Man I got the Forest Stream album a couple weeks ago and it is all i have been listening to. What a fucking masterpiece. The only problem I have found is that lately I have been feeling really empty, worthless, and vulnerable and I think it's becuase of the cd. Do you guys put subliminal messages in your music, becuase theres a couple points where I swear I can vaguely hear talking.
ANyway I just had to let somn know that this album is sheers brilliance and definatly on my top 10 of 2003. heres a review I wrote of the album.
Dance of December souls was one of the first underground metal cd's I ever purchased. This cd alone was enough to delve me into the depths of metal, showing me a world of beauty sadness and melancholy that I had never previously felt. To this day I still worship that album and regard it as an absolute classic. So When I got forest stream the other day, and immediately began to nostalgically relive the same emotions I received from Dance of December souls, I was not wrought with sorrow, but full of joy. Joy that after all these years of Metal a band can still intoxicate me, the same way it did more than 5 years ago.
But enough about Katatonia, the band we are dealing with here is Forest Stream, and while definite analogies to old Katatonia can be made, Forest Stream are in their entirely own ball park. Forest stream play a blackish style of doom metal, with extremely long songs, lots of acoustics, and TONS of droney and extremely bleak atmosphere. The overall sound of the album is very dark and sorrowful, but the production is absolutely top notch, making the music come off organic yet very easy to listen to. The bands consist of only three members, however one can tell by the depth of the songs that there are all sorts of unique guitar riffs, and keyboards overlapping (yet not at all in an artificial way). The best comparison I can make to this band would be early opeth meets early katatonia, meets melodic black metal (etc dissection). This analogy is just to give a very broad idea of the music but also to convey the level of quality this band attains.
There are 9 songs on this album and the cd is almost 70 minutes. The songs are therefore very long, yet for some reason flow absolutely perfect. The guitars and keyboards works as one on this album often intermingling (ala opeth) and often trading off with one another, one doing the leading the other holding atmosphere. The drums (programming, dont worry) while mellow and somber are done perfectly and get intense right when necessary. The vocal are grim and explosive (they almost remind me of a more grim male Tristainia Vocalist), There are small amounts of clean vocals also, further adding to the atmosphere. And that my friend is the whole underlying them (crux) of this album ATMOSPHERE. so if you want an absolutely stunning, beautiful, tranquil, masterpiece, pick this album up. It is so brilliant and also so depressing. I know this band will eventually reach peak, metal status. Shit this is only thier debut. you can get this at the end records.
Disclaimer: after listing to this cd a few times, I must mention that this REALLY FUCKING DEPRESSING. So please if you already feel like killing yourself you may not want this cd, because it just may pull the rope.
ANyway I just had to let somn know that this album is sheers brilliance and definatly on my top 10 of 2003. heres a review I wrote of the album.
Dance of December souls was one of the first underground metal cd's I ever purchased. This cd alone was enough to delve me into the depths of metal, showing me a world of beauty sadness and melancholy that I had never previously felt. To this day I still worship that album and regard it as an absolute classic. So When I got forest stream the other day, and immediately began to nostalgically relive the same emotions I received from Dance of December souls, I was not wrought with sorrow, but full of joy. Joy that after all these years of Metal a band can still intoxicate me, the same way it did more than 5 years ago.
But enough about Katatonia, the band we are dealing with here is Forest Stream, and while definite analogies to old Katatonia can be made, Forest Stream are in their entirely own ball park. Forest stream play a blackish style of doom metal, with extremely long songs, lots of acoustics, and TONS of droney and extremely bleak atmosphere. The overall sound of the album is very dark and sorrowful, but the production is absolutely top notch, making the music come off organic yet very easy to listen to. The bands consist of only three members, however one can tell by the depth of the songs that there are all sorts of unique guitar riffs, and keyboards overlapping (yet not at all in an artificial way). The best comparison I can make to this band would be early opeth meets early katatonia, meets melodic black metal (etc dissection). This analogy is just to give a very broad idea of the music but also to convey the level of quality this band attains.
There are 9 songs on this album and the cd is almost 70 minutes. The songs are therefore very long, yet for some reason flow absolutely perfect. The guitars and keyboards works as one on this album often intermingling (ala opeth) and often trading off with one another, one doing the leading the other holding atmosphere. The drums (programming, dont worry) while mellow and somber are done perfectly and get intense right when necessary. The vocal are grim and explosive (they almost remind me of a more grim male Tristainia Vocalist), There are small amounts of clean vocals also, further adding to the atmosphere. And that my friend is the whole underlying them (crux) of this album ATMOSPHERE. so if you want an absolutely stunning, beautiful, tranquil, masterpiece, pick this album up. It is so brilliant and also so depressing. I know this band will eventually reach peak, metal status. Shit this is only thier debut. you can get this at the end records.
Disclaimer: after listing to this cd a few times, I must mention that this REALLY FUCKING DEPRESSING. So please if you already feel like killing yourself you may not want this cd, because it just may pull the rope.
