Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight - Movin' On

I was first alerted to Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight by Mike, singer from awesome Brighton stoner band Uncle Debauchery. This is some massive, heavy stoner rock, with powerful melodic vocals. Their singer can really hold a note. Awesome stuff, so check them out!

Their album is up for free download in January, so if you want it then get it quick! There are a load of formats available to choose from, so pick whatever one you want from the site.

Formats are:
320Kbps MP3
VBR MP3 (high quality)
VBR MP3 (low quality)
AAC (high quality)
AAC (low quality)
OGG Vorbis
FLAC
ALAC (no idea what that is!)

Various audio formats via HTTP from trippywicked.bandcamp.com

Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight on Myspace

Kabuto The Python - Shed Skins: A Collection Of Shit That Sucks and The Gun-Fu Remixes

Right, started writing this post almost a year ago but forgot about it and it got lost in the drafts folder. Anyways, a double whammy of Nerdcore action from Kabuto The Python. First up is Shed Skins, the first EP from the mighty Kabuto The Python. Definitely one of my favourite nerdcore artisits so far. Quite monotone, but brilliant timing and words and some massive beats! His Myspazz description reads "KABUTO IS A MAMMOTH CREATURE IN SIZE AND STRENGTH WITH A HOMONID BUILD. MANY SPIKES ADORN THE CREATURE'S BODY, WHILE ITS MAW IS FIERCE AND IMPOSING". So, there you go. That's Kabuto for ya. Also in this post is the remix EP Shed Skins: The Gun-Fu Remixes, as remixed by Gun-Fu.

Shed Skins: A Collection Of Shit That Sucks MP3 320/128 Kbps via HTTP from Galactopticon.net
Shed Skins: The Gun-Fu Remixes 320Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Galactopticon.net

Kabuto The Python on Myspace
Gun-Fu on Myspace

Ewigkeit - Return To The Land Of Fog

Now defunct, Ewigkeit was a one man project of Brighton based music wizard James Fogarty. Ewigkeit's sound varied greatly during their active period from full on black metal to the melodic, industrial tinged metal we hear on this free EP, released on Earache in 2006 just before Mr Fog burned all this music contracts in despair at the state of the industry. Fogarty has now moved on to other projects, most of which can be found for free download at his new anti-label Death To Music Productions and some of which I'm sure to be posting in the near future! This EP contains 3 tracks of beautifully constructed industrial metal, some awesome harmonies, great guitar sound. Go check it out!

~210Kbps VBR MP3 as Individual Tracks via HTTP from Earache.com
Ewigkeit on Myspace

Sons Of Liberty - Brush Fires Of The Mind

Sons Of Liberty is a solo project of Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer. Whilst he describes it as a politically neutral project, it seems a little bit over-patriotic right-wing conspiracy-theorist influenced to me, but then to a lot of Americans I guess I'm a bleeding-heart liberal pinko (or even worse, a foreigner!).

Anyways, lyrical content and inflamatory band names aside, this album is very much in an Iced Earth vein, though sees Jon Schaffer taking on lead vocal duties himself for the first time (and presumably everything else since it's a solo project). Iced Earth will already be familiar with Schaffer's vocal style as he does a lot of vocal work on Iced Earth stuff. Think he even sang a whole song by himself when I saw them at Wacken.

Don't have a direct download link, but you can get one emailed to you by signing up to the mailing list on their website. It's only 96Kbps, but you'll get the idea from there. There are also 256Kbps MP3 and high-quality M4A versions download available for purchase. There doesn't seem to be any official artwork, so I put together the cover on this page 'cause I like to have artwork on my MP3s!

Sons Of Liberty Offical Site

B A T I L L U S - The Batillus EP

B A T I L L U S are a doom band from Brooklyn, NY, USA. This is their first EP and is three tracks of rather nice instrumental doom (a fourth track is present on the CD release, which can be purchased here), about as heavy as the Batillus class supertanker for which they are presumably named. They seem to have recruited a vocalist since this EP, and the newer stuff sounds rather good also. Apparently this EP was tracked live and mixed in only two days at Black Box Studio in Hansen, MA, but it sounds like they took all the time they needed!

320Kbps MP3 Via HTTP from Batillusdoom.com

B A T I L L U S on Myspace
B A T I L L U S on Blogspot