
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WKNC’s Top 30 indie rock albums – 7/26

Motopony returns to the top three this week, with Unknown Mortal Orchestra holding on to the number two slot for the second week and Gardens & Villa nudging up from number three to number one.

Artist Album Label
#1 Gardens & Villa Gardens & Villa Secretly Canadian
#2 Unknown Mortal Orchestra Unknown Mortal Orchestra Fat Possum
#3 Motopony Motopony tinyOGRE
#4 Seapony Go With Me Hardly Art
#5 Balkans Balkans Double Phantom
#6 Sbtrkt Sbtrkt XL-Young Turks
#7 1, 2, 3 New Heaven Frenchkiss
#8 Bella Ruse Kuhzoo Self-Released
#9 Memory Tapes Player Piano Carpark
#10 Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Columbia
#11 Cults In The Name Of Columbia
#12 Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside Dirty Radio Partisan
#13 Brilliant Colors Again And Again Slumberland
#14 Tiger Darrow Tiger Darrow You Know Who You Are
#15 Little Dragon Ritual Union Peacefrog
#16 Bodies of Water Twist Again Thousand Tongues
#17 Vetiver The Errant Charm SubPop
#18 Arctic Monkeys Suck It And See Domino
#19 Washed Out Within and Without Sub Pop
#20 When Saints Go Machine Konkylie !K7
#21 Fruit Bats Tripper Sub Pop
#22 Foster the People Torches Columbia
#23 Bon Iver Bon Iver Jagjaguwar
#24 Thee Oh Sees Castlemania In The Red
#25 Friendly Fires Pala XL
#26 San Cisco Golden Revolver Self-Released
#27 FM Belfast Don’t Want To Sleep Moor
#28 Middle East I Want That You Are Always Happy Missing Piece
#29 Black Lips Arabia Mountain Vice
#30 Gruff Rhys Hotel Shampoo Wichita

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WKNC’s Top 10 metal albums – 7/19

Here are the WKNC’s Top 10 loud rock albums reported to CMJ this week. Illustrator and film concept artist Warren Flanagan (known for his work on “X-Men: The Last Stand,” “Watchmen” and the new “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”) is the mastermind behind the amazing art on Symphony X’s Iconoclast.

Artist Album Label
#1 Exhumed All Guts, No Glory Relapse
#2 Symphony X Iconoclast Nuclear Blast
#3 Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction Inside Out
#4 Sepultura Kairos Nuclear Blast
#5 Suicide Silence The Black Crown Century Media
#6 Decapitated Carnival Is Forever Nuclear Blast
#7 August Burns Red Leveler Solid State
#8 Paper Thin Disaster Feed The Machine MyPixo
#9 Draconian A Rose For The Apocalypse Napalm
#10 Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus Season Of Mist