Silent Voices

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Silent Voices
General information
origin Kokkola , Finland
Genre (s) Power metal , progressive metal
founding 1995
Website http://www.silentvoices.net/
Current occupation
Pasi Kauppinen
Timo Kauppinen
Henrik Klingenberg
Teemu Koskela
Jani Hurula
former members
singing
 Michael Henneken
Drums
 Jukka-Pekka Koivisto

Silent Voices is a Finnish power and progressive metal band from Kokkola that was founded in 1995.

history

The band was founded in the spring of 1995 and consisted of guitarist Timo Kauppinen, bassist Pasi Kauppinen, drummer Jukka-Pekka Koivisto and keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg. In the following years several demos were made, whereby the line-up changed several times. After the addition of the singer Michael Henneken, the cast stabilized. The group had been an instrumental band up to this point. A self-financed EP Memory and the Frame was recorded in autumn 1998 and published in 1999. In addition, a few gigs were held, so the group was seen in 1999 at the Nummirock Metal Festival . After that, the group continued to work on new material in a studio in Kokkola. At the end of 2000 the single You Got It / HumanCradleGrave was released . The latter song is featured on the samplers Northern Breeze II and Metal Rock Cavalcade . A short time later, the group reached a record deal with this label, whereupon they went to the Tic Toc Studio in Kemi to record their debut album. The final product was released worldwide in 2002 under the name Chapters of Tragedy . In the spring and summer of 2003 new material was written and rehearsed. In July the band went to the Sonic Pump Studios in Helsinki to record the second album Infernal , which was released in June 2004. Since the hoped-for success did not materialize, the members continued to write new material and in the late summer of 2005 went to Studio 57 to record the next album. After the finished material had been mixed in the Sonic Pump Studios and mastered in the Chartmakers Studios , it was released as an album in January 2006 under the name Building Up the Apathy . In June of that year the resignation of the singer Michael Henneken was announced due to musical differences. On the next album, Reveal the Change , the band consists of Klingenberg, Timo and Pasi Kauppinen, singer Teemu Koskela and drummer Jani "Hurtsi" Hurula. Mats Levén , Tony Kakko , Mike Vescera and Mike DiMeo were guest singers . The album was recorded and mixed at Studio 57 in Kronoby and mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound in New York City . In 2017 the live album Darkest Night in Europe was released.

style

According to metalfromfinland.com , the band was initially influenced by Dream Theater and Rush . UMUR of progarchives.com stated that the band played a mix of power and progressive metal. In Infernal, Rock Hard noted “Progressive Metal between Dream Theater, Symphony X ” and a strong “tendency towards fat, grooving guitar riffs ”, although the music was harder and more impressive than its predecessor. The playing of the instruments is technically demanding, as is typical of the genre, while the vocals sound like a mixture of Michael Vescera and Russell Allen . Michael Henneken knows something about his subject, but he does not succeed in “creating expressive vocal lines”. In a later edition Wolfram Küper reviewed Building Up the Apathy and described the music as a professionally recorded mixture of Melodic and Progressive Metal. None of the songs are less than six minutes long, and sometimes they sound more and sometimes less influenced by Dream Theater. Jenny Rönnebeck wrote that Darkest Night contains melodic-progressive songs that sounded quite constructed. The album is suitable for fans of Masterplan , Thunderstone , Sonata Arctica and Nocturnal Rites . In his review of Infernal , Jost Frommhold from Metal.de wrote that the guitars were reminiscent of Dream Theater. The vocals sound a bit like James LaBrie's , but they don't have such an affected character. In contrast to Dream Theater, however, Silent Voices is more straightforward and avoids breaks and too demanding guitar playing. In addition, they are more firmly rooted in Power Metal.

Discography

  • 1995: Instrumental Demo '95 (demo, self-release)
  • 1997: Nothing Lasts Forever (demo, self-published)
  • 1999: Memory and the Frame (EP, self-published)
  • 2000: You Got It / HumanCradleGrave (single, self-published)
  • 2002: Chapters of Tragedy (Album, Low Frequency Records )
  • 2004: On the Wings of Rage (Single, Low Frequency Records)
  • 2004: Infernal (album, Low Frequency Records)
  • 2006: Building Up the Apathy (Album, Low Frequency Records)
  • 2013: Reveal the Change (Album, Innerwound Recordings )
  • 2015: Darkest Night (Single, Innerwound Recordings)
  • 2017: Darkest Night in Europe (Live-Album, 57 Records )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography. musicmight.com, archived from the original on March 9, 2016 ; accessed on May 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Biography. metalfromfinland.com, archived from the original on July 17, 2014 ; accessed on May 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e UMUR: Silent Voices biography. progarchives.com, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  4. ^ Silent Voices - Memory And The Frame [EP]. metalstorm.net, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Info. Facebook , accessed May 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Silent Voices (2) - Darkest Night In Europe. Discogs , accessed May 22, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Silent Voices . Infernal. In: Rock Hard . No. 211 , December 2004.
  8. ↑ Wolfram Küper: Silent Voices . Building Up the Apathy. In: Rock Hard . No. 226 , March 2006.
  9. ^ Jenny Rönnebeck: Silent Voices . Reveal the change. In: Rock Hard . No. 321 , February 2014.
  10. ^ Jost Frommhold: Silent Voices - Infernal. Metal.de , accessed on May 23, 2020 .