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Artist......: Farscape
Album.......: Purged and Forgotten
Year........: 2023
Genre.......: Thrash Metal
Type........: Album
Label.......: Dying Victims Productions
Language....: English
Source......: WEB/FLAC (24bit)
Quality.....: 1827kbps / 48 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 7 tracks
Playtime....: 00:37:35
Size........: 490.0 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-07-26
S.Date......: 2023-09-22
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/flphvwz8ndegc
01. Purged and Forgotten 6:27
02. Leucotomy 4:15
03. The Last Solstice 2:46
04. Backing From the Hole 3:56
05. Miss Violence 5:47
06. Captivity of Souls 4:41
07. Vengeance of the Forgotten 9:44
Formed in 1998, Brazil's FARSCAPE helped lead the charge
for the neo-retro thrash resurgence in their homeland,
which continues unabated to this day. A slew of releases
came in 2001 - two demos, and respective splits with
Atomic Roar and Vexed - but it was the 2003 debut album
Demon's Massacre where FARSCAPE first (and fully)
stamped their name on the international metal map. While
their contemporaries took slicker or more technical
routes with their thrash, the quartet's defiantly flew
the flag of hate raised by Kreator during the mid/late
'80s; in fact, vocalist/guitarist Witchcaptor could be a
dead-ringer for classic Mille. During all this, all four
members - amazingly, THE SAME LINEUP to this day -
pursued other equally archaic metals with the likes of
Diabolic Force, Atomic Roar, Apokalyptic Raids,
Sodomizer, and later Whipstriker, further sowing the
seeds of influence in their native Brazil and abroad.
Two more albums followed, 2006's Killers on the Loose
and 2013's Primitive Blitzkrieg, as well as a handful of
short-length releases, but FARSCAPE essentially went on
hiatus following that third album.
Now, a full decade since their last official recordings,
FARSCAPE return with arguably their best album yet,
Purged and Forgotten. After an eerie (and quite
surprisingly melodic) intro, the fire & fury of classic
Teutonic thrash is felt - and, by proxy, which they
helped shape in a way most Brazilian so many years ago -
but equally burning are some new, ever-so-subtle twists
on that noble idiom. Without ever quite going fully
"slick" nor "tech," FARSCAPE here manage to honorably
defy the Teutonic template: a more pronounced emphasis
on leads, alternating between the eerily melodic and the
tensely harmonic; tiny touches of atmospheric synth
underneath the ripping riot of violence, further
emphasizing the eerie; and in Witchcaptor's charismatic
snarl, an equally surprising number of
thinking-outside-the-box patterns as well as layering,
giving Purged and Forgotten an unusual, almost-"hall of
mirrors" aspect. Elsewhere, the quartet's songwriting
locates that sweet spot between the linear and the
twisted, not quite resorting to standard verse/chorus
structures nor going overboard into the overly
complicated. Simply, the red-eyed & rabid rush of
classic FARSCAPE is accounted for, but these discerning
veterans aren't short on honorable ways to wind their
characteristic sound. Purged and Forgotten? Not fucking
yet!