Forest Of Shadows - Where Dreams Turn To Dust - review
Forest Of Shadows - Where Dreams Turn To Dust - review
Band
Forest Of Shadows Release date
2001 Tracklist
01. Eternal Autumn02. Wish
03. Of Sorrow Blue
04. Under The Dying Sun [2009 re-release bonus]
05. The Silent Cry [2009 re-release bonus]
A review by
KwonVerge July 13, 2005
Through Forest of Shadows' music you can notice here and there some Katatonia influences whereas the clear melancholic voice of Niclas brings forth memories of Garm's (Ulver) chanting voice on their "Bergtatt"-"Kveldssanger" period. Forest of Shadows have their influences, as every band, yet they do not copy them and what they are doing is to harmonize in a unique way their influences with their personal ideas and emotions composing songs that will keep you chained in solitude drowned in their melodic doom/death metal.
"Oh autumn hath arrived?"
"Eternal Autumn" echos and you start losing yourself there "where dreams turn to dust" with the nostalgic sound of the flute surrounding you. The melodic doomy guitar riffing makes you shiver with its emotional charge as Niclas' grunts surpass you like a wind carrying cries of pain and anger whereas the acoustic moments with acoustic guitar chords and Niclas' enchanting sorrowful voice drown you deeper and deeper in a sea filled with oblivious tears. The musical background is the ideal for such poetic lyrics telling about the loss of your beloved welcoming the "eternal autumn" in your life interpreted on the most descriptive way by Niclas Frohagen.
"Awakened this dying season" grunts Niclas accompanied by the mournful guitar riffing as the following "Wish" begins. The guitar work is deeply inspired evoking a bleak atmosphere in the air accompanying Niclas' desperate grunts and heart-rending chanting voice singing lyrics of utter emotional bitterness, longing/wishing for someone to love and finally embracing the eternal sleep, the release of all of all the pain and sorrow "in this oh so dolorous life." "Of Sorrow Blue" leads the album slowly to its end. Everything consisting of this composition makes it a doleful opus; the mourning guitar riffing, the bleeding guitar chords, the wailing violin melodies that make you shiver whenever they enter the song, the imposing rhythm section and Niclas' utterly descriptive grunting voice and chants evoke the ideal grey autumn atmosphere, raging at times, wailing at others, for you to drown in a world of everlasting solitude and pain.
If you found it somewhere and didn't buy it you should kill yourself?
"A life of shattered dreams I can no longer bear
I enter thee eternal sleep?"
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eternal autumn is one of the most emotional songs i ve heard...its really a great beginning!i give it a 9
---- Don't turn away just take my hand and when you make your final stand i ll be right there i ll never leave all i ask of you is believe...
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Account deleted Written by Ulquiorra on 29.04.2007 at 11:55 It is a fact that Eternal Autumn is most likely the best song from the EP. I must say as from the first time i heard the song is found it amazing. By the way, the complete EP rules. 
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Impressive EP. One of the best i've heard.. great music.
----  ---- member of the true crusade against old school heavy metal, early 80s thrash, NWOBHM, traditional doom, first and second wave black metal, old school death metal, US power metal, 70s prog rock and atmospheric doomsludgestoner. o/
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| THE_BLACK_GOD
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Posts: 2955 Written by [user id=31891] on 30.12.2009 at 01:31 Nop. Never heard FoS demos.
---- ---- member of the true crusade against old school heavy metal, early 80s thrash, NWOBHM, traditional doom, first and second wave black metal, old school death metal, US power metal, 70s prog rock and atmospheric doomsludgestoner. o/
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One of the most emotional doom albums i ever experienced, the songwriting and the music is just great and the lyrics make u speechless
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