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#375 FORBIDDEN – Forbidden Album Review (2026)
Episode 376
Thursday, 29 October, 2026
A lot can change in sixteen years… The last new FORBIDDEN album we were blessed with, Omega Wave, was released on October 22, 2010, which by any measure seems like an incredibly long time ago. But to give that span of time just a bit more perspective and weight, Omega Wave was released a mere sixteen days after Instagram was launched (which was on October 6, 2010). Fast forward sixteen years plus a day later to Friday, October 23, 2026, when FORBIDDEN unleashes their eponymous 6th album, FORBIDDEN, their first new album since 2010’s Omega Wave and also the first to feature new frontman Norman Skinner assuming vocal duties for original vocalist Russ Anderson. In short, FORBIDDEN has all of the elements that fans of the Bay Area progressive thrash masters have come to expect, including some mind-boggling surprises that we absolutely did not see coming. If you enjoy having your mind completely blown by one of, if not THE most, technically proficient thrash metal bands of all time, then you are absolutely going to love this album. Go ahead and slip into your “yoga pants” and JOIN US as we immerse ourselves into the multilayered complexity of the top contender for “thrash metal comeback album of the year” with the latest album from San Francisco technical thrash titans, FORBIDDEN. Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes & Time Stamps: (00:01): “In the middle of the night…” / “There is…a house…in New Orleans…” / #GhostManor “Skynet strikes again…” / “For those of you who can’t see the video…which is everybody…”/ “Wait wait…you can tell they’re girl skeletons?”/ #SkeletonTits #BoneInTits “That’s an Ozzy song, right?” / #RussellsReflectionsHalloweenEdition / #From #CrystalLake / “I always liked Velma…you know Velma’s doing the freaky shit…”/ #InTheMiddleOfTheNight / “That’s some ASMR right there, dude…” (08:34): *WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised * “If they hear it late on Thursday night, super late, it could be ... (in the middle of the night)” *WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!* *PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast * “We’ve got yoga pyuhnts…hode own…” / *Purchase your Metal Nerdery gear at metalnerdery.com/merch * *EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com * *SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram & #TikTok (12:12): *VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!!* #guitarslide / #TripSix / #MetalNerdist “I think I know the part he’s talking about, specifically, that he’s talking about in The Four Horsemen…”/ “Hold on, I’ve got it if you’re ready…” #Metallica THE FOUR HORSEMEN (Kill ‘Em All – 1983) “That’s a pick slide (pick scratch) …” “I never noticed…the bass is doing it too…” / #divebomb “There’s the slide…and the scrape…and then there’s the dive…” #Slayer WAR ENSEMBLE (Seasons In The Abyss – 1990) “The slide gives it that live feel…as a guitarist, that’s one of the first things we learn how to do…”/ “It’s kinda like a hand to the ass…I can’t slap my own ass while I’m jerking off…” #futureepisodeidea #pickscratch #pickscrape #neckslide #fretslide The joys of learning how to play guitar. (21:00): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: FORBIDDEN’S BRAND SPANK, SELF-TITLED NEW ALBUM!!! Released 10/23/2026, the first new album from #Forbidden since 2010’s Omega Wave (which was the last album to feature original vocalist Russ Anderson on vocals) Produced by Zack Ohren / “10/23 is a great day for album releases…” “Let’s check out the gear…” / “Brann from Mastodon is on this…”/ #BlackDog / “They’re tuned to E standard…when #Metallica did Death Magnetic, (Rick) Rubin had them tune up to E standard…”/ “I like the label, too…BLKIIBLK…is there a ‘B’ Roman Numeral?” (26:26): SINGLE POINT FAILURE “That’s a strong opener…sounds like old school thrash…sounds like Russ (Anderson)…” “It’s got the elements of the Russ (era) sound…” “The weedly woos…they were weedling and woodling…” (30:30): BURNING THE LUNGS OF EARTH “He’s got the notes of the Russ voice…the projection…” “I swear this has an 80’s movie cadence…like on Top Gun…there’s a song there, I don’t know what it is…” “It’s like a more angry sounding Russ…it’s like Russ Plus…” “I don’t know how much they’d like to hear this podcast and hear his name mentioned that many times …” / “The voice (of Norman Skinner) fits Forbidden…” “I hear moments that tell me, when you go see them live, they’ll be able to do classic (Forbidden) and kill it…and there’s also a new element…(Skinner) has got his own sound…” (34:20): DIVIDED BY ZERO The first single, released over a year ago!!! “I feel like I’m in high school again and we’re putting (Forbidden Evil) on…” “That’s Forbidden…all day!” “That chorus will be a killer sing-along at the show…” “Sharpening knives to cut through the smoke…” “Wait a minute…we’ve gotta hit that middle part…” “If you had to guess, what do you think, in Roman Numerals, track 4 is?” (37:43): DCLXVI “Kinda creepy…darker…kinda reminds me of Suicide Note Pt. 1 by Pantera…” “That’s slow, grindy Forbidden…” “Is that Latin back there?” / “Ooooooh…they’re SPELLING it!” (43:18): PSYCLOPS “Listen to that bass, dude…that’s meaty!” “That is guitars, not keyboards…pick scratch!” “This kinda has the Coroner (Dissonance Theory) sound to it…the production…the sound of the guitar…” “I like the bends they do…” “Eventually there’s gonna be no more riffs…NOPE!” “When somebody comes out with a new album, I think this is the first time we all need to listen to it, at this podcast…it’s so much better right here…” “Today we broke the seal…other than the singles that we’ve already heard…it is so much more fun to do it this way…” “I almost wish they wouldn’t (release the singles ahead of the album release) …just to have that Christmas Day…where you unwrap all the presents at one time…” “Forbidden have come back after a 16-year absence…you’ve got to build a buzz…or a bus.” (49:30): JISEI “This sounds creepy…” “This is weird and I like it…it’s very dark…” The meaning & context of the Japanese word Jisei “I’d like to hear the very end of that before it goes into the next song…” (53:27): MUTUALLY ASSURED DYSFUNCTION “Single number 2…released last year…” “That’s classic (Forbidden) riffs right there…” “There’s so many layers to this thing…” “That sounds like the first two (albums: Forbidden Evil & Twisted Into Form) …that’s the classic Forbidden sound…” “This thing’s got layers…it’s probably gonna take several listens…” “An album is supposed to be a presentation of work that fits together like a book…I like albums…” (57:10): SYCOPHANTASY “I love me some double bass…” “That’s Brann (Dailor, from Mastodon) I think (on guest vocals) …ah ha! Yep, Brann IS on there!” (59:16): THE BURDEN “Ooooh, that’s ugly…that was like Psycroptic …” “Come on! How!? I wanna hear one more…” / “Wow! That’s nuts!” “So, they’re ‘kinda’ good…sounds like they’ve played instruments before…” / “That’s like video game metal…” (1:02:38): SOL GRAVE “Sol means ‘sun’…or ‘peace’…” “Hear those squeakies back there!? Squeak pinch harmonics…” “There’s so much uncomfortable shit going on…those pinch squeakies are great!” “That’s like progressive thrash is what that is…it’s distressed, it makes you uncomfortable.” “It’s like pinch squealies…perfect…they’re harmonizing the squealies!” “Let’s make the most difficult song in history the next to the last song on the album…” (1:08:10): “See, THAT is why they need to open for Dream Theater…they’ve got a 9-minute song…” FLOWER OF LIFE (CHAOS BY DESIGN) “I don’t think Forbidden has ever had a 9-minute song…” “Me likey…” / “Those pinches (pinch harmonics) are crazy!” “Piano!? They’re opening for Dream Theater, dude…” “Rimshot!? Holy shit! I like it though… it’s a different kind of Forbidden.” “I think it’s gonna come back hard…is that strings!? Wow!” “Alright, make it ugly…” “It’s gonna build back like a motherfucker…I think this is going to be extremely ugly…” “I almost don’t know what to say…” / #usethoseheadphones / “Okay, let it ring out…” #standingovation “That’s like a 28-layer casserole lasagna…” “I think I found my favorite metal album for 2026…” “At some point, I bet they open for Dream Theater.” THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! #untilthenext #outroreel
