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
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