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Solstorm

by Solstorm

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    8 panel digipack. Artwork by Kristoffer Lundberg.
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1.
Art of Creation 02:25
2.
The Sun Will Appear From The West 09:10
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3.
On This Barren Rock 06:30
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4.
Manhattan Mass 11:14
5.
The Carrington Event 05:29
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6.
Exhumation 08:12
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7.
Art of Destruction 02:20

about

“Like their musical mentors, Neurosis and Isis, Bergen, Norway-based Solstorm have clearly spent some time staring out from their coastal home towm, contemplating the vast, inscrutable reaches beyond. But as their colossally craggy self-titled debut album, on Duplicate Records, makes clear, theirs is still a deeply personal journey for whom “creating the sound of armageddon and the inevitable end of all things” becomes a hard-won rite of passage whose scorched vistas and luminous, lamenting guitars make The Road seem like a day trip to Brighton”
Metal Hammer UK

“It's slow, it's heavy, and it swirls around your mind and settles you into a desolate and tranquil state of mind where nothing exists but SOLSTORM and the beating of your heart.”
-Avantgarde-metal.com

“The trembling, tense opening of “Exhumation” indicates that the band have left the best til last, as the track coalesces into an unforgiving edifice of ravenous vocals and plunging, choking guitars, etched with broken, weather-worn strands of chilling melody and swamped by strangling vines of broken, hopeless fatalism. Through all the darkness and desolation, the destruction and devastation, there is a frail thread of beauty, a calmness and clarity that speaks of acceptance, of submission, before the inevitability of the end.

The album is the aural equivalent of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road – a bleak and desolate musical landscape through which the listener trudges, every second, every moment, precious, balanced precariously between hope and despair."
NoCleanSinging.com

credits

released May 18, 2011

Recorded by Solstorm at Gamle Kaland Skole
Mixed by Solstorm
Mastered by Todd McHenry at Neomastering
Released by Duplicate Records
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Jaran Hereid - Bass & vocals
Bjørn Ognøy - Guitar, samples & noise
Helge Taksdal - Guitar
Camilo Beltran - Guitar
Mads Lilletvedt - Drums

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Solstorm Bergen, Norway

Solstorm is pure ecstacy at 110dB. Solstorm is light. Solstorm is darkness. Solstorm is a wall of sound. Solstorm is coming.

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