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Forbidden Forest - A Painful Awakening
Reviewed by Eddie Risdal in 6/18/2010
I have tried my best to find the best possible sides to this album, Norwegian quintet FORBIDDEN FOREST's debut album, but even if I have given it probably more than enough time, maybe more than the number of spins, I still struggle to find much positive here.
Through 45 minutes and ten tracks we get music from most genres in metal, and that might be where the biggest problem is; that it isn't focused enough. You should be some kind of a musical superman to be able to make killer music in all genres, wether it's straight heavy metal, death, black, thrash or folk. FORBIDDEN FOREST are visiting all these, some times during only one song, and to me it mostly ends up "halfway there", and pretty confusing to listen to.
On the positive side I'd like to mention the very good growling vocals, whoever of the band member who is responsible for it. And if I'd pick one genre that they seem to handle a bit better than the rest I'd recommend that they try to go for the slightly thrashy heavy metal that they present in a song like "Call Of The Wild", here it doesn't sound too schizophrenic the first three minutes. Also the album closer, "Økserock" (litteraly translated to axe rock) is a quite good track, even if the song title may suggest that it's more of a fun song. Some folkish elements blended with black and death metal in a good way.
All in all too unstructured, too messy and lacking the songwriting skills in most genres. If they focus more on one or two main genres for the future I think we'd face a nice improvement.
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