SolNegre |Anthems For The Grand Collapse |Meuse Music Records

Release Date: April 3^rd, 2026
Format: CD/Digital
Genre: Epic/Death/Doom Metal
Country: Spain

SolNegre emerged from Spain in 2022. The members cut their teeth in heavy hitters like Helevorn and Golgotha, cementing their names in the Spanish doom and death metal scenes over previous decades. They dropped their debut, "The Spiral Labyrinth", and established a massive, solitary sonic footprint. Now, they return with "Anthems For The Grand Collapse", an expansive and totally crushing expansion of sorrow-drenched extreme metal.

This music tears into your psyche and breaks your spirit. "The Axiom/Song For The Inert Part II" tears open with immense chords and agonizing vocal deliveries. You get dragged right into the storm. SolNegre harnesses serious emotional distress and channels it through massive guitars and total darkness. The riffs crash down on you, dragging you deep into the abyss.

Tracks like "The Hollow Inside" and "For All That Could Have Been" provide a relentless barrage of pain and beauty. Roaring, desperate vocals clash against huge, mournful melodies. Female vocals and violins tear through the darkness on "In The Stillness Of The Womb", adding a chilling layer of sorrow. "A Path Of Aloneness (I & II)" brings sweeping majesty and solemnity into the mix, closing things out with pure musical devastation. They build massive walls of sound and bring them crashing down around you. You get crushed by sheer agony and spectacular leads.

The studio work done at Diorama Sound captures maximum devastation. The drums pound into your chest. The guitars rip through the speakers, and the vocals sound totally tortured. Every single element works together to inflict total emotional damage. "Anthems For The Grand Collapse" is a monumental tragedy caught on tape, arriving with a massive physical release that includes the "Annihilation Of The Self" EP.

Score: 8.5

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Ennui |Qroba |Meuse Music Records

Release Date February 27^th, 2026
Format CD/Digital
Genre Funeral/Doom/Death Metal
Country Georgia

Ennui crawled out of Tbilisi, Georgia, forming along the banks of the Kura River to spread absolute auditory misery. They stacked up four monolithic albums over the years, tearing a massive hole in the extreme metal underground. They kicked things off in 2012 with "Mze Ukunisa", dragging inspiration out of Terentio Graneli’s poetry, and eventually dropped "End Of The Circle" in 2018 to crush skulls with pure sorrow. Their entire existence revolves around agonizing devastation and total darkness. Now they return with "Qroba", translating to vanishment, ready to drag listeners into a black hole of suffering.

You hit play and the destruction crashes down instantly. Staggering chords and drum beats roll in like distant thunder, bringing an immeasurable scale of ruin to your speakers. Extreme vocals tear through the noise, dragged up from the most miserable depths imaginable. Ennui blasts towering riffs on "Antinatalism" to violently rip the sun out of the sky. Total agony washes over the listener without mercy. Massive guitars grind your bones into the frozen dirt on "Becoming Void", joined by freezing, agonizing melodies crawling out of the wasteland. It is cold, punishing, and utterly devastating.

A bizarre acoustic element sneaks into the carnage, adding serious despair to the devastation. A traditional three-stringed Georgian lute, the panduri, weaves into the wreckage on "Decima". This strange local touch injects massive mountain melancholy straight into the towering walls of distortion and death metal growling. The listening experience constantly drags you downward, pulling you across a desolate, windswept wilderness. Eventually, everything crashes into a complete sonic unmaking on "Mokvda Mze", swallowed completely by earthshaking vocal roars and agonizing melodies.

Greg Chandler handled the mixing and mastering, applying the same agonizing scale he brought to Officium Triste and Pantheist. He layered the misery with true depth, ensuring the pain sounds incredibly authentic. The visual side mirrors the audio punishment, with artwork created by Ben J 'Winterkeep' and extra design from Vladimir 'Smerdulak' Chebakov. The entire package delivers a heavy dose of pure nothingness. Ennui executes their punishing vision of despair thoroughly, delivering the kind of misery extreme metal requires.

Score: 7.5

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