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FREE METAL ALBUMS TO CHECK OUT!

Friday, August 28th, 2009 at 1:30pm by

http://freemetalalbums.wordpress.com/

For those few of you who don’t know what this website is, it’s a collection of thousands of free metal albums, EPs, and demos. It’s truly an excellent website and a service to the metal community. Here, I’m going to recommend a few artists and albums, but I want you to search them on there. After searching what I list, randomly browse the site for other albums. I’ve found lots of great stuff on there that I otherwise wouldn’t have noticed. This is the way to truly get the word around for bands with absolutely no financial backing. Here they are:

Vortech – Posthumanism
Against Nature – Discography
Demilich – Nespithe (if you don’t have this by now, you should be
ashamed of yourself)
Carcariass – Killing Process
Cloudkicker – Discography
Clad in Darkness – Amidst Her Shadows
Cephalectomy – An Epitaph to Tranquility
Esoteric – most of their discography
Fist in Fetus – their EP
Grey Skies Fallen – discography
Heathen – discography
Iron Thrones – Visions of Light (MS user groverXIII brought this band
to my attention–thanks!)
\\\Maytag – discography
Moroghor – …and Space as Chaos
The Pax Cecilia – Blessed are the Bonds
Synestesia – two EPs are on their website

Those are just a few bands on that site that are great. I’m certain that all of these bands give their albums away for free, and I’m almost positive that links are all on freemetalalbums. If not, Google is your friend.

-Ziltoid

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  • I’m not racist, but I hate Oceano

    Hey cool if I ever need shitty obscure bands to impress imaginary girls with I’ll head right over to freemetalalbums.wordpress.

    • Barry Manilow

      Lol, you’re an idiot.

      • Canvas Of Flesh

        Barry Manilow rocks!!!!

    • Uglymicrowave

      ziltoid is a fucking homo everything he posted today was fucking worthless shit…

      none of the bands he talked about are going no where…they all sound like the same old crap

      fuck this dude

    • Uglymicrowave

      I totally fucking agree…

      whats a fucking homo this ziltoid motha fucker is

      im sure he lives in his moms basement

      • MetalRod

        I’m sure you should learn proper English ya fuck

  • metalguy

    waaaaayyyyyyyyyy to much work for me to sample each album to see if its worth my ipod memory. again LEARN TO MAKE A LINK

    • Barry Manilow

      lrn2read

    • metalguy

      Esoteric are ok i think ive heard them before so thanks i guess

      • metalguy

        nevermind thinking of a different band

  • \m/Eluveitie\m/

    Why do all the band names look like ripoffs of other bands?

    • Phro

      Until you mentioned it, I hadn’t noticed but…
      ///maytag? Carcariass? Iron Thrones?

      Heh.

      • Ziltoid

        \\\Maytag is obviously a joke on Sunn O))). I’ve made that clear many times. The other two names are a bit derivative, but quality music nonetheless.

        • Phro

          I’m not judging the music at all. Those were just the names that made me giggle like a little school girl when I saw them.

          And while making fun of band names is entertaining, why would you actually NAME YOUR OWN BAND after another band as a joke? How does it not reduce such said band to little more than a joke?

          • Ziltoid

            At its heart, \\\Maytag is a joke band, that seriously creates fridge music.

        • \m/Eluveitie\m/

          I knew about \\\Maytag, but the others are conspicuously similar to better known groups…God knows I’ve had days where I’ve tried to type Carcass and it’s come out “Carcariass”.

          On a side note, Carcariass sounds a lot like a combination of the genus and species names of the great white shark. The only logical conclusion would be that they are a tribute to Great White the band.

          • Ziltoid

            They’re obviously a tech death tribute to Great White.

            but in all seriousness, their album Killing Process is great, despite a somewhat thin guitar sound. their others are up for download as ell (except their 09 release), but I don’t like them too much.

          • \m/Eluveitie\m/

            Hey where are those Vince Neil wallpapers we talked about? They’re coming right? Cuz…uh…my mom was looking forward to them…

      • groverXIII

        Iron Thrones is a great band… you need to check out their album. Don’t judge them by their name.

        • NPC

          I followed groverXIII’s advice a couple weeks back and downloaded Iron Thrones’ album, and I’m glad I did. The riffs are very reminiscent of Opeth. Good band.

          • groverXIII

            Glad you like it… and I’ll bet they’re even gladder.

            (Is gladder a word? I think it is…)

          • timmah

            yup, iron thrones is good shit. i know the boys in the band and toured with the guitar players old band back in ’04…they’re good chaps and like to have fun

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrea-Voulgaris/663407462 Andrea Voulgaris

          i’m assuming they got their name from “a game of thrones” by george r.r. martin….. but i’m not sure.

          • groverXIII

            Might be… drop ‘em a line at their site… they seem like personable folks.

        • Marc

          Thanks groverXIII, good band!

      • http://www.myspace.com/this_is_james_myspace Necrozoid

        ///Maytag is supposed to be a rip off, but the others have no excuse.

        • http://www.myspace.com/this_is_james_myspace Necrozoid

          Woops that was a bit late, my apologies.

  • Phro

    Now this is something I actually appreciate…

  • http://richarddawkins.net/ RICHARD DAWKINS

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I SAW THIS WEBSITE BEFORE AND SPENT MANY AN HOUR LAUGHING AT THE BAND PHOTOS AND ALBUM COVERS OF ALL THESE SHITTY, SHITTY BANDS.

    NO, I NEVER LISTENED TO A SINGLE TRACK.

    • Phro

      Do you deny their existence as well, despite the massive INTELLIGENT DESIGN each band exhibits?

    • Necrokvlt

      If you never listened, then how can you be certain that they are shitty?

    • Offal Love

      To quote RZA: He be “causin’ more Family Feuds than Richard Dawson”

      Oh shit…this dude IS Richard Dawson.

      Killa Bees on the swarm! Wu Tang Clan strikes again.

      • http://richarddawkins.net/ RICHARD DAWKINS

        I CAN BE CERTAIN BECAUSE I’M A FUCKING GOOD SCIENTIST.

  • jd

    Great resource, thanks! This’ll keep me busy a while :)

  • groverXIII

    Thanks for the link (and the shout-out)… I’m bookmarking this, to say the least.

    Some links would have been nice, though… people around here are, by and large, too lazy to actually search for them.

    • Ziltoid

      I had intended on putting links, but I realized that my best experiences with the site were by browsing randomly, so I omitted links with the hope that maybe one or two people might actually get something out of this. The people too lazy to search for good music don’t deserve it anyway.

      • Canvas Of Flesh

        I’m a regular visitor to this site and have found many awesome albums on there.

  • bucketochicken

    If the cops find out I have Fist In Fetus, will I have to go around to all my neighbors introducing myself?

    And I was never a fan of Maytag after they bought out Amana. Good blue cheese though.

  • AfterBirthAbortion

    Youj guys are missing out if you don’t download Demilich- Nespithe. Amazing album.

    • Noobie McNoob

      I actually own this album, and I don’t know why everyone likes it. I really never could stand this at all.
      That being said, thanks for the link, there is a ton of great stuff on here, one just has to look.

  • http://www.theinevitablenose.com/ The Inevitable Nose

    Cloudkicker is a genius. You forgot Stonecutters which is also free and excellent.

  • tom

    I’ve got to be honest, i took a listen to demelich before, and to my ears it sounds like shit. I don’t mind “burpy” vocals if they get used to provide rythym (the new Dying Fetus song “Your Treachery..” is a good example). But when they get used like this i don’t see the point?

  • groverXIII

    I should mention that Diablo Swing Orchestra’s first album is on here… those guys are fucking brilliant. They’re avant-garde orchestral metal, definitely non-standard, but utterly brilliant.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrea-Voulgaris/663407462 Andrea Voulgaris

      they are a good band. very professional.

      • groverXIII

        Yeah, they’ve been working on their next album for what seems like an eternity. I can’t wait, personally.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Guzmn/570745539 Daniel Guzmán

          They are interesting but not my cup of tea. The only song I really like is Poetic Pitbull Revelations or something like that.

  • Necrokvlt

    Great article, will look into these bands for sure.

  • Joss

    thanks for the link dude

  • jason

    Free music huh? Interesting. Is that because these bands can’t get anyone to BUY their albums? I guess you get what you pay for, so to speak.

    • Necrokvlt

      By that logic, Miley Cyrus is a talented musician.

      • jason

        There are plenty of smaller bands on indy labels that can get people to pay for their records. The ones who sell are the one who tour, and tour hard. There are a few of those on this site, but there is a whole lot o’ crap to wade through before you get to it.

        • Canvas Of Flesh

          You’re complaining about something that’s free. Stop being a pussy.

          • jason

            I understand it doesn’t make sense to complain about free stuff…and I’m really complaining. Just simply stating that most of the time, free stuff (whether it’s music, or anything else) is generally crap that people don’t want and won’t pay for. Surely you can’t argue with that?

          • jason

            *NOT* really complaining

        • aww

          because bands who give out recordings for free are totally incapable of touring.

      • Canvas Of Flesh

        I guess he thinks that the only people allowed to make music are the ones that have big time label support?

  • builtforsin

    PFFF blocking comments eh? Did the mean words hurt someones eyeballs?

  • Colin

    Can you add us to that list? Ours is on there: http://freemetalalbums.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/minerva-the-audience-is/
    Minerva – The Audience Is…

  • Jo

    Dude iron thrones sweet though i already their albums. the rest the site is meh

  • cosk!

    interesting…. id try to make fun of the fact that all you did was tell the visitors of this website about a website with free metal to check out, but im not a fucking asshole like 90% of the metalsucks readers.

  • Adam

    Cloudkicker = win++

  • Dave

    The new Cephalectomy is fantastic in my opinion. Its pretty brutal, can’t see a lot of people who are OMG Metalcore liking it, but it is a really good album. Check it out.

    • Neil

      Yeah, man, It’s a great album. Glad to see something truly exceptional coming from the maritimes.

  • cosk!

    http://freemetalalbums.wordpress.com/index/browse-by-name/
    bands by name.
    way easier.
    your welcome.

  • Josue

    Demilich are really good. I was wondering why MS hadn’t written about them

  • DemonicLemming

    I’m going to add one I haven’t seen mentioned on this site before. French band (although their connection to Gojira ends there), extremely good prog metal, but an extremely organic prog, as a counterpoint to all the progressive metal that feels it just has to be polished-chrome shiny hard. It’s not Dream Theater/Symphony X/Scar Symmetry prog. They’re not free, they’re not b-grade, but what impressed me the most was how well-done their music is – for being their very first album.

    http://www.myspace.com/demiansmusic

    I know it likely won’t interest many, but maybe Ziltoid will take a listen and apply one of his patented “Stir Shit Up” stamps to it and get them a little more coverage on here.

    • groverXIII

      Sounds interesting… I’ll take a look.

      /Like I really needed more music to listen to. Soooo much music, so little time.

      • DemonicLemming

        Was on my random music download list one night…popped it in the next day at work and was like “Y helo thar, butsechs?”

    • Piero

      Yes, this band is the shit. Demians is actually a single man who is a multi-instrumentalist (Nicolas Chapel), and he has a few tour musicians. They’ll be opening for Porcupine Tree in France. Can’t wait. Your description is actually quite good. Check them out

  • Zombie(really)

    I’m downloading Iron Thrones as we speak….type…..whatever

    • groverXIII

      What a coincidence… I’m listening to Iron Thrones right now!

  • Dan

    Found this link with free albums on it too if anyone wants a gander:

    http://www.last.fm/user/Pavlentios/journal/2009/07/10/2uxxrn_free_downloadable_metal_albumsdemosep%27s

  • SolaceInNothing

    I dont like that website, it has deathcore bands on it. Its total scene.

    but seriously, just because a band is obscure doesnt mean its good. There is a reason why bands get financial backing, in fact its the same way any person gets “financial backing” as in a paying job. Its because the band is competent, trustworthy, reliable, and yes sells records. Not listening to more popular music is just as shallow and cowardly as only listening to trendy stuff.

    • Dan

      It it sounds good who actually cares? your being a tad prudish

    • groverXIII

      Yeah, but you’re overlooking the point that there are some very good bands on that website that are just starting off, or have just decided to give their music away for free (Iron Thrones, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Anacrusis, and Echo Of Dalriada are a few of the bands I saw listed there).

      • Dan

        I just listened to Idle Hours by Anacrusis and its a carbon copy of Alice In Hell for about the first minute

      • DemonicLemming

        And some, like Diablo Swing Orchestra, are pretty damned good. A band doesn’t have to be competent to get signed to a record, just trendy. You could have an extremely talented experimental band that’d never see any sort of record contract simply because they weren’t trendy enough for a label to bother with, while you have fucking shit bands like ifuckedacarebearlastnight and Attack (My Anus With Your Penis)! Attack (Females With Breasts, They Are Not Allowed)! that get deals simply because they’re just the next band in line playing the current trend.

        • SolaceInNothing

          Well i like ifuckedacarebearlastnight allot, but either way you have a very good point.

          BTW check out Dead In Christ, pretty good black metal I found on that site.

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-J-Henningsgard/1024517365 Steven J. Henningsgard

            P.S. iwrestledabearonce is likely one of the worst bands anybody has ever heard. They helped me complete my journey into not giving a flying fuck what anybody thinks of my music, because logically if that band has fans, then people don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about. it’s a fact.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-J-Henningsgard/1024517365 Steven J. Henningsgard

      Why the fuck would you care if a band is trustworthy, reliable, or sells records? Is that really the deciding factor for which bands you choose to listen to? How about talent? How about passion?

      The reason bands get financial backing is because Labels are companies in the business of lending money to & investing in bands in order to make money. The fastest and most reliable way to make money from bands is to select those that comprise the lowest-common-denominator: e.g. the bread and water of bands. Trendy, talentless, easily manipulated sell-out hacks are exactly what labels are looking for, because that’s what the majority of the casual-listening population want to hear. They want bands that won’t grab their attention or distract them from whatever they’re doing (driving, eating, etc.). If that’s really what you want to be listening to, it’s no skin off of my back. But don’t go running your mouth about free music = bad and “not worth financial backing”.

      On the flip-side, I do agree that obscure doesn’t necessarily mean good. It does however dramatically increase the likelihood that the band is in it for the music, not the money.

      • http://www.myspace.com/1033metal Jackson

        Steve I love you as well as IWABO sorry

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-J-Henningsgard/1024517365 Steven J. Henningsgard

          Hah, hey Jackson what’s up? It’s all right if you like ‘em: as long as you don’t give a flying fuck what anybody thinks (especially including me), it’s all good!

      • SolaceInNothing

        In a perfect world, competence is the result of passion, and trustworthiness and talent goes hand in hand.

  • MikeAdam

    Holy shit Heathen is there check those guys out the guitarist Lee Altus is in Exodus now they have a new one comin out soon don’t know when though

  • http://uponwingsofblack.blogspot.com/ \m/Eluveitie\m/

    Anyone heard of The Green River Project? Are they any good?

  • http://www.hatespire.com Nymik

    If you want some free music you should check out my band :P http://www.myspace.com/hatespire Melodic Death Metal from the UK

    • Thanks, but no thanks…

      Yeah, I went and listend to it – farts that come out with diarrhoea sound better.

  • http://reaper-x.deviantart.com/ Reaper-X

    I sometimes talk to the rhythm guitarist of Clad in Darkness.

  • dick?

    Iron Thrones and Carcariass for the win

  • Bicro

    Cephalectomy is good stuff. You forgot about Sanctrum though. In Harms Way is great and free.

  • halloway

    really diggin’ cloudkicker and diablo swing orchestra, thanks.

  • bearwizard

    wordpress is gay.
    and demilich + carcariass have been favorites for a long time

  • Nick

    A good non-metal album that you can get for free is Maudlin of the well – part the second. Just throwin’ that out there.

    • Nick

      Oh and they used to be somewhat heavy… that’s why this is mildly relevant.

    • Ziltoid

      That’s been fairly well known. I assumed that people here have at least heard of motW. (Maybe a bad assumption…)

      Also, I can’t believe I forgot Anacrusis. And everyone else out there who knows of a good band with free downloads, please keep posting them here.

  • http://uponwingsofblack.blogspot.com/ \m/Eluveitie\m/

    Okay I’ve tried to post this at least twelve hundred times tonight, but I’ll try once more…it’s gonna be really funny if the other times I posted magically show up.

    Someone asked what I had planned if I won the takeover contest, but it wouldn’t let me post on that thread…at least not as far as I can tell.

    To be honest I really didn’t have much prepared, I figured the results were a forgone conclusion. I definitely would’ve given some love to the boys in Whitesnake though. And there woulda been lotsa feathers and glitter.

    Seriously though, one band I would’ve covered was Portal. Brilliant Australian death metal, and it takes a lot for a death metal band to catch my attention. The genre just doesn’t appeal to me much, but these guys do it right in my book (except for some ridiculous costumes). I encourage everyone to check them out on Profound Lore Records, especially since this band has never been mentioned at all on MetalSucks. This is an extremely talented, raw, and dark as fuck band. Death metal as it was supposed to be.

    I think another interesting topic to cover would be a throwback to the NWOBHM. Most of these bands, and pre-1990s bands in general, don’t get the coverage they deserve on this site. I’ve been researching the formation of the scene, and it’d be cool to learn about what it was like to be there while it was in full swing (the idea comes from a recent issue of Classic Rock Magazine which had some pretty nice pictures of the ‘night NWOBHM was born’). Coverage of some of the bands history forgot, not necessarily the Maiden, Priest, Def Leppard as usual.

    Also I would’ve definitely included some sludge and stoner metal. I can never get enough of bands like Clutch, Nebula, Down, Black Cobra, Sleep, Kyuss, Eyehategod, etc. I also would’ve recommended some lesser known bands in these genres like Elder and others. The usual reaction when bands like these (Clutch in particular) are mentioned on this site is overwhelmingly positive, so it’d be nice to give the people what they like while covering some of my favorite genres. Heavy psychedelics and sludgy riffage all the way, while retaining musicality unlike Sunn O))) and \\\Maytag or whatever. I like me some metal that keeps the blues still in the picture.

    That’s about all I had in mind, thanks for the interest though!

    And God I hope I haven’t posted this a million times…

    • Neil

      Good call. Portal slay, dude.

      • \m/Eluveitie\m/

        Yeah they do! Some of the most talented musicians in the metal world.

        And I was totally surprised my comment ended up getting posted at all, it was fucked up. I apologize if the same long ass message gets posted on other topics, I was struggling with comments the whole night.

  • Connor

    HOLY MOTHERFUCKING SHITSACK, DEMONICLEMMING, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR RECOMMENDING DEMIANS. This is literally some of the greatest music i have ever heard in my entire life.

    • DemonicLemming

      I occasionally get things right.

      • slave_screams

        Without even looking at their blog I thought I had accidently stumbled onto porcupine tree’s website or some steve wilson offshoot – good stuff tho

  • ryan

    I second all the positive comments about that Iron Thrones album. For a debut, it’s exceptional.

  • DecrystallizingReason

    Iron Thrones rules. Way to support my hometown boys1

  • http://moremetal.net Red

    Great site. In fact, so great, I’d already posted it in my blog yesterday. Where did you ever find it???

    • Ziltoid

      This site has been up for ages tbqh. The fact that you only posted about it yesterday is the real problem here. FMA preovides an excellent service to the metal community.

  • Jimmy Sawfinger

    Very nice, very nice, now let the downloading begin. Found a nice band in the hardcore section called calm, not bad :]]

  • terrybeans84

    I got a great idea. Lets all get a chance to run the site and then we can all talk mad shit about what each of us post.

  • http://uponwingsofblack.blogspot.com/ \m/Eluveitie\m/

    If anyone’s interested, I have an exclusive interview with Iron Thrones coming soon to Upon Wings Of Black. Just click my username, in the meantime check out a few free mp3s!

  • http://www.myspace.com/doubledragonheavymetal LEROY AUSSIE DRAGON
  • http://freemetalalbums.wordpress.com/ Free Metal Albums

    Wow, thanks for mentioning FMA blog, Ziltoid, it doubled the number of visitors in the last 3 days.

    Cheers!

    • Zltoid

      No problem! Your site is excellent!

      • Canvas Of Flesh

        I agree! The site IS excellent.

        • groverXIII

          I’ll third that… it’s a useful resource in bringing all these free downloads from various places together.

          I’ll also mention that I listened to Demilich and wasn’t impressed… The music was merely decent, and the vocals are laughable and prevented me from taking the music seriously. I don’t see what all the hype is about.

          • Ziltoid

            The vocals are just incredible. They were a new spin on guttural vocals that has yet to be repeated. But the main great part of the vocals were that they fit perfectly with the dissonance created by the instruments. That dissonance is what makes the album so great. That and the fact that it manages to barely change tempo, yet always stay interesting. It’s just a fucked up, other-dimensional-sounding album that happens to be excellent.

  • 00noodle

    Aegir – Frostnatt
    HOLY SHIT.
    THIS IS AMAZING.

  • http://www.ironthrones.com Peterman_lp

    I know it’s a little late to post about the band name thing….. BUT

    Iron Thrones is named after the “Iron Throne” depicted in George R.R. Martin’s a song of Ice and Fire. A throne made from the swords of conquered enemies.
    It’s a good book. Read it.