Embrace the Silence

Vanishing Point

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 14, 2007)
• Original Release Date: April 25, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Locomotive Spain
• ASIN: B000SO7J3O
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #270,299 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth waiting for!, October 26, 2007

By	Justin Gaines "Corporate Rocker" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I discovered Vanishing Point in 2000 with their excellent second album Tangled in Dream, and was immediately hooked on the Australian band's highly melodic brand of progressive metal. They have this Vanden Plas meets Nightingale sound with some of the best midrange vocals you could ever hope to hear. I tracked down their debut - In Thought - shortly afterwards, and found it to be enjoyable as well. At that point I started to wait for the band's next release. Little did I know that it would take five freaking years! Needless to say, Embrace the Silence had a lot to live up to.

How did the band do? Really really really well. Embrace the Silence is a big step forward for the band, and when you consider how good Tangled in Dream was, you can see that the bar is set pretty high. This album is an improvement in terms of production, performance, songwriting, and overall maturity. Embrace the Silence is a very melodic progressive metal album that achieves the perfect balance between the two elements. It's not so melodic that it doesn't flat out rock, and it's not so progressive that those elements come at the expense of the actual songs. The songs on Embrace the Silence run from 5-7 minutes each, so you're not going to be put to sleep with 10-minute instrumental passages. And the band definitely gives you your money's worth, with the album clocking in at just under 80 minutes and taking up nearly every available second on the disc.

While I didn't enjoy waiting so long for this album, it was certainly worth the wait. It's an excellent addition to Vanishing Point's catalog, and is sure to appeal to anyone who enjoys progressive and/or power metal.

NOTE: I can only hope that Vanishing Point gets picked up by a "major" label like Inside Out or Nuclear Blast, so their albums can receive the attention they truly deserve. That this band remains relatively unknown while others thrive is just sad.