Recently we got the chance to speak with Ben Hiteman from the band Catapult the Dead. Catapult the dead released their album "All is Sorrow" which consists of a single 37 minute track intended to be listened in one sitting,. We spoke with Ben about the creation of the All is Sorrow album, the formation of the band, and about their upcoming projects and tours.

• (04:19) Nothing Comes From The Well - All Is Sorrow Pt 1 by Catapult The Dead from All Is Sorrow (BY-NC-ND)
• (13:56) Sacrament - All Is Sorrow Pt 4 by Catapult The Dead from All Is Sorrow (BY-NC-ND)
• (27:40) Servitude - All Is Sorrow Pt 6 by Catapult The Dead from All Is Sorrow (BY-NC-ND)

We'd like tot hank Ben and Catapult the Dead for taking the time to talk with us. Learn more about the band and how to score some great merch over at https://catapultthedead.bandcamp.com.

Open Metalcast Special Interview Episode - Catapult the Dead (MP3)

Open Metalcast Special Interview Episode - Catapult the Dead (OGG)

Ever felt like you can't make a decision about something? That happened to me recently when trying to put together this show. It seems October is the month where a lot of bands release their music so I had over 20 tracks set up to play in this show. I couldn't decide which ones to put into the final show so I made some tough choices and bumped some tracks to future episodes. But talk about being spoiled for choice! There's new music from show-favorites Memest, along with new music from Delyria, Deathsurrection, Colorblind, Narada, Phthartic, Sunnata, and Híbrido. Hopefully you won't have as hard a choice to decide to listen to this episode as they're all great bands with stellar tracks waiting to pummel your ears.

• (00:10) Delyria - Assyduobabylonese by Delyria from None (BY-NC)
• (03:50) Erase by Deathsurrection from Embrace your fate (BY-NC-ND)
• (07:21) Never sober by Colorblind from We couldn't agree on a fucking title (BY-NC-ND)
• (11:44) FLESH CONSUMED by LAPIDATED from LAPIDATED - "THE STENCH OF CARNAGE" (BY-NC-ND)
• (15:21) Sons Of Kashyapu And Kadru by Narada from Dead Waters (BY-NC-ND)
• (18:23) Dark Universe by Phthartic from The Sleeper Has Awoken - [Remastered] (BY-NC-ND)
• (23:23) Seven by sunnata from Climbing the colossus (cd ed.) (BY-NC-ND)
• (30:27) The Man Who Never Cries by MEMEST from Bastards and Liars (BY-NC-ND)
• (35:46) La canción del marginado by Híbrido from Híbrido (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or invite them to your upcoming Halloween Party. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection, and be sure to listen to all of the great shows (including Open Metalcast) streaming 24/7 at Metalinjection.FM.

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

Open Metalcast #105 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #105 (OGG)

Ever have one of those weeks where you completely blank out on something that you need to do but can't for the life of you remember what that was? Unfortunately I completely blanked out on releasing the latest episode of Open Metalcast for most of September. Whoops. But in that time bands have released an amazing amount of music; enough for several shows. So I apologize for the delay but hopefully the music will more than make up for it. First up is the straight-up thrash of Nuclear, followed by the amazing talents of Latvian band Deodium. Fallen to Flux winds up the first set and then Nami brings the progressive death metal while Mystic Place winds alternative and progressive rock together into an amazing combination. Black Autumn's latest release "Losing the Sun" finds us navigating the doom-laden reaches of the brilliant M. Krall. Destierro drag us back into thrash territory, and Echovolt charges forth with industrial-strength metal that will, well, blow you away. Winding up this episode is Magma Dragon featuring members of The Dark Clan / Stromkern telling you about their Pathfinder character. It's a show you will agree was worth the wait

• (00:10) Inner Hate by Nuclear from Inner Hate (BY)
• (07:59) Playing With Fire by Fallen to Flux from Piece by Piece (BY-NC-SA)
• (12:26) The Beholders by Nami from The Eternal Light Of The Unconscious Mind (BY-NC)
• (20:16) Thousand Miles by Mystic Place from Eternal Voyager (BY-NC)
• (25:08) St. Elm's Fire by Black Autumn from Losing The Sun (BY-NC-SA)
• (31:42) Llanto by Destierro from DESTIERRO "Ö–rlog" LP (BY-NC)
• (35:37) Blow Us Away by Echovolt from Odds On The Underdog (BY-NC-ND)
• (40:55) Rune Giant by Magma Dragon from Full Attack Action (BY-NC)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or do a four hour jam session with them. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection, and be sure to listen to all of the great shows (including Open Metalcast) streaming 24/7 at Metalinjection.FM.

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

Open Metalcast #104 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #104 (OGG)

Over in the USA we're coming off of celebrating Labor Day which is a day where some folks get to they day off while others get to go in to work. It's a crazy little holiday but it gave me some extra time to peruse the net for the best in Creative Commons Licensed Metal Music. And we have a great episode lined up with music from Legions, Cleaver, Storm Cry, Ancient Emblem, Catapult The Dead, Deep Sea Thunder Beast, Lucifer In The Sky With Diamonds, Schematics for Gravity, and Cryogen Second. So whether you're returning to work or haven't left you'll have plenty to keep your ears busy.

• (00:11) State Of Hypnosis by Legions from Apparition Songs (BY-NC-ND)
• (03:23) Searching for tragedy by Cleaver from Leur sauvage poussée (BY-NC-SA)
• (07:12) The SYS by Storm Cry from Beginning Of Darkness (BY-NC-SA)
• (13:26) My unique law by Ancient Emblem from Throne with no god (BY-NC)
• (18:13) Sacrament - All Is Sorrow Pt 4 by Catapult The Dead from All Is Sorrow (BY-NC-ND)
• (23:09) Mountain Tops Are Future Islands by Deep Sea Thunder Beast from S/T 2012 (BY-NC-ND)
• (28:23) How To Fix Things by Lucifer In The Sky With Diamonds from The Shining One (BY-NC-SA)
• (31:12) The Prospect of Vanishing by Schematics for Gravity from Absence of Weight (BY-NC-SA)
• (39:41) Rust And Remain by Cryogen Second from Rust And Remain (BY-NC-ND)

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

Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection, and be sure to listen to all of the great shows (including Open Metalcast) streaming 24/7 at Metalinjection.FM.

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

Open Metalcast #103 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #103 (OGG)

Things have been rather busy a the Open Metalcast Headquarters as of late. We had one of the storms of the century rip through our neighborhood last week. Fortunately we didn't have too much damage but we still had to do some impromptu moving of some waterlogged stuff. We're just getting things back to some semblance of normal around here, which means we're ready to bring you the Creative Commons Metal Music you crave. We have brand new Deep Space Destructors off of their cleverly named album III, as well as a long-overdue appearance by GUM. Throw in new tracks from Acherontia, LeHunt, X-ethos, Old Enemies, and Abriosis and you'll have plenty of metal to share with your friends. Plus a surprise re-appearance by Drakum (last seen in episode 39) with a re-interpretation of their classic track "Around the Oak" rounds things off. Sometimes the best things in life are worth waiting for after all.

• (00:10) A Gathering by Oak Pantheon from Gathering (BY-NC-ND)
• (06:33) Repudiate The Lies by Abriosis from Tattered And Bound (BY-NC-ND)
• (12:34) Always by Old enemies from old enemies (BY-NC-ND)
• (16:40) Water by GUM from But Woman Monkey (BY-NC-ND)
• (23:59) Beyond The Black Star by Deep Space Destructors from III (BY-NC-ND)
• (29:35) Actividad Terrorista by X-ethos from Simplicitatus Complexus (BY-NC-ND)
• (33:50) False Moments by LeHunt from The Empty Space In Which We Live (BY-NC-SA)
• (37:03) Human by Acherontia from Kings of the world (BY-NC-SA)
• (42:32) Around the Oak (bitmap remix) by Drakum from Around the Oak (single) (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or make up some awards to give them. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection, and be sure to listen to all of the great shows (including Open Metalcast) streaming 24/7 at Metalinjection.FM.

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

Open Metalcast #102 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #102 (OGG)

In the novel 1984 there is a room called Room 101 wherein the "Ministry of Love" subjects prisoners to their worst fears, phobias and nightmares. Apparently George Orwell named it after a meeting room at the BBC where he would be subjected to tedious meetings. Episode 101 is far from tedious though, although there may still be nightmares, fears and phobias lurking within these files. If you're afraid of snails or slugs you might want to avoid Slugde's latest album Gastronomicon. Malignant Tumor might also conjure fears of disease, but that's more likely the sound of your head getting crushed. If you're afraid of spectral hounds (or of Welsh myth) then Cwn Annwn might be your trigger. Technophobia sufferers may wish to take Silicon War Sector's advice about Techno Ethics to heart, while those fearing the unseen may want to avoid Rorshack. Necrophobic and geometriphobic listeners won't find comfort in Triumphant Skull (or in Studying the Spheres), nor will they want Visio Mortis. Those who have an irrational fear of Spiral Mountains will want to seek help immediately. And those who fear punk music will certainly want to escape prior to Stars Burn Stripes's Songs About Escapism. But other than those caveats there is nothing more to fear within the confines of the aural bit-stream awaiting you. Unless you're afraid of the best Creative Commons metal music on the planet. There's no hope for you then.

• (00:11) Gastronomicon by Slugdge from Gastronomicon (BY-NC-ND)
• (08:06) Overdose&Overdrive by MALIGNANT TUMOUR from OVERDOSE&OVERDRIVE (BY)
• (11:01) Stay Forever by Cwn Annwn from Metamorphosis (BY-NC-ND)
• (15:55) Techno Ethics by Silicon War Sector from Téchne (BY-NC-ND)
• (20:05) Invisibles by RORSHACK from None (BY)
• (24:09) Exile, Welcome Home by Spiralmountain from Sycophant / Exile, Welcome Home (BY-NC-ND)
• (26:14) Studying the Spheres by Triumphant Skull from Triumphant Skull (BY-NC-ND)
• (33:01) In Sickness Buried by Visio Mortis from In Sickness Buried (demo) (BY)
• (38:25) Challenge Accepted by Stars Burn Stripes from Songs About Escapism (BY-NC-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or head to various podcasts to talk about them. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection, and be sure to listen to all of the great shows (including Open Metalcast) streaming 24/7 at Metalinjection.FM.

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

Open Metalcast #101 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #101 (OGG)

Open Metalcast celebrates our milestone episode release with the release of episode 100. I had a few ideas floating around for what I could do with this episode. I thought of doing a retrospective episode highlighting artists played on the show. Perhaps it could be over several episodes? Several ideas percolated through my mind but ultimately one idea won out: just release a damn episode and say "hey, it's episode 100" in the notes for the episode. So here we are, along with new music by VRADEMARGK, Paroxysm, The Machinery of Other Skeletons, Legions Ablaze, Soulless Child, Marasme, and Everybody Row. Finishing up the show is a 13 minute opus by the band Petrychor which is unlike anything I've heard in quite a while.

Thank you all for listening and being a part of the past 100 shows. Here's to 100x100 more! Keep it metal and keep it open!

• (00:11) Anima Invictus by VRADEMARGK from The Black Chamber (BY-NC-SA)
• (05:24) Croyances Immaculées by Paroxysm from VORACITE (BY-SA)
• (09:21) Enervate by The Machinery of Other Skeletons from Beyond the Circular (BY-NC-SA)
• (14:15) End of Days by Legions Ablaze from Welcome Your Oblivion (BY-ND)
• (17:50) Dead Luck by Soulless Child from Witches and curses (BY-NC-SA)
• (22:06) Relapse by Colossal Figures from Clockwork Dilation (BY-NC-ND)
• (27:45) Cop de Gràcia by MARASME from De Llums i Ombres (BY-NC-ND)
• (34:40) Coming Out Clean by Everybody Row from The Sea Inside (BY)
• (38:23) Planets Born of Human Ash by Petrychor from Makrokosmos (BY-NC-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or do a 100 episode show about their music. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection, and be sure to listen to all of the great shows (including Open Metalcast) streaming 24/7 at Metalinjection.FM.

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

Open Metalcast #100 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #100 (OGG)

There's a tradition in the United States of America that folks are called upon to serve as jury in court cases. Fortunately I wasn't called this time around so I have some extra time to bring you the best in Creative Commons License Metal Music. This episode features brand new music from Colosso and Muldjord as well as music by In My Shiver, Black Monolith, Epitimia, Treitim, Aathma, Skein and Macabre Demise. But unlike trials in the USA we'll let you judge for yourself which of these albums you'll be downloading later on (You can download them all and share them with your friends as well. Don't worry, it's legal!)

• (00:10) Circles Of Defeat by Colosso from Foregone Semblances (None)
• (02:52) Drain by In my Shiver from Delicate Poison (None)
• (09:43) Adhere by Black Monolith from Passenger (None)
• (18:36) Delusion II - Ataraxia by Epitimia from (Un)reality (None)
• (24:45) 1000 Km. by TREITUM from 1936 (None)
• (34:58) Valpur by AATHMA from Deadly Lake (None)
• (44:21) Parasitoid by Skein from Of Wings Unfolding (None)
• (50:49) Full of Hate by Macabre Demise from Walk This Death (None)
• (59:32) A Thousand Paths by Muldjord from The Color of My Soul (BY-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or offer to sit in for their Jury Duty. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection, and be sure to listen to all of the great shows (including Open Metalcast) streaming 24/7 at Metalinjection.FM.

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

Open Metalcast #099 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #099 (OGG)

Hi all,

The next episode of Open Metalcast is going to be delayed a bit. Have been pretty busy lately and my will to put together a show has been sapped. I hope this will give everyone a chance to catch up and pick up the albums from the previous episodes.

We'll be back shortly with more of the great Creative Commons metal music you've come to expect. Count on it!

Dear Fans of Open Metalcast. I have a confession to make. It has been six long months since the last Instrumetalcast. Six months you've had to wait for arguably one of the more popular channels of Open Metalcast. I have failed you time and time again to bring you the best Creative Commons Licensed Instrumental Metal Music. No more. Your long wait is over, and as penance I have compiled almost an hour and thirty minute apology with such bands as Steamforged, Brunt, Alpha Male Tea Party, Town Portal, Dust Storm Warning, Cloudkicker, Black Market Serotonin, Another Destiny Project, Epitimia, T-Rex Quiet, Pervy Perkin, J.C.Vogt, SONNÖV, Cancer Killing Gemini, The L-Train, and Colosso. Hopefully this will tide you over until the next Instrumetalcast episode, which should hopefully arrive before the end of this year. Shownotes after the break.

• (00:43) Atlantis: Trenchbound Majesty by Steamforged from Atlantis - Trenchbound Majesty (BY-NC-ND)
• (05:49) Rabbit Of Cannabong by Brunt from Brunt (BY-NC-ND)
• (12:20) You Eat Houmous, Of Course You Listen To Genesis by Alpha Male Tea Party from Droids (BY-NC-SA)
• (15:58) Cool Face Doom Service by Town Portal from Chronopoly (BY-NC-ND)
• (20:59) Dune (Instrumental Jam Session) by DSW from Dust Storm Warning (BY-NC-ND)
• (28:36) You could laugh forever but never end up happy. by Cloudkicker from Subsume (BY)
• (38:01) Singularity by Black Market Serotonin from Something From Nothing (BY-NC-SA)
• (41:39) Apollo 13 by Another Destiny Project from Metodo Paranoico-Critico (BY-NC)
• (46:39) Rebirth by Epitimia from (Un)reality (BY-NC)
• (50:51) Trees Of The Desert by T-Rex Quiet from T-Rex Quiet (BY-NC-SA)
• (56:26) Peanut Butterfly by Pervy Perkin from Ink (BY-NC-SA)
• (1:01:53) A Lonesome Hero (Instrumental) by J.C.Vogt from A Lonesome Hero (Single) (BY-SA)
• (1:05:57) maurota by SONNÖV from Hay Una Luz (BY-NC-ND)
• (1:13:06) Christcontrol (instrumental) by Cancer Killing Gemini from It Only Hurts When We Breathe (Instrumental) (BY-NC-SA)
• (1:17:12) Scene 5: Battle of Sun and Moon by The L-Train (and friends) from Moonrise (BY-SA)
• (1:19:45) The Epiphany (instrumental) by Colosso from Peaceful Abrasiveness (None)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or create a one hour and thirty minute podcast of their music. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection, and be sure to listen to all of the great shows (including Open Metalcast) streaming 24/7 at Metalinjection.FM.

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

Open Metalcast #98 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #98 (OGG)