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Band: Silenced MinstrelFormed: 2016Band member (s): Silenced Minstrel – All instruments,...
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Silenced Minstrel - Volume 6 - Featured At Pete's Rock news And Views! Check it out here at this link: http://petesrocknewsandviews.com/silenced-minstrel/
Band: Silenced MinstrelFormed: 2016Band member (s): Silenced Minstrel – All instruments, vocals, sound engineer, programmer, producerGenre: Death/Black/Gothic MetalCountry: MalaysiaLabel: Unsigned
An Ode To A Sickening Year by Silenced Minstrel
BIOGRAPHY
Silenced Minstrel (age 44 years, born Saiful Nizam Shukor, 28th March 1976) is a full time singer, songwriter musician from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Been playing music since 1991 he co-founded HALUN, a gothic black metal band back in 1996, produced several demos, one EP and one LP before the badly deformed monstrosity was laid to rest in 2015. Writing and producing mostly in his bedroom studio nicknamed “Sky Panacea Enterprise” he spent the entire 2016 gathering writing and recording materials for his debut album “Volume 1” choosing to name it as such as to not make it sounds too rockstar-ish.
The sixth album “An Ode To A Sickening Year” is a compilation album from the first three albums, containing nine remixed and partially re-recorded tracks plus a tenth bonus-track at the end of it. It was intended as an allusion to the volatile evolution of the band’s sound during the past five years and, granted, the artist may or may not reuse these musical elements again in the band’s future releases.
The fifth album “Volume 5” saw the further development of sound and direction from the previous album, adding also an orchestral style instrumental black metal song as the last track of the album, a song that hearkens back to his old days in HALUN.
The fourth album “Volume 4” saw him disposing of all the gothic melodic stuff and straight into just vocals guitars bass and drums, trying to go as dry and as harsh as he can, tackling on darker themes like deviant spirituality, Satanism, atheism, philosophy and dark fantasy. Fast tempo is the name of the game; the drums gained more prominence and absolutely no melodic stuff present on this album.
The third album “Volume 3” saw him moving ever closer towards a more melodic black metal sound than the old one, this time the long ditched MIDI orchestra element restored along with some double-layered bass guitar tracks and even gloomier atmosphere than before, reflecting the state of his mind, body, spirit and environment that he’s at during that period of time; with traces of anger, hatred, betrayal and vengeance gracing every song in the album (he fully recovered from his decade long clinical depression that same year).
The second album “Volume 2” saw some maturity in his songwriting, the MIDI orchestra part ditched altogether and it also saw a fair amount of rough edges deliberately highlighted in the mix, and a lot more gothic atmosphere throughout than before especially in the lyrics department, where he wrote songs about the occult, immortality, vampirism and forbidden love between the mortal and the damned, also some cryptic poetic inclinations thrown to the mix just for the heck of it.
“Volume 1” is a combination of melodic gothic stuff mixed with thrash, death and doom metal riffs and black metal atmosphere, utilizing the most basic of guitar effects, cheap keyboards/ synthesizers and MIDI orchestra throughout the entire album to produce something that he’d always wanted to do: anything that didn’t sound like his former band! The album is completed in September but it be long after the production of the second album was underway when that album graced the scene...The artist is currently occupied promoting his new album, gathering materials for future albums and also working on his other band “Shadowed Grace” playing New Age Scifi Fantasy Instrumental Synthesizer music. Silenced Minstrel is unsigned and is looking for exposure, a recording contract and developing fanbases all across the globe.
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BAND AND ALBUM LINKS:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SilencedMinstrelTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/SilencedMinstr1 Bandcamp: https://silencedminstrel.bandcamp.com/album/volume-5 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/saifulnizam_shukorSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3bzBoq26KOir3aZ9i2ObcEITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/1442050547YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqCp_xPAXg-9bljJguBa3hQ?view_as=subscriberCDBaby/Hearnow: https://silencedminstrel@hearnow.com
DISCOGRAPHY:
Volume 1 (2017)1 Chaos, Revisited2 I Remember…Insanity3 Black Hearted Sufi4 Twilight Catharsis5 Misery, Revisited6 Enemy Within Me…7 Johnny Demonic8 13th May 69 (Instrumental)
Volume 2 (2018)1 Into The Void2 Morbid Endings I Wished For Them3 I Shall Miss Quintessa4 (Blood Red Flowers) Bleeding Moon5 Entangled In Thorns6 Another Black Year7 Dark Deceptions8 Another Black Year (Instrumental)
Volume 3 (2019)1 Valedictory Sigh2 Canto Diablo 1 – Demonic Epiphany3 In Memoriam (Undertaker’s Lament)4 In Memoriam (I Will Keep On Going)5 Laying Down The Wreaths6 Merentap Tirai Senja7 Incantations In Tongues8 Valedictory Sigh (Instrumental)
Volume 4 (2020)1 The Black Journal Of Alkrun-Nar2 The Dark Almighty3 The Silenced Minstrel4 Mortifications Of The Flesh5 Godkiller (Forever Burning Me)6 Dark Brotherhood Of The Mind-Benders7 Laments From A Forgotten Age8 The Final Journey9 Canto Diablo 2 – Necrotic Mantras10 Quod Damnum Omnis Spes
Volume 5 (2020)1 Unenlightened Beasts2 Twilight Of Religion3 Hell On Earth4 Descent Into Madness5 Canto Diablo 3 – Plagued By The Future6 Canto Diablo 4 – Ballad For Satan7 Ex Lucis Tenebris8 Night Hunt Of The Unseelie9 Dirge Of The Eternal Winter10 Regina Of The Blessed Moon (Instrumental)An Ode To A Sickening Year (Remixed 2020 Compilation)1 Chaos, Revisited2 I Shall Miss Quintessa3 Valedictory Sigh4 Misery, Revisited5 Another Black Year6 In Memoriam: Undertaker’s Lament7 Black-Hearted Mystic8 Blood-Red Flowers Bleeding Moon9 Canto Diablo 1: Demonic Epiphany10 In Memoriam: October Skies
An Ode To A Sickening Year by Silenced Minstrel
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