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| 4.5 superb | Resident Metalhead Piranha | July 3rd 17 |
Forbidden's debut is a stunning album and one of the best thrash debuts out there, and they up the ante with their more progressive bound Twisted Into Form. Lead guitarist Tim Calvert proves just as good as previous guitarist Glen Alvelais with a moodier style of playing. In fact, in addition to being more progressive in style, TIF is a darker album, and vocalist Russ Anderson further proves himself as the definitive vocalist of Forbidden. the production values, like its predecessor, are also a genre highlight, clear as day yet full of clarity and not without a sharp edge to it. Opener "Parting of The Ways" and "Infinite" opens with an eerie acoustic passage then explodes into an album highlight with adventurous progression and guitar wizardry. I like their debut a little better, but Twisted Into Form is an outstanding prog. thrash album and their creative peak.
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| 4.0 excellent | FirstStrikeIsDeadly | October 8th 14 |
Great riffs, vocals rule, catchy choruses, AWESOME production...
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| 4.5 superb | Fernando Alves STAFF | August 1st 11 |
In my opinion their best record and a personal favourite. The best songs here are the title track, Infinite and specially Step by Step.
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| 4.0 excellent | Elmo | January 13th 22 |
gud ablum
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| 2.5 average | Bedex | April 4th 20 |
This one feels like it is older than their first LP, not its successor. It reminds of heavy metal a lot more, and feels generally far less aggressive and headbangy, probably partly owing to prod, but also to a generally lowered tempo throughout the record - or so it feels at least. It also has more of a beer metal, boringly anthemic flavour to it than its pounding predecessor. The wankeriness is way way down, albeit not fully gone, both in terms of silly vocals and boring solos. This makes the low point far less low than on the prior LP, and this one is scarcely properly annoying. But it is also far more bland and skippable, with no real high points I'll retain. Sure 3,6, and 8 starts kind of nice and aggressive, but they all unfold boringly. The intro track and instrumental interlude on 7 are also nice, but very short. I was going to rate this somewhere around 3.0 or just sub 3.0, but starting from mid 8 this started to go down, and especially because of the protracted 9 that gets really boring and takes forever to finish the album, the record ends up at a mere 2.7
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| 2.0 poor | ManiacBlasphemer | October 18th 19 |
For many years, if not decades, I have given this album many chances, trying to understand why it gets at least half of the praises it unworthily gets and I still can't find a reason why this album is so praised as a sort of thrash classic. Forbidden has always been a 3rd tier 80s thrash band who set for itself great ambitions but they did not have the chops to achieve them. Simply put, they had no good sense for catchy melodies, they have a tendency to go into technical wankery, they tend to cram mutually exclusive riffs in some songs, creating literally a riff salad and the songs, particularly on this album, lack the energy of even more melodic thrash bands. Apparently, the last Dark Angel album was influenced by this album so now I understand why their last album was so atonal. Only highlights are tracks 6 and 8, but they are merely solid tracks, nothing great about them. The rest is pretty much forgettable. Get the 3rd album. Despite the rating, it has 4 good to great tracks.
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| 3.5 great | mauRo13 | February 24th 24 |
| 3.0 good | Jurtz | January 25th 24 |
| 2.5 average | ffs | March 12th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Josh | November 6th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Uzumaki | September 24th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Pon EMERITUS | July 18th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | alexts | May 10th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | blou52 | March 26th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Trey STAFF | July 16th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | SuzyC | June 21st 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Mac55 | May 3rd 20 |
| 4.5 superb | vegaa | March 26th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ziopsis | January 27th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | zackseb | December 27th 19 |
| 3.0 good | dcube | October 31st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | ElSomni | September 29th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | jmal00 | September 19th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | gk1979 | August 22nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | bobby72 | February 16th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Casavir | December 31st 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | RECChris | February 27th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Flave | February 20th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | SirKwan | January 24th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | jpjpablo | December 23rd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | zero00 | November 6th 16 |
| 3.0 good | bungy | October 15th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | DaveD | August 18th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | ThrashK | April 23rd 16 |
| 3.5 great | Samppa | July 30th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Lassie | January 31st 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sebe | July 20th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | zdebo3 | March 30th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Fra | May 24th 13 |
| 5.0 classic | philmj | April 13th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | rfsorbo | December 8th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | Atheus | November 11th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | zenin | October 5th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | Marth | August 23rd 12 |
| 5.0 classic | glezz | June 11th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | ZedO | June 11th 12 |
| 3.5 great | KILL | May 8th 12 |
| 3.0 good | TLX | April 17th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Siamois | January 15th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | Zool | August 24th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tib | August 15th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | Bazzoe | December 23rd 10 |
| 3.5 great | Voivod STAFF | November 1st 10 |
| 3.5 great | met65 | June 9th 09 |
| 3.5 great | Ben101 | October 8th 08 |
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