"The Forgotten Songs" is a direct sequel to "The Book of the Shattered Bonds" (2007),
catching up exactly where the first album fades out, as its tiny outro "Hope" appears to be
the beginning of a two-part, 8 minutes long suite "The Snows". This one opens with a
deceptively gentle sounds and quiet voice, but then grows and suddenly explodes with a
perfect metal storm; then - several moments of intense calm, and - blizzard comes again. The
second song - "Deliverance" goes on a much quiter tone, but then again, this quietness is
deceptive as well, fraught with a hidden strain so much, so that when "Black-Sided Sun", the
most furious and violent song by "Lacklustre Mirror" so far invades, it doesn't seem
unexpected and unwelcome already.
Such oscillations between the extremes - between thunderstorms and intense stillness go on
further, and eventually the finale of "The Last Song" gets the listener back to the very
starting point of the cycle: as its disastrous and desperating ending repeats the opening
theme of "The Book of the Shattered Bonds" - "No Escape From Myself"... Yet then there is an
instrumental track "The Fathomless", which signals, that there might not be an escape, but
there is always an exit leading out from the dark.
"Forgotten Songs", the third chapter of "The Book of the Shattered Bonds" appears to be more
"massive" and forceful then the first two parts. Definitely, it is the music intended not to
entertain, but rather to immerse the listener into a very paradoxical dimension, where the
violent chaos seems to be enveloped in harmony, and vice versa, and where snowstorms coexist
with scorching celestial flames, and the Sun itself has two sides...
Recorded by:
b. - keys, lead and backing vocals, drums programming,
ScHADE - all guitars
Mikhail Maximov, Draum - sound engineering, mastering
Guest appearances:
Celestial Air - guitars in 'The Snows 1-2' Serenite - choir vocals in 'Tempests Are away'.
A compilation of music collective unconscious, and texts by Lacklustre Mirror, except lyrics
for "Dance Macabre" by Alexandr Blok.
"The only true property of the past is its complete nonexistness".
Tracklist:
01 The Snows, p.1
02 The Snows, p.2
03 Deliverance
04 Black-Sided Sun
05 Yesterday Child
06 Dance Macabre
07 The Everburning
08 The Voices of the Grey Spring
09 Tempests Are Away
10 Is It Our Farewell?
11 The Last Song
12 But Still I Feel It Happens All Too Soon
13 The Fathomless
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