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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

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

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.

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?

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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.