Today, Purity Through
Fire announces February 27th as
the international release date for Solus Grief's
striking debut album, With a Last Exhale,
on CD format. The vinyl version will follow later this year.
A newcomer hailing from Norway, Solus Grief is
the work of one Peregrinus, who handles all instruments, vocals, and mixing
& mastering. And where so many "one-man black metal bands" sound
as much (or worse), Solus Grief buck
that trend with a righteously robust sound and fully in-the-moment style of
execution. In other words, Peregrinus sounds more like an actual band than many
"bands" do.
With a Last Exhale is the
evocatively titled debut of Solus Grief,
self-released digitally late last year - and so entranced by its
rigid-yet-unique style of black metal, Purity Through
Fire= is now rightfully
releasing the album on two physical formats. It would not be incorrect to
assume a four-song/41-minute black metal record recorded by one man would be of
the depressive/suicidal variety, and to some degree, both those appellations
could be applied to Solus Grief.
However, as Peregrinus soon displays, With a Last Exhale moves
many, MANY places - and many of them quite surprising, despite remaining
steadfastly within BLACK METAL - and with a jaw-dropping fluidity; this is NOT
one-riff minimalism/"hypnosis" nor an expression living/dying on
"atmosphere" alone. Indeed, with plenty of atmosphere to spare,
Peregrinus' compositional skills astoundingly span the full reach of extreme
metal, subtly (and tastefully) touching such boundaries as '90s melodic death
metal, '80s epic doom, or even just proper heavy metal...but the expression is
resolutely a black metal one, the emotions intense and inward, as befitting a
title like With a Last Exhale. And the
bass guitar here is something that
must be experienced.
Strangely invigorating given how dark & depressing its subject matter is,
painful yet vast, Solus Grief's With a Last Exhale is the
vital first statement of an imaginative newcomer with hopefully plenty more in
his black soul.
In the meantime, hear the track "Under Choking White Veils" HERE
at Purity Through Fire's official
YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Solus Grief's With a Last Exhale
1. Under Choking White Veils [9:11]
2. Life Has Left This Place [9:29]
3. With a Last Exhale [10:23]
4. Yearning of the Soul Damned [11:14]
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