Wiht - Wiht

Wiht are an instrumental stoner doom band from Leeds in the UK. Whilst somewhat reminiscent of other instrumental stoner bands like Karma To Burn and Sons Of Alpha Centauri, Wiht's sound is quite a bit heavier than either of those and more doomy in pace. Their material works well as instrumental, with a massive guitar tone that must have taken a lot of layers to create. It's not all heavy grooves, there are some nice chilled out droney and almost ambient sections. Well worth a listen, and as always if you like it go buy it! £4 on CD from their Myspazz, not bad for >40 minutes of kickass stoner doom.

256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Mediafire.com
http://www.mediafire.com/?gqzrghymtor
http://www.mediafire.com/?uzznd1jjh2j

Wiht on Myspace

Mother Susurrus - Mother Susurrus

Mother Susurrus are a doom/sludge band from Finland. Their sound is quite droney and sludgey, heavy yet with plenty of melody as well. Beautifully bleak and very well crafted, the EP rises and falls like post rock but never quite drops below a doomy level of heaviness and sludge. There are no clean guitars here! This EP consists of 2 tracks, Whoremonger and Apocatastasis, totalling 32:26 of awesome doominess.

VBR (~250Kbps) MP3 via HTTP from Mothersusurrus.com
FLAC via HTTP from Mothersusurrus.com
ALAC via HTTP from Mothersusurrus.com

Mother Susurrus on Myspace
Mother Susurrus offical website

Hesper Payne - Unclean Rituals

Hesper Payne are a Lovecraft inspired doom band from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the UK. I posted their Titans Of The North Sea EP a while ago, which was rather good. Now they're back with a new album, Unclean Rituals, which continues with their awesome brand of bleak, detuned doom with death metal style vocals. I liked it so much I had to buy the CD, which came with an ominous note I shall now transcribe for your reading pleasure (punctuation mostly added by me for ease of reading):

Monty!

Oh gods. The horror!
They know where I am. I asked the wrong questions, now I hear their mocking cry, further than the distant starts, closer than the thickness of a shadow. Guard this artifact well lest they come for you.

OH GODS, I HEAR THEM AT THE WINDOW!

HP.

Obviously they've been reading a lot of Lovecraft, which is something I always mean to do. Go check them out!

Various formats including 320Kbps MP3 and FLAC from Bandcamp

Hesper Payne on Myspace
Hesperpayne.com

Beware! The Gelatinous Gloop

Beware! The Gelatinous Gloop is a compilation of doom and sluge metal from Exhilarate Records. There's some great stuff on here, including tracks from my band Funeral Hag and fellow Brighton doomsters Enos and Dopefight. The download is split into two parts, so make sure you grab both so you get all 22 bands and 2 hours 25 minutes of doom!

Tracklist as follows:

Part 1 – Tracks 1-11

01. Ophis ‘The Halls of Sorrow’
02. Hiram ‘Peering Over the Shoulder of Admiral Piri-Reis’
03. The Machete Massacre ‘Kingdom of Sin’
04. Bitterdusk ‘Amanecer De La Galaxi’
05. Fall of Empyrean ‘In the Shadows of the Sun’
06. Funeral Hag ‘Nellie Longarms’
07. Zatokrev ‘Story of a Thousand’
08. Enos ‘Back to Earth’
09. Grief’s Exquisite Veil ‘Sleep’s Caress’
10. Hopkins ‘Permutations’
11. Dopefight ‘Nob.Nod.Noi’

Part 2 – Tracks 12-22

12. Sobre Nocturne ‘Shattered Fields’
13. Tovarish ‘Laika’
14. Blame Keiko ‘Everything & Nothing’
15. The Way of Purity ‘Sinner’
16. Circus of Damnation ‘In Speciem Cadaveris’
17. Plaguewitch ‘Aarka’
18. John Halifax ‘Robust’
19. Merciless Precision ‘Suffer (live at the Zeneth)’
20. Normalman ‘Flamingo Land’
21. Drug Honkey ‘The Others’
22. Brown & Benbow ‘Dog Waste’

Various bitrates MP3 download via HTTP from Mediafire
Part 1
Part 2

Exhilarate Records Blogspot

Enos - Chapter 1

Right, not done an update for ages because I'm a massive twat! I have amassed quite a collection of links for you however, so I shall endeavour to keep the updates reasonably regular in future. After all, anyone who's loyal enough a reader to still be reading is bound to be itching for a fix of new free music by now!

This time I shall be shamelessly promoting my mates' band's album! Enos are a Brighton doom band mixing elements of doom, stoner, prog and space rock. Their first album was a long time in the making and mixing drove their front-man to despair. Fortunately for us he persevered and we get served up these 5 tracks of psychedelic doom for free! There's also a great comic book as a PDF with the album, which some of you may recognise from one of Chris' other projects Thee Big Black, a Brighton based fanzine, webzine, forum and promotions group for all things stoner, doom, drone, sludge and anything else somone feels like contributing. Well worth a read/listen so check 'em out!

320Kbps MP3 via HTTP from theebigblack.com

Enos on Myspace

Matsudo - With Amplifiers Zions Nothingness Eventually Rises

Matsudo are a doom/sludge band from Sweden. I don't know a lot about them, but it seems they rate Sabazius so they are obviously men of great taste! It also seems they've split up, annoying as I hadn't really heard much from them before. Their stuff is slow and heavy, with some quiet droney interludes, but overall doomy as fuck. Check it out!

160Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Mediafire.com


Matsudo on Myspace

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

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

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

Doom Metal Alliance Sampler Volume 9

The Doom Metal Alliance is a Myspace page dedicated to all things doom related. There is also a related blog, Doommantia, which features reviews of the latest doom releases (these can also be found on the DMA Myspace Blog) and their player features tracks from various underground doom bands. So if you like doom and want to discover some new doom bands then head on over there.

They also do a series of compilations called the Doom Metal Alliance Samplers. The latest in this series, Volume 9, is the first one to come to my attention and is certainly a fine specimen! It features plenty of slow, doomy heaviness so go download it! Tacklisting as follows:

1. Yidhra - The Lament Of Longinus (www.myspace.com/yidhra)
2. Dark Covenant - Forever Amongst The Ruins (www.myspace.com/darkcovenantdoom)
3. No Hope - M Lady (www.myspace.com/nohopedoomcore)
4. Destino Entierro - The Alcholichrist (www.myspace.com/destinoentierro)
5. Balkhara - Old Woman Dressed In Black (www.myspace.com/balkhara)
6. Project Armageddon - Plague For Shattered Man (www.myspace.com/projectingarmageddon)
7. Raven Head - Cold Lake (www.myspace.com/ravenheadband)
8. Coffin Riders - Bringer Of Doom (www.myspace.com/coffinriders)
9. Wizardrone - The Dawn Of Broken Empires (www.myspace.com/wizardrone)
10. Calliophis - Eyes Of Suffering (www.myspace.com/calliophis)

128-320Kbps MP3 Via HTTP from Mediafire

Doom Metal Alliance on Myspace
Doommantia Blog

Arteriosus - Promo Demo

Arteriosus are a progressive doom band from Brighton. I saw them a few weeks back with my mates Here There Be Monsters and the mighty Blackstorm at The Prince Albert and was rather impressed. Normally not too into the buildy post-rockish type doom, but these guys managed to pull it off in a way I rather enjoyed! Tons of feedback and huge guitar and bass sounds, as you would expect from a doom band, and some rather nice melodic elements too. I swapped a demo CD of my band Funeral Hag for theirs and it is rather good. Just noticed you can download it for free, so here it is! Enjoy. I shall be going to see them this evening at The Hope , along with From Beneath It Devours who are also rather good.

??Kbps MP3 Via HTTP from Rapidshare Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com (Yes I nicked the link from someone else's blog)
128Kbps MP3 Via HTTP from Last.FM (Individual tracks)

Arteriosus on Myspace
Arteriosus on Facebook

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

Funeral Hag - Demo 2009

A bit of a special release for you today, at least for me anyway, it's the demo from my band, Funeral Hag! We play a mix of stoner rock, sludgecore and doom metal that I hope you're going to love. The demo has 3 tracks and clocks in at 18 minutes and 18 seconds long.

Funeral Hag started last year as a solo project of our guitarist Jon, who wrote and recorded Nellie Longarms by himself and demoed another song, Screams Of A Banshee, in 2008. In early 2009 Jon decided he wanted to take the band further and started looking for other members. He quickly recruited his workmate Nev of Sabazius (possibly familiar to any regular readers as I post their releases on here) to play 2nd guitar. Nev in turn suggested his bandmate Steve to play bass, and Steve got me involved on vocals, along with our old mate George on drums. Thus Funeral Hag was born.

We've now played a few gigs (videos from our first on our Youtube page) and recorded this demo, and are hoping to make something of ourselves! So download our demo and enjoy the sludge. :D

~192Kbps VBR Mp3s via HTTP from Archive.org
~192Kbps VBR Mp3s via HTTP from Rapidshare
~192Kbps VBR Mp3s via HTTP from Megaupload
~192Kbps VBR Mp3s via HTTP from Mediafire

Funeral Hag at Myspace
Funeral Hag at Youtube

Necro Deathmort - This Beat Is Necrotronic

Necro Deathmort are a very odd band! I'm not entirely sure how, but I stumbled upon them in my wanderings around the internets one afternoon. A British 2 piece, they mix all kinds of odd sounds together and I find the results rather enjoyable.

The album starts with some weird digital noise that would be at home on any noisecore album, then goes on to a stomping industrial breakbeat track, followed by a nice slow instrumental doom track, followed by a floaty, ambient soundscape... This album is all over the place, but in a very good way! You can download it for free, courtesy of Distraction Records, but if you do like it then please go buy it from their website.

320 Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rapidshare, zSHARE, Megaupload, DepositFiles or Badongo

Necro Deathmort at Myspace
Distraction Records at Myspace
Distraction Records website

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