Death/doom metal cover of The Cranberries - Zombie from the 2013 EP "A Night of Burdens".

Zombie (The Cranberries cover)

Swedish melodic death/doom metal influenced by Katatonia, Anathema, Paradise Lost, Saturnus and Doom:VS. First track from the Soliloquium EP "The Concept of Escape". Download all Soliloquium releases for free at https://soliloquium.bandcamp.com and follow our musical progress at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Soliloquium/236215949804095. 

Lyrics:
Rampant are the storms
Devious, these seas
These forces we try to master
Constant weakness to evade

A strife against the inborn nature of defeat
Exposure to noxious elements, the roads we blindly tread

Solitary ruin befalls me
The dreaded steps from abandoned dreams
Tired well, repeating stream
The concept of escape, it seems
We soldier on, an unknown path
For passions and dreams no one shares

What happens when legs grow weary?
When life's crossroads are but woes to suffer?
When I'm enclosed in my own mind
The repeating echo of spinning thoughts

A reflection in the window, what's there to see?
A pale face, veil for vacant crowd
A year of sorrows, here we stand
No companion but smoldering remnants of dying dreams 

Crossroads

Third Track from the Soliloquium EP "The Concept of Escape".

Nighttime Revelations

Second track from Soliloquium's EP "The Concept of Escape". Death/doom influenced by Katatonia, Anathema, Paradise Lost, Swallow the Sun and Daylight Dies.

Remnants of Dying Dreams

Melodic death doom metal from the EP "When Silence Grows Venomous". Soliloquium is a swedish band (inspired by Katatonia, Paradise Lost, Draconian, October Tide)formed in 2011 as a side project to the death metal band Desolator. All our music as available for free at https://soliloquium.bandcamp.com

Lyrics:
Blistering cold, human lepers scratching the door
The isolation warms, a welcome sense of cabin fever

A draconian sense of ecstasy, reviewing this pale existence
An outsider's perspective, tainted and distorted
Drawn into threads of life, a pawn in wretched games
This collective breeze of steaming anguish
Corrupting my path

A garden of truculence awaits
The abhorrence of the world outside these doors
Elusive cures for wretched tears
The absence of all humanity

Driven to destruction, becoming one in your mold
Lowering myself to pointless battles, losing all sense of self

The transparency of devious words
The obscenity of human discourse
Enslavement in a torn creation
An arena for the futile

Aspirations beyond the mundane, construction of thoughts anew
The collapse of illusory dreams and the bitter disappointment

The sour taste of corrosion and defeat
A bleak outcry upon weathered ears
Relive the anguish, paint the walls with spite
Allow the bitterness to cripple the last will 

Garden of Truculence

Swedish melodic death/doom metal influenced by Katatonia, Anathema, Paradise Lost, Mourning Beloveth and October Tide. Second track from the first demo "When Silence Grows Venomous"

Lyrics:
The silence grows venomous as we struggle through each day
Foul season of affliction, upon us vehemently
This sullen autumn backdrop providing proper context
A befitting canvas for our ever rotting minds

Confined to fighting inner demons, never seize the day
Cornered and entrapped, faring through ephemeral joys
Procrastinate and linger, decrepify our lives
Bound by towering woes, a half existence raging on

Autumn state, no sight of hope beneath the grey dusk
Living life away with no sense of purpose
Autumn state, no sight of hope beneath the grey dusk
Searching for an unseen truth

Forever seeking what we cannot find
Rays of vivid light or chilling breeze
Cursed to never seize the moment
Immersed in thoughts of better days

Watch the hourglass grow empty, While drifting in confusion
Lost in plans of a distant tomorrow or grief over shattered yesterdays 

Autumn State

Death/doom metal cover of classic Paradise Lost track "Forever Failure" from the album "Draconian Times". The cover is featured on Soliloquium's EP "A Night of Burdens" along with a cover of The Cranberries - "Zombie" and a short acoustic track called "Perpetual State of Panic". All Soliloquium music is available as free downloads on Soundcloud and Bandcamp!

Lyrics:
You must feel frustration,
'Cause your mind feels such temptation,
And your ways appear a total lack of faith.

You may feel elation,
At your body's re-creation,
And that joy you need, restricted by one thought.

Are you forever - loss of purpose in a passive life,
Are you forever - pale, regarded as a waste of time.

High times are courageous,
But it truth they suit no purpose,
Induced, reduced, unable and afraid...

Can you feel rejection,
And a lack of motivation,
And the joy you need, restricted and delayed.

Are you forever - loss of purpose in a passive life
Are you forever - pale, regarded as a waste of time 

Forever Failure (Paradise Lost cover)

Song from the upcoming full length album "An Empty Frame", out on 21 October 2016 on Transcending Records.

Official lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arX5WjHlcIk
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Lyrics:
Reflections, red and white
Light source upon pavement
The radiance of a sleeping city
Rid of the burdens of day

Who are we to fight rising tides?
Struggling further with no reward
With or without, it's always the same
Entangled in chains of the past

Shaping purpose in empty existance, as fire from extinct ember
What is and what could have been, as day and night cycles again
To be free in containment, this harrowing dream
I remain the wayward seed

Time has escaped me, the passing of years
Stones left unturned, memories lurk in every corner
Echoes with unfettered power
The autumn when the city spoke to me

Line-up:
Stefan Nordström - Vocals/Guitars (Desolator, Ending Quest)
Jonas Bergkvist - Bass (Desolator, Ending Quest, Wolfcross)
Mortuz - Drums (Mist of Misery, Eufori)
Mike Watts - Electronics (Sleepwalkers)

Mixed and mastered by Mike Watts.
Album art by Ollie Assault.

An Empty Frame

With or Without

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Fear Not

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Lyrics:
Inside the silent and pale hides the agony of worlds
To roam unprotected in daytime haste
It's the sleep of the lonely, it's the tragedies of man
It's the curse of the defect
It's a life passed, not lived

Childlike outbursts hides the old man's woes
Feeble cries of the voice never heard
I dread these four walls, the mind's eye's secluded caverns
Forever caged in a fool's procession

A sense of betrayal with every repeated word
Misguided comfort to still the rage inside
Surely I feel, you've all let me down
In lacrimose night I see, it is not the case

Tend my wounds, you may
Burnish the surface of scars that never heal
The grey of life's torn fabric, a canvas befouled
The core of the darkest thought, only a hint of sorrows to come

Procession

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Lyrics:
Shake the disease lingering inside
Delayed reaction, the dread of expecting eyes
Withstanding weakness, weighed down in affliction
A grueling task in the best of times

Carried the burden, straining for a befitting answer 
As time escaped me and senses grew pale
Lost in trains of thought, epiphanies beyond your distant smile
The noise of the world, I long to join them but dread every sound

To take the steps prescribed, clinging to solid ground
Living like I wasn't ever here

To wander wayward empty still, to feel no calling strong enough
To watch the best of intensions wither
The end is nigh, my friend
Please let me sleep

The defect's roaring storm, white noise and repetition
Here I stand as the observer, the empty frame

The Observer

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Lyrics:
A numbing sense of dissonance, as nails in tired eyes
Another day when choices and aspirations fail to provide result
When fear of failure encompasses will to try
When familiar demons take hold to never let go

It's that time again, it's a night of burdens 
It's the veil of night, the sorrow path

Themes grow old, seasons repeat
A pale reaction to what once was all
From nothing to everything, adrift in infinite void
Forever the reluctant passenger searching release

The Sorrow Path

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Lyrics:
This is not the place where dreams take flight
This won't be the day ambitions are realized
The tired lightsource, spring escaping me
This is not the place where dreams take flight

In this earthly confine hours linger by
"Any place but here", we repeat in sullen tone

What's left to strive for in a garden of fear?
Clashing wills, tired days
Constant pressure heals no wound
We find ourselves begging for release

Lessons expensively learned, you pass by in time of need
Carve a word or two, quench the noise
We've come a long way to be wayward still
Adrift in endless sea, a companion of silence

Earthly Confine

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Lyrics:
The allure of chaos, the raging tempest
Cling to life in the starting blocks
As the hourglass grows emptier still

Enduring, wallow in weakness of mine
The crack in the looking glass
To alone tread the pathways in light of spring
To have nothing has never been such bliss

Is it rain or tears?
Savage climate or brooding fears
A labyrinth of years
This darkness is mine through the eye of every storm

The slowing of heartbeats

Ambition's flame continually burns
Leaves me to wonder when the limelight is mine to enter

To leave this place and soar beyond the vast terrains
But a recurring dream, never quite in reach
The nighttime world, its damaged poetry
Its soothing tones, its healing silence

Eye of the Storm

First single from Soliloquium's second full-length album "Contemplations". The album will be out June 1st, 2018 on Transcending Records.

Read everything about the album here: deathdoom.com/soliloquium/releases/contemplations-full-length-2018/

Stream and download the track from https://soliloquium.bandcamp.com

Lyrics:
Did you choose to walk away, yet never strayed? 
Did you see the pristine, beyond the passing hours? 
Did your mind stray to the horizon? 
Was it a disorder to dream? 

There's no moment to dwell in, only what lingers ahead 
The treacherous footprints of a wanderer's path 
There's always another flicker in the distance 
A promise of something more 

Small things, distractions in the periphery 
The crippling weight of longing 
Insatiable remnant of the past 
Eyes to the sun, I offer no reply

Lineup:
Stefan Nordström - guitars, vocals 
Jonas Bergkvist - bass 
Mike Watts - drums, electronics

Catharsis

See YouTube lyric video for live lyrics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qulx6F1XebQ

Lyrics:
Chemical imbalance and its furious thrusts
The price I wouldn't pay for a moment of calm
A strong will confined in a withering shape
Kicking and screaming perpetually

Many thoughts, many seasons passed
Countless hours spent in turmoil
Beyond the inner twists, what truly remains of me?
Is peace only found in the endgame?

Even lazy summer days are filled with abstract need
In endless search for what's missing beneath

A creeping sense of desperation
The twisted faces in the periphery
A reluctant smile, facade of the unseen
Spiralling thoughts of what could have been

The intoxicating moments when I gaze into a world of colours
This flicker of life is a haven, yet the ultimate of insults
Nothing remains of intuition and instinct, core and essence
I am but a machine, the martyr of my own creation

At the heart of what could have been
In light of what I've become
I feel betrayed
The glimmering surface is rid with holes

Lineup on the song:
Stefan Nordström - guitars, vocals (Desolator, Ending Quest)
Jonas Bergkvist - bass (Desolator, Ending Quest, Wolfcross)
Mike Watts - drums, electronics, mixing, mastering (Sleepwalkers, Terminus)
Mikko Heikkilä - guest vocals (Kaunis Kuolematon, ex-Black Sun Aeon, ex-Sinamore)

Chains

From the album "Contemplations", out June 1st, 2018 on Transcending Records.

Line-up:
Stefan Nordström - vocals, guitars
Jonas Bergkvist - bass
Mike Watts - drums, electronics
Mikko Heikkilä - guest vocals

Lyrics:
Tired conversations with myself, mesh of voices echoing
Recurring patterns of declining thought
An empty stare, a wandering mind

Slave to a rampant pathos, the laments of a weary soul
Unbound in pursuit to structure the intangible
I am the gravelike silence
I am the product of this white noise creation

Could never attune to distorted visions
An admission of the outcast, the consummate offense
I see myself drawn to fire as on film
I am the spectator of my own downfall

Searched and scoured rituals and empty deeds
In spite of my attempts, each vision is one of exit signs

No wordly comfort can rest the most active of minds

In Affect

Third track from Soliloquium's 2018 album "Contemplations". Instrumental. Listen to the whole album on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AldDxOvpwlw& or download it at https://soliloquium.bandcamp.com

Streetlights

Lyrics:
The journey grew us weary
Voices, but a distant sigh
White noise to fetter us
A distant echo of goodbyes

When was this life even remotely ours to live?
The dreams lingering in expecting eyes
Did I even ever own the innermost thought and desire?
It was nothing, and now it's all over

The more I learn
The more I wish I knew before
Before every score was settled
Before my life was lived

It's the precious time
Never to be returned
It's my very essence
Gone forlorn

From the 2018 album "Contemplations". Buy and stream the entire album at https://soliloquium.bandcamp.com :)

Stefan Nordström - vocals, guitars
Jonas Bergkvist - bass
Mike Watts - drums

Lyrics:
Tired, unispired in pacifying sleep
The nine hour surge reveals a deprecated self
Arranged a life for watching eyes, weary soul's confine
This material construction, a flawed comfort

Lifelong disappointments brew below the polished surface
In ice cold dependency to a desperate routine

Another days deeds perfected, with blood taste upon barren tongue
A lethargy of senses for you know tomorrow (will be the same)

How can you master the role of a machine?
Drone through waking hour with blind belief
How can you master the role of a machine?
Perfecting the same pattern in monday morning fallacy

Eyes set to the task, desensitized
Is this your dream? Common monotony
An idle overseer of necessary evils
Glance no further, the flair of the moment is gone

Waking hour, glory askew
All that's been lost and won
Was it all for show?
Was it all for nothing?
This monumental sacrifice

Unfulfilling Prophecy

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For the Accursed

From the 2018 album "Contemplations", download and stream the whole thing here: https://soliloquium.bandcamp.com/

This song features Mikko Heikkilä (Kaunis Kuolematon) on guest vocals.

From the 2018 album "Contemplations", get it here: https://soliloquium.bandcamp.com/

Wanderlust

Opening track and first single from the 2020 Soliloquium album "Things We Leave Behind". 

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Lyrics:
Flightless, we stand
Firmly on the cursed soil
Was there a war to win?
Racing the clock to no avail

Life has come to a halt
We're still compelled to carry on

Deterioration sets in
Times of forfeiture
A lingering ghost of what once was
Absent-minded, obsolete

Warning signs were ignored
Plunging towards the crossroads
Degraded to nothing
Dead end existence

I turned every wretched stone
Degraded to nothing in toxic thought
I just don't know where to turn
I just do not know

Dead Ends

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Soliloquium is a death/doom band from Stockholm, Sweden. Our main influences are Katatonia, Anathema and Paradise Lost. We've released three EP's and two full-length albums. The third album "Things We Leave Behind" is out 16 March 2020 on Naturmacht Productions/Rain Without End Records.

Soliloquium - Swedish doom metal

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