VIOLENT SILENCE: Kinetic

Cover	Release	Style
	2005-09	progressive rock
	Label
	Progress Records
	Website
	http://www.violentsilence.net/
	Contact
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	Playing Time	Cat. N°
	50:18	PRCD018
	Review by	Rating
	Claude	9/10
nederlands	Review
Good progressive rock without lead guitar is by no means an easy accomplishment, but the Swedish guys of Violent Silence have without any doubt succeeded in this matter. Nevertheless, adding some guitars in the future would not be such a bad idea. The band has been founded by drummer Johan Hedman and keyboard player Hannes Ljunghall back in 1999, in 2003 they released their debut album on the Record Heaven label. The response was not that overwhelming, but this could change with the album ‘Kinetic’. This release has plenty of complex arrangements, varied with melodic parts, the technical abilities of the musicians is obvious, especially the drummer has made an extraordinary delivery, in this sense you could compare it with their fellowmen of Anglagard. The electronic and ambient sounding Morning Star will perhaps give you a wrong impression, although the first reference point to UK can already be found in this track. But the first notes of the title track show immediately the complexity and the aggressive play, the link to King Crimson can be easily made, without guitars naturally. From a vocal point of view as well as in the symphonic parts the seventies touch of super group UK is very present. But keyboards have the biggest contribution, but without a too strong emphasis on the solos. The strength of their music lies mainly in the complexity of the arrangements, the virtuosity of the drummer is also one of the key factors. ‘Sky Burial’ seems to be a point of rest on the album, an atmospheric spacey track with excellent synthesizers, both keyboard players are creating an entire unique sound, that has not many in common with neo prog. The short up-tempo ‘Subzero’ sounds very melodic and could have reached the charts in the seventies. The longest track ‘Quiet Stalker’ contains almost everything atmospheric art rock could offer nowadays, a perfect mix between melody and complexity. The singer has a very pleasant voice, comparable with his fellow singers of Progress Records (Liquid Scarlet, Magic Pie, Brother Ape). In a nutshell, this is once again a very surprising and high standard release from Sweden, we are getting used to it little by little. Surely recommended for everybody who is not too much into guitars. Progressive rock with balls!
Musicians
Hannes Ljunghall : keyboards Björn Westén : keyboards Bruno Edling : vocals Phillip Bastin : bass Johan Hedman : drums
Tracklist
1 Morning star (2:16) 2 Kinetic (7:13) 3 Torrential rains (6:20) 4 Night lights (1:45) 5 Sky burial (8:12) 6 Subzero (4:01) 7 Quiet stalker (18:01) 8 Homesick (2:24))
Discography
Kinetic (2005) Violent Silence (2003)


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