FORGOTTEN TOMB „Springtime Depression”

Music: Doom/Black Metal
Duration: 45:00 minutes (6 songs)


Good songs: Try not to look at this as individual songs, but more as a one long track

Some assholes claim that metal is suicide music, I, of course, don’t agree with this. However, if someone tells me Forgotten Tomb is “suicide music”, I can only second that.

Apparently this is the second album of the Italian band, of which I had never heard before. Forgotten Tomb stands for a doom, black metal hybrid, that has the nice side effect of generating suicidal tendencies. The atmospheres are pure black, as well as the production, these two elements make this an extremely grim, dark and nocturnal record. The lyrics are also typical black, but with some sort of echo over it, that also can be found in some of Gorgoroth’s work. The echo makes it sound like Herr morbid is down in his deepest depression and in the tunnel on the way to hell. He froze to death but still has some connections with this world, and tries to take you with him into the pit of sadness he is calling you from. I can only imagine one worth for the music that accompanies his dying screams of despair: mauling! The musical part is the doom part: slow, punishing melodies that pass away like the tormenting treadmills of the Tartarus: slowly turning yet unstoppable.

The band’s debut was already a great success. “Songs To Leave” was an excellent depressing suicide-propaganda weapon, that hit the underground from a place it hadn’t expected to take a blow from: Italy. FT is one of the best extreme metal-bands coming from Italy, and therefore, the band got a lot of support from many suicide fanatics. However, due to unknown reasons, this group is diminishing rapidly in size. “Songs To Leave” honoured it’s name, and became a self-mutilation manifesto for many listeners. So one advise: don’t listen to this on a rainy night, when you’re alone and just got fired.

On this new album, you’ll find many depressing atmospheres, sad instrumental parts and mauling, punishing riffs. Coldness will keep you frozen on to the disk, as the chilling melodies will drag you into suicide. However, the album may get dragging and boring if you don’t let the music take you on its wings. Springtime Depression seems to know only one tempo; slow and tormenting. A prefer my metal fast, but this also is a good tempo, but not all the time. The difficult thing is, that if you throw in some faster parts, it wouldn’t be suicide metal anymore, because that just has to be monotonous and mauling to keep its effect.

Not for the weaker souls!

note: 7.0/10

Tracklist

01 Todestrieb
02 Scars
03 Daylight Obsession
04 Springtime Depression
05 Colourless Despondency
06 Subway Apathy