Free legal albums!

This is the kind of thing we need to post more of. I don’t know if it’s due to personal bias, but it just seems there isn’t so much good free and legal metal out there as there is of other genres.

I set out today to find some metal. Something great. I figured it may take a few listens to a few records before I found something worthwhile (because hey, I admit, there is a load of rubbish out there), but I was wrong! This was the first album I downloaded, and it instantly hit me as something I need to post here.

I’m not at all sure how to classify it. We’ve got death metal vocals, but we’ve got a lot of other elements in there and it certainly isn’t death metal. It’s very electronic, but I’d never call it ‘electronica’. If you like you’re music eclectic, you really need to give this a listen.

In the download, I’ve labelled it as gothic metal. It’s the closest I could get to a proper genre.

I have no information at all for you about this band. They are a side project of some other music project and are Russian. That’s the most I could get. I think in this case, the enigmatic quality adds to the feel of the music though, so I’m not complaining!

We’ve got a good deal of atmosphere in the music. Almost doomish at times, although not quite. The album isn’t particularly long, but it’s enthralling throughout, and varied. A few of the track could even get a non-metal fan interested for at least a few minutes (and that’s saying a lot!).

If you like your music traditional, or if you’re one of those metal fans who HATES electronic elements, this is not for you. I personally love it because it is so experimental. I honestly can’t tell if the lyrics are in English or Russian, but it doesn’t matter. Musically, this is excellent, and it’s professional-sounding enough to compete with anything else. I am not as into metal as I used to be, but I can still enjoy this record. It’s something you should certainly listen to, even if just for the sake of interest.

Hmm…Eclectek. First of all, sorry about the lack of posts recently! It’s been impossible to keep this thing running efficiently on my own with uni and work commitments piling up. I intend to try a little harder from now on. I should have a little free time for the next 1/2 weeks, so I’ll try to get a load of reviews done and slowly leak them out to you all over a certain time frame.

Now that that’s out of the way, I guess I should introduce you to this rather…interesting band!

Well, they’re French, though most their songs are in English. It’s pretty obvious they have a sense of humour, though to be honestly it’s infantile and far from witty. The humour is definitely NOT why I am posting this record here.

I’m posting it here because it’s interesting and pretty damn catchy. I’d very hard to put into a genre, but it’s kinda similar to Mindless Self Indulgence, except with a pretty strong hip-hop influence. It’s very dance-worthy, and I’m consider playing it at a party (if I was the time to throw parties, which I’m not). They have two other freely available records at the moment, though this one seems to be most popular. Tell me if you enjoy it and I’ll upload the others!

ODD.  Seriously odd. That’s the only way to describe this music. It’s a mixture of jazz and hardcore would you believe. When I first downloaded it I figured I’d find it to be shit, but I was intrigued enough to listen anyway, just to see if I could post something a little different. I’m glad I decided to do this, because it was so bizarrely enjoyable! It’s definitely not for everyone, because not everyone can appreciate a jazz/hardcore infusion with no real vocals, but there’s something about it…something smile-worthy. I can’t find out much about the band themselves unfortunately…I can’t even find out where they’re from. All I know is that they started out as a jazz band and progressed into what they are now later on.

It’s a short record (17 minutes) so I say give it a shot if you’re open-minded enough. It’s nice to experience new things, and this was a nice new thing to experience.