New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Head First Entertainment) Colorado metallers Silencer have released their third full length effort, The Great Bear, through Vanity Music Group. The band, who throughout their career, have released a series of Ep's, full length and compilation albums in the thrash realm have fallen back on their 70's and 80's influences for The Great Bear. "We were aiming to bring a bit more rock back into metal without sacrificing any punch; things like big choruses and hooks as opposed to our previous works' all out intensity and such," says frontman and guitarist, Keith Spargo. "We were definitely influenced by concept albums such as Rush's '2112' and Queensryche's 'Operation: Mindcrime' (among others) in putting together our story. This album musically is more denim, spikes, spit and vodka than anything we've done."
Conceptually, Silencer takes a look at the U.S-Soviet space race of the 1950s/1960s and asks some "what if" questions:
"Lyrically, we rewind back to space race era Soviet Russia, and we chose to take a fictional turn towards what would have happened if the Russians chose to one-up the American's moon landing by going somewhere further," says Spargo. "We tell the story from the Russian perspective, and try to capture the mentality of a union that could mobilize their entire population to achieve a goal, and also from the perspective of a member of this mission. This sort of story almost wrote itself, and its mood lent us to write some more straightforward yet very heavy tracks. It's definitely more thematic than prior releases, but aims to get to the point and tell a large story fairly efficiently."
The Great Bear is streaming in full all week at https://www.blistering.com/fastpage/fpengine.php/templateid/4838
The album can be purchased on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-great-bear/id565997574
Physical copies can be ordered from: https://www.vanitymusicgroup.bigcartel.com/product/silencer-the-great-bear
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