Carpathian Forest

Carpathian Forest
Carpathian Forest live at Hellfest 2013
Background information
Origin	Sandnes, Rogaland, Kristiansand, Norway
Genres	Black metal
Years active	1992–2014 (on hiatus)
Labels	Avantgarde Music, Season of Mist
Associated acts	Blood Red Throne, Green Carnation, Emperor, Solefald, Taake, Aura Noir, In the Woods..., Kvelertak, Gorgoroth, The 3rd Attempt
Members	Nattefrost Daniel Vrangsinn Anders Kobro
Past members	Nordavind Lord Blackmangler Damnatus Lazare Tchort Blood Pervertor

Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1992.

In late 1990, the band originally started under the name Enthrone by Nattefrost (then bearing the pseudonym Lord Nosferatu) and Nordavind (who used the pseudonym Lord Karnstein). Together they produced a self-released demo tape, Black Winds, in 1991.

In 1992, Enthrone changed its name to Carpathian Forest, and Lord Blackmangler and Damnatus joined their line-up. As a quartet they self-released three demo tapes: Rehearsal Outtake, Bloodlust and Perversion (both in 1992) and Journey Through the Cold Moors of Svarttjern (in 1993). However, Damnatus and Lord Blackmangler left afterwards, and Carpathian Forest became once more a duo.

Carpathian Forest would release their first studio work in 1995: the extended play Through Chasm, Caves and Titan Woods, via Avantgarde Music. It would be their first of many releases via Avantgarde.

In 1998 the band released their first full-length album, Black Shining Leather, once more via Avantgarde Music. It was their only release to feature Lazare (who would later join Borknagar) on the band's line-up as a drummer. In the same year they also played their first concert at the Under the Black Sun Festival in Schönermark, Germany.

Lazare left Carpathian Forest in 1999, the same year Anders Kobro, Tchort and Daniel Vrangsinn joined them as permanent members. In the following year, their second full-length, Strange Old Brew, was released. It was their most experimental album so far. By the end of the year they also released a single, "He's Turning Blue".

In 2001, founding member Nordavind left Carpathian Forest, during the recording sessions of their third studio album, Morbid Fascination of Death, that still retained the experimentation (although to a lesser extent) of their previous release, Strange Old Brew. In the following year the compilation album We're Going to Hell for This: Over a Decade of Perversions was released, in order to celebrate the band's 10th anniversary as Carpathian Forest. It was their last album to be released by Avantgarde Music before they switched on to Season of Mist.