Avalanche On Play Volumes 1 and 2

Avalanche On Play is a tribute to the music of Justin K Broadrick (of Godflesh, Jesu, Curse Of The Golden Vampire, Greymachine and many, many other projects). Unlike most tribute albums, this one features entirely new songs as opposed to covers of songs Broadrick has worked on. The music from the compilation is entirely provided by the users of the avalanchers.co.uk forum. Some users were discussing how much Broadrick had influenced their music, and decided to put together a tribute compilation. Obviously this project found massive support in the forums as they ended up releasing two volumes at once with a total running time of 2 hours 11 minutes!

The music itself is somewhat varied, as one might expect given Broadrick's varied output over the years. Songs range from Jesu-like shoegazing misery to more relentless Godflesh style bleak industrial pounding. I've rather enjoyed all of it, so hopefully you will too!

Featuring the music of:

2¦Frail
BetaCloud
Concrete/Field
Concrete Mutant
cracks
Crat¤s
Finite Death
Haedron
iDieresis
Lusca
Meat Machinery
Metonym
Monotremata
M00D
newbreed
pAGANsONG
Quatersized
Savier
Semi0n
Shirk
SHJK
The Project_Pale
TJ
Vinyl Kitty Hand

320Kbps MP3 via HTTP from 689eyes.com
FLAC via HTTP from 689eyes.com Part 1
FLAC via HTTP from 689eyes.com Part 2

www.avalanchers.co.uk forum
Avalanche On Play official website
Avalanche On Play 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

Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight - Movin' On

I was first alerted to Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight by Mike, singer from awesome Brighton stoner band Uncle Debauchery. This is some massive, heavy stoner rock, with powerful melodic vocals. Their singer can really hold a note. Awesome stuff, so check them out!

Their album is up for free download in January, so if you want it then get it quick! There are a load of formats available to choose from, so pick whatever one you want from the site.

Formats are:
320Kbps MP3
VBR MP3 (high quality)
VBR MP3 (low quality)
AAC (high quality)
AAC (low quality)
OGG Vorbis
FLAC
ALAC (no idea what that is!)

Various audio formats via HTTP from trippywicked.bandcamp.com

Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight on Myspace

Kabuto The Python - Shed Skins: A Collection Of Shit That Sucks and The Gun-Fu Remixes

Right, started writing this post almost a year ago but forgot about it and it got lost in the drafts folder. Anyways, a double whammy of Nerdcore action from Kabuto The Python. First up is Shed Skins, the first EP from the mighty Kabuto The Python. Definitely one of my favourite nerdcore artisits so far. Quite monotone, but brilliant timing and words and some massive beats! His Myspazz description reads "KABUTO IS A MAMMOTH CREATURE IN SIZE AND STRENGTH WITH A HOMONID BUILD. MANY SPIKES ADORN THE CREATURE'S BODY, WHILE ITS MAW IS FIERCE AND IMPOSING". So, there you go. That's Kabuto for ya. Also in this post is the remix EP Shed Skins: The Gun-Fu Remixes, as remixed by Gun-Fu.

Shed Skins: A Collection Of Shit That Sucks MP3 320/128 Kbps via HTTP from Galactopticon.net
Shed Skins: The Gun-Fu Remixes 320Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Galactopticon.net

Kabuto The Python on Myspace
Gun-Fu on Myspace

Ewigkeit - Return To The Land Of Fog

Now defunct, Ewigkeit was a one man project of Brighton based music wizard James Fogarty. Ewigkeit's sound varied greatly during their active period from full on black metal to the melodic, industrial tinged metal we hear on this free EP, released on Earache in 2006 just before Mr Fog burned all this music contracts in despair at the state of the industry. Fogarty has now moved on to other projects, most of which can be found for free download at his new anti-label Death To Music Productions and some of which I'm sure to be posting in the near future! This EP contains 3 tracks of beautifully constructed industrial metal, some awesome harmonies, great guitar sound. Go check it out!

~210Kbps VBR MP3 as Individual Tracks via HTTP from Earache.com
Ewigkeit on Myspace

Sons Of Liberty - Brush Fires Of The Mind

Sons Of Liberty is a solo project of Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer. Whilst he describes it as a politically neutral project, it seems a little bit over-patriotic right-wing conspiracy-theorist influenced to me, but then to a lot of Americans I guess I'm a bleeding-heart liberal pinko (or even worse, a foreigner!).

Anyways, lyrical content and inflamatory band names aside, this album is very much in an Iced Earth vein, though sees Jon Schaffer taking on lead vocal duties himself for the first time (and presumably everything else since it's a solo project). Iced Earth will already be familiar with Schaffer's vocal style as he does a lot of vocal work on Iced Earth stuff. Think he even sang a whole song by himself when I saw them at Wacken.

Don't have a direct download link, but you can get one emailed to you by signing up to the mailing list on their website. It's only 96Kbps, but you'll get the idea from there. There are also 256Kbps MP3 and high-quality M4A versions download available for purchase. There doesn't seem to be any official artwork, so I put together the cover on this page 'cause I like to have artwork on my MP3s!

Sons Of Liberty Offical Site

B A T I L L U S - The Batillus EP

B A T I L L U S are a doom band from Brooklyn, NY, USA. This is their first EP and is three tracks of rather nice instrumental doom (a fourth track is present on the CD release, which can be purchased here), about as heavy as the Batillus class supertanker for which they are presumably named. They seem to have recruited a vocalist since this EP, and the newer stuff sounds rather good also. Apparently this EP was tracked live and mixed in only two days at Black Box Studio in Hansen, MA, but it sounds like they took all the time they needed!

320Kbps MP3 Via HTTP from Batillusdoom.com

B A T I L L U S on Myspace
B A T I L L U S on Blogspot

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

FDISK - Connection Reset By Satan

As any regular readers will know, I'm rather into my nerdcore hip-hop due to my love of hip-hop and unashamed geekery. Anyways, for a long time I've toyed with the idea of starting a nerdcore metal band. Well, it seems that FDISK have rather beaten me to it! As one might guess from the name (well, if one was nerdy enough), they're a computer geekery inspired thrash metal band from LA. I think they must have added my band Funeral Hag on Myspazz over the weekend when I was sick and ignoring the internets as they appeared in our friends list, and of course I couldn't resist checking them out! The tunes aren't bad and the lyrics are most amusing, though the demo is a little unpolished. Definitely worth checking out though, especially if you, like me, are of a somewhat geeky pursuasion.

~200Kbps VBR MP3 via HTTP from Linkline.com
~200Kbps VBR MP3 via HTTP from Megaupload.com

FDISK on Myspace