This Italian Heavy/ Gothic Rock act from Trieste (the most extreme eastern coastal town in Italy's North, almost bordering the Slovenian border) was founded in 2005 by singer Giorgia Sacco Taz and guitarist Luigi Pressacco, who had an idea of a keyboard-infused Gothic Rock based on Heavy Rock riffs and Giorgia's obscure and introspective lyrics.
In order to fulfill their musical aspirations, they of course needed to attract the necessary additional musicians, and once bassist Davide Sportiello (founder of SinHeresy) and a keyboarder known now only as “Roby” joined in, the quartet set about composing a short set of songs, of which they recorded some during 2007 for their Behind My Face demo, with the help of drummer Silvano ”Silver Kid” Bassi (formerly of Steel Crown and Foxy Lady). The demo gave the band exposure in several ways. First of all, the song “Silence Of Your Mind” was featured on two compilation (number one was The Funeral, issued through US label 272 Records; the second was the Maximum Rock Attack, issued through the Maximum Rock magazine) during 2008, and in 2009 the band's song “River Of Torments” was included in the soundtrack of the movie Blood Sisters. Subsequently, an official music clip video was released for the song with footage from the film. 2009 was also the year when Roby left, his role taken over by Davide, on top of his bass laying duties. Additionally, the band finally got an official drummer in the person of Andrea Piergianni, whom had formerly played in the band Fuel From Hell. Several shows were played (of course with the necessary intervals), but then the need to spend work on several personal projects caused the band to temporarily freeze its activities. After a two-year hiatus, the band went back into the rehearsal room in the latter part of 2012, and eventually entered Trieste's Palo Alto Studio to record the 5 songs on their new EP. Following a mastering at Helsinki's famed Finnvox Studios, the EP hit the streets and shops (thanks to one of Italy's biggest distributors of Rock/ Metal affiliated music) in January of this year.
Expect exactly what the band had in mind (see above), with a (female) singer whom, for once...and that's perhaps a rare thing in Gothic Rock...does nót try to sound like the opera's soprano! Don't expect any shrill squeaking either, because Giorgia's singing voice is a little darker than that, but not also neither hoarse or of a “deeper” quality...you know what I mean, right? The guitar is rhythmic more than anything, and indeed for the most part riff based (although I cannot deny the fact that there's some sparse solo guitar parts as well). In fact, the instrument which perhaps brings in the most “lead” passages, is the keyboard, which is used in a way that it doesn't really come to the fore, and otherwize brings in some truly nice atmospheric passages, which evidently brings forth the Gothic aspect of the music. Don't quite understand what I mean? Wanna héar some music rather than read explanations about it? Just surf to (www.) facebook.com/silentlie (the band also has a page on MySpace, but I wasn't able to check that – the reason why starts getting to be a bore, really – and a page on ReverbNation, but the latter contains the same info and audio/ video), where the band posted the EP's first two songs “Regret” (also available as video clip, alongside the aforementioned “River Of Torments”) and “While I Hurt Myself”.
My personal problem with this band's music, is that while it is both well-composed and performed, and catchy to boot, there isn't anything here to make it jump out of the middle-of-the-road type of bands. On the positive side though, I have to admit that for a Italian lady, Giorgia's English singing is quite faultless! But while she does her job well without any slips (like shooting off on a high note she cannot really sustain – in fact, the band's music needs no such excesses), she also isn't quite exceptional as a singer. In other words, and to smooth things out a bit after these harsher assessments, here's a band one could listen to and enjoy when forced to do so, for sure...but would I put the album on by my own choice in my own time, just to listen to this or that songs again...?