Comments on: Who Are You? #6: Audio Edition

By: Helm

Helm — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:17:39 +0000

It brings me joy what happened right here.

By: SoBelow

SoBelow — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:03:43 +0000

Email at wrchld@hotmail.com

And I’ll set you up with a copy of the Silence. I doubt you’ll find a copy. There weren’t many printed.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:52:27 +0000

Hang on a sec …

Dammit, I promised myself I wouldn’t cry …

Massive thanks to you both — Ian for facilitating, and SoBelow for providing the $25,000 answer.

I would absolutely like to be put in contact. SB, is there anything I can get for you? Six pack? New car? Kidney?

OK, now the fun part: hunting down a copy.

By: dankerella

dankerella — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:28:21 +0000

Rumpelstilskin Granter?

By: demolition man

demolition man — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:01:40 +0000

Wow, and pending final verification which I’m 99% sure isn’t needed, there’s the bell within 48 hours. Silence – “Echoes of Damnation” from the 1990 album VISON. They hailed from the Washington, DC, area, opened up for Pantera in 1991 at the formidable Georgetown venue with the 8-foot high stage The Bayou, and lo and behold their guitarist Sonny Mayo went on to play in Sevendust — bolstering my case that thrash metal is the basis of 1990s hard rock. But that’s a riff for a different story. So if this mystery is solved, then Matt — meet SoBelow, your very own Rumpelstilskin, granter of wishes and dreams. If you two need help getting in touch for the massive gift exchange soon to follow, let me know. I’ll be glad to throw in a Swedish Death Metal book.

By: SoBelow

SoBelow — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:29:03 +0000

The band is Silence. The song is Echoes of Damnation. Great disc.

By: Invisible Oranges

Invisible Oranges — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:53:10 +0000

I dunno who that is, but gawdamn that is ripping.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:35:44 +0000

If only it were that easy. Unfortunately, the music came to me fifth- or sixth-hand on a cassette copy. I never met the people who supposedly found the disc, and I never saw the disc itself.

To make matters worse, the music started to skip badly toward the end of the cassette and cut off mid-song. So I don’t even know how many tracks there are on the disc or what the accurate durations are for the songs at the end.

In addition to your idea, I’ve tried deciphering snippets of lyrics and then searching them online. And of course I’ve bought tons of metal over the years, mostly because I love metal but also hoping I’d happen upon this band. A decade and a half, and no luck.

By: -cja

-cja — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:07:32 +0000

if per chance the dude has the CD i’d say to just pop it into a computer with iTunes and iTunes would search online for the CD info. of course it would only work if someone submitted the info about the disc online to the CDDB.