Listening to their third album really gets me going, traditional but unique heavy metal with epic guitars comparable to Iron Maiden at times with their good melodies and atmosphere. The new vocalsist is really doing a good job here, 'The Awakening' has become one of my 'feelgood' albums lately! Heavy metal at it's best! Nothing more to say.
UK-based traditional metallers DARK FOREST are set to return with their anticipated third long-player, The Awakening. The album has been slated for North American release on March 11 via Cruz Del Sur Music.
DARK FOREST was forged in the Black Country, England by guitarist
Christian Horton. For just over a decade they have been delivering their
uniquely rousing, defiant heavy metal to the world. With the release of
their self-made EPs in 2007, the band quickly gained the attention and
support of the heavy metal underground, both in England and abroad, and
then went from strength to strength, gigging across Europe and the UK
and releasing their self titled debut album in 2009, then Dawn of Infinity in 2011.
In 2012 DARK FOREST recruited the outstanding vocalist Josh Winnard as
their new front man and shortly afterwards also gained the incredible
talents of guitarist Pat Jenkins. With this new line up, the band
immediately began writing fresh material and entered the recording
studio in June 2013 to produce their third album The Awakening.
The album is recorded in 444hz instead of the standardized 440hz
tuning. The decision was based by studying the lost "Solfeggio
frequencies", original sound frequencies which were apparently used in
Ancient Gregorian Chants and were believed to impart "spiritual
blessings when sung in harmony"* and also by studying the nefarious
origins of 440hz. Tuning to 444hz corresponds to a "C" of 528hz on the
Solfeggio Frequency Scale, the exact frequency used by genetic
biochemists to repair broken DNA. This frequency is also believed to
encourage "Transformation and Miracles."
DARK FOREST's innate sense of melody remains intact on The Awakening,
as well as the band's trademarked epic twin-guitar dueling, but this
time the album is permeated by a general sense of oppression and sorrow
and sounds much more reflective than their previous works. Not by
coincidence, The Awakening opens with the ending lines of Percy
Bysshe Shelley's poem " The Mask of Anarchy" and ends with the anthem
"Sons of England". The awakening must be both spiritual and
intellectual and through the rediscovery of our roots and a connection
to nature, must lead all humanity to remember the truth - that we are
infinite consciousness and we are one. This is the realization that will
defeat the global control system of the elite and set humanity free.www.facebook.com/Darkforestuk
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