Solastalgia - Black LP

With their fourth full-length album, Solastalgia, the German purveyors of soaring post-metal work their way to their innermost core, delivering what is easily their most vulnerable and accessible record to date. "Solastalgia describes the grief over the loss of the natural world," the band explains. The existence of this term itself brutally exposes our alienation from the planet. While some of the album's songs address environmental issues, others focus on personal emotions and the challenges of human existence in a rapidly changing world. Heretoir has always been pure emotion. The pain of modern life set to music. And yet the desperate beauty of 'Solastalgia' proves to be an unlikely source of comfort.