Wintry frost, cloudy skies, rainy days, naked trees and chilly winds, put in sounds and delivered by the ones who know best: Dutch. Doom/Death Metal music has always been the gloomiest yet the most experimental than any other metal genres. While some bands preferred to add string arrangements (like early My Dying Bride), or gothic elements (like Paradise Lost), others played with psychedelic sounds (like Tiamat) or adopted a more 70’s doom metal style (like Cathedral). But no band had ever managed before to filter and incorporate all these experimental efforts in one single album like Celestial Season did. Celestial Season, as numerous other bands, started out in the early 90’s as a typical doom/death metal band resembling to the respective British early efforts. The only thing worth mentioning about the band’s debut albumForever Scarlet Passionis that it came out from the mostly unknown Dutch metal scene. It offered nothing new however and the songs were at best of an average quality. Their second release, Solar Lovers, which comes 2 years later (in 1995), finds the seven member band adopting a unique doom metal style and improving shockingly in all fields. Blending together heavy (really heavy!) slow guitar riffs with beautiful keyboard arrangements, stone rock influences (that later that year would turn into their main music style with the release of Sonic Orb EP, whispering and growling vocals and….2 violins, Celestial Season’s Solar Lovers resembles no other.