Talbot - Eos

Here's another mighty slab of doom from Estonian 2-piece Talbot. This is their first full-length release, and it certainly shows they can keep up the doom for much longer than demonstrated on their previous Tundra EP (which I posted just over a year ago). I liked Tundra so much I bought the CD-R version off the band, which features remixes of 2 tracks not found on the download only version. EOS is even better than Tundra, plenty of monolithic heaviness and also some nice psychedelic interludes. Well worth a listen so go download it!

MP3 @ 192Kbps via HTTP from talbot-music.com

Talbot on Myspace
Talbot Official website

Hiram - If Up Were Along

Not done an update for a while, so here's a quick one because this album is awesome and I need to stop being so lazy.

Today's offering is an album called If Up Were Along by Hiram from Sheffield, UK. There's something about the north that seems to breed good doom bands, I guess it's the whole bleak northern vibe, not that we southerners can't compete (or at least I'd like to think we can, what with me being in a doomy metal band).

If Up Were Along is pretty epic, a 2 disc affair at over 1 hour 30 minutes. It starts off with a clean/acousticy intro with some weird noises but soon gets down to its doomy business, with a sound that's reminiscent of Black Sheep Wall if they hadn't listened to quite so much Meshuggah! The whole album is a nice mix of doom and heavy post rock, with some nice melodic passages but enough heaviness and screaming to keep a metaller like me happy as well.

192Kbps or 320Kbps MP3s via HTTP from Mediafire

Hiram on Myspace

Avalanche On Play Volumes 1 and 2

Avalanche On Play is a tribute to the music of Justin K Broadrick (of Godflesh, Jesu, Curse Of The Golden Vampire, Greymachine and many, many other projects). Unlike most tribute albums, this one features entirely new songs as opposed to covers of songs Broadrick has worked on. The music from the compilation is entirely provided by the users of the avalanchers.co.uk forum. Some users were discussing how much Broadrick had influenced their music, and decided to put together a tribute compilation. Obviously this project found massive support in the forums as they ended up releasing two volumes at once with a total running time of 2 hours 11 minutes!

The music itself is somewhat varied, as one might expect given Broadrick's varied output over the years. Songs range from Jesu-like shoegazing misery to more relentless Godflesh style bleak industrial pounding. I've rather enjoyed all of it, so hopefully you will too!

Featuring the music of:

2¦Frail
BetaCloud
Concrete/Field
Concrete Mutant
cracks
Crat¤s
Finite Death
Haedron
iDieresis
Lusca
Meat Machinery
Metonym
Monotremata
M00D
newbreed
pAGANsONG
Quatersized
Savier
Semi0n
Shirk
SHJK
The Project_Pale
TJ
Vinyl Kitty Hand

320Kbps MP3 via HTTP from 689eyes.com
FLAC via HTTP from 689eyes.com Part 1
FLAC via HTTP from 689eyes.com Part 2

www.avalanchers.co.uk forum
Avalanche On Play official website
Avalanche On Play on Myspace

Huata - Open The Gates Of Shambhala

Huata are a stoner doom band from France. Riffs as big and fuzzy as Electric Wizard, but a little more lethargic (if that's even possible) and growlier, more Ramesses like vocals. This EP is their second release and features five tracks, with a running time of 34:18. Well worth a listen!

VBR MP3 ~256 Kbps via HTTP from imm3moria.org
WAV via HTTP from imm3moria.org

Huata on Myspace

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

Deutschland's Doomed Volume 1

This is a massive download at 715Mb, but it's 60 tracks of quality underground German doom. Doom Metal Front is an online German magazine reporting on the German doom scene, along with all your favourite international doom bands. Or at least I assume it is, but my German's not really good enough to understand much of the content. Anyways, they released their second issue as a PDF download bundled with this massive compilation. There are far too many bands to go into any in detail, but if you're into doom there are bound to be at least a few tracks you'll like on here. Features the following bands:

Arktika, B.abuse, Bad Luck Rides On Wheels, Beehoover, Black Autumn, Black Mood, Black Shape Of Nexus, BLCKWVS, Calliophis, Carambolage, Celestial Navigator, Crowskin, Distant, Doom Division, Doomshine, Down On Knees I´m Weak, Dreaming, Dust, Earth Flight, Enojado, Extorian, GeminiOne, Golden Gorilla, Grief Of God, Head Of The Taurus, Hellamor, Hen:ge, Hiam, Holy Hydra, I The Unlord, Kodiak, Laube, Mills of God, Mirror of Deception, Mountain Witch, No Hope, Onde Sphérique , Ophis, PainForged, Petrified, Radare, Seamount, Sinistra, Slob, Sonic Booze Machine, Spancer, Spirit Descent, Tephra, The Last Supper, Tortured Spirit, Union Of Sleep, Versus The Stillborn-Minded, Voltron, Voodooshock, Wall, Warped Cross, Whalerider, Wheel, Wight, Woburn House

VBR MP3s ~192Kbps plus PDF 'zine via HTTP from Megaupload
VBR MP3s ~192Kbps plus PDF 'zine via HTTP from Sendspace Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Doom Metal Front on Myspace
Doom Metal Front website