Forgotten Tomb - Songs To Leave - review
Forgotten Tomb - Songs To Leave - review
Tracklist
01. Entombed By Winter02. Solitude Ways
03. Steal My Corpse
04. No Way Out
05. Disheartenment
A review by
KwonVerge May 11, 2005
"Songs to Leave" opens with the suffocating "Entombed by Winter." The bass lines in the beginning, the overall guitar riffing, structure of the song and twisted serene keyboard melodies refer at times to Dolorian. This makes the whole asphyxiating atmosphere extremely unearthly and mournful. The distorted vocals of Herr Morbid give you a sense of "dusty shells of pictures buried by years," of bitterness and pain, and bring forth memories of Burzum's "Filosofem" era. The album flows in absolute greatness with "Solitude Ways" where Herr Morbid's inspiration seems to be endless; inspired guitar riffing paving along with the nocturnal rhythm section. Herr Morbid's penetrating screams step in to complete the overall atmosphere, along with some nightmarish keyboards. Intense and descriptive, they evoke visions of solitude, misery, pain and darkness.
The album flows in raging tones yet without losing the bitterness and mourning. With "Steal My Corpse," one great riff comes after the other strengthening the dark wailing atmosphere enriched by Herr Morbid's eerie screams. He seems to be living the lyrics and breathing his final breath with every word he utters. As "Songs to Leave" goes on, Herr Morbid ensures us that there's "No Way Out" that "a human life is not worth more, than a tear stolen in a frozen dawn, a drop of blood on a yellowed paper, a shiver in the sharpened rain." Early Katatonia makes an appearance in the guitar riffs, accompanying Herr Morbid's suicidal summoning. His dying-screams interpretation paints a crimson sunset with his blood.
The album slowly reaches the end in an appropriate bleak way with "Disheartenment." As you are "lying in a dark corner" where "the black candle light is dying out" the bleeding guitars paint a soundscape with raven-dark colors of pain and bitterness. Adding a sense of heart's crimson to the overall darkness that surrounds the listener are Herr Morbid's mournful screams piercing you deep inside, leaving scars in your aching soul that is craving for death in a time when even death is not enough to ease the pain?
This album is a masterpiece of doom/black metal and Herr Morbid is pouring his soul into the music, lyrics and atmosphere. You should definitely check it out if you are looking for a wonderful doom/black metal release of intense bleak emotions.
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I like the album, but holy shit I can't stop listening to Disheartenment. That main riff is so killer!
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The Katatonia-esqu melodies used surprised me a lot, definitely not what I expected from a black/doom album. it is definitely a worthy album to listen to.
---- Coldgrits
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Definitely, this is one of my all-time favorite albums. The emotions, the darkness, the heaviness, the pace...it all adds up to a perfect blend of negativity. I'd recommend this to anyone looking for depressing music.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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Cheesy and fluffy doom/meloblack metal? Yup, these guys are Italian, alright. 
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"Alone" and "Enthroned by winter" are best songs i have heard from forgotten tomb
---- Alone in birth Alone in the darkness Alone in death Alone in the daylight
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Posts: 1703 Written by Troy Killjoy on 20.02.2011 at 05:16 I agree. It like, makes the feeling of being super depressed awesome... Near legendary album for me.
---- Coldgrits
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Account deleted Written by Slayer666 on 30.08.2011 at 00:05 Old comment, but cheesy and fluffy? You must have listened to the wrong album.
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Posts: 2466 Written by [user id=4365] on 10.02.2013 at 14:11 Fluffy might have been a wrong word, but cheesy fits right in. Not Manowar cheesy, of course, but definitively so compared to other albums from this genre. Still, the album is pretty sweet.
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