Silent Voices

Silent Voices is a rather ironic name for the Finnish band profiled here; truth be told, their music is far from quiet, subtle, or understated. Aggression and forcefulness -- not silence or reserve -- are among the main ingredients of Silent Voices, who are part of the power metal revival movement that has enjoyed an enthusiastic cult following in Western Europe in the '90s and 2000s. Silent Voices thrive on the hard and the heavy, which isn't to say that they favor noise for the sake of noise or brutality for the sake of brutality (as is often the case in metalcore, death met...