On Soliloquium’s third full-length album, “Things We Leave Behind”, it felt like I finally started getting things together for real. Most of the previous amateurism was gone, and I attracted interesting guests and collaborators. Here is my deep-dive into the album’s second single, “The Discarded”, featuring Mikko Heikkilä (Kaunis Kuolematon, Read more…
“Catharsis” is the first single from Soliloquium’s 2018 album “Contemplations”, the second full-length release. I hadn’t heard the song in a long time, so it was quite fun to listen to it a couple of times and dive into the music and lyrical themes. Let’s dive into the train of Read more…
“With or Without” was the single from our debut album “An Empty Frame”, and a seminal song in the Soliloquium discography. It was the first Soliloquium song to get a significant amount of views, and our first lyric video. For me, it further cemented that the band was more than Read more…
After diving into the first-ever Soliloquium song “Garden of Truculence”, I figured it would be fitting to move on to the next release in 2013, and another seminal song in the band’s journey: “Crossroads”.
“Garden of Truculence” is the first song I ever wrote for Soliloquium back in 2012 – a rather predictable, but still quite good Swedish-style melodic death/doom song, in my opinion. Here’s a closer, critical look at the lyric themes and musical ideas. It’s a post in a long run of song breakdowns I will be doing. In the end, I hope it will give you a deeper understanding of my music.
Brazilian doom metal band Black Tears of the Fallen invited me to lay down some growls on their upcoming single “Guardian of the Threshold”, and I couldn’t be happier too. The band is kick ass IMO, and when I received the song in my inbox I was ready to go. Read more…
“Vakaren” is the only Swedish-language track by favorite band Katatonia, a bonus track on the 2016 album “The Fall of Hearts”. It’s one of the recurring tracks in my singing playlist, and also the only Swedish track I’m comfortable singing, so I always toyed with the idea of recording a Read more…
Why doesn’t Soliloquium play classic Nordic-style melodic death/doom metal anymore, like on the first few releases? Well, that’s something I’m gonna elaborate on. Since many of you enjoyed my rants about extreme metal listening and metal crowd behavior, here’s another one. Please make them stop, right? Sorry, here it starts. Read more…
Are you on the hunt for the best doom metal albums from 2023? Maybe this can help! This is my list of doom metal from 2023 – both new and upcoming albums. Anything interesting missing? Feel free to send me your recommendations! Easiest way is to hit me up on Read more…
My ranking of all studio full-lengths in Katatonia’s discography.