Anathema - The Silent Enigma

I have a lot of memories whenever i listen to this album...

Essential Atmospheric Doom metal record!!!

This is still my favourite Anathema album. The music is beautiful, but, at the same time, heavy and intense. And I really like Vincent's vocals on this record.

This album never gets old for me, every time I listen to the album it always sounds great .

This album has made me another man. Perfect.

Such a shame the band went so immensely downhill after this masterpiece.

Written by Góral on 18.07.2012 at 11:35

This album has made me another man. Perfect.

How many men do you have?

Written by [user id=4365] on 18.08.2012 at 16:55

How many men do you have?

I had so many of them that I can not count

Not bad.

This album is amazing, I would probably say that this is my favorite Anathema album, even though I love their other albums as well. So beautiful and enchanting, yet so crushing and desolate at the same time.

EDIT: Judgement's become my favorite as of now, but i still love what this album has to offer.

This album is a succession of hits. I feel like listening to it now.

This is better than both Alternative 4 and Judgement. you can feel emotions through this album. oh and nocturnal emissions if you didn't know means 'coming' while you sleep. now you will forever think of semen when you listen to this album.

I would say this is probably my favorite anathema album.

Written by NocturnalStalker on 29.04.2012 at 16:15

This is still my favourite Anathema album. The music is beautiful, but, at the same time, heavy and intense. And I really like Vincent's vocals on this record.

His vocals are indeed amazing.

One of my favorites, and i got into Atmospheric Music [And Actually Metal] after listening to this album.
i have So many memories with this Album . . .
And Spend a lot of time to find "Atmospheric Music" and ended up with idea that there will be no other album like This in term of Atmosphere . . .

This is probably it, my favourite of everything.
It is my masterpiece of a glorious death doom era at that time. Best death doom I know of. I grew up with this album.
I wouldnt say they went downhill immensely after this one, but I do think that this is clearly their best album.
It is so distinct, has so many amazing ideas in songwriting, I didnt come to find anything similar at that time.
I can point to four outstanding highlights here: restless oblivion, shroud of frost, the silent enigma, and a dying wish.
Sunset of the age is also very good.
While I find the latest output of Anathema still marginally enjoyable, I have to say I miss their TSE days so much.

Anathema finest moment.

I dont know if anyone here is familiar with this feeling, this latent fear that your most beloved album(s) of all time may one day not appeal to you any more with the same overwhelmingness as they once did. When you wont revisit your favourite albums over a period of several years because you kind of feel you dont need to, you know them by heart anyways, each and every note of them. Then you may become afraid you distance yourself from these albums, maybe you dont even want to listen to them anymore that much nowadays. And if that is true, would that be a problem? Do you know the answer to these questions, do you need to have an answer to them?
Today I can tell you, the best thing to do if you know very well what I am talking about here is to just give the album(s) the other respin that they deserve.

How could I have questioned even for an instant that this beauty of an album still today after almost 30 years of listening to it still remains my all-time favourite album of everything!?
Damn, do I feel relieved now!

Written by Redel on 21.03.2025 at 22:39

I dont know if anyone here is familiar with this feeling, this latent fear that your most beloved album(s) of all time may one day not appeal to you any more with the same overwhelmingness as they once did. When you wont revisit your favourite albums over a period of several years because you kind of feel you dont need to, you know them by heart anyways, each and every note of them. Then you may become afraid you distance yourself from these albums, maybe you dont even want to listen to them anymore that much nowadays. And if that is true, would that be a problem? Do you know the answer to these questions, do you need to have an answer to them?
Today I can tell you, the best thing to do if you know very well what I am talking about here is to just give the album(s) the other respin that they deserve.

How could I have questioned even for an instant that this beauty of an album still today after almost 30 years of listening to it still remains my all-time favourite album of everything!?
Damn, do I feel relieved now!

Dude I relate so much to this! For me it’s mostly finding the time to revisit though. Haven’t listened to this one in a good while, and even though Anathema is favorite band of all time this one was never my favorite, but it is still a very beautiful album and A Dying Wish and Sunset of Age are likely my favorite songs of their Death Doom era.

My personal Top 3 songs from the album:

A Dying Wish
Shroud Of Frost
Cerulean Twilight

Written by Plattner on 19.04.2025 at 13:27

My personal Top 3 songs from the album:

A Dying Wish
Shroud Of Frost
Cerulean Twilight

This is one of my Top 3 Plattner Top 3’s

Written by Vellichor on 19.04.2025 at 13:30

This is one of my Top 3 Plattner Top 3’s

Now we need a full top list of Plattner's Top 3s

Very nice, atmospheric and meandering. It's not spell binding or mesmerizing to me but I can see the appeal of the album.