The personae dramatae behind VOID OF SILENCE is almost as tragic as the music is. No matter what great music Riccardo Conforti and Ivan Zara compose, VOID OF SILENCE stand or falls with a singer capably to express this kind of music properly. And it must be an outstanding, much charismatic singer. Malfeitor Fabban was providing an awesome job on the first both releases, followed by Alan Nemtheanga on the predecessor Human Antithesis. After six years of up and down’s and even a complete band split VOID OF SILENCE are back, with a new album and a new singer.
With the first listening of The Grave Of Civilization I still thought that this record might be too soft and new singer Brooke Johnson (Axis Of Perdition) too gently to express such all-embracing desperation. But already with the second run The Grave Of Civilization develops to such an addictive masterpiece no one can escape from.
As said, VOID OF SILENCE again preaches total despair, the all-encompassing apocalypse, the downfall of human existence in all its nuances. The Grave Of Civilization breaks hearts with its abysmal hopelessness and utmost sadness. No room and time left for tears. Guitar solos drag on your soul, bleak Ambient collages redefine melancholy, while guitar walls as well as bass lines pile up and drum work leaves you mesmerized.
Songs are epic manifests of sadness, but never reveal any weakness in composition or lengthy parts. The Grave Of Civilization was composed much more subtle and profound as its predecessors, but thus more harmonious and well-balanced. The Grave Of Civilization unfolds its addiction step by step, but leaves its impact with never ever forgotten power. The singing of Brooke Johnson is incredibly varied and perfectly suits the musical intention, although he does not own that sick and schizophrenic touch Malfeitor Fabban so amazingly has personified.
The Grave Of Civilization is desperation set to music!