The Answer Lies In The Black Void is a collaboration between Martina Horváth and Jason Köhnen. Horváth (also singer for the avant-garde metal project Thy Catafalque) and Köhnen (Celestial Season, ex-The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble) predominantly work together in their outwardly music project MANSUR together with Dmitry El Demerdashi (ex-PHURPA) releasing their music on Denovali Records.

Horváth and Köhnen decided to join forces through their passion for all things Doom, presenting their personal take on the genre in all its beautiful darkness and from all possible angles.

Forlorn is an enveloping exploration of the doom genre and the myriad means of expression within it - journeying from a classic old-school sound to something more contemporary, then expanding further into sludge and industrial terrain, also incorporating elements of Martina's background in Hungarian folk music.

The Answer Lies In The Black Void seeks to embrace beauty in darkness and fragility in heaviness, in their own words, "Forlorn explores the sacred union of the divine feminine and masculine, the light and the dark, the shadows that hide within and the trials of love, lust and loss"