The year was 1980, Another One Bites The Dust of The Queen was a success around the world, Call Me of the Blondie entered to the cinema with American Gigolo with the novice actor Richard Gere and Pink Floyd releases the masterpiece Another Brick In The Wall Part II.
The Cure an young English Gothic rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976 releases "The Forest" a single on March 28, 1980 as the only single from their second album Seventeen Seconds. It was their first chart single in the UK, reaching #31; the song was also a hit in the Netherlands, reaching #26. It was also their first single to be released on the 12" single format, which was able to feature the un-edited album version. The 7" single version omits the initial guitar and keyboard introduction, removes a few bars between verses and fades out part way through the guitar solo ending, making it approximately two minutes shorter. Versions subsequently released on various compilations such as Standing on a Beach as the "single" version vary slightly from the 7" single edit in that they restore the guitar solo ending to its full length.
The lyrics tell a vague story about a man looking for a girl in a forest. He hears her calling for him, and as he chases her, he suddenly stops and realizes that he is lost and that the girl is not there.
In the 90's Black Metal bands born like mushrooms and a new band begins to emerge to the market, the name? Carpathian Forest (previously known as "The Childmolesters", then "Enthrone") emerged with the demo tape "Bloodlust and Perversion" in 1992. In 1993 the band released a second demo: Journey Through the Cold Moors of Svarttjern. The following year, Forest signed to Avantgarde Music and recorded their first EP, Through Chasm, Caves and Titan Woods in 1995, followed by the debut album Black Shining Leather in 1998. 18 years later, against all expectations for a black metal band "Black Shining Leather" close with the track "The Forest" with the freshness of the original ... To the image of the mythical Carpathian Forest.
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