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