Carpathian Forest

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Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1990.

Carpathian Forest's lyrics deal with themes such as Satanism, evil, anti-Christianity, sodomy, sadism, sexual depravity and suicide.

Biography

Carpathian Forest is enjoying near cult status in the scene. Emerged at first with the demo tape "Bloodlust & Perversion" (1992), they received sudden enthusiastic responses from the underground. Their obsessive, morbid and grim sound has always been a firm trademark. In 1993 the band released a second demo "Journey through the cold moors of Svarttjern", showing also a new approach to atmospheric, but still glacial tunes. These tapes quickly became coveted items in underground tape traders networks. One year later, Forest signed to Avantgarde Music and recorded their first mini album, the black metal classic "Through chasm, caves and titan woods" (1995).

In 1998, Carpathian Forest came back with a successful release, after three years of silence. The new work is titled "Strange Old Brew" (produced by Terje Refsnes in Sound Suite studios), and an additional one is yet to be released - "Morbid Fascination Of Death", a second piece in this 2-set concept. There has been some change: Nordavind has left the band, and there is a new guest drummer, A. Kobro (from ... In The Woods). Also helping out is Tchort (ex-Emperor, ex-Satyricon, Blood Red Throne etc.) on guitar and now Vrangsinn (of World Destroyer) has taken over the duties of bassist and synth programmer Nordavind. The album "Black Shining Leather" has been a top seller at Avantgarde Music for 2 years.

Discography

Studio albums

• Through Chasm, Caves and Titan Woods (1995)
• Black Shining Leather (1998)
• Strange Old Brew (2000)
• Morbid Fascination of Death (2001)
• Defending the Throne of Evil (2003)
• Fuck You All!!!! Caput tuum in ano est (2006)

Compilation albums

• Bloodlust and Perversion (1997)
• We're Going to Hell for This (2002)
• We're Going to Hollywood for This - Live Perversions (2004, video release)
• Skjend Hans Lik (2004)

Demos

• Bloodlust & Perversion (1992)
• Journey through the Cold Moors of Svarttjern (1993)

Band members

Current members

• "Hellcommander" Nattefrost (Roger Rasmussen) - vocals, guitar, arrangements, production, bass guitar (1990-)
• Vrangsinn -Backing vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, arrangements, production and engineering (1999-)
• Anders Kobro - drums (1999-)
• Blood Perverter (Goran Boman) - guitar (2003-)

Former members

• Tchort (Terje Vik Schei) - guitar, bass guitar (1999-2009)
• Johnny Nordavind - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboard, arrangements (1990-2000)
• Lazare (Lars Are Nedland) - session drums (1997)
• Mothörsen (Arvid Thorsen) saxophone 2000 - 2004
• Kulde (Eivind Kulde) live session on keyboards 2002

Nina Hex - Backing vocals 2000-2001 I.K. Hellslut - words, counting to 4 on Bloodlust & Perversion (We're going to hell for this - Over a decade of perversions"

Related bands

• Grimm (pre-Carpathian Forest)
• Nattefrost - Nattefrost's solo black metal project
• Blood Red Throne - Tchort's death metal band
• Bloodline - Nattefrost performed vocals on "Werewolf Training"
• Green Carnation - Tchort's progressive metal band
• Emperor - Tchort played bass for In the Nightside Eclipse
• Solefald - Lazare's avant-garde-black metal band
• World Destroyer - Nattefrost and Vrangsinn's black metal band
• Hatepulse - Vrangsinn's black metal band
• SECHT - black metal band formed in 2005 by Vrangsinn and Dirge Rep
• Neetzach - Vrangsinn is also in this band formed by Gidim Xul
• Taake - Nattefrost performed guest vocals on Dødskvad Part 1
• Aura Noir - Nattefrost performed guest vocals on "Funeral Thrash"
• A Waste of Talent - Doom/groove band formed in 1992 by Vrangsinn and Skaperen. a.k.a Psycodelic Steamtrain. their self titled style of music is Groovydepressive PopRockMetal with a lof of Doom
• In the Woods... - Anders Kobro performed the drums on all albums
• Kvelertak - Nattefrost performed vocals on "Fossegrim"

See also

• Season of Mist - Carpathian Forest's record label

External links

• Official homepage
• Carpathian Forest at Rockdetector
• The cover version of the song "a forest" from Carpathian Forest