Solothus - Realm Of Ash And Blood AEC Video Though Bridges has drawn comparisons

Though Bridges has drawn comparisons to Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke

From it's beginnings as an immensely popular radio program to it's heyday on television

Affectionately known as the "Queen of Gospel" and most certainly a star in her own right

The complex gospel-infused blues 'Let Me Explore Your Mind' evokes another of his heroes

be it the foggy winter atmosphere in East Berlin during the early 80s or the female protagonist's melancholy

Solothus - Realm Of Ash And Blood AEC Video Though Bridges has drawn comparisonsRealm Of Ash And Blood, the third album from Finland's Solothus, drops a dripping broadsword of Cimmerian carnage and staggering death soaked doom delirium on the scorched landscape from which only mounds of skull dust and obsidian shards shall remain. Making it's debut on 20 Buck Spin as a band ideally suited for the label, Solothus' oppressively heavy mid paced slaughter maintains a sense of unstoppable momentum even when slowing into the glacial.