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| Origin | Saint-Paulin, Quebec, Canada | |
| Genres | Doom Metal, Drone Doom, Stoner Metal, Sludge Metal, Funeral Doom Metal, Death/Doom | |
| Years active | 2016 - Present | |
| Labels | Unsigned | |
| Associated acts | Longévité, Fermented Newborn | |
| Website | https://www.soulers.wixsite.com | |
| Current members | Dai Maō | |
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Soulers is a Canadian solo project from Saint-Paulin, Quebec formed in 2016 by musician Dai Maō. It is his first doom project and the most active one, with a hyperactivity in releases that results in a discography that has grown to more than 70 recordings, as he releases them every month, depending how much time it takes for him. The debut Soulers album was recorded in 2016, but was not released to the public until August 11, 2017.
The project is widely known for his extremely lengthy songs, with many of them exceeding 10-20 minutes in length. As of October 2022 the project has released fifty studio albums, amid several other releases.
History[]
Soulers was formed in the summer of 2016, when Dai Maō (Who was just 16 at the time) recorded several unreleased demos. The first album to be released to the public was Beautiful Like a Rainbow on August 11, 2017. It was followed by two albums titled The Forest and Soulers in September of that year.
Time to Prey was more satanic than the previous albums, and notably featured more sludge elements. November 25's Trip - The Satanic Sounds of Soulers was the last album to be released in 2017. In 2018, Dai Maō started a saga of albums simply known as The 2018 Saga, which started on January 1 with Yami no Kokoro Kara Shuppatsu and ended on December 25 with The Cycles of Helplessness and Awareness.
To this day, Dai Maō keeps recording and releasing new music under the Soulers name, depending how much time it takes for him. In 2022, Soulers would conceive a new concept of releasing four studio albums spanning four hours each. Notably, on 30 October 2022, Soulers would release his milestone 50th album in Fading Away from Existence and Reality Once and for All.
Discography[]
Studio Albums[]
2017
- Beautiful Like a Rainbow (Self-released, August 11)
- The Forest (Self-released, September 1)
- Soulers (Self-released, September 10)
- Time to Prey (Self-released, October 30)
- Trip - The Satanic Sounds of Soulers (Self-released, November 25)
2018
- Yami no Kokoro Kara Shuppatsu (Self-released, January 1)
- Operatic (Self-released, January 14)
- The Cosmic Dimension (Self-released, January 25)
- Master of Rituality (Self-released, February 25)
- Vol. 10 (Self-released, March 31)
- Soulers Bloody Soulers (Self-released, April 29)
- The Urilia Text (Self-released, July 17)
- To That Great Hope Which Does Not Wane Even in the Nights of Solitude (Self-released, August 25)
- Descend from Wherever We Shall Ascend (Self-released, October 28)
- The Storming Heavens as a Father to All Broken Bodies (Self-released, November 16)
- The Cycles of Helplessness and Awareness (Self-released, December 25)
2019
- Island on Fire (Self-released, January 3)
- Rosetta (Self-released, February 5)
- Shadows of Ancient Cults (Self-released, April 20)
- Hai (Self-released, May 30)
- Obscura Silva (Self-released, August 7)
- Seas That Swallowed the Night (Self-released, September 16)
- Soulers 2: The Drones Return (Self-released, October 6)
- How It Was Meant to Be (Self-released, November 28)
2020
- Midhir (Self-released, January 31)
- Behold the Gathering (Self-released, February 20)
- Endless Descent into Ruin (Self-released, March 4)
- Fantomatic Ascent (Self-released, April 12)
- A Rapture in Twilight (Self-released, May 30)
- Infernal Grief (Self-released, June 21)
- Broken Life (Self-released, July 13)
- The Sobbing Murmur of the Sea (Self-released, August 15)
- Acid Trip (Self-released, September 9)
- Alchemia (Self-released, October 6)
- Endless Depression (Self-released, November 6)
- Evil Eternal (Self-released, December 25)
2021
- Sparrow (Self-released, January 1)
- First Ruler, Never the Last (Self-released, March 6)
- Congregation I - Most Torturous Depth of Looks of Cemetary Statues (Self-released, May 8)
- Congregation II - The Raven and the Backward Funeral (Self-released, June 24)
- Congregation III - Journey Into the Light (Self-released, July 25)
- Congregation IV - Wailing in Pernitious Echoes (Self-released, September 3)
- Valley of Darkness (Self-released, September 22)
- Soulers 3: After the Disappearance (Self-released, December 15)
2022
- The 45th Voyage (Self-released, January 13)
- The Fifth Empire (Self-released, January 26)
- Enduring the Agony (Self-released, February 20)
- A Bleak and Dark Vision of Things to Come (April 8)
- The River of Red Tears (June 24)
- Fading Away from Existence and Reality Once and for All (October 30)
- Joining the Atrocious Occult Army and Spreading the Fire of Evil (December 31)
2023
- Six Victims (February 11)
Other Releases[]
2017
- The Blizzard (Single, Self-released, November 21)
- The Wizard of the Night (Single, Self-released, December 1)
- Burn in Hell (Single, Self-released, December 9)
- Funeral Skies (Single, Self-released, December 31)
2018
- Cornellia (Single, Self-released, January 4)
- The Collection (Compilation, Self-released, January 5)
- Coverture (EP, Self-released, January 23)
- Electric Blizzard (Single, Self-released, January 26)
- Mind Funeral (Single, Self-released, February 17)
- High Enough (Single, Self-released, February 18)
- RadioWizard (Single, Self-released, February 23)
- Swallow the Sky (EP, Self-released, May 19)
- Ancestral Visions (Single, Self-released, November 3)
2019
- Ineffectual (EP, Self-released, March 9)
- Jane (EP, Self-released, March 9)
- Gilgamesh (EP, Self-released, March 9)
- Under My Gleam (Single, Self-released, April 7)
- Kiri wo Nogareru (EP, Self-released, June 26)
- VII (EP, Self-released, June 26)
- No Angel or Demon (Single, Self-released, October 6)
- Depths (Single, Self-released, November 25)
2020
- The Omophagic Way (EP, Self-released, March 21)
- Towards the Stream (Single, Self-released, July 22)
- Children of the Grave (Single, Self-released, October 31)
2021
- Only Time (Single, Self-released, December 17)
- Endless Sleep (Single, Self-released, December 18)
- Torturous Ride (Single, Self-released, December 19)
- Damnation (Single, Self-released, December 20)
2022
- Helter Skelter (Self-released, February 17)
- 15 Inches of Darkness (Single) (June 8)
Members[]
- Dai Maō – all instruments, vocals (2016-Present)
Up until the Descend from Wherever We Shall Ascend album, Dai Maō's name was listed in Japanese kanji alphabet until he decided to correct it.