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
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~192Kbps VBR Mp3s via HTTP from Mediafire

Funeral Hag at Myspace
Funeral Hag at Youtube

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

A Horse Called War - We Ain't Proud Of This

I don't know a lot about A Horse Called War other than that their music is pretty good and several members of the band like Warhammer 40,000. Originally came to my attention because they were supposed to be playing at the Hobgoblin in Brighton last Saturday. Unfortunately they couldn't make the show due to work commitments and transport problems, but I'm hoping they'll make it to Brighton sometime soon.

Anyways, their sound is very reminiscent of Iron Monkey, with lots of feedback, slow, downtuned, sludgy guitars and screechy screamed vocals over the top. They've recorded a demo, which I am posting here, and an EP, which you can buy from their Myspazz. One of the tracks from the EP is on the Myspazz player but I can't comment on the rest as I only just ordered the CD.

Anyways, I'd thoroughly recommend you download their demo. There's a link on their Myspazz or just click the one below!

128 Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Tiscali
A Horse Called War at Myspace

Electric Horsemen - EP

Been a while since my last update, so here's a particularly good one for ya! Electric Horsemen are a sludge/stoner/doom band from Lancaster County, Philadelphia in the US. This is some seriously awesome heavy shit! Heavy, crunching guitars with some nice guitar ornamentation that is reminiscent of Cathedral in their more stoner days. Vocals range from High On Fire/Crowbar style semi-melodic through to full on Iron Monkey screaming. This EP was given away on their Myspace page. Check it the fuck out, this is some crushingly heavy yet mightily groovy shit!

~192Kbps M4a via HTTP from Megaupload

Electric Horsemen at Myspace