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

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), followed by the debut album Black Shining Leather in 1997.

In 1998, Carpathian Forest came back with a successful release, after three years of silence. Carpathian Forest are to play the first concert in 1998 at the Quart Festival, Kristiansand Norway supporting Immortal and Satyricon. And for that occasion Tchort (bass), A Kobro (drums) and Vrangsinn (synth) are brought in as session musicians for that concert. The Under the black sun festival in Germany holds CF as headliners and both founder members were interested in continue with the new line-up on the coming recordings. A short studio session december 1998 with Tchort and A Kobro now beeing permanent members in CF, resulting in He`s Turning Blue 7" picture ep, shortly after followed by the recordings titled "Strange Old Brew & Morbid Fascinations of Death" (recorded at the same time and is produced by Terje Refsnes in Sound Suite studio in Sandnes), Strange Old Brew containing the oldest material beeing released first through Avantgarde Music and Morbid Fascinations of Death coming out one year later . : Nordavind left the band after the Strange/Morbid studio session of personal reasons with Tchort beeing promoted as guitarist and Vrangsinn went to play the bass-guitar and now introdusing Bloodpervertor for keyboard duties on the following tours.

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, A Kobro- started as a death metal band in 1990/91, 1999- a doom/progressive rock/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 guest vocals on "Fossegrim"

See also

• Season of Mist - Carpathian Forest's record label

External links

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