Scream Silence is a goth rock band that was founded in Germany in 1998. Read Full Bio ↴Scream Silence is a goth rock band that was founded in Germany in 1998.
In 1999, their first album To Die For was music magazine Orkus's album of the month. With the success of the first album, Scream Silence could go on tours with bands like Christian Death and Dreadful Shadows.

Two years later, in 2001, the successor The 2nd, climbed up to be the number 1 in all European charts. On the subsequent tour they were the main band and they played in Wave-Gotik-Treffen.

Without big promotion in 2004 they released Seven Tears and got excellent reviews from music magazines. In spring they founded their own record label Plainsong Records and immediately began to work on their fourth album, Elegy, which was released on October 25, 2004. Yuki Melchert (violin) and Anika Skusa (cello) had guest appearances.

On January 30, 2006 Saviourine was released in Germany, and also in almost all of Central and Eastern Europe.

On April 20, 2007 the sixth album Aphelia was released.

Lune up:
Hardy Fieting - vocals
Robert Klausch - guitar
Rene Gödde - guitar
Hagen Schneevoigt - bass
Heiko Wolf - drums

Discography:
1999 To Die For
2001 The 2nd
2003 Seven Tears
2004 Elegy
2006 Saviourine
2007 Aphelia

www.screamsilence.de

A little more than a year has passed since Scream Silence have cast their spell on both reviewers and the growing fan community. Just 15 months after “Saviourine” the hard working Germans release their sixth work so far.

Scream Silence never looked back to their own created horizons. More and more months of creative work they invested at their label-own Plainsong Studio to build their own musical microcosm and to extend the borders with every of the following four records as well.

“Aphelia”, a word from Greek mythology for the farthest point from the sun, ignites a firework of excellent songs, which are discharging in inexhaustible passion straight into the listener.

At first sight "Aphelia" seems to be rawer than its predecessors. The songs from the new material not only have the band-typical catchy melodies but also much more alternative- or progressive elements. Club-fitting uptempo singles like “Kerosene” or “The Vitriol”, gloomy gothic rock songs as “Harvest” and “In Every Sin” or dark rock hymns like “Nothingness” and “Unspoken” and even the dearly beloved epic ballads “My Eyes” and finally the 10-minute title track “Aphelia” melt into a harmonic concept album of eternal beauty.

The extensive designed artwork of the multiple folding DigiPak cover explains the meaning of the lyrical work. “Aphelia”, a small girl, here the symbol for the fragility of the human soul, strolls between unreal worlds she never belongs to and finally finds her only home world in the darkest of all places – herself.

The limited first edition of the album comes with additional Bonus-Live-Tracks, long awaited by every fan, recorded in December 2006 at the biggest dark music hall in Berlin, the K17.

Scream Silence leave on “Aphelia” an impressive aura of sound fulfilled with songs of remaining beauty and so far unheard lyrical deepness.

The warmest sounds from the coldest sun-farthest place Scream Silence have ever created…..

APHELIA – APRIL 2007

Source: Plainsong Records

Agony
Scream Silence Lyrics

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Stumble through the night
Rushed like a refugee
So fast will raise the tide
Into her eternity
Above a cruel smile
And among her pale devise
And my sense so paralysed
And the faint is passing by

In the quiet
The time will change it
For a while
Will rule the cruelty your sense
Not a lie
If I crave it
Past a while
My untold passions fade away

The cold is open wide
Her pinions for embrace then
And now I have to hide ...
For the claws of the ferrymen
Above a cruel smile
And among her pale devise

And my sense so paralysed
And the faint is passing by

Overall Meaning

The song Agony by Scream Silence is a dark and emotional journey through the pain and suffering of unrequited love. The lyrics paint a picture of someone stumbling through the night, rushing like a refugee as they desperately try to outrun their feelings. The intensity and urgency of the situation are emphasized by the images of the rising tide and the eternal nature of their pain. The object of their affection is described as cruel, with a pale device, and her presence leaves the singer paralyzed and faint.

Line by Line Meaning

Stumble through the night
Moving through the darkness aimlessly

Rushed like a refugee
Running from something, seeking shelter

So fast will raise the tide
Speed increasing, creating waves

Into her eternity
Entering into a timeless place

Above a cruel smile
A wicked grin sits on her face

And among her pale devise
Surrounded by her tricks and schemes

And my sense so paralysed
My ability to sense is weakened

And the faint is passing by
My consciousness is slipping away

In the quiet
In a state of calm

The time will change it
The situation will eventually shift

For a while
Temporarily