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)

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)

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)