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10 Best Free Bandcamp Downloads #17: Restless Spirit, Meltt, Florist, Nott, Délirant, Couch Slut Covers Fugazi

Posted in Lists, MP3s with tags , , , , , , , , on 07/24/2026 by Kurt Orzeck

Welcome to the 17th installment of The Bad Penny‘s Bandcamp Freebie series, in which we handpick our favorite free songs on the platform and dish them up for your consumption. Are we gonna get out of this thing alive, dear readers? Let’s not think of that, shall we, even though I just asked you.

Ladies and gentlemen, we entreat you with our latest batch of free music of the highest quality. (And the lowest price.) Not as many full-lengths time around as in recent editions past. But we think you’ll survive. All 10 titles featured here free. And yes, you ARE welcome.

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

1. Restless Spirit’s “Clarity,” 1922 EP, “Ripped From Me” and Harvest EP

Restless Spirit came through Boise last year and blasted the doors off the Shredder with the mighty Gozu. Desert rock, stoner metal, prog and psych rock … Restless Spirit touch almost all the heavy-music bases on the self-titled album they released last year through Magnetic Eye. As a way of congratulating them on their recent tour with another breakout band worth hobbing knobs with, Witch Ripper, find all the Restless Spirit goodies mentioned above at a pay-what-you-want rate on Bandcamp.

2. Meltt’s s/t EP

We’ve had lotsa fun with Meltt in recent years, chatting up Vancouver’s most dependable source of psych-rock before their Treefort Music Fest set in 2003 and gabbing with them about their favorite movies a few years later. Well, today we’re privileged to welcome them into yet another one of The Bad Penny‘s ongoing series, Bandcamp Freebies. Meltt have a formidable catalog; hear for yourself.

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Two Cent Review: Left to Die’s ‘Initium Mortis’

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags , on 07/23/2026 by Kurt Orzeck

In my first review for Bandcamp Daily, I argue that Left to Die’s Initium Mortis is a relentlessly punishing—and, naturally, relentlessly macabre—debut record. It’s the product of original Death members breathing new life into vintage songs by that band, which helped lay the groundwork for the bloody birth of death metal.

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New Releases 7.17.26: Loathe, Quicksand, Fuming Mouth, Boundaries, Left to Die, Tiger Bear Wolf, Secrecy, Emptiness

Posted in New Releases with tags , , , , , , on 07/17/2026 by Kurt Orzeck
Loathe

Joey Alexander – Celestial Keeper (Mack Avenue)
Baby Mel – Drought single (Capitol/Motown)
Banda AL9 – Hey! Hey! We’re Banda AL9 (Wicked Cool)
Taylor Bickett – Nothing I Can’t Undo (If This Then)
The Black Drumset – Friends in Dark Places (self-release)
Boundaries – Yearning: The unbeautiful after (Sumerian)
BTS – Normal (Korean version) single (BigHit)
Day We Ran – Naked at Your Door EP (AnnapurnA)
Emptiness – Nowhere Speaks (Season of Mist)
Brian Ennals & Blockhead – Boatshoes (Phantom Limb)
Fuming Mouth – The Ringing Bell (Triple B)

Presley Haile – Hamilton Honey: Part I EP (Columbia)
Infected Disarray – Redisseminating Obscenity (2026 Redux) (Unique Leader)
Iris Temple – Ghosts of the Future (Sooper)
Jodeci – Naked At Your Door EP (Retreat)
Larry June – Who Coppin (feat. Swizz Beats, Jhené Aiko, Musiq Soulchild) (Freeminded)
Kamal. – How the F*** Does Everybody Else Manage? (Def Jam)
Kennedys – Without Us single (self-release)
Lathums – Vice Versa single
Left to Die – Initium Mortis (Relapse)

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