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Music:
- The art of combining sounds according to certain laws and conventions
- Particularly harmonious and pleasant sound or noise
- Annoying, insistent, and deafening sound or noise
Anathema, The Silent Enigma:
- The art of combining sounds without following any established laws or conventions
- Harmonious, pleasant, and ethereal sound or noise
- Oppressive, leaden, suffering sound or noise
But also:
- A melancholic wait for the melody
"Help me to escape from this existence"
- The darkest desolation…
"I'm drowning in a sea of abused vision and shattered dreams"
- …and the desperate anger of frustration
"Fallen am I... in the solitude of a broken promise"
and in all this there is no true song, no true "music"...
The Silent Enigma cannot be classified, except under the label "Work of Art".
The Silent Enigma is not gothic, much less doom, and moreover, it is not even death metal...
no, they are not Pink Floyd either.
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, whether metal or not, because until this CD is yours, you will be missing the most beautiful of all.
The Silent Enigma is not music... it's only a delusion made of silences
"only a delusion of silence"
Tracklist Lyrics Samples 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 Norvheim
The Silent Enigma represents the highest point not only of Anathema’s career but of an entire way of conceiving music.
It is a unique composition, which has the gift of knowing how to move in an incredible way.
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."
