Not long ago I had to deal with the new and interesting opus by Slagmaur, which claimed to play the only “True Norwegian Black Metal”. Now, FORGOTTEN WOODS come along with their new album Race Of Cain and claim the same for themselves. Well, one might argue if Slagmaur’s stuff is still Black Metal, but it definitely has something special while FORGOTTEN WOODS simply seem to suffer from a huge amount of hubris.
This already becomes obvious when listening to the noisy, excessively distorted intro: Lacking imagination as well as creativity, the band goes to work. The few spots marking something like a good idea or riff (e.g. in Here, In The Obsession or Third Eye) standing out of the monotonous mush, are tramped down by the abysmal production. The production might probably be meant to sound like “true underground”, but in fact it’s just subsurface. Everything sounds undefined, dull and toneless. After a short while, you will most likely not even try to find something of interest any more.
Not very convincing, but at least FORGOTTEN WOODS made me write a short review, something that does not happen too often *g*