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To Sol A Thane

by Solstice

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Talon Sullivan
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Talon Sullivan Really awesome to hear these earlier versions of the songs stripped of all their trappings! Sounds great!! Favorite track: Gallow Fen (2016 Rehearsal Demo Version).
Dunkler Meister
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Dunkler Meister 7/10 | It's a shame that the band settled for a more treble-driven sound on the final album. I personally much prefer this heavier mix, fits the doom aspect of the music much better, giving it the depth it deserves. However, I appreciate very much that the band released this as an addition to the album for all those who might enjoy a different side of the Solstice coin. The only downside to this is the very demo-ish sound in Gallow Fen. Favorite track: White Horse Hill (2016 Demo Version).
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endlagerinsight1717 I like to demo versions, And simply great kind of New Wave of Bristish Doom Metal! Ok, they been longer around been and hopefully will stay longer
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TO SOL A THANE (Music – Walker / Lyrics – Kearns) To sol a thane. None so revered as the orchard keeper Whilst his cargo sways heavily. See now, he's forgotten. Like all the mute ones when bellies fill. See now as I spit only contempt for you For all that weave only from second hand passions. Mine is the heart that skips not a single beat for all your kind. I am not your kin, I'm not your peer. You that bear not a thought of your own making.. Ye in panic and ye in retreat Ye who sing laments of sufferings not yet born. Your minds collected are unfit to engage even one of ours. Ye who roar surrender in unison With yet even a whisper of carnage to be anointed. The wolf with lamb's heart falls in shame. Having died tasting no blood but his own, having died a coward.
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WHITE HORSE HILL (Music – Walker / Lyrics – Kearns) Barren lie our homes, our women. Whilst our children fall ill. Idle lie our men, our fields. In the shadow of White Horse Hill. This is how it was once how it had been for the decades before and maybe even centuries Fields were tilled, then crops borne Homes were built and families grew Children nurtured until they bore their own. Our vast fields ran further than any eye could hope to see and their harvests left no table bare. No matter the storm’s ferocity or the how sharp the teeth of the coldest wind none went without safety or warmth. Just as our currency was truth just as our courts let any man's mind be spoken and for the longest of times we never knew of any other way Every man, woman and child here today knows of love only through stories and tales from those old enough to recall but it has long left us. It is a fool’s gold that makes rich a man now and your truth will buy you only the lonely walk to our hungry gallows. Few are the children born of love or family their place taken by spawn of rape and of pillage. The word of few is law, those fluent in lie and half-truth theirs is a poetry of deceit.
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FOR ALL DAYS, AND FOR NONE. (Music – Walker / Lyrics – Kearns) It's only now I see distant ships fall to the horizon. What had been here most of my days will be here no more. All those things I could have said, in their place are all the things I never will say. On the ocean and away with its water are you. On the ocean and away with the sails is something which I love so dearly. Both are together and gone. It's the silence that fades fastest, like the stillness that comes when the water no longer holds trace of your leaving. How would you ever know that you are loved when I never did speak of it and how would you ever, ever know when you are so far, far away. From me. From love and from me.
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Demo versions of tracks from the forthcoming "White Horse Hill" LP.

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released June 21, 2016

Paul Kearns - Vocals
Rich Walker - Guitars
Andy Whittaker - Guitars
Ian Buxton - Bass
James Ashbey - War Drums

Recorded February - April 2016 at Vibrations Studio, Huddersfield, and GN Studio, Huddersfield

Mixed and mastered April 2016 by Richard Whittaker at FX, London

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