While Hurricane Sandy delivers hopefully the last of her Frankenstorm-like powers upon the East Coast, we have our own Creative Commons Metal storm brewing. And while we won't have reporters telling you the obvious "it's wet out here", we do have some of the finest music the net has to offer waiting to unleash upon your earholes. So hunker down, and let the net share the best in Creative Commons Metal with you.

• (00:11) The Storm by Atsphear from The Storm (BY-NC-ND)
• (04:42) Страх / Fear by Bridge to Burn from Demo (BY-SA)
• (07:35) Sysiphe by Dust Trial from Sysiphe (BY-NC-SA)
• (13:54) Dirtying The Cloth by Pogrom from INTOXICATED Vol.4 (2006) (BY-NC-ND)
• (17:28) I Fear For You by Slave Zero from INTOXICATED Vol.4 (2006) (BY-NC-ND)
• (20:40) Bitchcraft by Snake Thursday from Cruise Mode (BY-NC-ND)
• (24:55) Satan's Grave by Skitzo from Hellavator Musick (BY-NC-SA)
• (31:08) Heavy Metal Subgenres by Paper Ceilings from etc. (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or  make a donation to the Red Cross in their name. 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 #059 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #059 (OGG)

Welcome to the second of our Open Metalcast Halloween episodes, where we bring you Halloween music scare you. Heck who are we fooling; it's music to listen to while you steal candy from kids who can't outrun you. Whatever your poison this Halloween, we have some Creative Commons licensed metal to sooth the savage beast better than a bowl of candy corn.

• (01:21) Werewolves by The Horror Cast from Cities of Deception (BY-NC-ND)
• (06:29) Leatherface by Skitzo from Synusar'sukus (BY-NC-SA)
• (09:46) My Little Monster by Obsidian Shell from Evershade (BY-NC-SA)
• (14:39) Bong Zombies by Sonic Pulse from Lager Than Life (BY)
• (20:20) Burning the Asylum by Sweet Teen Killing Machine from Sweet Teen Killing Machine (BY-NC-SA)
• (23:41) Halloween by The Young Werewolves from The Young Werewolves (BY-NC-SA)
• (25:26) Halloween by Patient Zero from Post-Industrial Revolution (BY-NC-SA)
• (30:06) Horrible Escape from Planet Earth! by Dark Asylum Music from Psycho-Vampires from Space (By-NC-SA)
• (35:18) Real Vampires Don't Sparkle (But They Do Wear White And Dance mix) by The Dark Clan from Real Vampires Don't Sparkle (BY-NC-ND)

(Additional effects: Whip crack, The Temple by Out Of Orion (Ox3) from The Dunwich Horror: H.P. Lovecraft (BY-NC-SA))

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or use their music to woo Azathoth (it really liked it last year). 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 Special Episode: Halloween (MP3)

Open Metalcast Special Episode: Halloween (OGG)

In South American mythology, the number 58 is usually associated with curses misfortune, allegedly because of the association with the 58 original sins. Luckily, the number 58 in this context means another set of great Creative Commons Licensed Metal Music for your aural pleasures. We have brand new music from show-favorite PhaZer, as well as some new favorites like Leka, No Mans Legion, Sanctuarii, and Pursuance. Also some more great music by Broken Clown, Circle of Moebius, and Black Cohosh finishes up the episode with their blend of folk and hardcore. Folk-core? Whatever you call it, it's definitely not one to miss. So indulge your ears in this episode, and visit the band pages in the show notes.

• (00:10) Stand Your Ground by No Mans Legion from Stand Your Ground (BY-NC-SA)
• (03:44) I've Been Shot by PhaZer from Rockslinger (BY-NC-SA)
• (08:11) Dreamers by Pursuance from Precursors (BY-NC-ND)
• (12:15) Midnight In The Garden Of Ghandi And Steiner by Broken Clown from Houses Of The Homely (BY-NC-ND)
• (16:35) Destitution by Leka from Grievance (BY-SA)
• (21:26) My Soul by Circle Of Moebius from The Inexorable Walk (BY-SA)
• (26:12) One Thousand Ordeals by Sanctuarii from The Temple (BY-NC-SA)
• (35:15) The Sow Is Mine by Black Cohosh from Black Cohosh (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or take them out for Sweetest Day. 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 #058 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #058 (OGG)

These are the continuing voyages of the podcast Open Metalcast, continuing to bring you the finest Creative Commons musical treasures from distant Internet sites. And we have some treasures indeed, with 8 superb tracks for your listening edification, including one from Texas rockers Atomic Opera, and their 1999 album Alpha and Oranges. If you like Kings X or Galactic Cowboys, you'll definitely want to listen through to the end of this episode.

• (00:09) The Fall of an Empire by The Neologist from The Promise of Eternal Separation (BY)
• (04:38) Hyperion by Galactic Pegasus from Mirages EP (BY-NC-SA)
• (08:52) Behind Selfishness by Stealy from New Reality (BY-ND)
• (12:24) Labyrinths of Stone by Garüda from Labyrinths of Stone E.P. (BY-NC-ND)
• (20:45) It by Oak Pantheon from From a Whisper (BY-NC-ND)
• (29:16) Santa Marta Golden by Santa Marta Golden from El Fallo Humano (BY-NC-SA)
• (33:26) Changing Shadows by YTBP Backers group from Time Shifting Echoes (BY-NC-ND)
• (39:38) Spinning by Atomic Opera from Alpha and Oranges (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or take them out for Sweetest Day. 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 #057 (MP3) 

Open Metalcast #057 (OGG)

• (00:09) Disemotional by Mixture from Disemotional (BY-NC-ND)
• (05:05) Plague And Fire by Discreation from Plague And Fire (BY-NC-ND)
• (08:35) What I've Become by Killwire from Empty Cell Demo (BY-NC-ND)
• (12:10) Iron and Wood by Cabeza de Caballo from (Single) (BY-NC-ND)
• (17:14) Never Forget by Ruin of Remembrance from Second World (BY-NC-SA)
• (22:16) Forgone by Lycanthia from Oligarchy (BY-ND)
• (29:40) Big Crunch by The Foetal Mind from The Grand Contraction (BY-ND)
• (37:01) Space Dojo 2 (Billy and the Breakers - Firebird) by Jake Kaufman from Double Dragon Neon (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or wear their T-Shirt at an upcoming Rush concert. 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 #056 (MP3)

Extra-length songs for your listening pleasure.

• (01:32) KRUH Z OHNĚ A OCELI by DROM from Hectop (BY-SA)
• (12:18) Вместо них by PLATZDARM from Сквозь стекло (BY-NC-SA)
• (21:20) Tehomoth - Make me Believe by Tehomoth from Demo (BY-NC-ND)
• (32:18) Cover of Smoke by Iron Thrones from Visions of Light (BY-NC-ND)
• (44:22) Seattle by Cloudkicker from Fade (BY-NC-SA)
• (54:26) 04.Psychocean - Embryonal Confinement by Psychocean from Embryonal Confinement (BY-NC-ND)
• (1:04:58) Xeric Ascension by YURT from Archipelagog (BY-NC-ND)
• (1:20:06) Ein wilder tanz im Licht der Sterne by Galaktic Cancer Squad from Strange Spheres of Hyperborea (BY-NC)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or shave their name into your brand new kitten. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection.

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

Open Metalcast #055 (MP3)

• (00:11) Der Einzig by Iskra from European Tour Demo (BY-NC-ND)
• (03:32) Progeny Of Panthalassa by She Was The Universe from Progeny Of Panthalassa (BY-NC-SA)
• (08:10) Lusitania by Minenwerfer from Nihilistischen (BY-NC-SA)
• (12:39) Abscondence by Thakandar from Shattered (BY-NC-SA)
• (18:33) Dystopian Sequence I: Simulations by Envisionist from Dystopian Sequence (BY-NC-ND)
• (24:23) Only Suffering is Free by Anagnorisis from Ghosts of Our Fathers (BY-NC-ND)
• (29:10) Tactful Annihilation by Cara Neir from Sublimation Therapy EP (BY-NC-ND)
• (29:52) The Lunatics by Mr.Booze from Greetings from the middle finger (BY-NC-SA)
• (36:17) Stretch the Wall by Giantwall from Stretch the Wall (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or send their music via an interstellar rover, so it'll play their song when it wakes up. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection.

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

Open Metalcast #054 (MP3)

Re-sleeve yourself in your best recreational model and enjoy the best the future has to offer.

• (00:20) TAXIM - Ware Mensch by Taxim from Metarail (EP) (BY-NC-SA)
• (04:21) Unconditional (feat. Tanja Ravljen) by Neurotech from test (BY-SA)
• (08:02) Flower and the Bone (feat. Lisa Johansson - Draconian) by GrimFaith from Hearts and Engines (BY-NC-SA)
• (12:30) Invisible Force by Reizstrom from Invisible Force (BY_NC-ND)
• (16:38) Alive by Alpha Point from Alive CDM (BY-NC-ND)
• (20:25) Till I Get You by MIND:|:SHREDDER from Synthematika Three (BY-NC-ND)
• (24:37) Fight (Na-Hag Remix) by Freaky Mind from More Manifests (BY-NC-ND)
• (30:35) Connective Tissue by StrommoussHeld from Connective Tissue (BY-NC-SA)
• (35:01) Demons Of The Past by Insane Prototype from These Seven Words Do Not Mean Anything (BY-NC-SA)
• (38:45) I Have a Tuba by Kobi LaCroix from Grapefruit Teeth: A Compendium of Industrial Dixieland Tone Poems for Fiddle and Fire Hydrant, Chapter 1: Rise of the Hyena People (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or play their music at volumes so loud, your unborn grandchildren will be born deaf. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection.

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

Intro sound: remix #1 of 33711__acclivity__excessiveexposure.flac

Open Metalcast Special Episode: Club Metal #12 (MP3)

Open Metalcast Special Episode: Club Metal #12 (OGG)

Landing this episode of metal like NASA lands probes on Mars: hard, fast, and using a lot of parachutes.

• (00:11) Journey by Black & White from Rock 'till Dawn (BY-NC-ND)
• (03:54) DEJAME VOLVER by SeekInside from SeekInside EP (BY-NC-SA)
• (08:01) Beyond The Black Hole by Sonic Pulse from Lager Than Life (BY)
• (14:39) Hail To The T.V. Screen by One Last Word from Thrones (BY-NC-ND)
• (18:42) Silence After All by Discrepancy from Starry Dynamo In The Machinery Of Night (BY-NC-ND)
• (23:33) The Time Has Come - Diary of Destruction by Diary Of Destruction from Démo 2009 (BY-NC-SA)
• (28:10) Leave me by That Was Yesterday from Sorrowind - Ep (BY)
• (34:18) Arachnids In Bloom by The Porcelain from Arachnids In Bloom Single (By-NC-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or clean out their merch stand at their next show. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection.

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

Open Metalcast #053 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #053 (OGG)

• (00:08) Sleepless by Naked Brown from Naked Brown (BY-NC-SA)
• (03:59) Inmortal by INORDEM from La Miseria de Dios (BY-NC-SA)
• (08:44) Dead Tooth Grime by Crown the Liar from Dead World Anthology (BY-ND)
• (12:01) We Fall Apart (Featuring Mike Semesky) by Memoirs from We Fall Apart - Vocal Single (BY-NC-SA)
• (18:16) Criminal by Surface Our Sanctuary from Criminal - Single (BY)
• (23:21) Parasit by Herlathing from Parasit - EP 2012 (BY-NC)
• (27:38) Will nicht sein by Children of Eris from 2012 (BY-SA)
• (34:48) 05 - I Don't Always Make Grind Songs, But When I Do, They Have Long, Ridiculous and Pointless Titles by Vomit Soup from Grindcore Concerto In Drop-C (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or make a documentary about them called "Beyond the Lighted Stage". Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

Also check out the other great podcasts at Metal Injection.

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

Open Metalcast #052 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #052 (OGG)