Solitude Aeturnus

Adagio (Olympic)
by Scott Hefflon

Solitude Aeturnus has a long history – two albums for Roadracer/Roadrunner in the early ’90s, two for Pavement in the early-to-mid ’90s, and now two for Olympic (Massacre overseas). Plodding nobly through doomy landscapes, evoking Trouble more than black metal (no evil tendencies) or sludge (no scathing hate), Solitude Aeturnus paints with broad strokes of guitar, dribbled with the mighty voice of Robert Lowe. Subtle, yet powerful as lapping ocean waves, Solitude Aeturnus wins you over with its patient, irresistible undertow, not by smashing your skull against the rocks in a moment of lightening-cracking fury.
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