Forteresse

Track: Untitled V

Artist: Forteresse

Album: Par Hauts Bois et Vastes Plaines

Genre: Atmospheric/Ambient Black Metal Quebecois

Similar Artists: Walknut, Leucosis, Monarque, Burzum

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?4e6thv3x59hfvbf

Like their old material, but with the addition of ambient keys reminiscent of Burzum. Forteresse are certainly at the peak of the Canadian black metal scene.

Wolves In The Throne Room

Artist: Wolves In The Throne Room

Track: Astral Blood

Album: Celestial Lineage

Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal

Similar Artists: Leech, Skagos, Krallice

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?mdlr3vbdxrn1ydi

Grimoire

Track: Berisiel II
Artist: Grimoire
Album:À la lumière des cendres
Genre: Atmospheric black metal


Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?63avhbh3aek2vcj

More black metal from Québec! This band is the side project of Fiel, who is also in Forteresse and Csejthe.

Northaunt

Track: The Wilderness
Artist: Northaunt
Album:Horizons
Genre: Ambient/dark ambient
Similar Artists: Kammarheit, Gustaf Hildebrand

Download: pt 1 and pt 2

Perfect for chilling out to.

Thou

Track: I was Ignored, Judged, and Cast Down

Artist: Thou

Album: Tyrant

Genre: Sludge/Doom Metal

Similar Artists: Coffinworm, Graves at Sea, Asunder

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?31x7ic9qtmd

Thou are touring with Wolves In The Throne Room. The material they've put out this year is apparently quite impressive, and although I haven't checked it out yet, if it's anything like last year's Summit, then great things are expected.

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Track: Voices In The Wilderness

Album: Summit

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?mh3uj5tzu2l

Black Army Jacket

Dantam - Black Army Jacket by PeterAndersonn

Artists: Black Army Jacket

Track: Dantam

Album: The Path of Two Swords as One

Genre: Grindcore, Powerviolence

Similar Artists: Vile Intent, Man is The Bastard

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?mggog8j1zg4

Gorguts

Track: Nostalgia

Artist: Gorguts

Album: Obscura

Genre: Experimental Death Metal

Similar Artists: Ulcerate, Immolation, Baring Teeth

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?gi3olrmm5ay

I saw Gorguts. It was rad. Certainly the best death metal show I've seen in a good long while. The venue was tiny, and the crowd was comprised of a tiny but dedicated fan base.

Obscura is my favourite Gorguts album. I love the production, the odd & innovative guitar-work,the direction they decided to take the band at this point, and it features my favourite Canadian vocal performance. An obscure death metal classic-pun sort of intended.

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Demo Material is ace too. Gorguts may just be the most consistent band in the genre, and yes, I am including Immolation.

Track: . . .And Then Comes Lividity (intro) + Haematological Allergy

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?jtly44mz52d

listen to that intro

Dark Castle

Track: Awake in Sleep
Artist: Dark Castle
Album: Spirited Migration
Genre: Doom metal/Sludge
Similar Artists: Kongh, Cough, Samothrace

Download:http://www.mediafire.com/?hk2lnnjhhbm

The opening act for the YOB show. I really enjoy the vocals.

YOB

Track: Adrift in the Ocean
Artist: YOB
Album: Atma
Genre: Doom metal/Sludge
Similar Artists: Kongh, Cough, Zoroaster

Download:http://www.mediafire.com/?64adyyhf313oad1

Nww YOB album! Just saw them live about a week ago, amazing show. Never thought I'd see the day when I would experience a YOB show. Anyways, the new album is pretty good! The Unreal Never Lived still remains my favourite album of theirs.

Peste Noire

Track: J'avais rêvé du Nord (part 2)

Artist: Peste Noire

Album: L'Ordure à l'état Pur

Genre: Black Metal

Similar Artists: Mortifera, Mütiilation, Shining

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?dnr792wfjg2fc0h

As much as I hate to describe anything as "progressive", that's really the only term that springs to mind about the new Peste Noire record. Female vocals, and longer acoustic passages are melded quite expertly with the traditional Peste Noire formula of chilling black metal. With riffs and guitar hooks as memorable as ever, amid new additions not limited to industrial percussion and disco-beats, I seem to have found another contender for black metal album of the year. Yeah, it's that good. Hopefully the cleaner production wont frighten away the black metal militia.

Is it bad that I enjoy hearing more of the French language on this record?

Lethal Voltage

Track: Seeds of Evil

Artist: Lethal Voltage

Genre: Thrash Metal

Top-notch thrash metal from Toronto. Two shows in July and a demo coming out real soon, I believe.

http://www.myspace.com/lethalvoltage

Repugnant

Track: Premature Burial
Artist: Repugnant
Album: Epitome of Darkness
Genre: Death metal/Thrash metal
Similar artists: Dead Congregation

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?jaank5zn1mu


I've really been enjoying bands that incorporate thrash metal elements.

Hail of Bullets

Track: Ordered Eastward
Artist: Hail of Bullets
Album: ....Of Frost and War
Genre: Death metal/Thrash metal
Similar artists: Asphyx, Bolt Thrower

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?5iojwnl32z2


Featuring one of my favourite vocalists, Martin van Drunen. So good.

In Solitude

Track: Witches Sabbath
Artist: In Solitude
Album: Self-titled
Genre: Heavy metal
Similar artists: Cauldron

Download: https://rs469l36.rapidshare.com/#!download|469l3|221459122|In_Solitude_by_Dargor.rar|37198|R~B764E88305A6300ADC567FF3E63C1FEB


Still sharing some tracks from musicians I got to see at mdf. I don't usually listen to much 'heavy metal', but I really dig this album.

Kronos Quartet

Track: Gallop of a Thousand Horses
Artist: Kronos Quartet
Album: Caravan
Genre: Instrumental/Classical

Download:http://www.mediafire.com/?quud0zjgumm

I enjoy some classical music sometimes. This quartet plays songs that are very varied in sound, from different cultures. Really impressed by their live performance.

Acid Witch

Track: Witchblood Cult
Artist: Acid Witch
Album: Witchtanic Hellucinations
Genre: Doom metal/Death metal/Psychedelic

Download:http://www.mediafire.com/?zjrznxijkia

This album is kind of a bizarre listen.....but somehow enjoyable.

Inquisition

Track: Astral Path to Supreme Majesties
Artist: Inquisition
Album: Ominous Doctrines Of The Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Genre: Black metal
Similar Artists: Sargeist, Beherit

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?jq6l3614yb0c4k1

One of the bands I had the chance to see at mdf. I'll be posting a few tracks from bands I saw at the fest.

Anyways, Inquisition are one of those bands that you really should see live if you get the chance to. Their newest album is my favourite so far, so many good riffs. This album has been on replay for a bit now.

Dead Congregation

Track: Source of Fire
Artist: Dead Congregation
Album: Grave of the Archangels
Genre: Death metal
Similar Artists: Incantation, Grave Miasma

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?ymjwjmtnnx1

One of the bands I'm really anticipating at mdf....

Sortilegia

Track: White Bones, Black Blood
Artist: Sortilegia
Album: Pestilent Black Sorcery
Genre: Raw black metal
Similar Artists: Sylvus, Nidhoggr

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?1edx68utjuj3a0v

A local raw black metal band from Toronto featuring members of Sylvus and Thantifaxath. They'll be having their first show tomorrow night! Their first demo 'Pestilent Black Sorcery' will be released soon.

Ash Borer

Track: In the Midst of Life, We Are In Death
Artist: Ash Borer
Album: Self-titled
Genre: Atmospheric black metal
Similar Artists: Skagos, Panopticon

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?du851x4tap7fkzx

One of those bands I should have listened to way sooner.....really impressed with all this Cascadian black metal.