The Silent Enigma
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| 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 | ||
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| 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
Vincent Cavanagh : Vocals, Guitars
Duncan Patterson : Bass Guitar
Daniel Cavanagh : Guitars
John Douglas : Drums, Percussion
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
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
