SOLSTICE - New Dark Age 2-LP (Oxblood Vinyl)

Limited to 250 copies on oxblood double vinyl in gatefold cover.

Whereas Solstice’s previous album was very much in a doom tradition, New Dark Age finds the band spreading their wings and branching out into a more epic metal direction. In fact, if anything I consider this to be as much heavy metal as it doom and the band is all the better for it. Lamentations, although a fair album in its own right, feels a little drab in places and especially when it’s stood next to this monumental piece… an appropriate analogy would be like comparing a city park to a windswept moor. Onwards and upwards, Solstice had emerged from the shadowy UK doom scene with this full-blooded epic.