A Forest of Stars- Avant-garde/Progressive Black Metal from UK
Interview with The Gentleman
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Interview by Jay Parker
Hi this Jay… Today I’ve been fortunate to talk to The Gentleman (and he most certainly is) from the UK leviathan that is A FOREST OF STARS… Hi Mr. Gentleman... thanks for taking the time to talk to me... 1) When, where and why was A Forest Of Stars formed? Who is in the current line-up? The Gentleman: Goodness me, now that is a memory-rattling question! It all seems so distant now… To sum up as quickly as possible: Curse and myself had the ambition to create a Black Metal band a long, long time ago. I mean, a really long time ago, like pre-inter-
net (if you can believe such a time existed - I know I can’t). Then various things got in the way for years, but the idea never left us, and sometime later (about, ooooh, 2007, I think?) we rekindled the idea, recruited a couple of our friends (we realised we
leased was about half a year. Bonkers. As for “why?”, well, that’s one of those eternal questions, I suppose. The best explanation I could give is the drive to create. That doesn’t explain anything, but that’s best I can do. There’s just this drive inside of you that requires sating and being in a band, creating and performing music is the only thing that will do, I suppose. It’s either that or, you know, succumb to reality, and, well, no thank you, we’re not that stupid.
to e s u c x e d o o g The album is a g n i h t e m o s n o e t a r t n e c n o c er. t t e b e g a n a we can m might need some talent) and that was it. After the initial delay, it came together remarkably quickly: From formation to first album being re-
