The Silent Rage – Nuances of Life Review

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One of the things that keep impressing me about the albums we receive here is the supreme quality of the recordings. I don’t really know if I’m the problem because I’m used to poor recordings and poorly produced albums that when I get a crystal clear one I get this impressed. Or just maybe the processes of recording Metal music got better and bands can really show everything they got with the high quality they all deserve. My experience tells me it hasn’t been like this. It was a real struggle to have a decent recorded Metal album for a myriad of reasons. For the fan’s sake it’s clear the opposite what we’ve got with The Silent Rage and “Nuances of Life.” This album is as crystal clear as it can be when dealing with Metal music. All instruments are perfectly mixed and balanced making all of them heard in all nuances and variations. A perfect mixed album like this make what is supposed to be the background to be really the background and not something else that crosses all the songs.

Musicwise, The Silent Rage seem to have started where Judas Priest stopped with “Painkiller” and all its guns blazing. “Nuances of Life” maintains all the scorching power Judas Priest were able to bring about. Vocalist Michalis Rinakakis does a pretty good job here making the vocal duets Rob Halford majestically does though the lower and harsher tone of voice. The guitar duo Nikos Siglidis and Nikos Sarbanis does their best to create the best smashing riffs and licks.

I guess it’s totally fair to say that The Silent Rage are inspired on Judas Priest and more notably on the band’s “Painkiller” era. From where I’m standing, it’s great to think “Nuances of Life” begins where “Painkiller” stopped. From the beginning with “The Serpent Lord” my dear child of the night will get this feeling, but I guess it’s the guitars of “Carve Your Rage” that passes this impression better. The sequence of guitar riffs intertwined with guitar licks does the trick. It’s the acoustic “Black Monday” that breaks the sequence of neckbreaking tracks alltogether with its tender and harsh vocals. The track gathers the power and the sweet with balance, a rare thing to do. With it “Nuances of Life” gets to be a real mirror of the nuances of life where things are all mixed. All of this makes “Nuances of Life” an album to appreciate.

The Silent Rage “Nuances of Life” was released on May 26th via Scarlet Records.

Track Listing:

  1. The Serpent Lord
  2. Code of Destruction
  3. Carve Your Rage
  4. Crows Fly Back
  5. Another Fallen Dreamland
  6. Scarket Dawn
  7. The Man in the Mirror
  8. Exhaling Fear
  9. Ghost of a Wayward God
  10. Black Monday
  11. Nuances of Life
  12. Defy the Headhunters
  13. Harvester of Souls

Watch “The Serpent Lord” official music video here:

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