Band:	Enforsaken
Album:	The Forever Endeavor
Style:	Gothenburg metal
Release date:	2004
A review by:	Malcolm

01. Tales Of Bitterness
02. The Forever Endeavor
03. A Break From Tradidion
04. Vertigo Equillibrium
05. Dead Light, Dead Night
06. Cloaked In Need
07. The Acting Parts
08. Poison Me
09. Redemption
10. All For Nothing

Melodic Death Metal, that has to be the most used Genre today, together with Power Metal.
Since it looks like labels what's at least two or three MeloDeath bands signed, to cover up that part of the market.
Here I now got another release in my hand, Enforsaken is stands and Melodic Death Metal is stands. Damn, this is so common.

Enforsaken was formed back in 1998 by guitarist (At that time Bass and Vocals) Steve Stell & drummer (and Vocals) Pat O'Keefe as a two-man band, a demo was recorded and some labels where interested, but since they didn't have material or members, they turned it down.
Time went by, and Joe DeGroot (Guitar) and Steven Sagala (Vocals) joined, short after did Eric Kava (Bass) join to, and the band was finally ready. But then, in spring 2002, Pat O'Keefe left and was replaced by Dan Swanson. And that line-up is still stabile. In December 2000 they started to work at their debut CD, that was meant to be a Demo or Self-Financed album, but after the recording they started to work with Lifeless Records (owned by Matt Bachand from Shadows Fall) and the album was officially released in June 2001 in USA and September in Europe. That lead to a record deal with WW3, but when they where about to record their debut full-length the label had financial crises and Enforsaken cancelled the deal. But Enforsaken went on, writing songs and arranging the album; under the same time they searched for a new label. Spring 2003, Century Media signed Enforsaken, and here, Spring 2004, the album is finally here. As a little bonus, you'll get a free compilation CD if you buy the 2-cd jewel case, 13 extra audio track and 2 video tracks.

But as I see it, Enforsaken isn't giving us anything new, what they are doing isn't bad, not at all, but it's not very original either.
It's standard MeloDeath, very like the Gothenburg sound, even if it have a touch of the American way.
What's missing to make the album better is that a SuperB song, ok "Dead Night, Dead Light" is good, and the ender, "All for Nothing" too, but still, there is no "WOW" experience on it.

But Enforsaken got what it takes to make a name in the business, that's no doubt about that, but this isn't the album that will make it, but maybe the next? Or maybe the one after that, I don't know, but I'm sure that we will hear much from these guys in the future, I will surely keep an eye on them, to be sure that I'm not missing anything.

Favourite Songs: "Dead Night, Dead Light" & "All for Nothing" got my votes, the last one is the best on the album, and I can hear little In Flames there.