Brought to you by mind-controlled cat ears.

• Still Alive by MIND:|:SHREDDER from Synthematika Two (2010) (BY-NC-ND)
• Screen Saviour by Patient Zero from Screen Saviour (BY-NC-SA)
• His, Yours, or Mine (All Epiphanies) by Unwoman from Unremembered (BY-NC-SA)
• Rzeka by Projekt Niewidzialne Swinie from Projekt  Niewidzialne Swinie 1st Album (BY-SA)
• A Second Dose by Tranquilizer from Synthematika Two (2010) (BY-NC-ND)
• Love Annihilator - 29 Milliseconds Of Baphoonery by [dK] from Love Annihilator (BY-NC-SA)
• Necrotic Generation - The Gatekeeper by Necrotic Generation from The Gatekeeper [Single] (BY-NC-SA)
• My Soil (feat. GNOME) by Dirty Bird 13 from Girl With The Knife EP (BY-NC-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or make a toxic meme with their name as the payload. 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: Club Metal 003 (MP3)

Open Metalcast: Club Metal 003 (OGG)

This episode was recorded live in front of participants at Penguicon 2011 that came to my Podcasting 101 panel. Thank you to everyone who came out to the panel, and watched me put this episode together! You all rock!

• Beyond Perception by Empyreon from NYC Sucks, Volume 2 (BY-NC-ND)
• World Extinction by Extinctionist from All Flesh Must Be Eaten (BY-NC-ND)
• Raise The Dead by Theorized from False Hope Of Tyranny (BY-NC-SA)
• In a deep silence by Embrace my Ruin from A lullaby for a dying man (BY-NC-SA)
• Asphalt by Ghostlimb from Infrastructure (BY)
• Creature Of Night by Dark Eternity from The Last Way To The End (BY-SA)
• I am Your New God by Systematic Sickness Kin from Systematic Sickness Kin (BY-NC-SA)
• Cthulhu Fhtagn by Throng of Shoggoths from Nauseated and Terrified for the Future Demo (BY-NC-ND)

Update: Special thanks to Doug from Music Manumit for the pointer to the NYC Sucks Vol 2 album!

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or do an interpretive dance on the plight of humanity to their music.

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

Open Metalcast Episode 020 (MP3)

Open Metalcast Episode 020 (OGG)

Synthetic perfection for the discriminating transhumanist.

• Paralyzed by Invalid Love from Liquid Time Zero (BY-SA)
• Wake up Sleeper (Bad Dreams Never End Remix) by One Dice from Wake up Sleeper (BY-NC-SA)
• planet terror by PIKOL from Moutons de panurge (BY-SA)
• The Man Who Believed To Be Free by Ostenvegr's Travel from Brainsick World (BY-NC-SA)
• Rapid I Movement (featuring Bless 1) by Micronaut from Callisto (BY-SAMPLING+)
• Gametime (davaNtage Remix) by e:o:nity from Paranoid (Limited Edition) (BY-NC-ND)
• Terrified by CrimsonFaced from Captain Freak (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or name your first terminator robot after them. 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 Club Metal 002 (MP3)

Open Metalcast Club Metal 002 (OGG)

Recently we got the chance to speak with Ben Sharp, aka Cloudkicker. Cloudkicker released their latest album "Beacons" in September of 2010, and it has become one of my favorite "Djent" albums. Ben and I talk about the origins of Cloudkicker, his take on the Djent label, and I learn the source of the titles on the album. If you enjoyed the music from Instrumetalcast #2, you'll definitely want to check this out!

Music in this episode:

• Hold On
• Push It Way Up
• Amy, I Love You

Here's the article I mentioned in the interview from Ask Earache about Djent, featuring Cloudkicker.

Open Metalcast Cloudkicker Interview (MP3)

Open Metalcast Cloudkicker Interview (OGG)

This episode brought to you by the atomic weight of potassium, found in rich supply in foods like parsley and bananas. That information brought to you by Wikipedia. You're welcome.

• Beyond The Depraved Scope Of Salvation by The Apocryphal Order from The Apocryphal Order (BY-SA)
• Simulating the Living by Castrensis from Brutal Discipline (BY)
• Good day to die remastered by Mass Murder Machine from Becoming the horror (BY-NC-ND)
• Ashes by empty look masses from Time of the whisperer (BY-NC-SA)
• Aliados by shaistrek from Revolucion y Metal (BY-SA)
• Dual God by Kaiowa from Subliminal Doctrine (BY-NC-SA)
• Thy Fall by Nameless from Thy Fall (BY-NC-SA)
• Fuck Morrisey, Fuck the Smiths, Fuck the Cure by Owen Hart from Earth Control (BY)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or play their music on your show for your local public access channel (party on, Wayne). 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 Episode 019 (MP3)

Open Metalcast Episode 019 (OGG)

Well hello there! It's been a while since I last wrote one of these, hasn't it? The good news is there's plenty of news and exciting events coming up for Open Metalcast, as well as some show updates.

• I'll be interviewing Cloudkicker this week, and hopefully releasing the results of that interview on Friday (that's the goal anyways). Cloudkicker, if you're not aware, is an amazing band hailing from Ohio, and in my mind is one of the foremost bands in the Djent scene. I'm really looking forward to this interview. If you have any questions you'd like asked during the interview, send me a note over at craig@openmetalcast.com.
• It seems you really like the instrumetalcasts and the Club Metal shows, so expect some more of those in the coming months.
• I'll be recording the 20th Open Metalcast in front of a live audience at Penguicon on April 30th, 2011 at 11am. As Greg Grossmeier put it so eloquently: "For those that do not yet know, Penguicon is a combination Free/Open Source conference plus Science Fiction convention. Not many other events can boast a past participant list that includes Cory Doctorow, Chris DiBona, Neil Gaiman, Jono Bacon, Jon “maddog” Hall, and Steve Jackson". If you're not already going to Penguicon, you'll need to at least register for a day-pass, which you can find on the registration link on the Penguicon Site.

Also, a quick program note: You guys ROCK! Thank you for all of the music suggestions, and conversations on identi.ca. If you haven't joined the Open Metalcast group in identi.ca, or friended the show on Jamendo, what are you waiting for? Check out the links in the sidebar, and be a part of the show! We love to hear from you!

That's all for now. Just finished up episode 19, and now it's time for the pre-flight verification.

Thanks for listening! \m/

Dipping more into the rock side of heavy metal with this episode:

• Awaiting for Chaos by Advent of Bedlam from Behold The Chaos (BY-SA)
• Going Slow by Gandhi's Gunn from Thirtyeahs (BY-NC-SA)
• Lemmy's Heart (bonus track) by Rebolt from Made In Spite EP (bonus edition) (BY-NC-SA)
• Watch the Burn by Sekshun 8 from Black Winged Butterfly (BY-SA)
• The Strongest Decides by RESILENCE from The Strongest Decides (BY-SA)
• Crawling Back in by Deathalizer from It Dwells Within (BY-NC-SA)
• Seagull Pain by Evil Country Jack from Jack's Country (BY-NC-SA)
• rock'n'roll hall of fame by pornophonique from 8-bit lagerfeuer (BY-NC-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or write their name in Round-Up on your lawn. 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 Episode 018 (MP3)

Open Metalcast Episode 018 (OGG)

Untouched by human hands for your listening pleasure.

• Play by Cyber Snake from Dolls & Lovers (BY-NC-SA)
• Alles ist gesagt (version 2007) by all:my:faults from neo.NøiR (BY-NC-SA)
• Discipline by Nine Inch Nails from The Slip (BY-NC-SA)
• Fragment by Virtual Victim from Transmission (BY-NC-SA)
• So Far (Luna Sequence Remix) by XXX Car Ride from The Wait is Over (BY-NC-SA)
• Kalt by Chronique from Lost Horizon (BY-SA)
• Nu Dead Pretty by Mach FoX from Nu Dead Pretty (BY-NC-ND)
• The Ultimate Bio Commando by Cibernetica from The Ultimate Bio Commando (BY-NC-SA)
• Кибернетичекая эра by Mirror Of Death from Кибернетичекая эра (BY-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or implant them into your biochip. 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 Club Metal #1 (MP3)

Open Metalcast Club Metal #1 (OGG)

No words, just music.

• Benediction by Sonorant from Sacrificial Soul EP (BY-SA)
• Goryo by Hand of Fatima from Obake (BY-NC-ND)
• New Cycle Day (bonus track) by Sequence The Silence from Bipolar Llama (BY-NC-ND)
• Push it way up! by Cloudkicker from Beacons (BY-NC-SA)
• IV: Of Spectres and Angels by Returning We Hear the Larks from Ypres (BY-SA)
• Mehari by Albatros from Pentadelia (BY-ND)
• Eyesland by 7BZH from The Sacrifice (added) (BY-NC-ND)

(UPDATE: One of the tracks from the previous version of the show was not CC-licensed. Updated the episode so now all tracks are CC-licensed. Thanks to Doug from The Music Manumit Podcast for letting me know!)

Special thanks to the Iron Thrones forums for pointers to some of the albums you're hearing in this podcast. (Check outthis thread here).

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or play them inside your local aquarium (Fish love djent). Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it!

(Also, check out Returning We Hear the Larks latest EP. It's not CC-licensed, but definitely give it a listen).

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

Open Metalcast Instrumetalcast Ep. 2 (MP3)

Open Metalcast Instrumetalcast Ep. 2 (OGG)

• Nobody's There by Commander Blop from Goldfish Memory (BY-NC-SA)
• Born into a Grave by Ceremony of Darkness from 13 (BY-NC-SA)
• Oaks by Aathma from The Call of Shivà (BY-NC-ND)
• In Search Of God by RENUEN from A Letter From Hell (By-SA)
• Straight Away by Beta Decay from Shadows in the night (BY-NC-SA)
• Dispuestos a Romper by Metal Slug Band from Metal Slug Band (BY-NC-ND)
• Fuerza Astur by Ness from Fiesta (BY-SA)

Special thanks to the Iron Thrones forums for some of the albums that will be coming your way! (Check out this thread here)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, head to the shows, or make a mashed potato sculpture of their latest album cover. 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 Ep 17 (MP3)

Open Metalcast Ep. 17 (OGG)