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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hey! I’m Stefan, the owner of this website and composer of progressive death/doom metal band Soliloquium. We’ve just released the new album “Soulsearching”, and it would be awesome if you had a listen.
It’s the best way to support my music and content work. There’s also merch available on the Bandcamp page. Hope you like it and thanks for the support!
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