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

MOMt Records - Keep On Lovin'

MOMT Records are an independent label from Newbury in the UK. They specialise in unusual electronic music, particularly industrial rock, electro, IDM and ambient. MOMT seeks to fight back against the current pasteurised music scene filled with production-line indie rock bands whose image is more important than their music. They first came to my attention when they released an album called Replicate 01 , a tribute to my favourite band of all time Front Line Assembly featuring many of their artists.

MOMT have now been operative for 5 years, and to celebrate this they have released a free online compilation called Carry On Lovin'. Carry On Lovin' features a pretty representative mix of styles and genres, from the dirty industrial of Vultures and Audio War to the floaty ambient sounds of Gusto Extermination Fluid and Skink. Something for everyone!

192Kbps MP3 via HTTP from MOMT.co.uk
128Kbps MP3 individual tracks via HTTP from Last.FM

MOMT Records official site
MOMT Records at Myspace

The Shizit - Live At Club Spirit

The Shizit were an industrial metal band from Seattle formed in 1999. Originally promoted through the now defunct MP3.com, they sought to challenge the way the music industry worked and bring underground sounds to the masses. They released two DAM CDs (MP3.com's CDs featuring the regular CD version of the tracks alongside high quality MP3 files), Evil Inside in 1999 and Script Kiddie in 2000. They then went on to release a full length album entitled Soundtrack For The Revolution, which saw releases on several different labels (all now defunct) including E115 Records (original release) and Alec Empire's Digital Hardcore before disbanding in 2002. Two other albums have now been released posthumously through Canadian online collective D-Trash Records, Remixed For The Revolution (2004) and Live At Club Spirit (2008).

Their sound is similar to Rabbit Junk (the frontman JP's current project), but heavier and more aggressive. I always described it as gabber metal due to the relentless beats and highly distorted kick sounds, a la gabber. The result is an impressive fusion of metal, industrial, punk, gabber, hip-hop, hardcore dance and many other genres that is full of energy and just doesn't let up!

Today's offering is one I only just discovered, a D-Trash re-release of the Live At Club Spirit recording. This show was originally posted on The Shizit's MP3.com page as individual tracks back in the days of dialup internet connections and thus is unfortunately only available in 128K MP3 format. The D-Trash release sees the original four tracks supplemented by three new remixes by SLIP and a cover of Ministry's Just One Fix originally found on an Industrial compilation from 2001 called Signal To Noise: Reinforced Industrial Hits, and later on Cleopatra's A Taste Of Sin compilation and An Industrial Tribute To Ministry.

128/192Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Archive.org
128/192Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rapidshare.com

The Shizit Militia (semi-official fansite)
The Shizit Fanbase at Myspace

Rabbit Junk - Project Nonagon Part 1, The Struggle

Rabbit Junk are an industrial metal band with heavy punk, hip-hop and electro influences (apparently this is called hardclash) hailing from Seattle. They were formed in 2004 after the breakup of front man JP's previous project The Shizit (Myspace) , a brilliant gabber metal band who will be making appearances in these pages in the future. Rabbit Junk takes the raw energy of The Shizit and combines it with more advanced production technique, more melodic elements and a slightly punkier sound (not enough to be bad). With some catchy hooks, serious riffage and awesome sequencing there's something there for everyone!

Project Nonagon is an extension of Rabbit Junk's last album, This Life Is Where You Get Fucked. This Life Is Where You Get Fucked is a concept album in three parts: The Struggle, Ghetto Blasphemer and This Death Is Where You Get Life. The idea behind Project Nonagon is to release a 3 track EP to build on the themes of each of these parts. This first part is, obviously, the extension of The Struggle part of This Life...

192Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rabbitjunk.com

Rabbit Junk Official Site
Rabbit Junk at Myspace