Forbidden Site is a group of Black metal French originating in Grenoble.

Biography

In 1996, they leave a first intiulée demonstration Black Renaissances then two albums, Sturm Und Drang in 1997 and Astralgeist in 1998. The group announces its separation in 2003.

Music

Their first album Sturm und Drang obtains criticisms very eulogistic. It is about a work at the same time anchored in the style Black metal and strongly original. At that time, the black metal had indeed become a style with whole share which obeyed very precise codes (howled voice, blasts, a music rather raw and brutal, fast but which tends like any other music to evolve/move and to integrate influences…). However if Sturm und Drang is well an album of black metal as a whole, it does not comprise of it less one great number of parts sung in clear voice and French, a piece with the Piano and another with the accents Folk.

Astralgeist will know a reception more mitigated. The music which this disc offers has nothing any more but one distance relationship with the black metal. The cries are done there much rarer and if the blastbeats are always present, one also hears many passages where the traditional instruments and sounds of clear Guitare take the step on the traditional orchestration of the metal. Also let us note the presence of female and male Choeurs. However the dark environments created inter alia by the traditional instruments and the extremely sharp and sometimes martial rates/rhythms of the battery make that this album remains unquestionably a metal album.

Words

The words of Forbidden Site are very inspired by the French Littérature of the 19th century, in particular of romantic authors as Victor Hugo (of which they take again a poem) or Gerard de Nerval (They take as a starting point his Aurélia novel for the words of a song). Although being the fruit of a great work of writing, they are not always easily comprehensible, the singer howling them on certain pieces or murmuring them on others. The texts are in French, English, German and Latin.