Black Shining Leather by Carpathian Forest (CD, Oct-1999, Avantgarde Music USA)

Almost a whole decade had passed in the history of Carpathian Forest before their first full-length "Black Shining Leather" saw the light of day, and a lot has changed since their earliest demos, as well as even more would change even more drastically in future years. While, being the long overdue full-length debut, this was certainly a milestone in Carpathian Forest's career, this would also mark a turning point, a perfect mixture of what they were and and they would be, and in this also the perfect point in time to analyze the entity that Carpathian Forest is as a whole, from their first...