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FOREST "Like a blaze above the ashes" CD (IS20)
The second album from this cult Russian black metal act. A journey back to early black metal where there was a meaning. Raw, filled with lot feeling giving the atmospere black metal needs. Recorded back to 1997.
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FOREST "Forest" CD (IS14)
The atmosphere of the haunted woods, the ghosts of the past inspires FOREST. The result can be characterized as the Norse-styled black metal, combining the rawest aggression, the great DarkThrone-ish melodism and the splendid unique atmosphere.
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BIOGRAPHY
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FOREST was born in 1994 as a project of Kaldrad (BRANIKALD) and
Dagorath, the leader of another horde from Blaze Birth Hall called
RUNDAGOR (long time dead now). The concept of the FOREST was
born after Kaldrad's and Dagorath's journey into the old woods
where the long forgotten sacrificial places \ forest temples and
burial mounds of ancient Slaws were situated. The unique atmosphere
of these haunted woods, the ghosts of the past channeled the
inspiration into the hearts and minds of FOREST creators and right
after the return from this journey, in the Autumn of 1994 the debut
reh. demo of FOREST was composed and recorded in intuitive \
\ spontaneous way. It has very strange sound and 2 of 4 songs were
not Black Metal, but some weird folkish ambiental compositions
on guitars. It was recorded only for close comrades / allies and
never widely spread, although one track from this rehearsal, called
"Winter Howl" is included to their later demo '96 "Forest" in
original version, another song from '94, called "Like a Shade Upon
This Land" is also included to FOREST "Forest", but in re-recoded
form (1996).
Up from those days, FOREST could be characterized
as the Norse-styled black metal, combining the rawest aggression, great
DarkThrone-ish melodism, Isengard-like clean vocals and splendid
unique atmosphere. After the rehearsal tape '94 and "Forest" album '96,
another album "Like a Blaze above the Ashes" '97 was recorded in the
same line-up, and on the next work "Foredooming the Hope to Eternity"
'98 Ulv Gegner of RAVEN DARK joined FOREST project. Few months
later Dagorath of RUNDAGOR (RIP) left everything he was involved in
past: all the radical \ ideological activities, BM scene and so on.
Later, after the terror-campaign waged on Dagorath by two remained
FOREST members and their allies, he was forced to escape from the
town where he lived, and now his whereabouts are unknown, as well as
no one knows if he is still alive or not at all.
After all these
happenings, in 1999, old session drummer Wizard was fired and FOREST
was reinforced with the new skinsman Ransverdi - and they've recorded
4th work entitled "As a Song in the Harvest of Grief", which is another
full-length album. In 2000 FOREST transforms into VARGLODR. During year
2000 VARGLODR recorded 2 full-length works - "When Only Dust, Ashes and
the Fornicated Earth is Left Behind..." and "To the Flame of the New
Day". VARGLODR drowns in yet the rawer and even more aggressive mood
when compared to the FOREST, since now completely devoid of the clean
vocals and with severed melodism. Since early 2000 time the drummer
Ransverdi is kicked off and the future of VARGLODR is rather unknown
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Soon...
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DISCOGRAPHY |
"Forest" CD
"Like a blaze above the ashes" CD
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CONTACT |
ILIA BABIN
P.O. BOX 838
115470 MOSCOW
RUSSIA
email: sswinter88@hotmail.com
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