22 Years Ago: CELESTIAL SEASON release Solar Lovers

Daily Noise - / 2017

22 Years Ago: CELESTIAL SEASON release Solar Lovers

Nicht ganz. Wir waren eigentlich glücklich, daß wir eine CD fur ADIPOCERE aufnehmen konnten, aber das Aufnahmebudget war zu niedrig und die Promotion war ebenfalls mangelhoft. Unsere zweite CD wird bei NUCLEAR BLAST erscheinen. Wir hoffen das ist eine Verbesserung.
- Lucas van Slegtenhorst / Celestial Season interview, Chaos #2, 1994

Dutch doom with a gothic atmosphere in no small part due to the prominent violin. While comparisons are usually drawn to MY DYING BRIDE and others, the guitars do drawn from the psychedelic and 'stoner' end of doom, a great contrast to the more familiar death/doom at the time.

Their debut, Forever Scarlet Passion, was released by French label Adipocere in 1993. By 1994 they were in talks with Nuclear Blast ("hoffentlich können wir unsere zweite cd auf nuclear blast 'rausbringen"). The deal never completed and the second CELESTIAL SEASON album, Solar Lovers, was released on this day in 1995 through the Dutch label Displeased Records.