FULL ALBUM PREMIERE - Forgotten King – The Seeker

 

FULL ALBUM PREMIERE

Forgotten King – The Seeker

The wait wasn’t that long… You closed your eyes, took a deep breath and there she was! The FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for that highly atmospheric, contemplative doom and shadow dappled stoner album The Seeker, by Norway’s own Forgotten King. It’s the project by Azul Josh from Kal-El and offers his insights on personal trials and tribulations, metal illness, ego and spirituality. Rife with emotion, this is the doom that might aid others in time of need as well. Out on Majestic Mountain Records tomorrow, on Friday the 6th of September we are honored to bring you the album first. Go press play and immerse yourself in its universe, cause the universe is within you…

Words from the PR Wire:

"Descending from Norway armed with the twin hammers of riff and groove, Forgotten King are the heralds of a heady, heavy trip into the cosmos. What began as the solo project of Kal-El guitarist Azul Josh morphed into a band, and the crew are poised to lay waste to the heavy underground with their brand of euphoric, crushingly weighted psychedelia, stoner, and doom.

Their debut LP “The Seeker” lands September 6 on Majestic Mountain Records, and makes good on Forgotten King’s promise of gargantuan riffs and rapturous atmospherics. The band roll through six tracks of burly, quaking doom that delivers head-nodding grooves alongside heavy doses of melancholy psychedelia, creating a moving journey crowned by Azul Josh’s soaring vocals. Hulking yet emotive, “The Seeker” is on a riff-filled quest of epic proportions."

The bands own words:

"Forgotten King is a Psychedelic Stoner Doom project from Norway which started as a solo project by Azul (Kal-El). His music tells a story about ego, mental illness, and spirituality through heavy distorted tunes and fuzzed out riffs while drawing inspiration from all that is life. The universe is us and we are the Universe.""

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Forgotten King – The Seeker

 

 

Forgotten King – The Seeker
Majestic Mountain Records – 2024
Rock, Stoner, Doom, Metal
Rated: ****

Here we are again, professing how much we were honored for the fact that we were allowed to premiere the first single Lost back in July. And we are even more proud of the fact that tomorrow we are asked to do the same for the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE of Forgotten King’s debut album The Seeker. Out on Majestic Mountain Records on Friday the 6th, you can hear the full album a day early on Stoner HiVe! And what an album, The Seeker opens with the ruddy, high viscose and shadow dappled stoner rhythmic Deadbeat. Immediately striking a chord in the heart of every heavy rock loving fiend, for the nod is huge and the doom rides the groove like there’s no tomorrow. It's blues infatuation seems to steer this track forward and moves at a different, read minutely faster, speed than the rest of the album. For most of it is set in the more contemplative, doom and sluggish tempo. Although there’s always third track Around The Corner as well, which moves at a similar pace. The shortest song on the album, barrels down the middle of stoner highway, and seems to serve as the setup for dragging, slower doom that fills the rest of the album. The ten minute long Drag is as introspective as it is atmospheric, building that surrounding wall that seems to grow larger and larger, looming over you like a gargantuan tower about to topple. The shadow that swells to gargantuan proportions, aided by harsh vocals almost starts to swallow you whole. And somewhere in the middle of all that came before you have a track like Sun, slowly setting up this labyrinthian scene where its easy for you to let lost. Cloudy and turbid, the different parts seems to shift and change within itself, leading you ever further down the rabbit hole. Where only closing track The Watcher awaits. Open and inviting, the solemn and foggy intro is no less mysterious and as the vocals spin its tale the movement comes in, turning the track slowly towards the arc, the edge, ever more towards the edge. And then you realize it has passed like a sudden hurtling-down. And you will feel touched, art is thought, but sometimes you can feel more if you listen to it sideways and in doing so find out as much about what’s inside you...

(Written by JK)

If you can wait till tomorrow, we shall have the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE forForgotten King’s debut album The Seeker. But you can already listen to two singles right now…



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Single Premiere – Forgotten King – Lost

 

 

Single Premiere – Forgotten King – Lost

Forgotten King hails from Stavanger, Norway and will release their debut album The Seeker on August 2nd! Already signed to the awesome Majestic Mountain Records the four piece are off to an incredible start. But this is entirely logical if you heard the first single The Sun and even more when you feast your ears on the single we have the honor premiering today! It’s called Lost and gives you over seven minutes of doom, contemplative in nature, introspective in space and metallic in sound. Founded by Azul Josh from Kal-El the project offers his insights on personal trials and tribulations, metal illness, ego and spirituality. Rife with emotion, this is the doom that might aid others in time of need as well…

Words from the PR Wire:

Following up on their first single "The Sun" from their upcoming album with Majestic Mountain Records, heavy psychedelic doom crew Forgotten King deliver their next slab of crushing riffage with "Lost". Low and slow yet with a lightness of sound and melody, the band trudge forward alongside singer Azul's crooning lyrics that tug on the heartstrings. Get lost with Forgotten King and their sublime brand of modern doom on new track "Lost", our July 5.

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