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Sampler Attack!
I’ve already had two samplers this week (here and here), and guess what? I’ve got two more to share, plus updates on two previously featured samplers. Unfortunately, none of the samplers are completely Christian, but they do all have a couple of good songs each, so they’re still worth downloading.
First things first, hardcore is one genre that hasn’t shown up much on TFCMB lately, but that’s about to change, thanks to several of these samplers. First up, Hassle Records and Vagrant Records have joined forces to create a sampler that features, among quite a few mainstream bands, August Burns Red’s song “Meddler” and Thrice’s song “All the World Is Mad”.
Don’t freak out, August Burns Red is still signed to Solid State Records – I have from a reliable source that Hassle Records is just distributing ABR to the UK, and Solid State is still handling the US. Also, Thrice. I’m not sure about the rest of the band, but I know they’re lead singer Dustin Kensrue is, and from what I’ve seen a lot of their songs draw heavily from his faith, so I’ll leave it to your discretion whether to keep the song or not. Either way, you can download the sampler by signing up for Hassle & Vagrant’s mailing list. Check it out!
-Hassle/Vagrant’s Free Sampler-
Update: Bad news, despite my having signed up over a week ago, I still haven’t heard anything about it, so I’ve come to the conclusive that the Hassle/Vagrant sampler must not be available at present. 
Next up is an update on a post James did last July, on the Face the Change compilation. It’s mostly mainstream songs, but there are tracks from Emery, Anchor & Braille, and We Shot the Moon, and it turns out, contrary to what I thought at the time, the We Shot the Moon song included, “Sway Your Head”, is actually an exclusive acoustic version of the song – something I wish I had know before I deleted the song (and had to re-download the sampler). I’ve been on a We Shot the Moon kick lately, and I really didn’t want anyone to miss a chance to get the acoustic version free. 
Check James’s post for the details!
Now for another hardcore sampler, this time from Revolver Magazine. It’s 21 songs, most of which look pretty nasty, but, it also features free songs from Impending Doom, Corpus Christi, and For Today. Check it out below!
-Revolver Magazine’s Mayhem Metal Compilation-
Lastly, despite being rather old news, I’d like to point out that Equal Vision & Rise Record’s Jawsome Summer Sampler 08 is still available, and it features The Devil Wears Prada’s song “HTML Rulez D00d”. I’ve already posted about this once before, but it was a rather small mention in a big post, and I thought it deserved a bigger mention. I mean, it is free TDWP.
-The Jawsome Summer Sampler 08 on Equal Vision-
Actually, since I’m on the topic of samplers, hardcore, and The Devil Wears Prada, I’m going to take advantage of this opportunity to recommend another older sampler, from Rise Records, with some awesome songs from the aforementioned The Devil Wears Prada, plus Before Their Eyes and a sick rare song from Burden of a Day. Check it out!
Face The Change Compilation
Faceless International is organization that seeks to get people involved and to help defend the exploited faceless people all around the world. I’m keeping the description short because I want all of you to go look for yourself and learn more about them. I strongly encourage you to go to the website now.
To help raise awareness, Faceless is giving away a compilation which includes 21 artists, a few Christian ones like Emery, We Shot The Moon, and Anchor and Braille, which is a side project of Stephen Christian from Anberlin (he also co-founded Faceless). If any of the other artists are Christian artist, please tell me and I’ll add them to this list.
-Face the Change Compilation -
While this site is focused primarily on music, I love that we are sometimes given the opportunity to put the spotlight on an organization like this. So download the compilation, and enjoy the downloads, especially the Anchor and Braille song, but don’t forget to get involved in something and make a difference. It doesn’t have to be this or even have to be a charity.
Summer Festival Sampler 2009
Yes, you heard me right, yet another summer sampler from Tooth & Nail/BECrecordings/Solid State. This one might not be as big and make your head explode, but it still contains some good music. Also, many of these songs were already on the previous Sampler Matt posted just two days ago, but, this one does have a few songs that were not. Of the twelve songs, 7 of them are on the Fuel Sampler. Track listing:
- Emery – Cutthroat Collapse
- Thousand Foot Krutch – Bring Me To Life
- Kutless – The Rescue
- FM Static – Boy Moves to a New Town with Optimistic Outlook
- The Glorious Unseen – Hear Our Prayers
- Falling Up – Streams of Woe at Acheron
- KJ-52 – Wake Up
- Hawk Nelson – Lets Dance Dojo Dominating Remix by Jason Dunn
- Since October – Guilty
- August Burns Red – Thirty and Seven
- Seventh Day Slumber – Take Everything
- Children 18:3 – All My Balloons
Anyway, even if you did get the Fuel Sampler, the remaining five songs on the Summer Festival Sampler ‘09 make it all the worth while to download. Besides, what do you have to lose?
-Summer Festival Sampler 2009-
It also says that the ‘The Rescue’ is done by an artist called by the same name. However, when I downloaded it, it came out as Kutless. I haven’t heard of an artist by the name by ‘The Rescue’, so I believe it was just an error.
Fuel Returns (And Matt’s Head Explodes)
It’s true – Tooth & Nail and Solid State Records have let loose yet another unbelievably epic sampler to wreck musically chaos on the eardrums of fans everywhere. In fact, the only thing that could come close to touching this is the last Fuel sampler. The tracklist:
- Surrogate – “Exercise Machines”
- Living Sacrifice – “Overkill Exposure (Rough Mix)”
- Haste the Day – “68″
- As Cities Burn – “84′ Sheepdog”
- Children 18:3 – “All My Balloons”
- FM Static – “Boy Moves To A New Town With Optimistic Outlook”
- Thousand Foot Krutch – “Bring Me To Life”
- Emery – “Cutthroat Collapse”
- Ivoryline – “Days End”
- mewithoutYou – “Every Thought A Thought of You”
- The Crucified – “The Pit”
- MxPx – “Punk Rock Girl”
- The Ascendicate – “Scottish”
- Oh, Sleeper – “Son of the Morning”
- August Burns Red – “Thirty and Seven”
- Becoming The Archetype – “Dichotomy”
- Copeland – “The Grey Man”
- Hawk Nelson – “Let’s Dance (Dojo Dominating Remix)”
- Showbread – “Nothing Matters Anymore”
- MyChildren MyBride – “On The Wings of Integrity”
- Neon Horse – “Strange Town”
- Corey Crowder – “Look How Far We’ve Come”
- Trenches – “Sacrament”
- The Showdown – “[Achilles] The Backbreaker”
- And Then There Were None – “Reinventing Robert Cohn”
- Family Force 5 – “Fever”
- Jonezetta – “Sick In The Teeth”
- Since October – “Guilty”
- The Chariot – “Daggers”
- Underoath – “Desperate Times, Desperate Measures”
- Secret & Whisper – “Anchors (Acoustic)”
If that doesn’t get you pumped up for this, I don’t know what will. Well, besides the fact that the Showbread and Oh, Sleeper songs are brand new, never-before-heard. They aren’t even on MySpace yet. Extremely epic, and a must-have.
Of course, that’s not to say that it’s perfect. The cover art is a little creepy, and the website mentions a song from The Almost, which wasn’t in my .zip file. I won’t be surprised if there’s an update with the song in it soon enough. Even so, those are minor details. Get this, right, now. Seriously. Do it. Now:
-Tooth & Nail/Solid States’s Fuel Sampler-
Now that I’ve got that out of the way, I’m totally digging the Children 18:3, FM Static, and Ivoryline right now, great stuff, and I’m not nearly through the sampler yet. What are your favorite songs?
Brand New Tooth and Nail / Solid State Sampler
This could very well be the biggest news in free music since MyFreeMusicFriday.com shut down. Only this time, it’s good news.
Tooth and Nail and Solid State Records have teamed up again to create the ultimate free sampler once again. (The last one was the Hey! sampler, last year.) This time, it’s full of free new and unreleased songs from the latest and greatest artists on Tooth and Nail. To save time, I’ll just post the track listing. It speaks for itself.
- Children 18:3 – “LCM”
- The Classic Crime – “Abracadavers”
- Underoath – “In Regards To Myself (Live)”
- Capital Lights – “Outrage!”
- Ivoryline – “Be Still and Breathe”
- Sever Your Ties – “Captive”
- August Burns Reds – “Composure”
- Secret and Whisper – “XOXOXO”
- MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE – “HEADSHOT!”
- Oh, Sleeper – “Vices Like Vipers”
- Inhale Exhale – “I Needed A Spaceship (Instead I Got Problems)”
- Destroy the Runner – “Mr. & Mrs. Cuckoldom”
- Emery – “The Party Song”
- MxPx – “Shut It Down”
- The Becoming – “I Cry”
- Anberlin – “The Haunting”
- Demon Hunter – “Storm the Gates of Hell”
- Once Nothing – “The Dust of A Town”
- The Famine – “Scar the Earth”
- Advent – “Blackout”
- The Chariot – “And Shot Each Other”
- Soul Embraced – “Curtain of Deceit”
- Showbread – “The Pig”
- Search the City – “Son of a Gun”
- Family Force 5- “Fever”
- Run Kid Run – “Captives Come Home”
- Far-less – “A Toast To Bad Taste”
- Norma Jean – “Robots 3 Humans 0″
You can get all of the mp3s for free, in one .zip file, just by entering your name, email, and country of residence at the website. Tooth and Nail will them email you the link for the sampler.
Standout tracks are Anberlin’s “The Haunting”, which is a hauntingly beautiful Cities b-side, Capital Lights’ “Outrage!”, which is so unbelievable happy and catchy, it should be a controlled substance. Capital Lights is one of the best power-pop bands I’ve ever heard, and a must-hear for Hello Kelly and Eleventyseven fans.
For hardcore fans, “Vices Like Vipers” by new hardcore band Oh, Sleeper, is amazing. Tons of lyrical depth, plenty of screaming, eerie choruses, the works. And you can’t go wrong with Demon Hunter, Norma Jean, The Chariot, Inhale Exhale, and August Burns Red.
Actually, most of the songs on this are must-hear. Packed with new and old songs, this is one sampler you don’t want to miss. After all, it’s free!
3 Free Songs from Emery
Free music today from Emery. You can get three songs from the band, “Walls”, “The Ponytail Parade”, and “To Whom It May Concern”, for free from the band’s Purevolume profile.
The songs are all early ones, from Emery’s first album The Weak’s End. All three songs are definitely emo, with screams as a contrast force. The end result is passionate, tragic, rainy-day, tears-slowly-fall rock and roll.
"Under the Watchful Eyes Of T.J. Eckleburg" {And Other Weird Song Titles}
Here it is! The highly anticipated list of weird, strange, random, unusual, and wise, song titles. When I first announced this, I had no idea the response I would get. I also had no idea that such interesting titles existed. Therefore, without further ado, the moment you’ve been waiting for:
- Relient K – “Crayons Can Melt On Us For All I Care”
- Five Iron Frenzy – “At Least I’m Not Like All Those Other Old Guys”
- The Devil Wears Prada – “Reptar, King of the Ozone”
- Daniel Amos / The Swirling Eddies – “Donna Nietche And Her Super Race Of Kick-Boxing Uber Parrots”
- Daniel Amos / The Swirling Eddies – “Arthur Fhardy’s Yodeling Party”
- Five Iron Frenzy – “The Phantom Mullet”
- Search the City – “In This Scene You’re Just An Extra”
- Showbread – “I Had Music In My Heart, But Now My My Heart Is Broken”
- House Of Heroes – “You Are the Judas of The Cheerleading Squad”
- Relient K – “Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, And Things Like Chemistry”
- Underoath – “I Have Ten Friends and A Crowbar that Say You Ain’t Gonna Do, Jack”
- MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE – “A Bayonet Doesn’t Make You A Hero”
- Blue Cadet and the Brave December – “Brass Knuckles Won’t Do You Any Good In Soul To Soul Combat”
- The Devil Wears Prada – “Hey John, What’s Your Name Again”
- Send Out Scuds – “This is So Cliche That it Will Rot Your Teeth”
- Showbread – “Oh! Emetophobia”
- Underoath – “It’s Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door”
- The Almost – “They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So In A Song But Here I Go DEMO”
- Falling Up – “The Dark Side of Indoor Track Meets”
- Project 86 – “The Forces of Radio Have Dropped A Viper In The Rhythm Section”
- Emery – “You Think You’re Nickel Slick (But I Got Your Penny Change)”
- Rich Mullins – “Alrightokuhhuhamen”
- MxPx – “Another Song About T.V.”
- Five Iron Frenzy – “Wizard Needs Food, Badly”
- David Crowder*Band – “O God Where Are You Now (In Pickerel Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)”
- Anberlin – “A Heavy Hearted Work of Staggering Genius”
- Sullivan – “Under the Watchful Eyes Of T.J. Eckleburg”
- Anberlin – “There Is No Mathematics to Love and Loss”
- Showbread – “A Llama Eats a Giraffe (And Vice Versa)
- Nodes of Ranvier – “Nagheenanajar”
- Maylene And The Sons of Disaster – “Bang! The Witch Is Dead”
- Norma Jean – “I Used To Hate Cell Phones, Now I Hate Car Accidents”
- Demon Hunter – “Our Faces Fall Apart”
- Daniel Amos / The Swirling Eddies – “(Near Sighted Girl With Approaching) Tidal Wave”
- Daniel Amos / The Swirling Eddies – “(It’s The Eighties So Where’s Our) Rocket Pack”
- DC Talk – “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”
- Gwen Stacy – “What Will Happen If I Hit Enter?”
- The Chariot – “If Wishes Were Horses, More Beggars Would Ride Them”
- The Devil Wears Prada – “Swords, Dragons, and Diet Coke”
- The Devil Wears Prada – “This Song Is Called”
- The Chariot -
1. Back To Back
2. They Faced Each Other
3. They Drew Their Swords
4. And Shot Each Other
5. The Deaf Policemen
6. Heard This Noise
7. Then Came To Kill
8. The Two Dead Boys
9. Forgive Me Nashville
10. The Trumpet
And my two personal favorites:
- The Chariot – “Someday In The Event That Mankind Figures Out What It Is That This World Revolves Around, Thousands Of People Will Be Shocked And Perplexed To Find Out That It Was Not Them. Sometimes This Includes Me.”
- Gwen Stacy – “Hey God, This Song’s For You. I Hope You Like It.”
Pretty crazy, huh? Let me know what you’re favorites are by leaving a comment on this post.
One other thing, if you want to copy the list and use it on your blog, Myspace, Facebook, etc, go ahead. Spread the weirdness. All I ask is that you link back to The Free Christian Music Blog (http://www.thefreechristianmusicblog.com).
X2008 (With Free Music)
Spend all of your Christmas money yet? If you haven’t, I’ve got a way to make it go farther.
If you buy the first printing of X2008, the new Christian rock compilation, you could get a “New Rock Sampler”, with 15 new song, free with your purchase. (You can tell it’s the first version by looking for a little sticker on the packaging, say it’s got the sampler.)
The new rock sampler has some of newest and coolest bands and songs, including:
- Dizmas – “Play It Safe”
- Our Hearts Hero – “Tomorrow”
- Emery – “The Party Song”
- Mainstay – “Becoming Who You Are”
- Newworldson – “Working Man”
- Spoken – “History Erased”
- Project 86 – “Evil (A Chorus of Resistance)”
- The Send – “An Epiphany”
- A Dream Too Late – “14th and Knott”
- This Beautiful Republic – “Going Under”
- Ruth – “You Are”
- Wavorly – “Madmen”
- Stephanie Smith – “Superstar”
- Nevertheless – “Live Like We’re Alive”
- KJ-52 featuring Toby Morrel from Emery – “Wake Up”
To claim the music, you need to put the CD in your computer and visit the site listed on the card. They’ll ask you for a email address. Once you put that in, you can download all the songs.
The X2008 CD itself is a good collection of songs, not perfect (compilations never are), but worth the money in my opinion.
(or you could just buy it at your local Christian bookstore)
One Dark Summer
Another Tooth & Nail-Solid State Purevolume Sampler! This one is huge. 32+ different song by that many artists. It’s awesome. If you like rock (Thousand Foot Krutch, The Almost, Jonezetta), punk (fm Static, Hawk Nelson, Run Kid Run), and/or hardcore (Underoath, Emery, Destroy the Runner), you have got to check this out! I can guarantee that if you enjoy loud music, you will find something you can listen to on here.
Get all 32+ Songs at Purevolume here now!
Note: You do need to give your email address to get the sampler. It’s worth it.
Update: During a recent upgrade, Purevolume.com removed all of the free samplers from the website. Including this one. So I’m sorry to say it’s no longer available. However, if you looked through the archives here on The Free Christian Music Blog, you could probably find some music that is just as good. I know it’s not the same, but it’s the best I have to offer, so please accept my humble condolences.
Tooth & Nail Tour Digital Sampler – Free Music from Thousand Foot Krutch, Underoath, Anberlin
Tooth & Nail is one of my favorite record labels. And this is why: they understand the power of giving away music. If I took the time to add it up, I am sure I have found 4x as many T&N songs then all other labels combined. And have good stuff to give away too. They are the home to MxPx, Underoath, Anberlin, Emery, Spoken, and Thousand Foot Krutch, just to name a few. And this sampler has quite a few stand-out tracks from their best artists. Here’s the a few of the songs:
- Thousand Foot Krutch – Move
- Starflyer 59 – Good Sons
- Underoath – It’s Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door
- Anberlin – Paperthin Hymn
- Jonezetta – Welcome Home (Demo)
- Emery – Studying Politics
- The Fold – The Title Track
- The Classic Crime – The Fight
- Sullivan – Ten Ways to Impress
- Watashi Wa – All That I Can’t Keep
- And more…
The only downside is you need a Purevolume account. It’s not really that big a deal. You think of a username, they give you a password. I have only ever gotten four emails from them. One for confirmation, one with my user name and password, one because I forgot my password… You get the picture. It’s worth it, okay!
Get it here, here and here, and enjoy.
NOTE: The offer expires June 1st. It doesn’t specify what year, but, just hurry.
Update: Sadly, the sampler has been removed. The good news is there is still tons of other free downloads on the blog.
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