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Silentist

About Me

Conceptualised in a small cold room in Albury during 2003, and written in various guises since then, Silentist is a doom rock band based in Ballarat, Australia. Early stages of Silentist were heavily electronic, but over time has stripped back to predominantly guitar based music with some ambient sounds.In 2005, a video to accompany the song Deus Ex Machina was completed. It is available to download at the Silentist website (www.silentist.tk).Currently back in the rehearsal room after an 18 month break working on new and old material for up coming shows. -
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Member Since: 20/02/2006
Band Website: www.freewebtown.com/silentist
Band Members: Jon Goonan (guitar and vocals), Simon Young (bass), James O'Connell (drums)
Influences: Devin Townsend, Rapture, Porcupine Tree, Radiohead, The Eternal
Sounds Like: The voice of reason
Record Label: Unsigned

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(Bring The) Mammoth To The Mountain

An update is probably in order.We rocked the casbah at Simon's 30th, playing Revelations, Deus Ex Machina and the damn cover. Dogs howled, people clapped half-heartedly, my ears rang for a few days. W...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:55:00 GMT

<Sigh>

100 MySpace "Friends". Officially attention whores.Jon
Posted by on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:30:00 GMT

A Departure

Silentist would like to announce a lineup change.Due to time constraints Tim has been forced to call it a day from Silentist.However we welcome the unstoppable human metronome, James O'Connell to the ...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:52:00 GMT

Breaching a threshold

A wise man once said "If you have 100 friends or more on MySpace you are officially an attention whore."Unfortunately, the Silentist MySpace is about to breach that limit. Apologies to all who hate My...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:01:00 GMT

Silentist News July 2007

Greetings.The writing and recording process has been continuing slowly. My gear has all arrived now (the Delta 1010 recording interface and Mesa Boogie Studio Preamp) so things ARE moving.Two new song...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:18:00 GMT

o/

Silentist would like to honour the passing of Lee Ronald, a longtime friend of Simon and Jon who lost his fight with cancer.Lee, this Bud's for you.
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:15:00 GMT

playing happy family

Congrats go to one time silentist member Troy McInnes who got married on the weekend. Troy was a drummer with us a few years ago. Despite being late for rehearsal a few times he still had good timing....
Posted by on Tue, 01 May 2007 02:23:00 GMT

news of april 23rd

just a quick note to say that there has been some vocals going down. that is all. hope you are well.  s.
Posted by on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:26:00 GMT

Silentist News, March 2007

GreetingsProgress remains slow in the Silentist world. Rehearsals are productive, but infrequent due to outside commitments.Simon is in the process of building a small studio at The Ranch in Talbot, w...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:44:00 GMT

HevyDevy All Stars Update

Quick update,Here's the link to listen or download low quality versions of the songs. Enjoy!Hevy Devy All Stars
Posted by on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:09:00 GMT