{"id":967,"date":"2010-07-01T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=967"},"modified":"2011-03-21T13:12:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:12:01","slug":"my-silent-wake-the-drowning-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/my-silent-wake-the-drowning-split\/","title":{"rendered":"My Silent Wake \/ The Drowning Split"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ian Arkley formed My Silent Wake in 2005. For all you metalheads, Ian has played with Seventh Angel, Ashen Mortality, Paramaecium and a couple of other acts as well. This split with The Drowning is great! The first 4 songs belong to My Silent Wake and each one is very different from the other. The first track \u201cI Am Eternity\u201d is a slow, mournful dirge that will get stuck in your head for days. \u201cBleak Endless Winter\u201d is the second track and is more middle of the road metal with vocals that are growled and spit at you over wailing guitars and thumping bass lines, but the pace changes several times through this song as well making it very unique. The third track is \u201cDevoid of Light\u201d and it is very mellow, quiet and vocally sparse letting the music really convey some emotion while perfectly setting up the last song \u201cRebirth\u201d which comes in at over 23 minutes long. \u201cRebirth\u201d starts with an atmospheric bass line accompanied by various ambient sounds, increases to a very droning melancholic mid section and ends with a heavier guitar based structure while repeating the same lines over and over, and then closing with a spoken word\u2026 sonically it is very, very pleasing.<\/p>\n

While starting out with 4 such solid tracks, The Drowning had their work cut out for them on the split disc. These guys are also along the same lines of gothic gloom and death metal, but where My Silent Wake was more melodic, The Drowning is crunchier, heavier and employs death metal vocals on every track. What I love about these four songs is that there is the heaviness and the stand out guitar work, the gravel of the vocals, and then this heavy, thick desolate ambience that really encompasses the entire sound. The songs are \u201cThe Doomsday Feire\u201d followed by \u201cArc Light\u201d, \u201cSilent Epiphany\u201d and then ending with \u201cA Photograph\u201d which chops back and forth between spoken vocals and death metal growls.<\/p>\n

This is a highly recommended disc that is will wet your appetite for gloom, doom and gothic metal, and then leave you begging for more.<\/p>\n[2010\u00a0Bombworks Records | Purchase:\u00a0BombworksRecords.com<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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