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Somnus Aeternus is a Doom/Death Metal band from Brno, Czech Republic formed in 2007. After a few years of line-up changes and forming the material, the band reworked their old demo material with the new line-up in 2011 and soon after started to record their debut album. The first album called “On the Shores of Oblivion” was finally recorded and released in 2012 by Russian doom-metal label Solitude Productions. It contains older songs from the early era, which have a very strong (but groovy) doom element mixed with many other influences, as well as newer songs, which are much more...

Officially founded in 1989, the Germany based Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows is one of the very few dark groups/projects who have based the trinity of their music, poetry and visual appearance on the explicit emphasis of the highly individual expression of pain, isolation, depression, token suicides and the desperate search for the "sacred reunion"; all acted out by their sole protagonist – the transgender Anna-Varney Cantodea. Best described as "introverted exhibitionism", the holistic concept of their ritualistic/Jungian art is not necessarily rooted in the grounds of a commonly accepted sense of aesthetics – which is one of...

There are two bands named Somnus. 1) Somnus is a black/gothic metal band from the United States of America. They formed in 1995 and split up in 2003. Last known line-up: Dennis Downey - Guitar Scott Hilberg - Vocals & Guitar Rhiannon Wisniewski - Keyboards & Vocals Steve Rolf - Bass Chris Stolle - Drums Website: http://www.rhialistic.com/somnus 2) Somnus is an alternative rock band from Estonia. Who started in 1, October 2005. Eero Tölpt - Guitar/Vocal Jürgen Sarapik - Guitar Märt Politanov - Bassguitar Taavi Rull - Drums Website: http://www.somnus.ee .