Trepanation - "Hideous Black Abyss"

Killer swift blast of black grindy crusty deathy goodness for that ass by way of Trepanation. Free and brutal, like we all should be.

Trepanation - "Hideous Black Abyss"

- DCKR

Word Of Unmaking / Grue - "Lo, the Curse of the World Cometh"

A single 16 minute track of absolute molasses like funeral doom from Word Of Unmaking along with with another 16 minutes of pretty alright black metal across 5 tracks courtesy of Grue on this split cassette release you can have for free digitally. Get murky.

Grue side
Word Of Unmaking side

- DCKR

Napalm Christ - "2013 Demo"

It's been a bit since I've posted here at Magicore, and this time around I bring you the first coming of Napalm Christ. Goatprayer is going to make this and some additional songs available for purchase on cassette, but being the good folks that they are - you can have these for free! Crusty deathy blacky metallic goodness that you need to bash your face off with.

Napalm Christ - "2013 Demo"

- DCKR

Light Bearer - "Silver Tongue"

If you're a fan of post-metal and post-hardcore, even if not a fan of those genre terms, then Light Bearer's new one entitled "Silver Tongue" should absolutely not be slept upon. Plain and simple. Huge walls of guitar and coarse vocals with a nice and varied backbone of drums, bass, and atmosphere. All executed superbly. From front to back, beginning to end, "Silver Tongue" tells a story successfully and expertly, as you would expect from this description of the band:

all encompassing DIY art, music and narrative project, based around a story written by their vocalist Alex, who drew influence from the writings of Philip Pullman’s "His Dark Materials" trilogy, John Milton’s "Paradise Lost", and the Book of Genesis.

With defined intros, segue ways, and outros, "Silver Tongue" is a heavy soundtrack to some more refined
creative outlets among the metal masses. Truly something to be experience from front to back in one sitting.

Light Bearer - "Silver Tongue"

- DCKR

Heartless - "Certain Death"

I was fortunate enough to win a prize pack of this release on clear, black, and test press 7" and am thrilled to let you all know you can have at least a digital version for free for yourself. You should throw them some dollars if you can, but throw some horns up to for nothing at bare minimum. Heartless on Halo Of Flies with some gnarly grindy hardcore shit that is angry and relentless. Fucking pummeling and brutal. Incredible.

Heartless - "Certain Death"

- DCKR

Outre - "Tranquility"

Awesome and fairly technical thrashy black metal from Russia courtesy of Outre. Kick ass riffs and chords, vocals are a nice breed of thrashy blackened death, and the drums are full of double kickdrum assaults under really rad fills, rolls, and cymbal workouts. Get it.

Outre - "Tranquility"

- DCKR

V/A - "Hell's Headbangers Compilation 6"

Hell's Headbangers is one of the best and most respected metal distros and labels out there. So, it goes without saying that you should pick up this free compilation from the crew. Hails!

V/A - "Hell's Headbangers Compilation 6"

- DCKR

Le Kraken - "Self Titled / Exalt"

Get you a couple of free releases from sludge / post-hardcore / etc powerhouse Le Kraken. Both their "Self-titled" and "Exalt" efforts are powerful and emotion filled varieties of crusty sludgy doom tinged post-hardcore that are sure to please.

Le Kraken - "Self-titled"
Le Kraken - "Exalt"

- DCKR

Dominium - "The Incursion"

A perfect hybrid of black and thrash metal varieties. Everything that rules from both subgenres, turned up and melting into one another. Simple as that. Listen.

Dominium - "The Incursion"

- DCKR

Chaoskorpse - "Chaoskorpse"

Heavy, noisy, oppressive blackened doom. Evil as fuck.

Chaoskorpse - "Chaoskorpse"

- DCKR

Jungbluth - "S/T Tape"

It's not in my nature to lie to the people about the music, so I'm not gonna start now. How I happened upon this release, I have no clue. What happens is, I spend about one night a week just downloading a shit ton of music from numerous and various sources, then I spend the following week (attempting to) going through it when I've time. This has left me with a HUGE (and ever increasing) folder of new music and an impossible way to discern where I got what from. So, when I cue something up, I give it a few minutes and either continue listening because I dig it or shitcan it because I don't. If I dig it, I go looking for more info to see if I can buy it, if I can post it, and in both cases I look for as much information about the artist and release as possible. Fun life, eh? And that's just what I do with my free time.

Anyhow, Jungbluth's self titled tape was something I happened upon and from about 3 seconds in knew that I was gonna love. I was right. When I went looking for info on these guys, I read a lot of reference to "screamo" as a genre - a genre that I 99.9% of the time cannot stand. Give it up for Jungbluth being part of the .01%! But, as you might expect from myself and Magicore, it's never that black and white. Jungbluth craft a ridiculous blend of, as mentioned, "screamo", but it is far beyond that. Oldschool punk rock, screamo, post/progressive metal tendencies, hardcore, and much more are all swirling in this sonic maelstrom - and this self title tape is hugely enjoyable and recommended if even a small fraction of anything mentioned thusfar is something you're even remotely into, guaranteed.

So. Go get a tape if you can. If not, definitely get a download.

Here.

Oyarsa - "Oyarsa"

Space. Destruction. Infinity. Doom. Beer.

Basically. That.

\m/

Oyarsa - "Oyarsa"

- DCKR

Ikkadian - "Of Alpha And Omega"

These motherfuckers know what the fuck is up! Blackened death metal in top form from Ikkadian. What's better is they are giving the shit away for free and have plenty of cool things to say in regards to doing so on their website - plus some cool shit to say about other stuff. Absolutely shredding guitars, a proper switch-off between supreme guttural vocals and more screamed types of black metal influenced growls, drums are top shelf as well. Cool video for the single off the album, to boot. This is just pure unadulterated ass kicking metal at its finest!

Ikkadian - "Of Alpha And Omega"

- DCKR

Zillah - "Substitute For A Catastrophe"

Crushing metallic goodness here from Zillah, who offers up their entire catalog for free on Bandcamp. "Substitute For Catastrophe", their most recent offering, is definitely my favorite. This shit is six years old now, but still sounds as devastating as the day it hit the streets. Equal parts death metal, hardcore, progressive metal, and math rock, this shit is just pulverizing  and essential listening for all metal aficionados out there. I love the sound of the drummers snare so much!

Zillah - "Substitute For A Catastrophe"

- DCKR

Syberia - "Drawing A Future"

I'll let you draw your own comparisons about "Drawing A Future" from instrumental post rock/metal outfit Syberia. It's quality musicianship and absolutely worth checking out if you're into progressive rock/metal and post rock/metal.

Syberia - "Drawing A Future"

- DCKR

Hand Of Taurus - "Hand Of Taurus"

Djent has really kind of gone the way of super/over produced music in a lot of cases, a general trend that I'm not terribly into for the most part. I still dig the purveyors and full bands that push the envelope with the sound, bands like Meshuggah or even After The Burial. Aside from the A.I.(d) stuff, the one man hyper produced djent band hasn't really done it for me. Hand Of Taurus kind of does it for me, though. At least enough so to bother posting it. Needless to say, if you're into super clean electronics infused metal music, you'll probably enjoy this.

From truly rockin' full on djent workouts to electronic back beat breakdowns, Hand Of Taurus does a pretty good job of crafting a story out of sound all on his own. The production is, super tight - bordering on overly so. However, there's a lot of great musicality to this album, the melody and atmosphere work is remarkable sound design and the electronic percussion work is a nice compliment. The metalic elements are pulled off nice and slick, though you can hear the electronic element throughout the entire release. It's kind of like if Dream Theatre were quite heavier and slightly groovier, while also being one individual with a computer instead of a full traditional band.

It's at least worth checking out if any of those things pique your interest, and absolutely worth doing so if that whole scene is your thing even in the slightest.

Hand Of Taurus - "Hand Of Taurus"

- DCKR

Abyss - "The Reins Of Horror"

 

Self described as "Recorded in DIY fashion in the jam room 2011", "Reins Of Horror" from the band Abyss is just some straight up super fuckin' rockin' death metal. No bullshit, no frills, proper death metal that leans more toward traditional heavy metal than full on death assault. Like I said, fuckin' rockin' death metal. Heavy death'n'roll, man. I immediately think of Entombed as a comparison, and that ain't a bad thing!

Abyss - "The Reins Of Horror"

- DCKR

A.I.(d.) - "Solar Feelings"

New album from one man experidjent in metal and glitch. When [tlr] first turned me onto A.I.(d.) I wasn't entirely sold. This album, however, seals the deal. For fans of all types of progressive music ranging from heavy metal, industrial, ambient, experimental, IDM, breakcore, and beyond. This is a work of futuristic metallic electronic art.

A.I.(d.) - "Solar Feelings"

Get the whole discog for free from A.I.(d.) on Facebook.

- DCKR

The Eye Unclouded - "Tongues Like Mazes"

Is it black metal? I suppose so. It's definitely "progressive metal", or whatever the kids are calling it, too. There's a good amount of that ambient/drone metal flavor, to be certain. There's no vocals, but really you don't need or even want any on this one. Progressive ambient post instrumental black technical metal? Ubetcha.

The Eye Unclouded - "Tongues Like Mazes"

- DCKR

SYPHLUST - "Fuck You Bruce Willis"

As if the dude behind James Doesn't Exist et al isn't prolific enough already, he basically finishes off and rounds out the band called Syphlust, cited as a guest on each individual track and the album as a whole. Following the trend of all Nikolai Gawin related output, this shit is incredible. He, along with two other rude dudes, craft some really over the top brutally awesome noisy grindy chaotic mathy hardcore. Check the shit out. I mean, if you think you can handle it, anyhow. Torn Flesh Records strikes again.

Syphlust - "Fuck You Bruce Willis"

- DCKR