Chosen by Monk
The New Jersey stoner doomsters, or doom stoners if you prefer (it’s your choice), will be preaching their brand of HEAVY metal to choirs of the converted in this little corner of the Überverse very shortly, and they set the scene for what to expect with this latest extract from their upcoming album, which will follow later in the summer (if that ever comes around!):
Speaking about the upcoming album, and the concept behind it, vocalist Justin Goins muses:
If our previous album, ‘The Brink’, represented the last thoughts of a drowning man, then ‘Fading Failing Ruin’ is his spirit washing up on shore.
This new world is foreign and alien to him, and he’ll soon realize that there’s no bottom to which he can sink. There’s always another depth to descend once he crashes through the bedrock below. The cost of his failures in life is to be fettered to a stone by a chain at his ankle, walking in circles until the chain, winding itself around the stone, pulls him in a spiral to be crushed against the rock.
The only way forward is to ascend, and the only way to ascend is to fashion wings – one feather grown from each slight and wound – until he can achieve escape velocity, breaking the chain and rising above his human failings. The freedom of wings, however, can be its own curse, threatening to turn him into a monster by setting him above what he sees as pedestrian concerns beneath him, destroying the humanity that sets him apart from the rest of the world.
- ‘Fade Failing Ruin‘ will be released via Magnetic Eye Records on 3 July.
- Solace will tour from this Thursday (7 May), supporting Hermano in France, The Netherlands, Germany and Austria before playing Desertfest London on Friday 15 May and then headline shows in Bridgewater (Saturday 16 May), Bristol (Sunday 17 May) and Bournemouth (Monday 18 May).