Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1990. Carpathian Forest's lyrics deal with themes such as Satanism, evil, anti-Christianity, sodomy, sadism, sexual depravity and suicide. The band's most recent album, Universal Evil, is going to be released in 2008. Carpathian Forest is enjoying near cult status in the scene. Emerged at first with the demo tape "Bloodlust & Perversion" (1992), they received sudden enthusiastic responses from the underground. Their obsessive, morbid and grim sound has always been a firm trademark. In 1993 the band released a second demo "Journey through the cold moors of Svarttjern", showing also a new approach to atmospheric, but still glacial tunes. These tapes quickly became coveted items in underground tape traders networks. One year later, Forest signed to Avantgarde Music and recorded their first mini album, the black metal classic "Through chasm, caves and titan woods" (1995).
In 1998, Carpathian Forest came back with a successful release, after three years of silence. The new work is titled "Strange Old Brew" (produced by Terje Refsnes in Sound Suite studios), and an additional one is yet to be released - "Morbid Fascination Of Death", a second piece in this 2-set concept. There has been some change: Nordavind has left the band, and there is a new guest drummer, A. Kobro (from ... In The Woods). Also helping out is Tchort (ex-Emperor, ex-Satyricon, Blood Red Throne etc.) on guitar and now Vrangsinn (of World Destroyer) has taken over the duties of bassist and synth programmer Nordavind. The album "Black Shining Leather" has been a top seller at Avantgarde Music for 2 years.
