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
Oblivion
Scream Silence Lyrics
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By the river
So many trails in vain
But I missed her
But least the sheet has turned
It lasted for a long time
Among the diary tales
Some deliquescent lines
So hurting when I stray behind
It seems so far
And closed forever
So blurry
Is every light
There below
By the unsung melodies
The inner pains were aged
In abandon
The elder fails for long
In oblivion
But least the sheet has turned
It lasted for a long time
Among the diary tales
Some deliquescent lines
After all I sank the wrong lines
Quiet for all times
On the ground
Of my violative soul
Underneath my guarded mind gate
My derailed fate
Just waiting for
Destroying me again
In Scream Silence's song Oblivion, the singer speaks about a lost love that they stumbled upon by the river after many years of searching. They describe how they had taken so many paths in vain trying to find her again, but they were finally able to reunite after a long time. However, despite this turn of events, at times the singer still feels as though they are too far away from her and as though their relationship is closed off forever. The singer hints at the pain of abandonment and aging, lamenting the fate of their "violative soul" that is just waiting to be destroyed again.
The lyrics evoke a sense of nostalgia and longing for a past love that could have been. The singer seems to struggle with accepting their current reality and the pains of the past relationships that have shaped them. The imagery of the unsung melodies and the blurry lights convey a feeling of disorientation and uncertainty that comes with trying to rebuild something that was lost.
Overall, Scream Silence's Oblivion is a poignant reflection on lost love and the pain of memory that persistently haunts us.
Line by Line Meaning
Past decades I saw her
By the river
The singer once saw someone they cared about many years ago by the river.
So many trails in vain
But I missed her
Despite searching for this person, the singer was unsuccessful and now regrets not being able to find them.
But least the sheet has turned
It lasted for a long time
Among the diary tales
Some deliquescent lines
Although time has passed, the memory of this person remains and is like something written in a diary that has started to fade.
So hurting when I stray behind
It seems so far
And closed forever
Thinking about this person brings pain to the artist, as they feel like they will never be able to find them again.
So blurry
Is every light
There below
By the unsung melodies
Life feels dull and unfulfilling without this person, as if everything is distorted and muted by unheard music.
The inner pains were aged
In abandon
The elder fails for long
In oblivion
The singer's emotional pain has been left to fester for too long, and they feel like an old person who has been forgotten by everyone.
After all I sank the wrong lines
Quiet for all times
On the ground
Of my violative soul
The singer acknowledges that they made mistakes in their pursuit of this person and now feel defeated and silenced by their own inner turmoil.
Underneath my guarded mind gate
My derailed fate
Just waiting for
Destroying me again
The artist's mind is guarded, preventing them from fully expressing their emotions, and they fear that their misfortune will repeat itself and ruin them once more.
Contributed by Sadie R. Suggest a correction in the comments below.