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Have you heard of this band? Carpathian Forest is Satanic, and creepy and so on. it's great and sounds great. I don't want to rate their albums cuz i'm not really into them since i just found them but they're amazing. i love them, why don't you give this band a test? They're really mayhem'ic. although, they have some rock vibes, and that's ok like behemoth is already blackened metalcore but everyone's talking about their black metal parts.

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I like Carpathian Forest and own the grand 'Through Chasm Caves and Titan Woods' and the dark and disturbing 'Strange Old Brew'. Great titles by the way. 

Overall, though, they haven't really grabbed me and held my attention over the years and I don't often play them these days. Maybe I should revisit them a bit more. As far as the rest of their catalogue is concerned, there could be some gems out there, but nothing on the two releases that I own has really prompted me to get out there and complete the collection. 

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Carpathian Forest is the band i turn to whenever i get tired of your average black metal and want a more simple, agressive, primitive sound. I like how they carved their own path and chose for a more mid paced old school metal approach instead of non stop blast beats and tremolo picking like most Norwegian bands. Also love how their first album "Black Shining Leather" has such a prominent bass tone, absolutely unheard of in black metal at the time and that cover of The Cure´s "A Forest" is just magnificent.

 

"Skjend Hans Lik" and "Fuck You All!!!" are also standout albums, the first one has some cool synth work which work really well and their last album just sounds really pissed off and has a beautiful heavy production sound.  I know they put out a single a few years ago that sounded okay, but a new album doesn´t seem to be in the works. I don´t know if Nattefrost is even up to nowadays. To be honest he sounds like shit in the live video´s i´ve seen recently but that might have to do with him finally kicking his heroin addiction.  Was never a fan of his solo album though, they just sounded a little too basic and primitive for my taste.

Still i´m hoping to at least see one more Carpathian forest album or at least to get the chance to see them live once.

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I can't decide whether or not I'm into Carpathian Forest. I had one of their CDs when I was younger but I don't remember anything on it jumping out at me in particular and to be completely honest, I can't even remember what album it was.

If Carpathian Forest had some cool vinyl editions, I'd probably check them out again now that I'm older.

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