Mordy's Metal Listening Club - New Albums Every Monday

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:

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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.

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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.