Silence The Epilogue Bio

The hardcore metal five-piece silence the epilogue formed in the freezing winter of 1997 as an act to redefine heavy music. Emotionally upset and in need of release, the band set out to present a new perspective on life. Silence the epilogue displays a disturbing but honest outlook on everyday life in America, as seen through their eyes. Exhibiting creative and agile experimentation and building risky conceptions hung between hardcore and traditional metal roots, silence the epilogue creates a ruthless show of composition expertise.



The culturally dead hanging gallows of Fort Smith, Arkansas ( the hanging city) is what gave birth to silence the epilogue. "Our city is like a painting...you can touch it and look at it but it never responds, giving no sign of life..." explains the groups vocalist about his home town. "We grew up watching bands like Rash of Beatings and Burned up Bled Dry...bands who couldn't care less about the outside world...they just played because they had to...to get out their demons..and thats who we take musical influence from."



A silence the epilogue show is a personal attack on social views. As a listener you feel every emotion from the music. On stage you see five men who play music like it was their life...like they were putting thier soul in the air for everyone to breath. As a listener you can expect a volcano of poetic and painful emotion from the vocalist with lines like "seperate the blindfold and give a hand out for the dead." Enter two individuals who conduct rare and creative chords beaten with disgust mixed with the most angelic chords strummed by the guitar section. Thunderous and very detailed leads come from the talented and experienced bassist. As for Zenas, you cannot possibly imagine the style and endurance, or the imagination and speed that pound from his drum kit.



With songs like "a distant horror" and "reflections of a rapist"...silence the epilogue grabs ahold of the listeners throat making them feel tragic losses. Their sound is far too complex to be completely described..it is a collage of nightmarish imagry, spiraling leads, an emotional catastrophy. The music comes from the soul then to the listener, making a connection, making it real.



Breaking away from the mold of music today was not hard for the band. "We don't play commercial music, we play music that helps us express or individuality and creativity..if
people don't understand me it is probably because they are not me, and wouldn't want to be either.." explains Nick. Growing up in the hanging city gives silence the epilogue freedom from the ordinary typefont breed of music that pollutes the normal heavy radio stations. Silence the epilogue is determined to put fake, unoriginal music in a casket forever.