Fields of Yore is the debut album from Deciduous Forest, a one-man project based in Brisbane, Australia.  The sole member, Snjor, handles vocals, guitars, bass, and keyboards whilst guest drummer Chris Chapman contributes session drums on the album.  The five track, 46-minute atmospheric black metal offering, takes you on an immersive journey with each long track building layer upon layer of melancholy woven into black melodies.  It is mid paced and totally mesmerizing in its repetition.  The sound is of anguish, memory and self destruction.  At times the music is doom laden and at others ethereal and fragile. The synth work is immersive, often acting as the spine upon which the rest of the instrumentation grows.

The Formless Dark – 6:34 Opens with a spiralling, repetitive synth motif, the track uncoils slowly, drawing in tumbling riffs and mournful guitar scales. The harsh vocals emerge setting a tone of inner turmoil. The drums plod forward in a trance inducing cadence, mid paced, and deliberate. The band notes: "The Formless Dark deals with anxiety and insomnia, those long, silent nights where your mind becomes a labyrinth of regret, memory, and unending panic." A fitting opening to this meditative descent. Up next Ghost of Lies – 9:24 Anchored by a bass forward intro that quickly returns to the central presence of synth, this track exemplifies the album’s architecture: looping riffs, layered melodies, and anguished elongated vocals. It feels like an incantation, building its spell slowly, relentlessly. The hypnotic pace remains steady, only breaking for a brief, mournful guitar solo near the end.

The album’s namesake Fields of Yore – 12:16 arguably its emotional core begins on a more upbeat tone before spiraling into a textured soundscape of intertwining melodies and sorrowful harsh slow talking vocals. Midway, everything falls away, leaving a near silence of sparse notes and distant echoes. From there, the track swells and the pace increases, vocals stretched into anguished peaks and a sweeping guitar solo before returning to its hypnotic soundscape.  If you are drawn into its spell, this can be extremely emotionally evocative.  The Ages Past – 13:25 Here, time slows. The track opens with shimmering synths and a distant drum pulse. Imagine walking through ancient ruins swallowed by forest. A single melodic line drifts through the fog, gradually joined by layers of sound that rise like a slow dawn. There's sorrow here, but also reverence an ode to things lost and long buried beneath the moss.

Amenmoia – 5.08 A word that means nostalgia for a time you never lived, and fittingly so. Though the shortest track, Amenmoia feels like a farewell letter from some forgotten century. Starts off on an orchestral vibe...gentle, subdued, and with a sense of longing before building into a heavy deliberate slow texture. It fades out and leaves you adrift in a grey memory unmoored, unresolved. Fields of Yore is a place that you don’t visit lightly. It’s for those drawn to shadowed paths and autumnal decay, to sorrow not as drama but as truth. Every track builds a world of its own, yet together they form a cycle aching, beautiful, and desolate. For fans of atmospheric black metal, this truly is a forest worth wandering.