Something fresh and startling has risen out of the waters
of Finland that has taken Symphonic Metal into an unbelievable touching,
dramatic, and passionate sounds of overwhelming results. Bands like Amberian
Dawn, Dotma, Katra, and Apocalyptica to name a few have formed in their
hometown to create monstrous and orchestral metallic music along with powerful
story-telling. And In Silentio Noctis, who have been around since 2006, they
are soon going to be on the same boat with the others and they are definitely going
to have a warm reception.
The band who had various line-ups, now features a new
line-up and it considers; Armi Paivinen on Lead Vocals, Tuomas Leskinen and
Samuli Reinikainen on Guitars, Aleksi Ahokas on Bass, and Veikko Ringvall on
Drums. And special guests Ville Koponen on violin and Johannes Salo on Piano to
lend help on the quintet. Their new EP, Disenchant the Hypocrites, is a concept
piece dealing with the issues of God and his servants.
There are touches of Opera, fast-driven guitar lines and
riffs, machine-gun rapid firing sounds of the drums, and Armi’s vocals which is
in the realms of Heidi Parviainen and Tarja Turunen rolled up into one and it’s
a perfect combination to see where here vocals will go into various directions
as the band follows her to see which road she goes to with her voice and they
follow her with tension and difficult time changes.
There are only three tracks on the album, so it’s more of
a Metal Opera with a lot of dramatic structures and let me just say, it is a
complete knockout from start to finish. The
Pit starts off with a militant snare drum and a string quartet along with
keyboards before it goes into full gear with the church organ and guitars going
into a thunderous mode to set the tempo and introduction of who In Silentio
Noctis really are as Armi’s vocals kicks in and the time signatures go through
fast and slow movements to see what would they do next.
The Black Metal sound comes in full handy and while there
aren’t growling vocals on here throughout the story, it shows that there is a
lot of momentum. Of Deception, for
example has a lot of the heavy blistering riffs, doomy rhythm chords, and
powder keg drum patterns that makes it the perfect tone to capture the symphonic
boundaries in there and the vocals again, will send chills down your spine all
of it coming to the closing track, Haunted.
Dramatic Chords and Classical Horn and String Section
fills the section and not to mention the riffs coming in full swing that makes
it an eruptive composition while the vocals and rapid-gunfire sounds of the
drums charges in before it becomes a harmonic tour de force between the
instruments and Armi herself to make it a climatic sinister finale that leads
the door open to see what happens next in the story.
I have listened to Disenchant
the Hypocrites about four times already and it’s an explosive, soaring yet
poignant EP that makes you get your seat belts buckled up for a roller-coaster
ride that you will never forget the moment you listen to In Silentio Noctis’
music. So if you admire story-telling and heavy driven beats, then this EP is a
must have.
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