Solitude Aeturnus are some of the unsung heroes of doom metal. You don't hear a lot about this band, but they have made a name for themselves in the underground scene by carrying the torch first lit by groups like Trouble and Candlemass and continuing it forward in the 90's. Solitude Aeturnus produces slow, plodding dirges with real singing. Lowe leaves the grunts behind and also avoids any high-pitched screeching. His voice is more of a pleasant, warm, mid-ranged variety that is powerful and moving. The music is certainly heavy and dark, but there are times when the band picks up the pace and Edgar Rivera's guitar solos have enough spunk to help brighten up the overall weight of the material.

Into the Depths of Sorrow, the debut CD of Solitude Aeturnus, conquered the doom-metal fans by storm because they offered us something (in 1991) that only Candlemass had been doing. They didn't follow the classic doom bands like Saint Vitus, The Obsessed and co., but chose a very epic and melodic path, the beginnings of epic power doom. They did not rely on pure slow-motion only, but cleverly integrated breaks and faster passages, giving the songs dynamics that many related bands seemingly do not even know exist. Solitude Aeturnus are all about: metal, deeply rooted within doom, with grand melody-arches, loosened up by mid-paced, sometimes even double-bass-driven passages and over it all the truly majestic vocals of Robert Lowe, whose high, but never unnerving voice oozes of a power that you'll find only once in a million!