Forest - Forest
This NSBM band hails from Russia, a place that is starting to look like Poland when it comes to the number of NS bands emerging from there. Obviously, from the music, Forest is heavily influenced by Burzum (at least, early Burzum). Their sound isn’t a blatant copy of Varg’s early material, though. Forest roughly sounds like the crossing of Burzum, Darkthrone/Isengard and Akrabu, the Dark Ambient side-project of Vampyr Scorpius of Crimson Moon. The main influence, however, remains Burzum. Yes, Forest is fond of creating long, minimalistic (to an extent, anyway) songs filled with droning riffs and tortured vocals. The last song, “Winter Howl,” is perhaps the longest track and is more reminiscent of Akrabu in that it is mostly acoustic guitar and vocals. The production on Forest is also reminiscent of Burzum. It is raw, yet at the same time, the levels of the instruments in the mix are such that you can hear things fairly well. The drums provide a solid base and everything else sort of goes on top of them. Forest is a raw, hateful album that never degenerates into being under-produced or even stereotypical. This band sounds like they were influenced by Burzum, but they never actually clone the Burzum sound. I really like that about them, and it really makes this album more interesting.
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