Southern Sweden's THE FORSAKEN, one of the most promisingly brutal but yet technically skilled new generation Death Metal acts from Scandinavia. After the band's initial foundation in 1997 (under the name Septic Breed) and a demo CD in 1999, this deadly quintet have released three highly-acclaimed albums ("Manifest Of Hate","Arts Of Desolation" and "Traces Of The Past") THE FORSAKEN, always entertaining for the listener due to the well-balanced mixture of typically Swedish melody and dual harmony guitar work, catchy aggression and extremely diverse song-writing, crowned by utterly brutal vocal derangement courtesy of Anders Sjöholm, who masterly manages to combine shrieking screams and subterraneal growls with a tasty feel for good hooks in his vocal lines. THE FORSAKEN have notoriously grown to a compact, relentless unity after playing with the likes of SOILWORK, AMON AMARTH, NILE, THE HAUNTED, CARNAL FORGE or GRAVE, DISINTER.