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Band: Forgotten Tomb
Country of Origin: Italy
Status: Active
Genre: Blackened Depressive Doom metal
Type: Full Length
Format: CD (Digipak)
Length Approx.: 51:00 min.
EU Release Date: 04-17-2015
US Release Date: 04-21-2015
Current label: Agonia Records
Release label: Agonia Records
Release label: Agonia Records
Depressive
black metal mixed with malignancy and grooves.
It
has been sixteen years since Forgotten Tomb came to the light for the first
time in their native Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna in Italy with seven full-length
albums in their history and hundreds of shows around the world, two classic
albums "Songs to Leave" (2002) and "Springtime Depression" (2003)
that gave way to a new and emerging genre called Depressive black metal, now
they deliver us their eighth full-length album entitled "Hurt Yourself and
the Ones You Love" this album could be defined as a natural progression
from their previous album "... And don't Deliver Us from Evil"
released in the fall of (2012) and differs musically a lot from their firsts
recordings which fall in a very lonely ambience with dark tones and sounds very
depressive.
The
sound currently developed by Forgotten Tomb can be described in a manner similar to the path taken by Katatonia, but with its own identity
these is an unusual mixture of black/doom metal, incorporating elements of stoner rock and some groovy riffs here and there while
retaining the traditional harsh vocals of black metal.
Ferdinando "Herr Morbid"
Marchisio coment: “The new album is a mix of melancholy, groove and pure
malignancy”
"We kept the sound very
organic and natural, kinda old-fashioned but still very fresh. The new songs
are heavy as fuck and they feature our classic trademark plus some new elements.
I can't wait for people to listen to it, 'cause it's a really special album for
us and probably the most extreme we did in quite a while, both musically and
conceptually".
The first track offering
this album is "Soulless Upheaval" in the vein of black metal but
there you can appreciate some melodic grooving riff the best part of this track is reached after
the minute 5:10 killer guitar solo, undoubtedly the
best track of the whole album then comes, "King of the Undesirables"
holds the same powerful attitude and the lyrics are sung convincingly about the
minute 4:20 a bass guitar solo very well executed adds dark and malignancy as described
by Forgotten Tomb, "Bad Dreams Comes True" is the third track and
begins with a solid deep stoner riff and the bass throwing decadent low tunes
and it shows what are they up to do reaching the end of the track they decide
to fast pace the melody building up a wall of sounds impressive, next is the
track that gives the title to this album "Hurt Yourself and the Ones You
Love" is a mid pace dark ambience song it feel dense and much likely
comparable to their early recordings, "Mislead the Snakes" is another
track and here is the low point of this album here I can't find nothing catchy
and make me lose interest for a moment, "Dread the Sundown" is the
longest track and definitely dominant, energetic doom metal rooted in black
metal, finally we have "Swallow the Void" an instrumental track with
a very depressive dark feeling and awake the deepest melancholic mood within
you.
Certainly
this is not a bad album, as I mentioned before but unfortunately there are only
some moments of climax that speak out and strong about this full length,
despite the cover art that is very sick, explicit and unique, I couldn't find much
sense to hurt myself and those that I love.
Stay
True... Stay Metal… Stay Brutal…
Track list:
2. King of the Undesirables
3. Bad Dreams Come True
4. Hurt Yourself and the Ones You Love
5. Mislead the Snakes
6. Dread the Sundown
7. Swallow the Void (Instrumental)
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