Rolling Stone India have premiered the track Pilgrim from the ‘Stardust Solitude’ album by Chilean doom metal band Poema Arcanvs and interspersed it along with a band interview. The article is a fantastic slice through of the band’s processes of music-making and also delves into the future of the band (seriously, fuck this virus!) You can listen to the track and read what Rolling Stone India had to say AT THIS LINK. Excerpt:
“Ahead of the full release of the album, there’s a despairing, suitably heavy new single called “Pilgrim”. Co-founder and guitarist Igor Leiva Benavides points out how, thematically, the song arrives at a point when the record’s protagonist “realizes that the answers he looks for are nowhere to be found.”‘
A magnificent full-length of staggering weightage, ‘Stardust Solitude’ has opened up to a flurry of great reviews, all of which you can read below!
| REVIEWS – – “album that deserves a spot among the year’s best doom” – Metal Temple (Greece) 9/10 – “will be among the best Doom Metal 2020 releases” – Grinder Magazine (Chile) – “Very good return of this Chilean band” – Dargedik (Peru) 9/10 – “one of the monuments of Doom today” – Return To My Blood (Mexico) – “incredibly well-orchestrated and conceived” – Nine Circles (US) – “brilliant” – The Sleeping Village (UK) – “incredibly well-rounded album like few others… I wasn’t able to rip myself away from it for some hours” – Headbanger Reviews (US) – “a solid stunner from back to front, any way you slice it.” – Two Guys Metal Reviews (US) – “a glorious ode to a founding strand of doom” – The Killchain (UK) – “a prime example of the band’s successful amalgamation of styles and sensations” – No Clean Singing (US) – “indescribably awesome and exciting” – X-Crash (Germany) 8.5/10 – “Welcome to the funeral dinner” – Deadly Storm (Czech Republic) – “It is a wonder” – Dioses Del Metal (Spain) – “excellent” – The Pichangas.com (Chile) – “offers everything that defines Doom” – Metal Only (Germany) 8/10 – “Old Doom values are celebrated with devotion” – Musik Reviews (Germany) 11/15 – “a mature and forceful album” – Radio Future (Chile) – “definitely becoming a benchmark band and a clear example to follow” – Discordancia (Chile) – “wrap lovers of the most romantic doom-death in the usual modest and reassuring atmosphere” – Metal Italia (Italy) – “comes to define and seal years and years of obscure and meticulous devotion to a given path” – Disfactory (Italy) – “gives us lots of variation and different moods” – Hard Rock Info (Sweden) |
Poema Arcanvs (Chile) – Stardust Solitude (August 28th, 2020)
Genre – Doom Metal
Release Date – August 28th, 2020
Record Label – Transcending Obscurity Records
For fans of – Officium Triste, Paradise Lost, Anathema, My Dying Bride, Katatonia, Solitude Aeternus, Khemmis
Chilean doom metal band Poema Arcanvs have built up a legendary status over the years, having been around since the ’90s to be precise and releasing one impressive album after the other. Inspired originally by the UK doom bands such as Paradise Lost, Anathama and My Dying Bride, they’ve forged a powerful, soulful sound which they have perfected over the years. Stardust Solitude is their sixth full length album where they take things to a different level, adding better dynamics and expanding the scope of the music. This is a beautiful album that unravels gracefully, revealing a wealth of variations and moods that few bands are able to create and sustain for the entire duration of the album. The more you listen to it, the more it entrances you with its gentle yet plaintive melodies and entreating vocals that remain with you like warnings from the other side. Dive into this immersive album and emerge a changed person, one rich with profound sensations and a more sentient outlook on life.
Band lineup –
Claudio Carrasco – Vocals
Juan Diaz – Bass Guitar
Igor Leiva – Guitar
Luis Moya – Drums
Artwork by Enzo Toledo
Track listing –
1. Stardust Solitude
2. Orphans
3. Haven
4. The Lighthouse Keeper
5. Straits of Devotion
6. Pilgrim
7. Kingdom of Ruins
8. Brave
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