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KEKAL calls it quits, offers free downloads

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:23:52 +0000

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 Kekal to remain exist as a band (read: institution) albeit without active band-members. The official statement is available on the band’s official website.

The band has made 3 of their albums available as free download:

Official Website: Kekal

SHRAPNEL’s debut album available for download

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:00:41 +0000

Shrapnel - Intellectual Pursuit

Bangalore based thrash metal band, SHRAPNEL, are giving away their excellent debut album ‘Intellectual Pursuit’ as free download at http://www.gimmesound.com/shrapnel

KRYPTOS debut album available as free download

admin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:43:29 +0000

Kryptos - Spiral Ascent

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.

Severed Fifth – Open Source Music Initiative

admin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:42:38 +0000

The release date of the debut Severed Fifth album, named Denied By Reign has been officially announced as Tuesday 21st October 2008. The album in its entirety will be freely available for download and sharing from severedfifth.com and various online music catalogs and bit torrent download sites.

The album features the following eight songs:

Metric Of Hate
Beating Heart
Dollar Plague
The Lake
Edge Of Design
Take The Test
War
Enslaved By Pain

Written, performed, recorded and produced entirely by Jono Bacon (Community lead for Ubuntu), the album touches a range of political and social topics, driven by a brutal, thundering style with pounding double bass drumming, grinding guitars and guttural vocals. The album was recorded in Jono’s home studio in central England and combines a range of styles. Pre-release listening sessions has resulted in comparisons to Metallica, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Pantera, Decapitated and Hatebreed.

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Download Live Metallica Tracks Legally

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:32:37 +0000

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.

Demonstealer Releases Solo Album As Free Download

admin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:20:03 +0000

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 songs can be downloaded from Demonstealer Records website after registering at the forums.

Following is the tracklisting :

And There Is Calm Before Every Storm
Whirlwinds of Devastation
Seething Pain That Leaves No Scars
The Empty Wasteland of Despair
Elegy For The Grieving One
A Solitary Mass Of Flesh
In Desolation A Prayer

Read the lyrics for all songs at this location.

To listen to samples visit:
http://www.myspace.com/thedemonstealer
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=117365

Frets On Fire: Open Source Guitar Hero

admin — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:52:48 +0000

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 one hand pressing the fret buttons and another pressing the pick button. The game has a song editor to add your own songs and can also import Guitar Hero I & II songs. There are hundreds of songs available for download and you can also compete with others in the World Charts.

FoF is a multi platform game and can run on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and FreeBSD.

Download Frets on Fire.

Orion: Thrash Metal From Pakistan

admin — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:39:22 +0000

Orion, a thrash metal band from Pakistan, recently released their debut album, ‘Angel Of Dust’, absolutely free for download from their official website. Orion are Ameer Hamza, Hammad Khan, Hussam Raza, Waqas Ahmed, Imaad Manzar and Bilal Nadeem.

From the band’s website:

ORION is a diverse metal band from Pakistan that is influenced by bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Pantera, Exodus and Opeth among others. The band was formed in 2006 with the aim of making an album that was not only ground breaking in terms of the Pakistani music scene, but that could hold its own when compared to international releases as well. The album ‘Angel Of Dust’, consists of 10 extremely diverse songs that cover most sub genres of metal. Almost no song is in the exact same style as the other, making this a very refreshing listen from start to finish. From the thrash attack of the opener ‘In The Mouth Of Madness’, to the many twists and turns of the conceptual 10 minute epic ‘The Final Sign’, ‘Angel Of Dust’ will be a great listen for anyone who likes their music with aggression, dynamics and groove, infused with just the right amount of technicality and melody.

Download Angel Of Dust here

Hydrogen: Drum Machine

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:06:37 +0000

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux and available on Linux/Windows/Mac. The main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

The drum machine features a pattern sequencer with unlimited patterns and ability to chain patterns. Capable of handling upto 64 ticks per pattern and 32 instruments with multi layer support. The software has some unique features like unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.

The website has downloadable drum kits like Roland, Yamaha, Boss etc which could be used to create rock/metal, techno music and even has Indian tabla under the ethnic hiphop drum kit.

Download Hydrogen [Release 0.9.2]

Frets On Fire: Open Source Guitar Hero

Download Nine Inch Nails ‘The Slip’ For Free

admin — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:45:14 +0000

Nine Inch Nails after successfully releasing the last album, has done it again by giving away ‘The Slip’ album completely free. The entire album along with album cover, lyrics (in pdf) is available for download on the NIN website. You can download all ten tracks in a variety of DRM-free formats, including MP3, FLAC, M4A lossless, and even 24/96 WAV. ‘The Slip’ is licensed under a creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license.

Tracklisting:

999,999
1,000,000
letting you
discipline
echoplex
head down
lights in the sky
corona radiata
the four of us are dying
demon seed

Download the album here.