Mordy's Metal Listening Club - New Albums Every Monday

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.

Started my day with the My Sleeping Karma record and it's pretty good. Started better than it ended, but when they were jamming I really enjoyed it. Would totally see them live if they came over to the States.

Will post picks in the morning...

3 more interesting and underdiscussed 2010 releases:

http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/img/d3/29452.jpg
Ea - Au Ellai
Elegiac atmospheric whisper doom

http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/img/d38/27587.jpg
Mandrake - Innocence Weakness
Goth prog death pop

http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/img/d3/26952.jpg
Negură Bunget - Vîrstele Pamîntului
Eldritch tangled-vine forest-folk metal

Never even heard fo these glenn. Should be interesting.

That Ea record is pretty great. Wonderful vibe, which I was I want from any atmospheric metal.

The Mandrake is actively not my thing; they seem to be a dash of this thing I dislike with a smidgen of that thing I dislike and then a big dollop of stuff I really, really don't like.

Negură Bunget is for after lunch.

I am going to be late next week btw, will be away from internets until Tuesday.

I love the Negură Bunget record! I'm playing it again this morning; it's keeping me from the Kylesa which is saying something. Just the right mix of elements to grab me, including what sounds like a raging high pipe in "Ochiul Inimii".

Thanks Glenn. I don't know whether you're on the weirdest promo list or what, but year after year there seems to be something you recommend out of left field that pushes my buttons.

I am on no promo lists. I come by all discoveries the old fashioned way: download everything I ever hear of, delete all but .1% after 1 minute of the second song and 10 seconds of the fifth.

Where are you hearing of stuff like Negură Bunget? I need to widen my metal 'net horizons.

Well, I would have told you I found about them on Rolling Metal 2008, but Google says that the person who mentioned them on Rolling Metal 2008 was me, so apparently it was somewhere else. But what I do in situations like this, where I happen across something I didn't know about that seems like it could be a vein of greatness, is search for blogs that review them or post their albums, subscribe to a bunch of them, and then weed them back out again if they turn out to mostly produce goregrind or deathcore or something else I don't need more of...

Although chances are decent that my discovery of Negura Bunget had something to do with either Rotting Christ or Estonia.

Love the idea that you introduced them to yourself; you rewrote the narrative in your mind and were surprised to learn otherwise.

I should do more review hunting and sourcing; when I have in the past I haven't enjoyed the results much, but that's on me as I'm not good at weeding things out - I still have tons of dead blogs in my regular reads folder.

What? Me? Do another week? OK.

http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/img/d1/26850.jpg
Kathaarsys: Intuition
Weirdo jazz-fission prog-out

http://www.hellbound.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Nechochwen_lowrescover.gif
Nechochwen: Azimuths to the Otherworld
Ambient tribal metal

http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/img/d1/27000.jpg
Xasthur: Portal of Sorrow
It's always darkest right before the sun gets sucked inside-out

That Xasthur album is his artistic peak. Shame it's his farewell gesture.

I've heard of two of these Glenn! You're losing your touch.

I was just going to come and do mine. I did say I was going to be late..

Kerr, what does the schedule going forward look like?

Just post yours. There's room for everyone

Okay.

Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s)

http://denovali.com/celeste/mortes400.jpg

Free download here (but the packaging is lovely, so you should buy it): http://www.denovali.com/celeste/

Are they French? Who knows. There seems to be a suspicion this band are not exactly who they seem, but who cares. Blackened Doom of the highest quality.

Murmuure - Murmuure

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2500715-1287427847.jpeg

http://www.myspace.com/murmuure

Damn if this isn't becoming my album of the year. Avant-Black, like if Zombi put a BM production on everything.

Titan - Sweet Dreams

http://shop.relapse.com/dbimages/sleeves/sweetdreams_362.jpg

http://www.myspace.com/titanaut

Previous releases have been Space/Kraut behemoths with heavy psych overtones, but the move to Relapse adds Steve Moore which pads ut the sound in maybe the ways you'd expect. Awesome.

3 really really good albums there.

I've tried twice to get into Celeste and failed, and Titan didn't appeal to me any more than I expected from the description, but I'm liking Murmuure quite a bit.