Editorial Review:

Album Description:
As a way of exploring different perspectives, the band members decided to work less as a group than usual and let each individual come up with the lyrics and music entirely on their own. Resulting in their most well rounded work ever. Includes CD-ROM video with picture disc, bio, lyrics and more. A Pavement release.

Rating: - Great Doom Metal by a Great Band
Solitude Aeturnus craft a truly sullen masterpiece on this their 3rd album. A bombastic, menacing, hopeless metal dirge sung with lamentable beauty by the incomparable Robert Lowe. Solitude Aeturnus is the only Doom Metal band that can compare favorably to Black Sabbath. Solitude's power and talent eclipses even the mighty Candlemass. Through the Darkest Hour epitomizes Epic Doom Metal They may not have created Epic Doom, but they have distilled it perfectly. In the hands of a lesser band a song ... Read More

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Rating: - Solitude Aeturnus has come of age!
I've never really been into the "Doom" metal or heavy metal that much over the years but, after listening to the heavy guitar riffs of Edgar Rivera (who I have had the pleasure of knowing for quite a few years), and after listening to the first album they did I feel like they have definitely come of age and can hear it in this CD. I look forward to seeing them perform live again. These guys really carry there own on stage. I feel in the coming next few years they will hit the airwaves and will draw ... Read More

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Rating: - A doom *masterpiece*
I am a big fan of the doom genre- bands like Solitude Aeturnus, Candlemass, Veni Domine, etc. Solitude A is my favorite of all of them, and 'Through the Darkest Hour' is my favorite SA title (though they're all good). It just doesn't come any better than this- thick, heavy guitar over an incredible rhythm section and the stunning vocals of Robert Lowe. Lowe has one of the best voices in all of metal- an incredible midrange voice than can convey sorrow (Shattered My Spirit) and well as power (Falling). ... Read More

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Rating: - You NEED to hear these guys
This is the third album from Solitude Aeturnus, but the first one I bought. I only wish I'd heard this band long before! First, for perspective, a little about the band itself: Solitude Aeturnus is a "Doom metal" band, so their lyrics are less than optomistic, and the music is for the most part slow and heavy. Black Sabbath is one of their influences, apparently. What sets this band apart from other doom metal bands, in my opinion, is the quality of musicianship and the singer's voice. (I'm no expert on doom ... Read More

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Rating: - Good but Lacks Majesty of "Beyond the Crimson Horizon"
As a big fan of Solitude Aeturnus I was mildly disappointed with this CD. While I love the tracks "Haunting the Obscure", "Shatter my Spirit", "Falling" and my personal favorite, "9th Day the Awakening", I feel the album as a whole is not up to the standards set on the previous album, "Beyond the Crimson Horizon". The guys do a great job of setting the mood and of playing morose, doom-filled laments but it was the epic lyrics and storytelling that are absent on this cd. The driving riff of the "9th Day" ... Read More