I spent most of my life in NJ and I remember this station quite well. In particular, I remember "Monday Night Mayhem", which was the death metal feature show. It came to an end in 95/96 IIRC, because the host personality graduated.
But let's be real, this station was no real beacon for underground activities. They very much were trend hoppers at the time-they were early adopters of your mid-to late 90's "hardcore" (your Hatebreeds, Vision Of Disorders, E-Town Concretes, H2Os and whatnot), nu-metal (my first exposure to Korn, Limp Bizkit, and early Deftones was on this station, long before any of these bands broke in the mainstream or on MTV), and metalcore (early Shadows Fall, God Forbid, Poison The Well, From Autumn To Ashes, and Killswitch Engage were HUGE on this station). I stopped listening to this station circa 02/03 because at that time, it was nearly all metalcore and post hardcore, with the occasional Pantera, Metallica, or Ozzy/Sabbath track to keep metal "cred" or stitch back to the "roots". It just wasn't to my tastes at the time. Plus they definitely had genre feature shows, such as alternative rock, punk, etc.-it certainly was not all metal, all the time.
I had a an acquaintance that worked for the same company as I did at that time (shouts to the Compact Disc World chain of NJ!), and she went to Seton Hall with the exclusive, expressed purpose of interning/working at WSOU (in hindsight, this seems like a huge waste of student loan money
). Some while later, she told be that because Seton Hall is a christian college, they were limited in what they could play and say on the air. As such they would not play Death, for example, because of the name. "Hatebreed" was either "H Breed" or "The Breed", etc. I was told that the song titles and albums names were over-clarified to make up for that, so as to guide listeners to the albums they were looking for.
Again, that was then, could be different now-I personally have no use for FM radio these days. But this station was pretty cool in the early/mid 90s, but completely lost their way in the late 90s/early 00s. Which is understandable, they had to drawn an audience within a limited frramework.
Funnily enough, a band I was playing in at the time got exactly one play, one time on WSOU, during their punk feature show.