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Rating: I intend to immediately apologize to the dear wwwhatemoornet if I re-edited his review, which I nonetheless consider wonderful, but what I felt, I hope he will understand me, was like an unstoppable need. Yes, because although there are many albums I love, this is the one that more than any other has moved, shaken, and enthralled me. And it is precisely for this reason that I still consider it to be in first place in my personal ranking.
The Silent Enigma represents the highest point not only of Anathema's career but of an entire way of conceiving music. The Silent Enigma goes beyond the simple concept of a masterpiece; neither My Dying Bride, nor Paradise Lost, nor Katatonia have ever managed to create something capable of surpassing this work, impossible even to evaluate if it were not necessary.
It is a unique composition, which has the gift of knowing how to move in an incredible way. Within the grooves of this album, you will find everything: anger, pain, despair, resignation.
It goes beyond the concept of Heavy Metal, beyond the concept of Doom while remaining undeniably linked to these two worlds.
The Silent Enigma is nothing but a desperate journey into peaceful oblivion. It is a gloomy garden to mourn the death of a loved one. It is a cry for help to escape from this existence.
It is a dying wish for the end to cover us with serene peace.
It is a vision of a dying embrace.
It is a dream, an enigma... silent.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Restless Oblivion (08:03)
My paralysed heart
is bleeding .....
My love's torn apart
Desire to be free
A bleak garden to cry
When my inamorato died
Loveless so real
Lifeline of mortality
Condemned to misery
Restless oblivion forever
A bleak garden to cry
When my inamorato died
My visionary dreams are vanquished
Aspirations fade away
Reverence dies within
A bleak garden to cry
When my inamorato died
03 ...Alone (04:23)
I gave you my soul
You left me dying
(freezing in the cold wind that screams through
the silence, in the barren wastes of my heart)
Within the walls
Of my mind ..... alone
The winter serenade
Fell silent to me
04 Sunset of Age (06:56)
Throne of grief
..... in a dying essence
Crying beauty
..... the fettered aura
Forgotten oceans of hope
..... Betrayed aphony
Sullen laughter in unventured paradise
(as one) forever searching
For landscapes serene
Amidst the sunset of age
With joyous masquerade.....
..... the summers died
05 Nocturnal Emission (04:20)
My passions rise ..... a twilight ride
Stark light of dark night in my eyes
My forlorn lust .....
My soul it burns
My forlorn lust .....
My soul is burning
Take you now, in my sleep
I want to touch you, to scratch you deep
To leave you scarred .....
To see you burn
To leave you scarred .....
To see you burning
06 Cerulean Twilight (07:05)
I'm lying here, oh so peaceful .....
..... In serene harmony
I'm dreaming yet I feel awake
I'm dreaming yet I am awake
Subjected to pain. Dark screams repent
And in a foreboding rage, a soul will die .....
..... a soul will die
My mind is burning, I'm burning
I can't feel you anymore
Have I reached my point?
Will I drown in delusion?
The winds fell silent
And in my cerulean twilight
I left myself once again
..... it's overwhelming
Suffer yourself, and let me die here awhile
07 The Silent Enigma (04:24)
In dreamland grandeur
I held mesmerised peace
Innocence breathed again
A mind's escape
Leave walls of tears behind
Ethereal vision haunting still...
The solitude left me blind
Beneath an open sky
Sibilant cries of youth dying
Enslave me with grief
A moonlit era, oblivion's twilight kiss
Wishes in lament
Happiness in a broken vision
Utopia still unborn...
Tormented echoes of a fallen Eden
I longed for her beauty
Yet from dust, she returned
The dream, an enigma... silent.
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By wwwhatemoornet
"Forget everything you are listening to because if you haven’t heard this album, you cannot express any opinion on the other CDs you own or will buy."
"The Silent Enigma is not music... it’s only a delusion made of silences."
By __Hide__
"The Silent Enigma is a deep inner journey, into the desolation and pain of the human soul."
"No album will sound like this one, the sensations you will experience with this CD you won’t experience with any other CD."
