Band:	Silent Call
Album:	Truth's Redemption
Style:	Progressive metal
Release date:	September 19, 2014
A review by:	R'Vannith

01. Intro
02. Nightmare
03. Evermore
04. First To Know
05. Erasing The Sky
06. These Four Walls
07. The Knife
08. Alive
09. All Of Us
10. A Better Life
11. The Kingdom's Fall
12. World On Fire
13. Our Last Goodbye

Integral and clean progressive metal. It's a rare thing to come by in this day and age when pervasive trends seem to infiltrate every aspect of the genre, to its general declination as less and less sounds endeavour to provide generic stability and assurance. Thankfully we have bands like Silent Call.

They always struck me as a mix of Redemption, DGM and Zero Hour at their more melodic and accessible. Which is essentially what they continue to do here, four years following Greed. Remaining very truthful to their own style and unfazed by contemporary affectations that contemporarily run amok in the genre, Truth's Redemption seems a fitting title.

The sound mightn't present itself as anything overtly showy in instrumentation or charismatically ostentatious in vocal arrangements, as it's a very composed and controlled record facilitating a directly engaging delivery of progressive metal balladry and melody not by way of elemental surprise, but by way of strong and fundamental understanding of song writing.

Silent Call are what I would describe as a "basis band," providing the kind of music that progressive metal fans find familiar and completely refreshing, without attempting any of the boundary pushing the genre has an imperative. This absence of novelty gives them a clear advantage over other acts seeking outlandish elemental additions and structural innovation. The result is a very rewarding and appreciable listen in Truth's Redemption. Well performed and effectively written tracks which needn't demonstrate the "progression" of contemporary progressive metal, but represent some of the core melodically focused structural qualities that fans have come to expect from such a genre. In this manner, Silent Call have an exemplary and satisfying sound.

This all makes for a very listenable record that finds all the right notes, and is certainly commendable in performance and written values.