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Artist: FORGOTTEN
SUNRISE
Album: Willand
Year: 2007
It was eighteen months ago when I read the news on the
MySpace page of Forgotten Sunrise that the recording
sessions of their new album were finished, and that the
album is ready to be released. Yes, I said eighteen
months ago. “Did it took you so long to get hold on a
copy of the album then?” Well, no... but it took their
label this long to release it! Anyway, Willand came
finally out on April 17th, 2007 and contains twelve new
tracks in their deathbeat vain.
After the intro, the album continues with a song called
‘Ropelove’. This track is musically very synth pop and
future pop influenced (which make this track a danceable
and easy listening one), with dark and brutal vocal
lines. ‘LO-Fi PPL In The Fade-Out World’ contains fast
and hyperactive programming with wicked synth lines and
beautiful vocal parts. Definitely a song that can make
people dance from the start to the end. The grunts in
this song are very well placed. ‘Nextep Suicide’ is a
very dark and danceable track, with beautiful keybord
passages. ‘Dead Le Gends A Mong The Living’ is an easy
listening dark electro track, with a surprisingly fresh
and powerful chorus. ‘Prophylactic EUthanAsia’ is a
sensitive song, with a big wink to the ‘old school’
regions of the gothic rock world. The one and only track
on the album that contains accoustic guitars! ‘Christ
Your Name’ is build on a bassline spine, while added
cold synthlines and whispering vocals to suddenly wake
up in the chorus, which is a cool part of gothic metal.
‘Manyone’ is an instrumental track (very synth pop
based!), and next up comes ‘Veri De:p Shortgut’. This
track contains a bouncing beat, extremely cool
guitarwork and the most wicked sampling of the entire
album. This track would be excellent for a potential
single award. ‘Hero-In-Gre:npiece’ comes up next. This
happens to be my favourite track of the album. It
contains very strong guitar parts, variative vocal parts
and a beat that keeps you mesmerized the entire song.
Some cool surprisingly intermezzo’s (a heavy bass one
and a slightly ambient one) are extremely well placed.
‘The Ownle: Noise’ is again more of the sensitive type.
Gothic rock, metal and industrial are all mixed in a
package, and the beautiful vocal lines wrap it all
together as one. The last track is a 15 minutes outro,
with very impressive and dark music.
Metalfans who are known with the Ru:Mipu:Dus record will
probably like this album lesser, because overall the
Ru:Mipu:Dus album seemed more metal influenced. Still,
this new album must be a blast for the open minded
metalfans, and of course the people who dig electronic
stuff. Anders’ voice is one of the most diverse in the
genre (deep and powerful grunts mixed with dark clean
vocals – in fact, I think he is really able to sing
“sensitively”with those) and the electronic parts are
catchy, dark and powerful. The musicians really know how
to play their instruments and how to create something
special and unique on each track. An album with just no
weak points, which really justifies their slogan:
‘Negative music for positive results’... dark music, sad
lyrics, but with a very positive result!
Vote: 100 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. I
02. Ropelove
03. LO-Fi PPL In The
Fade-Out World
04. Nextep Suicide
05. Dead Le Gends A Mong
The Living
06. Prophylactic
EUthanAsia
07. Christ Your Name
08. Manyone
09. Veri De:p Shortgut
10. Hero-In-Gre:npiece
11. The Ownle: Noise
12. O |
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