h33t - Solitude Aeturnus - 2009 - Hour Of Despair (Live Album) [rockbox]

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Robert Lowe - Vocals
(Candlemass, Last Chapter , Concept Of God, The Holy, Graven Image)
John Perez - Guitars
(Puncture, Rotting Corpse (US), Texas Metal Alliance, Liquid Sound Company)
Steve Moseley - Guitars [former bass]
(Concept Of God, HYD, Omega Thesis)
James Martin - Bass
(Zanister, Kinrick, Michael Harris, Surgeon (US) , Concept Of God)
Steve Nichols - Drums
(Phantom-X, Godfear)

Formed in the spring of 1987, Solitude Aeturnus lining up began as, John Perez, quit his former seminal thrash metal band Rotting Corpse. Perez, already a long time follower of the Sabbath heavy sounds of early 80’s groups like Witchfinder General, St. Vitus, Black Hole, Nemesis and the like, knew that the time was right to make a move into this art form known then as Doom Metal! Perez assembled a group of musicians over the next year namely; Brad Kane - Drums (an early 80’s Bay area thrasher metal brother!), Kris Gabehardt - vocals (previously with over the top Satanic death metal band Death Tripper), Tom Martinez - guitar and Chris Hardin - bass. After writing songs and rehearsing up until December of 1987, the band entered the studio in Jan 1988 to record their legendary 5 song demo entitled “Justice For All”. It should be noted that this title and demo preceded the Metallica album of the same name by some 7 months! Also of interest is that the bands name at this time was Solitude & only 2 years later the band would change name to Solitude Aeturnus.
After the release of the demo, various gigs around the local area followed. The response was lukewarm at best since no one around the area knew what to think of a band that actually played ultra heavy, slow and with melody. In late ’88 changes started to occur within the band and without going into too many details the members of the band all changed finally settling on a line up that consisted of Perez - still on guitars of course, Edgar Rivera -
guitars, Robert Lowe - vocals, Lyle Steadham - bass and John “Wolf” Covington on drums. This line up would last for the next 7 years taking the band all the way to 1996. Of special interest is that Lyle Steadham actually joined the band on drums while Chris Hardin was still on bass. This particular line up recorded the 2nd demo containing two classic tracks, “Mirror of Sorrow” and “Opaque Divinity”. Lyle would shortly move over to bass duties as Hardin left the band and Covington joined.
This two song tape caught the attention of the King Klassic label & the band entered Dallas Sound Lab in January of 1990 to record their classic debut album, “Into the Depths of Sorrow”. After a disastrous first mix the band went back to Sound Logic Studios (where the two demos were done) for a remix. It was a nightmare to try to fix, but the album was recorded for a sum of $3000 and done in 7 days including the remix. Shortly after the album was delivered the album suffered an insane delay due to King Klassic not having the money to put it out. After some shopping around the album eventually caught the attention of Roadrunner Records and a licensed deal came to Solitude Aeturnus signing directly to Roadrunner followed. The album finally saw the light of day in July of 1991! No tours followed. In March of 1992 the band entered Sound Logic recording studios to begin the sessions for the second album, “Beyond the Crimson Horizon” with a budget much greater and as a result the sound was improved. The album was released in July of 1992 and eventually a US tour was set up in late Nov. with Paul Dianno’s Killers. The tour lasted 6 weeks and was a great success for the band. Shortly after in Feb. of ’93 the band were dropped from Roadrunner. This came as a sigh of relief for the band as the proper support from Roadrunner never came their way. They signed in december with Pavement Records.

The band took off for England to record their 3rd album, Through the Darkest Hour - recorded in March of ’94 @ Rhthym Studios, this was to be the bands best work to date, showing a more simple and heavier direction. “Darkest Hour” received critical acclaim all across the globe upon it’s release in August of 1994. The band went on the road with metal legends Mercyful Fate for an extensive US tour for six weeks of metal glory and shortly after the band embarked on their first tour of Europe with fellow doom band Revelation. After that, the band went through a long break until the April of 1996 when recording for the next album commenced. During this time Perez started his own Brainticket Records label as well as recording a solo album under the name of The Liquid Sound Company. With the next album, “Downfall”, despite recieving praise for their efforts, the band were extremely dissatisfied. The songs were top notch but the production quality of the album was poor.
Lyle Steadham left the band shortly after the recording of Downfall. The band continued on enlisting the services of Teri Pritchard (Last Chapter) in as temporary bassist. It was this line up that toured Europe in April of 96 with Morgana Lafey. Another break followed and a split from Pavement Records eventually occurred. During this time new bass player, Steve Moseley was added to the band as the perfect replacement for Lyle. The band then signed with Massacre Records in December 97 and recorded what was to become their masterpiece, Adagio. This time going back to Rhythm Studios in England the album was recorded in March 98 and released in June of the same year. The band toured Europe in September of 98 with Savior Machine in
support of the record. Adagio finally saw a U.S. release in January of 1999 through Olympic Records.
The years following the release of Adagio were quiet for the band. John Perez delivered his second album of psychedelic rock with the Liquid Sound Company – Inside the Acid Temple and
continued work with his Brainticket Records label and mail order. Steve Moseley, Robert and Covington all grouped together under the moniker of Concept of God and gigged around the
local area for a few years. An album was recorded in early 2001 and will finally see a release in spring of 2007! During the next few years both Edgar Rivera and John Covington left the group on good terms. With a few temporary line-ups the band finally settled on metal veteran Steve Nichols on drums and James Martin on bass. A short tour of Greece and Germany followed in early 2007. In the fall of 2007 the bands new album, Alone, was released on Massacre Records. In February of 2007 a DVD performance was filmed for release through Metal Mind Productions in spring 2007.
Solitude Aeturnus continues its quest to produce quality heavy metal music with an emphasis on songwriting sensibilities and attention to detail. If you want pure metal with special
detail to real songwriting here it is.

"Get ready for an hour of despair with the uncanny doom metallers! Metal Mind Production presents a CD audio version of the latest Solitude Aeturnus DVD entitled "Hour Of Despair".
Robert Lowe's haunting vocals, unbelievably heavy and slow riffs, strange melodies and sublime compositions - all this complemented by the band's desperate, insane personal
appeal. The tracklist comprised of songs recorded during their live show in Poland. It includes songs from their latest album "Alone" as well as from some of their previous releases (from the classic debut "Into the Depths of Sorrow", from "Through the Darkest
Hour", "Downfall", and the cult album "Adagio" ).
"Hour Of Despair" CD was released on 2nd March in Europe and 10th March in USA (via MVD).
Digipak edition is limited to 1000 copies!"

What can I say? If you've seen the dvd, you know what to expect - a brilliant heavy sound that hunts you for a long time. Enjoy!

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