FORGOTTEN TOMB are currently working on a new studio album. Songwriting and pre-production are in full effect. The band will hit the studio between December and January, while the album is tentatively slated for a April 2020 release on Agonia Records.
This will be the band's tenth installment and follow-up to "We Owe You Nothing" from 2017.
More details will be revealed later on!
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LINEUP
Ferdinando "Herr Morbid" Marchisio - guitars, vocals
Alessandro "Algol" Comerio - bass
Kyoo Nam "Asher" Rossi - drums
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"We Owe You Nothing" - 9th full lenght album of the band - marks the highest point in Forgoten Tomb's constant evolution and once more makes it hard to narrow down its sound to some pre-existing labels. Effortlessly blending the eerie, dissonant black metal sound the band is well-known for with muscular sludge/doom riffs and a subtle, nihilistic punk attitude, "We Owe You Nothing" defines the band's personality more than ever, reaffirming its unique sound.
Starting in the beginning of the millennium with bona fide classics such as "Songs to Leave" (2002), "Springtime Depression" (2003) and "Love's Burial Ground" (2004) - widely considered among the true originators of the so-called "Depressive Black Metal" sub-genre - the band explored increasingly heavier and broader territories with all the albums that followed, from the genre-shattering avant-garde of "Negative Megalomania" (2007) through the pitch-black rocking-vehicle "Under Saturn Retrograde" (2011), then perfecting the band's own black/doom formula with the harsher tones of "...And Don't Deliver Us From Evil" (2012) and "Hurt Yourself and The Ones You Love" (2015). In the meantime, they found the time to release a mid-career live in studio anniversary album ("Vol 5: 1999-2009", 2010) and a live DVD ("Darkness In Stereo: Eine Symphonie Des Todes", 2012).
Forgotten Tomb commented: "Our discography has always been divided by trilogies. 'We Owe You Nothing' closes the third trilogy which started with '...And Don't Deliver Us From Evil' followed by 'Hurt Yourself And The Ones You Love' and it's the heaviest among the 3 albums, with an emphasis on slower/mid tempos and a sludgier approach while retaining also our trademark melodies and dissonant arpeggios, plus some twists which open new doors to the next era of the band. Due to circumstances surrounding it, it's been an extremely painful album to make and therefore it's one of our darkest, while being also filled with raw energy".
The new album includes 6 songs for approx. 40 minutes of music. Recording-sessions started in December 2016, with drums being tracked at Big Pine Creek studio in Italy, but were abruptly interrupted when singer/guitarist Ferdinando "HM" M. was involved in a life-threatening car accident that left him unable to play for months. The recording was resumed and completed in May 2017 at SPVN Studio in Italy, while mix and mastering were done in June 2017 at Planet-Z studio (Hadley, Massachussets, USA) by Chris "Zeuss" Harris (Rob Zombie, Six Feet Under, Crowbar, Hatebreed).
The band is currently booking tours and live appearances supporting its new album.
DISCOGRAPHY
Songs to Leave - 2002
Springtime Depression - 2003
Love's Burial Ground - 2004
Negative Megalomania - 2007
Vol. 5: 1999-2009 - 2010
Under Saturn Retrograde - 2011
...and Don't Deliver Us from Evil - 2012
Hurt Yourself and the Ones You Love - 2015
We Owe You Nothing - 2017