Finland-Based Rockers FORTH Pay Ode To Fallen ‘90s Musicians With “1993”
Shortly ahead of their self-titled third studio album, Forth have released a brand-new single called 1993 available now.
Doing its job in successfully taking listeners back to the glory days of the 1990s objectively, one of the finest decades in music history the up-and-coming Finnish hard rock band pay ode to fallen musicians of the era with this gorgeous new track.
This song is about the loss of those voices, and the fading away of a kind of music that was real, powerful and driven by raw emotion, lead vocalist / acoustic guitarist Brian Forth says.
Though theres twinges of Bryan Adams and early 1990s Axl Rose in Forths seemingly familiar voice, 1993 is a clear product of the massively short-lived grunge era. Its constant, and addictive bass groove is carried by not just a glorious acoustic guitar melody, but a rock-solid rhythm backing and admiringly emotional vocal delivery from the bands leader.
In fact, his delivery is similar to something you might hear out of Scorpions the veteran German rock titans. To top it all off, guitar virtuoso and lead Tim Norrgrann treats fans with an incredibly succinct guitar solo.
Speaking further on 1993, Forth gave a nod to four of his most beloved heroes in particular. The late grunge icons: Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), Layne Staley (Alice In Chains), Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Temple Of The Dog, Audioslave) and Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver).
Though he wrote the lyrics on his own, Norrgrann another insanely talented multi-instrumentalist helped him compose the instant classic, which landed itself at the #1 spot on Finlands Suomi Soi Top 20 chart upon release.
Of the writing of 1993, Norrgrann said it pretty much wrote itself, after jamming over a few guitar ideas with Brian. As is clear throughout the song, he described it as an amalgamation of different musical eras, naming late 70s stadium rock as one of the key themes.
While Forths back-catalogue incorporates clear inspiration from the classic rock, alternative, hard rock and grunge genres, the four-piece band has pro-actively dubbed themselves a style called newstalgia a sound the Espoo natives have become well-known for. The idea for this so-called newstalgia spawned from
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