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Beware The Sword You Cannot See

by A Forest Of Stars

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Tobias Schmitt
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Tobias Schmitt An outstanding example of experimental black metal and one of the very best releases in the genre. And album you won't be able put down til the end, because you'll always wonder what they'll come up with next. Favorite track: Proboscis Master Versus The Powdered Seraphs.
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VUKARI One of my new favorite bands. Black Metal meets powerful poetic, theatrical lyrics and gorgeous melodies and instrumentation throughout. This band takes some of the storytelling aspects of metal to palpably deeper levels with its dazzling display. I love it. Favorite track: Drawing Down The Rain.
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SkunkBeatManiac U.K. Progressive death metal. It reminds me of Akercocke but more palatable as the music progression is relatively logical while there are plenty of catchy melodies. The use of orchestral instruments, chanting and retro-movie audio samples creates seriously sinister atmosphere similar to how Funeral Mist does. Worse the experience. Favorite track: Part VI: Let There Be No Light.
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A new yardstick for other purveyors of allegedly visionary, extreme Metal

It is the year 1895. The mysterious Gentlemen Club A Forest Of Stars publicises its fourth opus in the current format of a phonograph cylinder: "Beware The Sword You Cannot See".

With this offering, A Forest Of Stars make good on the promise given on the predecessor "A Shadowplay For Yesterdays" (2012). The compositions are more adventurous and bold, more eccentric and progressive, yet still melodic and accessible like never before. Conceptually, A Forest Of Stars likewise hark back to older issues and develop them further. Whereas "A Shadowplay..." depicted moral decay based on an individual fate, "Beware The Sword..." transfers the topics of demise and insanity into metaphysical spheres. Accordingly, the sound alchemists' music becomes more universal.

The effect of A Forest Of Stars' new album is similar to what the first mechanical reproductions of music at the end of the 19th century achieved: The aural experience leaves the audience equally stumped and euphoric. Be it the compelling nine minutes of opener "Drawing Down The Rain" (which is accompanied by an animated music video that considerably dwarfs even the impressive clip for "Gatherer Of The Pure"), the sprawling "Virtus Sola Invicta", which comes close to Scandinavian Progressive Rock's finest moments due to its folkloristic-acoustic interludes, or the sexpartite "Pawn On The Universal Chessboard", which sums up and transcends the group's contextual essence - "Beware The Sword You Cannot See" both maintains tradition and innovates, elaborating on an unmistakable style in the light of a complex yet still approachable concept … and eventually a new yardstick for other purveyors of allegedly visionary, extreme Metal to be measured by.

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released February 27, 2015

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120 years before our age, there is a Gentlemen's Club of A Forest Of Stars, an exclusive brotherhood of Victorian Englishmen who consider themselves representatives of their era, an era as glorious and splendid as it is decadent. This collective finds its musical expression in hypnotic and ghostly Black Metal, expertly streaked with elements of Ambient and Psychedelic. ... more

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