The Nocturnal Silence
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| Studio album by Necrophobic | ||||
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1993 |
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March 1993 |
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| Label (s) | Black Mark Production , Cargo Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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running time |
45:12 |
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Necrophobic, Tomas Skogsberg |
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The Nocturnal Silence is the debut album by the Swedish band Necrophobic .
Emergence
The album was recorded and mixed in March 1993 at Sunlight Studios ; Micke Jansson and Richard Daemon participated as guest musicians. It was produced by the band and Tomas Skogsberg , who also worked as a sound engineer together with Lars Lindèn . Inborn Evil was named Shadows of the Moon on the original pressings . Re-releases were made in 2003 by Painkiller Records on vinyl and Hammerheart Records on CD (with a different design) and in 2011 by Hammerheart Records on vinyl and CD.
Track list
- Awakening ... - 4:25
- Before the Dawn - 4:22
- Unholy Prophecies - 5:42
- The Nocturnal Silence - 5:13
- Inborn Evil - 4:54 (indicated as Shadows of the Moon on the original pressings )
- The Ancients Gate - 5:31 am
- Sacrificial Rites - 4:52
- Father of Creation - 6:02
- Where Sinners Burn - 4:11
layout
The cover is by Urban Skytt and shows next to the Necrophobic lettering designed by Johan Hansson and the title of the album an upside down pentagram in a pentagon standing on top in a circle. The album contains photographs of the band by Jocke Stabel and Karin Strandås. A symbol from the Necronomicon can be seen on the CD label of the original pressing ; the Hammerheart version instead shows the same symbol as the cover, but with a different color.
Music style and lyrics
The music contains elements typical of Swedish bands like Unleashed or Dismember as well as elements from Deicide and Bathory . Accordingly, the album contains "texts that deal more with Beelzebub and Purgatory than with rotting innards". The vocals are based on Thrash Metal with a slight tendency towards Death Metal growls .
reception
The Nocturnal Silence was praised by the rock-hard editor as "a real death metal classic from Sweden"; the album “hardly sets new accents in terms of originality”, but “comes with a whole armada of hammer riffs and clean song structures”. The "symbiosis of traditional DM elements, delayed Black Metal parts and playful arrangements knocked him out of his chair, which is why I consistently give 9 points and warmly recommend 'The Nocturnal Silence' to all DM-Lunatics out there" " . In his review of the following album Darkside , he wrote that the debut was "a classic of Swedish death metal, and everyone predicted a great future for the guys from NECROPHOBIC at that time". However, until the EP Spawned by Evil was released, “nothing happened. No tour, no further acoustic sign of life. Absolutely nothing. ” According to Eckart Maronde from metal.de , the band“ worked on their style and on every single song until every note was perfect. And so 'The Nocturnal Silence' is a top-class album that has at least not been topped by the band to this day - although NECROPHOBIC have delivered some strong albums to date. "
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Frank Albrecht: Necrophobic . The Nocturnal Silence. In: Rock Hard . No. 76 ( rockhard.de [accessed June 11, 2013]).
- ^ Eckart Maronde: Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence. metal.de, January 13, 2011, accessed June 11, 2013 .
- ^ A b Frank Albrecht: Necrophobic . Darkside. In: Rock Hard . No. 118 ( rockhard.de [accessed June 11, 2013]).
- ^ Eckart Maronde: Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence. metal.de, January 13, 2011, accessed June 24, 2013 .