Through the Darkest Hour

Artist: Solitude Aeturnus
Label: Pavement Records
Category: Music

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Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 769623221420
EAN: 0769623221420
ASIN: B0000021IZ

Release Date: 1995-01-10

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Tracks:

Falling
Haunting The Obscure
The 8th Day: Mourning
The 9th Day: Awakening
Pain
Pawns Of Anger
Eternal (Dreams Part II)
Perfect Insanity
Shattered My Spirit

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Customer Reviews:

Great Doom Metal by a Great Band.......2006-12-03

Solitude Aeturnus craft a truly sullen masterpiece on this their 3rd album. A bombastic, menacing, hopeless metal dirge sung with lamentable beauty by the incomparable Robert Lowe. Solitude Aeturnus is the only Doom Metal band that can compare favorably to Black Sabbath. Solitude's power and talent eclipses even the mighty Candlemass. Through the Darkest Hour epitomizes Epic Doom Metal They may not have created Epic Doom, but they have distilled it perfectly. In the hands of a lesser band a song like "Pain" would come across as trite or even juvenile, but Robert Lowe sings it as if his life depended on it being taken seriously.

Through the Darkest Hour is a collection 9 well written, well performed paens to despair only the lackluster production mars this otherwise perfect album.

Solitude Aeturnus has come of age!.......2003-06-02

I've never really been into the "Doom" metal or heavy metal that much over the years but, after listening to the heavy guitar riffs of Edgar Rivera (who I have had the pleasure of knowing for quite a few years), and after listening to the first album they did I feel like they have definitely come of age and can hear it in this CD. I look forward to seeing them perform live again. These guys really carry there own on stage. I feel in the coming next few years they will hit the airwaves and will draw a great deal of attention for their hard work. Robert has an incredible vocal range and is up there with the best of them. Keep up the great work and keep on rocking.

Nick at night!! AKA Quick Nick

A doom *masterpiece*.......2002-04-01

I am a big fan of the doom genre- bands like Solitude Aeturnus, Candlemass, Veni Domine, etc. Solitude A is my favorite of all of them, and 'Through the Darkest Hour' is my favorite SA title (though they're all good). It just doesn't come any better than this- thick, heavy guitar over an incredible rhythm section and the stunning vocals of Robert Lowe. Lowe has one of the best voices in all of metal- an incredible midrange voice than can convey sorrow (Shattered My Spirit) and well as power (Falling). He doesn't go out of his range, and his control is just superb. This is a solid CD all the way through, and highly recommended to fans of the genre in patricular, and metal fans in general.

You NEED to hear these guys.......2001-03-31

This is the third album from Solitude Aeturnus, but the first one I bought. I only wish I'd heard this band long before! First, for perspective, a little about the band itself: Solitude Aeturnus is a "Doom metal" band, so their lyrics are less than optomistic, and the music is for the most part slow and heavy. Black Sabbath is one of their influences, apparently. What sets this band apart from other doom metal bands, in my opinion, is the quality of musicianship and the singer's voice. (I'm no expert on doom metal, though.) The vocalist doesn't try to sound scary or even scream much, he just has a naturally great voice for this type of music.

Now, about this particular album: Of the three Solitude Aeturnus albums I've bought so far, this seems to be one of the better ones. (Their debut album is also awesome, a couple of songs on the fourth album "Downfall" are slightly weaker, but still very good.) The music on "Through the Darkest Hour" is slow, but still remains captivating. After years of listening to Slayer and Metallica and such, I'm just learning that slower metal can be a good thing! And some of the songs really aren't all that slow, after all.

It's really a mystery to me why Solitude Aeturnus isn't much much more well known. This is a great album from a great band.

Good but Lacks Majesty of "Beyond the Crimson Horizon".......2000-04-13

As a big fan of Solitude Aeturnus I was mildly disappointed with this CD. While I love the tracks "Haunting the Obscure", "Shatter my Spirit", "Falling" and my personal favorite, "9th Day the Awakening", I feel the album as a whole is not up to the standards set on the previous album, "Beyond the Crimson Horizon". The guys do a great job of setting the mood and of playing morose, doom-filled laments but it was the epic lyrics and storytelling that are absent on this cd. The driving riff of the "9th Day" is the highlight of this album for me and as usual, the guitars are heavy and clear. Not a bad album, but definately not their best.

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