Mordy's Metal Listening Club - New Albums Every Monday

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.

contempt def giving my thrash description a bit of a slap upside the head, but this feels all stonery (in a good way). this is a complicated album

even more so on fuel of hell. and then the alice cooper "billion dollar babies" drum intro quotation in the beginning of blood song, oh entombed you are treating me all too well.

which is the first real death metal vibe ive gotten from this, tbh

closing out the album with much heavier stuff is interesting, heavens die is def back to the thrashy vibe, and out of hand touches on the death metal thing again (and is great). really dug this, thx pfunk

not going to liveblog the mastodon, no energy left, but i will report back

ok so maybe i lied a little, although im going to try to limit myself to only a couple posts on this one. first 2 songs are great, and then out of tuney intro to song three pulled me totally out of the mood, and in fact that whole song had some sort of vaguely crap nu metal vibe that did NOTHING for me, trying to get brought back into the fold w/song 4 and so far its working, but oh man that song 3 was a bad bad move.

def getting back into this but that last song (where stride the behemoths) was sort of Mastudvayne or something and i did not like it at all.

track 5 is all noodly noodly noodly and then gets ok i guess. little bit of a slump here in the middle, and then burning man shows up and pulls me back into the album. so fucking tight and full on, digging this as much as the first two tracks, nice and compact and focused.

ok this is the best thing yet, but i am noticing that the next song is 7+ minutes and getting worried about it. OH NO chorused guitar, which is almost never a good sign in my book, although now some atonal stuff is going on that might save it? ok no wait, now we are done wasting time w/the intro and back into the good stuff. digging the song, but for the first time the vocals kind of suck (well they might have on track 3, but that whole thing was imo a fucking misplaced trainwreck so). riffy stuff is great here, but yeah these vocals are full on crap and are ruining the song a little for me. SHUT UP DUDE.

trampled under hoof makes me kind of feel that there are heavier bands that do this stuff better than you guys. vocals continuing to grate on this one. some sort of half-assed sevendust thing here, which i swear is not a description i have ever imagined before and also to be clear sevendust is not a thing to aspire to.

ugh weird more chuggy numetally stuff going on in the intro to trilobite what the hell? this band is better than this, and whenever there is a chance for the instruments to do their thing w/o vocals that is really clear - and dare i say it there is some math rocky stuff here with all the swirling guitar tempo stuff. also a weird precursor to the new high on fire in some spots on this album, but hof do it a lot better - not in general, but when i hear it here i feel like skipping tracks and listening to snakes of the divine. mother puncher is alright. elephant man is ahowy but noooooodly + long silence followed by white noise? why? and btw overall i am not bagging on this album, i think there are some really high points and great moments, theres just some glaring stuff that drags it down a peg for me, def no leviathan.

didn't finish it yesterday, so I listened to the mastodon during my commute this morning.

not a controversial opinion but the drums are, by far, my favorite thing about this one. a great rhythm section outweighs most any band's sings for me and I really get off on the constant fills thing in general, so dailor's playing on this album is a total treat. improves everything around him in every way. and listening this morning brought back fond memories of me driving around and playing steering wheel drums to it. (though, unfortunately, there was not a steering wheel in sight today.)

btw, this is 100% otm:

i think the dumbing-down of his drumming is the worst thing that happened to this band.

as for the rest - as I said upthread, there's some riff salad going on here. the songs really do sound like a bunch of riffs they liked thrown together but that's the modus operandi for so many metal bands that I can't really hate. I do like the little build-ups they do frequently where everyone plays more increasingly more aggressively over a few bars and then they all drop into a slow, crunchy part. again, the drum fills add a lot here too.

vox don't add much but they don't detract either. (as they often do on later albums.)

anyway, this is still my fave mastodon. but blood mountain is the only one I have no use for.