Music Style Deathbeat

Musical Influences Death metal, ambient, synthpop, shoegaze, trip-hop, break beat, jazz, techno etc

Artist History F.S. was born in the summer of `92. In the June of `93 the band recorded their first demo "Behind The Abysmal Sky". After that F.S. signed a record deal with a small label in Finland, "Rising Realm Records". In December 1993 they started to record material for a mini-Cd called "Forever Sleeping Greystones". Since "RRRecords" had slown down the release of this mini-Cd for over a year, the material which was not so fresh anymore finally saw the light in December 1994. The mini-album was received with a warm welcome in several places around the world. The spring of the year 1995 brought with it a famous local music contest "Rock In" for young Estonian groups. F.S. played several times in that contest and at the end even at the finals where they achieved the third position (there was more than 40 participants). This was followed by the most depressing period during which there was practically no band activity at all. After this long pause there was a long-expected rebirth in August `96.The line-up was changed a lot and also the style wasn`t same as before. There wasn´t only death metal anymore, but had a many influences from trip-hop, breakbeat, techno, ebm, synthpop, shoegaze, industrial, jazz etc. The current F.S. is a mixture of all these styles. With this style (you can call it trip metal, deathbeat or whatever…) the band has released two recordings. One promo-cd back in `98/`99 (including 5 songs and 3 remixes) and one self-made mini-Cd "a.Nimal f.Lesh - looma liha" in 2000 (incl. 6 songs and 2 remixes). The band`s biggest dream is to get a good record deal and to release a lot of extremely touching and surprising music.

Group Members Anders Melts - vocal, programming. Tiiu Kiik - femalevocal, keyboard. Riivo Torstenberg - bass. Renno Süvaoja - guitar.

Press Reviews 2000 the original sin #32 - "no title" review Propably the first time I´m reviewing a band from Estonia....and let`s be honest : I know nothing about Estonia musicscene (and I´m pretty sure that most of our readers dont`t know about it either!) and yet it looks like we´re dealing with one of the most original bands that comes from there and who knows it might also be one of the most interesting bands in general.... Why do I say that? Well, Forogotten Sunrise started in the summer of 1992 as an atmospheric death-metalband but due to several changes on the line-up, Forgotten Sunrise become a band who plays a bizarre mix from trip-hop, ambient, ethno, synthpop and death-metal!! And no, I heard a lot but this combination sounds pretty new to me and the result is something that might be heard.... Violins, trip-hopbeats in Masive Attack-style, growling voices, ethereal female vocals, industrial beats....you simply have to name it and you can recognize it in their sound.... All these ingredients are thrown together in poppy morbid songs, at times not that far away from This Mortal Coil. All this can be heard on a CD-R and the band are dreaming of getting a decent recorddeal. If originality has to be a standard to get signed then there should be no problem for getting this band signed....

Location Tallinn, Harjumaa - Estonia

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