As Silence Falls - Reviews

as silence falls
as silence falls
(sugar shack records)

KKKK
Teeth-Rattling Metalcore Debut From The Valleys.
You can spend ages pissing about with structures and breakdowns but there's nothing as effective as a short, sharp shock. In just five tracks on their debut EP, As Silence Falls have landed a haymaker. With Killswitch - like brutality the Welsh bruisers explode into 'There's no Axe in Accident' with malicious intent and you're on your backside before you know it. Flitting between the bludgeon of KsE and the epic visions of Coheed And Cambria, 'ASF' rattles with urgency and menace. Even when the pace drops you're barely left time to catch your breath before the next aural assault begins. If this is the sound of silence then we fucking love it.

Download - A Shadow Of Greed
For Fans Of - Killswitch Engage, Cohheed And Cambria.
Mark Griffiths
KERRANG

PLAYMUSIC 3/5
The brilliantly titled There's no Axe in Accident starts like every song should: like a series of hammer blows to the head. It then drops into funeral for a friend melodic territory, which is a bit of a disappointment, as their best hour was in 2003, making this four years late. The heavy percussion artillery refuses to let up though, which is good news. while it certainly can't make up for the lack of originality, it certainly powers the songs to the sort of runaway oil tanker level you want. The melodies strike like lightening, and show real attention to the kind of hooks that grab attention. The brilliant break in Where Tragedy Lies shows where the bands strengths lie. pure aggression and instrument abuse. I include the voicebox in that abuse. The war inside begins like thrash era Metallica but continues to plough that modern metal furrow that Killswitch Engage have a habit of dominating right now. As is always the case, the moment the band slows down, the adrenaline that caries you happily along drains away leaving an empty, slightly sick feeling like you've had too much of a good thing, like ice cream. A bit late to the party they may be, but for a debut recording, sturdy and will make for good support blagging. It remains to be seen whether there's another level to what they do, but this will keep young metal fiends happy when bring me the horizon is just that bit too intense"
Brad Barrett

METAL HAMMER 6/10
South Wales troop As Silence Falls might well have arrived too late. Sure, they have paid their dues climbing up the metal ladder – gigging around the country and playing with such local scene stars as Funeral and Hondo Maclean – but the band’s fushion of meat with massive melody has ‘US metalcore’ scrawlied all over it. Think All That Remains, Killswitch Engage ,As I Lay Dying, It Dies Today and Trivium – certainly done extremely professionally – but most certainly done before.
Katie Parsons

ROCKSOUND 4/10
For a Welsh supergroup, As Silence Falls sure sound American. The quintet are apparently local celebrities in the Bridgend scene, but from the clipped growls and SoCal metalcore melodies of ‘There’s No Axe In Accident’ to the harmonised guitars and marketable angst of ‘A Shadow of Greed’, there’s nothing here to suggest that any of them would think twice about selling their mothers to make it big across the pond. That’s not going to happen though, no matter how many family members end up on eBay, because all of this has been heard before. A thousand time already. And it’s sounded much better too. If these boys are going to make it any further they have to be way more original. Dude.
Simon T Diplock.