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personal thoughts

Annoying and abusive metal crowd behavior
metal festivals

Annoying metal crowd behavior – my two cents

This is my take on annoying metal crowd behavior, something that’s been discussed a lot on social media lately.

By soliloquium, 1 yearJanuary 17, 2024 ago
why do people listen to less and less extreme metal music over time?
death metal

Why do people stop listening to extreme metal music?

Fueled by interesting discussions with several friends, I wanted to dive into why people stop listening to extreme metal music. This applies to completely dropping extreme metal, but also the gradual transition to softer and different listening habits. I’ve had my own weird, musical journey in terms of this, and Read more…

By soliloquium, 1 yearJanuary 8, 2024 ago
My best tips for writing good lyrics
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How do you write good lyrics? My best tips

I’ve written lyrics for hundreds of songs, not necessarily always good lyrics. These are my best tips to write quality lyrics for your band that will provide the counterpart your music deserves. Hopefully, this will help you on their way, or maybe convince you to hire me to write lyrics Read more…

By soliloquium, 2 yearsJanuary 20, 2023 ago
How to write a good music review
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How to write a good music review – my two cents

How do you write a good music review? I won’t pretend to have all the answers, but I’ve written hundreds of music reviews over the years. You can find them here, on Metal Archives or on Rateyourmusic. These are some of my tips, based on my experiences, both as a Read more…

By soliloquium, 5 yearsDecember 24, 2019 ago
Metal music, depression and mental illness
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Metal music and mental health – my take

Metal music and mental health has become a pretty big topic, and it’s good that we’re all taking about it. Given the new study showing correlation between extreme metal and happiness, I wanted to finally tackle the metal and depression topic I’ve been meaning to write about for some time. Read more…

By soliloquium, 6 yearsJuly 29, 2019 ago
An outsiders perspective
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An outsider’s perspective

I’ve always considered myself an outsider; more of an observer than a participator. From teenage subculture days to avoiding the many distractions of adulthood. The ways, priorities and rituals of most people never appealed to me. I felt best when making entirely different moves, carving out the most random and Read more…

By soliloquium, 6 yearsFebruary 4, 2019 ago
new-album-blog
Doom metal

How the worst of times led to a new Soliloquium album

A new Soliloquium album is on the way and its as unexpected as its connected to my experiences the last few months. This will be more of a personal post than a musical post. But don’t worry, details about the music side of the new album will emerge soon! It’s Read more…

By soliloquium, 6 yearsJanuary 31, 2019 ago
Depression and anxiety
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Depression and anxiety – destination: Crashland

The warning signs were many, frequent and deceivingly easy to ignore. Just soldier on without pausing to think or feel. Everyone does it. It’s all good and well. If you want to dig a massive pit of depression and anxiety to fall into, that is. Somewhere along the line of Read more…

By soliloquium, 7 yearsAugust 14, 2018 ago
Introvert calm place
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Coming out of the introvert closet

I’ve been hesitant to this type of blog posts on this platform, Soliloquium’s music homepage, but I reconsidered after realizing how tightly the connected the band’s music and my personal thought process is. I was considering making a separate blog for a while. But screw it, I’ll just leave this Read more…

By soliloquium, 7 yearsJuly 11, 2018 ago
Music, money and creativity
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Music, money and creativity

After my first few personal rant type blog posts, I figured I’d go for a new one with the same method. Whole other topic though; how does money and business impact music for me as a musician and what do I think about it? How can we find a method Read more…

By soliloquium, 7 yearsFebruary 4, 2018 ago

Soliloquium - Famine album cover

Soliloquium

Download Soliloquium music for free from Bandcamp. Swedish progressive death/doom metal for fans of Katatonia, Anathema and Paradise Lost

Get me some doom metal!

Most recent blog posts:
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  • “Famine” song analysis – suburban darkness March 5, 2025
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    • 10 essential death/doom metal albums
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“Famine” – new Soliloquium single out now!

Soliloquium - Famine album cover

Hey! Forgive me for the dumbass popup, but I have some new music out! I’m Stefan, the owner of this website and composer of progressive death/doom metal band Soliloquium. Our new single “Famine” is out and would be awesome if you had a listen. Best way to support me, and you might like it! Full album is out April 11th, and already available for digital/physical pre-order.

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