Heathen - Breaking The Silence

Breaking The Silence album cover
8.3 | 169 votes |
Band
Heathen
Style
Bay Area thrash metal
Release date
1987
Owners
198 have it
25 want it
Tracklist
01. Death By Hanging
02. Goblin's Blade
03. Open The Grave
04. Pray For Death
05. Set Me Free [Sweet cover]
06. Breaking The Silence
07. Worlds End
08. Save The Skull
09. Heathen [bonus]
Line-up
David White - vocals
Lee Altus - guitars
Doug Piercy - guitars
Carl Sacco - drums
Mike Jastremski - bass
Guest review by
Death To Posers
Rating:
9.1
Rating:
9.1
Heathen is positively one of, if not the most underrated of the Bay Area Thrash bands formed in the 80's. Breaking The Silence is an excellent debut album I can recommend to both fans of the "extreme" and "melodic" sub-genres. This is definitely one of my top melodic thrash releases of all time. These guys have got some serious chops; it surprises me that they are almost never mentioned when people talk about their favorite bands. They play with a cleaner, melodic, less aggressive sound than other thrash bands of the era, but they will still have you banging your head along to the tracks all the same.

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published 12.02.2011 | Comments ( 8 )
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26.07.2015 - 16:32
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Classic thrash album from 80's brilliant, aggressive thrash but somehow band didn't get much attention
My 1th thrash album what was not mentioned in media, and my friends didn't had it
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11.07.2016 - 13:53
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Written by Bad English on 26.07.2015 at 16:32

Classic thrash album from 80's brilliant, aggressive thrash but somehow band didn't get much attention
My 1th thrash album what was not mentioned in media, and my friends didn't had it

Definitely strong album. IMO the band came too late, if they released this a couple years earlier and maybe had 2 or 3 more albums before thrash died they could be bigger and ppl would know about them.
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11.07.2016 - 14:13
Rating: 9
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No other band sounds like this IMO, these leads and vocals are highly original. Also the riffs, especially in "Death By Hanging" and "Breaking The Silence" are just classic material. Great debut
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08.10.2016 - 21:59
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Very underrated band. For me one of the best Thrash Metal bands of all time. I love their special sound. Almost perfect album, 9 points are deserved.
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04.02.2017 - 14:04
Rating: 9

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Better than Victims of Deception.Definetly very underrated band.
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22.08.2025 - 00:08
Rating: 9

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Absolutly underrated. I see them heads up with Metallica!
So many killer songs and no fillers (even the cover is great).

Faves: Death By Hanging, Goblin's Blade, Breaking The Silence and Save The Skull
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