Best Albums of the Year - Compilation album

The end of the year is nigh and as usual, people

are e-mailing me with begging messages - 

"Mr Tony, you is so wise and knowful and I is a

worthless download monkey .... pleeese tell me how shit

my life is and produce a list of wot was good and great this year"

Well my friends, I can do better than that - here is all the

very best music from 2013 as a free download album.

I would like to thank all the bands, band members and record

labels for giving permission for these tracks to be used.
You are all very cool fuckers. 

Feast your eyes on the music from bands that produced the
best albums of the year and made my brain explode, lose my shit
and jump up and down.

Bandcamp link and player after these covers:

The tracks have all come from the following albums:
click links for my reviews

A Storm Of Light - Nation To Flames
Review

Phantom Glue - A War of Light Cones
Review

Druid - The Cosmic Serpent
Review

11 Paraanoias - Superunnatural
Review

First Process Church Of Mars - 6 Leaves Left
Review

Black Plastic Caskets - S/T
Review

Black Capricorn - Born Under The Capricorn
Review

The Freeks - Full On
Review

Pyres - Year Of Sleep
Review

Cowards - Hoarder
Review

Burning Bright - Domesday
Review

Cult Of Occult - Hic Est Domus Diaboli
Review

Cultura Tres - Rezando Al Miedo
Review

Primitive Man - Scorn
Review

Domovoyd - Oh Sensibility
Review

Black Majic Acid - S/T
Review
Interview

Humanfly - Awesome Science
Review

Mountain Witch - Cold River
Review

Nonagon - The Last Hydronaut
Review

Death Mercedes - Sans Eclat
Review 

Zud - The Good, The Bad and The Damned
Review

Seremonia - Ihminen
Review

Rawhide - Murder One
Review

Integrity - Suicide Black Snake
Review

Thinning The Herd - Freedom From The Known
Review

Tyranny Is Tyranny - Let It Come From Whom It May
Review

Voodoo Mule - Voodoo Zoo
Review

Regulus - Titan Moon
Review of "The End" - this is a new track

New Tongues - We Are The Ones We
Have Been Waiting For
Review
Interview

Great Falls - Accidents Grotesque
Review

Void Of Sleep - Tales Between Reality
and Madness.
I fucked up and thought this was released at
the end of 2012 - of course, I was wrong!
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Domadora - Tibetan Monk
Review

Witch Ripper - S/T
Review

Tombstone - WhereThe Dead Belong
Review

Cloud Rat - Moksha
Review
 


The other bands that I wanted to go on but are on 
tour/busy/missed my emails were: 
Earthless/Windhand/Eygpt/Whores/American Sharks/Kvelertak

Please spread the fuck out of this album - 
let this wonderful underground music we all love get out there!

A389 Recordings free compilation

A389 Recordings come up with the goods via this magnificent
beast of a compilation. Feast your eyes on the bands below
and get downloading this free mother!

INTEGRITY: New Track Available Via Free Annual A389 Recordings Label Mixtape

Following recent A389 Recordings announcements on some of the label’s biggest priority titles to date -- including brand new LPs from INTEGRITY, FULL OF HELL and NOISEM -- today the label sets its ninth annual label mixtape/digital compilation loose upon the masses. The owners of Baltimore-based A389 have been offering similar free mixtapes every year since its’ foundation in 2004, utilizing it to unleash music from their most high-profile acts, as well as to shed some light on releases lying in the dark corners of their intense roster.

With a punishing forty tracks culled from an array of artists, the A389 Recordings Digital Mixtape MMXIII includes several brand new and exclusive new tracks, including the world’s first exposure to the highly anticipated upcoming LP from the almighty INTEGRITY, Suicide Black Snake, here releasing the monstrous track “Beasts As Gods.” An arsenal of others including EYEHATEGOD, IRON REAGAN, NOISEM, HOMEWRECKER, FULL OF HELL, WEEKEND NACHOS, SHIN TO SHIN, RINGWORM, SEVEN SISTERS OF SLEEP, LEFT FOR DEAD and more overthrow the nearly two hour-long beating, the entire collection mastered at Audiosiege by Brad Boatright (From Ashes Rise) and bearing original artwork by Joshy Brettell (Ilsa, Exosus). This newest installment boasts the best yet in this ongoing series, showcasing A389 as an extremely hard-working extreme D.I.Y. label which continues to expand its horde and further infiltrate the planet with prime hardcore and metal releases.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE A389 RECORDINGS DIGITAL MIXTAPE MMXIII FOR FREE RIGHT NOW!

A389 Recordings Digital Mixtape MMXIII Track Listing:

1. EYEHATEGOD "New Orleans Is The New Vietnam"

2. IRON REAGAN "Drop The Gun"

3. HOMEWRECKER "Chained Hanging Victim"

4. NO ONE SURVIVES "Fuckin' Pigs"

5. INTEGRITY "Beasts As Gods"

6. ILSA "Foreign Lander"

7. FULL OF HELL "Coven Of The Larynx"

8. NOISEM "Severed"

9. WEEKEND NACHOS "Watch You Suffer"

10. EMPIRE OF RATS "Untitled"

11. PICK YOUR SIDE "Bleeding Out"

12. GOD'S AMERICA "Fill The Cracks"

13. LIKE RATS "Red Dawn"

14. MOLOKEN "Casus"

15. THE GUILT OF... "Election Of The Severed Hand"

16. SEVEN SISTERS OF SLEEP “Ghost Plains”

17. YOUNG AND IN THE WAY "Psychopathy"

18. SICK FIX "Beyond The Map"

19. ANCIENT SHORES "Omen"

20. SHIN TO SHIN "Shin To Shin"

21. VILIPEND "Fool's Gold"

22. LEFT FOR DEAD "Kept In Line"

23. GEHENNA "Baptized In Fallout"

24. BLIND TO FAITH "Blood Like Water"

25. RINGWORM "Necropolis" (1991 Demo)

26. CYNARAE "Harbinger"

27. JARHEAD FERTILIZER "Drowning"

28. THE LOVE BELOW "Let Them Eat Shit"

29. EDDIE BROCK "Boys Of Summer"

30. COUNTDOWN TO OBLVION "Spray P.E.C."

31. UNHOLY MAJESTY "Night Of Lead"

32. CLASSHOLE "Full Of Hate"

33. OLD LINES "Temple"

34. CALM THE FIRE "Chce Mi Siê Wyæ"

35. ENFORCERS 'The End Is Near'

36. PHARAOH "Spared"

37. JUNIOR BRUCE "The Burden"

38. WITHDRAWAL "Guardian Angel"

39. NOTHING "The Rites Of Love And Death"

40. PLEASANT LIVING "Friday Night”

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Art As Catharsis - free doom & post-rock

Lachlan, the hardest working man in Australia, has

just given you the chance to get some more free music

from his label Art As Catharsis.

Dear Art As Catharsis pals, I come bearing gifts of new Australian music.

'Stargazing under Southern Skies' is a new, curated collection of Australian post, ambient and shoegaze music.

With sleepmakeswaves being nominated for an ARIA, you might think we've all been transported to Bizarro World. Or perhaps the movers and shakers are catching onto the fact that we've got more than our fair share of incredible bands here in Australia; and not all of them are soulless Indie cut-outs disinterestedly muttering lyrical abstractions.

Well, we Art As Catharsis have long known this. This year has seen a plethora of incredible releases from Australian groups; many of which have outperformed and out-delivered their international counterparts.

That's why we're very pleased to bring you our new compilation: Stargazing under Southern Skies; a specially curated selection of our favourite post, ambient and shoegaze artists.

Be dazzled by the virtuosity of Tangled Thoughts of Leaving, drift away on a wave of elation provided by sleepmakeswaves, survey the cinematic soundscapes of Dumbsaint, bask in the gorgeous melodies of Brian Campeau, and let Pirate do your physics homework. 

'Stargazing under Southern Skies' also features splendid sounds from We Lost The Sea (who are soon to release the best post-metal record of 2012), Melbourne post/prog veterans Mushroom Giant, Squat Club, Nuclear Summer, Solkyri, The Matador, Adrift for Days, Lander Configurations, race to your face, and Captain Kickass and the Awesomes.

It's a regular gangbang of underground Australian talent! And have we mentioned that it's absolutely FREE?! Go check it out, why don’t ya?

'Stargazing under Southern Skies' is our gift to you, because we love you almost as much as we love Australian music.

Please listen, share and enjoy. The future for Australian music is bright.

A re-release of Space Bong's droning doom epic 'The Death of Utopia'

Australia can boast some of the best doom bands in the world - and the South Australian sextet of Space Bong are no exception.

Infact, I make no qualms with saying that Space Bong are one of the rawest, heaviest, and above all believable doom bands on earth -- as every bit as dark as Sunn O))), Corruptedand Kharnate, and as aggressive as EyeHateGod and Corrupted.

Space Bong effectively triggered my love of droning, down-tempo music when I caught them at a live show in 2007. Here was a band that had completely mastered the art of the doom metal epic; and had the technical ability to back it up. Their aesthetic isn't for show, either; these guys truly feel the nihilistic despair and misanthropy so evident in their weighty sludge metal sounds.

I'd like to take the chance to share with you one of my favourite heavy albums of all time: Space Bong's droning doom epic 'The Death of Utopia'. Please download, share and enjoy.

Space are currently in the final stages of recording their new album 'Deadwood to Worms', which should be out on Art As Catharsis in early 2013.

Before we are all crushed by the inevitable awesomeness of that new album, be sure to acquaint yourself with 'The Death of Utopia': it is definitely a doom metal classic.

I hope you enjoy.

Long live Australian music