lizardtail wrote:
probably Solitude Aeturnus, they know what they're doing. Eyesore can probably recommend a certain album, he's a bigger fan of them than I.
If anyone is going to pick a Solitude Aeturnus album to buy I would suggest any of them except Downfall. That album is excellent, but the band got screwed on this mix and it came out not sounding very good, the guitar is very weak, which is unfortunate because it's a great album.
As for Solstice, their CDs are hard to find unfortunately. I like Lamentations better than this CD, but not by much. The problem with these guys is the same problem that plagues a lot of doom metal bands: too boring. Don't get me wrong, this band is good and they're not a boring band, but by saying they're "too boring" means that they just get tedious too often. I like the uptempo doom metal, and if it's the slower kind it'd better have some quality songwriting (see While Heaven Wept).
Solstice are good, but I think their reputation is overblown.
