The Headbang Academy is giving its first lesson today.
Hello long haired fans of the Metal music genre. I always wanted to share bands I like with the masses and now I have the opportunity to do so. This sampler was created with the help of Flawz and Jesse from the RLSLOG forums, Darkje and of course myself. Our goal is to give you some new bands to listen to without having the hassle to browse e.g. MySpace for hours and listen to songs in a shitty quality 
. I can just speak for me in this part, but I do prefer scene when it comes to music, although there are also quite a few good “p2p” releases. So, the actual tracks on the sampler might be
- Scene RLS
- Self-Ripped
- P2P
We still added the release name in the nfo though, so you can grab the scene rls then 
Alright students, we have 12 tracks to work through, so lets get it on.
We will start with a nice CoB’ish sounding band, Made of Hate and move on to the well known Thrashers Testament. After these two “light” songs we get our first Technical Death Metal song called “Spheres of Madness” from our polish friends Decapitated. To calm down a bit, our forth track is some nice Power/Folk Metal from Elvenking, an Italian band I really enjoy. Now it’s time to create some ear damage, so As I Lay Dying, a famous Metalcore band instigates some harder growls, peaking in The Berzerker’s “Betrayal” – some wicked Industrial Death/Grind.
After that chaotic song we move to more Melodic styles of Metal, but Born of Osiris a Progressive Death/Metalcore group, give us their tunes in track 7 first. Now we switch to some Melodic Death/Power Metal as I said and back to Italy, where Raintime awaits. Moving forward to some more gentle sounds so we slow down to the voice of Kevin James LaBrie, the lead singer of the very famous Progressive Metal band Dream Theater. We still stay with a melodic sound now, but we pick um some speed, Hammerfall a Heavy/Power Metal band enlightens us with their anthem Hammerfall. We are almost at the end, just 2 tracks missing. Some oldskool Norwegian Black Metal by Immortal and our finisher Borthers in Arms by a finnish band: Northern Kings. A Heavy Metal group consisting of very famous musicians like Marco Hietala from Nightwish and Tony Kakko from Sonata Arctica.
Classes are over. Enjoy the rest of the day.
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Tracklist:
1. Fallout by “Made of Hate”
2. F.E.A.R. by “Testament”
3. Spheres Of Madness by “Decapitated (Pol)”
4. Trows Kind by “Elvenking”
5. Reinvention by “As I lay Dying”
6. Betrayal by “The Berzerker”
7. Bow Down by “Born of Osiris”
8. Rolling Chances by “Raintime”
9. Solitay Shell by “Dream Theater”
10. Hammerfall by “Hammerfall”
11. One By One by “Immortal”
12. Brothers In Arms by “Northern Kings“
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PLAYTIME: 56:03 mins
SIZE: 95 MB
Release name (This is no scene release): Headbang_Academy-Lesson_One-2008-RLSMETAL
Links: NFO, Rapidshare, NewTorrent
Comments(108)
Nice to see some metal on here!
I’ll be downloading this ASAP.
Keep it up. Metal is the way to go.
look for Biomenace, the album is Eternal Suffering
#2 you can try to contact one of the 2 guys on the forums
Yay
. Nice idea, thank you 
.
Nice!
DOWNLOAD IT NOW:
http://rapidshare.com/files/107141843/Headbang_Academy-Lesson_One-2008-RLSMETAL.rar
Nice post. Fans of folk influenced metal must check out Elvenking, although don’t bother getting their new album :p
Will take this.
Nice work, make some same genre cd’s, like metalcore/hardcore/death ect. style cd’s. I am always looking for new bands.
For the metal fans try out
Five finger death punch
A decent idea but how about keep it on topic i.e. scene releases rather than stuff you just happen to like.
nice release.
i’ll be sure to seed this for all the other metal fans on rlslog!
@11
I usually post new metal releases on this site, but the more known bands
great to see some metal on rlslog been a fan for the majority of my life.
people looking for new bands of particular genres such as
melo death
thrash
industrial
check out:
raunchy, eminence, synthetic breed (from aussie)
, mnemic, scarve, the arcane order, urkraft, witchery, threat signal and dagoba oh and mercenary 
\m/
I’m downloading, theres some bands in the pack i dont know
Ty for this songs
mnemic is very good – Illuminate is the best song from em
mnemic is over now though, new vocalist is crap
GRIND!!!!
yeah their first two albums are much better but i dont mind a couple songs from their new one like psykorgasm witch features carcass singer
For those who like the more melodic metal bands like Dream Theater and Hammerfall check out my buddy THE METAL MADMAN. Its a badass weekly radio show.
http://www.themetalmadman.com
-Lechery
\m/ aborted!! \m/
wow u just keep giving
ill seed for a few weeks once it actually downloads
nice post pal.
another reason to put my long hair in use
COOL……… keep up the good work
Headbang_Academy-Lesson_One-2008-RLSMETAL
http://rapidshare.com/files/107145678/Headbang_Academy-Lesson_One-2008-RLSMETAL.rar
Kick ass. Great idea, rlslog. LOOOOOONG LIVE TEH METAL.
nice job rlslog finally some metal in this parts! keep up the good job !
@ 22
i’m getting 200kb/s down
*scratches head*
Great initiative! Will be interresting to see what you guys dish up…
how cool is this!! what better way to promote new bandz then ad on RLSLOG!
this shows that the so called “pirates” are indeed doing what they say and i bet this unknown bands just got u bunch of new fans all over the world!
Keep em comming guys
yeah!! TY!
Cheers for some new tracks with some oldies-but-goodies!
R.I.P. Vitek.(Decapitated)
nice idea!
waiting for the next lesson >:-D
Nice idea and post, it’s good to hear a variety of different metal genre bands. Hopefully the second lesson will be soon enough!
http://www.myspace.com/themetalmadman
Excalion-The Wingman
cool track man …very good one
thx RLSLOG for this post ..i love you …
good job with this site Martin
Finally some good metal on the site Next we need some All That Remaims
Thank you for taking my advice into consideration!
nice work.dude…thx rlslog…
Awesome!
A metal compilation without Opeth doesn’t sound right
Wicked post, imo death in fire by amon amarth deserves to be up there .
hey
we are not trying to make *ANY* compilation. our goal is to promote some more unknown stuff, together with known things. so if we would remove 2 of those unknown bands up there and replace them with amon amarth and opeth our intension would be lost. i hope you appreciate that
You could put a playlist file inside..
Thank you very much.
playlist file is inside
Great idea, Over.
Glad you guys are all digging it.
I’m trying to get an account for the forums but the email doesn’t seem to get through to me… not in the spam or anything… any ideas?
Kataklysm FTW!
as i lay dying \o/ please please more metalcore
more numetal crap :’(
kataklysm will have a new album out soon
http://www.kataklysmrocks.com/
Keep up the good work love expanding my music
Has the new Opeth leak yet ??
Though Dream Theater is the greatest band in the universe, you should have maybe put something from the Train of thought album on there for a metal compilation. If you want to hear real metal Dream Theater listen to As I Am, This Dying Soul, or Honor Thy Father, or just listen to all of it. I’m glad you added them to this compilation though, that Brother’s in arms cover was pretty neat.
Metal for life!
damn, this song from dream theater was on a lot of h2o installers
hey this is awesome …
if you really want to promote the underground metal scene and dig up some very good unheard talents then i know a band from myspace.
please check out NECROPOLIS from Bangladesh … i heard them last year. this band is awesome .. check out their demo on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/Necropolisbd
omg more rock and metal on this site i mean they post metal rock, pop, trance, drum and base but nothing like hardhouse, hardcore, psytrance, bounce, or anyfink like tat i mean theres plently of new releases of that type of music soo how comes it aint gettin posted on ere
Wacken Open Air been there
Good metal Realease how about adding some Iced Earth & Bling Gaurdian in the next one
clubbersam
its important that you know whats worthwhile to post, mp3s are preing in masses. I dont know anything about that type of music, so i wouldnt want to post a shitty dj or whatever and miss the good ones :/
Great idea! Nice to get exposed to some more lesser known bands like this. Keep it coming. Check out “Road to Valhalla” and more by friends: Integrated System of Machines
http://www.myspace.com/integratedsystemofmachines
Hey Over, pretty nice!
Salut.
those aren’t “lesser known” to many true metal fans. They are the pop of the ‘underground’. If you want underground, real, true stuff, check most of the nutso grindcore/brutal metal/Crustcore genre…use soulseek, alotta squatter friends that retired the road life use it now and ahve a good library of stuff they’ve seen at venues the world ’round…
at some point true @ m0.
but tbh. i dont want to promote crappy garage-band metal here aswell
Who is censoring this article?
where’s the trash? bring on megadeth anthrax, slayer and metallica (oooooooold metallica)
you guys should try to post some gwar vid torrents too
gwar is without a doubt the best live metal experience in the known universe!!!!
metallover also check out channel zero (rip) one of the best belgian/european metal bands ever!!!!!
megadeth rules
Awesome thanks, I’m looking forward to the next rls!
Megadeth \m/
Hey guys great posting idea. I’m a big fan of power metal so this is what I’m looking for. Nice
metal isn’t music so stop trying to make the music scene look bad
@72,
You may have attitude but you should go rent a clue…
We’re sorry if this stuff is far too complex for your puny brain(if you have one?)to handle.
I hear the White Stripes are in town…(Poser)
Megadeth is crap.
Nu- Metallica is great.
Make sure all you bootleggers from Napster buy our albums. Make sure you check out Mettalica.com for new material. We mixed blues with southen rock, its great.
METALLICA=MONEY!!!
My wife & I are huge fans of Metal! Any Children of Bodom fans around?
Excellent idea, great release! Can’t wait for the next release! Metal Forever… Thanks so much.
yeah I always said that rslog is the best, thanx
@ #75, Bozzi.
Yes.
http://www.adrive.com/public/9b418d51d178c840377c3de0d864117cf6ca740577f41e16c9c64a9575fd30c6.html
Metale do huty!
awesome, Over!
But there is new site that lets you upload your own playlist and share it, its really cool and simple. hxxp://www.muxtape.com
I have my own too
hxxp://atlas.muxtape.com
give it a try
yeah i can wait till the new placenta masterbator album comes out, or the new infected kidney puss leak single, its a kinda combination of slash/kill/going shopping for wigs/folk rock. yeah its basically depressing nonsense. rock on doooods like totally.
hello to all you metalheaded torrenters out there. nice to see some metal on the torrent scene. if i could perhaps i could implore you to check out my friend’s bands page and check out some of their music…im just trying to get them some publicity. hit me back with some comments if u want. myspace.com/theseventheye
*cough*JobForACowboy*cough*
Over, I put your compilation on my player and went mountain biking. Crashed into a tree. Thanks. Keep the tunes coming!
Whats the quality of the music? V0 or V2?
Thumbs effing up
NFO link not working.
You should do some podcast too tbh, I’m sure it’d be well received.
great post and good idea !!
atlas, 86
made my day
quality control, 87
it ranges from v2 through v0
Noctis, 89
its working
grimman, 90
hehe, yeah RLR, ReleaseLogRadio, streaming different kinds of music + spoken warez updates “okay”
Here’s two great rock bands: Clutch .and. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster.
I’ll check out this rls as well.
I love Lamp!
I have a problem with alot of metal; I like the instrumental part, but not the singing.
oakenshield ftw
Glad to see you guys enjoy it. If you want your metal band to be in the upcoming releases check the forum thread.
http://forums.rlslog.net/showthread.php?p=35265
hey,what abt SENTENCED from FINLAND?
@Over
What do you think about one metal compilation where bands sing in their native language. I cant find one decent metal band singing for example in spanish or italian. And i really could use another german singing band besides the obvious one
Infected Mushroom – Becoming Insane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6hL6fkJ1_k
Okay okay, thats more trance than metal but god damn i wanted to hear some hebrew metal after that video
Raintime was new to me and their song was great!
Btw, new Disturbed due next month ^^
And my contribution, some less known but still pretty damn good bands.
Scars of Life – Bullet With Your Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djf7Rxwproo
Scar Symmetry – The Illusionist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2LTaNb9zQQ
myGRAIN – Human Wasteland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPrcgZFEsdY
Emigrate – My World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qti_EuktXf8
Machinae Supremacy – Rise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa-awIpwWo0
Sentenced – Suicider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rWoxeopAa4&
@97
Try myGRAN, new finnish band…
i know:
Scar Symmetry
myGRAIN
Machinae Supremacy
Sentenced
if you want german metal, try
“die apokalyptischen reiter”
Keep it up, definitely looking forward to the next lesson!!!!!
awesome post — thanks for this — on a forum i regularly visit, they did a contest where people could enter their own mixtapes — we should do something like this on here, or on the rlslog forums for metal mixtapes
anyways… thought id throw out some good bands, that you guys might not know about — Five Finger Death Punch, Parkway Drive, Burn In Silence, Hemlock, Cavalera Conspiracy, Prayer For Cleansing….
Some awesome songs on there!
Some great new bands i can check out now
Thanks! And looking forward to the next one
=]
more doom/black metal needed. this pop metal stuff really grates.
I’m being schooled but I actually like the lesson. Great material guys!
When is the next lesson? Looking forward to it!
I’ll play this album in AudioSurf and see if I can get some globalscores.
Thank you for the music.
Just listened to the whole album and… IT’S AMAZING! Really great Metal music. I really like “spheres of madness”, great riffs!
Dream Theather, Hammerfall, Testament – ‘lesser known’?
WTF?!
Other than that, a nice rls.
its part of the concept to put in some big bands
so ppl will see, ah i like hammerfall, maybe i will also like elvenking… you know what i mean?
I caught a great fairly new band in concert last month on tour w/ CLUTCH [who need no introduction]:
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster.
Although the name may not impress listen to the tunes and you will be harkened back to the good ole days of swampy southern metal.
Check em out! @ http://www.myspace.com/mayleneandthesonsofdisaster