![]() The band’s first full-length, The Corpse of Rebirth, although not the most cohesive debut, was a still clear sign of a coherent image the band wished to convey. If you’ve been following this act from the beginning, you’re probably in less need of convincing than anyone else when it comes to the genius of Leeds’ very odd psychedelic black metal project. Funny how some music trends can sound so brilliant and others so ridiculous, and yet all that really matters is the skillfulness of the musicians, not the concept(s) on which their music is based. ![]() In addition, they would need to have a fairly sturdy grasp on all of black metal’s most modern techniques, so that their music could be versatile enough to adapt to whatever older era the artist wanted to channel in their music.Įven with all of that knowledge and skill, if someone said they were going to create an occult steampunk image and replicate Victorian-era music in the context of modern psychedelic black metal, you’d probably laugh them out of the park, right? RIGHT?! Well, you must be new if you’re laughing, because A Forest of Stars has already proven it’s a force to be reckoned with, and now they’re back with their fifth studio album, Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes. ![]() In order to do it right, lest their band be seen as a complete gimmick, one would have to possess enough information about the actual music of the era they wanted to represent. The ingredients for creating black metal suited to assuage all of the miscreants and low-lifes of a particular era during which black metal didn’t actually exist are many. ![]()
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