27/02/2009

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

02/02/2009

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