NEWS: A FOREST OF STARS premiere new video at "Decibel" magazine's website

February 04, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Today, the mysterious Gentlemen's Club of A Forest Of Stars premieres the new video "Drawing Down the Rain"at Decibel magazine's website. Directed by Ingram Blakelock, the track hails from the band's forthcoming fourth opus, Beware The Sword You Cannot See, set for North American release on March 3rd via Lupus Lounge (a division of Prophecy Productions). With this offering, A Forest Of Stars make good on the promise given on its predecessor, 2012's A Shadowplay For Yesterdays. The compositions are bolder and more adventurous, more eccentric and progressive, yet still melodic and accessible like never before. Conceptually, A Forest Of Stars likewise hark back to older issues and develop them further. Whereas A Shadowplay For Yesterdays depicted moral decay based on an individual fate, Beware The Sword You Cannot See transfers the topics of demise and insanity into metaphysical spheres. Accordingly, the sound alchemists' music becomes more universal. Witness this mystery 'n' madness in visual form exclusively HERE, courtesy of Decibel, North America's only monthly metal magazine.

The effect of A Forest Of Stars' new album is similar to what the first mechanical reproductions of music at the end of the 19th century achieved: the aural experience leaves the audience equally stumped and euphoric. Be it the compelling nine minutes of opener "Drawing Down The Rain," which will be accompanied by an animated music video that considerably dwarfs even the impressive clip for "Gatherer Of The Pure"; the sprawling "Virtus Sola Invicta," which comes close to Scandinavian progressive rock's finest moments due to its folkloristic-acoustic interludes; or the sexpartite "Pawn On The Universal Chessboard," which sums up and transcends the group's contextual essence, Beware The Sword You Cannot Seeboth maintains tradition and innovates, elaborating on an unmistakable style in the light of a complex yet still approachable concept…and eventually a new yardstick for other purveyors of allegedly visionary, extreme metal to be measured by. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for A Forest of Stars' Beware the Sword You Cannot See:

Drawing Down the Rain
Hive Mindless
A Blaze of Hammers
Virtus Sola Invicta
Proboscis Master Versus the Powdered Seraphs
Part I: Mindslide
Part II: Have You Got a Light, Boy?
Part III: Perdurabo
Part IV: An Automaton Adrift
Part V: Lowly Worm
Part VI: Let There Be No Light

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NEWS: A FOREST OF STARS premiere new video at "Decibel" magazine's website

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