Avant Garde metal band, KEKAL, are sadly no more. The band’s members called it quits after 14 years of existence. KEKAL started out as an extreme metal band but over the years their music progressed and diversified. Jeff and Leo, the only existing members of the band have left the band but decided to keep [...]
Bangalore based thrash metal band, SHRAPNEL, are giving away their excellent debut album ‘Intellectual Pursuit’ as free download at http://www.gimmesound.com/shrapnel
Banglore based old school thrashers, KRYPTOS, are giving away their debut album, Spiral Ascent, as free download. Those who missed out now have a chance to get hold of the awesome debut release. Just goto http://www.gimmesound.com/Kryptos/ and download the songs.
Unrestrained Magazine, extreme metal magazine which recently closed doors due to sad passing away of Adrian Bromley, the publisher, coordinator, and co-editor of the magazine. Tate Bengtson has offered the last issue, #39, as free download. Unrestrained! #39 has been released by Adrian’s friends and family as a tribute to him in PDF [...]
TuxGuitar, an open source tablature editor, is an music composer and player. The editor can be used to compose music using score and could be played back as midi file. The editor has multitrack display for different instruments, fret board view and matrix editor for percussion instruments. The editor has autoscroll feature for simulaneous playback. [...]
LiveMetallica.com has offering many of the thrash legends, Metallica, live tracks as free downloads (1982 – 2003) legally. Head over to LiveMetallica.com to download the entire tracks. You will need to create a free login in order to download the tracks.
Download tracks here.
Blabbermouth reports:
Five German bands have recorded cover versions of classic METALLICA songs for the first-ever “German Tribute to Metallica”. Between now and August 18, a new track from the tribute will be made available for free download each Tuesday and Friday via www.tribute-to-metallica.de.
To download the first song — KILLIANS‘ version of “Hero of the Day” [...]
Demonstealer, a name synonymous with the Indian Metal scene and also the main man behind melodic black/thrash metal band, Demonic Resurrection, Demonstealer Records and band Reptilian Death has released his debut solo album “…And Chaos Will Reign…“. The album has 7 tracks and has been released as a free download rather than on CD. The [...]
Pandora, the music recommendation service, has a podcast covering various aspects of music and composition. In their latest podcast, Types of metal, they cover the various forms of metal genre and the differences in them. The host Kevin Seal along with guests guitarist Ava Mendoza, bassist Kurt Kotheimer and drummer Weasel Walter show us the [...]
Frets on Fire is a music video game in which users use the keyboard to play along with scrolling on-screen musical notes to complete a song. The game is developed by Unreal Voodoo and is a clone of the popular Guitar Hero console game.
The game features a unique inverted keyboard which emulates a guitar, with [...]
