On Friday, May 1st, Bandcamp has decided to not take their cut from all sales of music and merch on their platform in an effort to help support the many bands that are struggling right now due to coronavirus shut downs. Bands can’t tour nor can’t properly record so there’s been a big financial slow down for them, and many of them bought lots of merch to sell on tours and at festivals that just aren’t happening now. Anything you buy on Bandcamp will go straight to the artists without Bandcamp’s usual cut so if you’ve been meaning to buy something from a band, go ahead and do it May 1st. I’ve put together this lengthy list of suggestions completely made up of new material from around the world, country and even locals too, for those of you looking for some great new tunes to buy on Friday (or whenever really).
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death And Be Still
Tech death from New Zealand
Gloosh – Timewheel
Atmospheric black metal from Siberia
Yuri Gagarin – The Outskirts of Reality
Instrumental stoner metal from Sweden
Creative Waste – Condemned
Grindcore from Saudi Arabia
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Psychedelic black metal from Finland
Black Curse – Endless Wound
Death metal from Denver featuring members of Spectral Voice, Khemmis and Blood Incantation
Borracho with Jake Starr EP
Stoner metal from DC
Seasick Gladiator – The Hanged Man
Instrumental stoner/doom from Washington DC
dirt eater – Storm King Mountain
Stoner/sludge metal from Northern Virginia
Immiseration – Alienation of Humanity
Death metal from Baltimore
Ripped To Shreds – Luan
Death metal from San Jose
Reeking Aura – Beneath the Canopy of Compost
Death metal from NY/NJ
Live Burial – Unending Futility (Name Your Price)
Death/thrash from England
Ulthar – Providence Pre-Order
Black/death metal from the Bay Area
Wake – Devouring Ruin
Crusty black/death from Calgary
Internal Rot – Grieving Birth
Grindcore from Australia
Wvrm – Colony Collapse
Grindcore from South Carolina
Calligram – The Eye Is The First Circle
Crusty black metal from London
Spectral Lore & Mare Cognitum split Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
Black metal from Greece & Oregon, respectively
Путь (Pathway) – Холодная весна (Cold Spring) (Name Your Price)
Black metal with an accordian from Russia
This song was written about, and recorded during, COVID quarantine
Velnias – Scion of Aether
Cascadian style black metal from Colorado
errant – errant
Black/post metal solo debut from Rae Amitay, vocalist of Immortal Bird
Behold The Arctopus – Hapeleptic Overtrove Pre-Order
Instrumental tech/prog from New York City
Rotting Kingdom – A Deeper Shade Of Sorrow
Death/doom from Kentucky
Paradise Lost – Obsidian Pre-Order
Gothic doom metal from Halifax, England
Khemmis – Doomed Heavy Metal
2 covers, 1 original and 3 live tracks recorded Dec 28/29 of 2018 at Larimer Lounge in Denver
Doom metal from Denver
Inter Arma – Live at Club Congress (Name Your Price)
Recorded on 8/24/17 in Tuscon, Arizona
Post metal from Richmond
Orange Goblin – Rough & Ready, Live & Loud
Captured live at various shows between 2016 and 2019
Stoner doom metal from London
Pelican – Live at the Grog Shop
Recorded 9/15/19 in Cleveland
Instrumental post-metal from Chicago
Panopticon – Live Migration Pre-Order
Recorded 7/29/18 at Migration Fest in Pittsburgh
Appalachian black metal from Minnesota
Last but not least DC’s own No/Más is re-posting their debut EP for this one day only, then they’re taking it back down so if you want it get it on Friday! Details from the band here.
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