Solace rose in 1996 from the ashes of Atlantic Records alumni Godspeed, who appeared on the Nativity in Black tribute backing Bruce Dickinson and made their name on Headbanger's Ball, Beavis & Butthead and on tour with Cathedral and Black Sabbath.
Driven by hardcore-infused metal, captivating vocals and a crushing doom underbelly, Solace issued ferocious slabs of heaviness every few years, beginning with 2000's Further, an album Metal Maniacs called, "a punchy, aggressive stormride swarmed full of shadowy, melodic fume," and CMJ dubbed, "wicked and devastatingly heavy."
In 2025, Solace celebrate the milestone 25-year anniversary of Further, an album as crushingly mournful, as full of otherworldly psych-doom and spellbinding heaviness and as masterfully titanic today as when it debuted a quarter century ago. Further established that, although connected to the stoner metal scene, Solace would always be something darker and weightier, and the heavy world has been basking in and grappling with everything this band was, are and can be ever since.
Solace‘s next album is slated for release via Magnetic Eye in early 2026, and the band is planning a return to Europe for the first time in over a decade.
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