Written by Darkside Momo on 21.11.2014 at 22:01

Great review you've written here

Written by [user id=4365] on 21.11.2014 at 23:06

Checked out a song and it sounded very good indeed.
Silent Planet, take a ticket
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Written by Ilham on 21.11.2014 at 23:18

I think I'm not seeing the reference. The book maybe?

Written by [user id=4365] on 21.11.2014 at 23:20

Not a reference, just that it's probably about number 57 in the queue of stuff I need to listen to at the moment. I seemed to have stopped listening to music for the time being.

Written by Ilham on 21.11.2014 at 23:21

Oh ok haha, sorry. I'm a little ill and I've been high on drugs for two days now. Funny indeed. Isn't when you want to take a pause that suddenly all the good albums come out?

Written by mz on 22.11.2014 at 02:04

Official: on one is becoming one of my fav MS commentator
Also, I think I have no reason not listening to this, despite the fact that I don't know much about metalcore (or any other -core genre).

Written by Dream Taster on 22.11.2014 at 03:00

I love reading your reviews. "Toujours super interessant". And you find some great out of the way listens. This one sounds great as well.

Keep it up

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Metalcore is just the big umbrella under which I spot some emo post-hardcore, the technical prowess and breakdowns you could find in deathcore, atmospheric post-rock build-ups, as well as even Gothenburg-influenced passages reminding me of Dark Tranquillity's Character. I find it admirable how The Night God Slept perfectly embodies the contradictory nature of melodic, emotional and yet truly passionate and aggressive music

Written by Uldreth on 22.11.2014 at 14:49

Very nice review, and you got me interested.

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Metalcore is just the big umbrella under which I spot some emo post-hardcore, the technical prowess and breakdowns you could find in deathcore, atmospheric post-rock build-ups, as well as even Gothenburg-influenced passages reminding me of Dark Tranquillity's Character. I find it admirable how The Night God Slept perfectly embodies the contradictory nature of melodic, emotional and yet truly passionate and aggressive music

And this is exactly why I fell in love with this genre when I did, as I hope you will find, that actually quite many bands share these characteristics.
Also surprisingly, many christian -core bands' lyrics do speak to me, even if I am a hardcore atheist, since most of them seems to be about their prespective of the world, rather than trying to aggressively preach about their faith, and it seems that moderate christians often have a worldview similiar to secular humansits, which I am.

Edit: Also based on the glancing listens I am giving this now, this sounds a lot like Oh, Sleeper. Do you know that band? Cause it might appeal to you then. Especially their first and third albums.

Written by Susan on 22.11.2014 at 19:27

I cannot wait to hear this album! Thanks for reviewing Your review made me even more excited to listen.

Also a raging atheist, I enjoy many religious-based metalcore and other metal bands. We don't all need to share an ideology to share a love of music. But I think I'll especially like this one given the source of their name. I can only guess it's in reverence to the classic sci-fi book "Out of the Silent Planet," which was pretty good but did incorporate religious overtones and got a little "preachy" by the end. Still, sci-fi nerd metal music is not something I can easily resist!

Written by Alex F on 22.11.2014 at 20:03

I can pretty safely say that this is now added to my mental list of good "-core" metal. Agree with the review mostly, although I didn't have quite the same emotional resonance with it as you seem to have had.

Written by Ilham on 22.11.2014 at 21:38



Thank you very much, I'm happy I am getting a metalcore band some attention when it's such an underrated genre (at least on MS). To be honest, I am very new to all things core, and even with all the will and time in the world I haven't got that deep into metalcore precisely as I would have hoped I would in six months. After listening to this for the first time, I would have felt too bad for not trying to get a feel of other bands that play in the same territory as Silent Planet, and indeed I stumbled on Oh Sleeper right away (as well as on Underoath).

Indeed I understand more and more that this weird hatred kvlt kids have for metalcore is so incredibly unfounded. Some of the bands I discovered are really not that too far from Gothenburg mixed with post-hardcore dual vocals. I am aware there is a huge christian deathcore/metalcore community, and I find that extremely interesting and I intend to learn more about it. Indeed I was a little suspicious when I first read "christian metalcore", but I am happy to have been wrong. No preaching and no hate towards the "unbeliever" was to be found, only a an eagerness to extend... love - let's use the big words - to their fellow human being.

I understand you're the guy to talk to when it comes to deathcore/metalcore. But I don't see you around that much, I'll call for you in the future . Thank you for you comment.

Written by Uldreth on 23.11.2014 at 00:28

There are some preachy bands as well, but not many :>. Also they can be interesting at times, especially 90s christian metalcore was generally darker than current but a lot more preachy. Stuff like Training For Utopia, Advent or Zao (though the latter is just dark, not preachy). I still like them, even if their lyrical content is not really appealing to me, just for how much conviction they can express with their music.

Also yeah the hate on this genre is dumb. Surely there are all the Bullet For My Valentines and whatevers but interestingly enough I could list like 200 different bands within metalcore, like this one, that pushes musical boundaries way more than many easily digestible "melodic metal" bands around, yet nobody seems to care about those. But I've been preaching about this for a long time during my stay on this site and nobody gave a damn, so I may as well leave that be.

The hatred for Underoath is especially incomprehensible for me, seeing that while they did release They Are Only Chasing Safety, which might not be the most appealing album to a general metalhead, they made much darker music after that and I would consider Define The Great Line and Disambiguation to be modern classics of the genre with a rarely well realized dynamic songwriting and playing with atmospheres and emotion (Lost In The Sound... if neat as well, just a bit less good).

Anyways, I was indeed away for a while but now I will be around, just probably not very vocal. If you are truly interested, I can PM you a list to check out, if you'd like.

Written by Ilham on 23.11.2014 at 01:03
I don't even understand how some people can go on listening to the same exact derivative albums year after year.

Written by angel. on 23.11.2014 at 08:02

Maybe it sounds off-topic but how so you mean ? I'm just curious about it.
On topic with all this fuss I'm wondering how this album sounds, though I have never heard about the band.

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Hey, just heard four songs out of the album and this sound and approach surprisingly clicked !

Written by [user id=114127] on 23.11.2014 at 21:06

You should seriously consider writing reviews professionally.

Written by [user id=4365] on 23.11.2014 at 21:10

Written by [user id=114127] on 23.11.2014 at 21:06

You should seriously consider writing reviews professionally.

Is that not what this is? =P

Written by [user id=114127] on 23.11.2014 at 21:06

You should seriously consider writing reviews professionally.

Written by Ilham on 23.11.2014 at 21:17

Written by [user id=114127] on 23.11.2014 at 21:06

You should seriously consider writing reviews professionally.

Oh come on, stop it you.

Really, I wouldn't dream of it, I don't have the level. But if you're willing to donate, my wallet is open .