Forgot is to count as one of the senior Black Metal bands of Russia. With Burning Down the 2001 demo is now re-released on CD.

With the track Again the CD firstly starts calm and contemplative. A softly guitar melody and atmospheric background elements are toned harmonically, in order to be taken off after less than two minutes by a catching hammering beat. The softly guitar melody has yielded to a faster and creep playing, but - surprisingly - the music doesn't become brute. The guitars turn out to be melodic in a gently way, but not being to playful, yet, and though the simple rhythm certainly is driving, it isn't hard or fast. All Will Disappear follows a similar structuring. The catching played and now and then very mechanic sounding drumming (drum computer?) owes the lively and driving rhythm, which here is created faster and more varied, yet. Besides is the melodic guitar line, which takes in well and emphatic melodies, but at no time acts too playful or melodic. Another noticeable characteristic of Forgot are those vocals, which obviously are distorted but quite silent and more coming from the background. The title song Burning Down is from the beginning a fast, easy to grasp and raw track, occasionally having rhythmic and melodic variations.
After the rather rough Burning Down it continues with the song Forgot very harmonic and almost even lovely. The slow drumming has now a natural and pressureful sound, the tranquil guitar melodies engender a spherical atmosphere, because of single tones being stretched long. After three and a half minute this idyll is replaced harshly by a fast, grim and decided catching part. Forgot contains this guise to the end, but while those hammering passage delicate melodies are heard in the background.
My Star is an instrumental, which only exists of the dull and fast hammering drumming and a sequence of the incessantly riffing. More diversified it continues on Misanthropy, a quickly played track with a magnificent melody leading while the centrepiece. Here the quite better sound astonishes, which is rather very similar as the song Forgot. The drums have a pressureful sound and the vocals are slightly louder and more present. Thereof the following Nuclear Winds isn't the point. The sound is dull and week, the mechanic drumming rigidly stamps its beat and the very fast played and raw sounding guitars create something extremely brute and fierce. The finally song The Standard comes along in the same soundly guise than the first three songs. Atmospherically The Standard is turned out right sombre. This lies at the dark sounding guitars and the calm harmonic elements. That is discreetly heard in the background.

Burning Down is a succeeded Raw Black Metal release, but you have to listen in. For the first there's the drumming, which is rather getting used to and also the several differing sound quality of the single songs. Passed that all, it unveils a good and independent Black Metal, which can come up with some very good melodic arrangements, whereby it's necessary to mention, that Burning Down is NO Melodic Black metal. Sound and playing are definitely raw, but Forgot adds these rawness melodic elements dexterously.


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(Translation by: G.P.)

01. Again
02. All will disappear
03. Burning down
04. Forgot
05. My star
06. Misanthropy
07. Nuclear wind
08. The standard


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