Mordy's Metal Listening Club - New Albums Every Monday

he wont like it if we have a poll to decide

Anyone else want pencilled in for a week then?

can i take 6/28?

No, but you can have 28/6 :)

24/5 Alan N
31/5 Nate Carson
7/6 EZ Snappin
14/6 Siegbran
21/6
28/6 Call All Destroyer

lol i knew you were gonna do that

I told you I would take a week. 6/21 is not a good week for it, though.

actually jeff we could switch if 6/28 worked for you

Probably works better for me.

cool

That's fucked up news about Smithy.

I guess I could take a week, but I've barely even had time to listen to anything.

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24/5 Alan N
31/5 Nate Carson
7/6 EZ Snappin
14/6 Siegbran
21/6 Call All Destroyer
28/6 jeff
05/7 aldo

that ok?

who else?

I can do one, I'm always reading this thread.

24/5 Alan N
31/5 Nate Carson
7/6 EZ Snappin
14/6 Siegbran
21/6 Call All Destroyer
28/6 jeff
05/7 aldo
12/7 A. Begrand.

Albums already selected

Week 1 By pfunkboy
Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun
Entombed - Wolverine Blues
Mastodon - Remission

Week 2 By Glenn
Fates Warning - Parallels
Cradle of Filth - Nymphetamine
HIM - Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice

Week 3 By Unperson
Amon Amarth, Versus the World
GridLink, Amber Gray
Manowar, Sign of the Hammer

Week 4 By Mordy
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Subway to Sally - Bannkreis
Skyclad - A Burnt Offering for the Bone Idol

Week 5 A Tribute To Ronnie James Dio (1942-2010)
Rainbow - Rising
Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
DIO - Holy Diver

Bonus Picks
Black Sabbath - mob rules
Dio - the last in line.

Latecomers, those behind schedule, all of us etc can all comment on any of these albums at any time.

Updated Spotify Club Playlist

Asked this in the RIP Dio thread but since y'all are listening to Holy Diver it's worth asking here:

I've obv been listening to a lot of Dio the past few days and honestly can't decide if Viv Campbell is an underrated monster or just a cut-rate randy rhoads. thoughts? is there any conventional wisdom on this?

man, this twitter hound business is messed-up. sorry, aerosmitty. no pressure for you to do a week but I'm sure everyone agrees that it would be cool.

psyched for the upcoming weeks!

http://www.poems.net.au/images/pink-floyd-the-wall-roger-waters-david-gilmore-roc1.jpg

HEY LURKERS, LEAVE OUR SMITHY ALONE!

it's ok let's not overstate the problem either like I said I don't want to make a big deal about it, just explaining myself is all.

Viv Campbell is fucking awesome & lends credence to the idea that RR wasn't a phenomenon so much as a particularly good exponent of a style that was kind of in the air among people who liked heavy music

anyone else listen to both holy diver and the last in line this week? curious which one y'all prefer.

I was already pretty familiar holy diver and had never listened to the last in line (outside a few cuts) before. not sure which one I'd give the edge. the highs seem higher on holy diver. "holy diver," "don't talk to strangers," "rainbow in the dark," and (motherfukkin') "stand up and shout" are all killer! but that could be familiarity speaking.

but on my first listen, I found the last in line to be a more consistent record. and the title cut may even be my favorite dio track of all.

the last in line seems to go a bit farther w/the pop hooks too. which, generally speaking, is what I want from dio (the band). listening again and I might give this one the edge.

I'm a last in line partisan particularly because of how incredible the title track is. that crashing opening (the vibe of which essentially invents Amon Amarth imo), the vocal performance Dio turns in, the melody of the bridge - and the note he hits on the "oh-ohhhh," not the 2nd longer note but the first one, it's a minor third I think but it's got a little note of dissonance - there's just such a feeling to that song. the kind of thing that makes you like horror movies & ray harryhausen. "we're off to the witch/we may never never never come home" is like a gauntlet-throwing song-opening lyrically, and then the song delivers. epic in feel, compact in construction. much of what's good about this style of music is present in that song. it is the full jam.

I mean really both amorphis and latter katatonia and opeth can all doff their caps to the last in line - it charts a course.

title track is really something. and "epic in feel, compact in construction" is EXACTLY why, yes.

p.s. is "I speed at night" basically a mash-up of "turn up the night" and "stand up and shout" or is it just me?

p.s.s. bass playing on mob rules is so cool.

some awkward wording on my part there, heh.

"one night in the city" ("one night lookin' pret-taaay") is ridiculous.

Holy Diver is the touchstone, but fwiw "The Last In Line" specifically is the one that has me wanting to pick up my guitar and break it down.

xpost thanks smitty for the addl info. i've been feelin' VC like crazy these past few days and i'm glad to know i'm not just a sucker ;-)

raises hand?

for what?

To make the devil sign, obv.

hmm

24/5 Alan N
31/5 Nate Carson
7/6 EZ Snappin
14/6 Siegbran
21/6 Call All Destroyer
28/6 jeff
05/7 aldo
12/7 A. Begrand.

alan you ready to go anytime after midnight UK time?

sure thing.

p.s.s. bass playing on mob rules is so cool.

^this and heaven and hell are geezer's greatest performances.

post away , alan!

alright, sorry death metal haters but seeing these guys in a few days so I can't resist.

Mordy's Metal Listening Club Volume #6: GORGUTS WEEK

pick #1
Gorguts - The Erosion Of Sanity
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VY34IZedpgQ/SGuhfE-yYMI/AAAAAAAAAFY/TyLkYTmqEvY/s400/Gorguts+the+erosion+of+sanity.jpg
might be your favorite gorguts record if you're into... thrash, old school death metal

pick #2
Gorguts - Obscura
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DA6F63mYW-Y/SsGF5L9R9BI/AAAAAAAAAsk/xwQTnAf-JsU/s400/46+-+obscura.jpg
might be your favorite gorguts record if you're into... noise, no wave

pick #3
Gorguts - From Wisdom To Hate
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_H9F1DlCd0bY/SLGEsGHKYqI/AAAAAAAAD0Y/qYi17V-nMOo/s400/Gorguts+-+From+Wisdom+To+Hate+-+Front.jpg
might be your favorite gorguts record if you're into... tech death, sludge

my fave death metal band. as I mentioned a few weeks ago upthread, I love how these are all very much death metal albums, all very much gorguts albums, and yet, none of them sound quite alike. and obscura is still radically different from any other death metal I've heard.

included my "might be your favorite..." notes to give an easy entry point to folks if they're unfamiliar. but I love hearing the way their songwriting progresses when I listen chronologically. these are all infinitely listenable albums to me.

oh shit he did it

gonna miss gorguts in my town :(

still thinkin' of goin' myself

never seen em live. I'm really excited.

This should be fun Alan - I've never heard a note from these guys before! I'm not a death metal guy.

awesome. hope you enjoy these!

x-post
I'm also v. curious if gorguts will be playing new material and what that might sound like. have purposely avoided info on da net but I do hope to hear something new.

also, for anyone into obscura, I'd highly recommend the self-titled ep luc lemay's negativa project put out in 2006. if anything, this ups the skronky noise factor. ferocious guitar often playing not so much riffs as controlled scrapes and gnashes. it's no obscura but I dig it quite a bit.

Back in the early 90s the band's name alone prevented me from taking them seriously. I know better now.

This should be fun Alan - I've never heard a note from these guys before!

^^^ this

"raises hand to join in and ask for a week"

man the Erosion of Sanity is sort of the unfuckwithable death metal standard, top five easy, but I was on a long drive week before last and I put from wisdom to hate in and it has aged really well. the songs are really epic, and the ghost of thrash who was still bangin' around on tEoS is gone - it's just crushing. what an underpraised album! it's been lean times for death metal at the people-noticing-it level for ages, of course, but I think from wisdom to hate deserves massive love; it's beautifully played, the mood is so dark, and the experimental obscura (which is great and all but man do I get annoyed when ppl's take is "you know what metal album I like is the one that sounds the least like metal" and obscura is a big offender in that dept) seems to have been kind of re-absorbed into a death metal framework. you can still hear that these guys like to freak out sometimes! but it's caged, angrier.

fuckin' Gorguts. so goddamn good. thank you death metal for being so damn excellent.

yeah, from wisdom to hate miiiight just be my fave but my ranking always changes whenever I listen to one of these three!

You only picked Gorguts because you knew Smithy couldn't resist to join in!

(which is great and all but man do I get annoyed when ppl's take is "you know what metal album I like is the one that sounds the least like metal" and obscura is a big offender in that dept

Calling LJ!

I owned The Erosion of Sanity when it was new, because I found it as a cut-out at the mall. I remember liking the piano bits... But I don't recall much else. DEFINITELY time for a refresher.

A friend of mine is a big Obscura freak and has played it for me. It's great.

Have yet to hear the last one, so I'm glad to have this thread as an excuse to catch up with these guys.