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Artist......: Craven Idol
Album.......: Forked Tongues
Year........: 2021
Genre.......: Black Metal
Type........: Album
Label.......: Dark Descent Records
Language....: English
Source......: WEB/FLAC (24bit)
Quality.....: 1765kbps / 44.1 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 7 tracks
Playtime....: 00:41:23
Size........: 521.6 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-06-12
S.Date......: 2021-07-23
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/n07gt3gixnsva
01. Venomous Rites 4:15
02. The Wrath of Typhon 3:55
03. Iron Age of Devastation 3:58
04. Even the Demons... 5:26
05. Forked Tongues 5:21
06. Deify the Stormgod 9:23
07. The Gods Have Left Us for Dead 9:06
Old school stalwarts CRAVEN IDOL celebrate their 15th
anniversary with third opus Forked Tongues. Swearing by
the gods of old, the North London veterans further hone
their unique blend of old school extreme metal.
"After spending a month on the road with Mystifer, we
are a closer-knit unit than ever before. There's a good
reason for this being the longest standing line-up in
our fifteen-year existence. The entire band lived and
breathed this record in the months preceding the studio,
and the performances delivered by each member are
testament to their dedication to untarnished extreme
metal of old," says founding member Sadistik Wrath.
"'Forked Tongues' is a vicious and concerted tribute to
folly of mankind. In these godless days of Sodom, craven
idols are in their element, wheeling and dealing,
beckoning you to follow their treacherous causes. The
apocalyptic legends of ancient Greece read like unholy
divination... and it is from them that we drew the
subject matter for the record."
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Tom Dring at
Southport's Vagrant Recordings, Forked Tongues showcases
a rawer side of CRAVEN IDOL, aiming to bottle the band's
live ferocity.
Shunning the trends and genre-specifications poisoning
the scene, CRAVEN IDOL pay homage to a wide variety of
bands, including Bathory, Mercyful Fate, Master's
Hammer, Manilla Road, Gospel Of The Horns, Sodom, Satan,
Poison (Ger), Candlemass, Mystifier, Cirith Ungol, and
Absu, to name just a few.
The album takes on the anomalous tale of the serpentine
beast Typhon, the fiercest of all Titans in Greek
Mythology. The 'Father of Monsters' is said to have
challenged Zeus to do battle for cosmic supremacy,
ultimately succumbing to the Olympian's might, and
facing imprisonment beneath Mount Aetna. According to
legend, the sporadic eruptions of the volcano are due to
the enduring wrath of Typhon.
Instead of merely reciting an ancient myth, FORKED
TONGUES acts as sequel to the original tale, with Typhon
returning to settle old scores. The power of the
Olympians has waned over millennia, with their ambitions
tamed by excess and indulgence. Meanwhile, the misguided
worship of a fictitious Golden Age has facilitated
Typhon's escape. A corpulent Zeus now faces the hundred-
headed monstrosity once again.
Forked Tongues is a cautionary tale, warning of all
craven idols.
The monumental artwork, courtesy of master painter
Eliran Kantor (Sodom, Incantation, Testament, Atheist)
displays a scene of our world on the brink of total
devastation.
"Peculiarly enough, the original front cover concept was
inspired by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, more
specifically the woodblock print (Ukiyo-e) 'The Dragon
of Smoke Escaping From Mount Fuji'. Completed 1849, the
work is through to have been one of Hokusai's last.
In Kantor's piece, Shizuoka is replaced by Sicily, Fuji
by Aetna, and the dragon by Typhon. The back cover also
loosely pays homage to 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa.'"