And, mind you, most of the ingredients required to fulfill this lofty goal are in place: extended song-lengths, mournful guitar riffs (predominantly slothful but also rather snappy when needed), dour lyrics steeped in obscure, pagan lore, and even the odd, mood-setting sound effect to help establish a sense of all-encompassing conceptual linkage. ![]() Perhaps hoping to fill the not-inconsiderable-void left by the then recently disintegrated Candlemass, the group seemed committed to providing that definitive "next step" in doom's logical evolutionary process. ![]() One gets the distinct impression that, with their second full-length album, 1998's New Dark Age, English doomsters Solstice were aiming to redefine the genre.
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