With 30 years of active service on the clock, SOLACE are clearly here for the long haul.

Founder and guitarist Tommy Southard has guided the New Jersey crew through persistent lineup changes and countless episodes of bad luck and career-threatening chaos, and yet his devotion to The Riff remains absolute.

Their latest album 'Fading Failing Ruin' may be reductively labelled as a stoner metal record, but the truth is that SOLACE are much deeper and more dynamic than that.

The album boasts a mind-blowing number of great riffs, rarely deviating from SOLACE's predetermined style, preferring instead to expand and manipulate the essence of their story so far into something bigger and more ambitious.

Led by the raw but soulful vocals of frontman Justin Goins, this is an adventurous and diverse set of songs that drip with authenticity and humble strength.

Highlights include the towering centerpiece 'Wrath's Object (The Big Fall)', a 15-minute lysergic odyssey that pairs crushing heaviness with multitudinous atmosphere and numerous prog-friendly touches.

The album also features sprawling riff-riots like 'Beyond Below' and 'Malengine (The Scaffold)' as well as a wonderfully languorous finale 'Ridden'.

With more exemplary riffs per square inch than most bands could even dream about, SOLACE has delivered their finest album yet.