Carpathian Forest

Infobox musical artist
Name = Carpathian Forest


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Origin = Norway
Genre = Black metal
Years_active = 1990 – present
Label = Season of Mist
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URL = [http://www.tnbm.no/ tnbm.no]
Current_members = Nattefrost
Vrangsinn
Tchort
Anders Kobro
Blood Perverter
Past_members = J. Nordavind
Lazare
Mothörsen
Kulde

Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1990. Since the release of the band's "Bloodlust & Perversion" demo in 1992 and the "Journey through the Cold Moors of Svarttjern" promo of 1993, Carpathian Forest has gained a cult status in the Norwegian black metal scene.Fact|date=February 2008

Carpathian Forest's lyrical themes deal not only with satanism, evil, and anti-Christianity, but also sodomy, sadism, sexual depravity and suicide.

The band's most recent album, "Universal Evil", is going to be released in 2008.

Discography

Demos

*1992 – "Bloodlust & Perversion"
*1993 – "Journey through the Cold Moors of Svarttjern"

tudio albums

*1995 – "Through Chasm, Caves and Titan Woods"
*1998 – "Black Shining Leather"
*2000 – "Strange Old Brew"
*2001 – "Morbid Fascination of Death"
*2003 – "Defending the Throne of Evil"
*2006 – "Fuck You All!!!!"

Compilations

*1997 – "Bloodlust and Perversion"
*2002 – "We're Going to Hell for This"
*2004 – "We're Going to Hollywood for This - Live Perversions" (video release)
*2004 – "Skjend Hans Lik"

Band members

Current members

* "Hellcommander" Nattefrost (Roger Rasmussen) - vocals, guitar, arrangements, production, bass guitar (1990-)
* Vrangsinn -Backing vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, arrangements, production and engineering (1999-)
* Tchort (Terje Vik Schei) - guitar, bass guitar (1999-)
* Anders Kobro - drums (1999-)
* Blood Perverter (Goran Boman) - guitar (2003-)

Former members

* Johnny Nordavind - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboard, arrangements (1990-2000)
* Lazare (Lars Are Nedland) - session drums (1997)
* Mothörsen (Arvid Thorsen) saxophone 2000 - 2004
* Kulde (Eivind Kulde) live session on keyboards 2002Nina Hex - Backing vocals 2000-2001I.K. Hellslut - words, counting to 4 on Bloodlust & Perversion (We're going to hell for this - Over a decade of perversions"

Related bands

* Grimm (pre-Carpathian Forest)
* Nattefrost - Nattefrost's solo black metal project
* Blood Red Throne - Tchort's death metal band
* Bloodline - Nattefrost performed vocals on "Werewolf Training"
* Green Carnation - Tchort's progressive metal band
* Emperor - Tchort played bass for "In the Nightside Eclipse"
* Solefald - Lazare's avant-garde-black metal band
* World Destroyer - Nattefrost and Vrangsinn's black metal band
* Hatepulse - Vrangsinn's black metal band
* SECHT - black metal band formed in 2005 by Vrangsinn and Dirge Rep
* Neetzach - Vrangsinn is also in this band formed by Gidim Xul
* Taake - Nattefrost performed guest vocals on Dødskvad Part 1
* Aura Noir - Nattefrost performed guest vocals on "Funeral Thrash"
* A Waste of Talent - Doom/groove band formed in 1992 by Vrangsinn and Skaperen. a.k.a Psycodelic Steamtrain. their self titled style of music is Groovydepressive PopRockMetal with a lof of Doom
* In the Woods... - Anders Kobro performed the drums on all albums

See also

* Season of Mist - Carpathian Forest's record label

External links

* [http://www.tnbm.no/ Official homepage]
* [http://www.rockdetector.com/artist,1565.sm Carpathian Forest] at Rockdetector