Forgotten Silence
Vemork Konstrukt (box)
Die-hard box set version, limited to 200 units only! Comes on neon purple vinyl, and includes and 8-page booklet, an oldschool logo metal pin, a poster, an A5 plastic sticker and a Japanese metallic obi strip with numbering. "It would have been too easy wouldn't it? After all, Forgotten Silence could have easily capitalized on the current yearning for vintage mid-'90s extreme sounds. And weren't the South Moravia-based sextet, next to other Czech Republic contemporaries such as Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy, Love History or Parasophisma, supposed to have lived the tale and contributed forging that very peculiar sound? Except that you can't just rewrite history because right from the very start, say around 1996 when they released their out-of-this-world debut 'Thots' on Obscene Productions, they simply refused to play by the rules. And they still do to this day. Their 2023 album, and follow-up to the equally bizarre 2018 masterpiece 'Kras,' is another tour de force, mixing death, doom, progressive rock, jazz and everything in between. As all its predecessors, 'Vemork Konstrukt' knows no boundaries. Yet its many left-turns are always at the service of the songs, thanks to crafty arrangements and the angelic voice of newcomer Andrea Baslova. A roller-coaster of emotions it might be but a concise one, as Forgotten Silence have put a lot of efforts in their first recording in five years, resulting in a four-tracks 39-minutes long avant-garde masterpiece. While Magick Disk Musick will take care of the regular black LP, the long-time admirers of the band Doomentia will take care of the LP version, culminating with a superb extremely limited die-hard version. So join the dance!