God Forsaken

1990-1991

God Forsaken was formed in December 1990 by Mika Hankaniemi, Juha Pohto, Juha Köykkä and Hannu Kujanen. Back then we called ourselves as "PUTRID" and putrid we really were!! We put out our first demo titled "Exhumation" and a 7" EP "God Forsaken" during 1991. These releases aren't available anymore.

1992

It became obivious that we had to change the bands name to something else. We chose God Forsaken. It suited much more better to discribe our music which also changed from DEATH- to DOOM METAL. First full lenght albun came out on winter 1992. Titled as "Dismal Gleams Of Desolation" it has 8 songs. Lyrics dealed with sadness, solitude etc. At that time we tried to play with two guitarists but Olli Kajander just wasn`t the man and we decided to stay in 4 piece.

1993-1994

In Autumn 1993 we did a promo tape which we truly want to forget and bury as deep as possible. In January 1994 Pohto left and we asked Teemu Hautaniemi to play drums to a two week european tour with ANATHEMA (gods!!). After that Jani Viskari came to play drums but he had to go and Juha Pohto rejoined which meant that the original members were together again!

1995

In March our second album named " The Tide Has Turned" came out. It includes 10 doom and heavy tracks. Month later Pohto and Juha Köykkä left. Hautaniemi (drums) and Sami Ketola (bass) filled empty places only to witness the death of GF. The flame died in Autumn 1995.

Source: http://www.godforsaken.cjb.net