Across three full-lengths–Totalselfhatred (2008), Apocalypse in Your Heart (2011), and new album, Solitude (2018)–the Finns, featuring members of funeral doom outfit Night Must Fall, have bridged the brutality of black metal, the melancholy of February in Finland, and professional production values–no Striborg here–to form an expression that’s intense, plaintive, and personal. As they’ve said throughout their tenure, the influences have been and always will be “life.” So, ponder, if you haven’t been there in person, the worst winter of your life set to the most bone-chilling cold of your life. That’s what informs and motivates Totalselfhatred. Even on new album, Solitude