Usually, when something is cleanly produced, it runs the risk of sounding sterile and emotionless. This is oftentimes a trap that metal bands tend to fall into, and initially, that was my impression of Silence Lies Fear. Yet, upon further listening, the album finds other ways to succeed in spite of the production. There is a lot of energy within these tracks, something that melodeath must have, that fights through the production and makes itself known. The songs themselves are all very solid, and make excellent use of piano on most of them. Also, a nice range of emotion is explored here, through melancholy to urgent to uplifting. The songs sometimes do bleed into each other, though, and the lack of a truly great track besides the opener deepens this effect. Still, this is a solid slab of melodeath, and though it looks like something that would be emotionless and boring, it defies that notion by being energetic and having discernible feelings.
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