Solitude Aeturnus - Alone
Tracklist
01. Scent Of Death02. Waiting For The Light
03. Blessed Be The Dead
04. Sightless
05. Upon Within
06. Burning
07. Is There
08. Tomorrows Dead
09. Essence Of Black
Additional info
Limited digipak version contains one bonus track:10. Embrace (10:10)
Digipack version cat. nr. - MAS DP0530
On the digipack version, the back cover lists Sightless as Track 2 and Waiting for the Light as Track 4.
Re-released as 2-LP by Eyes Like Snow in April 2009. Limited to 500 copies in gold vinyl. It contains the same bonus track as the digipack.
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There are some albums that deserve a warning sticker, absolutely bad ones and those likely to throw your rage out. Leave the last statement to the pioneering belligerence of US doom metal thunder "Solitude Aeturnus." After signing a world wide deal with the mighty German Massacre Records, in December 1997 they recorded what was to become their masterpiece: "Adagio." Now they've released their 2006 "Alone" album to set the speakers on fire, pummel souls into doom submission and push pounding hell metal, leaving behind them the disastrous first mix of the two demos. "Alone" is about to push their profile to a whole new sound, though not a hell of lot has changed in fact; it's still ultra heavy, slow and with melody, but just much more focused and diverse than previous efforts. Read more ›› |
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I think it's safe to say that the last half or so of Scent of Death has the best clean vocal performance of recorded musical history. Oh, and Blessed be the Dead is probably the second.
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Great album, even though I don't think this is the doomiest doom, which is its biggest advantage, because for me at least, this 70 minutes is really easy to listen to and the atmosphere is so absorbing, that I could listen to this album for ages.
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Fuck me this is such a masterpiece.
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Scent of Death is one of the best songs they've ever written. 8.9/10 for me - tracks 3, 6, 7, and 8 are a bit weaker than the rest IMO.
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Robert Lowe is definitely one to the best singers in doom, and I loved the albums he did with Candlemass. I kind of prefer this even though King of the Grey Islands is probably my favourite Candlemass album... This really is an under appreciated masterpiece for sure.
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Posts: 2792 Written by DarkVoid on 02.04.2025 at 12:59 I have always preferred their earlier work (first three albums), but maybe I should revisit this one, seeing all the praise here. Edit: Revisted and uprated to a 7. There is quite a bit to find here but it also feels a bit long at times. I still prefer their first three albums to this one, but not by much.
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Posts: 42 Written by Redel on 02.04.2025 at 13:11 I will gladly heap praise on Into the Depths of Sorrow as well... It's a great record as well. It's really the middle few albums of theirs that maybe weren't quite at that level. They were still good albums, just not quite 'Alone' or 'Into the Depths of Sorrow'
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Posts: 141 Written by DarkVoid on 02.04.2025 at 12:59 I still think King Of The Grey Islands doesn't get enough respect when the best Candlemass albums are talked about. What a masterpiece
---- Upon the plain, there rushed forth and high Shadows at the end of night and mirrored in the sky Far far away beyond might of day And there lay the land of the dead of mortal cold decay
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