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The superb melodious new album from Sinmara 'Hvísl Stjarnanna'

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

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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.

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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.