Free download of Astrothrone's 'Space Carrier' EP

Here's something a little different from Astrothrone, a collaborative effort by Wayne Adams (Ladyscraper, Death Pedals) and Oliver Barrett (Petrels, Bleeding Heart Narrative). 

Actually this sounds a lot like local musician Yesterday's Pupil, so you should check him out too.

Second free Ladyscraper album for the year

Ladyscraper has released his second album for the year, entitled The Wizard, only a few weeks after we saw the release of The Witch. I haven't had a chance to listen/ download it yet, but I'll get round to it early next week. In the meantime you can get a free download of it below, and give it a listen. 

Let me know which tracks off The Wizard are your favourite in the comments section below.

--Update 24 April 2013--

So I've just finished listening to The Wizard, and it is one brutal album, picking up exactly where The Witch left off. Black Coffee sounds reminiscent of some of the work released by Sol Invicto, while tracks like Lock in killer and Integrity are pure chaos on the ears, with crazy driving beats being smashed out by drum machines. The stand out tracks for me are however Ted and Turricane, which are quite a deviation in sound from the rest of the album. Actually so is Electric blizzard, which establishes a good base for the dreamy grooves of Turricane to build upon. The Wizard Definitely worth a listen.

Introducing 'Mum & Dad'

You might have thought I was introducing you to my mum and dad, but I'm not. Mum & Dad is a collaborative project between electro/ grindcore musicians DJ Skull Vomit and Ladyscraper. the project has released two tracks via Soundcloud, both of which have been labelled as demos.

Traces of flight chugs along slowly as it unleashes doom/ drone metal guitar progressions, sporadic outbursts of frantic drum rolls, and hoarsely screamed vocals.

The guitar at the beginning of Icarus gives the listener the impression that it's heading in the same direction as the previous track. But as each instrument adds to the beat established by the bass and drums, Icarus begins to sound more and more as though it was written in Seattle during the early 90s. At times it even sounds like an out-take from a Nirvana jam session recorded on Kurt Cobain's tape deck.

These are two of the best sounding 'demo' versions of songs I've heard in recent times. It would be a pity if the final recorded versions of these tracks lose too much of the raw sound captured in these recordings. The Mum & Dad collaboration has a huge potential to release some powerful tunes.

New Ladyscraper album - Free download

Ladyscraper's new full album The Witch is available for free download via Grindcore Karaoke. The album is the first half of a two album release, with The Wizard set for a mid-April release on the Peace Off record label.

I've had the album on repeat for a number of days now, but haven't had the chance to sit and write a proper synopsis of the album. As it is, this post has remained in 'draft form' for quite a few days. My favourite tracks  at the moment are Lightbike, Interfection and Shaven haven. That said, the entire is pretty awesome, especially  if you're into 'noise' as my partner calls it.