Rotten Sound - “The Effects” @ MySpace

Taken from the forthcoming blast Cycles, due early 2008. Rotten Sound’s grinding isn’t that sharp anymore, but it’s definitely more organic and breathing than it was on Exit.

Mutagen - “Stabbed Through The Face” mp3

There’s not much I know about Mutagen, except they’re propably from the same town I live in and I know one of the members through a friend. I appreciate their blend of death metal: enough brutality, enough melody and definitely low enough vocals. Also the Cannibal Corpse groove they have is nice. More of their demo tracks @ Mikseri.

Casket - newer demo downloadable @ MySpace, older demo @ Mikseri

Young Finnish Death Metal. Not quite as old school as they claim, but still firmly rooted to the rotten soil and definitely no gimmicks.

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.

All Armour studio tracks can be downloaded from their Mikseri.net site. Highly recommended, especially if you have a car to speed into the night….

The Old Dead Tree - “Dive” mp3

Think Anathema, Opeth and older Katatonia - check, check, check.

The Black Dahlia Murder - “What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse” mp3

What a horrible, malicious time for BDM to release a new album…

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.

Through The Eyes Of The Dead - “Failure In The Flesh” mp3

There are differences in a death growl. Through The Eys Of The Dead’s debut album (Bloodlust, 2005) left me nauseous, because vocalist Gunnels multi-layered shrieks just watered down everything that was on the record.

Now the band returns, but in a different form. New frontman Nate Johnsson owns such a great growl, that it is hard not to love it. He’s not just screaming, he’s truly delivering the hatred that is written in the lyrics.

On Malice TTEOTD also shows how months on the tour do good for your band: in every possible way, the band is now tighter than anyone would have believed.

Give them another chance, if you have any lust left for modern American death metal.

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

Goldenhorse - “Don’t Wake Me Up” mp3

Don’t wake me up from the 70’s? Well whatever, you’ve got to love her voice. More about Goldenhorse at Chromewaves.

Travis Morrison Hellfighters - “As We Proceed” mp3

Much better than the name suggests.

Death Breath - “Coffins of the Unembalmed Dead” mp3

And some new DB from Let It Stink at their myspace. “Giving head to the dead”… hmm. Not.

There’s also lots of cool mp3s at Relapse’s download site that I’ve failed to notice earlier. Listen to them:

Minsk - “White Wings” mp3
Unearthly Trance - “Permanent Ice” mp3

Coldworker - “They Crawl Inside Me Uninvited” mp3
Leng Tch’e -”1-800-Apathy” mp3
The County Medical Examiners - “Casper’s Dictum” mp3
(no, it’s not Corporal Jigsore Quandrary)
Regurgitate - “Bestial Sons of Devastation” mp3
Dekapitator - “The Storm Before The Calm” mp3
Pig Destroyer - “Thought Crime Spree” mp3