Mordy's Metal Listening Club - New Albums Every Monday

Scott, it's not up to me, it's mordys club! I only started the thread as he asked me to as he wasnt at home at his computer.

heh xp

02/8 scott seward
09/8 mordy

anyone else volunteering?

Instead of worrying about who's posting albums barely anybody cares enough to actually listen to and talk about, I'll chime in on this week's picks.

Warning: Should be in my wheelhouse as I love lots of modern, turgid doom but this was wallpaper to me. I did notice a little prettier guitar tone than most of the stuff I like, which is something I guess.

Pagan Altar: Had Volume 1 at one point but sold it. This reminded me why.

Trouble: Didn't think Psalm 9 was overlooked at this point, but a real solid record. I like their self-titled one from a few years later more, but that was my introduction to the group (I had read about their earlier stuff but never came across it; Def American releases made it into Northern New England more consistently than Metal Blade). Like Neil above, I think the lyrical differences between Sabbath and Trouble is overplayed.

Manilla Road: Another that should be right up my alley, but I think pulls off a few roads early. It's not bad by any means, but I didn't get anything singular from them that I couldn't get from their contemporaries, and his voice isn't a selling point to my ears like Tim Baker is in Cirith Ungol. My favorite thing was the cover.

ez, you and i will never agree on anything mate :(
the warning album is all about the vocals.

His voice was okay, I guess, but if that's the selling point I understand why I've never heard of them.

I do like Slough Feg and Torche, so there are a few intersections. I do find it really weird that you like stuff like Manilla Road and don't like Manowar or any of dozens of bands working the same vein.

I just do.

It's not like I don't like other things of that period anyway, I just never cared for Manowar.

maybe i need to hear very early manowar

Now you can watch this one in HD. If this doesn't convince you, nothing will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J5psthAf8g

unconvinced

For me, this is THE classic from the classic Manowar era:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzBbrXFiwNE

Anyone got thoughts on my picks then?

anyone?

scott you're up btw

02/8 scott seward
09/8 mordy

anyone else volunteering?

Sure, I'm willing to take a pick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc9wIzi96_E

maybe thread should close shop until autumn hits? summer just ain't about indoor metal listening/pondering the apocalypse an' shit, afaict.

summers long gone

it is???

(gosh dang it all, nobody tells me anything anymore.) :'(

it's gone here for sure.

fucking upper-30s in my neck eurotrash zone.

oh okay hold on.

*of the (or some such)

xp

not been over 20c here in july, rained a lot too.

may & june was great though.

damn highlanders!

it was probably even wetter in the highlands

you're all high as far as i'm concerned, man.

INTAGLIO - S/T (SOLITUDE PRODUCTIONS - 2005)

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/9/7/4/5/97452.jpg

AMOK - NECROSPIRITUAL DEATHCORE (PLANET SATAN REVOLUTION - 2006)

http://www.nekro.info/images/necro.gif

NECRO DEATHMORT - THIS BEAT IS NECROTRONIC (DISTRACTION - 2009)

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/112/l_55deb934517343c9b9c0a055271f5e8d.gif

(the Intaglio album is one of my favorite funeral doom albums of recent years. a Russian duo, I don't think they have recorded anything since. but funeral doom dudes are slow like that. Amok are from Norway and the people involved have been in a zillion bands. aborym, mysticum, aeternus, etc, etc. one of my favorite albums from 2006. i kinda obsessed over it. the goatflesh removal suite portion of the album is one of my favorite pieces of music from the last decade. why? i don't know! i just think its riveting. there is a whole jim jones thing going on with the album and i don't care about any of that, but they really tapped into something when they made this album. majik energy! and the necro deathmort album is just for fun. i've played it a ton. what can i say, i dig big beats + doom riffs. enjoy! maybe.)

oh but i don't know about linkage. they shouldn't be too hard to find?

man, intaglio are awesome! them ruskies create a near-perfect distillation of everything funereal & gloomy in euro-metal, imo. haven't heard the others tho.

need to go looking for links damn you!

what a disaster for pirates.

;-)

I'm game for another week too. have a theme all planned out and everything.

02/8 scott seward
09/8 mordy
16/8 Sebastian
23/8 alan n

still way behind but I did listen to all three of these of call all destroyer's picks last week.

AVERSE SEFIRA - ADVENT PARALLAX (candlelight, 2008)
seemed pretty good but have to admit that it left no impression on me once it had blasted to its conclusion. will likely re-visit.

CURSED - TWO (goodfellow, 2005)
I listened to way too much hardcore during my college years, so I thought I would be all over this. but I really couldn't see what these guys are bringing to the table that converge haven't already done and done way better. I know most hardcore bands are pretty derivative but I felt like there was no reason for this album to exist. I peaced out during the endless track towards the end.

ANATA - THE INFERNAL DEPTHS OF HATRED (season of mist, 1998)
my fave of these three. totally get the melodic/epic/emotional qualities you're describing, cad. solid record.

ahem i was last week

:)

last week was the week I listened to cad's picks. will get to your records as well, jeez!

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ps scott, your picks look cool. I've heard that amok record. it's INTENSE.

also, THIS BEAT IS NECROTRONIC is such a great album name.

This Beat Is Necrotronic can be found here: http://sharebee.com/d2ce671a

And I'm allowed to post an dodgy link to it because I run their label. Ace!

Oh yeah, go to distractionrecords.com if you want to buy it proper - we only have about two dozen copies left though so be quick or be dead.

Cheers for spreading the word Scott - I'm expecting the next album to plop through my doorstep within the next month (give or take another month, you know what bands are like. . .) so you'll be the first to know when things are a-happening with that.

Cool picks in this thread by the way dudes, keep 'em coming!

pagan altar album is pretty good--wish i liked the singer more.

09/8 mordy
16/8 Sebastian
23/8 alan n

― The world’s most violent pizza delivery man (Alan N),

Oh, sorry, I've gotta pass for now. I'll go sometime in the future but I'm really not prepared atm. Kerr, might stepping in for me?

Yeah I guess so

This was what I was going to do a few weeks back but changed my mind.
Theme : Japanese Metal.

Corrupted - El Mundo Frio
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/9/7/3/8/97386.jpg
Not a Spotify

Boris - Absolutego
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/3/8/8/3/38833.jpg
Not a Spotify

Church Of Misery - The Second Coming
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/4/4/6/2/44624.gif
Not a Spotify

feel free to catch up on my picks from a few weeks ago too

I'm a week behind after trips planned and unplanned; right now I'm listening to the Amok album Scott picked and really digging it. The rhythm section is killing me - they sound great and form a real pocket for the rest of the band to lash out from and fall back into for cover. Another big chunk of my anti-death metal armor is knocked off by this record; by the end of the year I might (gasp!) even be a fan of the genre. Stranger things have happened.

Sadly, the Intaglio is not catching me. I have to be in the mood for funeral doom, and I can't reach that place on a hot summer day. Come November this might blow me away.

On to Necro Deathmort!

heh, i recently capitulated on that particular front; that blasted Swedish Death Metal collection from last year got its hooks in me but good. and it hurts, too.

xp

you really have to turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream with the intaglio. if you have "errands" or "work" to do then you won't dig it as much. your pulse rate has to be pretty low and your calendar cleared.

I've seen that but resisted it's call pretty easily; now I'm afraid of it, for this listening club has shown over and over again that I do actually like a bunch of stuff from the genre.

By the way, this Necro Deathmort is really odd in a good way. I'll wait till I've heard it all the way through to sum up but at the 10 minute mark I've enjoyed every bit of it.

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RE: Intaglio - that's sort of what I figured, Scott - I can't clear the decks enough to get swept away right now.