Free: Far Beyond

The last EP from Far Beyond is available for free download on their website.

Buy both releases in high quality on Bandcamp.

Get news about the recording of the new album on Facebook.

Freegal Music Friday: Century Media

Third edition of Freegal Music Friday
Several excellent Christian releases can be downloaded for free through Freegal Music. (Don't know what Freegal Music is? See this post.)


There are several highlights:

• Extol - Undeceived (with bonus tracks)
• Extol - Synergy
• Extol - The Blueprint Dives
• 7 horns 7 eyes - Throes of Absolution
• 7 horns 7 eyes - Convalescence Single

Also Available are:

• Jerry Gaskill - Come Somewhere
• Ty Tabor - Rock Garden
• Blessed by a Broken Heart - Pedal to the Metal

From the ANGR sublabel, releases such as:

• The Great Commission - Heavy Worship
• As Hell Retreats - Volition
• Sleeping Giant - Kingdom Days in an Evil Age

Other albums by Extol, The Great Commission, As Hell Retreats, and Sleeping Giant can also be found on Freegal Music. See this post. 

Ukrainian Metal Roundup

We'll finish up Ukrainian metal week with a few more entries.

Find Evangelion by Coram Deo here.

You can also find Evangelion's music at Soundmass Downloads, eMusic, CD Baby, and other outlets.

Likewise with Dying Blaze: Soundmass, eMusic, CD Baby.

Likewise with Usynlig Tumult: eMusic, CD Baby.

Holy Blood

Since the Ukraine train has left the station, we might as well hop aboard. (See the posts from the last four days.) Although Holy Blood used to have several free tracks available on their website, they do not any longer.  The site was updated to promote their fifth album, "Day of Vengeance." It is possible to buy the import edition of that album right now, but it will be coming out on Bombworks at some point in the future.

In the meantime, here are some places to learn and hear more.

Hear the entirety of three albums at MySpace.
Previews of the new album and other things can be found on their website and YouTube channel.

Angel 7 on Bandcamp

If we're not careful, it will become a whole week of Ukrainian metal.  But why not?  Those Ukrainians make some great music.

Buy five albums by Ukrainian band Angel 7 on Bandcamp.

Each album costs $7. That's cute.

*** Update: All the albums are now free (name your price)!!!

*** Update 3/10/15: The album "Last Revolution" is now being sold by Vision of God Records on their Bandcamp, with a physical copy coming soon. The other four are still name your price.

Free: Oskord - Weapon of Hope

Might as well continue with the Ukrainian theme from the past two days. Download Oskord's album "Weapon of Hope" for free (name your price) on their Bandcamp.

While you're at it, pray for our Ukrainian brothers and sisters and their safety during this time of unrest.

Free: Evroklidon - Flame of Sodom

Continuing the Ukrainian unblack theme from yesterday, download Evroklidon's un/black metal album "Flame of Sodom" for free (name your price) on their Bandcamp.

Free: Neizbezhnost - Would it be Reasonable

Download Neizbezhnost's very enjoyable black metal album "Would it be Reasonable" for free on the Bandcamp page for their label.

Want their earlier EP/demo "Inevitability"? See here.

Freegal Music Friday: Open Grave and Sullen

Second edition of Freegal Music Friday
Nearly all of the releases from Open Grave and Sullen records can be downloaded for free through Freegal Music. (Don't know what Freegal Music is? See this post.)

There are lots of highlights here:

• Feast Eternal - With Fire
• Neizbezhnost' - Inevitability 
• Once Dead - Visions of Hell
• Frost Like Ashes - Born to Pieces
• Erasmus - Memento Mori I: Outrecuidance
• Hortor - Ancient Satanic Rituals Are Crushed to Dust
• Coram Deo - Evangelion
• Poems of Shadows - Obscure Forest, Destructive Illusion
• Eulogium - The Transcendence of Hope
• Bedeiah - Blood Metal
• Suspiria Profundis - In War in Against Satan
• Seven albums by Elgibbor: Soterion Apollumi Hamartia, War, Repent or Perish, Fireland, Stronger than Hell, Jubileum Vols 1 & 2

Other albums available include:

• Northern Ash - The Age of Irrationality
• Hawthorn - Thorns and Blood
• Broken Flesh - Forever in Flames
• O Majestic Winter - Defiling the Serpent's Temple
• O Majestic Winter - An Autumn Moon
• Azbuk - Compilation for Eternity
• Exultet - I Soldati della Croce
• Exultet - Urbs Felix
• Exultet - Constantinopolis
• Within the Torn Apart - Sun Setting on a Spirit Death
• Northern Ash - Patterns of Decay
• Maugrim - Paths of the Damned
• Willow Mount - Vanitas
• Vociferor - Fall of Man
• Widow and the Son - Negation
• I Built the Cross - Bridging the Gap Between Mind and Heart
• Rehumanize - Resident Apostasy

Other bands include: Anti-Hell Society, Heaven's Force, Venia, Mike Phillips, End of Destiny, Orphan Project, Eightball Cholos


Unfortunately, not all of the albums from these labels are available.

Not available from Open Grave:

• A.W.A.S. - Hope
• Kekal - The Habit of Fire (but see here)
• Feast Eternal - Prisons of Flesh (but see here)
• Docile - Babylon Ablaze
• Morbid Sacrifice - Severed Death

Not available from Sullen:

• Ancient Plague - Archaic Kingdoms
• My Darkest Time - My Thoughts (but see here)
• Sorrowstorm - Onward

Free: Ethereal Scourge

Find the classic "Judgement and Restoration" album by Ethereal Scourge, remastered in 2014, available for free on Noisetrade (tips welcome).

Free EP: O Wretched Man

Get the very enjoyable free EP from O Wretched Man entitled "The Decomposing Shrine" at their Bandcamp page and on their ReverbNation page.

Nice how their band name and EP name are nearly synonymous.

Free Albums from My Darkest Time

Free albums from My Darkest Time and related projects are available here.

Two albums are also available at their Bandcamp page.

Free albums and tracks from Kekal

Several albums are available on Kekal's Bandcamp page, including three that are free (two are name your price).

A fourth free album (Autonomy) and several tracks from the upcoming 2015 album Multilateral can be found on their website.

 Free tracks from several other albums are available there, too.

Vision of God Records Facebook Promotion

Vision of God Records is offering free downloads of Hok-key, Final Vortex, Brutal Cross, and They Wither to those who Like, Share, and Comment on the timeline posts on their Facebook page.

Go here to like them on Facebook and share with others. And thank them for their generosity!

Eulogium on Bandcamp

Get three albums by Eulogium on their Bandcamp page.

Get "Where Solace is Mine" for free (name your price).




Also available are their most recent "In Hoc Signo Vinces" and "The Transcendence of Hope"

Freegal Music Friday: Facedown and Strike First

First edition of Freegal Music Friday
Nearly all of the releases from Facedown and Strike First records can be downloaded for free through Freegal Music. (Don't know what Freegal Music is? See below.)

See the releases page  on Facedown's website for a list of some of the available albums.

Highlights include Extol's recent self-titled album in both regular and special editions,


three albums by Immortal Souls,








and four albums by Overcome.

Other releases include Impending Doom, In the Midst of Lions, The Burial, Hope for the Dying, Nodes of Ranvier, No Innocent Victim, A Plea for Purging, For Today, War of Ages, Indwelling, My Epic, Symphony in Peril, Sleeping Giant, and many more.

What is Freegal Music?
Freegal is a service to which libraries subscribe, and which they then provide to their patrons. Library card holders are entitled to download five DRM-free MP3 tracks per week. Some libraries also include streaming as part of their service. Accessing the service involves finding a library system that subscribes to the service, and then obtaining a library card for that library. The library card number and PIN are often used as the sign in and password for the service. Some larger metropolitan areas have multiple library systems that subscribe to Freegal.

The catalog is comprised of two large distribution networks: 1) Sony, including RED artist development and 2) The Orchard. Most labels distributed by these networks are included, but there are often exceptions. Sometimes individual artists, albums, or tracks do not appear. The labels included sometimes change if they sign new distribution deals. Some labels that were available at the beginning of the service are no longer available.

Metal Helm Sale

Nokternal Hemizphear seventh anniversary sale at Metal Helm,

now through February 28th.

Free: Prisons of Flesh by Feast Eternal

Download "Prisons of Flesh" by Feast Eternal for free on the band's Bandcamp page.

You can also get an individual track by Feast Eternal from this compilation also on Bandcamp.

*** Update 3/10/15: "With Fire" is now also available.

Free: In Grief - Deserted Soul

Download In Grief's great album Deserted Soul for free on CD Baby.

Available in FLAC and MP3 formats.

Starting with a Sale!

Doolittle Store has a nice sale that includes some hard-to-find titles. Without jewel cases, shipping to the US still results in a good deal.

A few highlights include Crimson Moonlight, Parakletos, and Sanctifica.