Solar System in fiction close to the Sun and its surface was exposed to extremes of temperature. The asteroids were too tiny and airless. By the early 20th century, prospects for life in the Solar System focused on Venus, the larger moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and especially Mars. With the onset of the Space Age, planetary probes cast increasing doubt on the likelihood of extraterrestrial life in the Solar System, at least life of any magnitude greater than organisms such as bacteria. By the mid-1960s, it was firmly established that life could have no foothold on the hostile surfaces of Mercury or Venus,
Far Away from the Sun as one of the most important bands in 'blackened melodic death metal' history, writing that - along with Dawn, Unanimated, and Vinterland - "these bands embody all the best things about metal: catchy riffs and great songwriting, effective use of melody to create a narrative structure, vocals soaked in reverb, and all the brutality one needs without resorting to cheesiness or self-parody." When the album was reissued in 2012, Steffen Kummerer of Obscura named it his fourth favourite album of the year. Far Away from the Sun Far Away from the Sun is the debut album of the Swedish black/death