Vinny's Forum Replies

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.