French epic death/doom metal band Solstitium reveals »Morgoth« album details and drops two more singles!
French epic death/doom metal band Solstitium drops two more singles – »Immortal Pride« and »Rise Of The Dead« – taken their debut full-length album, »Morgoth«, due out this Thursday, July 25th, 2024 via Metal On Metal Records.
Tracklist:
01. Solstitium
02. Frozen Gate
03. The Cimmerian
04. Rise Of The Dead
05. Sparta
06. Anathema Of The Templar
07. Winter Solstice
08. Doomriders
09. Immortal Pride
10. Morgoth
11. Pharaoh’s Curse
12. Long Live The King
Courtesy of Metal On Metal Records:
The full-length of the French newcomers Solstitium »Morgoth« will see the light of day on July 25th, at Headbangers Open Air (which we’ll be attending, like every year), together with the new CD of Dread Ogre and the reissue of the second album of Arkham Witch.
Solstitium play a riveting mix of ’90s death/doom and epic heavy metal, making each song stand out thanks to varying proportions of each style, a wide range of tempos, moods and arrangements. With bone-grinding riffs and sound, their debut is the musical equivalent of a road-roller! Yet, every instrument has space to breathe thanks to the excellent production. The vocals are equally impressive, offering both deep, beasty growls, sinister-sounding harsh parts and imposing clean singing, while lyrical themes are steeped in the worlds of Robert E. Howard and Tolkien. If you’re into bands like early Paradise Lost, Bolt Thrower, Celtic Frost, Grand Magus, Runemagick, Ironsword, early My Dying Bride, Necros Christos, epic era Bathory and Doomsword, don’t miss this brilliant album!
Photo by Yannick Bossez
Last week, we uploaded a music video for »The Cimmerian« to our YouTube channel, and now you can watch another official video, for »Rise Of The Dead«, on 666MrDoom’s YouTube channel or embedded below.
Check out also the third track »Immortal Pride«, showing the band’s more old school heavy metal side, here. You can listen to all three songs from the player on the Solstitium page as well.
You can find more info about »Morgoth« and see the high-res cover on the page of this release.
Until Monday, July 29th night, all German customers can order this CD from our SHOP page with the Deutsche Post shipping rates, while Polish shipping rates have been set for customers (including German ones starting with July 30th) from all other countries and will stay there until around August 12th. You can order it also in the 3 New Releases bundle with Dread Ogre’s »Get Ready For The Storm« and either Arkham Witch’s »Legions Of The Deeper Depths« or In Aevum Agere’s »Darkness, Then Light«, saving 6,00 Euro. And if you’re at Headbangers Open Air festival, you will have a chance to buy this CD, as well as other titles, directly from us as we’ll have a table space for selling there again.
If you don’t collect CDs, you can order the album as digital download (in lossless formats) from our Bandcamp page. It will be distributed digitally as well and made available from iTunes, Amazon MP3, Google Music, Spotify and other retailers and services.
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well