In 1999 a group of musicians came together and rehearsed with enthousiasm and dedication to make beautiful and creative music. They used several styles from the metal genre to create an interesting blend of influences which combined became the 'Atmospheric Metal'-genre. With heavy guitar-riffs and melodic keyboards they really put some great songs together, using the influence of Black-, Melodic-, Death-, Doom-, Power-, Gothic-, Symphonic- and Progressive-Metal and classical music. In 2000 the seven-headed formation named their band and SolemnuS was born.

Late 2000 SolemnuS was ready to perform and gave their first show. Their audience gave a tremendous good response and gave the band the courage and inspiration to go into the land to perform. After a couple of great shows they made plans to make a demo. Late 2001 they went into the Pop-Ei studio and created "A Nightshade Symphony", which they released in 2002. They made 2000 copies and started to sell it through several shops and at venues they played at. Also they put the songs up the internet and became known all over the world. Internet-Radioshows were playing the songs regularly and gave SolemnuS a fanbase which overthrew any expectation the band ever thought of. They've managed to sell every copy of the demo. Oak-Knoll Records was interested to feature the demo on a split-cd that is still for sale throughout the world.

Due to issues amongst the members SolemnuS had to split-up in 2004. After a long while Roeland and Cor had some thoughts of starting over again. After a couple of meetings they decided to get things moving and searched for musicians to revive the spirit of SolemnuS. In 2008 SolemnuS had a complete band. But the unfortunate happenend. keyboardplayers came and went away. The same happened with vocalists.

2009 was a year of rehearsing and waiting for a mirracle to happen. unfortunately this didn't happen. The end of 2009 gave SolemnuS a steady formation. The band now exists out of 6 people. Solemnus gave up their search for a keyboardplayer. Now they will change the keyboard parts for guitars and bass.

2010 is the final stage of rehearsing with a steady bandformation. The end of the year will bring us luck! We are ready to conquer the world once again with our new material.

We are very proud to be back!