Mordy's Metal Listening Club - New Albums Every Monday

I do admit that the drumming is pretty good. But yeah it's all over the place, just tries too hard & lacks any real soul or purpose. To be fair I never liked this whole approach to begin with, even as far back as Souls At Zero.

I listened to the Kyuss album last night. found it a bit trying at first. But by about track 10 I started "getting" it, the whole wall of sound, hard rock, sludginess of it all. Probably needs another listen. second last track was particularly good i think, or maybe thats just when i was getting into it. Not really what I think of when people say metal, although I'm a complete metal novice so I can't really talk.

just listened to most of the Entombed album. I like how its kinda exhilarating with the crazy fast guitar playing and drumming. I like the desperate vocals and the music isn't uneasy on the ear. However I hate the preoccupation with hating christianity and the lack of songs about X-Men characters.

Crazy fast?? That whole album is in a groovy/midtempo rockish tempo!

Structure-wise, I think we'd get more participants if each week was a new thread with the three artists in the title, and maybe even a running number, like "Metal Listening Club #1: Kyuss, Entombed, Mastodon", "Metal Listening Club #2: Hinder, Hanson, Halford", etc. If it's a single rolling thread, there's no draw for people who aren't already following it, and if you miss a couple days it's a pain in the ass to find the actual albums upthread. For continuity we can also dump the link to #2 in the #1 thread, etc. This also allows one week's discussion to go on after another's has begun, without either disrupting the other.

Glenn makes a great point

And if we can agree on it, then perhaps a mod could add to the thread title.

I cant help feeling that a few posters wont join us though because they disagree with filesharing and it is kind of encouraging that since most of you do not have Spotify.

How about records that are in the 2nd hand bins everywhere by the dozens for a buck? I nominate: The Spaghetti Incident.

I wouldn't equate "listening club" with filesharing. We may not have Spotify in the US, but we've got a growing array of ways to sample music easily, either whole albums or :30 clips to decide whether it's something you're into at all.

And, for that matter, I don't have any objection to people chiming in only on albums they already own and have opinions about, if that's what they feel like.

How are you getting along with that strawman, guys?

siegbran otm in a metal thread - in other news the sun came up

I think peeps may be overthinking this is a bit.

I am starting my own metal fiends listening club which is 100% Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame, no other albums allowed

I'm currently watching Fiends on TBS.

They're throwing a baby shower for Rachel.

I cant help feeling that a few posters wont join us though because they disagree with filesharing and it is kind of encouraging that since most of you do not have Spotify.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:24 PM (43 minutes ago)

i am totally this guy but thinking that this lala thing might be a great answer

guy from Kyuss's voice reminds me of someone I can't put my finger on

Ian Astbury

John Garcia even admits the only rock band he ever liked , until he joined Kyuss, was The Cult.

that's right, that does sound similar

ok now i dont want to listen to the kyuss album anymore

The Cult ruled.

ok lets just agree to vehemently disagree on that one then and move on

I'm actually enjoying this one a lot. The Kyuss I mean. But I would agree with Mordy, it's not as metal as hard rock I would say.

I await Chuck's view on people saying "that's hard rock not metal"

Actually really enjoying the Kyuss album, very good pick

Structure-wise, I think we'd get more participants if each week was a new thread with the three artists in the title, and maybe even a running number, like "Metal Listening Club #1: Kyuss, Entombed, Mastodon", "Metal Listening Club #2: Hinder, Hanson, Halford", etc. If it's a single rolling thread, there's no draw for people who aren't already following it, and if you miss a couple days it's a pain in the ass to find the actual albums upthread. For continuity we can also dump the link to #2 in the #1 thread, etc. This also allows one week's discussion to go on after another's has begun, without either disrupting the other.

ok i actually like this

Can a mod add Metal Listening Club #1: Kyuss, Entombed, Mastodon to the title please?

fwiw lala is not gonna have everything ppl put up here esp. ppl who go on some obscuro/kvlt ish, but it's a great resource. also imo grabbing something via filesharing for one listen is not the end of the world--if you dig put it on yr buylist, if not delete it.

i mean if anything my hope is that i buy more metal records due to this thread

Yeah, if you really like it you can buy it. So it then would be a positive kind of filesharing, you would be buying something you like that you probably would not have bought if you hadn't downloaded it.

yeah that's how i'm feelin

tbh, i'm not into having a new thread every week. i don't want to clog up my bookmarks with 52 new metal threads. one is perfect -- and maybe a mod-participant can update the thread title every week or something.

Mordy OTM

i knew no-one would agree on anything , lol

tip: anyone who remotely like the Kyuss should hear Welcome to Sky Valley and ...And the Circus Leaves Town. 2 of the best records of 90s imo

circus is good, but not as good as the other two. I'm not sure you would like Wretch (the 1st album) though. There is a cracking live recording of Wretch floating about however.

ok, listening to kyuss right now and im really glad that the cult comparisons didnt throw me off. track one reminds me of a laid back metallica thing somehow?

good lord the lyrics to track two are some dumb stupid shit however. not that i expect brilliant poesy from my metal, but hmmmm

ok track 3 breakdown gives me hope, was getting a little sleepybye in the beginning

50 million year trip is giving me the lumbering juggernaut vibe i was hoping for so far. and the time change at about 1:10 is pretty great. still having the problem where the lead singer sounds like that dude from beatallica tho. knowing who some of these dudes are i cant help but feel like the musicianship is kind of lazy? not sloppy so much as a little phoned in in spots

i def think they need something more from their vocalist in both the performance and lyrics dept.

ok at the thong song now and wondering if lyrically this is supposed to be funny?

no offense to dudes that like this, but this is kind of meandering in the worst possible way. reminds me of why i dont listen to jam bands tbh. not sure that ill make it all the way through this album, so if there are some later cuts that are going to make me change my mind, somebody should speak up.

yep this is just getting sloppy and annoying at this point. i know its sacrilege and all, but give me QOTSA any day over this. made it through freedom run (which was better than most of the earlier stuff but TOO LATE) moving on to entombed

ok wait going to give freedom run a whole playthrough because this is winning me over a lot more than the earlier stuff. oh wait but that dude is singing now and i am bored.

this would be an ok instrumental album, but this singer dude just drives me fucking nuts. moving on for real now.

gonna listen to entombed and maybe finish kyuss tomorrow during the day. i think i got to the song after freedom run before i got interrupted

ok this is 100% more my thing just judging from the first 30 seconds. pfunk, i am surprised that you dig this and (i think) dont like thrash, because the beginning of the first song is total thrash reminiscence for me.

like anthraxy goodness + slow blastbeats + hardcore sensibility + vocal barking = A+ imo

ok no seriously this is the shit, totally digging the rhythmic trickyness and all the jumping off beats and then back on them, feeling stupid for ignoring all the peeps that told me to listen to this. and again, this is so much closer to thrash/hardcore than death metal that i am genuinely confused about the classification. suprisingly (and urrgghhh i hate to use this term due to the whole pantera douchebag fan overuse) full of groove. lots of reminders of why i love max-era sepultura in here too.

oh dudes, the super cheesy everything drops out other than the shitty drum fill at the end of "Demon" moment is so so great, intentional or not.