The Nocturnal Silence
Occupation
- Bass, background vocals on Awakening ...: Tobbe Sidegård
- Drums: Joakim Sterner
- Guitar, Keyboard: David Parland
- Vocals: Anders Strokirk
- Background vocals on Father of Creation: Micke Jansson
The Nocturnal Silence is the debut album by the Swedish band Necrophobic.
Formation
The album was recorded and mixed in March 1993 in Sunlight Studios; as a guest musician had Micke Jansson and Richard daemon. It was produced by the band and Tomas Skogsberg, this worked together with Lars Linden as a sound engineer. In the original pressings Inborn Evil was given as Shadows of the Moon. Reissues were made in 2003 by Painkiller Records on vinyl and Hammerheart Records on CD ( with different design) and in 2011 by Hammerheart Records on vinyl and CD.
Title list
Shaping
The cover is from Urban Skytt and shows, in addition, designed by Johan Hansson Necrophobic lettering and the title of the album an inverted pentagram on a subject on the top Pentagon in a circle. The album contains photographs of the band by Jocke Stabel and Karin Strandås. On the CD label of the original pressing an icon from the Necronomicon is to be seen; the Hammerheart version instead shows the same symbol as the cover, but differently colored.
Style of music and texts
The music contains typical elements as well as those of Deicide and Bathory for Swedish bands like Dismember or Unleashed. Accordingly, the album contains " texts that deal more with Beelzebub and purgatory as with rotting offal ". The song is based on the thrash metal with a slight slope to death metal growls.
Reception
The Nocturnal Silence was praised as "real Death Metal classic from Sweden " by Rock-Hard - editor; put the album " though in terms of originality hardly a new course ," come " but with a whole armada of hammer - riffs and song structures clean " therefore. Him have the " symbiosis of traditional DM elements, abducted Black Metal Parts and playful arrangements in any case quite carved out of the chair, which is why I forgive consequently 9 points, The Nocturnal Silence ' all DM- Lunatics out there warmly lay to heart ". In his review for the next album Darskide he wrote, the debut applies " as a classic of Swedish Death Metal, and everyone predicted the guys from NECROPHOBIC that time a great future ." Up until the release of the EP Spawned by Evil but " nothing happened. No tour, no other audible signs of life. Nothing at all. " Eckart Maronde of metal.de According to the band " polish up their style and every single song until every sound sits. And so, The Nocturnal Silence ' a top-class album, which has been at least no longer topped by the band to this day -. Although NECROPHOBIC have delivered some strong albums to date "