10 Best Free Bandcamp Downloads #12: Orchestra Gold, Sadness, Lux, Pet Mosquito, LAPêCHE, Products Band

The 12th and latest installment of The Bad Penny‘s Bandcamp Freebie series features our strongest offering of free music to date. In addition to pay-what-you-want releases by a handful of artists that the site has featured (and thus recommended) in various posts, there’s only two singles among the bunch. The rest are full-lengths and short-players that the bands we’re featuring deserve hi-fives for posting for no cost on Bandcamp. So, without further ado, let’s dig in.

(Note: If you’re financially capable of supporting any of these artists and/or labels, please consider doing so.)

1. FesterDecay – Carcasses Revenge EP and FesterDecay DEMO

Bear with us here. Eleven years ago, FesterDecay formed in Japan with all but the stated purpose of re-creating gore-grind that all but mirrored Carcass – that bloody-good band’s 1988 debut, Reek of Putrefaction, in particular. In 2016, FesterDecay put out a self-titled demo; the year after that, the throwback trio tossed out its Carcasses Revenge EP (that’s right, no apostrophes in the first word … make of it what you will).

Ten years elapsed, at which point FesterDecay revisited much of the material from their first two releases, documented them as 2026 mastered versions, added in some new songs and live recordings and – viola! – issued From Demo to Rot in March. As it so happens, Relapse signed the band three months later.

Here’s where The Bad Penny comes in: FesterDecay is selling From Demo to Rot for 10 clams on Bandcamp, but those first two releases – which, again, contain many of the songs on the new compendium, even if they are a bit rougher-sounding – are still yours for the taking (i.e. gratis). Bonus: The Carcasses Revenge EP contains FesterDecay’s cover of Carcass’ “Reek of Putrefaction,” which does not appear on the new release that’s for sale.

Thank us later. Or now.

2. Pet Mosquito – Live at the Lamplighter Lounge EP and “Village Idiot” single

Carbondale Illinois’ Pet Mosquito – who terrifically, tongue-in-cheekily describe themselves as “thrift shop thrash, garage rock trash, graveyard smash” (music, we presume) – began a new tour yesterday. The jaunt is ostensibly in support of the band’s September 2004 EP, Pre Apocalypse Motorcylce [sic?] Music. But here’s one better: A live EP they issued the year before is on Pet Mosquito’s Bandcamp page for free. They play Denver tamarra, followed by Boise, Portland, Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Reno, Salt Lake City, Lawrence and St. Louis.

3. awakebutstillinbed’s fourwaysplit EP, hymnsforthescorned split EP and stay who you are EP

Also hitting the road are awakebutstillinbed, an emo punk squad playing PhoeniRx on Tuesday, San Diego on Wednesday, Los Angeles on Saturday and San Francisco the day after that. Here are three freebies from the sleepyheads, two of which feature other artists. They’re all worth a gander in our book, though if your wallet is as thin as hours and if you’re undecided about buying a ticket. Hey, this website is called The Bad Penny and not The Bad Trump Coin for a reason (but don’t tell us we didn’t warn you if the former appreciates while the latter depreciates during the tectonic plate apocalypse).

4. Feral Kids’ “No Walls” single

Finland’s Feral Kids – not to be confused with the Greek band of the same name – recently gifted The Bad Penny their first-ever video interview with an American music journalist. So we’d be remiss not to give them an encore appearance on this week’s installment of Bandcamp Freebies too. Almost three years old, Feral Kids’ first song – “No Walls” – is available gratis.

5. Arrows in Action’s Coasting EP

Arrows in Action know how to hustle. A mere two weeks after playing 33 gigs in 51 days with Boys Like Girls, the alt-rock trio from Nashville will continue preaching their gospel – I Think I’ve Heard This Before, which came out in April – by unflaggingly playing an additional 23 dates from mid-September to mid-October. If the below song hits the spot so much that you’d like to catch an Arrows in Action concert, chances are they’ll be playing somewhere near you.

6. Sadness and Lux’s Dusk Garden EP

Sadness’ installment in The Bad Penny‘s ongoing series On Tyranny is the most-viewed one yet among the roughly 125 video interviews we’ve posted. But if you still haven’t heard Damián Antón Ojeda’s solo blackgaze project, here’s the most convenient way you can do so. On the artist’s Bandcamp page is a split short-player, Dusk Garden, which Ojeda crafted with fellow post-black-metal alchemist Lux.

7. Lux’s Life Support

Sadness’ bud is even more generous with the amount of music he’s giving away gratis: As opposed to posting an EP at a pay-what-you-can price, Lux goes a step further by designating his Life Support full-length up for grabs. Listening to the forward-thinking approach Sadness and Lux are taking to what is often reduced to a convenient and accurate descriptor (“one-man black-metal project”), these mysterious guys are bound to surprise us in the future, due to their post-metal persuasion.

8. LAPêCHE – Spirit Bunnies Remixes EP

Returning to our On Tyranny series, the second most-popular edition belongs to Brooklyn indie-rock/post-rock purveyors LAPêCHE. The band’s catchy, addictive songs – matched with impressive intellect – help them stand out from the pack. In a statement accompanying this three-song item, LAPêCHE said “each track and accompanying art is contributed by some super-talented friends of the band, whom we love and admire.” (That includes Interpol drummer Samuel Fogarino.) Perusers of this release may want to take out their purse, even if the remixes release can be downloaded for free; proceeds go to:

www.blackfoodjustice.org
thelovelandfoundation.org
www.movement.vote/funds/big5/

9. Products Band’s “Winner,” “Y’All Tower,” “It’s Not True, It Works,” “You Bend the Light,” “Steady/Sugarless,” “I Think We Arrived,” “(On Top) a Y’all Tower of You” and “You Bend the Light (ts ramaswamy remix)” [sic]

Keeping the momentum going by revisiting bands The Bad Penny recently covered, we turn to Minneapolis art-rockers Products Band, whose drummer participated in The Bad Penny’s ongoing series, Pet Sounds, in February.) Signed to rad indie label Solid Brass, Product Band win this week’s generosity contest by making every single on their Bandcamp page free of charge.

10. Orchestra Gold’s The Gold Transmission — Vol. 1

Closing strong, we bring you the latest full-length by Orchestra Gold, another Bad Penny alum (frontman Erich Huffaker was one of the first participants in On Tyranny). Released less than one month ago, the world music crew describes this release as “a series of audio transmissions exploring how Orchestra Gold songs are made. This first volume begins at the source: demos, grooves, and the path from sketch to finished track.” Sounds like much more is to come.

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