Mikel's Record Bin

sharing bits of my passion for music

Posts filed under: ’00s

’00s

Embryonic – The Flaming Lips

I'm such a fan of this album. It's raw and threadbare. The production is so very analog. It's as though they sent everything through as much analog...

Split your lungs with blood and thunder – Mastadon

Take Herman Melville's tale about Captain Ahab's maniacal quest for vengeance against the giant white fish; a text that is brutal in tone and structure, and put that to modern...

Black Sabbath Riffs and D&D lyrics? Yes, Please!

The Sword’s debut album Age of Winters has to be the direct offspring of Ozzy-era Black Sabbath. Tony Iomi’s guitar riff-age is all over this album....

The Bug!!

This album by The Bug (Kevin Martin, a longtime collaborator of Justin Broadrick’s) is just dirty, dirty dancehall/dubstep. Truly grimy, subwoofer pounding dancehall....

Isis/Aereogramme

This 3-track EP is a really interesting collaboration. On this EP, Konkurrent took a Scottish pop band and paired them with post-metal rockers. The result was actually pretty amazing....

Enders of Ozone

Back in 2002, I was working as a door guy at the Abby Pub in Chicago. I came in one night for a shift. And this band was...