Bloodlust & Perversion - Carpathian Forest

Description: Genre: Hard Rock & Metal / Artist: Carpathian Forest / Audio CD released 1998-06-08 at Wounded Love / Disc #1 ... more

Bloodlust & Perversion - Carpathian Forest ... Tracklisting
1 Through the Black Veil of the Burgo Pass
2 Bloodlust and Perversion
3 Return of the Freezing Winds
4 Woods of Wallachia
5 Wings over the Mountain of Sighisoara
6 Journey Through the Cold Moors of Svarttjern
7 Eclipse/The Raven
8 Last Sigh of Nostalgia
9 Carpathian Forest
10 Call from the Grave
11 Return of Freezing Winds
12 In the Circle of Ravens
13 Warhead

Newest Review: ... titled 'Rehearsal Tape' to provide the comprehensive demo collection (the other demo release 'In These Trees Are My Gallows' ... more

... contained the same songs as 'Svarttjern'). The material here is commendably mixed. The 1992 demos offer relatively slow black metal grooves in the spirit of the first wave bands that pioneered black metal before it sounded like black metal, most notably Bathory and Venom, both of whom are covered in the rehearsal warm-up that forms the latter section of the compilation, while the 1993 release showcases a more melodic, atmospheric and melancholic style with a prominent keyboard presence comparable to Burzum. At...more

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Bloodlust & Perversion - Carpathian Forest: Songs From the Woods (990 words)
by - written on 13/04/08 (Very useful, 33 readings)
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I'm a sucker for a really terrible quality black metal demo recording, and I often end up preferring them to the more polished and audible studio albums that come later on. I can't really explain it, but I suppose I love them for their genuine raw simplicity and the authentic gloomy atmosphere that can only come from recording on cheap equipment in your parents' cellar, rather than striving to achieve the same lo-fi sound through artificial means as many more fortunate bands with proper funding embarrassingly attempt to, in an effort to appear more D.I.Y. (Ulver's 'Nattens Madrigal' would be the defining example, if not for the rumours that the band spent the record ... Read the complete review