This year would have marked the 11th anniversary of the first episode of Open Metalcast (August 17th, 2010 was the first episode debut). Over that time we've released 192 main episodes, 12 Instrumetalcasts, and 15 Club Metal podcasts. We've featured hundreds, if not thousands of artists during that time. And when I posted that the show was going on a Summer Hiatus I had every intention of continuing to make new episodes. I just needed a break to work on other things.

It's been two years since that announcement. What I thought would be a short break turned into a multi-month break. And honestly I haven't missed doing the show since then. Sure, there were the occasional twinge of wanting to put out an episode here and there but overall I feel like the show has run its course (for now).

Thank you to the bands who make this show possible. I hope you'll not only check out the bands in this podcast but also the bands they recommend. There's so many great musicians out there that need your support, now more than ever. Thank you to the labels that support and surface these bands to make them easier to find (Big shout-outs to Hypnotic Dirge, Discos Macarras, Nooirax, Irish Metal Archive, Torn Flesh Records, Core to the Core, and so many others who are constant sources of joy and great music.)

And most of all, thank you, dear listener, for helping me to make so many episodes for your enjoyment. Your support, recommendations, and downloads kept this show going, even when I was thinking of quitting. You're all the best, and I'm grateful to have such an amazing audience.

This isn't the end of Open Metalcast. The spirit may move me to once again tickle your eardrums with the best in Creative Commons metal music. When it does you'll be the first to know (RSS feeds are amazing for polling sporadic content). And I'm still looking for metal music (I'm a programmer by day, so I need something to help keep the programming flowing). I purchase most of my music via Bandcamp so that has the latest and greatest music that is currently filling my eardrums with music.

Until next time, whenever that may be.

Hey all,

Just wanted to give a quick announcement that Open Metalcast is going in hiatus for a few months. Part of it is because I've been a little burned out trying to get shows together every other week. I got to the point where I wasn't enjoying putting together a show. So I'm taking the summer off at the least. I might release a few odds and sods episodes in the interim so keep those podcatchers locked just incase an episode manages to escape into the wild.

Thank you all for your continued support of this podcast. Hoping to be back soon!

A dozen tracks, picked mostly at random by the caretaker of the Open Metalcast Library. The only criteria was they couldn't have been played in a previous epsiode. We have tracks from Demimonde, Wasting The Genesis, Traboute, TOAD, offense, CEMENTERIO, Vatican Falling, Pain Factor, Grimoff, Dantalion, Concrete Foundation, Beastmaker, and Tyson Boogie waiting for you.

• (00:31) Dark Matter by Demimonde from Cygnus Oddyssey (BY-NC-ND)
• (07:54) Development: Outbreak by Wasting The Genesis from Viral Supremacy (BY-NC-ND)
• (11:02) Queila no día 2 by Traboute from Zuna (BY-NC-ND)
• (14:48) Amphibious Overlord by TOAD from DRONE THRONE / TOAD (BY-NC-SA)
• (18:07) Shining Dawn by offense from Aside (BY-NC-ND)
• (25:29) Vestal by CEMENTERIO from Luna Hiena (BY-NC-ND)
• (28:37) Dead End Dream by Vatican Falling from Famine (BY-NC-ND)
• (32:00) Leave it Alone by Pain Factor from 8 Seconds (BY-NC-SA)
• (37:28) Liar by Grimoff from Twisted Games (BY-SA)
• (42:28) Onward to Darkness by Dantalion from Return to Deep Lethargy (BY-NC-ND)
• (51:13) Common Waste by Concrete Foundation from Until the and. (BY)
• (57:09) Midwich by Beastmaker from EP.6 (BY-NC)
• (1:00:24) Rock Your City by Tyson Boogie from First Round (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com.

Open Metalcast #192 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #192 (OGG)

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It's in the middle of April, just before tax time in the United States. The weather doesn't want to cooperate here at Open Metalcast headquarters, moving from sunshine and warmer temperatures to wintery-mix and chilly temperatures. But what you can rely on is some amazing Creative Commons metal music to help make life more bearable. And as Peculate to accurately points out: "April is the cruelest month". Indeed.

We have an amazing assortment of metal music in this episode, featuring music from Spiritual Deception, Cyranoi, SLAVE ZERO, Lamorte, Gmork, Drone Throne, Arkham Witch, and Peculate. It's an audible assault you won't want to miss.

• (00:11) In Memory of Me by Spiritual Deception from Etemenanki (BY-NC-ND)
• (05:25) Coalesce (ft. Ville Tikkanen) by Cyranoi from None (BY-NC-ND)
• (09:46) I Defy by SLAVE ZERO from SLAVE ZERO - THE DEFIANT STAND (2002) (BY-NC-ND)
• (13:37) Air by Lamorte from Vie (BY-NC-ND)
• (15:55) VII by Gmork from Silentium! (BY-NC)
• (20:31) Astro Binge by Drone Throne from DRONE THRONE / TOAD (BY-NC-SA)
• (23:58) Legions of the Deep by Arkham Witch from Demos From the Deep (BY-NC)
• (31:10) April Is the Cruelest Month by Peculate from None (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com.

Open Metalcast #191 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #191 (OGG)

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Putting together an episode of Open Metalcast can sometimes be a challenge in focus for me. Sometimes I get distracted by the music that I'm looking for (woe be the rabbit holes that occur when I'm looking for the perfect tracks). Other times I can get distracted when I'm waiting for something to finish downloading or for an episode to finish encoding. It can get frustrating having all of those distractions competing for my attention. But when a show comes together and I'm previewing the tracks it can really energize me to completet he episode. And when you have bands like OVERRULED, EntröpiaH, Richard III, DANTALION, Discommand, Gods & Punks, Lojohh, and Kekal filling your ears you suddenly get laser focused on ensuring that folks like yourself can hear this episode as soon as possible. So sit back with your favorite podcast listening apparatus and give the music the focus it deserves.

• (00:11) Evil Minds by OVERRULED from 2013 EP (BY-NC-ND)
• (04:27) Hydra by EntröpiaH from Bestiarum Split w/ Test (BY-NC-SA)
• (06:15) Woodflesh by Richard III from RICHARD III - Early Demos & Live (1990-92) (BY-NC-ND)
• (10:15) Gloom and Doom by DANTALION from The Seventh Wandering Soul (BY-NC-ND)
• (15:26) Tomorrow's Panopticon by Discommand from World Prison EP 2018 (BY-NC-SA)
• (19:15) Dunes of Doom by Gods & Punks from Into the Dunes of Doom (BY-NC-ND)
• (24:47) Tänä iltana by Lojohh from Tosikertomuksia havumetsien maasta (BY)
• (29:25) Quiet Eye by Kekal from Quantum Resolution (BY-NC-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com.

Open Metalcast #190 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #190 (OGG)

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If you're in the European Union I urge you to take part in the Save the Internet Campaign. Save Your Internet is a drive to stop some particularly bad proposals that are floating around in the European Parliament. This will have severe consequences not only in the EU but also outside the EU. Hosting content could become incredibly problematic, and things like Open Metalcast could be affected.

I'm in the USA so I'm not represented, but if you are represented please make your concerns heard. Thanks!

The atomic number 189 denotes a hypothetical eka-superactinide called "Unoctennium", which sounds very similar to the fictional material called "Unobtanium". Unoctennium has not been observed in the wild yet, but should it exist it's already been named. What does this have to do with metal music? Not a damn thing, save for I'm writing up show notes for episode 189 and that was the most interesting thing that happened with the number 189 (other than some emperors and a pope dying) so this is tangentially related to metal. Plus it's kinda cool to think about metals that we think might exist but don't yet. Who knows, maybe we'll observe it in our lifetime. But what we can observe are tangible artifacts of amazing Creative Commons Metal Music. We have tracks from Dead Empires, Chaos in Paradise, Under Vultures, Zeugen der Leere, Eave, TRAIDOR, VSTRS, and Beastmaker to give your ear drums the Creative Commons metal music punishing they deserve. And you won't have to wait for science to catch up in order to discover these in the wild. Just give them a listen. Even better: check out the albums that these tracks come from and capture them in your own private archive. Do it for yourself, for the bands who make the music... hell, do it for science.

• (00:10) The Form by Dead Empires from Designed To Disappear (BY-ND)
• (05:18) Hearts Apart by Chaos in Paradise from Transversal (BY-NC-ND)
• (10:56) To Follow the Wake by Under Vultures from Split with El Hambre - 7'' (BY-NC)
• (13:09) Flammentraum by Zeugen der Leere from Erinnerungen an Theia (BY-NC)
• (26:22) Staining the Ore by Eave from Banners to the Moonswept (BY-NC)
• (32:28) Violento by TRAIDOR from Holocausto Cotidiano (BY-NC-ND)
• (40:27) Brilliant Violence by VSTRS from Pandemonium Seesaw (BY-NC-SA)
• (46:16) Skeletal Rider by Beastmaker from EP. 9 (BY-NC)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com.

Open Metalcast #189 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #189 (OGG)

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Nothing Special
Nothing Funny
Just some Creative Commons Licensed metal music
to blow your eardrums out.

We've got an amazing show lined up with an array of no-nonsense metal from Obskkvlt, Violblast, Homicidal Raptus, Debilitator, Absolute Zero, Kill Them With A Toaster, Vitne, and Abstract Void.

Enjoy!

• (00:10) Demons by Obskkvlt from Blackarhats (BY-NC-ND)
• (04:34) Painless by Violblast from Theater of Despair (BY-NC-ND)
• (06:55) The Pride Sanitarium by Homicidal Raptus from Erotomanic Hallucinosis (BY-ND)
• (10:45) Bloodsucking Freaks by Debilitator from Bloodsucking Freaks (BY-NC-SA)
• (15:21) Left Becomes Right by Absolute Zero from Sign Us, You Bastards (BY-ND)
• (20:05) Where's The Fucking Money by Kill Them With A Toaster from Brutal Family Presents: A Spanish Compilation 4 (BY-NC-SA)
• (23:07) Destroyer by Vitne from Destroyer (BY-NC-SA)
• (27:00) As I Watch the Sunset Fade by Abstract Void from Back to Reality (BY-NC-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com.

Open Metalcast #188 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #188 (OGG)

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If seems the Marie Kondo bug has hit the Open Metalcast studios. We took all of the tracks in the Open Metalcast Archives and saw which ones still sparked joy. Or rather, which ones could stop vibrating long enough to put into the episode. We have some great Creative Commons-Licensed Metal for you, including tracks from Grey Heaven Fall, Violblast, Kekal, Amiensus & Oak Pantheon, Black Market Serotonin, 114 Kassandra, Sound of Ground, Katu Veo, and Seajeff. These tracks are ready to vibrate into your ear drums, and if you like them be sure to pass them along to a friend. They would be most grateful if you did.

• (00:10) Swansong Of Your Dream by Grey Heaven Fall from ...grey heaven fall (BY-NC-SA)
• (05:09) Wielders of fear by Violblast from Conflict (BY-NC-ND)
• (08:55) Artifacts Of Modern Insanity by Kekal from 1000 Thoughts Of Violence (BY-NC-ND)
• (14:44) Tanequil by Amiensus & Oak Pantheon from Gathering II (BY-NC)
• (19:13) DeadByFiveOClock by Black Market Serotonin from Something From Nothing (BY-NC-SA)
• (24:29) Lexicon Lies Dormant by 114 Kassandra from Life Rains the Hardest On Those Who Shine the Brightest (BY-NC-ND)
• (29:42) Reboiled by Sound of Ground from Sick (BY)
• (36:44) When the Trees Are Falling Down by Katu Veo from None (BY-NC-ND)
• (41:45) Changes by C-jeff from Magenta (BY-NC-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com.

Open Metalcast #187 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #187 (OGG)

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Things have been rather erratic here at the Open Metalcast Headquarters. We've been rather lax in releasing the metal to you in a timely fashion. One could blame the holidays, but part of it was I was getting behind myself in a lot of things. But my hope in the coming year is that we'll have more metal to share with you and that metal will be prompt and piping hot when delivered directly to your earbuds. Kind of like pizza delivery, but without that awkward moment when you're tipping the driver. We have a great selection of metal from Grott, Mind Holocaust, NEPHRIDIUM, Morgana vs Morgana, Mirloblanco, Harbinger of Storms, Luca Deriu, and Robot(A) to tantalize your tastebuds.

Here's to a new year and many more moments of Creative Commons Metal Music.

• (00:11) Kalt_Heiß by Grott from Schattenjahre (BY-NC-SA)
• (02:22) Slay Them by Mind Holocaust from Full Eye Horror Reflect (BY-NC-ND)
• (05:28) Sorrow Of The Heavens by NEPHRIDIUM from NEPHRIDIUM - THE GREAT WAVE (2008) (BY-NC-ND)
• (10:02) Empezar, Cada Vez by Morgana vs Morgana from I. El Camino Inverso Hacia La Luz (BY-NC-SA)
• (16:15) Somos el Poder by Mirloblanco from Reinas Salvajes (BY-NC-ND)
• (20:32) Dustmen by Harbinger of Storms from Planet Dirt (BY-NC-SA)
• (25:26) Eyes in the spirit by Luca Deriu from Mind Phaser: About the world (BY-NC-ND)
• (33:02) Entry Velocity by Robot(A) from None (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com.

Open Metalcast #186 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #186 (OGG)

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