One year after the first demo In Conspirancy With Nature the second demo Damned and Forgotten getting published those days. Since In Conspirancy With Nature something has gone on with The Frost, how you can listen without difficulty. The purpose, finding a drummer for the Damned and Forgotten recording, failed indeed. Gorgor had to use a drum computer once more, but for the very last time as he wrote.

After the intro Under the Spell of the Stellar Night - existing of acoustic guitars and wolves howling -, it instantaneously starts fast, stomping and driving with In the Name of Eternal Darkness. Knowing the In Conspiracy With Nature demo you instantly notice this clear, differentiated and powerful sound. This professional sound engineering affects clearly on the vocals, being more constant on Damned and Forgotten as its predecessor. It doesn't seem as much distorted as once and consequently fits with actual musical level of The Frost. With the title song Damned and Forgotten follows another fast and rhythmic prevailing easy to grasp track, accompanied with fast and rough riffing. Alternation getting attain as on In the Name of Eternal Darkness by slow and melodic refrains.
With Lost in the Valley of Death follows an altogether quieter and less brute piece in which The Frostwork with mid-tempi and powerful slow beats. Concluding with On the Winters of Solitude you hear the by a wide margin longest song of the demo. It's slow and mighty with a ling catching passage passing through by well and grasping riffing.

Damned and Forgotten is a succeeded second demo where the enhancement as tonal as material concerning is distinctly perceptible to its predecessor. Also drum computer fits in better although it sporadically is determining as such. Yet this is in acceptable bounds and is of no consequence considering with the fact Gorgor knows his instrumental skill. Damned and Forgotten is pure, convincing underground Black Metal without any frippery. So this truly should be the last publishing with a drum machine, you could be curious of future material.


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(Translation by G.P.)

01. Under a spell of the stellar night
02. In the name of eternal darkness
03. Damned and forgotten
04. Lost in the valley of death
05. On the winter paths of solitude
06. Ravens on the bloodred sky
07. Through the snowy forests of old
08. ...where the wolves paths lead


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