Green [Import]

Forbidden | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 25, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Pavement Records
• ASIN: B0000021KE
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,733 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. What Is the Last Time?

2. Green

3. Phat

4. Turns to Rage

5. Face Down Heroes

6. Over the Middle

7. Kanaworms

8. Noncent$

9. Blank

10. Focus

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most overlooked album ever, March 5, 1999

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B. Frey "Doomlord" (Prairie Village, KS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Green (Audio CD)

I can't believe all the bad press this album has received. WHY!?!?! I have been a Forbidden fan since the beginning, so I have heard it all. Everyone knows "Forbidden Evil" and the others are classic thrash albums. But personally, I think "Green" blows them to shit! This music is SO intense and fast (i.e. "over the middle") how can anyone refute its greatness? It's too bad Forbidden has gotten fucked so many times by record companies over the years because they deserved to be at the top. Now that they are broken up, they never will be, except in the minds of many hardcore fans like myself. If you have never heard of Forbidden, buy this. If you have been a fan or at least have heard them, buy this. Songs #2 and #3 (pHat) will get your blood boiling like no other. So will "turns to rage". Excellent production, guitar work, aggressive vocals, and oustanding drumwork demand this album at least a little attention for Christ's sake.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overlooked and Underappreciated, February 24, 2005

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J. Palumbo "guru" (Florida, U S A) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Green (Audio CD)

Forbidden came out of the slew of San Francisco thrash bands to follow in the wake of Exodus and ultimately Metallica. Accordingly, they have the hallmarks of that particular region's heavist: tight and bludgeoning rhythmn section, tempo changes galore et al. But what set them apart is they have an actual singer. This may very well have been their downfall, as tastes were turning predominantly toward growlers like Hetfield at the time. I would liken them to more of a Flotsam and Jetsam vocal meets Testament/Vio-lence.
"Green" without a doubt is their overall strongest release. Not to knock their scary-as-all-hell debut, the venomous "Forbidden Evil" or the nearly-brilliant "Twisted Into Form", but "Green" is much more varied and just H-E-A-V-Y. It just grinds you down with it's sheer weight juxtaposed against brilliantly twisted melody.
Sad that they never saw these heights again.
Avoid "Distortion" altogether - it reeks of "contractual obligation".

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very strong, but unfortunately final, offering, February 21, 2006

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Worgelm "The Grumpy" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Green (Audio CD)

First off, net metal reviewers, can we please stop throwing "Nu" around needlessly when you really just want to say an album is well produced? Its like you would have us believe Fred Durst will suddenly step from behind Tim Calvert's cabinet and drop some mad rhymes mid-solo. "Nu" does not belong anywhere near ANY record in Forbidden's catalog. And while yes, there are some distorted vocals and guitar squeals, there are also raging melodic solos, and quite frankly, King Crimson was doing the distorted vocals thing in 1969 with "21st Century Schizoid Man" well before most of the guys in Korn were even born.


This album is classic prog-thrash with 90s attitude, well-produced, four-to-the-floor NASTY. Since they are second-generation San Fran thrash, this band is a bit more obscure than even Death Angel or Violence standards, strictly a cult thing, but ask any real bay area veteran and you will be schooled. In contrast to the first album fans, whose haste to condemn them is alarming for having a little fun ("Over the Middle"), let me assure those of you who have heard bad things about _Green_ that Forbidden is here on serious business on this, their swansong. And they go down swinging. The entire album generally shows confidence, band chemistry and mature songwriting than the wildly uneven _Distortion_. _Green_ has many highlights, with typical searing guitar from Locicero and Calvert, as well as excellent, melodic but throaty vocal work from Russ Anderson, starting with the psychadelic opener "Last Time." The album reaches an early, speedy apex with the ravenous "Face-Down Heroes," which starts its rhythm from a phone busy-reorder sample and just gets deadlier as the song continues. The next stretch of songs starts to get a little samey, "pHat" and "Noncent$" continuing the political/environmental themes while "Blank" sees Forbidden try a somewhat novel (for them, anyways) "ballad"-like approach. But the awesome, psychadelic eastern-tinged album closer "Focus" is a song dark and mysterious enough to make Maynard from Tool's tiny little arm hairs stand up at attention. Great underrated and neglected semi-masterpiece, perhaps the highlight of their catalog.