Review: Celestial Silence - Silent Calls From The Other Side
Celestial Silence's Silent Calls (7/10). This Symphonic Black Metal album delivers huge orchestral atmospheres and epic scope. Read the full review!
Band: Celestial Silence
Album: Silent Calls From The Other Side
Genre: Black Metal
Country: Ukraine/Finland
Label: Forbidden Keep
Released: September 9, 2025
Introduction
Celestial Silence is an international black metal band. Its members, Dodes Kor (Drums), Osarseph (Guitars), and Klemi (Vocals) hail from both Ukraine and Finland.
Silent Calls From The Other Side
Tracklist:
- Crippled Solitude
- Fading Time
- Sailing In A Storm
- Dismal Gleam
- Knot Of Pearls
- For Your Ruin
Celestial Silence fosters a captivating blend of the melodic and melancholic. Taking elements from several black metal sub-genres (DSBM, Atmospheric, and Melodic) and infusing it with post-black influences.
Opening with Crippled Solitude , a beautiful instrumental track, the album progresses into layers of droning, mournful riffs with Fading Time. Building atmospheres like snowdrifts behind the shrill, almost wailed vocals.
Offering small reprieves and subtle nuances within the despair, the band layers melodic acoustic passages, string sections and clean vocals.
Silent Calls From the Other Side is haunting and even beautiful at times. Its lyrics are gripping, poetic and full of melancholy. That being said, the album is short and offers little to no variation within it's formula. The middle section of the track Dismal Gleam being the most stand out moment for me on the album.
It's a cohesive listen and has some subtle moments that shine. Hoping with future releases to hear some more variation though. The opening instrumental track was quite well done and it would be awesome to hear some more of that melodic influence within the songs themselves.
Conclusion
Depressive and cold. With an atmosphere as bleak as the dead of winter. As a debut album it's promising. It has some interesting concepts, and cool riffs. The album is more akin to DSBM than any of its other influences, fans of the genre will surely enjoy it.
BMZ Rating: 5,5 out of 10
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