Forlorn Chambers - Unborn and Hollow - 3 Track E.P. - Released 2012

Forlorn Chambers

Unborn and Hollow

3 Track E.P

Released 2012

Forlorn Chambers – Tampere, Finland

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/ForlornChambers

Written for www.Brutalism.com

Genre: Death Metal

Forlorn Chambers seem to have sprung up from nowhere as their Facebook page suggests. There is no clue to who or how many people are in the band, but I love a good mystery and hoping despite that, that what is contained here within these tracks are good, wholesome and full of death!

The band’s cover is also full of intrigue and mystery and is a mass of bland greyness that looks eerily through smoke into a church or cathedral and well in keeping with the band’s music.

And off to an amazing start for a debut E.P. this is just inspiring. It suggests black but when the vocals begin it sounds very death with nice guttural swipes, melodic and heavy guitar with a superb throbbing drum beat. Profoundly deep and rhythmic and a constant source of interest can be had by the listener here with heaps of originality – just listen out for the deep resonating sound that penetrates the gut as you raise the volume it really hits hard. The eeriness of this track is outstanding.

Totally different to the previous track it holds a deep penetrating sound that is dark, rhythmic and powerful. With a swathe of blast beats and cookie monster vocals – always a favourite of mine it pummels with sheer intensity and flows like liquid gold. Varying in tempo’s there is a lot to listen to within these tracks and will keep you immersed in a dark beauty from this virtually unknown band.

Again a very deep but varied track that eats into your brain and produces some superb blast beats and stark, crisp guitar.  On hearing the vocal secretions it has sent an icy cold chill down my spine and it keeps coming. Incredibly haunting and melodic with heaps of impact and no doubt this will be getting played a few more times yet to fully appreciate and savour the tracks again in all their dark glory.

To Sum up:

A very intense listen of three sophisticated tracks that have a wind chill factor of well below zero on the scale. You can experience the bands tracks in their entirety on their Sound-cloud page but better still I would go out and buy these tracks for their originality and dynamic rhythms that stand out from the crowd.

A really superb listen – If I lived in Finland I would certainly be checking the scene out to see if they were playing live anywhere and go and support them - that is for sure and if I don’t find out who the members are then what the heck, their music is superb anyways and maybe having that air of mystery about them is just what makes their music even more compelling in the long run, but I am still intrigued. A superb effort for a debut that’s for sure.

Check them out, click on their page, like the page and listen to their music – you will NOT regret it! Let’s get the fan-base up from a miserable 54 to 5,400 because this band deserves some – no in fact a lot of credit!!!

5/5

Track List:

Unborn and Hollow

And we hail the ones who fall

Desolate Resolution

Members:
????