Time was in the early days of the Internet there weren't many options for finding new music. However once better bandwidth came about the Internet became a wonderful and strange place indeed. Where else could one find a Symphonic Metal Opera album about My Little Pony (that's actually really good)? And where else could you find more a seemingly endless source of metal music from talented bands like Napalm Strike, Obsidian Throne, Wildernessking, Old Wainds, Lycanthia, Maniac Butcher, and the inimitable deafheaven? Fortunately you don't have to go searching for all of these bands on the Internet and can add a sampling of each to your collection with just a simple click or via your podcatcher. How times have changed indeed.

• (00:11) Riding Through The Darkest Woods... by Maniac Butcher from Masakr (BY-NC-ND)
• (04:30) Time Feeds this Wound by Lycanthia from Oligarchy (BY-NC)
• (10:58) Insane stellar race by Old Wainds from Nordraum (BY-NC-ND)
• (15:44) Sunbather by deafheaven from Sunbather (BY-NC-ND)
• (25:58) The Devil Within by Wildernessking from The Devil Within (BY-NC-ND)
• (35:58) Black Hole in Human Form by Obsidian Tongue from A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time (BY-NC)
• (44:28) Mind Control by Napalm Strike from Aiming Down the Sights (BY-NC-ND)
• (50:10) Scene 4: Lunar March by The L-Train (and friends) from Moonrise (BY-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or set up a memorial for your favorite band. 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 #097 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #097 (OGG)

Many years ago when I was heavily into Dream Theater I stumbled upon a band that sounded interesting but was unable to hear their music (this was before Youtube made it insanely easy to hear most of mankind's recorded output). The band was Spock's Beard and I bought several of their albums sight-unseen from the Thoughts mailing list admin (Thanks, Lisa!). Fortunately in this day and age with sites like Jamendo and Bandcamp you don't have to guess what an album sounds like and once I heard the band Anasazi's "Drop Dead Silence" I was immediately reminded of Spock's Beard and that moment when The Kindness of Strangers (and not just the album) set me on another musical rabbit-hole. Speaking of proggish rabbit holes, we also have a proggish track from Wall of the Eyeless, as well as crushing tracks from FLYING RENOS, Avolation, CABEZA DE CABALLO and Umor. And if you like your metal with a little King Crimson / Frank Zappa then the latest from Peculate will fit the bill quite nicely. And it thrills me no end when I see bands that I know release material under a Creative Commons License so I'm thrilled to welcome Arsis to the show. So if you like multiple time signatures, thoughtful music, and crushing riffs you're ini for a treat. Cape and Mellotron not required.

• (00:11) drop dead silence by anasazi from 1000 yard stare (BY-NC-ND)
• (05:56) FLICKER by Wall Of The Eyeless from Wimfolsfestta [Demo] (BY-NC-ND)
• (15:39) Global Insanity by FLYING RENOS from Massive (BY-NC-ND)
• (20:51) Worship Depraved by Arsis from As Regret Becomes Guilt (BY-NC-ND)
• (23:52) An Intricate Balance by Avolation from Core To The Core Compilation Vol. 2 (BY-NC-ND)
• (27:27) Volcanic Spell by CABEZA DE CABALLO from Iron and Wood (BY-NC-ND)
• (34:36) Sandstone by Umor from Held Us Silent For A Moment (BY-NC-SA)
• (44:56) Extra Varnish Please by Peculate from In Two (A) (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or offer to send the band's music to random folks on the Internet. 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 #096 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #096 (OGG)

Things are starting to return to normal at the Open Metalcast compound. We return to our usual show schedule with 8 tracks of awesome Creative Commons Licensed Metal Music. Episode 95 features tracks from Pyrit, All Your Lies, Endtape, Cara Neir, The Conjuration, Thou, Zeugen der Leere, and the Hammond-Organ explosion of The Grave Dolls. Shownotes after the break:

• (00:10) Päste by Pyrit from Jazdec bez hlavy (BY-NC-SA)
• (03:28) Mindless by All Your Lies from Demo (BY-NC-ND)
• (07:11) Get Up by Endtape from Ready To Go (2013) (BY-SA)
• (11:53) Closing Doors by Cara Neir from Portals to a Better, Dead World (BY-NC-ND)
• (15:29) Profane by The Conjuration from Surreal (BY-ND)
• (19:34) Here I Stand Head in Hands by Thou from Ceremonies of Humiliation (BY)
• (27:31) Anomie by Zeugen der Leere from Seelenwanderer (BY-NC-ND)
• (36:11) The Mountains Of Beyond by The Grave Dolls from Calypso (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or send them fresh cut flowers. 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 #095 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #095 (OGG)

Regular listeners of the show may notice this episode posting later than normal. That's because the normal posting date was during Pycon and I was hanging out in beautiful Montréal Canada enjoying the largest gathering of Python developers in the world. And I'm recovering from Easter weekend and a ham hangover. But lest this devolve into your typical blog post we've compiled 8 tracks of some amazing metal music, starting off with Sam Whitaker (feat. Jake Barnes of the Final Chapter), as well as brand-new music by EWÏG FROST. We also have the amazing new album by electronic black-metalers Psygnosis, and the jazz-influenced black metal of Schattenbrandung. There's also post-metal sludge from Wovka, the groove-djent stylings of Pursuance, and the groove metal of Azoah. Capping off the show is the catchy prog-metal of Pervy Perkin. So feel free to move about this episode freely, and be sure to make copies of the music for your friends. Just don't get too spooked at the gremlin ripping off the wings. I think I need a drink to calm my nerves.

• (00:10) Natural Force [Feat. Jake Barnes of The Final Chapter] by Sam Whitaker from None (BY-NC-ND)
• (04:10) The Boys Are Back by EWÏG FROST from Dirty Tales (BY-NC-ND)
• (06:03) Noesis by Pursuance from The Spiral Dynamic (BY-NC-ND)
• (11:06) Δrowning by Psygnosis from Human Be[ing] (BY)
• (21:28) III by Schattenbrandung from I - Apophänie (BY-NC-SA)
• (28:13) Sleep Eater by Wovoka from None (BY-NC-ND)
• (36:22) Al Kepun by Azoah from Azoah (BY-NC-SA)
• (42:21) The End of the Beginning by Pervy Perkin from Ink (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or take them to a week-long programming conference. 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 #094 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #094 (OGG)

It's been one of those weeks here at the Open Metalcast Headquarters where you have to wonder "what next?". It's enough to make you feel like a chicken with your head cut off. Though with the amazing Creative Commons metal music in this episode it's more like the chicken had its head ripped clean off; especially with the likes of power-metalers Noble Beast and Twilight Messenger leading the way. Not far behind though is a new track from Headwires, and the long-awaited new album from Galactic Pegasus. Then the darker tones of Fenris, the crushing heaviness of Victim of Depravity, and the brutal Cementerio wrap up the episode before a long-awaited and very overdue return of the prog-metal master Lascaille's Shroud with an opus that was successfully funded on Indiegogo (why didn't anyone tell us about this? Argh!) It's an episode more loaded with metal than last Thanksgiving's turkey. Shownotes after the break:

• (00:09) Master of Depravity by Noble Beast from Noble Beast (BY-NC)
• (05:07) Fireball by Twilight Messenger from The World Below (BY-NC-ND)
• (09:11) Prepare For War by Headwires from None (BY-NC)
• (13:23) Abyssal Plain by Galactic Pegasus from Pariah (BY-NC-SA)
• (18:07) Nazgûl by Fenris from Across the Darkened Skies (BY-ND)
• (22:02) Your Truth by Victim of Depravity from The Contradiction (BY-NC-ND)
• (24:37) Muerte por omniscencia by Cementerio from LUNA HIENA (BY-NC-ND)
• (28:47) Awakened: Not Even Remembered by the Dust of Stars by Lascaille's Shroud from Interval 02: Parallel Infinities, The Abscinded Universe (BY-NC-ND)

Special thanks to Metal Bandcamp for the recommendation to pick up Noble Beast. Be sure to check out their series on Metal Injection for the best metal music that Bandcamp has to offer.

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or have them move in with you. 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 #093 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #093 (OGG)

We're starting to see a thaw at the Open Metalcast headquarters and with it is the realization that maybe we'll make it through this winter after all. Fortunately the Internet connection has stayed strong (knock on fake-wood) so we've been able to scurry through the net to find the finest in Creative Commons Metal to help keep your ears nice and toasty warm. Joining us this episode are trakcs from Trocotombix, We Are Idols, Recursion, Skein, Larion, Oblivion's Garden, Oblivion, Cara Neir, Poison (thankfully not the hair-metal band) and a return by Captain Three Leg. Ten tracks of metal waiting for you to download and headbang (or more likely shovel) to while we wait patiently for spring to arrive.

• (00:11) Povero Palomo by TROCOTOMBIX from Psicopompos (BY-NC-ND)
• (03:52) 1961 by We Are Idols from No Apologies (BY-NC-SA)
• (06:57) Hue Manic by Recursion from Color Theory (BY-NC-ND)
• (13:36) Larva by Skein from Of Wings Unfolding (BY-NC-SA)
• (20:12) Dawn (Zarya) by LARION from Stones Of Past (BY-NC-SA)
• (23:20) Catch Me, I'm Falling by Oblivion's Garden from Seed (BY-NC-SA)
• (29:02) Inception by OBLIVION from XENOPATH (BY-NC-ND)
• (31:44) To Sprout From Decay by Cara Neir from Split with Flesh Born (BY-NC-ND)
• (34:07) Yog Sothoth by Poison from Into The Abyss (BY)
• (43:28) How Many Inches Did You Get Last Night? by Captain Three Leg from split w/ Flvx Capacitor (BY)

Huge thanks to Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff for the amazing spot on their show. Check out the handiwork of two of my favorite game designers / writers and their always informative podcast delve into game design, history, food, Canadian politics and more. Check it out and be sure to tell them Open Metalcast sent you!

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or start a new metal genre in their honor. 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 #092 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #092 (OGG)

My least favorite "holiday" of the year is when Daylight Savings Time happens. For no apparent reason most of the known world decides to arbitrarily shift their clocks one hour ahead. This results in me losing an hour of sleep which makes me rather angry. And when I get angry there's nothing I want more than a bunch of metal music blaring in my ears. Which, coincidentally this episode delivers with artists like Colosso, Carnivora, Muldjord, Allochiria, Iskra, and Sun Worship. It also welcomes the return of favorites Galactic Pegasus and PLATZDARM. But lest we stay angry there's Оргия Праведников to pull us back. And while I will reluctantly spring forward with the rest of the world don't expect me to be all happy about it.

• (00:11) Thou Shalt Not Be Benevolent by Colosso from Abrasive Peace (BY-NC-SA)
• (04:41) Human Decimator by Carnivora from Eternal (BY-NC-ND)
• (08:43) Armygeddon2009 by Muldjord from Hate Breeds Hate (BY-NC-ND)
• (12:56) Double Game by PLATZDARM from Double Game [single] (BY-SA)
• (19:47) Draw The Line by Galactic Pegasus from None (BY-NC-SA)
• (23:30) We Crave What We Lack by Allochiria from Omonoia (BY-NC-ND)
• (30:36) Thieves Of Life from Split w/Doom Siren [Album] by Iskra from (Single) (BY-NC-ND)
• (33:41) The Absolute is Becoming by Sun Worship from Elder Giants (BY-NC-SA)
• (42:27) Шитрок by Оргия Праведников from Шитрок (BY-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, buy some physical media from the bands, or name a 30,000 Siberian Virus after 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 #91 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #91 (OGG)

A friend on IRC (Hi Greg) thought it might be neat to have an episode of post-rock / post-metal music. He might get his wish some day because apparently I can't leave well-enough alone without mixing things up with sludge, doom, desert, and black metal. So Greg, I'll get to that post-rock show sometime in the near future. But to make up for it this 90th episode is made up of 9 tracks around 9 minutes long weighing in at 90 minutes (seeing a pattern here?) Featuring music from HELA, Morgue of Saints, Anagnorisis, Allochiria, Show Me A Dinosaur, EVILHORSE, Bong Breaker, DOLMENN, and SONNÖV there's a little something for everyone in this episode.

• (00:47) Horizonte De Sucesos by SONNÖV from Hay Una Luz (BY-NC-ND)
• (10:35) Grim Reaper by DOLMENN from I (BY-NC-SA)
• (19:47) Mountain by Bong Breaker from MOUNTAIN (BY-NC-ND)
• (30:11) The Path Must Be Walked by EVILHORSE from Cabeza de Vaca (BY-NC-ND)
• (41:58) Bhopal by Show Me A Dinosaur from Dust (BY-NC-ND)
• (50:10) Archetypal Attraction To Circular Things by Allochiria from Omonoia (BY-NC-ND)
• (59:31) Death Mimics Life by Anagnorisis from Beyond All Light (BY-NC-ND)
• (1:08:52) Desert Jam by Morgue of Saints from Monolith (BY-NC-ND)
• (1:19:50) Flesh Ceremony by HELA from Broken Cross (BY-NC-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, buy some physical media from the bands, or name a winter storm after 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 #90 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #090 (OGG)

Call me an old fogey but I still get excited to tear open the shrink-wrap of a brand new album, especially when it's from a band that I enjoy like Deep Space Destructors album II. Part of the joy was listening to their bonus track Sykli which I believe is only available on CD. But I know some of you have eschewed the physical realm for the more tidy and sanitary digital realm so with Deep Space Destructors' kind permission I've included it in this episode. And lest you miss that new-music smell we also have new tracks from Chiral, Grey Heaven Gall, Nemost, Mahidevran, Azgard, Eschatos, and Hesus Attor. And rather than dispose of the wrapper when you're done you're encouraged by the artists to share with your friends. So until we can send new-music smell over the Internet this is the next best thing. Shownotes after the break:

• (00:10) Eternal Winter Day by Chiral from Winter Eternal (BY-NC-SA)
• (03:58) Последняя песнь твоей мечты by Grey Heaven Fall from Grey Heaven Fall - Серые небеса осени 2008 (Demo) (BY-SA)
• (09:04) Sardanapale by Nemost from The Shadow's Trail (BY-NC-ND)
• (12:58) My way by Mahidevran from Singl My way (BY-NC-SA)
• (18:44) Azgard - Будь Мужиком by Azgard from Будь Мужиком (BY-NC-SA)
• (22:28) One That Divides The Time by Eschatos from Hierophanies (BY-NC-ND)
• (29:03) Sykli by Deep Space Destructors from II (BY-NC-ND)
• (41:29) Bombono Vox by Hesus Attor from State Of Downfall (2013) (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, buy some physical media like the album II, or paint their logo on the front of a snow plow. 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 #089 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #089 (OGG)

One of the ways that I try to get around writing one of these introductions to an episode (which is coincidentally the hardest part about putting together an episode) is to take a peek at Wikipedia to see if there's anything interesting related to the episode number. Apparently 88 is considered by the Chinese to be a number of fortune and good luck which is something that I wish for you as you listen to this episode. As luck would have it there's 8 tracks in this episode as well full of the best Creative Commons Licensed Metal Music the net has to offer including MUERTE POR MIL CORTES, The Conjuration, Sick Of Hailstone, Lothorian, Deep Space Destructors, Sarin, Mighty Zazuum, and Another Destiny Project. But lest you think this is "bye-bye" for Open Metalcast feat not: there's still plenty of music to explore. And as long as there's a Wikipedia there'll be something for you to read along with it. Shownotes after the break.

• (00:10) Ojos by MUERTE POR MIL CORTES from Muerte Por Mil Cortes (BY-NC-ND)
• (04:11) Gozu by The Conjuration from The Human Condition (BY-NC-SA)
• (08:24) Lullaby by Sick Of Hailstone from The Story Of A Lullaby (BY-NC-ND)
• (13:27) Welldweller by Lothorian from Welldweller (BY-NC-ND)
• (18:20) Spacy Phantasy by Deep Space Destructors from II (BY-NC-ND)
• (27:54) Mosque by Sarin from House of Leaves (BY-ND)
• (33:00) Chemtrails by Mighty Zazuum from State Of Downfall (2013) (BY-NC-SA)
• (40:33) The Virus Of Illusion by Another Destiny Project from Metodo Paranoico-Critico (BY-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or explode a meteor over their home town. Wait, that's not good. Nevermind. 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 #088 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #088 (OGG)