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SOLEMNITY BAND PAGE
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CURRENT NAME
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Solemnity | |
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FORMER NAMES
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ORIGIN
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Augsburg, Freistaat Bayern, Germany | |
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STATUS
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Active | |
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FORMED IN
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1998 | |
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LABEL
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Remedy Records | |
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GENRE
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Power metal | |
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STYLE
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LYRICAL THEME
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| BAND ADDED | 2003-05-20, 00:00 | |
| LAST UPDATE | 2007-06-16, 09:52 | |
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| Band biography |
Soon the band made itself an unforgettable name while opening up for acts such as METAL CHURCH, THUNDERHEAD, ANGEL DUST, SACRED STEEL or WIZARD.
To survive a SOLEMNITY concert means to be chosen and to carry out their name in glory into the world and to be a thane to the call of HEAVY HORROR METAL, a genre which the band nearly holds alone.
The music of SOLEMNITY shows a wide spectrum of influences, for instance you can hear the spirit of the early MANOWAR, OVERKILL, METAL CHURCH or HELLOWEEN in it. You can hear as well the sound of the undeground in the music of the five-piece-band which was influenced by cult acts such as MANILLA ROAD, CIRITH UNGOL, DEATH SS or FORBIDDEN.
2001 they recorded on their own an unbelieveable innovative piece of metal which was officially re-released in 2002 by Remedy Records, located in Hamburg.
REIGN IN HELL brings you eight songs of total metal mayhem of the first league, which once heard will forever convince you!
An exclusive artwork by the fantasy-master himself KEN KELLY was bought for the frontcover of this record and of course he is known to every metalhead for his great drawings for artists such as MANOWAR or KISS.
The album was mastered at the world´s famous Eroc Mastering Ranch, where bands as JUDAS PRIEST, BLACK SABBATH, URIAH HEEP, NAZARETH or ROSE TATTOO got their fundamental sound from. For that reason REIGN IN HELL has the most powerful sound you could wish to your favourite metalalbum.
As in the 90s the entertainment factor of so called heavy metal bands was reduced to the minimum SOLEMNITY like to give the addicted fan everything of his inner delights of what he likes to see at a concert. There are axes, burning swords and crosses, hankers, vampires, chalices full of blood, tons of explosions and pyrotechniques that all satisfy the eyes of the deserving metalhead, plus a five-piece-band that rips your bones out of your corpse.
This was demonstrated as a headliner at the favourite Headbangers Open Air where the band was slinging their axes amongst acts such as SLOUGH FEG, TWISTED TOWER DIRE, VORTEX, IRON CROSS or HOLY MOSES and left a totally enchanted crowd.
After gigantic reviews in national and international magazines where the debut was honoured with almost only the highest rating the band returned to the studio in the Winter of 2002 to record the legitimate follow-up album.
In the Spring of 2003 the time has come and KING OF DREAMS will be released on the Walpurgisnight to finally write metalhistory. The album has again a fantastic artwork by Ken Kelly and was again mastered at Eroc´s Mastering Ranch to ensure perfection in any way.
The production is simply neckbreaking and songs such as FIRE IN MAINSTREAMLAND, THE NINTH GATE or KILL THE MAJESTY are amongst the best the scene has ever seen.
With the SPIRITS OF THE DEAD there is for the first time ever a covertune on the recording which shows tribute to the mighty MANILLA ROAD and the epic ten-minute track VAMPIRE´S DANCE brings up guest vocals of the cult-shouter STEVE SYLVESTER (of DEATHSS) to bring this entire album to perfection.
2003 will be THE year of SOLEMNITY und will bring the final break-through!!!
Watch your heads because the AXE is already behind you!!!
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