The Silent Enigma


Original Version LP Version Japanese Import Version
1. Restless oblivion 8:03 1. Restless oblivion 8:03 1. Restless oblivion 8:03
2. Shroud of frost 7:31 2. Shroud of frost 7:31 2. Shroud of frost 7:31
3. ...Alone 4:24 3. ...Alone 4:24 3. ...Alone 4:24
4. Sunset of the age 6:57 4. Sunset of the age 6:57 4. Sunset of the age 6:57
5. Nocturnal emission 4:20 5. Nocturnal emission 4:20 5. Nocturnal emission 4:20
6. Cerulean twilight 7:05 6. Cerulean twilight 7:05 6. Cerulean twilight 7:05
7. The silent enigma 4:25 7. The silent enigma 4:25 7. The silent enigma 4:25
8. A dying wish 8:12 8. A dying wish 8:12 8. A dying wish 8:12
9. Black orchid 3:40 9. Black orchid 3:40 9. Black orchid 3:40
10. Eternal rise of the sun 6:36
total time 54:37 total time 54:37 total time 61:17
Digipack rerelease Version 2 Disc Version Picture LP Version
1. Restless oblivion 8:03 1. Restless oblivion 8:03 1. Restless oblivion 8:03
2. Shroud of frost 7:31 2. Shroud of frost 7:31 2. Shroud of frost 7:31
3. ...Alone 4:24 3. ...Alone 4:24 3. ...Alone 4:24
4. Sunset of the age 6:57 4. Sunset of the age 6:57 4. Sunset of the age 6:57
5. Nocturnal emission 4:20 5. Nocturnal emission 4:20 5. Nocturnal emission 4:20
6. Cerulean twilight 7:05 6. Cerulean twilight 7:05 6. Cerulean twilight 7:05
7. The silent enigma 4:25 7. The silent enigma 4:25 7. The silent enigma 4:25
8. A dying wish 8:12 8. A dying wish 8:12 8. A dying wish 8:12
9. Black orchid 3:40 9. Black orchid 3:40 9. Black orchid 3:40
10. The silent enigma orchestral 4:13 10. The silent enigma orchestral 4:13
11. Sleepless '96 4:32 11. Sleepless '96 4:32
--- Bonus Disk ---
1. A Vision of a Dying Embrace DVD 70:45
total time 63:20 total time 2:14:05 total time 54:37


Restless Oblivion

My paralysed heart
Is bleeding...
My love's torn apart
Desire to be free

A bleak garden to cry
When my inamorato died

Loveless so real
Lifeline of mortality
Condemned to misery
Restless oblivion forever

A bleak garden to cry
When my inamorato died

My visionary dreams are vanquished
Aspirations fade away
Reverence dies within

A bleak garden to cry
When my inamorato died


Shroud Of Frost

Undying odyssey... a myriad of times

The soul has seen
Through eyes of heaven
The imperium of earth
Nothing left to perceive

Help me to escape from this existence
I yearn for an answer... can you help me?
I'm drowning in a sea of abused visions and shattered dreams
In somnolent illusion... I'm paralysed

Infinity distraction
A pious human disorder
Blind to passage of souls
Conclusion from one remembrance

Help me to escape...

Transfixed... I gaze through my window at a world lying under a shroud of
frost. In a forlorn stupor I feel the burning of staring eyes, yet no one
is here. Detached from reality, in the Knowing of dreams, we know the
entity of ensuing agony waits to clasp us in its cold breast, in an empty
room. We awake and it's true. I dreamt of the sun's demise, awoke to a bleak
morning. In the emptiness I behled fate for the dead light is a foretelling
of what will be... I saw a soul drift from life, through death, and arrive
at Elysian fields in welcoming song. Yet I stand in a dusk-filled room
despondently watching the passing of the kindred spirit... and there
is no song... just a delusion of silence.


...Alone

I gave you my soul
You left me dying

(Freezing in the cold wind that screams through
the silence, in the barren wastes of my heart)

Within the walls
Of my mind... alone,
The winter serenade
Fell silent to me


Sunset Of The Age

Throne of grief
...in a dying essence
Crying beauty
...the fettered aura

Forgotten oceans of hope
...Betrayed aphony
Sullen laughter in unventured paradise

(as one) forever searching
For landscapes serene
Amidst the sunset of age
With joyous masquerade...
...the summers died


Nocturnal Emission

My passion rise... a twilight ride
Stark light of dark night in my eyes

My forlorn lust...
My soul it burns
My forlorn lust...
My soul is burning

Take you now, in my sleep
I want to touch you, to scratch you deep

To leave you scarred...
To see you burn
To leave you scarred...
To see you burning


Cerulean Twilight

I'm lying here, oh so peaceful...
...In serene harmony
I'm dreaming yet I feel awake
I'm dreaming yet I am awake

Subjected to pain. Dark screams repent

And in a foreboding rage, a soul will die...
...A soul will die

My mind is burning, I'm burning
I can't feel you anymore
Have I reached my point?
Will I drown in delusion?

The winds fell silent
And in my cerulean twilight
I left myself once again
...it's overwhelming
Suffer yourself, and let me die here awhile


The Silent Enigma

In dreamland grandeur
I held mesmerised peace
Innocence breathed again

A mind's escape
Leave walls of tears behind
Ethereal vision haunting still...
The solitude left me blind

Beneath an open sky
Sibilant cries of youth dying
Enslave me with grief

A moonlit era, oblivion's twilight kiss
Wishes in lament
Happiness in a broken vision

Utopia still unborn...

Tormented echoes of a fallen Eden
I longed for her beauty
Yet from dust, she returned
The dream, an enigma... silent


A Dying Wish

I bear the seed of ruin
A golden age turned to stone
Elysium... to dust

For this, a tragic journey
A vision of a dying embrace
Scattered earth
Silence...

Where Echonia wept
I sank into the silent desert

Fallen am I,
In solitude of a broken promise
...I cried alone
My empyrean is a scar
From the memory of her beautiful life
Forever was her name

Fulfilment lost in a lifetime of regret
Ornate peace would cover me
As I would die now...
For one last wish


Black Orchid

(Instrumetal)


Lyrics in plain text format



Line up




Vincent Cavanagh : Vocals, Guitars




Duncan Patterson : Bass Guitar




Daniel Cavanagh : Guitars




John Douglas : Drums, Percussion





Artwork













Info



All tracks recorded at Lynx Studios, Newcastle
Except 'Alone' recorded at M.A. Studios, Liverpool.
Engineered by Kev Ridley.
Produced by Anathema.
Executive producer: Hammy.
Mixed at the Academy, Dewsbury by Mags.
All songs written by Anathema.
Orchestral arrangements by Daniel Cavanagh.
Spoken part on 'Shroud of Frost' by Derek Fullwood.
Vocals on 'Alone' by Rebecca Wilson.
Front cover picture: "Lady In Milton's Comus" by L. Wright used by kind permission of The Board Of Trustees Of The National Museums And Galleries On Merseyside (Walker Art Gallery).
Horsehead Nebula picture: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh / AATB / Science Photo Library.
Photography by Simon Mooney.
Band picture by Meany.
For information on Anathema send SAE / 2 IRC's / $1.00 to:
Anathema F.C. P.O.Box 17, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire WF12 8AA England





Review



This is the first cd with Vincent Cavanagh on vocals, and he does quite a good job I think. The Silent Enigma turned out to be a brilliant cd, with a lot of instrumental parts and also a lot more keyboards than on their previous work. All this together with Vincent's desolate screams and the poetic lyrics makes it a real beautiful melancholic album

Rating: 9 out of 10


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