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Svart: Förlorad
14/12/12 || BamaHammer
Having already expressed my sheer admiration for Svart’s “Vanära, Vanmakt och Avsmak” album, I figured I would do the world of GD a favor and tell you exactly how great “Förlorad” is too. “Förlorad” is the follow-up to “VVOA”, and it was released a year later by the same one-man black metal wrecking machine (Draug). However, “Förlorad” is a noticeably and vastly different album from its predecessor, relying almost exclusively on dark, spacey, and atmospheric passages that will essentially bring you to your figurative knees.
This album consists of just 3 tracks and runs for over 74 minutes, and I swear to all that is unholy every single second is worthwhile. Granted, this isn’t an album of which you’ll want to add a couple of tracks to a playlist for background noise while you do other shit, but if you’ve got a long drive through the night or have some time to relax with your headphones, the quality of this album will be enhanced.
The opener, the aptly named ““Förlorad I” (if one can even refer to this album in terms of tracks), depressively swells and swirls and moans and cries for minutes on end, which only sets the stage for the rest of what’s to come. As far as the production is concerned, everything sounds as if it was recorded in a cavernous chasm with stone walls and a lone power outlet for a guitar amp. I have not heard another album that sound as grimly desolate as this one. To be honest, the overall sound of the album really creates a unique listening experience that makes you feel as though the entire universe is devoid of hope, color, and happiness, and that’s really the essence of what this type of atmospheric black metal is supposed to embody.
Lyrics on “Förlorad” come at a premium. For an album that’s a good chunk longer than an hour, there are only a miniscule amount of lines of torturous, distant vocals that intrigued me from the moment I heard them. Every word is in Swedish, but I was even motivated (and bored) enough to seek out a translation, and lyrically, the record is everything you would come to expect from a quality slab of lonely, depressive black metal.
If you enjoy dark, depressing sonic journeys through the grimmest depths of your subconscious disposition toward the utter disdain for life and humanity, then “Förlorad” will serve as a more than worthy soundtrack. You won’t be disappointed. There’s really just no way.
- Information
- Released: 2010
- Label: Frostcald
- Website: http://www.svartangst.tk
- Band
- Christian Larsson: everything
- Tracklist
- 01. Förlorad I
- 02. Förlorad II
- 03. Förlorad III
