Want some irresistibly amazing free music? Here's the best news you'll hear in a while. Our favourite UK label Basick Records has been named “label of the month” by no less than Amazon.co.uk. That means for the entire month of November, you can get a ton of Basick releases at a specially discounted price - just £4.49 for albums and £1.99 for EPs.
But the best is yet to come (or this shouldn't be under Free Music Monday). The label is giving a 12 track sampler absolutely free! That includes Misery Signals, Circles, Skyharbor, No Consequence, Glass Cloud, Bear, The Algorithm, Uneven Structure, Aliases, Damned Spring Fragrantia, Dissipate and Chimp Spanner! That's a shit load of amazing free music! You still there? Click on that link!
Here's a new music video coming from down under! Australian progressive metal unit Circles have just released their brand new video clip for "Responses", a new single right up on the Basick Records YouTube Channel.
The band has just embarked on a huge European tour with The Dillinger Escape Plan to help support the release of their new album "Infinitas". It will be dropped very soon through the aforementioned, epic UK-based label Basick Records. It's one of those releases you shouldn't miss this year!
Check out the new video below and go pre-order your copy of the album now!
I'll be out of town until Wednesday but I didn't want to leave
The Circle Pit hanging. So here's something I set up last week to kill
all the memory left on your iPod.
THIS IS THE FREE MUSIC MARATHON!
We've
helped promote a lot of free music over time. This is the cream of the
crop. And it ranges from big bands to the deep underground. Click a
link, any link. You may just find a new favorite. No matter what, you'll
find free music and tunes available for the price of your choosing. All
of these artists deserve support, so don't be afraid to throw some
dollars if something really makes you happy.
This is the third lap of four. 25 links a day.
We'll officially be back in full operation on Wednesday.
The Australian progheads in Circles are finally ready for the release of their long-awaited debut full-length album, which has now been confirmed to drop on October 14th, 2013. The album will be called “Infinitas” and will be distributed world-wide by the UK-based label Basick Records. This is definitely one of the releases from the "djent" scene to keep an eye on for the current year.
The band has also announced they'll be on tour across Europe with nothing less than The Dillinger Escape Plan next October. They'll also be playing Euroblast Festival in Cologne on the second day (supporting The Ocean, Twelve Foot Ninja, The Algorithm and Ever Forthright).
The album follows their demo “Prelude”, their EP “The Compass” and their single “Eye Embended” released in 2011. The single “Another Me”, released in December 2012, will be featured in the album as well along with a song called “The Signal” featuring a cameo of Kin from Twelve Foot Ninja. You can now watch a teaser for “Infinitas”, listen to the single “As It Is Above” (available for a free download from Circle's Official Website) and check out the first two episodes of the track by track video series they're making for “Infinitas” presenting the first two songs in the track list: “Erased” and “On My Way”. More will come very soon!
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Tracklist:
1. Erased
2. On My Way
3. As It Is Above
4. So It Is Below
5. Another Me
6. Ground Shift
7. Responses
8. Visions
9. Radiant
10. Wheels In Motion
11. The Signal (ft. Kin / Twelve Foot Ninja)
12. Verum Infiniti
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AC/DC! Ok that's kinda obvious...oh gosh, we're here for an exploration! Give us something new! Ok...Australia definitely has a prestigious history when it comes to metal and hard rock. But in the last few years, from 2000 onward, a lot of new bands started to gaining worldwide exposure. Two big names, Airbourne and Wolfmother, picked up the heritage of AC/DC but Australia has recently developed a really fecund underground metal scene with a lot of talented bands emerging from every genre of modern metal. Let's try to make a small recap of the best things that this great nation has to offer to the world, since a lot of people don't even know that some of these bands are actually from another continent.
Let's start by taking a look at the local metalcore scene. The first huge name we all immediately think of is Byron Bay's Parkay Drive. This band definitely became one of the world's leading metalcore bands, especially in the wake of their last two albums "Deep Blue" (2010) and "Atlas" (2012).
A strong push to the Australian metalcore scene was also given by the local label We Are Unified which discovered almost all of the following metalcore bands, some of which also got signed by Roadrunner Records. For example, the party hardcore of Deez Nuts is currently enjoying huge success and it's taking them on tour all over the world. They have a new album coming out at the end of the month called "Bout It!" and it's looking to be a hit. Another band which is kicking ass world-wide is The Amity Affliction, recently signed by Roadrunner Records. Also Buried In Verona, who are currently on tour with Chelsea Grin, Attila, Betraying The Martyrs and Within The Ruins and will soon be trekking across Europe with Emmure and Obey The Brave too! Other bands like In Hearts Wake or Dream On Dreamer also have a good fan-base internationally and were both launched by We Are Unified.
There's plenty more to find if we talk about death-related genres. Thy Art Is Murder took the world by storm with their huge 2012 album "Hate", which led directly to their record deal with heavy metal giant Nuclear Blast Records who are now planning to re-release the album. Huge sounds, aggressive and groovy riffage, raw talent and creativity got this band to a really high level during the past few months. Now they even have a nomination as "best new band" at the Metal Hammer's Golden Gods Awards! A really important technical deathcore band is the amazing Signal The Firing Squad. They released a full-length album in 2012 too which was called "Abnegate". It was easily one of the best deathcore albums of the year. Should also mention Make Them Suffer, a young talented symphonic death metal band who's earning big time recognition everywhere thanks to their latest album, "Neverbloom". Psycroptic is another technical death metal band which is well known everywhere by now. They were also signed by Nuclear Blast Records and released a new album in 2012 called "The Inherited Repression". Last but not least you should really give a listen to Universum, a good melodic death metal band which had the honor of working with a lot of amazing guest musicians from bands like Soilwork, Scar Symmetry, Nightrage, MyGrain, and Mors Principium Est!
But some of the most intresting proposals are coming from the progressive scene. The "Toolish" progressive sound of Karnivool, for example, has earned them a ton of followers and the same thing is happening currently for the djent-influenced progressive metalcore band Northlane, which just released their new album "Singularity", brought to you by We Are Unified, again. But the greatness doesn't stop there. What about Dead Letter Circus and their amazing take on progressive rock? The incredible experimentation of Ne Obliviscaris? The sharp cyber-metal delivered by Synthetic Breed? ONAN's incredible guitar skills? The beautiful and symphonic-influenced instrumental soundscapes created by Bend The Sky? The high level music of Circles? The Schoenberg Automaton and their hyper-technical math metal? And there's even more! Halcyon, Memoirs, Escapist etc... Australia is STACKED.
It's safe to say there's a lot of amazing stuff coming out of Australia right now. So many that it looks impossible to make a complete recap of the awesome music you can find down under. So many that I'm sure I forgot someone. We couldn't provide music from every band for obvious reasons, but if you're interested in listening, go ahead and search The Circle Pit or on Youtube / music provider of your choosing. Great stuff \m/
Coming from down under, Circles are coming back strong following their impressive debut EP "The Compass". They just dropped a brand new single / music video for the track "Another Me" and it's just plain awesome. Highly recommended! Released by the legendary Basick Records, the single is being offered for a free download (Get on that while it lasts!) Grab it right here. Be sure to watch the music video below along with more goods from Circles and stay tuned for more!
Want some irresistibly amazing free music? Here's the best news you'll hear in a while. Our favourite UK label Basick Records has been named “label of the month” by no less than Amazon.co.uk. That means for the entire month of November, you can get a ton of Basick releases at a specially discounted price - just £4.49 for albums and £1.99 for EPs.
