I’m glad to finally announce the new Soliloquium album “Famine”. It’s been a while in the making, but 2025 is the year things happen! As announced earlier this week, we’ve partnered up with Meuse Music Records to release this new album. The album is out on April 11th as a Read more…
Things have been happening with Soliloquium. One of the biggest steps forward is signing with a new record label: Meuse Music! It’s a great step forward from the band, and it will be awesome to share label home with amazing acts and good friends like Helevorn, Ghostheart Nebula, Somnent and Read more…
What is the song “The Silent Epidemic” by Soliloquium about? I wrote it! Here’s my analysis and take on it 3 years later.
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.
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…
I am writing and recording a new Soliloquium album. Figured it would be fun to share the progress, kind of like a recording diary. It’s been quite a long and slow one this time, but at least you guys can learn more about what’s going on and get some fun inside content.