Silencer - Death Pearce Me
March 21 2008 at 01:22:39 AM
Despite the efforts of some to convince Americans that Sweden is not populated entirely by the offspring of Jonas Persson, the country's musical export, with the ritual-suicide of Dissection front-man Jon Nodveidt not yet sponged from memory, continues to power such grisly mythology. The trio of Silencer released only one album in 2002 before vocalist Naatramn was institutionalized in a mental hospital where he presently resides. Or so the legend goes. This re-release of Death Pierce Me comes in anticipation of the maniacal Naatramn's return. Well, sort of. As the website of his current Diagnose:Lebensgefahr project explains, the new music, " is a co-operation between Nattramn and the Växjö Psychiatric Ward and Växjö Health and Insurance office." As a companion piece to groups like Shining and Bethlehem, Silencer reflect a kind of bathetic and textbook mania, streaming with fits of falsetto screams pinching through voluble bass and feedback while cold white arpeggiations of guitar and piano foreshadow a post-script imprisonment. But if it's depression we hear, no empathy comes ready or willing. With little else offered besides the fatal wish, the album's true test is actually convincing you there's a final act to look forward to. Fool me once, I guess.
[Todd DePalma]
Silencer
Death Pierce Me
2006
Autopsy Kitchen
http://www.autopsykitchen.com
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