Listening to metal on the net.

[evilnell]

I was wondering if any of you lovely peoples could help me out. I'm trapped in the capital city of dance music (Liverpool!), and as such I have limmited access to metal. Can any one let me know of any good websites where I can listen to samples of songs/albums by some metal bands? Ta.

 

[Nocturnal Emperor]

get kazza LITE p2p sharing software its great you can get a decent amount of metal. also for some mp3's go to century media's site www.centurymedia.com.

 

[no country for old wainds]

No, don't get Kazaa Lite, it doesn't have much of a selection. Get the UM hub on Direct Connect. Firstly download DC from http://gempond.com/odc/


Then connect to paladin.sublevels.net

 

[lord667]

Try www.mp3.com - they have a pretty big metal selection.

Kazaa is obviously changeable, you can only get what people are sharing...some days there'll be a load of underground metal fans online, other days it'll be swamped with shite. I'm on it right now, and there's 3.5 million users online sharing 687 million files...there must be something in there to tickle your fancy. Just remember not to download anything from any American majors, else you might get caught up in this P2P witch-hunt.

Check out band and label websites, they often have a few tasters available for download, as do e-commerce sites sometimes.

Get yourself on IRC chat. There are channels for sharing files via FTP, though some users have a "quota" whereby you get a certain number free, then you have to send them a file before you can get any more.

 

[Niklas]

mp3.com is good for smallish or unsigned bands, but is hard to find most things..
swedishmetal.net is a very good site, quite a few mp3's of larger bands and new and unsigned ones...
http://www.swedishmetal.net

 

[Niklas]

it auto-boots me off the direct connect thing saying sumthing is set at only 2 ratio or sumthing..

 

[no country for old wainds]

You need 2 or more slots open, you may only go into 5 hubs, you need 500mb of music.

 

[Opus(sy)2]

All of you download Soulseek (Slsk), its the BEST P2P ive ever found! www.slsk.org

 

[swizzlenuts]

Definatly go get DC its the best thing for metal... that palidens server has never let me down.... i always find what i want... kazaa light is good for popular metal...

 

[Thanatology Boy]

Ugh....fuck you guys suport ur bands u POS

 

[Niklas]

how do i open more ports?

 

[irishreaper]

I don't like taking the time to download crap, mainly because I don't get a good connection. So when I do listen to crap on the internet, I go to www.blackmetalradio.com

 

[nataservant]

www.MIRC.com MIRC is the shit!

 

[Xtreme987]

Okay these are 2 are actual online stores but they both usually have what metal I'm looking for with samples. I like Mymusic better myself. You might of heard of them already but here they are anyway:

http://www.mymusic.com

http://www.cdnow.com

 

[anonymousnick2001]

You can stream some good stuff from nuclearblast.de

 

[Disturbed4ntics]

Listen to some online radio stations.

http://shoutcast.com

 

[MightyDrynwhyl]

www.live365.com has a bunch of radio stations for all kinds of music, including underground metal

 

[MightyDrynwhyl]

i have DC but i always get disconnected from hubs, probably b/c i dont have a lot of songs. could any1 recommend any good hubs?

 

[None_So_Vile]

i just checked my kazaa shared folder, fuck me i have 4.12GB of stuff in there. There's 48 music videos and 418 songs...........sweet i think i'll be getting direct connect soon, even though it scares the shit out of me and the last time i downloaded it, i opened it and then saw the screen and hit the reset button on the computer.....................shutup

 

[hibernal_dream]

how do i open more ports?

You have to type /slots then the number of slots you want open, for example /slots 5. Seriously, theres not enough instruction for this thing, but its pretty good once you get it working.