Mordy's Metal Listening Club - New Albums Every Monday

oops that middle one is Harvey Milk - A Small Turn Of Human Kindness

Can a metal mod fix it please?

turned my mod powers of darkness to your aid

Thanks kindly. btw no spotifys available and mods dont want illegal links so i guess if you dont have them you can find them easily enough. Well worth it IMO.

Would you like to take a week evil mod jj?

oh man i totally should but my 2010 listening has been pretty minimal tbh (stuff from 2010, not that ive not been listening to stuff or ok yeah whatever um).

oh go on. You in?

18 October - JJ
25 October - ?

that date suit you john?

if noone else volunteers ilxor and markers might. So hurry!

I'll have a go but 25th is Supersonic weekend so that's out for me.

Who wants the 25th then? Aldo has the week after.

sante? Mordy? Adrien? Jeff? Scott? Phil? Smithy? Anyone?

So far we have
18 October - JJ
25 October - ?
1 November - Aldo

I'll do a week of 2010 stuff. Some of my favorites probably haven't been heard by many folks.

As far this weeks picks go, I keep forgetting the Ludicra was this year. I listened to it so much deep in the winter that I think of it as older. Great record, but I didn't fully appreciate it till I saw them live. Outstanding live band.

The Harvey Milk is good, but I liked the last better. There were moments of twisted levity amidst the bleakness that I miss on A Small Turn Of Human Kindness.

The Dawnbringer I'm undecided on. It's definitely a solid record, but I heard it and the Christian Mistress about the same time and I like the latter's approach to retro-NWOBHM better. Should probably listen to it again in a bit and try to separate the two, but I keep being drawn to the CM record if I'm in that kind of mood.

Ok!

18 October - JJ
25 October - EZ Snappin
1 November - Aldo
8 November?

I personally prefer the Dawnbringer to the Christian Mistress (I do like it though)

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i haven't heard dawnbringer, but ludicra's in the running for best metal of the year, for sure. i like how much it rocks. the riffs and the way the guitars play together reminds me of "ride the lightning," though i didn't get that until i saw them live.

harvey milk, i can see why somebody wouldn't like it as much as "life... the best game in town." it's dense, not nearly as inviting. it also doesn't seem as crushingly, oppressively heavy as the first two albums, though it seems like a pretty conscious return to what they were doing then.

if anyone wants Ludicra vinyl you can get it from http://www.thronerecords.net/

http://www.thronerecords.net/new-imagenes/throne%2006%20PRE.jpg

Ludicra is on my short-list, too. The other two don't do anything for me.

18 October - JJ
25 October - EZ Snappin
1 November - Aldo
8 November - glenn

Hurrah, everyone feel free to comment on this weeks picks or to volunteer for a week of 2010 album choices.

uh i srsly have heard like exactly zero 2010 albums to pimp on this list, i have had a very very digging backwards year so next monday could be a problem

Get crackin'!

I'll switch with you if you want to get an extra week's worth of listening in.

if noone else volunteers ilxor and markers might. So hurry!

*raises hand*...

I haven't heard much this year but Herman's insisting that I volunteer. Sorry in advance, you guys.

18 October - JJ
25 October - EZ Snappin
1 November - Aldo
8 November - glenn
15 November (2020) - ilxor

Now we're talking.

ok but srsly some one else needs to take next week. i got nothin

18 October - EZ Snappin
25 October - Glenn
1 November - Aldo
8 November - JJ
15 November (2020) - ilxor

Get listening!

ok ok.

A day late and dollar short but here's my picks for some overlooked gems of 2010:

Across Tundras - Old World Wanderer

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4077/cover_18192342010.jpg

They're giving it away so no excuses

Black Bombaim - Saturdays And Space Travels

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7734/blackbombain.jpg

They're giving it away so no excuses

Samsara Blues Experiment - Long Distance Trip

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5307/cover_4818152522010.jpg

They aren't giving it away (I bought the import from All That Is Heavy) so it's up to you if you find a way to hear it.

Across Tundras are great.

I really enjoy the Black Bombaim record; I'll always have room for crazy Earthless style psyche-metal jamming.

ok you sold me, i found it too.

(thanks to your link obviously)

Do Samsara Blues Experiment sound like Colour Haze?

A bit. One of the many German stoner rock bands playing on that same ballfield. There are some cuts up on youtube if you wan't to check it out before hunting it down.

i found it quite easily. will report back.

have you ever heard My Sleeping Karma?

No I haven't. Similar kind of thing?

instrumental proggy spacey psych with keyboards!

check your email dude

MSK have toured Europe with Brant Bjork, they've played Roadburn too.

thanks for the black bombaim rec, it sounds great so far.

Liking the Samsara Blues Experiment album so far.

I think you will really like MSK. You got anything else to recommend in this vein?
Do you like Monkey 3 or any of those bands?

I think everything else I've heard like that i got from Rolling Metal threads (like Monkey 3). I really loved the Ancestors record last year that is a kissing cousin of this stuff, and Sula Bassana's The Night is more proggy spacerock stuff but I think it was overlooked.

Have you heard the Hawkwind Triad record from this past summer? Minsk, US Christmas and Harvestman doing Hawkwind tunes. Pretty amazing.

Yeah, they were out as 7" singles previously.

ez you listen to the MSK?

No chance yet. It'll be a few days before I have enough time to get straight through the album. I hate having to stop and start the first time I hear something.

until i got to listen more closely to that black bombain record, i didn't realize how insane the bass parts were on the one song. for like five minutes there's just this incessant thumping, i couldn't quite tell sometimes if it was the bass or the kick drum or both. by the end i felt a little sick, which is awesome.

the dawnbringer record seems quite good—especially the riffs, the song structures, and the mixture of nwobhm and black metal sounds (especially the playing that's usually there in black metal but obscured by the sound)—but the vocal performance is kind of disappointing, flat. i can see how it might make sense to people with some different tastes, though. also, this is just me, but i really dislike it when metal bands fall back on acoustic intro/outro/interludes. whatever the effect that seems intended, it usually comes off as completely unimaginative and uninspired. although the tuneless bit on the last song was actually effective, for once.