Ok, so this is the final freebie for this week (our other freebies for this week are Ethernal, Tvangeste and Thorngoth), so I hope you’ve all got your clicking fingers poised – this is another good’un!
In case you’re not familiar with the concept of “Freebie of the Week”, here’s a brief explanation… Each week I go on a little hunt through the vast wastelands of the Internet in search of FREE and LEGAL downloads. So, all of the downloads featured here will be obtainable through trustworthy means… and they’ll be guilt-free. For example, I will only ever feature music available from official band websites, profiles (such as MySpace, Reverbnation or Facebook) and Last.fm (or equivalent).
Into the Nethermost have put up their entire entire “Once Upon the Graveyard” album for free download (or “name your price”). Grab it by using the widget below:
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INTO THE NETHERMOST is an attempt to escape from the abyssal tedium vitae of existence and explore the profoundest recesses of human nature through metal music in its varied forms, by mixing death, black metal and acoustic passages.
INTO THE NETHERMOST is the logical transmutation of the now extinct Dark Awake (1998-2009) taken to a profounder level of musical expression.
Former Dark Awake members Enryk, Scar and Nosfear decided to continue in their personal search for a release from tedium vitae through art.
The line-up would be eventually completed with Edgäar as second axeman Seiors as throatman.From the depths… beware of what lies in the NETHERMOST
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
INTO THE NETHERMOST 2012
Line-Up:
Enryk (Enryk Hidalgo) – Severe Strings
Scar (Òscar Ros) – Graven Depths & Deviant Apothegms
Nosfear (Ramón Clarà) – Sanguine Snares & Hammers
Edgäar (Edgar Valle) – Hellmouthed Chords
Seiors – Mischievous Throats
Links:
facebook.com/IntotheNethermost
intothenethermost.bandcamp.com
Yep, I know we’ve already had a freebie for this week (thanks to the generous guys in Thorngoth), but I’ve found a couple more for you. Hell, it’s a Bank Holiday. Let’s over-indulge!
In case you’re not familiar with the concept of “Freebie of the Week”, here’s a brief explanation… Each week I go on a little hunt through the vast wastelands of the Internet in search of FREE and LEGAL downloads. So, all of the downloads featured here will be obtainable through trustworthy means… and they’ll be guilt-free. For example, I will only ever feature music available from official band websites, profiles (such as MySpace, Reverbnation or Facebook) and Last.fm (or equivalent).
I stumbled across this tasty little morsel on Facebook… Tvangeste (I have NO idea how to pronounce that one!) have got TWO albums available for FREE DOWNLOAD. Brilliant! Information about the albums can be read below:
“Damnation of Regiomontum” – was released in Norway by Valgalder Records in 2000. The album consists of 6 tracks. Regiomontum – Mons Regius (Lat) = Mount Royal (Latin version of city of Konigsberg – capital of East Prussia)
“FireStorm” album was released by World Chaos productions in Japan in 2003 (September 1st). Contains 8 tracks. Baltic Symphonic Orchestra and Prussian Chamber choir members were involved.
All copyrights now belong to Tvangeste’s own label “Regiomontum productions”
CLICK HERE TO GRAB THE DOWNLOADS
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metal, symphonic metal, black metal, gothic metal
After releasing FireStorm Tvangeste attracted attention of Polish record label Metal Mind, who licensed the album for Poland and Germany. A big German promotion agencies were hired to do promotional work. One of the biggest Russian metal labels CD Maximum licensed FireStorm for Russian Federation, CIS countries and Baltic Countries. Canadian Neoblast Records released the FireStorm in April 2004. Brazilian Hellion Records licensed and released “FireStorm” in 2005. Tvangeste performed for the official soundtrack of Canadian horror movie “Sinners and Saints”. Tvangeste are known for adding full orchestras, opera singing, and long epic songs.
In 2005, Michael and Naturelle Chirva moved to Canada. They are currently working on Tvangeste’s 3rd album, tentatively titled “Satori”, to be released in 2013.
2009 – song “Birth of the Hero” from “FireStorm” album is a part of Brütal Legend (video game) soundtrack.
Line-Up:
Miron – vocals, guitars, orchestra arrangement
Naturelle – vocals, keyboards, orchestra arrangement
Former members
Nikolay Kazmin (guitar)
Victoria Koulbachnaya (keyboards)
Vanoe Mayoroff (guitar)
Max Naumoff (basses)
Cezar Mielko (drums) (Polish drummer from death metal band, Dominium)
Ekaterina (violins, orchestra arrangement)
Olaa (female vocals)
Baltic Symphony Orchestra
Prussian Chamber Choir (vocals)
In case you’re not familiar with the concept of “Freebie of the Week”, here’s a brief explanation… Each week I go on a little hunt through the vast wastelands of the Internet in search of FREE and LEGAL downloads. So, all of the downloads featured here will be obtainable through trustworthy means… and they’ll be guilt-free. For example, I will only ever feature music available from official band websites, profiles (such as MySpace, Reverbnation or Facebook) and Last.fm (or equivalent).
It’s no secret that I love a bit of Thorngoth. In fact, you can read about just how much I love their most recent album by clicking here. 
Anyway, the band are now giving away a freebie from their new album, “SCHWARZ-KARG-KALT”. Fans can get the song, “Todesschrei der Materie”, by giving the ‘like’ button on the band’s Facebook page a little click.
Interested? Just click here!
“SCHWARZ-KARG-KALT” will be released on 12th April 2013.
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THORNGOTH, which means “the horned enemy” in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Eldar language, was founded 2003 in Bad Tölz, Germany. Since their very first days the band stands for their style to play Black Metal of the second generation in a modern way.
The 2005 already published Demo “Sigillum” presented the evidence
By the 2007 via Northern Silence Productions released album “Thelema of Destruction” THORNGOTH …for the first time got more attention by a large public. The press as well as the fans were impressed by the impact of this album.
2008 the second album “Rauhnacht” followed. THORNGOTH demonstrated their ability to develop without abolishing proven methods.
On several gigs, e.g. the Under The Black Sun Festival 2009, THORNGOTH showed that they scores live as well as on their records.
In summer 2010 the third tonal sledgehammer, entitled “Leere”, was released. On this album the band is focusing their best abilities and sets the physical and emotional emptiness to music. Celebrated by the press as “atmospheric drumbeat”(Metal.de) “Leere” elates press as well as fans.
Line-Up:
Akhorahil: Vocals
Sorath: Rhythm & Lead Guitars
Vulgrim: Rhythm & Lead Guitars
Corpse: Bass
Grond: Battery
Links:
thorngoth.de
facebook.com/thorngoth
louciferspeaks.com/?s=thorngoth
This review has been a long time coming. I purchased this album through Bandcamp a couple of months ago (I seriously think that Bandcamp now owns my soul – or, at least, owns many shares in it) and it’s an album that I have constantly revisited since then. Today I’m in a writing mood, so you’re all going to hear about how much I love it.
I’m a massive fan of melodic Black Metal with strong, warm production (in fact, I’m also very fond of the raw stuff too… but that’s irrelevant in this review…). Stuff like Watain, Marduk, Dissection and Dark Funeral really gets my motor running. I could listen to those bands all day and sometimes I do. Anyway, I’m always looking for other bands to make me squeal with delight and my searches over the last couple of months have been incredibly successful – after all, it wasn’t too long ago that I stumbled across the rather splendid Legions of Hoar Frost – and now I can add Australia’s Erebus Enthroned to that list.
“Night’s Black Angel” is the band’s first full length and acts as the perfect introduction into the world of Erebus Enthroned. You could say that the melodic Black Metal contained within this album has been done before. You could argue that I could just stick to my Watain albums and forget Erebus Enthroned. I could do that. But I won’t.
You see, there’s something within these tracks that makes my hair stand on end and my excitement reach fever-pitch. It’s the same feeling I get when I listen to Watain or Secrets of the Moon. It’s that notion of being a part of some dark ceremony. This album has real depth – and I worry that it may be overlooked.
Erebus Enthroned are extremely good at what they do and I cannot find fault in their musicianship at all. The tracks, while at times predictable, are engaging and supremely addictive. When listening to this album, I feel like I’m on the cusp of something mind-blowing. Like I said before – “Night’s Black Angel” is the band’s debut – it’s a taste for things to come. It’s here to whet your appetite and, perhaps unsurprisingly from the general tone of this review, I’m salivating like a dog sat in front of a particularly juicy steak.
Tracks like “Horns of Severity” and “Black Winged” stand on their own as terrific tracks, and the atmosphere created in the album’s opener, “Enthroning the Harbringer of Death” is spot on.
Although the album is not perfect, it shows real potential. I can’t wait to hear what’s next. And, even though I do feel Erebus Enthroned can do better, I am completely obsessed with this album.
Check it out here:
Rating: 95%
facebook.com/Erebusenthroned
seancerecords.bandcamp.com/album/nights-black-angel
Sammath’s forthcoming album, “Godless Arrogance”, will be released later this year, but the band have decided to whet our appetites with one of the rawest, harshest, wonderful examples of how Black Metal should be played. The track, called “This World Must Burn”, can be streamed on YouTube.
“Godless Arrogance” will be Sammath’s 5th CD since 1994.
