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

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

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

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