FOREST
- S/T
I really can’t understand how a band can use a so inflated name and it’s really difficult to produce something comparable to the Norwegian heritage of the ‘90, but notwithstanding that the band is presented as the most genuine creation of the darkly side of the nature mysticism, but the first side of this album sound very raw, with a thrashy sound that doesn’t fits to this target. It’s not a secret that the actual underground movement have moved to sombre directions that haven’t a direct connection with nature, not so much as in the past for sure...so that Forest are one of the few bands that are trying to represent those atmospheres, but without the right effectiveness in the first half of that album. Sometimes the songs bring like a boring dragging sensation and the typical gloomy pathos is absent, but the final song is a long hallucinated closing theme, of about ten minutes, that is totally inhuman, it’s rich of what is lost in the other songs, but after all this are the only minutes that I really appreciate. The reason of this difference is that in this second half the band have left the field of traditional Black Metal to use a different approach and this is for me the better way for them to follow in the future.
Ild