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

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

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

StonerRock.comp Volume 1

As the name suggests, this is a compilation of stoner rock put together by the readership of http://www.stonerrock.com/ and posted for free on that site. Stonerrock.com is a great source for news, reviews and CDs of stoner rock, doom, sludge and other related genres. The original idea to do a compilation came from the forums, where forum member Balthazar pointed out that a lot of the forum's members were in unsigned bands. Obviously other forum members thought this was a good idea and the first StonerRock.comp was born. 26 tracks of stoner rock clocking in at an impressive 2 hours 52 minutes! Some great tunes on here so go check it out. Not made it through to any of the other volumes yet, but there are 8 in total so bound to be some more great tracks on there.

160Kbps MP3s via HTTP from www.stonerrock.org (sorry, individual tracks only)
http://www.stonerrock.com/

Talbot - Tundra EP

Here's some nice Estonian doom from Talbot, a two piece drone/sludge band. Apparently they've been going since 2003, though I first stumbled accross them the other day. Their Tundra EP is available for free download from their website. They have an interesting take on the doom genre, with a bass heavy sound that's vaguely reminiscent of industrial doom, but with a more organic beat provided by live drums instead of drum machines. The vocals are an interesting mix of more melodic stoner metal lines with some traditional doom screaming thrown in for good measure. The EP is also seeing a re-release on Consouling Sounds as a limited run of 100 CD-Rs, featuring two bonus remixes not featured on the downloadable version which can currently be listened to on their Myspace.

VBR MP3 via HTTP from talbot-music.com

Talbot at Myspace
Talbot Official website

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

Blood Island Raiders - 16-17 (Demo)

Some more vikingy stonery doominess today from the Blood Island Raiders! The Raiders are a London based metal band who play an interesting mix of stoner rock and viking metal. They first came to my attention due to their close relationship with Crowning Glory, who I have been following with interest having seen them supporting Orange Goblin a few years ago. They've done an EP, an album and a split EP all of which are available from this page of their website, and all of which are thoroughly worth getting your hands on. When I bought their EP from Amazon, it turned out the seller I'd selected was actually the band themselves so I got a load of stickers and stuff with it.

Today's offering is their demo from 2002, 1617. It's available from the sounds page of their website as individual tracks, unfortunately only at 112Kbps but at least it's tagged! I tried to upload a .rar file of my tagged and sorted copy with album art, but for some reason Rapidshare didn't like my password. So links to the individual tracks again like last time!

112Kbps MP3 via HTTP from bloodislandraiders.com
1. Arguments For The Abolition Of God
2. Circa 3
3. Demon
4. Closure

Blood Island Raiders at Myspace
Blood Island Raiders Official Site
Blood Island Raiders Facebook fan page

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

Sabazius - Sympathy For The Devil

Right, no updates for a while 'cause I been busy with Xmas stuff like watching all of Babylon 5 in a row (only got half way through the 2nd season and >1 week of 2 weeks holiday, things not looking good for this mission) and general festivity. Fortunately some of my friends have been less idle over the holiday period. Once again the kindly folks known as Sabazius (i.e. Nev and Steve) have released a free MP3 single for you all to download. This one's a cover of Sympathy For The Devil by the Rolling Stones. I don't know the original so no idea what it's meant to sound like, but I'm guessing it's not 25 minutes of doom! Anyways, message from the band follows:

Merry Christmas from Sabazius!

As a free gift, we offer our cover version of the Rolling Stones classic, 'Sympathy for the Devil', from midnight (UK time) 25th December 2008 as a free download!

The zip file also contains a front cover designed by our good friend Smudge (cheers mate)! Click here to download.

Have a great Christmas, and remember to spare a thought for Satan this time of year!!

So there you have it. Might be a while before I post anything else, lots of Babylon 5 to get through!

192Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Mediafire

Sabazius at Myspace

sEAMOUNt - ntodrm

Don't know much about these guys, apart from that they are awesome! A fusion of many different metal styles, at times they remind of me Grand Magus, Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne's solo stuff, NWOBHM bands like Blitzkrieg and there's even a bit of an AC/DC sound in there at points. I stumbled across them on one of my many bored wanderings through Myspace and was pleased to see that they had a link to download their album for free.

Lots of slow and heavy riffage, though more of a warm 70s sound than the usual heavy sludge, and some nice lead guitar and more up-tempo grooves. This is one album you really don't want to miss. These German doom mongers have produced one of the best albums I've heard this year.

256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Mediafire

sEAMOUNt at Myspace

They also have a few covers as bonus tracks available in WAV format from Mediafire (they're pretty big)!

Don't Let It Bring You Down (originally by Neil Young)
Music (originally by Witchfinder General)

Sabazius

Today's offering is very much in a different vein than Hospital Of Death. Sabazius are a Brighton-based doom band who are possibly the slowest band I've ever heard! I think they're awesome, but I am kinda biased since they are my friends Nev and Steve's band. Slower than tectonic plate movements and heavy as said tectonic plates, they sound fucking evil. My favourite track so far is The Goat, which is available for purchase from Dead Pilot Records right here. It only costs £3.40 for 19 minutes of crushing doom, and the 3" CD in mini-DVD case looks really nice. Only 52 pressed, so get in there ASAP.

Anyways, they decided to post their debut self-titled album for free on the internets as it was taking them ages to find a label. The tracks are all available on Mediafire individually (a .rar of the whole album would be too big for free hosting providers, this is 2 hours 26 minutes of doom!), as linked below. Not sure what quality they're at 'cause I have a CD copy that Steve gave me and ripped directly from that myself. If the quality's not good enough I can post my rips on Rapidshare, or re-rip at 320K if anyone wants.

Occult
Death's Eternal Sleep
Terror Is Thy Name
XXIII

Sabazius at Myspace