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Genre: Rock: Alternative

A band like Coldplay need no introduction, but for those of you who have been living under a rock this past decade or so, I’ll make one anyway. Coldplay are a quartet from London, England that have release many popular hits such as Yellow, Clocks, The Scientist and more recently, Viva La Vida.

This time, Coldplay have decided to release a live album from their Viva La Vida tour. It consists of 9 tracks that all interlinked together with no gaps between them, creating an illusion that you yourself are actuall at the tour.

Most of the tracks are live versions of songs from Coldplay’s latest album Viva La Vida, with minor live alterations. Coldplay do play some of their other popular songs, such as Clocks and Fix You, and they include a song, Glass of Water, from their latest EP too.

This album is available for free from a link from Coldplay’s website at 192kbps. You’ll have to submit your e-mail and location, but that’s it. Get it while it lasts!

Genre: Metal: Stoner

Blind Dog are a Swedish trio that play stoner metal that have unfortunately broken up. The general groove of the music is actually very similar to hard rock.

They have released 2 albums, both under different record labels, but when in 2008 they decided to stop the band, they released one more album for free. That album is Captain Dog Logs Out.

My personal favourite songs are Keep Up The Gloss, which contains a very catchy guitar riff, as well as starting out with panning guitars. Sleeping Dogs starts out very heavy in the beginning, and contains a section of talk-box guitar towards the end of the song. Help You From Yourself is surprising since it sounds very bluesy, complete with clean guitars, piano organ and mellow vocals, and carrot at the end of the song.

The album can be downloaded from Blind Dog’s official site, both as a torrent or as mp3s, from this link.

Genre: New Age

The Kyoto Connection is electronic, New Age music with a difference; it has a certain Japanese feel in the music that really fits. The quartet have released 2 albums till now, both of them available on the Internet Archives.

The First Voyage has a strong New Age feel throughout the whole album. It is very calming and relaxing, and bands like these should have their albums listened to in their entirety, not as single songs. However, with that said, tracks of note include Fly and Loneliness Radar.

The Second Voyage is very similar to the first album; more calming electronic music with Japanese influences. Tracks of note on this album include Painting With Lights and The Prisoner.

Both albums may be downloaded from the Internet Archives by following the links below:

The First Voyage

The Second Voyage

Genre: Industrial, Punk

Hæckefløsse are German duo who started out by playing comedy punk. They quickly moved on to playing punk-influenced industrial, described as sounding like “a herd of mammoths”.

The album is released for free on Death to Music Productions, an antirecord label that offers releases for download. However, one may also download the release for the Internet Archives.

The music is heavy and thrashy. Hæckefløsse enjoy using samples in their music too, in fact their first song Who Am I opens with a sample from the Matrix. Tracks of note include Icons of Morality and The Decay of a 21st Century Ghostbuster.

The album may be downloaded from the following link.

Genre: Darkwave

Vernian Process is a musical collective led by Joshua Pfeiffer, who apparently seems to be so interested in steampunk that he made music for it. The results are amazing; brooding, haunting steampunk darkwave music.

There are four albums available for free download from the official website; they’ve been free to download since May 2007. The first one, The Symphonic Collection, is simply covers of songs in a symphonic style, mainly classical music, but there are some other songs too. Catalysts also contains cover songs, this time of popular songs associated with synthpop, industrial and gothic music.

The place where Pfeiffer really shines however is in the albums Discovery and The Forgotten Age. These are albums made up of original music, and this I believe is true steampunk music. It is defined by its percussion, which sounds mechanical and rhythmic like a factory hard at work. The instrumental songs are best.

Tracks of note include Benedictus and The Elegance of Espionage from The Forgotten Age, and Ironworks from Discovery. These should be starting points to the rest of his tracks. The albums may be downloaded by following the links below.

The Symphonic Collection

Catalysts

The Forgotten Age

Discovery