Sealed In Silence

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P R E S S R E V I E W S:
[ChainDLK]
Artist: SEALED IN SILENCE
Title: Negative Impact VOL 3
Format: CD Compilation 2008
--Next is Track 5, " Brutalesspiel" by Sealed in Silence which is an abstract indeadstrial band that has haunting imagery and surreal landscapes to join with the marches of strife it projects to you. This was an interesting track that holds great promise to the world of indeadstrial music.--
Review by: Michelle Russo [ deathsister1334 {at} yahoo {dot} com ]
CD Review Legends Magazine V/A – “Collective Consciousness” By DJ Mortimer Steel
Sealed In Silence’s Todeswunsch offers old school darkwave. This sample filled low BPM track is in the vein of older Leatherstrip, Wumpscutt and V.A.C.
[Accomplice Promotions]
Wumpscut meets Skinny Puppy and KMFDM on an Xtacy/heroine blitz from Hell.
[ChainDLK Magazine]
Artist: SEALED IN SILENCE
Title: Stille lst Selbstmord
Format: CD
Sealed in Silence Raphael is the brains behind this band. the cd Stille lst Selbstmord film noir-esque. Picture Cold Meat Industry meets surreal landscapes and encounters frankenstein, hitler and phantom of the opera all at once.A cd that is not like others.
Track one Todeswunsch is very haunting very Leatherstrip-esque filled with samples and machine gun sounds demented church choirs high octave sounds and voiceovers of screaming and electronic technology overpowering everything. Track two Todeslust female vocals singing a requiem for the dead. with a hint of electro making it an electro funeral for the dead. Ethereal symphonies meets a new revolution. Track six Todesangst hammer meets metal sounds very heavy drum machine heavy machinery taking over the primitive. For we have evolved technology is everywhere and will reign. Over all this cd conquers the conformist way. It is by all means as original as it gets. The band has distrubution in northamerica United States Darkland Music Cold Noir Facilty records. It also has distrubtion in Germany Europe also. This band originated in Germany we are glad to have them here where they belong. Incorporating sound scapes film noir german expressionism and making it flow with futurisic elements now that's talent. 4 stars
[NNNS zine]
Subject: Interview with S!S @ No Name No Slogan zine Press release: Excerpt from interview introduction:
"Throughout the '80s and '90s Chicago was a dominant force in the industrial music scene. Bands like Ministry, KMFDM, Thrill Kill Kult,Pigface, and Sister Machine Gun, along with everyone else on the WaxTrax label, generated a scene that has yet to be duplicated. Most of those bands are gone today, or irrelevant to the local scene,leaving it, for the most part, dead. But recently, a couple of groups have popped up and are creating a new industrial subculture. Not a guitar driven Ministry clone that seems to be the stereotype of industrial, but a real electronic one. And one of the leaders of this movement is a one man band called Sealed In Silence." -- D. Staudacher [Editor No Name No Slogan zine]
SIDE-LINE magazine [october issue 2002]:
[SEALED IN SILENCE]
Das Schlachten der Unschuld (12-track cd) -Origin: USA –Style/Influences: The perfect mix between dark ambient and industrial or when some of the Cold Meat Industry flag holders are meeting bands of Hands and Ant-zen! –Comment: The dark and oppressive moods sound like the pictures of a devastated landscape without a single sign of life! The industrial components give an extra dimension to the compositions, avoiding any further comparison with pure ambient projects! This band is ready to get signed! Congratulations! –Contact: www.angelfire.com/nd/sealedinsilence –Rate: (DP:8)DP.
Todes!Strom (6-track cd) -Origin: USA –Influences/Styles: Moving into more pronounced industrial areas! –Comment: This is a more recent demo of SIS. They sound has evolved into more bombastic industrial drum patterns, but the global atmosphere remains pretty cold! Definitely a band to discover if you like strong industrial moods! –Contact: sealed-in- / www.angelfire.com/nd/sealedinsilence –Rate: (DP:7/8)DP
[ORKUS Magazin]-+-x-+-(rated 9 out of 10 points) Thomas Sonder.
-+-x-+- review from Russian alternative music mag (in affilation with MTV Russia!?) [DARK CITY]:
...even the best in the genre of music fade away in comparison to this creation...the content brings out increasing amazement. The dark atmosphere, involves the listener from the first minutes, and won't let go until more than 60 minutes; it could 'blow the minds' of fans of the similar genre of music, not even talking about the unprepared listeners!...the name Sealed In Silence could be added to the list of elite of this style.>>
[OUTBURN MAGAZINE [issue 13>
-+-x-+-Sealed In Silence brilliantly unites dark experimental atmospheres with harsh electro on this eleven track DAM release. The bio for this German/American band explains the twisted psychosis behind the music...Overall, Das Schlachten der Unschuld is an excellent offering that fans especially of Dive, Holocaust Theory, Sielwolf, and In Slaughter Natives will appreciate ~ Octavia-+-x-+-
[REFRAKTOR Magazin]
-+-x-+-(Out of the U.S. is the second Album of the 1-Mann Projekt SEALED IN SILENCE. Curious I inserted the CD and pressed play. Already in short time I was totally astonished and at the same time excited and enthused. SEALED IN SILENCE makes brilliant apocalyptic EBM with also ambient/noise influences. The mastermind behind the music can be compared to Wumpscut, Sielwolf, and Yelworc. There are even german dialogue samples from the film “Stalingrad” as well as from other diverse films.....therefore if one would like to hear good american underground EBM this is the band to try to obtain . I for my part am by the musical creating of SEALED IN SILENCE really very, very enthused!!
[SONIC SEDUCER MUSIK MAGAZIN [issue 12/00>
-+-x-+-Featured & Released on Battle of the Bands best unsigned artists compilation 2000-+-x-+-
VARIOUS ARTISTS Too Much Information (Unmediated Production label)
SEALED IN SILENCE - Following a track like Blasting Agent should be a task, but within the first thirty seconds Sealed in Silence already took over my mind, with lovely, slow warping, flanging and sliding chords and dirtily distorted huge bass overloading beats. The intro to this thoroughly hypnotizes and has me listening, closed eyes, letting my fingers do the typing and my brain 100% concentrating on the awesomely overpowering sounds. This is pure hypnosis in its finer form, and after recently listening to a lot of Goa Trance for the first time in a long while, this is perfect. Psychedelic but also quite harsh with the thudding, repetitive beat. [Raw Nerve Promotions (UK)]-+-
[SONIC SEDUCER MUSIK MAGAZIN [issue 06/00>
-+-x-+-melodies to whistle to (not melodies for the millions!), electro-sounds, tribal-drumming,(film)samples & sampled acoustic instruments has the German-American anonyme these elements mixed into an all incomposing sound collage of 11 dark threatening & menacing tracks...the categorizing of filmesq death ambient electro synth power noise is a good fit/description. Not unlike the middle May weather outside...for sure das schlachten der unschuld could definately be a major-release.-+-x-+-(translation from german by ^Mortal Angel^)-+-
[Sunglasses After Dark Radio]
-+-x-+-Harsh electro industrial with cold, dungeon-like undertones. Music for the apocalyptic age.-+-x-+-
[Legends Magazine]
The unnerving Frontneurose, by Sealed in Silence, is like a pop of Ecstasy gone wrong-+-x-+-
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Thursday, April 03, 2003 | 9pm The Bunker 10520 E 40 HWY Independence (Kansas City) MO Darkening Flux productions presents: Sealed In Silence // Five Star RejectAcross ... More Details *
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