3 albums into their career find
The Forsaken still unrelenting and talented as ever. With "Traces Of The Past" the Swedes carry on the brutal force of Tech/Death they have been recognized for creating and pioneering.
I especially like the vocal arrangements of Anders Sjoholm who has a black/thrash rasp rather than a traditional low death mumble that has been the bane of good death metal for years. Lots of melody reminding me of my favorite Death album "Human". They refrain from the blasted beated repetitions that also bore me to tears rather maintaining speed for it's proper place in the songs ans actually favoring more
Soilwork like tempos that are midpaced and melodic.
Boil it down to the Swedish sense of melody and song construction and we have another example of the Swedes' superiority in creating melodic, intense, and memorable metal.
Take some Hypocrisy and early Dissection and mix it with a little Death influenced Floridian death metal and you can easily get the idea and scope of talent this band possesses.
Production is awesome and will tickle your system nicely! Hey after all this is an Abyss studio, Tommy Tagtgren produced release!
Thrown in some photo and artwork by Niklas Sundin and you have an album that will be remembered and listed as an influence of future death metal acts for sure.....just like Hypocrisy and Entombed are listed as an influence on so many bands!
Check out www.theforsaken.net for more specific lineup details and some of the other bands the guys have been in and are in. They get around!
Written by
David Sunday, January 25, 2004
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