EYE OF SOLITUDE: UK Orchestral Funeral Doom Monsters Reveal Details About New Album

Eye Of Solitude, UK's orchestral Funeral Doom's finest (featuring members of Unfathomable Ruination and Kaotoxin Records label-mates Sidious), which released their successful and critically-acclaimed second full-length, Sui Caedere, in June 2012 through Kaotoxin have returned with a monolith of heaviness entitled Canto III.

The album, lyrically-based on Dante's Inferno and featuring six tracks for a total duration of over 66 minutes, is by far the most intense and heavy, yet diverse material the band has ever released Adding to their trademark orchestral layers, superb despaired melodies and dark ambient plains of desolation, bursts of rage sometimes ranging from Death Metal blastbeats to Black Metal-ish grim aggression. All of this is topped by the inhuman low growls of EOS mastermind Daniel Neagoe and the contributions of violinist Casper and vocalist Anton, both from Russia's Dominia.

"Canto III is the most mature material we've worked on," comments Neagoe. "Its elements vary from pure agonizing and suffocatingly depressive moments, to a burst of rage and blast beats invoking quite a Black Metal environment. It's a development for sure due to the new line-up and its input on the songs and, with guests from Dominia -Anton on vocals and Casper on violin- we have included even more atmosphere and variety. It is for sure, our peak of creativity and musicianship!"

A video teaser for Canto III has been posted below.

Coming as a limited edition (1,000 hand-numbered copies) double DigiFile CD, the first pressing features no less than six bonus tracks taken from the band's 2011 untitled promo (later digitally released by Kaotoxin as the Awoken by Crows EP) and The Deceit digital EP for a total of nearly 39 minutes of additional material, with stunning artwork by Mortal Torment's own Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art (responsible for the Sui Caedere artwork), Canto III will be released on November 25th in France (Season Of Mist), UK (Code7) and through the label's mailorder for international territories and December 3rd in the BeNeLux (Rock Inc.), NorthAmerica (MVD) and through all major digital retailers. Pre-order opportunities, including exclusive merch packs, will start on October 28th. The US release will mark the first time ever that Sui Caedere, repressed for this occasion, will hit North America retail stores and mail order distros. 

Canto III Artwork & Track listing: 

1/ Act I: Between Two Worlds (Occularis Infernum) (14:08)

2/ Act II: Where the Descent Began (10:19)

3/ Act III: He Who Willingly Suffers (13:02)

4/ Act IV: The Pathway Had Been Lost (8:58)

5/ Act V: I Sat In Silence (10:40)

6/ Act VI: In the Desert Vast (8:56)

Bonus CD (limited to 1.000 copies):

1/ The Deceit* (5:30)

2/ Night's Dew (Shape of Despair cover) (6:51)

3/ Painstained** (5:38)

4/ Suffocating Silence (7:04)

5/ Die Alone (7:24)

6/ Death Said Bring a Friend (6:08)

7/ Awoken by Crows***

1-3 taken from The Deceit EP

4-6 taken from Awoken by Crows EP

* featuring Arno Strobl (Carnival In Coal, 6 :33, We All Die (Laughing)) and Déhà (Maladie, Coag, Imber Luminis, Yhdarl, We All Die (Laughing))

** remastered from the band's debut full-length, The Ghost (out of print)

*** bonus CD-ROM music video. Song taken Sui Caedere.

Eye Of Solitude is a Doom / Death band from London UK, formed in April 2010.

The music is inspired by emotional distress, inner pain and a cruel combination of negativity and grief. Dark shapes that terrorize the soul and keep it captive on the altar of suffering, until when not being able to breathe any longer, it finds its end - a supreme escape towards peace and eternal rest. The Eye Of Solitude is the heart of forests where unsettled spirits dwell, it is the fear within, the carnal ripping of every thought when abandoned in despair, it is nightmare and enlightenment, a fearsome tide that carries the soul and mind onto dark realms of insanity.

Daniel Neagoe - vocals (Unfathomable Ruination) 

Indee Rehal-Sagoo - guitars 

Mark Antoniades - guitars (Sidious) 

Chris Davies - bass (Sidious) 

Pedro Caballero-Clemente - keyboards
Adriano Ferraro - drums 

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EYE OF SOLITUDE And Kaotoxin Records Release Digital EP For Charity

UK-based emotive doom/death metal band EYE OF SOLITUDE and their label Kaotoxin Records have just released The Deceit, a digital EP which is being sold to help raise funds for a Romanian organization for the blind. 

A two-song version of The Deceit, which includes a remastered version of "Painstained" from the band's now out-of-print debut The Ghost and a title track featuring guest vocals from Arno Strobl [ex-CARNIVAL IN COAL, 6:33, WE ALL DIE (LAUGHING)!] and Déhà [IMBER LUMINUS, MERDA MUNDI, WE ALL DIE (LAUGHING)!], is available through all major digital music retailers. 

Orders being placed through Kaotoxin Records will receive a three-song version of the EP that comes with an instrumental cover of SHAPE OF DESPAIR's "Night's Dew." This bonus track is available exclusively at http://listen.kaotoxin.com.

A trailer for The Deceit has been posted below. 

After their successful and critically-acclaimed 2012 second full-length Sui Caedere and while working on the next album, Eye Of Solitude started working on a very special project, a benefit digital EP, aimed to help the Romanian center for the blind and sight-impaired, an obvious choice given Daniel Neagoe, Eye Of Solitude's main man is hailing from there and Nico, label manager, is suffering from a vision loss disease called retinitis pigmentosa, but the band didn't want it to be just a bunch of tracks, they wanted it to be very special, a reward and gift for the fans willing to help the cause they chose to help, something showing they really care about it and about their loyal following, thus they got in touch with Arno Strobl, the ex-half of renewed Carnival In Coal, now a solo artist singing for 6:33, We All Die (Laughing)! and more and Déhà, the dark soul behind projects among which the likes of Imber Luminis, Merda Mundi, We All Die (Laughing)! And more to create a very special song, The Deceit, featuring three vocalists, Arno Strobl adding his talented clean and sad vocal touch while Déhà adding the Depressive Black Metal one, alongside Daniel's cadaverous, dehumanized and despaired growling for a stunningly dark and hopeless result, adding yet an other level of darkness to the utterly oppressive Eye Of Solitude trademark atmosphere.

A second, instrumental, song, a cover version of Shape Of Despair's "Night's Dew" was also recorded during these sessions, it's gonna be featured on the label exclusive version of the EP and will be offered for free download too while a remastered version of "Painstained", a song from the band's 2011's now sold out debut full-length, The Ghost, completes both versions of the EP.

Daniel Neagoe - Vocals

Indee Rehal-Sagoo - Guitars

Mark Antoniades - Guitars

Pedro Caballero Clemente - Keys

Chris Davies- Bass

Adriano Ferraro- Drums

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EYE OF SOLITUDE Premiers Video for "Awoken by Crows"

EYE OF SOLITUDE releases "Awoken by Crows" music video. French label Kaotoxin records has teamed with UK's magazine Zero Tolerance to premiere the debut music video by London-based Orchestral Funeral Doom / Death band EYE OF SOLITUDE for Halloween!

The music video is for the song "Awoken by Crows", both the opening track of their second full-length, Sui Caedere (released June 25th), and title track of their latest (digital) EP, Awoken by Crows (released May 7th and featuring three exclusive bonus tracks) and features alternative model Ivy Tenebrae. The video has been directed by J. Saunders of Dead Parrot Productions (already responsible for fellow label recording artists Unsu's "The Filthy" music video).

Visit www.ztmag.com/blog/news/?p=12861 to check out the video. 

Sui Caedere is a 72+ minutes monolith of intense despair and darkness, mixing a Funeral Doom / Death basis with elements of Death Metal and Orchestral / Progressive Metal, all of this topped with inhuman and ultra low vocals by mastermind Daniel Neagoe (also in Unfathomable Ruination). Stream the album for free at http://listen.kaotoxin.com

FR release date: Jun. 25th through Soundworks distribution 

UK release date: Dec. 3rd through Code7 distribution 

US release date: early 2013 through MVD distribution

01.Awoken By Crows
02.The Haunting
03.Strigoi
04.A Note To Say Farewell
05.Depths of A Sick Mind
06.Those Who Don't Return
07.Performed In Graphic Pain
08.Totem of A Pagan Thought
09.Yet I Breathe
10.Departure

Born in London, UK, in 2010, Eye Of Solitude is the creature of Daniel Neagoe, who's also the singer of the Brutal Death Metal band Unfathomable Ruination (Sevared records) and main character behind both the Depressive Black Metal band Colossus and the Dark Ambient project The Departure. After having left his job as a soundtrack composer for a Romanian movie company, he relocated to London and joined the local underground extreme Metal scene. Daniel still felt an urge for something radically different, more extreme in a way, more ambient at the same time, something mixing the beauty and the beast, something that wouldn't have been heard before. Eye Of Solitude was born, first as a solo-project, then a full-fledged band with permanent and session members, among which Unfathomable Ruination /Trifixion bassist Federico Benini. The debut album, The Ghost, was self-released by the band in 2010, soon followed by a three-track, untitled, promo in late 2011. This is where Kaotoxin stepped in and offered to release their next full-length, Sui Caedere. So impressed by the final result and the aforementioned promo, Kaotoxin also released the Awoken by Crows digital EP, which features three exclusive bonus tracks, along with the opening track from Sui Caedere, in May 2012.

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EYE OF SOLITUDE's Sui Caedere Out Now on Kaotoxin Records

Kaotoxin Records is pleased to announce the sophomore release from UK Symphonic Funeral Doom juggernaut EYE OF SOLITUDE.  The product of mastermind Daniel Neagoe (also of Unfathomable Ruination, Colossus, and The Departure), Sui Caedere is an inventive 72-minute blend of Death Metal, Doom, Funeral Doom, Gothic Metal, Symphonic and Ambient metal. It's also unlike anything you've ever heard!  A music video for album track "Suffocating Silence" will be unleashed in August.

Sui Caedere can be purchased from Kaotoxin Records at this location.

Sui Caedere Cover Art & Track Listing:

01.Awoken By Crows
02.The Haunting
03.Strigoi
04.A Note To Say Farewell
05.Depths of A Sick Mind
06.Those Who Don't Return
07.Performed In Graphic Pain
08.Totem of A Pagan Thought
09.Yet I Breathe
10.Departure

Also available from Kaotoxin is an EYE OF SOLITUDE digital EP called Awoken by Crows that features the opening "Awoken by Crows" cut from Sui Caedere and three bonus tracks. The album can be downloaded at this location.

Born in London, UK, in 2010, Eye Of Solitude is the creature of Daniel Neagoe, who's also the singer of the Brutal Death Metal band Unfathomable Ruination (Sevared records) and main character behind both the Depressive Black Metal band Colossus and the Dark Ambient project The Departure. After having left his job as a soundtrack composer for a Romanian movie company, he relocated to London and joined the local underground extreme Metal scene. Daniel still felt an urge for something radically different, more extreme in a way, more ambient at the same time, something mixing the beauty and the beast, something that wouldn't have been heard before. Eye Of Solitude was born, first as a solo-project, then a full-fledged band with permanent and session members, among which Unfathomable Ruination /Trifixion bassist Federico Benini. The debut album, The Ghost, was self-released by the band in 2010, soon followed by a three-track, untitled, promo in late 2011. This is where Kaotoxin stepped in and offered to release their next full-length, Sui Caedere. So impressed by the final result and the aforementioned promo, Kaotoxin also released the Awoken by Crows digital EP, which features three exclusive bonus tracks, along with the opening track from Sui Caedere, in May 2012.

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