Review – Anhedonist – The Drear
“The Insatiable Hole,” track one, has one great title.
I actually only listened to this because of the unusual band name: Anhedonist— someone who can’t feel happiness (“Happiness I cannot feel and love to me is so unreal,” after all).
It seemed to bode well for them. Ironically.
This is doom as slow as doom can get, pretty much, and still move forward. The tracks often start like radically-detuned death metal, then get funereal (as does the above track at about 1:30); there’s a real low-fi, live sound here: the drums (the snare in particular) pop over the weight of the sludgy riffs (some of which are, strangely and perhaps ironically, quite happy-sounding). (more…)
Forged in Flame EP for Download
We’re always excited when bands offer their music for free because we feel that it’s a great way to get their music out there and perhaps even create a fan or two. It’s even better when we are the ones that get to share this music with everybody. This post is us doing just that.
Gary Kane of Forged in Flame gave us full permission to offer their music up for free, and we were eager to do just that. I have uploaded the album as a torrent that can be downloaded at the following link: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5625878. If you don’t have a bittorrent client, we highly suggest you use µTorrent.
Or if you’re not into the whole torrenting scene and don’t care to find out, you can download it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=07MUF9RW.
Here’s some information about this EP:
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Label: self released
Length: 20:25
Synopsis
Recorded at Ante Up Audio with Matt Curry and Cole Martinez
1,000 printed on a transparent disc.
Track listing:
1 Miss Mothership
2 Black Halo
3 A ravens Cage
4 Hexa
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If you like this album, please support the band and buy it from their online store at http://merch.forgedinflame.com and don’t be shy about buying any more of their great merchandise. It’s all well worth the money!
Rachael Free Download
The Polish psychedelic/stoner rock band, Rachael, would like you to have their brand new single. This is what they had to say about it:
It’s from our forthcoming EP. We don’t care about labels and want to give it for free to the people. The song is from the fourthcoming EP that we are going to realase ASA we find a label. We are also waiting for some tracks featuring Amazing Electronic Talking Cave on vocals.
You can get the single from the following link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?uou3oz4gkgc
You can also download their EP, I Bet You Like Drugs Instead of Sex, for free too at http://www.mediafire.com/?woenwdbmzhu.
To check out more about the band, you can check them out on their MySpace profile.
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