Mordy's Metal Listening Club - New Albums Every Monday

anyway, I will make sure to post sunday nights (eastern time) next time to avoid anxiety for all our metal fiends. gotta get ready for work tomorrow. later!

thx 4 linx pfunk

oh i thought you wanted to wait a week as you werent ready, oh well.

aaaaaaah sorry

just re-read the thread and I can see why there was some confusion. my apologies.

I just felt like taylor swift and pfunk west was stealing my metal listening club thunder

no worries. its why a rota like in other clubs helps..

anyway look forward to what you all say about the albums.

Come My Fanatics... is my favorite Electric Wizard album. I know everybody reps for Dopethrone, but CMF just has better songs, and I like the somewhat cleaner, dubbier/more bass-heavy sound.

I've tried to get into Yob several times, and they never quite get a hook into me. I don't hate all doom, obviously; I love early Esoteric, for example. But Yob just makes me impatient. I don't know how to be more specific than that.

I've never listened to Slough Feg. Will seek that one out this week.

Surprised about that Phil, I thought you may have heard last years album , which finished in the ILM Metal top 15 I think.

First time I actually own all the picks. I'll relisten to them all before I comment.

haha, something I like that you like too finally!

jj can you update the thread title please?

Great choices! I own other albums by all three of these bands, but not any of the three selected!

Lee Dorrian told me that Come My Fanatics... is the one Rise Above release he's proudest of.

Down Among the Deadmen is a great choice! Wicked album, that one. Old school metal doesn't get much better than this.

Hurrah!

Come My Fanatics - not my go to Electric Wizard album (I love Witchcult Today), but I play it more than Dopethrone. Heavy as shit, but not overwhelming the way Dopethrone can be, as the riffs never disappear into a wall of rumbling bass. They definitely improved technically as they went on - the drums on this sometimes lose their way - but the overall sound of this just so, so good. Simple, and simply massive. I have a soft spot for the spacey, less crushing bits; "Ivixor B - Phase Inducer" is some great Hawkwind/Floyd tuned-down shit, and is a welcome breather when it comes on. Great way to start a week.

Does anyone have the addition with the additional bonus cuts ("Demon Lung" and"Return to the Son of Nothingness")? Do they make it feel too long?

I thought that was the version i didnt link to when i couldnt find the spotify

Well, I didn't need the link. What do you think of those tunes?

they aren't bad but they don't really jive with the rest of the album. like many bonus cuts, they're kind of an anti-climax. I never listen to em when I play the whole thing straight through.

Thanks Alan - that's what I figured.

The Lord Weird Slough Feg: so good, so good. Not quite sure how you like this and not the Manower, pfunk, as there is lots of classic power metal (and Manowar in particular) in Slough Feg's sound. Great riffs. I love how the start of the riff in "Warriors Dawn" (dun-dada-da-dun) is from Thin Lizzy's "Bad Reputation", but then they just extend it into crazyriffcentral John Cobett broke into some Lizzyisms when I saw Ludicra last month, too, and who wouldn't? The mix on this is wonderful - vocals are clear and understandable, but not as forward as is common in more traditional power metal. "Fergus Mac Roich" is my jam. A minute and a half of glory. Mike Scalzi's vocals don't really sound like anyone else, though when his voice starts to get ragged at the end of long vocal lines he veers into Mike Ness of Social Distortion territory.

Special shout-out to Erol Otus, cover artist and D&D god extraordinaire. If people want to know more about the band, check this out - Eclipsing a Vargr Moon, and then an interview of Mike Scalzi by the same folks - Release the Spores.

I see more early Maiden-isms in them rather than Manowar.

I wonder if for once Glenn will like one of my picks

this slough feg album is a blast! i had never really listened to them. definitely reminds me of a slightly heavier maiden and a vocal style i much prefer to that of manowar. so many catchy riffs!

Dunno for sure about "like" yet, but I'm on Lord Weird Slough Feg now, and after 9 songs don't see any reason I won't make it to the end. So that's something!

pfunk or anyone--are slough feg's records pretty consistent, quality-wise?

I would say so! The last one was a tad doomier(like dio sabbath doom)

I was expecting it to be way weirder though. And feggier.

Yeah, sounds very much like a rougher, less bombastic Iron Maiden. I enjoyed it. I'll probably play it again some time! I don't find myself immediately checking EM for the list of other albums of theirs I now need to download, but we'll see.

Not sure I'm going to make it through Electric Wizard. I already have the first Black Sabbath record, and I already don't listen to it much.

If you like Down Among the Deadmen be sure to check out Ape Uprising!, it's arguably their best album since that one.

I like them all, but that's not a bad one to go to next

bought entombed's wolverine blues today; thanking u metal listening thread

you're welcome!

jj can you update thread title if you're reading this please?

thanks mr/mrs mod

I wonder if the bands names ever put people off listening/buying/downloading?

Gave up on both Electric Wizard and YOB halfway through. No big surprise, I already knew both bands and found them uninteresting. And yet I like Sunn O))). I don't have a really systematic explanation of why I like some kinds of lumbering tedium and not others.

was it the vox that put you off? Many find the YOB vox a deal-breaker

Vox didn't help, but in both cases I found the music plodding and unfun, even before anybody started making any mouth noises...

I find the music fun myself, in that i enjoy listening to it, but ,y'know, doom isn't meant to = "fun".

I really liked the last Slough Feg record, so am looking forward to hearing this one. Come, My fanatics is one of a couple of Electric Wizard albums I've not heard, so also looking forward to that. Don't know YOB apart from all the ILM love they've been getting, so am interested to hear that one too.

Come My Fanatics is many Electric Wizard fans fave (cuz noone will admit Dopethrone is the fave as that's the crossover canonical choice non-elitists pick)

I really want to listen to these but am abroad w/ no time nor access to my songs at home, fuck it.

I thought a certain mod would have been on this thread saying how amazing the lord weird slough feg is

But he hasnt

Dopethrone is my favorite, follwed by the self-titled. I'm overdue for another listen though.

Catharsis is pure magic. Such a treat to hear them trot out Aeons in Europe.

Love Slough Feg live. I owe it to Scalzi to try harder with the recordings. I'm sure they'd click for me if I tried.

Stop picking all my friends Herman. That makes it hard ;)

not my fault mr namedropper!

come my fanatics sounds great--a lot closer to the dopethrone sound than some of their other records, which seem to lose a lot with cleaned-up sonics.

yob is predictably great too. i mean i knew i liked both these bands but it's always good to have a reason to dig into their back catalogues.

You dont need a reason!