Mordy's Metal Listening Club - New Albums Every Monday

lol alan we have the exact same thoughts about mastodon. like, identical.

*high five*

john you didnt like Motherpuncher??

Since Mordy doesn't want separate threads can a mod still add the names of this weeks bands to the thread title?

haha mind reader

brilliant

i don't want to clog up my bookmarks with 52 new metal threads.

sry to ask a dumb question but why wouldn't you just delete the bookmarks for the old threads every couple weeks?

I like the idea of this metal listening club. It seems like there's a lot of metal knowledge floating around this board, and this seems like a good way to tap into it and fill the many gaps in my knowledge. I guess you could call me an occasional metal dilettante who's been getting more interested in it lately. Sure I owned Master of Puppets and liked the first Black Sabbath album when I was in college, but it was a very small part of my overall listening. I usually filled my appetite for noisy guitars with stuff like Sonic Youth or Fushitsusha. (Oh where have all the loud indie guitar bands gone? But that's a topic for another thread.) So anyway, I'll be listening along to this thread. Cheers.

pfunk i need to listen to mother puncher again (last night and upthread i said it was "alright", but in the light of day i don't know if that was supposed to mean "ok" or "OH YEAH ALRIGHT WHOOO!!")

Was always one of the live highlights along with Crusher/Destroyer and March Of The Fire Ants

commencing wolverine blues btw

live blog?

probably just here and there comments--it's accompanying some work i have to get done

wondering if i am the only one who gets the thrash vibe from entombed. note: i was accompanying my listening with beers so not everything i felt should be taken as gospel truth

i can't say i'm getting a super-big thrash vibe tho that is far from my area of expertise.

this is a great record

dude who told me on slsk to listen to it 5 years ago, sorry i didn't listen to you

although i think i like it now more than i would have then

the old drummer wrote the early albums, so I think you need to check out The Hellacopters (i only have some of their early albums but they are GREAT)

What about Grooveshark for those without Spotify? It's badly sorted, sometimes a pain to navigate -- but it certainly has all 3 of this week's albums.

Great idea, by the way.

been listening to a bunch of gorguts lately. we should totally do a gorguts week, imo. (the erosion of sanity / obscura / from wisdom to hate)

would be really fun to have lots of people picking these albums apart, and though they're all death metal albums, they all build on that foundation in different (and v. cool and interestin') ways.

of course, if you're not into gorguts, you're outta luck.

just my 2 cents.

I don't know if focusing on just a single artist in one week is such a good idea, as you said it just might leave some people with nothing at all to discuss. I'd rather have people be interested in talking about least one of them.

yeah, maybe a bit early in the game to go into that level of detail. but, personally speaking, getting really deep into the catalog of an inventive band that tweaks their formula album-to-album sounds really cool to me.

that mastodon album rules, but i haven't really liked their most recent stuff. i often chastise metal bands for refusing to inject a little melody and instrumental variety into their sound, and then mastodon goes and does it, and they are worse for it.

anyway, i saw mastodon live around the time remission came out and it was at this chuck e cheese arcade type place, and the band was surrounded by a giant ball pit that no one was allowed to get in :/

Mayhem would be good for that. Or judas Priest. Or paradise lost.

btw this entombed album kicks ass

gorguts week will be awesome, everybody will say how obscura is better than the erosion of sanity and I will get really petulant about how when enough people are wrong about the same question they get really certain about their wrongness

I think focussing on one band might put too many people off

Judas priest would be PERFECT.

guys there are plenty of weeks, we can do all these things

Since there was such popular demand (i.e., two people, somewhere back upthread) for me to do a week, I volunteer to take the helm for the second set on Monday. And please, everybody, before you pass the helm to the next person, just take a moment to wipe it off.

: )

right on!

are we doing only old albums (ie before 2010) or new albums too?

hahaha I think we're doing whatever the person that's picking wants to do!

at least, I hope so

well we will never agree on anything on here so you might be right. I bet someone picks the new High On Fire then.

Although it's gonna be funny when someone picks 3 , ltd to 50 copies of ,death metal tape demos from 1989 that don't exist in mp3 form. LOL.

I'll go after Glenn (week of 4/26-30). I promise to pick relatively easy-to-locate stuff.

on vaycay the week of 5/3 but I'll do 5/10 if that's cool.

And since it's Mordy's Club and Mordy wants one thread, one thread it shall be...

but when does mordy pick his albums? You guys have all jumped in ahead of him, lolol.

Ok some youtubes just to try attract people who haven't heard either album yet incase it might tempt you to listen to the whole album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUT2L5zAFOw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-avPZB9h7Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfWI-yV7TUY <---- one of my all time fave songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV-_kOTW-BU

I nominate Mordy for 5/3.

Only just noticed this. Great thread idea! Unfortunately it's all a bit tl;dr but def. giving it all a listen. Initial thoughts on Kyuss is I like the band, except for the ghastly vocals. And in my mind this is what most metal vocals sound like, so as a first album to listen to, it doesn't encourage further listening. Will crack on though.

I used to hate Garcia's vocals until I heard Unida where it was more fitting. But now I love his vox.

mastodon is a bit murky and impenetrable for me.

He hates slow songs and he doesn't even care!

this guy is a lil retarded right? I don't see the appeal tbh.

silly winston