Peace, love and death metal

Cut City - “The Hanging Garden (a Cure cover)” @ MySpace

Doveman - “…. & Sunrise Medley” mp3

from the Doveman’s new album With My Left Arm I Raise The Dead.

French Carte Postale’s netlabel Tripostal offers a nice selection of electronic and instrumental music that at the same time offer sonic comfort for a bad day (bad life?) and also some serious independent musicianship and detailed composing. And as the netlabel principals go, all releases are free to download.

The Oslo Deadtrash Project - “Across The Ocean” mp3
Un Atomne A Lob-Nor - “Birds” mp3

Hmm… Check out Lob-Nor (rip) mp3’s at their website. French know their post-rock, I say.

We Are Soldiers We Have Guns - “Songs That No One Will Hear” mp3
We Are Soldiers We Have Guns -”Damn Those TV Shows, Damn Them Straight To Hell” mp3

There’s something equally essential in the song title as is in the song itself: these might well be the songs no one will hear, but those nobodies that do, appreciate them with love. Un-party music you listen to in an un-hurry day.

We Are Soldiers We Have Guns and more lovely music can be found at Stereo Test Kit Records’ site. For example, I honestly don’t know why I still haven’t bought any Boy Omega albums, even if I well in love with their earlier mp3s quite a many moons ago already.

Boy Omega - “Explode” mp3

Vomitory - “Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize” mp3
You don’t need to be a scientist to realize this is pure death fucking metal. This is the title track of the new Vomitory album, so get a picture what rest of the material sounds like.

Grayceon - “Love Is” demo mp3
Grayceon - “Into The Deep” demo mp3
Both these tracks clock over 12 minutes mark, so I have a good reason to believe you have at least a vague idea what Grayceon sounds like. Just add little metal here and there and - applauses - cello. They are yet to master their art, but they sure are interesting new band to know about. Debut album was just released by Vendlus.

Magyar Posse - “Whirpool of Terror and Tension” video @YouTube

Music video directors Lauri Warsta and Jouni Karttunen (Las Palmas) won the Golden Muuvi award for the best Finnish music video of the year 2006. Video in question is Magyar Posse’s “Whirlpool of Terror and Tension”. Great honoour for the film makers, but also for Finnish post rock.

Nic Bommarito - Taciturn LP
Yet another release from 12rec I need to buy: Nic Bommarito. “Imagine a mixture of Canadian GY!BE, the Americana Avant-Garde of Chicago’s Brokeback and the huge melodies of Italian Postrockers Giardini di Mirò” as it says on 12rec.net.

Like always, whole release is also downloadable for free. Still - €6 (incl. p&p) for a beautiful packaging and a cd-r is a bargain. Like always. I love you 12rec.

Plain Fade - “Datura” mp3 

Plain Fade, a band responsible for the 4th or 5th best album of the year, give away their old demos for free downloading. Explore.

Especially the five-year old Peel Your Urge demo gives nice perspective to from where the band is coming. Oh well, not really, since the great Aure album is coming straight out of nothing, it’s so pure in its detailed audio bliss.

“Datura” was first time posted to this blog at October 20th 2004, which I feel is somehow cool. Although I wasn’t a Plain Fade pioneer even at the time.

Milhaven - I.M. Wagner EP

Definitely a post-rock band, Milhaven returns with a brand new EP I.M. Wagner. Four tracks and 42 minutes - and like always the ab fab 12rec gives it for free download. I’m now listening to it for the second time and I’d say it’s less rough than what Bars closing down was, but in turn it gives rather great atmosphere build-ups and keeps the arch of drama well together. 12rec’s cd-r version costs € 5, so I guess it’s not a problem for anybody to buy this if you find those tracks even remotely interesting.

Magyar Posse - “Länsiväylä” mp3
Magyar Posse - “We Will Carry You Over The Mountains” mp3
Magyar Posse - “Violent Lover” mp3

Magyar Posse have unleashed three unreleased beasts: one from rehearsals for the new album and two from pre-debut album era. That is kind. There is also full live show recorded at Oulu, April 17th 2005, available for download. Which is kind also.

I’ll see Magyar Posse live action in two weeks. I should try to get to know better the new album which so far have remained much, much more distant their sophomore album Kings Of Time from 2004.