A new track from Síol Na Gréine is available online.
The track Rúndiamhair (“Mystery”) comes from the forthcoming album Adhradh (“Worship”): a quiet, meditative work designed to be spiritual music for a spiritless age.
Download Rúndiamhair Here

Or if for some reason you’d prefer: Listen here at Síol Na Gréine’s Myspace page.

Beithíoch ditches new album in favor of not polluting world with sub-standard music:
I’ve decided to scrap most of the material [ed. for the new album]. It was pretty much ready to go, but I don’t think its up to scratch any more.
Good enough by contemporary metal/music standards. But if we’re honest “good” nowadays doesn’t have [...]

Intricate, intense death metal from San Antonio, Texas. Just about the only exciting prospect in death metal these days.
Download MP3 of Abhorrent track “Metaphysical Tyranny”
Abhorrent are looking for a vocalist. If you think you’re up for it contact them here:
Abhorrent @ Myspace

Mushin are back with a new album, the follow up to last years Realm Of Corrosion, – available here as a free download. Building on the format of ROC1, ROC2 brings more detail and a stronger sense of movement/narrative to the pieces. A genuine improvement on its predecessor and a worthwhile addition to the genre.
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The downloadable version of Beithíoch’s Aisling Dhorcha has changed. The version that was on this site has been replaced with the newer remastered version of the album, albeit at a lower (but still listenable) bitrate.
For those of you who have the old mp3 version of the album its still worth downloading the new one [...]

German label Diveliz Rex are releasing Beithíoch’s second album Aisling Dhorcha on tape.
From their press promo:
After the already promising debut Díolaim, Beithíoch has made a big step forward and delivers the follow-up concept Cassette album Aisling Dhorcha via DIVELIZ REX. Aisling Dhorcha consists of nine fantastic Ambient Black Metal songs with Gaelic lyrics that drag [...]

HI.ARC.TOW presents the debut album of industrial techno project Mushin as a free Creative Commons download. Realm of Corrosion fleshes out a techno industrial sound world around a narrative structural skeleton akin to that of prog-ambient or metal. Accompanying visuals for the album have been provided by photographer and graphic/texture artist David Watts (whose homepage [...]

News from Beithíoch.
Alot of people I know will still be getting their heads around Aisling Dhorcha, for the rest of the world though I’m happy to announce that more Beithíoch is immanent.
“An Sealgaire” is a short-form work part of a two-album set. Its in the droney, ambient, instrumental metal format of pieces like “Battle Fury”, [...]

Beithíoch explains why their albums are free:
Alot of zines mistrust Beithíoch because the music is free. It pays to be wary of freebies. They’re usually either crap or have a catch (or both if you’re really lucky).
Beithíoch is different. For a genre oversaturated with bands, giving away an album for free is a shrewd move [...]

Inspired by a post at metal site hessian.org:
The use of motifs and leitmotifs is very frequent in the musical genres of classical and opera, but we can also find some examples of their use in that furious contemporary “classical” brand of sound making we known as heavy metal.
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Motifs have been used in metal music for [...]