The Amenta - V01D

 Right, I know, it's been bloody ages.  I got rather distracted with life, or video games, or fuck knows what the hell I was doing.  Anyways, I'm back again and here's something awesome for you all.  I grabbed an album by The Amenta a while ago because they were playing at Wacken Open Air.  I go to Wacken every year and I generally try and check out all the bands beforehand so I know who to go see.  Anyways, I grabbed The Amenta's Ocassus album and rather enjoyed it.  Then I completely forgot about it and forgot what they were called.  Fortunately, I managed to remember the other day and grabbed some more of their stuff.

The sound is pretty brutal, and seems to be described as Industrial Death Metal, right up my street since The Berzerker are one of my favourite bands!  The Amenta are a bit more traditionally Death Metal than The Berzerker, the drums are a bit more natural sounding than the gabber-style triggered kicks you'll find there (only a bit), but just as relentless and heavy.  There're plenty of keys adding depth to the sound throughout and some nice industrially sounding intros and breaks.  Well worth a listen if you like that sort of thing.

V01D is an interesting project.  It's a free release with 16 tracks and 4 videos, mostly composed of re-recordings or remixes of tracks from previous releases.  I guess this makes it as good a place to start as any and the production is solid throughout, the re-recordings sounding even more brutal than the original versions!  Check out the video below and if you like what you hear go grab the album.  Highly recommended.

320KBPS MP3 from TheAmenta.com

The Amenta Official Website
The Amenta on Myspace

The Shizit - The Shizit

The Shizit are an interesting project, a mix of metal, industrial, gabber, drum & bass, breakbeat and a ton of other genres. They started as a band during the late 90s they put out a few Digital Audio Music CDs through MP3.com, back in the early days of MP3. After enjoying some success on MP3.com they put out one album, Soundtrack For The Revolution (often abreviated to SoFTeR) through Alec Empire's Digital Hardcore Recordings label, and then disbanded due to personal differences.

Now they're back, or at least partially. JP Anderson was half of the original lineup, the man behind Rabbit Junk, and is now the whole band (as with most of his other projects). This new album is very much in the spirit of the original Shizit release, but sounds much heavier than its predecessor - no bad thing if you ask me!

256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Archive.org
256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rapidshare
256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Megaupload

The Shizit on Myspace
The Shizit official site
The Shizit Militia (fan page)

Thy Apokalypse - Fragment Premier (Vison Of Apokalypse)

Something a bit odd this time, at least to me. Thy Apokalypse seem to be an industrial black metal band, which althout it seems an obvious combination isn't something I've heard before! It's kinda hard to know what to make of this. There are some great industrial beats and ambience, and plenty of black metal screaching and blast beats. Give it a listen!

412Kbps Ogg via HTTP from Archive.org

Thy Apokalypse at Myspace