Silencer – Death, Pierce Me

Silencer’s merciless emotional firestorm “Death – Pierce Me” is one of the few albums truly deserving the designation ‘cult’ as it climbed from humble beginnings of basically circulating only across the extreme underground to a widely acclaimed masterpiece with a massive following. In celebration of the album’s 20th anniversary, Lupus Lounge will reissue this musical milestone in lavish editions that finally do justice to this pioneering depressive metal masterpiece. When Silencer released their one and only album “Death – Pierce Me”, they had chosen the same title as their 1998 demo. In hindsight, it seems that the time was ripe for an emotionally challenging type of black metal that incorporated elements from doom and basically aimed for expressing the most bleak emotions of bereavement, loneliness, and utter despair. It is only logical that this subgenre of a subgenre became dubbed ‘depressive black metal’ – or gets sometimes even branded somewhat