Deutschland's Doomed Volume 1

This is a massive download at 715Mb, but it's 60 tracks of quality underground German doom. Doom Metal Front is an online German magazine reporting on the German doom scene, along with all your favourite international doom bands. Or at least I assume it is, but my German's not really good enough to understand much of the content. Anyways, they released their second issue as a PDF download bundled with this massive compilation. There are far too many bands to go into any in detail, but if you're into doom there are bound to be at least a few tracks you'll like on here. Features the following bands:

Arktika, B.abuse, Bad Luck Rides On Wheels, Beehoover, Black Autumn, Black Mood, Black Shape Of Nexus, BLCKWVS, Calliophis, Carambolage, Celestial Navigator, Crowskin, Distant, Doom Division, Doomshine, Down On Knees I´m Weak, Dreaming, Dust, Earth Flight, Enojado, Extorian, GeminiOne, Golden Gorilla, Grief Of God, Head Of The Taurus, Hellamor, Hen:ge, Hiam, Holy Hydra, I The Unlord, Kodiak, Laube, Mills of God, Mirror of Deception, Mountain Witch, No Hope, Onde Sphérique , Ophis, PainForged, Petrified, Radare, Seamount, Sinistra, Slob, Sonic Booze Machine, Spancer, Spirit Descent, Tephra, The Last Supper, Tortured Spirit, Union Of Sleep, Versus The Stillborn-Minded, Voltron, Voodooshock, Wall, Warped Cross, Whalerider, Wheel, Wight, Woburn House

VBR MP3s ~192Kbps plus PDF 'zine via HTTP from Megaupload
VBR MP3s ~192Kbps plus PDF 'zine via HTTP from Sendspace Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Doom Metal Front on Myspace
Doom Metal Front website

Doom Metal Alliance Sampler Volume 9

The Doom Metal Alliance is a Myspace page dedicated to all things doom related. There is also a related blog, Doommantia, which features reviews of the latest doom releases (these can also be found on the DMA Myspace Blog) and their player features tracks from various underground doom bands. So if you like doom and want to discover some new doom bands then head on over there.

They also do a series of compilations called the Doom Metal Alliance Samplers. The latest in this series, Volume 9, is the first one to come to my attention and is certainly a fine specimen! It features plenty of slow, doomy heaviness so go download it! Tacklisting as follows:

1. Yidhra - The Lament Of Longinus (www.myspace.com/yidhra)
2. Dark Covenant - Forever Amongst The Ruins (www.myspace.com/darkcovenantdoom)
3. No Hope - M Lady (www.myspace.com/nohopedoomcore)
4. Destino Entierro - The Alcholichrist (www.myspace.com/destinoentierro)
5. Balkhara - Old Woman Dressed In Black (www.myspace.com/balkhara)
6. Project Armageddon - Plague For Shattered Man (www.myspace.com/projectingarmageddon)
7. Raven Head - Cold Lake (www.myspace.com/ravenheadband)
8. Coffin Riders - Bringer Of Doom (www.myspace.com/coffinriders)
9. Wizardrone - The Dawn Of Broken Empires (www.myspace.com/wizardrone)
10. Calliophis - Eyes Of Suffering (www.myspace.com/calliophis)

128-320Kbps MP3 Via HTTP from Mediafire

Doom Metal Alliance on Myspace
Doommantia Blog

FDISK - Connection Reset By Satan

As any regular readers will know, I'm rather into my nerdcore hip-hop due to my love of hip-hop and unashamed geekery. Anyways, for a long time I've toyed with the idea of starting a nerdcore metal band. Well, it seems that FDISK have rather beaten me to it! As one might guess from the name (well, if one was nerdy enough), they're a computer geekery inspired thrash metal band from LA. I think they must have added my band Funeral Hag on Myspazz over the weekend when I was sick and ignoring the internets as they appeared in our friends list, and of course I couldn't resist checking them out! The tunes aren't bad and the lyrics are most amusing, though the demo is a little unpolished. Definitely worth checking out though, especially if you, like me, are of a somewhat geeky pursuasion.

~200Kbps VBR MP3 via HTTP from Linkline.com
~200Kbps VBR MP3 via HTTP from Megaupload.com

FDISK on Myspace

Arteriosus - Promo Demo

Arteriosus are a progressive doom band from Brighton. I saw them a few weeks back with my mates Here There Be Monsters and the mighty Blackstorm at The Prince Albert and was rather impressed. Normally not too into the buildy post-rockish type doom, but these guys managed to pull it off in a way I rather enjoyed! Tons of feedback and huge guitar and bass sounds, as you would expect from a doom band, and some rather nice melodic elements too. I swapped a demo CD of my band Funeral Hag for theirs and it is rather good. Just noticed you can download it for free, so here it is! Enjoy. I shall be going to see them this evening at The Hope , along with From Beneath It Devours who are also rather good.

??Kbps MP3 Via HTTP from Rapidshare Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com (Yes I nicked the link from someone else's blog)
128Kbps MP3 Via HTTP from Last.FM (Individual tracks)

Arteriosus on Myspace
Arteriosus on Facebook

Various Artists - Droning Earth Volume 29

The Droning Earth compilations have long been one of my favourite compilations series, collecting the best of stoner, doom, drone and sludge from across the internets and all around the world. I first became aware of them when Droning Earth Volume XIII featured my bandmates' other band Sabazius. There have been another 16 releases since then, all featuring some great material.

Volume 29 features some great stoner and doom bands, and most importantly to me at least, the track Scorched Planet by my band Funeral Hag. So go download it right now! Featuring the following bands:
Unicorpse, Taak, Citadelle, Pater Nembrot, Stroszek, Space Pilgrim, Wo Fat, Pike, Caltrop, Bezoar, Funeral Hag, Space Lizard, Huqqa

~140Kbps VBR MP3s via HTTP from Archive.org

Droning Earth on Myspace
Droning Earth on Blogspot

Milfist Kadawa - Still Dwellin' After All These Years

Once again, I stumbled across these guys whilst rambling about the internets. I think it was a post on some other band's wall on Myspazz saying to download their album. Anyways, always on the hunt for new free music I decided to check out the link and discovered Milfist Kadawa. They are a psychedelic doom band from Israel, and beyond that I know very little about them. The sound ranges from full on psych doom heaviness to some acoustic stuff that almost reminds me of Down in their quieter moments. However, this is likely to be followed by a massive wall of fuzz or some droning distortion. An album of contrasts, but well worth a listen!

256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rapidshare (one file only)

256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Mediafire (part 1 of 2)
256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Mediafire (part 2 of 2)
256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rapidshare (part 1 of 2)
256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rapidshare (part 2 of 2)

Milfist Kadawa on Myspace

The Shizit - The Shizit

The Shizit are an interesting project, a mix of metal, industrial, gabber, drum & bass, breakbeat and a ton of other genres. They started as a band during the late 90s they put out a few Digital Audio Music CDs through MP3.com, back in the early days of MP3. After enjoying some success on MP3.com they put out one album, Soundtrack For The Revolution (often abreviated to SoFTeR) through Alec Empire's Digital Hardcore Recordings label, and then disbanded due to personal differences.

Now they're back, or at least partially. JP Anderson was half of the original lineup, the man behind Rabbit Junk, and is now the whole band (as with most of his other projects). This new album is very much in the spirit of the original Shizit release, but sounds much heavier than its predecessor - no bad thing if you ask me!

256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Archive.org
256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rapidshare
256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Megaupload

The Shizit on Myspace
The Shizit official site
The Shizit Militia (fan page)

Gama Bomb - Tales From The Grave In Space

Gama Bomb are fucking awesome! They're a thrash band from Ireland who love to thrash it out in a comedy fashion. They are so awesome that they've decided to give away their latest album for free. I don't really know what else to say about this album than that it's fucking awesome. Seriously. So go download it now, and go see them on tour. They're playing at the Engine Rooms in Brighton, amongst other places of course, on the 10th of November along with local thrashers Crypsis and tickets are only £6.50! So, go see Gama Bomb, download their album and buy their stuff!

320Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rapidshare

Gama Bomb at Myspace
Earache Records at Myspace
Earache Records Official Website

Emergency Pizza Party - ughuuhghhhh

Emergency Pizza Party are a Nerdcore supergroup, featuring the talents of MC Wreckshin, Sir Up, Betty Rebel, Fanatical, Funky 49 and Benjamin Bear. They cover a variety of topics in their nerdy rhyme-spitting, and there are plenty of funny moments and awesome beats. I also thoroughly recommend their second album Zombie Emergency Defence, which is a concept album set after a zombie apocalypse. You can buy it on their Myspace page.

192Kbps MP3 Via HTTP from Rhymetorrents.com

Emergency Pizza Party at Myspace

Thy Apokalypse - Fragment Premier (Vison Of Apokalypse)

Something a bit odd this time, at least to me. Thy Apokalypse seem to be an industrial black metal band, which althout it seems an obvious combination isn't something I've heard before! It's kinda hard to know what to make of this. There are some great industrial beats and ambience, and plenty of black metal screaching and blast beats. Give it a listen!

412Kbps Ogg via HTTP from Archive.org

Thy Apokalypse at Myspace

Funeral Hag - Demo 2009

A bit of a special release for you today, at least for me anyway, it's the demo from my band, Funeral Hag! We play a mix of stoner rock, sludgecore and doom metal that I hope you're going to love. The demo has 3 tracks and clocks in at 18 minutes and 18 seconds long.

Funeral Hag started last year as a solo project of our guitarist Jon, who wrote and recorded Nellie Longarms by himself and demoed another song, Screams Of A Banshee, in 2008. In early 2009 Jon decided he wanted to take the band further and started looking for other members. He quickly recruited his workmate Nev of Sabazius (possibly familiar to any regular readers as I post their releases on here) to play 2nd guitar. Nev in turn suggested his bandmate Steve to play bass, and Steve got me involved on vocals, along with our old mate George on drums. Thus Funeral Hag was born.

We've now played a few gigs (videos from our first on our Youtube page) and recorded this demo, and are hoping to make something of ourselves! So download our demo and enjoy the sludge. :D

~192Kbps VBR Mp3s via HTTP from Archive.org
~192Kbps VBR Mp3s via HTTP from Rapidshare
~192Kbps VBR Mp3s via HTTP from Megaupload
~192Kbps VBR Mp3s via HTTP from Mediafire

Funeral Hag at Myspace
Funeral Hag at Youtube

D-Trash Records - 2009 New Releases In A Continuous Mix

D-Trash Records are a Canadian industrial digital hardcore label that I've been following for a while. They release a variety of music from straight up industrial through breakbeat and drum & bass to full on noise, so very much in the spirit of Digital Hardcore Recordings, Alec Empire's record label that released all the Atari Teenage Riot stuff. This release is one of many new-release mixes that D-Trash has put out over the years, a continuous mix of a selection of songs from the year's new releases. There's a lot of noise and plenty of driving beats, but definitely not one of the musically closed-minded! The mix features the following tracks:

01 00:00 PHALLUS ÜBER ALLES - Heatwave (Motown Mix)
02 03:25 FEUH! - SarKophage
03 08:53 THE FIRST SEED - Break Them
04 11:18 NOT HALF - MP1983
05 14:02 TUAREG GEEKS - El Galaxias
06 19:12 MIND DISRUPTION - Totes Fleisch
07 21:58 DISTONN - Vegan
08 24:45 UNITUS - KOTAcxlv
09 29:18 PHALLUS ÜBER ALLES - Heatvent
10 31:05 THE FIRST SEED - Riot Manifest
11 34:15 MIND DISRUPTION - The Void
12 37:31 TUAREG GEEKS - Maquinos Del Futoro
13 41:20 DISBREAKZ - Dispunk Breakz
14 45:04 NOT HALF - Mr Chinaski
15 51:30 FEUH! - Dunk'N'Prunk
16 56:07 UNITUS - KOTAccxl

160Kbps MP3 Via HTTP from dtrash.mypodcast.com

D-Trash Records at Myspace
D-Trash Records Official Website

Tribute To Bolt Thrower

This is a free release from the French netlabel Metal Factory Records. Not heard of any of the bands before but given it a listen and they do quite well at covering many Bolt Thrower classics, though obviously not quite as good a job as Bolt Thrower themselves!

MP3 at 256Kbps via HTTP from Rapidshare.com

Metal Factory Records at Myspace

The Hard Way - 2009 Demo

The Hard Way is a hardcore band from Brighton, England, formed in 2009. Beyond this I can't really say much as there ain't much info about them on Last.FM or Myspazz. Not normally that into my Hardcore, but these guys are pretty thrashy as hardcore goes. They rather remind me of SSS in fact! They've kindly posted their demo online for free, so check them out. If you like 'em, go see 'em at Greenhouse Effect in Brighton. I will certainly do my best to be there.

160Kbps MP3s Via HTTP from Megaupload

The Hard Way at Myspace
The Hard Way at Blogspot

Necro Deathmort - This Beat Is Necrotronic

Necro Deathmort are a very odd band! I'm not entirely sure how, but I stumbled upon them in my wanderings around the internets one afternoon. A British 2 piece, they mix all kinds of odd sounds together and I find the results rather enjoyable.

The album starts with some weird digital noise that would be at home on any noisecore album, then goes on to a stomping industrial breakbeat track, followed by a nice slow instrumental doom track, followed by a floaty, ambient soundscape... This album is all over the place, but in a very good way! You can download it for free, courtesy of Distraction Records, but if you do like it then please go buy it from their website.

320 Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rapidshare, zSHARE, Megaupload, DepositFiles or Badongo

Necro Deathmort at Myspace
Distraction Records at Myspace
Distraction Records website

StonerRock.comp Volume 1

As the name suggests, this is a compilation of stoner rock put together by the readership of http://www.stonerrock.com/ and posted for free on that site. Stonerrock.com is a great source for news, reviews and CDs of stoner rock, doom, sludge and other related genres. The original idea to do a compilation came from the forums, where forum member Balthazar pointed out that a lot of the forum's members were in unsigned bands. Obviously other forum members thought this was a good idea and the first StonerRock.comp was born. 26 tracks of stoner rock clocking in at an impressive 2 hours 52 minutes! Some great tunes on here so go check it out. Not made it through to any of the other volumes yet, but there are 8 in total so bound to be some more great tracks on there.

160Kbps MP3s via HTTP from www.stonerrock.org (sorry, individual tracks only)
http://www.stonerrock.com/

Bong Ra - Resonance FM (Radio Set 2005)

Something a little bit different for you today. A nice live set from breakcore/drum & bass DJ Bong-Ra. I chose this particular set from the many free ones on his website because it features a sample of Green Machine by Kyuss, Raining Blood by Slayer (think it's a different remix than the Concorde Dawn one) and War Pigs by Black Sabbath! Freakin' awesome. Bong-Ra first came to my attention when I downloaded a drum & bass mix of his from the late 90s and he's still going strong it seems! This mix is an interesting collision of drum & bass, breaks, beats and some metal. Aaaaawwweeesssooooommmeeee!

Bong-Ra also did an awesome remix EP of some old Earache death metal tracks called Grindkrusher which I thoroughly recommend getting hold of, very much in a Hellspawn vein with some nice gabber beats and some crushing metal riffs and screams.

192 Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Bong-Ra.com

Bong-Ra at Myspace
Bong-Ra Official Site

Hesper Payne - Titans Of The Northsea

This EP comes from the mighty Hesper Payne of Newcastle. Proper heavy stuff, nice bit of doom mixed with some death metal, sludge and all sorts. Seems they've had some struggles along the way, but this EP is freakin' awesome. Go download it now, and indeed buy a copy off them if you like it. Apparently they have another EP/demo that was available for download at some point but I really can't find it on their Myspace page. Ah well...

192Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rapidshare.com

Hesper Payne at Myspace

Greg(o)rian - Dormancy Of Our Omniscient Masters

Greg(o)rian are an experimental doom band from London/Essex. They describe the album as "Gregorian’s debut full length, 43 minutes of Lo-Fi, atmospheric, sludge drone doom, influenced by My Dying Bride, Jesu, Sleep, and Sunn O)))." I'd say that's probably about right. The album's kinda post-rocky sounding, in that the guitars aren't ridiculously heavy all the time and there's a whole slow buildup vibe going on. The vocals remind me of Godflesh 'cause they sound kind of like a pissed bloke shouting at you down an echoey corridor, which I quite like. Anyways, it's free so go download it!

VBR MP3 (roughly 128Kbps) via HTTP from Mediafire

Greg(o)rian at Myspace

Moloch - Demo

Moloch are an awesome sludgecore band from Nottingham. Not a lot of info on their Myspazz, but they're fuckin' awesome! Got their EP on 10" which is very nice and shiny (also available on CD, see their myspazz) and also an awesome baseball shirt. Nice guys! Also they're playing at the Hobgoblin in Brighton on the 22nd June. Go check them out, I will sure as hell be there!

MP3 @ 256Kbps via HTTP from Rapidshare.com

Moloch at Myspace

Sabazius - Devotional Songs

Second album from my bandmates in Funeral Hag, Steve and Nev of Sabazius. This is some more proper doom, four tracks totalling 2:32:32 of grinding heaviness and lightswitch solos. Yes that's right, apparently this album features the sound of Nev's lightswitch. Think I'm listening to that bit right now. Of course, two of the tracks are intro and outro so really it's 2 massively long doom tracks! I wouldn't suggest listening to Sabazius if you're feeling impatient as they take quite a while to get going... well if you ever consider doom to have got going. I guess the fact that it doesn't is kinda the point!

Anyways, go download it doom fans.

VBR (approx 192Kbps) MP3 via HTTP from Mediafire Part 1
VBR (approx 192Kbps) MP3 via HTTP from Mediafire Part 2
VBR (approx 192Kbps) MP3 via HTTP from Rapidshare

Sabazius at Mypsace

Elemental Vs. Digital Midgets Mixtape

Elemental's having an album launch party at The Hope tonight for his new album with Tom Caruana, Rebel Without Applause, which you can buy from the Tea Sea Records website store for the bargain price of £8.50 within the UK. The album features 18 tracks, a bonus track and high quality copy of the infamous Cup Of Brown Joy video. Either come along to the Hope to see what all the fuss is about tonight from 8, or go buy the album from Tea Sea, 'cause it's awesome. I can't stop listening to it!

Anyways, in celebration of Elemental and TC's album launch party thing, I'm going to post a nice free Elemental mixtape he did with Digital Midgets. The mixtape features loads of Elemental tracks, some solo, some with The Menagerie, some of TCs stuff and some other Brighton hip-hop artists. Please excuse the dodgy artwork, it didn't have any so I made some myself. Check it out!

160Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Mediafire

Elemental at Myspace
Tom Caruana at Myspace
Elemental official website
Tea Sea Records official website

Talbot - Tundra EP

Here's some nice Estonian doom from Talbot, a two piece drone/sludge band. Apparently they've been going since 2003, though I first stumbled accross them the other day. Their Tundra EP is available for free download from their website. They have an interesting take on the doom genre, with a bass heavy sound that's vaguely reminiscent of industrial doom, but with a more organic beat provided by live drums instead of drum machines. The vocals are an interesting mix of more melodic stoner metal lines with some traditional doom screaming thrown in for good measure. The EP is also seeing a re-release on Consouling Sounds as a limited run of 100 CD-Rs, featuring two bonus remixes not featured on the downloadable version which can currently be listened to on their Myspace.

VBR MP3 via HTTP from talbot-music.com

Talbot at Myspace
Talbot Official website

A Horse Called War - We Ain't Proud Of This

I don't know a lot about A Horse Called War other than that their music is pretty good and several members of the band like Warhammer 40,000. Originally came to my attention because they were supposed to be playing at the Hobgoblin in Brighton last Saturday. Unfortunately they couldn't make the show due to work commitments and transport problems, but I'm hoping they'll make it to Brighton sometime soon.

Anyways, their sound is very reminiscent of Iron Monkey, with lots of feedback, slow, downtuned, sludgy guitars and screechy screamed vocals over the top. They've recorded a demo, which I am posting here, and an EP, which you can buy from their Myspazz. One of the tracks from the EP is on the Myspazz player but I can't comment on the rest as I only just ordered the CD.

Anyways, I'd thoroughly recommend you download their demo. There's a link on their Myspazz or just click the one below!

128 Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Tiscali
A Horse Called War at Myspace

Goretorture - Cannibal Commando

Don't really know a lot about Goretorture, and can't even remember where I first heard them! Think I downloaded a torrent of their album from Demonoid.com back in 2004 or 2005, probably on the basis of the name alone. Whatever happened, I was certainly not disappointed!

The first of the Arnie tribute bands to come to my attention (though I think Arnocorps started first, but then they wouldn't call themselves an Arnie tribute band), Goretorture are definitely the heaviest. Whilst they lack the comedy and groove aspects of Arnocorps, they more than make up for it in sheer aggression and heaviness. Their in your face grindcore sound shits all over As I Gay Crying vocalist Tim Lambesis' Austrian Death Machine, despite the much cheaper production and lack of fancy cartoon-drawn artwork and merchandise. And best of all, they have some free music for me to post on my blog for you all to download (assuming anyone's actually out there reading this after I've not updated for like a whole month).

There are a load of tracks available from www.mikseri.net/goretorture including four tracks from 2004's Promised To Kill You Last... I Lied, their debut album and I think the only on you can actually buy (see info on the page for details), 2005's Cannibal Commando demo and a collection of unreleased tracks that weren't on either release. Too many tracks to link individually, so I'll let you go look for yourself. However, I did find a Rapidshare mirror for Cannibal Commando (192Kbps instead of 160 and also seems to have two of the unreleased tracks, Asshole and Sluts, in the .RAR) so a link for that will follow. Enjoy the Arnie-grindcore action!

192 Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rapidshare.com
Individual Tracks at 160Kbps via HTTP from Mikseri.net

Goretorture at Myspace

Blood Island Raiders - 16-17 (Demo)

Some more vikingy stonery doominess today from the Blood Island Raiders! The Raiders are a London based metal band who play an interesting mix of stoner rock and viking metal. They first came to my attention due to their close relationship with Crowning Glory, who I have been following with interest having seen them supporting Orange Goblin a few years ago. They've done an EP, an album and a split EP all of which are available from this page of their website, and all of which are thoroughly worth getting your hands on. When I bought their EP from Amazon, it turned out the seller I'd selected was actually the band themselves so I got a load of stickers and stuff with it.

Today's offering is their demo from 2002, 1617. It's available from the sounds page of their website as individual tracks, unfortunately only at 112Kbps but at least it's tagged! I tried to upload a .rar file of my tagged and sorted copy with album art, but for some reason Rapidshare didn't like my password. So links to the individual tracks again like last time!

112Kbps MP3 via HTTP from bloodislandraiders.com
1. Arguments For The Abolition Of God
2. Circa 3
3. Demon
4. Closure

Blood Island Raiders at Myspace
Blood Island Raiders Official Site
Blood Island Raiders Facebook fan page

Argus - Demo 2007

This is a bloody brilliant demo that I discovered amongst the jewels in the Doom Metal Demo Pack torrent that I downloaded a while ago because it featured my good friends Sabazius'
Terror Is They Name. There's some really great stuff in there, including demos from Grand Magus (a personal favourite amongst the stoner/doom genre) and the mighty Sleep. Not entirely sure of the legal situation for this torrent however, though I know that Sabazius at least were willing participants. As far as I know you can't actually buy most of these demos, and many of them are available for free from the bands themselves, as is the case with today's offering from Argus!

Argus, of Franklin, Pennsylvania (which seems to be a rather doomy state at the moment!) mix elements of doom, stoner, sludgecore, traditional and viking/battle metal to produce an upbeat but still heavy and somewhat melancholy fusion of the slower metal genres. Of course there's plenty of higher-tempo chugging in that traditional-metal galloping style, but lots of slow, groovy riffs as well. The vocals are melodic, often harmonised and quite viking metally, a-la Grand Magus. If you're into stoner or doom, and particularly if you liked the Electric Horsemen EP I posted here last week then I highly recommend you download this demo right now!

The tracks are available individually from this page of Bland Hand Records' site at 320Kbps, unfortunately untagged and without track related filenames. I'll link to the individual tracks by name in case that makes it easier for you to download and sort them.

320Kbps Mp3 via HTTP from Bland Hand Records
1. Beyond (Part 1 - Eternity)
2. The Damnation Of John Faustus
3. Bending Time
4. Sleeping Dogs
5. The Effigy Is Real

Argus at Myspace

Sabazius/Dröne Split EP

Got some more awesome doom for you today, once again from my mates Nev and Steve of Sabazius (hopefully soon to be my bandmates in Funeral Hag, if things work out well at practice on Saturday). Today's offering is their newly released split EP with Dröne from Aberdeen, Scotland, available on Black Winter Recordings.

This split has been in the works for a long while and there has been a 3 minute clip of Torah, the Sabazius track featured here, on Sabazius' Myspace player for quite some time! A nice preview, but not a patch on the full 22:24 glory of the whole track. More slow and heavy riffage with Steve reading some mystical religious texts with loads of reverb. Eeeexcellent. I must confess the Dröne tracks, Far Beyond The Night and Methodone, aren't exactly my kinda thing, but I did manage to listen to both of them the whole way through. Some nice sounds, pretty mellow, and does what it says on the tin - i.e. is nice and droney.

VBR192/128Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Archive.org

Sabazius at Myspace
Dröne at Myspace
Black Winter Recordings at Myspace
Black Winter Recordings Official Site

Dr. Zilog - Malevolent Necropolis

Right, today's offering is something rather strange. Spotted the .torrent on Demonoid and was so intrigued by the name alone that I had to download it! This is some pretty awesome chiptune stuff, but in a metal style. That's right, metal tunes but played on an NES style synth. The sounds themselves are pretty traditional 8-bit fare, but the songwriting is amazing. There's some pretty complicated stuff going on here. If this was played on guitars instead of synths it would probably be one of the most awesome metal bands ever! The following description is from Dr. Z's myspace page:

Out from the sound processor of a mutated Nintendo Entertainment System comes Dr. Zilog, part machine, part transient thought. His esoteric frequency patterns and decibal rates enter the auditory canal fabricating the euphoric illusion of music.

So there you have it. Check this out right now!

256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Mediafire
256Kbps MP3 via BitTorrent from Demonoid.com

Dr. Zilog at Myspace

Bombadeal (The Green Man) - Songs From The Wood

Time for something a little bit different! Some Brighton hip-hop with a twist; the beats are made up from sampled folk music. Discovered in my wanderings through the tangled webs that make up the internets, on the recommendation of a certain Professor Elemental, whose work I have very much enjoyed, I decided to check out the works of Tom Caruana, the man behind the beats for The Menagerie (see 19th December post). It seems his works are quite prolific, and you can find more of them on his website Tea Sea Records (see what he's done there? Clever eh). Haven't listened to much of it yet as there is much there! However, I am very much enjoying Bombadeal and the Green Men of the Mythical Forest and recommend everyone to go download it and listen in! The description from Tea Sea Records website follows:

Tom Bombadeal was conceived in 2004 while I lived in Forest Row. I started work producing new tracks sampling folk music and rapping as the merry fellow that is Bombadeal.

The story is set in a mythical land where Bombadeal and his friends live in a woodland village. All is good for the villagers until they hear word that their village has been targeted for a violent rampage for the precious crystals that lie beneath the village.

In the run up to releasing the album I have put out 'Songs From The Wood' which is free to download!!!!
It's a collection of bits n bobs I've done since 2004.

The main album has all been made in the last 2 years and features Tom Caruana as Tom Bombadeal, Sadie Jemmmett as Goldberry, Flake Brown as the Scene Setter, Longusto as Longfellow the Blacksmith, Vecks as Jack Lumber, Elemental as Papa-Quar, Dizraeli as Goo, See as Agur The Seer, Baba Brinkman, Joncept, Mole (character names unknown).

192Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Tea Sea Records

Bombadeal and the Green Men of the Mythical Forest at Myspace

Electric Horsemen - EP

Been a while since my last update, so here's a particularly good one for ya! Electric Horsemen are a sludge/stoner/doom band from Lancaster County, Philadelphia in the US. This is some seriously awesome heavy shit! Heavy, crunching guitars with some nice guitar ornamentation that is reminiscent of Cathedral in their more stoner days. Vocals range from High On Fire/Crowbar style semi-melodic through to full on Iron Monkey screaming. This EP was given away on their Myspace page. Check it the fuck out, this is some crushingly heavy yet mightily groovy shit!

~192Kbps M4a via HTTP from Megaupload

Electric Horsemen at Myspace