FORBIDDEN — Forbidden Evil (review)

FORBIDDEN — Forbidden Evil album cover Album · 1988 · Thrash Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Time Signature
Off the edge...

Genre: thrash metal

Forbidden's semi-eponymous (it's called "Forbidden Evil" which was the original name of the band) debut album is a thrash metal classic which has perhaps not received the attention that it deserves. The music is fast and aggressive with some extremely fast guitar riffage and drumming, yet it strikes me as being very melodic. Of course, the fact that the vocalist make use of a higher register and a wider tonality than many of the thrash metal vocalists of the time did enables the addition of a melodic dimension, but there is also something inherently melodic to many of the riffs themselves. It is quite interesting how Forbidden blends in the aggresion of thrash metal with a more melodic approach resulting in tracks like "Chalice of Blood", for instance, which has that Slayer-esque brutality to it (the chorus mught as well have been a Slayer chorus) but with melodic vocals and riffage.

I do not really see any weaknesses in the music itself, but the production could perhaps have been better. While I like how sharp and brutal the guitar distotion is, I do not think that the guitars fill enough in the overall picture.

I would recommend this album to any thrash metal fan, because it is simply a classic.
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