VENUES – Solace (Limited Arctic Pearl LP) Record

The sparrows have been chirping it from the rooftops for a while, but now it’s official certainty: in 2024, VENUES will unfold to their full size for the first time. And we’re all here to witness it live. In short: With their third album “Transience,” the band effortlessly shifts the boundaries of what’s possible in modern metal. After the two strong benchmarks “Aspire” and “Solace,” which oscillated somewhere between post-hardcore, alternative metal, and metalcore, the Stuttgart-based band definitively tears down all barriers, boundaries, and bulwarks. “Transience” unleashes an emotional cascade full of grand melodies, visionary soundscapes, abyssal hardness, and raw, unfiltered emotion. This is not just an album. It’s catharsis. Medicine for a sick world. The antidote to dreariness, indifference, coldness.