scottacon
Absolutely relentless and reminiscent of another age. I would be surprised if this doesn't end up on a majority of 2021 recommendations lists.
Favorite track: The Wrath of Typhon.
oliviervp
This is the best of thrash metal and black metal combined topped with a delicious old school sauce. The opening tracks grab you by the neck and the final two (longer) songs are pure epicness.
Favorite track: Deify the Stormgod.
Ippocalyptica
My 2021 AOTY list has once again been rearranged - yes, Forked Tongues is that good. This is pantheon-level thrash/black metal (and NOT blackened thrash) that hits so hard, fast, and memorably so as to make most other extreme metal albums look uninspired by comparison. A lot of metal albums impressed me this year, but very few made me say, on a rest day, “Fuck my soreness, I am squatting heavy today!” You will have to listen to this for yourself but you will be sucked in, no doubt about it.
Favorite track: Deify the Stormgod.
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Old school stalwarts CRAVEN IDOL celebrate their 15th anniversary with third opus Forked Tongues. Swearing by the gods of old, the North London veterans further hone their unique blend of old school extreme metal.
Dark Descent Records will release Forked Tongues on CD, vinyl, cassette and digital formats on July 23.
“After spending a month on the road with Mystifer, we are a closer-knit unit than ever before. There’s a good reason for this being the longest standing line-up in our fifteen-year existence. The entire band lived and breathed this record in the months preceding the studio, and the performances delivered by each member are testament to their dedication to untarnished extreme metal of old,” says founding member Sadistik Wrath. “'Forked Tongues' is a vicious and concerted tribute to folly of mankind. In these godless days of Sodom, craven idols are in their element, wheeling and dealing, beckoning you to follow their treacherous causes. The apocalyptic legends of ancient Greece read like unholy divination… and it is from them that we drew the subject matter for the record.”
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Tom Dring at Southport’s Vagrant Recordings, Forked Tongues showcases a rawer side of CRAVEN IDOL, aiming to bottle the band’s live ferocity.
Shunning the trends and genre-specifications poisoning the scene, CRAVEN IDOL pay homage to a wide variety of bands, including Bathory, Mercyful Fate, Master’s Hammer, Manilla Road, Gospel Of The Horns, Sodom, Satan, Poison (Ger), Candlemass, Mystifier, Cirith Ungol, and Absu, to name just a few.
The album takes on the anomalous tale of the serpentine beast Typhon, the fiercest of all Titans in Greek Mythology. The ‘Father of Monsters’ is said to have challenged Zeus to do battle for cosmic supremacy, ultimately succumbing to the Olympian’s might, and facing imprisonment beneath Mount Aetna. According to legend, the sporadic eruptions of the volcano are due to the enduring wrath of Typhon.
Instead of merely reciting an ancient myth, FORKED TONGUES acts as sequel to the original tale, with Typhon returning to settle old scores. The power of the Olympians has waned over millennia, with their ambitions tamed by excess and indulgence. Meanwhile, the misguided worship of a fictitious Golden Age has facilitated Typhon’s escape. A corpulent Zeus now faces the hundred-headed monstrosity once again.
Forked Tongues is a cautionary tale, warning of all craven idols.
The monumental artwork, courtesy of master painter Eliran Kantor (Sodom, Incantation, Testament, Atheist) displays a scene of our world on the brink of total devastation.
“Peculiarly enough, the original front cover concept was inspired by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, more specifically the woodblock print (Ukiyo-e) ‘The Dragon of Smoke Escaping From Mount Fuji’. Completed 1849, the work is through to have been one of Hokusai’s last.
In Kantor’s piece, Shizuoka is replaced by Sicily, Fuji by Aetna, and the dragon by Typhon. The back cover also loosely pays homage to ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa.'"
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released July 23, 2021
Artwork by Eliran Kantor
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Tom Dring at Southport’s Vagrant Recordings
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