FORGOTTEN
TOMB - SONGS TO LEAVE
In those days something special
is happening, a superb label like Selbstmord is giving voice to a group of
unique bands, a death squadron of nihilist, depressive, melancholic music,
totally sick, cold as stone. If the core of the well-known historical bands are
totally losing contact with the extreme, inhuman, anguish attitude of the "Dawn
of the black heart" era there are bands like Craft, Shining and this
incredible Italian act who are bringing back the winds of damnation. The term
salvation is abhorred, "pain in solitude and pleasure in pain" can be
something that can fit to this creation of depressive, sad, vision. The first
and second songs are a travel very near to the total annihilation of every solar
form of life in man, a deadly insight, a chain that blind every expectation.
World is becoming old and Forgotten Tomb are a voice of this fall, decline, saw
by a different perspective, fuck off to the beer-idiots head-fucking-bangers
that use to simplify black-metal to another normal form of music, in that music
I can hear a real involvement, something from the border of mankind, a place
near the other side. Another time isn’t for me a secret that this kind of
serious intellectual kind of emotion is part of this kind of music, these are
concepts that have always be part of this movement, but for years they have been
put apart by the clamour of the commercial success, probably this is the right
moment for a silent rebellion. Apart from Aborym who sound very different (post-black
metal in my mind), this is one of the few Italian surprises.
Musically it’s a not-so fast black metal with doomish rhythms, apart from one
faster song, but after all it’s a very coherent album but I don’t know how
it will be listened outside from the real core of this deep underworld, but for
me it’s surely better to stay away from mediocrity...in our grave.
ILD