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
HARVEST
Scream Silence Lyrics
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Believe that every step is guiding homewards
But all of your endeavours have become
To an worthless word
Unsaid for long
And you creep and crawl
On your barren soil
In your own sowed spore
And so deep you are
At your dreary shores
There is nothing to glean
In a lonesome dream
Now you're standing right upright ashore
Proud of your work you have done before blinded by the irony you swore
To an worthless word
Unsaid for long
The lyrics to Scream Silence's song "Harvest" speak to the disappointment and emptiness that can come from a life spent working towards goals that ultimately prove hollow. The singer begins by expressing relief that they have finally put their "endless thoughts" behind them and can focus on moving towards their perceived destination, but quickly realizes that all their hard work has led them to an impasse. They have become trapped in their own "sowed spore" - a reference to the seeds they have planted that have yielded no fruitful results - and find themselves stranded on a "dreary shore" with nothing left to glean.
The repeated refrain of "To an worthless word / Unsaid for long" emphasizes the bitterness of this realization, as the singer recognizes that their efforts have all been for naught and that they have been deceiving themselves by ignoring the truth for too many years. The final verses bring this message home by highlighting how the singer's self-confidence and pride in their work has blinded them to the reality that they have achieved nothing of lasting value. They are left standing alone, a victim of their own delusions and the futility of their pursuits.
Overall, "Harvest" is a haunting, melancholy meditation on the pain and disillusionment that can come from chasing dreams that ultimately prove unattainable.
Line by Line Meaning
Finally you've done the endless thoughts
You have finally found closure and let go of endless thoughts.
Believe that every step is guiding homewards
You believe that every step you take is one step closer to finding your way home or finding peace.
But all of your endeavours have become
All the efforts you have made towards healing and moving forward have been rendered useless.
To an worthless word
Your struggles and pain have become meaningless and empty.
Unsaid for long
You have been keeping your pain and struggles to yourself for a long time.
And you creep and crawl
You are struggling to move forward and are barely making any progress.
On your barren soil
You are trying to heal and move forward, but it feels like there is nothing there to grow from.
You 've been caught
You are stuck and unable to move forward.
In your own sowed spore
You have been stuck in your own misery and it has affected your growth.
And so deep you are
You are deeply entrenched in your struggles and pain.
At your dreary shores
You feel stuck in a sad and unpleasant place, unable to move forward.
There is nothing to glean
There is nothing to gain from your current situation.
In a lonesome dream
You feel alone and unsupported in your journey to healing.
Now you're standing right upright ashore
You have made some progress and are now standing upright and more hopeful.
Proud of your work you have done before blinded by the irony you swore
You feel accomplished from the progress you have made, but are still struggling to see the irony and pain in your journey.
To an worthless word
Again, you feel like all your struggles and pain have become meaningless.
Unsaid for long
You continue to carry this pain and struggle on your own without anyone to confide in.
Contributed by Chloe P. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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