Mordy's Metal Listening Club - New Albums Every Monday

Vox didn't help, but in both cases I found the music plodding and unfun, even before anybody started making any mouth noises...

I find the music fun myself, in that i enjoy listening to it, but ,y'know, doom isn't meant to = "fun".

I really liked the last Slough Feg record, so am looking forward to hearing this one. Come, My fanatics is one of a couple of Electric Wizard albums I've not heard, so also looking forward to that. Don't know YOB apart from all the ILM love they've been getting, so am interested to hear that one too.

Come My Fanatics is many Electric Wizard fans fave (cuz noone will admit Dopethrone is the fave as that's the crossover canonical choice non-elitists pick)

I really want to listen to these but am abroad w/ no time nor access to my songs at home, fuck it.

I thought a certain mod would have been on this thread saying how amazing the lord weird slough feg is

But he hasnt

Dopethrone is my favorite, follwed by the self-titled. I'm overdue for another listen though.

Catharsis is pure magic. Such a treat to hear them trot out Aeons in Europe.

Love Slough Feg live. I owe it to Scalzi to try harder with the recordings. I'm sure they'd click for me if I tried.

Stop picking all my friends Herman. That makes it hard ;)

not my fault mr namedropper!

come my fanatics sounds great--a lot closer to the dopethrone sound than some of their other records, which seem to lose a lot with cleaned-up sonics.

yob is predictably great too. i mean i knew i liked both these bands but it's always good to have a reason to dig into their back catalogues.

You dont need a reason!

slough feg record is great great GREAT! i mean, i knew it would be - love the band, but only really know traveler and atavism. have always wanted to dig deeper, due to sci-fi & rpg nostalgia as much as anything, so endless thanks to HGN for suggesting this. strongly reminiscent of iron maiden, as others have said, maybe with vocals by bad religion guy's cousin?. (hammers of misfortune guy, yeah i no...) anyway, i haven't had this much fun listening to a metal album in quite a while. would have LOVED this band when i was 15 - totally hitting that rush/maiden/IASFM sweet spot. and "walls of shame" is totally built around "temples of syrinx", right? line between tongue-in-cheek nostalgia and straight ripping it off is a fine one, but both songs are awesome, so i don't care. walked around last night with "death machines" BLASTING on endless repeat. totally a sucker for epic sci-fi fables set to soaring power metal. gets me where i live. "traders and gunboats" scratches the itch, too.

only complaint i have is that they deserve bigger, better, clearer production. epic and gleaming, like some doomed world's resource-depleting generation ship embarking new on the fathomless depths of space. well, and that they occasionally cross over into a version of geekness that bugs me ("troll pack").

is the stuff with the new vocalist comparable?

new? Scalzi has always been the vocalist.

it was hammers of misfortune he left

cobbett left slough feg

yeeps, i though scalzi had left for some reason. [shrug] haven't heard the revised, cobbett-less version of the band, so wasn't sure what was going on.

jeez, can't believe i said "totally" three times in that fucking post. or, well, i can easily believe it, but it's still a difficult truth to face.

Yeah Slough Feg without Scalzi would be like a Monster Manual without Demogorgon.

Nate are you taking a week in this?

dunno what to add about come my fanatics. never sure whether or not to call it my favorite e-wiz record, cuz i go back and forth between that and dopethrone, but it doesn't matter - they both rank high among my very favorite metal records. dopethrone's angrier, harsher, and therefore less invitingly, psychedelically womblike, so i turn to it less often in the long run. love the weird gentleness of ...fanatics. "return trip", "doom mantia" and "solarian 13" are such gooey, groovy, mind-melting things. they're metal, but they've also got something in common with some austin powers cliche of swinging 60s dance pop. don't know what i mean by that, exactly, but agree with myself anyway. feels like bathing in the mathmos, makes me feel high even when i'm straight.

weirdest thing about records like born too late, spine of god, sleep's holy mountain, ...fanatics, paso inferior and amplifier worship is how simple and derivative they seem, while still retaining a strong, basically inimitable identity. i was really excited about the possibilities of stoner/doom in the late 90s and early 00s, due to those records (and a few others), but wound up liking very little of what they spawned and accompanied. dunno why. i guess it's easy to duplicate a sound or general vibe, but less so to express a clear artistic personality within a narrow formal straightjacket. like i have nothing against ufomammut, but they don't move me in the same way.

UFOmammut are great!

"Nate are you taking a week in this?"

Give me a week. I'll totally do it.

Yeah I also love UFOmammut.

Ok listening to this week's tunes over the weekend. Will report back.

I would have joined the club sooner but I was overseas.

So unless I missed something, next week is Alan, then EZ Snappin, then me?

yah, i dunno why i picked on ufomammut specifically. i think it's that they always sounded a little too much like stoner doom by the numbers. and i dunno, line-sixy. but maybe i wrote em off too quick.

anybody spotted any other easter eggs in the slough feg, like the syrinx nod? seems like a record made for that kind of trainspotting...

only complaint i have is that they deserve bigger, better, clearer production.

The (lack of) 'production' is one of the things I like best about both Slough Feg and Hammers, it's like power metal without the POWER, but in a very good way. I especially like the organic feel and sound of the drums, which - according to John Cobbett at least - is definitely a creative choice rather than the result of a lack of means.

The thing I like *bestest* about both bands are Cobbett's riffs off course, but that goes without saying really. I think the reason I was disappointed with Ape Uprising is the absence of Cobbett, though I'm not really sure how much he contributed to the songwriting/riffs on the earlier stuff; anyone?

Oh and Nate, the two YOB shows at Roadburn got a lot of good coverage in in the mainstream-ish/non-metal press over here in Holland, they were almost unanimously singled out as THE highlight of the festival. And deservedly so! I really had to struggle to keep my composure when they played "The Lie that is Sin" in the second set, to put it mildly ;) I was also amazed at the number of dudes who came up to me at Neurotic Deathfest (which was two weeks later at the same venue) and started going on and on about how awesome YOB was at Roadburn (I was wearing the YOB shirt I bought from you). This was the hardcore knuckledragging death metal crowd, so that's saying something, right?

before i go to bed and before anyone tears me a new one, "stoner doom by the numbers" is, yeah, a fucking retarded way to describe ufomammut. they're more psychedelic than either of those things and definitely have their own sound. but i was listening to them at a time when i was listening to a LOT of roughly similar stuff - heavy psych that did everything right, but wound up feeling empty & redundant to me. thinking here of earthless, mammatus, colour haze, etc. probably has more to do with my oversaturation in the genre than the merits of the band(s).

xpost - Hey Thijs, that's so great to hear. Not too surprising (I'm actually starting to get used to how much YOB steals shows and festivals). But it's really awesome anyway.

Hope to be there next year with my own band! :)

Nate please tell mike to bring Yob to Glasgow!

So Alan N to post his anytime after midnight UK time then
24/5 EZ Snappin
31/5 Nate Carson?

Or do we just do a Rainbow/Sabbath/Dio trio of picks and Alan goes next week , EZ ,Nate after that?

I do feel it should be Rainbow/Sabbath/Dio regardless anyway.

Can we all agree on which Rainbow/Sabbath/Dio albums?

Rising, Heaven and Hell, Holy Diver.

Sounds good, i know alan probably would have picked them anyway, but i think he should still get another go next week if he wants.
Noone could object to this week being Dio Week.

^ yes

So who wants to post the albums then? I can help them with Spotify links.

since we know the albums you could just do it pfunk

If im not stepping on alan's shoes and noone else minds, then since i have access to spotify for links then i guess i could. It does seem fitting to do it right now while ppl are awake and will want to listen. Best way of paying tribute is to listen to the music. I'm jamming Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell already.

gimme 10 mins to sort it out then

In memorial of Ronnie James Dio (July 10 ,1942- May 16, 2010)
http://www.positech.co.uk/blog/dio.jpg

Mordy's Metal Listening Club Volume #5: - Rainbow , Black Sabbath & DIO

#1
Rainbow - Rising
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Wq91zQyc2yg/SVpZi8ZeEUI/AAAAAAAABtw/gJOm2lokeqI/s400/Rainbow+-+Rising.jpg
Spotify Link

#2
Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/5/0/4/504.jpg
Spotify Link

#3
DIO - Holy Diver
http://www.alternative-zine.com/images2/Dio/Dio_Holy_Diver.jpg
Spotify Link

So Alan N to post his anytime after midnight UK time then
24/5 EZ Snappin
31/5 Nate Carson?

Or do we just do a Rainbow/Sabbath/Dio trio of picks and Alan goes next week , EZ ,Nate after that?

If everything is being bumped a week, can I go after Nate? I'm going to be in Portland 31/5 and be away from the computer. Or, if I can arrange to meet Nate there, he can post my picks for me.

I don't think anyone will mind if you swap weeks with Nate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SedQcg-65a8

Amazing track

As good as anything Deep Purple , Black Sabbath or Led Zep made imo

Rising remains one of the most explosive albums to come out of metal's second wave in the mid to late-70s. I was cranking it today...man, does it ever hold up.

I think "Stargazer" is Dio's greatest moment on record.

Agreed, stupendous stuff.

"stargazer" is so, so good.

and no worries pfunk, nobody rational could possibly object to dio week.

...but I was going to pick mob rules and the last in line. ;-)