Arts of Desolation [Import]

Arts of Desolation [Import]

Track Listings

1. Inubator

2. The Hatebreed

3. Cold Flesh Colony

4. Deathroned

5. Embedded Insanity

6. The Second Manifest

7. Injected Terror

8. Human Chapter X

9. Scears

10. Mental Degeneration

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
2002 album from melodic death metal act. Century Media.

Arts of Desolation,Forsaken,Century,Heavy Metal,Metal

Average customer rating:

Incredible

Some of the best (and least known) Metal out there

DEATH F@#$%NG METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

amazing

Superb Release by an Under-Rated Band

Arts of Desolation
The Forsaken
Manufacturer: Century Media
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music
Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
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Manifest of Hate

Traces of the Past

Rusted Angel

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Hate, Malice, Revenge

ASIN: B000069HJA
Release Date: 2002-07-23

Tracks:

Incubator
The Hatebreed
Cold Flesh Colony
Dethroned
Embedded Insanity
The Second Manifest
Injected Terror
Human Chapter X
Scars
Mental Degeneration
Human Prey

Album Description

2002 release on Century Media includes the bonus track 'Human Prey'.

Customer Reviews:

Incredible.......2004-08-23

Let me start by saying I'm not really a fan of Death Metal. I'm more into metalcore and a few DM acts such as The Black Dahlia Murder, Opeth, Hypocrisy, Bloodbath, Carnal Forge, The Crown, and At the Gates. But I'm not here to talk about myself. So let's start.

EVERY aspect of this album is perfect. Overall length, production, mixing, and of course musicianship. The Forsaken play their instruments with a passion present on every song. Anders Sjoholm is a brilliant vocalist. His lower pitched growling is crushing, his higher pitched scream is gut-wrenching. It contrasts perfectly with the sonic storm backing him. The guitarists, Stefan Holm and Patrik Persson, have come up with some truly inspired riffs and solos. It's a joy to listen to them shred. Persson also plays bass on this album. It's quite good. Audible in every song, it contributes just that right amount of heaviness and makes each song better in some way. The drummer, Nicke Grabowski, is a maniac on his kit. Nice double kick and and his timing is perfect, never misses a beat. Each song has nice structure and good rythymn and they never sound similar or uninspired. Very brutal and sometimes technical, with a an infusion of melody. Almost every song has some hook or groove that can get stuck in your head for days. Standout tracks include "Incubator", "Embedded Insanity", "Injected Terror", and "Human Prey".

In summation: incredible music,crushing and catchy, very much worth a purchase. A supremely crafted piece of Death Metal art(hell, even the cover art is cool) You owe it to yourself to buy it.

Some of the best (and least known) Metal out there.......2004-03-03

I haven't written a CD review in a long, long time. But I felt like I had to here. I am a lifelong metal fan, but recently I was really hungry for some new, good quality metal. I feel like I am extremely picky about what I like, in fact I would say that I personally feel that only three metal bands out there currently deserve the "god" like status that so many metal fans attribute to almost anything that moves. Because if that.. I find it hard to find metal the really moves me.

After many days of hard searching, I heard about the forsaken. It was really difficult to get my hands on any audio samples, but I finally did. It only took me a couple listens to a couple tracks to convince me I had found something worth buying. I bought both this album and their previous album. Now that I have both full albums to listen to, I have to be honest: I am totally blown away by the incredibly quality of this music. This band easily deserves to be mentioned alongside the other three bands I believe are the most talented in metal today.

This is without a doubt, some of the best death metal I've ever heard in my life. What is so fantastic about it is how diverse and catchy virtually all the songs are. Every song has clear direction, flow, and even melody. The production quality is great - by that I primarily mean that the mix between guitars, bass, drums and vocals is crisp and clear, nothing drowns out anything else, even at the bands most chaotic moments. The guitar solos are particularly fascinating. Many of them take on the style of a classically trained guitarist. The common stereotypical direction I'm expecting a solo to go never happens.

Another beautiful thing about this CD is that it masterfully the best points of Swedish metal and the best points of more guitar driven power metal (think Arch Enemy) and places both of those styles under the dominating flag of Death metal. Overall I can truly say that I have not been this impressed with a new album in probably years. Simply incredible stuff.

DEATH F@#$%NG METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2003-12-24

Yeah, I know that was a litte over the top but that's how enthusiastic I am about this exciting new Swedish band. I am surprised at how underrated these guys are. I like relatively newer bands such as Arch enemy, Children of Bodom, and Opeth and I think that The forsaken could easily fit in with the afformentioned bands as far as greatness goes. The forsaken's mix of brutal/technical Death metal and Melodic Death metal is perfected on all of their albums (which, as of this writing, covers two albums). The music is loaded with hooks (I've got "Embedded insanity" stuck in my head right now!) and Anders Sjoholm has an excellent agressive voice. These cats have definetly done their homework.

The future looks good for quality Death metal! ROCK HARD AND BANG THE HEAD THAT DOESN'T BANG!

amazing.......2003-06-03

I agree with everything everyone else said so far... but here's what I think: If you like death metal at all, you will LOVE this. Basically this takes everything I love from any type of death metal and puts it all on one cd, blending it perfectly together. Great guitar work, really brutal, but at the same time really intricate and melodic. Awesome solos. This band deserves to be huge. One of the best death metal cds of 2002, no forget that, of ALL TIME.

Superb Release by an Under-Rated Band.......2003-02-13

Despite their amazing talent, The Forsaken aren't picked up on the radar much by the majority of the death (and Swedish death) metal scene. Why is this? I have absolutely no ... idea. This band is far superior than most of the newer efforts out there in the scene these days, and this album shows just how much these guys have learned from the great death metal bands of old.

With the release of "Arts of Desolation", this band has honed their skills from "Manifest of Hate" to create an incredibly more precise, incredibly more diverse album. They took the best parts from songs such as 'Seer's Hatred' and 'Truth of God' from their debut and elaborated on them to create, by far, one of the best death metal releases of 2002. It can't be mistaken that this band is, at heart, a Swedish metal band, but they took the Swedish sound to a whole new level by adding a very, VERY heavy dose of traditional, blistering death metal in the vein of Morbid Angel and Suffocation. This is sort of like what you'd get if you took Arch Enemy or The Haunted and made them a REAL death metal band in the traditional sense. For someone looking for a modern, refreshing dose of death metal goodness, look no further than this album. "Arts of Desolation" contains awesome blastbeats, blazing guitars throughout the entire disc (including some GREAT solos!), thundering bass, and absolutely scorching vocals. Why this band hasn't received more accolade for their release of this album is beyond my comprehension. 'The Hatebreed', 'Injected Terror' and 'Human Chapter X' are some of my favorites, but ALL of this album rocks. The bonus track 'Human Prey' is also very cool.