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Unrestrained Magazine Final Issue

admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:20:55 +0000

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 format. You could download the issue 39 here.

TuxGuitar – Open Source Tablature Editor

admin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:03:17 +0000

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. The editor has standard music notations as well as various effects like bend, slide, vibrato, hammer on/pull-off, time signature and tempo management. The editor can import and export gp3,gp4 and gp5 files. The music can be exported in Lilypond, MusicXML formats to name a few.

Download TuxGuitar here

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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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.