Cry For Silence are a band from London formed through a love of Pantera and Metallica and have spent the last seven years honing their music into their own style through recording EPs and touring as support to the likes of My Chemical Romance and Sepultura and now they release “The Glorious Dead”, their first full length album. 

I’ll state straight up that I’m no fan of Pantera but fortunately while the band talk about their influences openly this is not a band that slavishly following what their heroes did before, their music is significantly different to both Pantera and Metallica. They sound raw and heavy and very thrash metal in places but with a melodic edge on the guitars which just jump out of the speakers at you. Combined with a penchant for making every song chock full of time changes and different riffs and some really mellow parts the best way I can think to describe them is prog thrash! 

The complexity of each song makes it hard for individual tracks to stand out and one or two of the songs such as “Into The Sun” sound underdeveloped and like they could have been extended in an interesting way so maybe they can work on the song writing for album number two. In the meantime I thoroughly enjoyed the way opening track “Nightmare” combined both raw roaring vocals and some grunting and had an excellent chorus, the epic feel of the title track, Ali Gordon’s fantastic drumming throughout, the Thin Lizzy style harmony guitars which pop up when you don’t expect them and the overall sound of a bunch of musicians being ambitious and different. I also think that Alessandro “V Man” Venturella has just got to be an axe hero of the future just for his name alone! 

If you like your metal with brains AND power then this is an album well worth checking out, throwing interesting ideas at you from the opening moments of “Nightmare” right up the epic guitar outro on final track “The Weight Of Fear”. I look forward to seeing this band fulfill their promise in the future.

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Track Listing

Nightmare
World Benign
Il Sipario
Glorious Dead
Cold Unholy Shores
Some Kind Of Wonderful
Beneath The Storm
Into The Sun
Souvenir From Italy
Bleak And The Cursed
Weight Of Fear

Line Up

Alex Venturella - Lead Guitar
Steve Sears - Guitars / Vocals
Ali Gordon - Drum Kit
A C Saxton - Bass Guitar