Dutch Black Metal band Saille released their new album Forebode on the 13th of February, via Non Serviam Records.
After 5 years without a new album, it was certainly a pleasure to listen to Forebode.
Forebode brings me back the feeling I got the first time I heard Saille, which was when the album Ritu came out, back in 2013. The epic feeling, the feeling that these guys are unstoppable and so intense. Ritu even became one of the top ten albums of that year, for Lachryma Christi.
Their music is just so powerful and rich, I'm as mesmerized today with Forebode as I got back then.
Forebode has nine tracks. Four of them are new, then there is a re-recorded version of Haunted of the Dark 2025 (live), and an extended classical version of Eater of Worlds, with additional instruments.
After all this, there are three live tracks featuring a violinist, and those three tracks are bonus tracks, which are not included on the digital version. So make sure you pay attention to this before you chose which version you'd like to get.
Well, Saille are known for their epic music with symphonic instruments and elements and melodies and passages, which possibly make their music a lot more majestic than it would be without them. Their albums are just as heavy as any Black Metal album, but the atmosphere on them is always very epic and so fierce, it's huge. Forebode isn't different, on the opposite, it shows us how Saille are firm in their style without becoming boring or repetitive, ever.
There is an icy feeling, a furious feeling, a contained anger, a mix and match of emotions on the songs of Forebode, it is really impressive.
Track number 2 Echoes of Empathy is particularly frightening, I must say. But my favourite track might be number 1 Deception of Decadence. The music, the actual melodies are so sharp, so extraordinary, then the voices, including a clean singing, are so impassioned, that it is impossible to not feel the meaning of the title through the actual composition.
Forebode is profound, vigorous, potent, it's enormous, I listened to it three times on a row and I loved every single one of them.
Their covers are always amazing pieces of art, and Forebode cover is not an exception.
