Frankly I didn’t expect such an album to be on a label like Epidemie records, a label known to me for providing a platform to most diverse deserving bands (ranging from Lunatic Gods to Demimonde) taken from the dark oblivion. But this album by FORGOTTEN SILENCE, is uninspiring and clichéd in all respects. I tried extracting as much goodness possible from this release but even after ample listens, I think all my hearing went in vein. Can’t believe that it’s the same band, which took birth in ’93, and strangely ten years down the line, have kept changing styles, for reasons best known to them? Music aimlessly wonders between, ambient, atmospheric doom and ethno-desert oriented style. Which fails to consolidate any hold on the listener, reason being there are no two identical songs on the five-track album. On track 2 ‘The lake’ you hear female vocals ridding over a thick slow bass line, nudged together with plucking, progressively shuffling through out its length and concludes with ‘I was lying under the starry dome listening to a tale, I will never forget the magical moment’ kind of verses. Elsewhere also, (English tracks 4 and 5) lyrics have a poetic touch descriptively going with instruments. But, there’s a total loss of vision I suppose, because of minimal percussion, zero drumming and an over ambitious fusion of gentle riffs, harmonic plucks and strums on most intermediate sections. Final track ‘Come with me as far as behind the horizon’is of a span of 17mins, tests your patience levels as you get to hear background percussions only after 3 mins into the song. It’s very subtle, dark and mystic as well as boring to me. Towards the end of the song I heard some Urdu and Hindi phrases courtesy Babar (mainman behind Pakistani progressive masters ‘Dusk’).

Final words it’s a non-metallic, colossally confused mix of band’s thoughts (I guess) and final execution. Absolutely avoidable! (3/10)