Silencer (band)

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Silencer
General information
origin Sweden
Genre (s) Depressed black metal
founding 1995
resolution 2002
Founding members
singing
 Nattramn
Guitar, electric bass
 Andreas "Empty" Casado
Guitar, drums
 Robert
Last occupation
singing
 Nattramn
Guitar, electric bass
 Andreas "Empty" Casado
Live and session members
Drums
 Steve Wolz

Silencer was a Swedish depressive black metal band.

history

Official information on the Silencer group founded by Andreas “Leere” Casado in 1995 is extremely rare. The band never performed live and only gave an interview. This dialogue with the German metal magazine Legacy , conducted via email, was broken off by Nattramn after a few answered questions. After breaking off the dialogue, Nattramn sent the journal a statement that he was afraid of losing his mind and going to a psychiatric clinic . Already on the album Death - Pierce Me the list of various psychotropic drugs and psychiatrics contained in the acknowledgments indicated a supposedly deranged mental state of the musician. The album was released in 2001 through Prophecy Productions and is the only official release of the group. The release was mostly positively reviewed, in particular Nattramn's vocals were highlighted as exceptional. Reviewers often grappled with the rumors surrounding the recording and the singer in their reviews. Silencers broke up shortly after the album was released. The offense was taken by the text of the song I Shall Lead, You Shall Follow , which suggested an anti-Semitic interpretation. Nattramn justified his Holocaust -related text in the existing interview as a misanthropic and anti-religious attack on Judaism as the origin of monotheism . After the end of Silencer, Casado temporarily joined Shining in 2005 and Nattramn released the album Transformalin in 2007 with his dark ambient project Diagnose: Lebensgefahr . In 2006 the album Death - Pierce Me was re-released via Autopsy Kitchen Records .

Myths

There are various modern myths about the group and especially about the singer , the truth of which has never been officially confirmed and is often questioned. Nattramn is said to have massively injured himself during the recording of Death - Pierce Me . Following the recordings, he is said to have severed his fingers or hands in order to replace the missing limbs with pig's feet. He is said to have fled after a few days from the clinic to which Nattramn is said to have gone after the interview with the Legacy . Shortly afterwards, he attacked a child with an ax and killed or seriously injured him. He is said to have countered the intervening police with pleading calls to shoot him. Later rumors vary the story and ascribe a corresponding act to an unspecified brother Nattramn. There are no press reports on a corresponding incident in the vicinity of the psychiatric hospital in Växjö .

For Christopher Rutz from Empyre Mag, the acceptance of these rumors in the Black Metal scene reflects an internal desire for mysticism , whereby this acceptance takes place as a mere admission to the idea of ​​such actions between fiction and reality.

Images are also circulating that are supposed to show the musician without a mask, and accompanying rumors about Nattramn's real name. Nattramn himself did not take a position on any of the stories or statements, but postulated on the website of the Humani Animali Liberati label , which he runs, that the truth about Natramn can only be learned through this site and the art and music sold there.

style

Silencer is considered an important representative of Depressive Black Metal. The group's music is compared to that of Burzum , Darkthrone and Bethlehem . As a special characteristic of the group, Nattramn's screeching singing is often highlighted as extraordinary, delusional and sick. "So sick that the squeaking sounds that resemble a stabbed pig, which singer Nattram utters, almost seem ridiculous again." The riffing shows similarities with other representatives of the genre such as Shining. It is equally "dark, exciting and pulse driving". According to the Internet magazine Voices from the Darkside , the music is intense and repeatedly features catchy melodies. According to the review of the website Metal.de , the music varies in tempo and atmosphere from "hate-distorted", in the tradition of Darkthrone and Burzum, to a "state of Bethlehem morbidity".

Discography

  • 1998: Death - Pierce Me (demo, self-published)
  • 2001: Death - Pierce Me (Album, Prophecy Productions)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Silencer. Metalstorm, accessed March 23, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Lucas: Silencer: Death - Pierce Me. Metalstorm, accessed March 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Nhashi: Silencer: Death - Pierce Me. Voices form the Darkside, accessed March 23, 2017 .
  4. ↑ LGH: Silencer: Death - Pierce Me. Chamber of lost Souls, accessed on March 23, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Peth: Silencer: Death - Pierce Me. Metal.de, accessed on March 23, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b Staff: Silencer: Death - Pierce Me. Invisible Oranges, accessed March 23, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b c Silencer's Nattramn Attacks 5-year-old with Ax. Metal Injection, accessed March 23, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b c Christopher Rutz: Diagnosis: Danger to life - transformalin. Empyre Mag, accessed March 23, 2017 .
  9. ↑ a b c d Ethan "Insineratehymn" Medium: Depressive Black Metal, the Endless Ocean of Darkness. Metalstorm, accessed March 23, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Lilith: Nattramn: Hands of Pig. Emadion, accessed March 23, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Natramn: Nattramn. Humani Animali Liberati, accessed March 23, 2017 .
  12. ↑ a b Janne Stark: The Heaviest Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Ever! Premium Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-91-89136-56-4 , pp. 695 .