The Forsaken [New Song Up!]

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Bio:
Southern Swedens THE FORSAKEN, one of the most promisingly brutal but yet technically skilled new generation Death Metal acts from Scandinavia, strike back with their third and supremely devastating new album Traces Of The Past. Scant years after the bands initial foundation in 1997 (under a different band name) and a Demo-CD in 1999, this deadly quintet have released two highly-acclaimed albums (Manifest Of Hate and Arts Of Desolation) and now deliver their most effective, mature release to date, flawlessly progressing within their chosen ever-gloomy melodic Death/Thrash Metal path.
Traces Of The Past turned out to be a stylistically sinister release, always entertaining for the listener due to the well-balanced mixture of typically Swedish melody and dual harmony guitar work, catchy aggression and extremely diverse song-writing, crowned by utterly brutal vocal derangement courtesy of Viking-like Anders Sjholm (also in Ominous / Massgrav), who masterly manages to combine shrieking screams and subterraneal growls with a tasty feel for good hooks in his vocal lines.
THE FORSAKEN have notoriously grown to a compact, relentless unity after touring with the likes of Nile / The Haunted / Carnal Forge or Grave / Disinter as well as adding new bass-player Stefan Junior Berg as a steady band member after original bassist Michael Hkansson departed for Evergrey, while the bass-lines on Arts of Desolation had been performed by axeman Patrik Persson.
As with the bands earlier recordings, THE FORSAKEN have decided to once again record Traces Of The Past together with producer Tommy Tgtgren at Abyss Studios in Sweden, achieving their most impressive powerful sound quality result so far, and the albums artwork as well as the photography has been designed by Dark Tranquillitys own Niklas Sundin (Arch Enemy, Naglfar, In Flames, etc.).
If you appreciate pulverizing, pure SweDeath in the lines of bands like Hypocrisy, Amon Amarth or early Dissection mixed with some early 90s Florida Death Metal-style, THE FORSAKEN should be your obvious pick to satisfy any needed dose of sonic brutality.
These majestic 11 tracks on Traces Of The Past, including a pounding version of Metallicas Blackened closing off the album, will get your stereo dangerously addicted, if not crushed by the high energy of the compositions and remorseless speed-overload! Look out for the band touring Europe again by the Spring of 2004