Forgotten Tomb

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Forgotten Tomb
General information
Genre (s) Formerly Black Doom , now Depressive Black Metal
founding 1999
Website http://www.forgottentomb.com/
Founding members
Mr. Morbid (Ferdinando Merchisio)
Torment (1999)
Current occupation
Vocals, electric guitar, keyboard
 Mr. Morbid
Electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Razor SK (since 2003)
Drums
 Asher (since 2003)
Electric bass
 Algol (since 2003)
former members
Then Wedebrand (2003)
Keyboard
 Henrik "Nordvargr" Björkk (2004–2005)

Forgotten Tomb is an Italian Black Doom / Dark Metal band from Piacenza with connections to the right-wing extremist National Socialist Black Metal scene.

Band history

Forgotten Tomb was founded as a black metal project in 1999 by Mr. Morbid ( vocals , electric guitar ) in collaboration with Torment ( electric bass ), who soon left the band. The debut EP Obscura Arcana Mortis was produced by Mr. Morbid alone in 1999 and released a year later by Treblinka Records with an edition of 215 copies. The first album Songs to Leave was released on the Swedish label Suicide Services. Then Wedebrand, the former drummer of Shining , replaced the drum computer for the recordings of the next album . Springtime Depression was released on the French label Adipocere Records after separating from Suicide Services. Due to the great success of the last two albums, Mr. Morbid began looking for musicians for live performances, including a replacement for Then Wedebrand, who left the band immediately after the recordings for Springtime Depression . With this new line-up he also recorded the two albums Love's Burial Ground and Negative Megalomania .

Music and lyrics

Suicide Services compares the music with early works by Katatonia and Shining , which means that the band's musical concept is relatively broad. The group describes their style as "Depressive and Manipulating Dark Metal", whereby they took over many musical stylistic Black Doom elements. What is noticeable on the later albums is the slow tempo of the pieces, which only rises to a black metal level for brief moments of aggression. Likewise, the importance of electronics has increased significantly in the course of the band's history.

The lyrics of the band are mainly about suicide and depression , which means that the group is also classified as Depressive Black Metal . The first EP also contains misanthropic texts. Mr. Morbid sees himself inspired by Katatonia and Burzum and describes himself as "a completely depressed, paranoid and suicide-fixated person" (German: 'a completely depressive, paranoid and suicide-fixated person'). Mr. Morbid sees Black Sabbath as another important inspiration .

“Any metal band that says they are not influenced by Black Sabbath should eat their own shit and kill themselves! Sure, with some bands you can hear the influence a little more than with others, but basically every band is influenced by Black Sabbath! Apart from that, there is also a lot of old-school punk and post-punk as well as dark wave from the eighties. "

- Mr. Morbid

On the album Negative Megalomania , a Gothic-Rock influence is evident. The overall sound is much more open and rockier, the guttural singing is complemented by clear singing. The album contains only five pieces, four of which have a playing time of over ten minutes.

criticism

Anti-fascist circles criticized a homophobic and anti-Semitic utterance by Mr. Morbids, which he called “eGay” and “damn Jewish business” due to the trading of Forgotten Tomb LPs on the eBay auction platform . Such statements, the appearance of Forgotten Tombs as the opening act for Absurd at a concert in Milan in December 2005, as well as the participation of Mr. Morbid and Razor SK in an Italian right-wing rock band, caused a boycott by Legacy magazine . Forgotten Tombs bassist Algol also plays with Kaiser W. von Ad Hominem , Basilisk von Eternity and IIl Colonnello von Frangar in the multinational project Dead ?. In 2013 Forgotten Tomb was supposed to perform at an NSBM festival in Brandenburg; the festival was canceled.

Discography

  • 2000: Obscura arcana mortis (Demo EP)
  • 2002: Songs to Leave (re-released 2005)
  • 2003: Springtime Depression
  • 2004: Love's Burial Ground
  • 2004: Moerklagt sti on Gathered Under the Banner of Strength and Anger: A Homage to Ildjarn
  • 2007: Negative Megalomania
  • 2011: Under Saturn Retrograde
  • 2012: ... and Don't Deliver Us from Evil
  • 2015: Hurt Yourself and the Ones You Love
  • 2017: We owe you nothing

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Forgotten Tomb ( Memento from August 11, 2004 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ a b FORGOTTEN TOMB - Songs to leave ( Memento from August 11, 2004 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Christian Rosenau: Buy the Next Album and Kill yourself. Bloodchamber, accessed June 7, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Geert Van Mook: "99% of humanity should be erased without any mercy" ( Memento of December 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English).
  5. ↑ David Dankert: Interview: Forgotten Tomb - “Fuck off everyone!” Metal Mirror, accessed June 7, 2014 .
  6. ↑ a b Dornbusch / Killguss: Unholy Alliances . Unrast Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 231.
  7. ↑ Azhidahak: Forgotten Tomb interview (07/2004) .
  8. ^ Forgotten Tomb vs German Media ( Memento from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) in the Legacy Forum.
  9. ↑ AV: dead? –Dead? Battle call, May 20, 2009, archived from the original on October 6, 2015 ; Retrieved April 11, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Land Brandenburg (Ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Brandenburg 2013 . 2014, p. 107 ( brandenburg.de [PDF]).
  11. ^ "Fireblade Force Festival": Nazi metal meeting in Brandenburg. Belltower News, accessed May 13, 2018 .