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.
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…
personal thoughts
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…
personal thoughts
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…
personal thoughts
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…
personal thoughts
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…
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…
personal thoughts
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…
personal thoughts
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…
personal thoughts
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…