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The Chicago scene, in all of it’s incestuous nature, has offered all types of music and collaborations for as long as music has existed in this Windy City, and rather than honing in on the sonic traditions that have been oh so prominent among a vast array of punk rock and hardcore groups, Break the Silence has ideas of their own to express. Substituting tradition and repetition with reinvention, the band has been most commonly accepted as an embodiment of originality.
Forming from the ashes of a handful of Chicago bands such as 88 Fingers Louie, SKG, All Else Fails, Mike, and Every Light Red, the members have all had different ideas to bring to the creative table and help shape the unique sound that Break the Silence has continued to deliver.
I guess it really started with All Else Fails recruiting Dan Precision as guitarist (Mr. Precision had worked with AEF frontman Andy Lareau before in a melodic hardcore group called Nice Guys Finish Last).
Shortly after Precision was recruited, Lareau decided to leave the band. Brian Phee, Jay Gronwick, Mike Ford, and Dan Precision were all left back at square one.
Taking everything as opportunity rather than failure, the boys decided to form a new group, under a new name, with a new sound. They decided to name the project Break the Silence, and began extensively writing music…still in search of a voice to tie everything together.
Meanwhile, 19-year-old Dan Wintercorn had musical wheels turning as well. He had been writing songs on his own for a solo project, which was later to expand into melodocore group Every Light Red. Later, while attending Warped Tour ’02, Wintercorn came across a flyer for vocal auditions for BTS. Since options with ELR were quite limited, he decided to pass along an early demo of some of the ELR songs to them, and immediately caught their interest.
At that exact moment, Wintercorn had spent every free minute writing lyrics to the demo that was given to him by Gronwick, and completed 3 songs (which were later to be named ‘Close My Eyes’, ‘Forgiven, Not Forgotten’, and ‘Iris’) to audition with.
When the audition took place, the band was taken aback by the fact that Wintercorn was laying these intense screams of this pristine melodic hardcore, yet accompanied it with melodic vocals all at the same time. This fashion has been commonplace for Wintercorn’s style, but seemed relatively foreign to the BTS boys, so needless to say, at first the band as a whole were quite indifferent, but still quite impressed.
After 3 auditions and 2 demo sessions with BTS, Wintercorn was asked to be the vocalist of Break the Silence, and the band as a whole was born. Now began the intense writing, until about 1 month later, when they finally put together enough music to perform on November 7th, 2002 with Fall Out Boy, Much the Same, Belvedere, and Near Miss. The band was received with seemingly open arms, but realized that they were still a work in progress.
As time went on, BTS stayed in creative mode for the next few months, playing a few sporadic Chicago area shows in between, and made plans to begin recording their debut “Near Life Experience” in early February 2003. During the final steps of the recording process, BTS was invited by Hopeless/SubCity Records to fill an open slot in the highly anticipated SXSW (South by Southwest) Music Festival that takes place every year in Austin, TX. Without hesitation, the band seized the opportunity immediately and put recoding on hold for that weekend. This would prove to be the best career move the band has made to this day.
BTS immmediatley clicked with the good people at Hopeless/SubCity, impressed them with a heartfelt and intense performance for SXSW, and stayed in contact. About 3 weeks later, they were offered to join the Hopeless roster.
Since then, the band has been up and coming worldwide, due to the hard work of the people at Hopeless and the bandmates themselves. The band took the golden opportunity to perform on the first week of the Vans Warped Tour ’03 over the summer, shared the stage back home at Metro with melodic hardcore giants Rise Against (in which Precision was a founding member until 2001) and in Autumn were featured on the Vans Off the Wall tour with hardcore legends Sick Of it All, Boston street punk veterans The Unseen, the mighty Avenged Sevenfold, and other great bands such as Western Waste and Sworn Enemy. Since then, the band has released their debut full length titled “Near Life Experience” in Feb 2004 and supported that with nationwide touring. The band also returned as sophomores to the 2004 10th Anniversary Warped Tour for 21 dates.
As of right now, the band is continuing to tour extensively, as well as craft and rehearse new material. They plan to tour nationally & worldwide (including the UK, Europe, and Canada), and wrap up the year with recording the new material for their second album for Hopeless Records.
Break The Silence
Break the Silence Lyrics
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The lyrics of Break The Silence's song Break the Silence depict the struggles of living in a society that is flawed and corrupt, where violence and mistrust prevail. The singer reflects on a perfect world that is only attainable through a modern dream, and the pain that comes with trying to make that dream a reality. They question when the violence and mistrust will come to an end and reveal the harsh reality of living and dying while hiding and taking away promises made before. The singer reflects on how we are forced to raise ourselves, causing us to divide and die, and how it's never worth complaining when a life is on the line.
The lyrics also speak of the struggles of fatherhood and estrangement from the world, where some fathers have no names and are not acknowledged, while others play tired games. The pattern of the art of war represents a disease that spreads, and the singer wonders how others can claim to know who they are when they don't even know themselves. The pictures painted in our minds are all we have to represent a better future, to break the fall, and portray that there is another way.
Line by Line Meaning
Reflections staring back at me in a perfect world, through a modern dream.
I'm seeing my own reflections in a world that seems perfect, but it's just a modern fantasy.
And the pain they causeâ?¦its developing.
These reflections are making me feel pain and it's getting worse.
Through another time to scatter everything.
In another era, everything was scattered.
Through mistrust. Through violence.
This was caused by mistrust and violence.
When does it end in silence?
When will this end in silence?
We're living and dying.
We're all going through life and death.
It's not a way of life to live in hiding.
Hiding is not a way to live life.
To take away a promise that we made before.
Breaking the promises we made before.
To creep between the lines that we can't afford.
To cross certain boundaries that we cannot afford to cross.
All the patriotic sentiment, a fallacy of truth.
All the patriotic feelings are based on a false idea of truth.
The time had come, we'd run away.
We decided to run away from the situation.
Away from all the youth.
We left the younger generation behind.
To these days, where we are forced to raise ourselves, we divide, and we die.
Now we are forced to grow up quickly and we are dividing and dying.
It's never worth complaining when a life is on the line in your mind.
When your life is in danger, complaining is useless.
Relax, be strong.
Stay calm and be strong.
Some fathers aren't heavenâ?¦haven't any names.
Some fathers are absent or unknown.
Some estranged to this world, and some play tired games.
Some are disconnected from reality, while others are just going through the motions.
And the pattern of the art of war represents disease.
The way war is fought represents a sickness in our society.
I don't know who your are, so, how do you know me?
If I don't know you, how could you possibly know me?
To these days, where we are forced to raise ourselves, we divide, and we die.
Now we are forced to grow up quickly and we are dividing and dying.
It's never worth complaining when a life is on the line in your mind.
When your life is in danger, complaining is useless.
Relax, be strong. OUR time.
Stay calm and be strong, this is our time to make a change.
The pictures painted in our minds are all we have today.
The mental images we create are all we have in the present.
To break the fall, to representâ?¦there is another way.
We need to find a way to change our situation and show that there is another way of living.
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The Heretic
Vibes from heaven 😌👌
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BasilRefaey80
even though all humans need to breaka the silence..
but sometimes they can't
but I bet there will be a time for that
don't know when
but there will be
Spike Shape
The melody has a D-Block & S-te-Fan - Together kinda vibe.
D-Ferent
but these producers started with them, or even earlier. Now they are back
Mandy Lane
the melody sounds like d block and s te fan.
DJ BS
Which ?
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Instantly thought the same.