Old Forest – Into The Old Forest (1999)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Grond (Hammer Of The Underworld) 04:29
2. Death In The Cemetary 04:57
3. To Haunt The Old Forest 03:38
4. Hymn Of The Deep 05:19
5. Glistening... 03:34
6. Where Trees Are Withered 04:05
7. Shadow Whispers 04:20
8. Become The Gods Of War 04:19
9. Hammer Of The Underworld (Demo Bonus Track) 04:13
10. Death In The Cemetary (Demo Bonus Track) 04:50
11. Shadows Whispers (Demo Bonus Track) 03:29
12. The Deepest Caves (Demo Bonus Track) 01:04

Old Forest was formed in 1998 and consisted of Kobold (James Fogarty of In the Woods..., Ewigkeit),

 Beleth and Lord Grond (Orcrypt).
With influences from the early 90s classic bands, such as Emperor, Ancient, Darkthrone and Burzum,

Old Forest formed in order to preserve the underground and, by then, lost feeling of cult spirit of Black Metal.
The debut demo "Of Mists And Graves" was self-released, and led to a handfull of offers 

from reputable black metal labels to release the debut album.
After the second demo "The Kingdom Of Darkness" was recorded,

Old Forest set about recording their debut album "Into The Old Forest" for the label Mordgrimm Records.
The album was universally hated by commercial magazines,

got terrible reviews and became an instant underground classic.
A second album was recorded in 1999, "None More Black", but this was never released.
The band was placed on hiatus and the master tapes of the unreleased album were buried in the New Forest in Hampshire.
In 2007, Old Forest reactivated once again re-releasing all of their demo recordings as free digital downloads,

to re-aquaint the old fans, and to act as a flag-bearer for a new crusade of anti-commercial Cult Black Metal.
They then began work on writing and recording the "Tales Of The Sussex Weald" trilogy of EPs

for the record label Death To Music Productions.
In 2011, the 3rd and final part of the trilogy was released,

along with parts 1 and 2, on the full-length album "Tales Of The Sussex Weald".
In 2015 the band released their latest album "Dagian" through the Avantgarde Music label

featuring Kobro (In the Woods..., ex-Carpathian Forest) on drums.

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