Artist: Silent Voices Genre(s):
Metal
Discography:
Building Up The Apathy Year: 2006
Tracks: 8
Silent Voices is a instead ironic name for the Finnish band profiled here; truth be told, their medicine is far from quiet, subtle, or understated. Aggression and forcefulness -- not silence or reticence -- ar among the main ingredients of Silent Voices, wHO are share of the power metal resurgence motility that has enjoyed an enthusiastic cult following in Western Europe in the '90s and 2000s. Silent Voices thrive on the hard and the heavy, which isn't to say that they favour disturbance for the interest of noise or viciousness for the sake of barbarity (as is ofttimes the case in metalcore, end metal/black metal and grindcore). For all their tawdriness, Silent Voices ar actually quite melodic and musical -- sure in the way that headbangers like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Ronnie James Dio were melodic and musical back in the '70s and '80s. And Silent Voices, care other European power alloy revival acts that emerged in the '90s, ar a stylistic reversion to metal's pre-'90s, pre-
Nevermind era; they are retro and all unapologetic about it. But piece office alloy is Silent Voices' primary counsel, the Scandinavians give birth too been influenced by '80s thrash metal as intimately as progressive rock -- and they bring an interesting variety show of influences to the table. Silent Voices give birth been greatly influenced by Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Queensrÿche -- bands that ar considered substantive hearing in the power metallic element revival meeting movement -- simply they take likewise been affected by Rush, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Kansas on the progressive rock side and Metallica, Megadeth, and Venom on the thrash side. (Some metal historians have argued that if Motörhead were the start mosh metal/speed alloy banding, Venom were the sec.) Like the immense majority of Scandinavian metal bands, Silent Voices give birth opted to write in English entirely despite orgasm from a country in which English is non the elemental or official language.Silent Voices was formed in Kokkola, Finland in 1995, when guitar player Timo Kauppinen and bassist Pasi Kauppinen formed an alliance with keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg and drummer Jukka-Pekka Koivisto; a few long time later (after Silent Voices had recorded and circulated some demos), Michael Henneken was leased as the band's full-time lead vocalizer. Silent Voices' first base official release after Henneken's arrival was an EP titled Memory and the Frame, which they recorded in 1998 and released themselves. The following thing they put out was the single "You Got It/Human Cradle Grave," which Low Frequency Records (a Finnish alloy label based in Vantaa) ended up organism included on a few compilations. In 2001, Silent Voices signed with Low Frequency, which has a licensing deal with the Phoenix, AZ-based Crash Music and released the band's first base full-length record album,
Chapters of Tragedy, in 2002. The following class, Silent Voices recorded their irregular full-length album,
Goddamn, in Helsinki; the album was released by Low Frequency in Europe in June 2004 before organism released by Crash Music in the United States in September 2004.
