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Thrash Metal - The 90s is completed for me now.  I shall (slowly) be tackling a North challenge next.

Fine way to end the weekend.  A lot of it came flooding back to me once I put the record on.  The last track is a bit of a drag and I don't just mean in terms of length, I think it is more to do with the style of it.  Going to be exploring this record some more again this week.  I sense a review coming on.

Sits top of the pile as my favourite Overkill record.  Another fine afternoon spent revisiting favourite albums whist doing the Clan Challenge for The Pit.  Good times.

4.5/5

After Hvis Lyset Tar Oss this is probably my next favourite Burzum release.  It blended the lo-fi elements perfectly for the first time and still retained that harrowing and cold fury throughout.  I won't go as far as to say his last good record as I do get on with so many of his later releases but it was certainly his last great album.  Heinous prick that he is, his music is interwoven into my metal development and my excursions into dark ambient and noise also.

I don't often reach for this one off the shelf to satisfy any Death-itch that I get.  Still go to Sound... for my progressive era fix and as a result I am losing familiarity with Symbolic and Human.  I sense a revisit coming on this coming week whilst I am out on the road around Scotland for 3 days.

Death Angel - Act III (1990)

Up for review as part of my Pit challenge and I don't really get on with Death Angel historically.  Giving it another try anyways before putting my thoughts into words on the Challenge.

Past few years I have tried to keep on top of new releases each year and write reviews for another website and at one point my own blog.  The net result has been me just listening to things for the sake of it (because they have just been released).  The resolution therefore is stop force-feeding myself music and learn to enjoy it again.  2019 was a year (the first in a while) when I started to tire of metal a bit and branch out into other genres and part of this was due to my excessive habits.  Started a new job in January and personal time is now very limited so my opportunity to maintain any reviewing will be limited but already just working through the clan challenges and rediscovering old records that I grew up with has brought me much happiness.

I'm guessing you're referring to "Meaningless Movements" & "Dead Embryonic Cells"?

No Murder and Subtraction.

4.5/5 almost perfect barring two tracks

Thanks folks.  Think I am gonna hit a Pit challenge over the coming weeks, rated a few already but never got around to reviews.

This is one of the greatest human achievements in history. I shit you not, Vinny deserves a strawberries & cream scratch & sniff for this effort.

I have managed to use my downtime over Xmas and New Year well and appear to have completed the 2nd Decade challenge the day before I head back to work.

Spotify Lists can be found below. The vast majority of releases are available on the service.

Death Metal - The 1st Decade

Death Metal - The 2nd Decade

Death Metal - The Modern Era

Ah, good.  I was struggling to get hold of a streamable copy of Decapitated Winds of Creation to refresh my memory with for the 2nd Decade list.  Off to Spotify I go.

Finally got around to the physical format of this (CD for now until I upgrade my record player) and I just fall in love with it all over again every time I hear it.

I am probably with you there which to be honest is a reversal on how I would have ordered them 12 months ago.  I have really opened up to the more progressive elements of metal over the past year so do enjoy the latter output of Death more than the first releases nowadays.  This album is up next in my Second Decade challenge in the List section.  Hoping to get a review up tomorrow for this.

It is pleasing to see Colored Sands get so much mention on these various lists that are floating around the internet at present.  I am too lazy to pick 10 albums but hands down would have that Gorguts record as my number one.  For all the experimentation on it the record still plays as being a death metal record at the very core of it.  Super talented musicians create boundary defying outputs but should always remember their roots and that is exactly what happens on this record.  

Agreed that the list needs some black metal input most definitely.  Surprised that Judas Priest appears so consistently.  I mean it is a great record but it ain't no Painkiller.

Death - The Sound of Perseverance

Dropped a fishing line in the water over at Tez but it is so dead in there at the minute there’s no telling when anyone will pick up on it.  Also added a link in the Promo section of the other forum I mentioned.  Around 30 views in past 24 hours so if a few of those take the plunge then that’s all good.

Good work with the site everyone.  Good to see a non-social media based platform getting some attention and getting a dying medium such as forums growing again.  I have watched the Tez forums die off over about a decade or so and although I moderate on another forum the numbers there aren’t that high so seeing some life here is great to witness.  Not much to offer in the way of marketing opportunities (even though selling is my job) I am afraid.

Any chance you might have a quiet word to some of the ol’ Tez faithful & see if you can get them over here? I think the likes of Sol & Stat would really enjoy the site. ChineseWhispers signed up early before disappearing & I’ve been trying to get markhebb over for months now but he’s been too busy finishing his latest book. Perhaps the message might sound better coming from a user rather than someone like myself?

Yep I will give it a go.

Hands down one of the best death metal tracks of all time, menacing and memorable without question.

Agree with Ben here, you also run the risk of having the truu police moaning that the track listing differing depending on what version of a record you own.

Ritual 'The Summoning' 1995

Could you add Opprobrium (formerly Incubus) please? Spinning 'Beyond The Unknown' today has reminded me what a fucking awesome band they are, long live the Howard brothers.

Thanks for the heads up Vinny. Did you give that release an initial rating on 24th March & then add the review on 11th April by any chance? I don't think the dates are updating under those circumstances. I've experienced it myself & have had to delete my rating first before doing a fresh review to get it to come up in the new reviews section.

Yes that’s what I did now I think about it.  Makes sense like Ben says as we don’t want bumping going on.

Coldworld 'Melancholie2' - never really seen the requirement for the effusive praise this gets.  I have always found it decidedly average.

The superb melodious new album from Sinmara 'Hvísl Stjarnanna'

Could we add Acherontas and their back catalogue to The North clan please?

This request has been completed.

I've come across this band previously, but have never heard them. I look forward to seeing what you think of them.

Thanks, they are a recent discovery of mine in the past year or so.  Will get rating/reviewing this week.

Entombed - "Left Hand Path" (1990)

This is not a bad death metal record but I've never really understood the unanimous praise that seems to be heaped on it by fans of the subgenre. The follow-up was clearly superior in every way in my opinion.

3.5/5

You see I am the reverse here, I just don't get 'Clandestine' and the praise it receives.  I find it a very dull affair in comparison to 'Left Hand Path'.

Aoratos "Gods Without Name"

Naas Alcameth's (Nightbringer, Akhlys, Excommunion) latest musical creation.

For some reason I didn't get on with this when I first played it, the avante-garde rhythms are a little confusing but not grating as such.  Anyway, let's see how the mood takes me today.

I would like to some Horna and Behexen additions as I am quite into my Finnish BM and they both have strong discogs I feel.

Hi MacabreEternal! We hope you're enjoying the new site. Let us know if you have any feedback, as we're keen to make this a special place for fans of metal music.

I've added both Horna and Behexen.

Hi Ben,

Really enjoying the concept so far, the navigation can be a bit clunky at times though.  So for example if I click on an album in the Chart section to rate it I have to then go back through to the Chart section via the menu again and reset my filters to the right clan and find where I was up to.

Thanks for adding those two bands, I will get a review up tomorrow on one of them.

I would like to some Horna and Behexen additions as I am quite into my Finnish BM and they both have strong discogs I feel.

I remember back in 89 buying "Slowly We Rot", completely blind, just based on that cover alone.  I had never heard any death metal before I bought that and I instantly loved the overwhelming sense of foreboding and menace that came from some of the atmospheres on that record.  Tardy's vocals genuinely put the willies up me and those riffs just ate my brain.  I recall my father worked night's at a local factory and therefore I had to go to my grandparent's house to play it because he was in bed that day and I knew my grandfather had some astonishing stereo/hi-fi set up going on in the front room.  He put the record on for me and was like "Woah! That's not right.  The speaker connection must be off.." I had to convince him the record was meant to sound like that and all was fine.  I lost count of how many school/college books got that Obituary logo adorning their pages.

Grind was less of a discovery for me as I didn't bother with it for many years after initially dismissing Napalm Death upon first hearing them in the 90s.  Like above, "World Downfall" was probably the one of the first such albums I embraced with some Carcass coming along later.