History & Biography Dark Forest was formed by guitarist Horton in Dudley in the West Midlands, England in 2002. Horton sang until 2009. The Succubus demo emerged in 2004. Phantoms Of The Sea and Fear Dearg followed this in 2007. A full-length, with Clough on bass, was issued in January of 2009. The band had carved its niche within the folk metal subgenre, but did not push its luck with full-time members on folk/pop instruments.
Cruz del Sur Music signed Dark Forest for three albums in 2011. The band was based out of Birmingham, England. Dark Forest entered the studio on Saturday, June 18th recording its second full-length, Dawn Of Infinity, which was to be released by Cruz Del Sur Music in the autumn of 2011. This album was planned with producer Ajeet Gill initially before the band changed course to rerecord it. The group would return to Gill for later albums however. In early 2013, U.K. band Dark Forest lost guitarist James Lees and replaced him with Patrick Jenkins who was with Horton in the folk project Grene Knyght. The band was working on a new album. The Awakening was supported through a video for the song Sons Of England. Josh Winnard was on vocals. Thompson was gone before 2020’s Oak, Ash & Thorn. He had departed in 2018. Alex of Storrsson was helping the band live. The 2020 album itself was partly inspired by the book Puck Of Pook’s Hill by Kipling. Ridge & Furrow was a 2022 EP. It was dubbed the band’s twentieth anniversary EP. The band had a local listening party at a local pub for it. The group's first gig in five years was at Warhorns Festival in Yorkshire, UK in the spring of 2024. The group had recruited bassist Jamie Brandon in 2023.
Dark Forest was also the name of a Canadian one-man project formed in 2003. Ecuador was not to be left behind and planted its tree in 2005.
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