Reviewed by Marc on 05 Sep 2017

With a name like Negativehate and their use of Death Growls (they also use clean vocals) it is easy to categorize this band as Death Metal. In fact this is only very partially true.

Solipsis is their fifth album and it took them some personnel changes and many years to record it. The band itself qualifies this album as a huge change in sound and perspective. I cannot judge this since Solipsis is their first album I have ever heard, but after a number of spins I can easily imagine it.

Solipsis gives us a collection of songs that I beleive are part of a concept. The music is dark, mostly melodic (but with occasionnal bursts of power) and the songs often end in an emotional crescendo. Most of the singing is in clean vocals but every so often Death Growls appear, and this is not done gratuitously. The growls add to the intensity and often underline the despair in the music.

Solipsis is as far from party music as I can imagine. It is dark, intense and also beautiful. Fans of pre-2010 Opeth, Tool and Anathema (for the emotion level of their music) should most certainly find much to love in Solipsis. Negativehate is definitely a band to reckon with in the dark side of Prog.