Freegal Friday: Fleshkiller and A Hill To Die Upon

Forty-first Edition of Freegal Music Friday

Two great new releases can be downloaded legally and for free through Freegal Music. (Don't know what Freegal Music is? See this post.)

Fleshkiller - Awaken

A Hill To Die Upon - Via Artis Via Mortis

Freegal Music Friday: Départe

Thirty-ninth Edition of Freegal Music Friday

Though not a Christian band, the lyricist is a Christian, and it shows in the music. Download part of their first full-length legally and for free through Freegal Music. (Don't know what Freegal Music is? See this post.) There are two album-only tracks that cannot be downloaded.

Download their demo for free (name your price) from their bandcamp.

Other metal projects by Sam Dishington include: the death metal of Separatist and the grind of Writhe. All of these are name your price.

Freegal Music Friday: Exhale - "When Worlds Collide"

Twenty-ninth Edition of Freegal Music Friday

Exhale's album "When Worlds Collide" can be downloaded legally and for free through Freegal Music. (Don't know what Freegal Music is? See this post.)

I wonder whether the album is named after the Daniel Amos song?  Probably not.

Freegal Music Friday: In Vain

Nineteenth Edition of Freegal Music Friday

A couple of albums by In Vain can be downloaded legally and for free through Freegal Music. (Don't know what Freegal Music is? See this post.)

In Vain - Mantra









In Vain - The Latter Rain

Freegal Music Friday: Broken Flesh

Seventeenth Edition of Freegal Music Friday

The new self-titled album by Broken Flesh came out today, and it can be downloaded legally and for free through Freegal Music. (Don't know what Freegal Music is? See this post.) You can also get their previous album Warbound. Unfortunately, the earlier album, Forever in Flames, is no longer available on the site.

Freegal Music has other albums from Luxor Records, such as Blacken the Sun by As They Sleep.

Freegal Music Friday: Blood & Ink

Fourteenth Edition of Freegal Music Friday

***Update 9/13/15: It appears most of the albums are gone. Soul Embraced is still there.

Nearly all of the albums from Blood & Ink Records can be downloaded for free through Freegal Music. (Don't know what Freegal Music is? See this post.)

For some of the albums, some of the tracks are missing. This seems to happen sometimes on Freegal Music.




Some of the albums include:

• Soul Embraced - For the Incomplete (missing two tracks from original release: 8 & 9)
• With Blood Comes Cleansing - Golgotha
  
• Comrades - Safekeeper and Collection: 2010-2011
• Neshamah - Communicating in Heartbeats
  
• Venia - Conviction,  Frozen Hands, and I've Lost all Faith in Myself
• Foreknown - Clam Seas Don't Make Sailors
• With Increase - Signs of the Time and Death is Inevitable
• Household - With or Without
  

Freegal Music Friday: Lifeforce

Thirteenth Edition of Freegal Music Friday

Three albums from Lifeforce Records can be downloaded for free through Freegal Music. (Don't know what Freegal Music is? See this post.)

• Miseration - The Mirroring Shadow
  
  
  
• Miseration - Your Demons - Their Angels
• Miseration - Tragedy has Spoken

Freegal Music Friday: Metal Blade

Seventh edition of Freegal Music Friday 


Several albums from Metal Blade* can be downloaded for free through Freegal Music. (Don't know what Freegal Music is? See this post.)

A few highlights include:

• Believer - Gabriel
• Believer - Transhuman
• Pyrithion - The Burden of Sorrow

Other albums and bands that are available:

• Woe of Tyrants - Kingdom of Might
• Woe of Tyrants - Threnody
• King's X - Tapehead
• King's X - Manic Moonlight
• King's X - Please Come Home . . . Mr. Bulbous
• As I Lay Dying - A Long March**
• As I Lay Dying - Frail Words Collapse
• As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
  
• As I Lay Dying - Awakened
• As I Lay Dying - Shadows are Security
• As I Lay Dying - The Powerless Rise
• As I Lay Dying - This is Who we Are (live)
• The Agony Scene - Get Damned
• Galactic Cowboys - Machine Fish
• Galactic Cowboys - The Horse that Bud Bought
• Galactic Cowboys - At the End of the Day
• Galactic Cowboys - Feel the Rage
• Galactic Cowboys - Let it Go
• Trouble - Run to the Light
• Viking - Man of Straw 
• Viking - Do or Die
• The Crimson Armada - Guardians
• Wovenwar - s/t

• Jacob's Dream
  
• Austrian Death Machine
• A Love Ends Suicide
• Poundhound
• Atomic Opera
• Divine Regale

* Several of these bands aren't/weren't considered Christian, but they may have had links to Christian metal 

** Not all of the tracks from this album are available

Free: Timoratus

Get two free EPs by Timoratus on Noisetrade.

Freegal Music Friday: Nuclear Blast

Sixth edition of Freegal Music Friday 


Several albums from Nuclear Blast can be downloaded for free through Freegal Music. (Don't know what Freegal Music is? See this post.)

Here are albums that are available:

• Mortification - 20 Years in the Underground 
• Mortification - Break the Curse 1990
• Mortification - Envision Evangelene
• Mortification - Hammer of God
• Mortification - The Silver Cord is Severed/10 years live not dead 
• Mortification - Triumph of Mercy
• Horde - Hellig Usvart 
• Narnia - Desert Land
• Narnia - The Awakening
• Narnia - The Great Fall
• Opprobrium - Beyond the Unknown/Serpent Temptation
• Opprobrium - Discerning Forces

There are also some other tracks by Mortification and Narnia available on Nuclear Blast compilations.

Sacrificium

Listen to two albums by Sacrificium here. You can't buy them there, but perhaps like me, you like to listen to things before you buy.

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. 

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.

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.

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!

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.