โStorm Corrosion (Radio Edit)โ arrives as a sneak peek from Solamenteโs upcoming album Requiem: Grief in Five Stages. Hailing from Washington, DC, Solamente already carved a reputation with the heavy grit of Savor the Dissonance (2016) and the pandemic-era punch of Mere Nal (2020). Now, with Grammy-winning producer Machine behind the mix, the third full-length seems primed to push the boundaries of heaviness, melancholy, and cinematic scope.
The track itself wastes no time pulling the listener under. Right out of the gate, the singerโs molten deep tone snakes through a bed of fast, rumbling drums that feel less like percussion and more like rolling thunder. The guitars grind with an almost industrial edge, buzzing and churning, while the pulses like a heartbeat caught between panic and surrender. Itโs a soundscape both suffocating and oddly hypnotic, as if despair had found rhythm and set it to work.
Midway through, his vocals soar subtly. And beside his, comes a female voice too, bringing a slightly more soulful and softer edge, twining around the lead like smoke curling through fire. The song further opens up, riffs bending and swelling, percussion hammering in sync with breathless intensity. The grit recalls the dirge of Sabbath but spliced with a modern, doom-goth theatricality.
By the end, โStorm Corrosion (Radio Edit)โ leaves you gutted yet exhilarated, like stumbling out of a storm with rain still in your hair. If this is only one stage of Solamenteโs grief cycle, October canโt come soon enough. Based on your mood, go through either this more compact Radio Edit of the song or the whole 8-minute version to really sit in that feeling.
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Review by: Naomi Joan