A Forest of Stars
| A Forest of Stars | |
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| General information | |
| origin |
Leeds , UK
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| Genre (s) | Post black metal |
| founding | 2007 |
| Website | www.aforestofstars.co.uk/ |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals , guitar |
Mr. TS Kettleburner (Jon B. Cumiskey) |
| The Gentleman (Richard Blakelock) | |
singing |
Mister Curse (Dan Eyre) |
| Katheryne, Queen of the Ghosts (Katie Stone) | |
| Mr. John "The Resurrectionist" Bishop (Gareth Hodgson) (since 2009) | |
| Mr. Titus Lungbutter (Ol Jessop) (since 2011) | |
guitar |
Mr. William Wight-Barrow (Mike Midgley) (since 2014) |
| former members | |
Guitar, vocals |
Henry Hyde Bronson (Duncan Evans) (2011-2014) |
guitar |
Sir Gastrix Grimshaw (2011-2013) |
A Forest of Stars is a British post-black metal - band from Leeds .
Band history
A Forest of Stars was formed in 2007. The band was named after a British gentlemen's club that had existed in Victorian England in 1881 . The band takes a mystical approach, which musically can be assigned to post-black metal and which combines elements of black metal with classical music , psychedelic rock and folk . Musically, the band is less oriented towards similar representatives of the genre, but rather towards Vaughan Williams , My Dying Bride and The Cure as well as genre representatives such as Dornenreich and Ulver . The lyrics also deal with Victorian England including its occult seances and ghost stories a la Edgar Allan Poe .
In 2008 the first publication The Corpse of Rebirth was released as an in-house production. In 2010, Opportunistic Thieves of Spring followed through the Transcendental Creations label. But it wasn't until 2012 with the album A Shadowplay for Yesterdays that the band became better known. For this album, the German independent label Prophecy Productions and their sub-label Lupus Lounge signed the band. The fourth album Beware the Sword You Cannot See was also released on Prophecy Productions .
In 2018 Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes followed , which also reached the German charts at number 81 for the first time.
Discography
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- 2008: The Corpse of Rebirth (in-house production)
- 2010: Opportunistic Thieves of Spring (Transcendental Creations)
- 2012: A Shadowplay for Yesterdays (Lupus Lounge)
- 2015: Beware the Sword You Cannot See (Prophecy Productions)
- 2018: Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes (Prophecy Productions)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b A Forest of Stars at laut.de . Retrieved October 10, 2018
- ↑ Andy Santiago: A Forest of Stars Interview - we talk to the Yorkshire black metal band expected to have a break out year in 2015. Louderthanwar.com, December 2, 2014, accessed October 10, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Chart tracking: DE . Retrieved October 10, 2018