I see my friends' band hasn't had a say in this thread. Well I might as well speak for 'em.

Iconic Vivisect - Brutal Death Metal from Melbourne, Australia
http://www.myspace.com/iconicvivisect

Both their promo and their demo are up for free:

http://www.mediafire.com/?l9rd766igkb7ovr
http://www.mediafire.com/?nqomltmlmyd

(Double Post)

Black/Death metal band Aurora Borealis (USA) have just released their new album "Timeline: The Begining and End of Everything" and can be downloaded for free here -

http://www.auroraborealis.org/html/news.html

http://kameaudio.com/_extinctionist/?page_id=35
Extinctionist; Brutal Death metal, Germany; 2007 demo

http://stretta.de.to/
Stretta - thrash from Germany.
They have all their discography available for download on their homepage.

Band: Tear It Down
Country: Czech Republic
Genre: Deathcore
Album: Perverse Enamel Of Society, EP 2011
Official website: http://bandzone.cz/tearitdown

Link for free download:
http://www.2shared.com/file/0XQDDVf3/Pe ... ciety.html?

http://www.jamendo.com/de/artist/Ritual_Of_Rebirth
Their new release is available for download ...

Orphaned Land's new album is available freely (it is band sanctioned, read the link) in select countries.

http://www.metalarmyinternational.com/

All music from my band Akelei is available as free downloads in high-quality formats.

Download links:

Promo '08: http://akelei.bandcamp.com/album/promo-08
Dwaaluur (2010 single): http://akelei.bandcamp.com/track/dwaaluur
De Zwaarte van het Doorstane (2010 debut album): http://akelei.bandcamp.com/album/de-zwa ... -doorstane

The End Records has a sampler out. New tracks from Anvil and November's Doom.

http://www.theendrecords.com/news/the-end-records-release-spring-11-sampler

http://castrensis.dk/
http://www.jamendo.com/de/artist/Castrensis
Brutal Death Metal -- Denmark

Thanks for the link I'm listening right now this is good.

Not sure if this has been mentioned here before, but Flotsam And Jetsam have quite a few releases for free download off their official site, including pre-production demos for "No Place For Disgrace" and "When The Storm Comes Down", unmastered tracks from "NPFD", unused tracks from "Drift", heaps of live gigs, and a demo from pre-F&J band The Dogz. They can all be downloaded at:

http://www.flotsam-and-jetsam.com/downl ... music.html

Wormrots latest album Dirge is available for download on the earache website for free!

http://www.earache.com/misc/downloads/wormrot/

Stormrider, The Blackened-Death metal band from sweden have two full-length albums downloadable for free, which are pretty good listens. You can find them through their website:

http://www.stormrider.se/

I expected to see them in the thread already, but ah well, this way I can feel like I've shared something.

CRAVEN IDOL - Ethereal Altars
http://www.mediafire.com/?4yckwynizmg
Black Thrash

My band, so have full rights to post the music etc

http://shardless.square7.ch/tpd/wordpress/
nearly all releases available for free

This argentinian band is called Wolfdusk. They're offering their two albums Down Of Christianity (2009) and Hollow Inside The Visions (2011) in an argentinean website called Taringa!.

In their first album, they play Orthodox Black Metal. In their second album they play Doom Metal.

http://www.taringa.net/posts/musica/9854247/Wolfdusk.html

Jute Gyte - Verstiegenheit is available here: http://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/ Experimental black metal with lots of unusual meters and harmonies. "Pay" $0.00 to get it, or any other album on the page, for free. If you review it I'll send you a physical copy (if you want one).

Brand new 5 track Enslaved EP entitled 'The Sleeping Gods' available here: http://preemtiv.com/emails/enslaved/
Band sanctioned, completely free; all it requires is your e-mail address. Enjoy!

I don't want to be useless and not post any links, but I feel I have to tell you that that material is fantastic - really original and it sounds great! Thanks for posting!

Undying "A Haunt Within The Mist" (2006)

Mystical, atmospheric black metal from the UK; 6 tracks, 45:25min. Free, or pay-what-you-want.

Acolyte's 'Leng' EP.
3 tracks of fantastic progressive black metal, very accomplished stuff. Get it for free, or pay whatever you want.

http://www.zerodegreemetal.com/downloads/zdEPK2011.zip
password is zd2010

by new and awesome melodic death metal band Zero Degree, its the official download for their album Surreal World

http://www.euphoreon.com

the band is giving their debut for free, but buy it and support them!

kings of technical thrash riffs-artillery from denmark thier third album by inheritence

thrash from finland antidote with thier early artillery influenced first album the truth

Are you sure those are band sanctioned? I check Artillery's website and couldn't find anything about By Inheritance being a free download.

I am in both of these bands. Full discographies available for both on Bandcamp.
Both bands interested in reviews for blogs or MA or even general comments if you have them (send pm). Physical copies are available through the bands.

http://odinfist.bandcamp.com/- Traditional Power / Thrash metal
Brand new EP "Come to the Walls" and three previous releases available for full download.

http://frosthammer.bandcamp.com/ - Symphonic Hipster Black Metal
All 5 demos including the two most recent: "The Cold Wind of Eternity" and "Nexus of Time"

Thanks to all who check it out!

A Death/Doom metal band called Toscrew has 2 of their releases up for free download from their bandcamp page

http://toscrew.bandcamp.com/

I recommended this. It rips!!!!

http://landforge.bandcamp.com/album/creation-cycle
Great doomy post-metal/rock. You can download it for free or pay any price you want.

Master's Curse-Hateful and RAW one-man Black Metal inspired by Veles,Belketre,Sargeist and Bilskirnir.Demo tape from last year has been uploaded (as well as our other demos) at www.ancienterror.blogspot.com.Side project of Apochryphal Revelation/Foreverdark.

Beyond Life (Pol) - "Wastelands" EP

www.mediafire.com/?1zhssxz4vkys0yb

http://artificialbrain.bandcamp.com/album/promo

All 3 tracks now available to download for free!!!

with members from Revocation, Cyanide Breed and BIOLiCH

please spread the virus!!!

Foul Body Autopsy
http://www.facebook.com/foulbodyautopsydeathmetal

The sole member, Tom, posted this link on his Facebook, free to download.

http://soundcloud.com/foulbodyautopsy/sets

Abhorrence (US) Death/Thrash from New York. One and only demo from 1991
http://www.smilingdeath.com/Abhorrence/

Grotesque Infection, Death metal (also) from New York, a band and release i mentioned not too long ago in the old school DM gems thread has their entire Consumption of Human feces demo at http://grindscore.com/grotesque/audio.htm

This is killer! Thanks for posting.

Pure pagan epic metal from Poland, legendary KELTHUZZAR
and our new record, sung entirely in ancient Polish
http://tiny.pl/hcxdf (rapidshare link)

crushing bass, epic melodies and choirs, total annihilation of those who don't believe in Perun...

Fuck, this shit is awesome. Are the lyrics pretty much about NS?