Death - Pierce Me

Silencer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Label: Autopsy Kitchen Records
• ASIN: B000S8EHNK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #353,595 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

I am quite surprised that this album is not sold with razor blades as standard. Silencer's "Death - Pierce Me" could well be described as depression on a CD. In a good way. No, in a great way. This is Misanthropic Black Metal at its best. Upon listening to this album it will come as no surprise to you that the vocalist, Nattramn, is now in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, he even thanks 2 psychiatric hospitals and the manufacturers of several different anti-depressant drugs in the credits in the booklet. Unfortunately, Nattramn's being institutionalised means no more Silencer. The lyrics are all suitably suicidal and depressing; the band states on the first page of the booklet "We are ready to leave this place". The vocals on this album are absolutely killer. They are very twisted, tormented screams of anguish, possibly similar to those of Burzum on his first album, but better. The music on this album is also great, complimenting the depressive themes and vocals perfectly. I am most definitely not a fan of keyboards, in fact I downright loathe them 99% of the time, but the subtle, occasional use of keyboards on this album is great, and really adds to the mood. None of this incessant, twinkling, faux-ambience like a lot of other bands. The production is also great, all the levels are just right, everything is perfectly clear. "Death - Pierce Me" is incredible, full of clearly genuine emotion and passion. If I could change anything about it, I wouldn't. Check this album out if you know what is good for you, and prepare yourself for a journey into a desolate land, full of darkness and melancholy. Silencer supports your death! by Goatwarrior [Metal Archives]

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Never has a band captured grief and misery and loneliness so perfectly and in such an utterly frightening way., July 22, 2006

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Aquarius Records (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death - Pierce Me (Audio CD)

Silencer are spoken of with hushed reverence, and for good reason. Death - Pierce Me is dark and damaged, grim and suicidal miserablist doom-drenched black metal of the highest order. Talk to any of the current crop of the black metal elite, Wrest from Leviathan, Malefic from Xasthur, and they will fawn unabashedly over Silencer.

Thankfully, Autopsy Kitchen have stepped up and rescued this all time black classic from oblivion. And now you can finally experience one of the original black cults who expressed their blackened misery through impossibly anguished vocals. Hysterical shrieks, frenzied and overwrought howls of absolute terror. Never has a band captured grief and misery and loneliness so perfectly and in such an utterly frightening way.

But it's not just the vocals, the music is completely intense and seething as well, with an unrestrained turbulence, dense and buzzing and so emotional and personal and overwhelming. Heart rending minor key melodies emeshed in black swirls of buzz, the riffing so intense and totally manic, exposing a tortured inner world wrought with drama and tension, a dark soul exposed, a damaged personal hell expressed through shriek and buzz. The anguished blasts of blackness are separated by dark doomy ambient passages, from simple mournful acoustic guitar to droney piano fugues to simple melodic doom metal minimalism, but when the riffs and the vocals kick in, a huge brutal blackness dropping on you from above, it's the sort of musical moment that gives you chills, makes your hair stand up on end, and in the right frame of mind makes you want to just break down.

Which is precisely why Silencer and Death - Pierce Me are so revered, this record set the template for ALL depressive suicidal black metal to follow, and while some have come close, Xasthur and Nortt certainly, there is just something so special, and so utterly frightening about this record that keeps anyone from ever capturing the same black musical world of abject fear and unmitigated misery.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shining Noir, April 5, 2008

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Michael E. Mitchell "a Son of Lugosi" (Minocqua, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death - Pierce Me (Audio CD)

If you are interested in this album, you already know Shining(and NOT the hippy band, who are amusingly from Black MeTal Fatherland Norway!), so you'll catch the witty in-joke in this review's title. If you DON'T know Shining(from Sweden), you are strongly urged to avoid Silencer, as Silencer is a much more twisted Shining! Musically, the 2 bands are quite similar: long, drawn-out riffs that achieve a blanketing of despair effect, then to be dashed by an abrupt tempo shift and some very chunky riffs that would almost be considered "groove-y" IF this music were performed by OR for humans! Which it is most definitely not. There are moments of true beauty on "Death---Pierce Me", which only adds to the nausea-inducing power of the album. It is like finding a live baby in a pile of dead lepers. Sounds like an extreme example? Hmmm, then listen to "Death---Pierce Me" and see if I'm entirely off base! The production and musicianship on this album are excellent, in case you are wondering about that...also almost a mirror of Shining's most recent material. And just WHAT makes this so much darker than Shining? As any other review will tell you, it is the vocals (which surpass the infamous tortured vocals on earlier Bethlehem albums). When they first shrieked forth from the music, I was actually STARTLED; I jumped a little bit, and then the hairs on the back of my neck actually tingled. Throughout the album, my original shock was replaced by palpable unease. This IS the sound of an insane person(and when you see the utterly incomparable inside photo of him, you will be even more unsettled!), and you are inside his world. What would happen if you couldn't find your way out? I will try my hand at describing the indescribable: "piercing", indeed, shrieks and howls, that descend to gutteral, menacing growls, peppered with eerie crying and sobbing; keening moans and choking gurglings of utter madness...and really, what is wrong with US who find this entertaining? Perhaps this kind've music acts as a catharsis for our own "crazy" thoughts. Let's hope so!

Indispensible for all those who fancy themselves fans of "extreme" music. I shudder (gleefully) to think what may come NEXT in the realm of extremity...

5.0 out of 5 stars REAL DSBM, truly emotional, real music, etc etc..., February 21, 2012

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Jacob R "BANANA CAKES" (NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death - Pierce Me (Audio CD)

If youre reading this Im sure you know some stuff about Silencer. About the infamous Nattramn and the hideous rumors surrounding him. Otherwise, you probably wouldnt be reading this. Though I advise some research, most the rumors are false/told incorrectly...

On to the actual album though; its truly excellent! Musically and lyrically! Theres very few tracks but each track is nearly 10 minutes each (save the last track, its more of an outro) covering wide ranges of musical styles. From eerie acoustic solos to creepy pianos, to straight up black metal! Some ambient sounds appear throughout to create a darker more depressing atmosphere. Its truly amazing what this band can do with one song.

Lyrically this is NOT for the sensitive type. Take the "darkest" lyrics youve ever heard (be they brutal or depressing or evil or what have you) and throw them out the window. This album WILL top them all. Even I didnt believe what I was hearing the first few times. From wails of pain begging to be put out of their misery to frightened screams ringing in horror as they describe atrocities from human existance to even the holocaust.

Now the vocals are certainly not for everyone, I was turned off by them the first few listens but they grow on you. Give them a few tries.

One last thing, get off amazon. The prices here SUCK. I dont know if these names will be censored by try ebay, grooves-inc, discogs and some underground metal sites. Garuntee if you find it you can get it for under $20. I paid $15 for mine on ebay. I highly reccomend you get this if youre even just a little interested. This is 100% art made for expression, not commercial poseurs trying to get famous like so many others. This is far better than these other inferior "DSBM" bands out nowadays. 6/5 stars.