Mordy's Metal Listening Club - New Albums Every Monday

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.