ABOUT FORSAKEN ART
Forsaken Art started in Lisbon in the early 2000s as a black metal project, written and recorded alone by Carlos Rosão. It was raw and it was loud, and the first demo, “The Awakening of a New Era,” came out in 2003.
Nearly two decades later Carlos met Nuno Silva Pereira, of Reverent Tales, and the project became something else. Between them they moved it out of black metal and into dark ambient: slower, colder, built out of atmosphere rather than aggression. What they write about is mostly what people avoid saying out loud. Being alone with yourself. Not knowing what any of it is for. The strange pull that ruined and rotting things have on us.
Each record comes with its own artwork and its own text, and a good deal of it is carried by spoken word. It is not easy listening and it is not meant to be. What it goes looking for is whatever gets left behind: the forgotten, the lost, and the things that are beautiful because they are ruined.
Fracture
A concept record about a man who shuts himself away and does not come out again. One winter, one decaying Victorian apartment, and a mind that comes apart with it.
It opens almost warmly. Then the walls begin to close, a clock he has never seen keeps time through the wall, and the quiet he went looking for turns into something that listens back.
By the end he can no longer tell the room from what the room has done to him, and he goes out of the window to get away from it.
What is waiting outside is worse, and it was always coming. The madness indoors was only the part that arrived first.