2023-09-04 06:00:52
Dark Forest – Beyond
Origin: Deutschland
Release: 08.09.2023
Label: AOP Records
Duration: 39:09
Genre: Black Forest Metal
After releasing five albums, the Pagan Black veterans are back Window forest in between with their EP Beyond back. Although the EP only contains four tracks, it still has an impressive running time of over 39 minutes. The only question that remains is whether quality and quantity go hand in hand or whether the work gets lost in lengthiness.
Makes the beginning Chapter I – Freedomthat you HERE can listen. And the number actually sounds as if the band never left. Well-thought-out riffs that switch back and forth between driving mid-tempo passages and fast double kick parts. Plus the usual changes between screams, clean singing and choirs. Lyrically, the music here is also at an extremely high level, as usual. But the same can also be done Chapter II – Duality say that one HERE may lead to feelings. So far the material offers enough variety that several titles could have been made from it without anyone noticing.
The band in top form
Almost a short time works against it Chapter III – Reflections with just five and a half minutes. But at the same time, the title also represents the folk ballad of the EP. After about two minutes of intro, which keeps building up, only clean singing follows, which ultimately turns into a choir.
The song itself has no electrical instruments at all and creates a melancholic but at the same time somehow optimistic atmosphere. Very difficult to describe and you should really see for yourself.
Finally, come along Kapitel IV – Katharsis another 16-minute monster, however Window forest embodied in its purest form. Here we move through all imaginable genres and influences that have defined the band for so many years. From almost classic black metal to post metal and light folk influences. Sometimes you work with a crowbar and other times with a fine blade. More than a successful conclusion to the EP.
Conclusion
Window forest show with Beyondthat they were never really gone. The four tracks, which together result in a running time that some albums could only wish for, are convincing in every respect. We can only hope that, as is often the case after such releases, a full-length album will soon follow that can fulfill the immense expectations that the EP has now stoked. First of all, there are highly deserving ones here 9 / 10
Line Up
Olli Berlin – Gesang
Simon Schillinger – guitars, vocals
David Schuldig – guitars
Tobias Weinreich – bass
Cornelius Heck – drums
Sebastian Scherrer – Keyboard
Tracklist
01. Chapter I – Freedom
02- Chapter II – Duality
03. Chapter III – Reflections
04. Kapitel IV – Katharsis
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