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Soliloquium - Contemplations (Progressive Doom Metal, Sweden, 2018)

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

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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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.

Chains

Soliloquium - Swedish doom metal