Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes

by A Forest of Stars

Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes cover art

The collective's fifth studio album represents their most polished and conceptually dense work, focusing on themes of existential despair and the futility of human endeavor. The arrangements feature complex, dissonant violin layers and a vocal performance that shifts between maniacal shrieks and refined spoken word. It serves as a definitive archive of the band's 'Gentleman's Club' persona, delivering a sophisticated take on blackened folk-metal.

Genres

  • Avant-Garde Metal
  • Atmospheric Black Metal

Tracklist

  1. Persistence Is All
  2. Precipice Pirouette
  3. Tombward Bound
  4. Premature Invocation
  5. Children of the Night Soil
  6. Taken by the Sea
  7. Scripturally Transmitted Disease
  8. Decomposing Deity Dance Hall