Carpathian Forest

Carpathian Forest
Carpathian Forest live @ Hellfest 2013
Background information
Origin	Sandnes, Rogaland, Kristiansand, Norway
Genres	Black metal
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Avantgarde Music, Season of Mist
Associated acts	Blood Red Throne, Vrangsinn, Green Carnation, Emperor, Solefald, Taake, Aura Noir, In the Woods..., Kvelertak, Gorgoroth
Members	Nattefrost Daniel Vrangsinn Anders Kobro Tchort Blood Pervertor
Past members	Nordavind Lord Blackmangler Damnatus Lazare

Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1990, initially under the name Enthrone.

Biography

The band that would become Carpathian Forest formed in late 1990 in Sandnes, Rogaland, under the name Enthrone, by Nattefrost (then bearing the pseudonym Lord Nosferatu) and Nordavind (who used the pseudonym Lord Karnstein). Enthrone itself emerged from the ashes of another band, The Childmolesters. As Enthrone, the band self-released a demo tape, Black Winds, in 1991.

In 1992, Enthrone changed its name to Carpathian Forest, and Lord Blackmangler and Damnatus joined their line-up. As a quartet they self-released three demo tapes: Rehearsal Outtake, Bloodlust and Perversion (both in 1992) and Journey Through the Cold Moors of Svarttjern (in 1993). However, Damnatus and Lord Blackmangler left afterwards, and Carpathian Forest became once more a duo.

Carpathian Forest would release their first studio work in 1995: the extended play Through Chasm, Caves and Titan Woods, via Avantgarde Music. It would be their first of many releases via Avantgarde.

In 1998 the band released their first full-length album, Black Shining Leather, once more via Avantgarde Music. It was their only release to feature Lazare (who would later join Borknagar) on the band's line-up as a drummer. In the same year they also played their first concert at the Under the Black Sun Festival in Schönermark, Germany.

Lazare left Carpathian Forest in 1999, the same year Anders Kobro, Tchort and Daniel Vrangsinn joined them as permanent members. In the following year, their second full-length, Strange Old Brew, was released. It was their most experimental album so far. By the end of the year they also released a single, "He's Turning Blue".

In 2001, founding member Nordavind left Carpathian Forest, during the recording sessions of their third studio album, Morbid Fascination of Death, that still retained the experimentation (although to a lesser extent) of their previous release, Strange Old Brew. In the following year the compilation album We're Going to Hell for This: Over a Decade of Perversions was released, in order to celebrate the band's 10th anniversary as Carpathian Forest. It was their last album to be released by Avantgarde Music before they switched on to Season of Mist.

Their fourth full-length, Defending the Throne of Evil, was released in 2003 by Season of Mist. Contrasting with Carpathian Forest's previous releases, it was their most melodic album so far, almost reminiscent of symphonic black metal. In late 2003 the band was joined by Gøran "Blood Pervertor" Bomann, and their line-up is unchanged since then.

2004 saw the release of a live DVD, We're Going to Hollywood for This, and a compilation album featuring rarities and reworked versions of old Carpathian Forest songs, Skjend hans lik (Norwegian for "Desecrate His Body").

Carpathian Forest's latest release was the 2006 studio album Fuck You All!!!! Caput tuum in ano est, that was a throwback to their early, blackened thrash metal-like sonority of their debut.

In an early 2008 issue of Terrorizer, Tchort spoke about the possibility of a new album, and the rumors circulating regarding a "half-finished album". He is quoted as saying: "I met with Nattefrost a few weeks ago and we decided to focus on a new album, but we haven't even started writing it yet. The news that we had an album half-finished was based on the fact that we material left over from the last album. Since we record in different studios, this meant that I had the basics for music that Nattefrost never heard". He also divulged that "[we] kind of decided on a slightly new direction for the band, compared to Fuck You All, at least".

The band frontlined the Inferno Festival in 2009, and confirmed rumors that a new album was in the works.^[1]

The band entered on a relative hiatus after 2009, but from 2012 onwards they began to play on some festivals around Europe. The band was scheduled to play on the Maryland Deathfest on May 26, 2013, but their show had to be cancelled due to last-minute visa problems.^[2]

The band is scheduled to play at the Eindhoven Metal Meeting in the Netherlands, on December 2013.

Discography

Studio albums

• 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)

Extended plays

• Through Chasm, Caves and Titan Woods (1995)

Compilations

• Bloodlust and Perversion (1997)
• We're Going to Hell for This: Over a Decade of Perversions (2002)
• Skjend hans lik (2004)

Video releases

• We're Going to Hollywood for This: Live Perversions (2004)

Demo tapes

• Black Winds (1991 — as Enthrone)
• Rehearsal Outtake (1992)
• Bloodlust and Perversion (1992)
• Journey Through the Cold Moors of Svarttjern (1993)

Singles

• "He's Turning Blue" (2000)

Band members

Timeline

References

External links

• Carpathian Forest on Facebook
• Carpathian Forest on Myspace
• {884490D4-7A12-4401-8293-F53F19E Carpathian Forest at MusicMight