SOLITUDE AETURNUS — Downfall (review)

SOLITUDE AETURNUS — Downfall album cover Album · 1996 · Traditional Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
The fourth Solitude Aeturnus album is an absolutely fantastic listen from a band who sound so much more confidence and self-assured here than on their first two albums. Aside from Deathwish - a cover of a classic-era Christian Death song which is very true to the rough, dirty, punkish original - the name of the game here is depressive doom metal inspired by Sabbath and Candlemass, with powerful vocals verging on the operatic by the magnificent Robert Lowe. So, not a radical departure from the band's usual formula - just an exceptionally skilled application of it which any doom metal fans will be well-advised to give a listen to.
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