Lamentations (Solstice album)

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Lamentations
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1994
Genre Doom metal
Length57:12
Label Candlelight
Solstice chronology
Lamentations
(1994)
New Dark Age
(1998)

Lamentations is the debut album of British doom metal band Solstice. Originally released in 1994 through Candlelight Records, [1] the album was re-released in 2006 as a double-LP edition of 400 red vinyl copies and 100 copies of black vinyl with a beer bag. [1] [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Lamentations IV" 1:26
  2. "Neither Time nor Tide" 5:20
  3. "Only the Strong" 8:17
  4. "Absolution Extremis" 6:03
  5. "These Forever Bleak Paths" 6:40
  6. "Empty Lies the Oaken Throne" 4:22
  7. "Last Wish" 5:17
  8. "Wintermoon Rapture" 7:02
  9. "The Man Who Lost the Sun" 9:08
  10. "Ragnorok" 3:33

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Solstice Archived 2009-11-24 at the Wayback Machine musicmight.com. Retrieved on 2009-09-26.
  2. "Lamentations" LP out Now!! Solstice's myspace blog Archived 2009-02-07 at the Wayback Machine myspace.com. 2006-10-18. Retrieved on 2009-09-26.
  3. Solstice: Lamentations Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine hbdirect.com. Retrieved on 2009-09-25.