FORBIDDEN

Release Year: 2022
Artist Origin: USA
Style: angry groovy thrash heavy metal

the fourth longplay album [1997] by notorious US entity deals with money as main topic, significantly diverging from their earlier works and contemporaneous Bay Area thrash metal releases, adopting a more groove-oriented, alternative metal sound, rhythmically driven and unambiguously darker, embracing mid-nineties trends set by Pantera and Machine Head, yet showcasing the band's versatility, adaptability, and willingness to evolve, where each of the ten pieces has its own character, creating a dynamic and layered listening experience, making it a polarizing yet intriguing entry in their discography, placing Forbidden within the broader spectrum of evolving metal genres of that era; recent British limited gatefold sleeve green vinyl edition