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By David E. Gehlke FORBIDDEN had the best pure singer in Russ Anderson of all the Bay Area thrash bands, but it never translated to the kind of success they deserved. Oddly, Anderson's vocal acrobatics somehow prevented FORBIDDEN from reaching audiences beyond the thrash scene, in spite of their leg...

By the time Forbidden released their debut album, Forbidden Evil, on September 30th, 1988, the NorCal crew had some big shoes to fill. The Bay Area thrash scene had already given birth to many important and highly influential metal acts including Exodus, Death Angel, Testament, Possessed and, of course, Metallica (who had relocated from Southern California in 1983). Forbidden had been kicking around the scene for three years up to that point, so they were well aware of the regions legacy — a...

The San Francisco Bay Area is known far and wide as the epicenter of the Eighties thrash movement, and one of the bands central to the scenes second wave was Forbidden. While they may not have achieved the same widespread recognition as Bay Area forebears like Metallica and Exodus or peers like Testament and Death Angel, Forbidden left an indelible mark on the genre with two now-classic albums — the 1988 debut Forbidden Evil (which was also the bands original name) and the 1990 follow-up Tw...

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