ISOLE Bliss Of Solitude [CD]

Classic Isole album available again! Melodic and beautiful, captivating yet crushing! This is the third album from the majestic, marvelous Isole. After the amazing “Throne Of Void” we all had high expectations for this album, and those were fulfilled. Venturing once more through “Bliss Of Solitude”, the album opens up after some spins, and becomes something so powerful some still can’t believe it. This album is like a picture of two faces: if you stare at it long enough, it becomes something else entirely. This album is not too easily accessible at all, which should not be a shock for a Doom album, but it really takes some time to tune into it, and then you are treated to masterful riffs, impressive and classically inflected leadwork, and haunting vocals that sound like a ghost in a cathedral. This is sorrowful, and yet the sheer beauty of it lifts it from depressing into exaltation. Isole has stepped beyond comparisons to Solitude Aeturnus or Solstice and made a deeper, more serious album than a lot of bands in this genre ever manages. If you thought their previous album was great, then get this and spin it, and keep spinning it until it clicks. It will, trust us. If you love Doom that is real and deep and full of genuine emotion, then this is the album you have been waiting for. “Bliss Of Solitude” is a magnificent album that gets better every time you listen to it. Here is a band which understands what ‘Doom’ means. A psychological, stunning effect on the listener which evokes futility and sorrow. One hears so many bands out there who equate ‘doom’ with being boring, talentless hacks playing dreadfully slow riffs. Not Isole. Their material is melodic and beautiful, captivating yet crushing.