Silent Opera
Reflections

There is an italian band with this name, I actually thought it was the same band until I read the press info just before writing this review, the debut album’s title was incorrect. I then noticed that this was a french band that now releases their second album. Not a band I know anything about, they claim to want our deepest emotions to rise through their music. Progressive melodic metal with male and female singer, something I like, I always enjoy female fronted metal but I also think this genre is getting ever more overcrowded and more and more dull copycats are filling out the ranks. I am not impressed by all this overcrowdedness, unfortunately a consequence of it becoming easier to create decent music along with how the record labels get hurt by the new times leads to a dilution in the quality department. So, what about this version of Silent Opera?

Well, their music hardly breaks new ground. Fact is that I thought they were the other Silent Opera even when listening to them, so indifferent was I to the first band with that name I heard and equally indifferent I am towards this. Growls and female vocals, beauty against beast and all of that. Sorry but the old guard of the dutch are still the heroes of this genre. They do what they do well, and their music is dynamic and all of that but it sounds like everything else in the genre. And the album is long, and it isn’t very varied, or progressive. Strange that it is so often like this, that the new bands always sound like the old ones and doesn’t find their own voice.

To be fair, this album is too good to really dismiss. It is a solid effort, it is just that if you have heard so many bands in the genre as I have, you stop getting impressed by a polished surface. There isn’t enough depth in this album to keep me interested for any major time and despite me having heard this album more than a dozen times I still cannot recite a single text line or recall a single melody. It isn’t interesting enough to really grab my attention, a good piece of musical entertainment that fades as fast as it lights up.

I wonder if an album like this would have even gotten through in a time when there was a little more discriminate thinking about what kind of music was published. Now it did get through and it was a bit entertaining but in the end I doubt that I will ever pick it up again, but you’ll never know.

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