Cost: 99¢ each
Terrible Silence - Legacy of Silence (2006)
Terrible Silence - Regent (2012)
Knew absolutely nothing about these, but the band name and logo caught my eye initially. I think I would have ended up buying these anyway, but seeing a dedication to Quorthon in the booklet of Legacy of Silence immediately sealed the deal on me getting these. Seemed like that would make them a pretty safe bet...
Sadly, these discs were total letdowns. It's quite hard to describe the music, even in very broad terms. It mixes various forms of rock (alternative, hard, and maybe some minor prog. influence in places), but there's definitely a metal undercurrent that mostly comes from the guitars. While it's hard to find any semblance of full-on, unambiguous metal without the rock elements, almost everything has a certain amount of guitar heaviness and metal influence. There aren't any direct extreme metal influences, but a couple parts made me wonder if gothic metal was a conscious influence on the sound. One song had riffage that reminded me a little of "Sad But True," but I was so disinterested I didn't even bother noting which track it was! Overall, the music feels extremely unfocused, like the spitballing of musical ideas without much editing or quality control. Also, even taking the music for what it is, nothing struck me as musically impressive.
The Regent disc is actually a reissue of an earlier 1998 cassette album with a live bonus track added, and a couple of songs appear across both CDs. Legacy of Silence seems marginally heavier, and because there aren't any big stylistic differences, I assume it's mostly due to the production. The Legacy of Silence version of "Tears" is the one track I'd feel most comfortable calling full-on metal--of a simplistic, rumbly, and semi-thrashy sort. Oh well, better luck next time.
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