Matt Elliott - Howling Songs

I Name This Ship the Tragedy, Bless Her and All Who Sail With Her

Matt Elliott - Howling Songs

I have been gone a few months, sorry folks. I got a bunch of new stuff I plan on posting before my eventual sudden hiatus so here we go!

I have known about Matt Elliott for a few years now but always kind of just ignored him as overall I am not really a folk fan, but my curiosity finally got the better of me last night. Oh how stupid I was before...

Musically this is kind of like if you took say the song Avalanche by Leonard Cohen, and his other dark toned songs, and added in a nice gypsy injection into the mix. In particular this shows through many of the melodies, but it is most apparent in these kind of psychedelic crescendos of gypsy music which each track seemingly builds into. I suppose if you are not a fan of say "crescendocore" post-rock then you may get sick of hearing them but I personally love crescendo type stuff, and this is to my ears certainly something different, especially in the context of this ultimately being a folk record.

I am told that his other albums can border on the whole "same songs, different album" kind of deal, but being the first album by him I have heard, I can neither confirm nor deny this. What Ican confirm, is that I very much enjoyed this album, and highly recommend it to anyone else.

Tracklist
1 The Kübler-Ross Model
2 Something About Ghosts
3 How Much in Blood?
4 A Broken Flamenco
5 Berlin & Bisenthal
6 I Name This Ship The Tragedy, Bless Her & All Who Sail With Her
7 The Howling Song
8 Song for a Failed Relationship
9 Bomb the Stock Exchange

http://www.mediafire.com/?mbmpge6x8k1ipby

Yussuf Jerusalem - A Heart Full of Sorrow

My heart is full of sorrow...


Yussuf Jerusalem - A Heart Full of Sorrow

When I first listened to this album I was under the impression it was black metal. Really fucking raw black metal. The first track would play and then I'd switch to some other album since I am rarely in the mood for raw black metal. I was very wrong about this album though. It is so much more than black metal.

In reality, the only black metal track here is the first track. Everything else sounds like 60s psychedelic rock, pop, folk etc. It just sounds 60s to me, and that is a good thing. So while yes, the opening track is blistering raw black metal, once you get by that initial song, this album has so much more to offer.

I was also curious about just what the black metal track was about, and it turns out its named for a knight who served with Joan of Arc and had a small habit of kidnapping and and brutally killing children. Good times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais

Tracklist

A1		Gilles De Rais
A2		A Heart Full Of Sorrow
A3		Greetings From Novi Sad
A4		With You In Mind
		Written-By - Marianne Faithfull
A5		Jihad
B1		We Ain't Coming Back
B2		Multicolor
B3		The End Of Tomorrow
B4		The One You Really Want

http://www.mediafire.com/?2cgs8lmvp4gsg5h

Sabbath Assembly - Restored to One

Glory to the Gods in the Highest


Sabbath Assembly - Restored to One

I'm going to say flat-out, I don't see how anyone could dislike this. Actually, you could if you were someone stupid enough to think anything religious instantly made it stupid. Then again, I don't want you on my blog if you are like that.

What we have here is a re-imagining/reprocessing of the hymns of the old 60s apocalypse cult known as The Process Church of the Final Judgment. So what made this cult special? They used music themselves to spread their hymns and beliefs, of which this album is a more updated take on those old versions. The Process Church was a rather unusual cult also in terms of belief. Labeled Satanic by most they referred to Gods, in particular, Jehova, Lucifer, and Satan, and that the Final Judgment would bring them all together, with Christ as judge, and Satan as the executor of judgment etc etc. Quite interesting really. Check the wiki if you are curious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Process_Church_of_The_Final_Judgment

Moving on though, musically this is very strongly 60s psychedelic influenced. It's got that old 60s psych feel with folk, and even doom, which makes sense as the vocalist is none other than Jex Thoth.

Closest thing musically that comes to mind is The Electric Prunes and their Release of An Oath album, in that both albums are 60s psychedelic rock, and involve the reciting of hymns. Give this a listen, it is fantastic and extremely addictive. I guarantee you too will be singing "Glory to the Gods in the Highest".

Tracklist

1		Glory To The Gods In The Highest
2		Hymn Of Consecration
3		And The Phoenix Is Reborn
4		The Saints Shall Inherit The Earth
5		The Power That Is Love
6		Glory Hallelujah
7		Judge Of Mankind
8		We Give Our Lives
9		The Time Of Abaddon

EDIT: Link removed.

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