Here at the Open Metalcast Headquarters we're watching the final vestiges of summer come to a close as the chill of fall settles in. The crunch of leaves under foot greet us before the icy cold of winter stretches its fingers out to embrace us. And as anyone in wintery climates can tell you it's best to dress in layers for the cold. And what better way to layer up than with layers of Creative Commons Licensed Metal Music to warm your ears. We have an amazing show featuring Dark Devotion, Absolute Zero, Norilsk, Forge of Clouds, Wet Cactus, Opus of a Machine, The Capaces, and Kval. About the only thing that could make this show any better would be warm beverages, but until we figure out how to deliver those over the Internet we'll have to settle with what we have.

• (00:10) Loss by Dark Devotion from Loss (BY-NC-ND)
• (05:37) Mr. System by Absolute Zero from Torn (BY-ND)
• (10:27) No Sacred Ground by Norilsk from Weepers of the Land (BY-NC)
• (18:48) Mahakala by Forge of Clouds from Ordinary Death (BY-NC-SA)
• (24:56) Full Moon Over My Head by Wet Cactus from Dust, Hunger & Gloom (BY-NC-SA)
• (29:47) Up. Out. by Opus of a Machine from Stray Fire (BY-NC-ND)
• (36:24) Poison by The Capaces from Rawness (BY-NC)
• (41:10) Harhainen by Kval from Kval (BY-NC)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. 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 #183 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #183 (OGG)

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Here at the Open Metalcast Headquarters we mourn one of the great broadcasters in the Detroit-are. Chris Felcyn was a broadcaster on WRCJ FM (a classical and jazz radio station) and hosted a show called "The Well Tempered Wireless". He was very knowledgeable about classical music and was an excellent storyteller. His shows were part listening room, part conversation, and part storytelling.

We honor Chris Felcyn by dedicating this episode to him. He likely never heard a second of this podcast (his idea of heavy metal was Verdi's "Requiem"), but he help inspire this show. He will be missed.

This episode features music by Skyglow, Colosso, Signals From Saturn, Potmos Hetoimos, Chamber of Torture, SCALD, The Neptune Power Federation, and Neurotech.

• (00:12) Limitless Fog of Anguish by Skyglow from Thousand Years of Terror (BY)
• (06:14) Acid Rain by Colosso from None (BY-NC-ND)
• (11:03) Long / Division by Signals From Saturn from Continuance (BY-NC-ND)
• (16:32) III. The Silicon Mirror by Potmos Hetoimos from Vox Medusae (BY-NC)
• (22:57) Subjected to Disintegration by Chamber of Torture from Behead Before Interment (BY-SA)
• (26:02) Inside The Machine by SCALD from SCALD - BORN WITH TEETH (Demo 1997) (BY-NC-ND)
• (29:00) The Man From Tomorrow by The Neptune Power Federation from Lucifer's Universe (BY-ND)
• (34:25) Thoughts Become Air by Neurotech from The Catalyst (BY-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. 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 #182 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #182 (OGG)

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Here at Open Metalcast Headquarters we're nearing the end of summer and heading headlong into the most metal of seasons: Fall. Now you may say that Winter is the most metal of seasons, but I'd beg to differ with you. And because I'm doing the writing I get to say that it's Fall and there's very little you can do to dissuade me from this notion. What makes this season so metal? Other than leaves falling from trees, Halloween, and darkness falling ever sooner over the land I really can't think of much else. :) And we have an amazing collection of metal to lead you into fall. We have tracks from Muldjord, Petroglyphs, Colosso, Khayman, Angus Black, R.O.L.F., Maeth, and Oak Pantheon. So sit back, brew your favorite warm beverage and let the darkness fall over you.

• (00:11) My Heart and Soul at the Summit of the World by Muldjord from A Cascade of Eventualities (BY-SA)
• (04:20) Paralyzed by Petroglyphs from Ascension (BY-NC-ND)
• (07:16) Perennial by Colosso from Rebirth (BY-NC-SA)
• (10:45) Sunday Blues by Khayman from The Gentle Art of Self-Destruction (BY-NC-ND)
• (18:07) All the Sins by Angus Black from Angus Black (BY-NC-ND)
• (23:47) Materia Negra by R.O.L.F. from Taró de Muerto (BY-NC-ND)
• (31:37) Everything is an orchid, by Maeth from Whaling Village (BY-NC-SA)
• (43:16) Descend Into Winter by Oak Pantheon from From a Whisper (2018 Remaster) (BY-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. 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 #181 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #181 (OGG)

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One of the things that I really like about metal music is the variety of music in the genre. Sure there are purists out there who imprint on one record and expect everything else to sound like that one record, but there's a whole wide world of metal out there waiting to be explored. From the chromatic scales of the Middle-East to saxophones, keyboards, and folk instruments there's a broad range of things that metal will mix with (and mix well). This episode celebrates the wide world of metal with Creative Commons metal music from The Rinn, Avercage, Nuclear, Al-Namrood, Galaktik Cancer Squad, Hatalom, CABESTRO, and Woodscream. It's a veritable for the eclectic metal palette.

• (00:11) Forgotten Dream by The Rinn from Stories Of The Green Fairy (BY-NC-ND)
• (04:18) Bitter Dance by Avercage from Intense EP (BY-NC-SA)
• (07:52) F.P.S.C. (Filthy Politicians Sluts Corporation) by Nuclear from Ten Broken Codes (BY-ND)
• (11:17) Hayat Al Khlood by Al-Namrood from Ten Years of Resistance (BY-NC-ND)
• (18:01) Ethanol Nebula by Galaktik Cancer Squad from Ghost Light (BY-ND)
• (25:54) The Observer by Hatalom from Of Sorrow And Human Dust (BY)
• (29:22) La Santa Muerte by CABESTRO from ¿Crónica de Sucesos? (BY-NC-ND)
• (32:22) Witnesses of J by Woodscream from Octastorium (BY-NC-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. 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 #180 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #180 (OGG)

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At Open Metalcast Headquarters we take pride in putting together the finest Creative Commons Metal Music available. But sometimes an episode takes on a life of its own. What started off as a pretty straightforward episode suddenly took a few unexpected turns. Not only does this show feature new metal from the comfy realm of 2018 but it also features metal that was released between 1988 - 1990. That's like a century ago! We didn't even know they had the Creative Commons license back then (or even the Internet) but they managed to get it into our hot little hands by way of the Irish Metal Archive. How clever! In fact several of the releases range across the years. This episode features metal music from First Fragment, Vendetta Fucking Metal, Necrovile, Hitwood, tod., Human Pollution, Kekal, and MORAL CRUSADE. And rather than wait another 30 years for this music to arrive all you'll need to do is spend 40 minutes to enjoy it all. Cheaper than a road-trip and twice as fun. Hope you enjoy!

• (00:07) Obsolete Ascendancy by First Fragment from The Afterthought Ecstasy (BY-ND)
• (04:44) Hombre nuevo by Vendetta Fucking Metal from Inocencia Perdida (BY-NC-SA)
• (08:27) Rampage in the Crematorium by Necrovile from The Pungency of Carnage (BY-NC-ND)
• (12:20) My Path to Nowhere [feat. Carlos Timaure] by Hitwood from Detriti (BY-NC-ND)
• (17:08) Hogwash by tod. from Orange (BY-ND)
• (20:49) Ship of Fools by Human Pollution from Ort (BY-SA)
• (24:57) Violent Society by Kekal from 1000 Thoughts Of Violence (BY-NC-ND)
• (31:16) Act Of Violence (AAOV 1990) by MORAL CRUSADE from MORAL CRUSADE - DISCOGRAPHY (1988-1990) (BY-NC-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. 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 #179 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #179 (OGG)

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Here at the Open Metalcast headquarters were'coming up on the July 4th holiday. That can only mean one thing: a constant barrage of folks taking their hard-earned money and transforming it into displays of sound and color. That's all good for them but we prefer to celebrate freedom by taking our hard-earned cash and transforming it into displays of the most amazing Creative Commons metal music the net has to offer. Gathered in this episode are the likes of Beastmaker, Goddess Of Fate, Blot, Antisoph, VOR, filferro, BLACKWYCH, and GENTEMAYOR. And unlike a fireworks display you can re-play this again and again and even share it with your friends. Its 100% better to share than mosquito repellent and unlike that potato salad that's been out all afternoon it's only guaranteed to give you sick riffs, not sick... well, you get the idea.

• (00:10) Colors Of The Dark by Beastmaker from EP. 1 (BY-NC)
• (03:10) Demolition by Goddess Of Fate from A Reversal Civilization EP (BY-NC-ND)
• (04:35) Hate by Blot from Blot EP (BY-NC-ND)
• (09:19) Hypnoroom by Antisoph from Antisoph (BY-NC-ND)
• (13:27) Black Goat by VOR from Depravador (BY-NC-ND)
• (19:06) Light The Fuse by filferro from The Capaces - Rawness (BY-NC)
• (21:15) Out Of Control by BLACKWYCH from BLACKWYCH - OUT OF CONTROL (1986) (BY-NC-ND)
• (24:36) The Struggle: the Calf felt scared with his Emptiness by GENTEMAYOR from A Tragic Inter-Species Love Tale (BY-NC-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. 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 #178 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #178 (OGG)

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Sometimes I like taking the whole Open Metalcast headquarters music library and put it on shuffle mode. This morning I decided to record an episode completely made up of these tracks. The only rule was that it couldn't be something that I already played on the show (funnily enough one track didn't make the cut because of that reason). This episode features tracks from Lords of the Trident, Thicket, Raging Steel, Mindwarp, Vanagloria, Gangrel, Colossal Figures, Digger, Mental Waste, tao te kin, and Dr. Zilog. I'm a little worried that the forces of chaos are going to put me out of a job making these playlists. Perhaps the computers really are taking over.

• (00:35) Winds of the Storm by Lords of the Trident from Frostburn (BY-NC)
• (05:00) Colombian Necktie by Thicket from Origin (Single) (BY)
• (10:09) Altered Reality by Raging Steel from ST (BY-ND)
• (14:33) Adrenochrome by Mindwarp from Mindwarp EP (BY-NC-ND)
• (20:59) Resurgir by Vanagloria from Involución (BY-ND)
• (25:01) Terrorizer by Gangrel from Gangrel Strike EP (BY-ND)
• (28:28) Stone to Water by Colossal Figures from Clockwork Dilation (BY-NC-ND)
• (34:24) Digger - Evidence [2009] - Y.K.I.B. Klauz by Digger from Evidence... is written in the noizz - Full Album (BY-NC-SA)
• (39:10) Infection by Mental Waste from Meltdown (BY-NC-SA)
• (39:54) Fragil by tao te kin from Abada (BY-NC-ND)
• (47:05) The Speed of Bit by Dr. Zilog from Vulgar Fractions (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. 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 #177 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #177 (OGG)

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Here at the Open Metalcast Headquarters we're always acquiring Creative Commons metal music for the show. We carefully select the finest CC-licensed metal music and run it through a scientific process to ensure the best listening experience possible. And this show is no exception, featuring music from Cara Neir, Epiphany From The Abyss, Anvil of Doom, Altars of Grief, ctrlBrain, Force Events!, Pyrit, The Neptune Power Federation, and Fuzz Forward. And we can pretty much guarantee that a certain Redmond-based software company won't purchase us for \$7 billion any time soon so we'll continue to bring you the best CC-licensed metal music available.

• (00:11) Imperialist Design by Cara Neir from Stagnant Perceptions (BY-NC-ND)
• (04:56) Generation Of the Hopeless by Epiphany From The Abyss from Generation Of The Hopeless (BY-NC-ND)
• (09:58) Turn Your Back by Anvil of Doom from Turn Your Back EP (BY-NC-ND)
• (15:35) Her Shadow is the Night by Altars of Grief from This Shameful Burden (BY-NC)
• (22:12) Буря by ctrlBrain from Семь (BY-NC-SA)
• (24:47) Отрешение / Тонуть или плыть by Force Events! from Force Events! (BY-NC-ND)
• (28:29) Šina by Pyrit from Jazdec bez hlavy (BY-NC-SA)
• (31:00) Wizard Lovin' by The Neptune Power Federation from Mano A Satano (BY-NC)
• (34:44) Summertime Somersaults by FUZZ FORWARD from Out of Nowhere (BY-NC-ND)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. 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 #176 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #176 (OGG)

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Here at the Open Metalcast headquarters we're celebrating Memorial Day Weekend. It's a time of remembrance for those who fought for the freedoms that we in the USA enjoy. And one of those freedoms that I enjoy is sharing Creative Commons Metal Music with you. And this show is no different, with artists like Galactic Pegasus, Fountainhead, Necro-Cannibal Machinery, Terminal Man, Nolens, Crows, AgainstYouAll, and Die Leere im Kern deiner Hoffnung to bring the freedom of CC-Licensed music to your ears. And remember to support the bands in this show so they have the freedom to bring you more amazing music.

• (00:11) Volenti Non Fit Injuria by Galactic Pegasus from Dysphoria (BY-NC-SA)
• (03:47) 1. All Hail To Decay by Fountainhead from Fountainhead plays Despotic (BY-NC-ND)
• (06:16) Sacrament by Necro-Cannibal Machinery from Fractures (BY-SA)
• (12:46) El salto by Mosh from El filo (BY-NC-SA)
• (17:17) Diamonds by Terminal Man from Body of Crisis (BY-NC-ND)
• (20:50) #2 by Nolens from REJECT . SOMETHING (BY-NC-ND)
• (22:09) Reach by Crows from Carry This Flesh (BY-NC-ND)
• (25:06) Bringing You (Into My Chaos) by AgainstYouAll from None (BY-NC-ND)
• (30:31) Das Leben ist komplex by Die Leere im Kern deiner Hoffnung from Das Leben ist komplex und Entropie real (BY-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. 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 #175 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #175 (OGG)

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I've made it no secret that the hardest part of putting together these shows is coming up with new and interesting things to put at the top of the episode. I mean, with metal like Godless Truth, Spawn of Annihilation, Throne of Botis, Catalytic, NONE, Antimelodix, Demiurgo, and Illuminus it's hard to come up with the right words to describe such amazing metal. It's like these blurbs almost fade away into the background radiation of such amazing talent. But ramble on I must until I get to a point where I feel like stopping. Hey, here looks like a good spot.

• (00:10) Look Inside Your Pain by Godless Truth from Too Late to Stop My Hate (BY-NC-ND)
• (06:36) Power and Glory to the Reason by SPAWN OF ANNIHILATION from Inquisitor of Lies (BY-NC-ND)
• (13:27) Dismantled And Dissolved by Throne Of Botis from Hymns Of Homicide (BY-NC-SA)
• (16:53) God Complex by Catalytic from The Fall (Full Digital Album) (BY-NC-ND)
• (21:35) Bed the cold earth by NONE from Life has gone on long enough (BY-ND)
• (29:19) Пропаганда (Propaganda) by Antimelodix from Хаос РФ (Chaos RF) (BY-NC-SA)
• (34:05) Nadie a quien fallar by Demiurgo from La Virtud del Invitado (Capítulo 2) (BY-NC-ND)
• (39:27) Endless by Illuminus from Endless (BY-NC-SA)

Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. 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 #174 (MP3)

Open Metalcast #174 (OGG)

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