Band: Silent Call
Album title: Greed
Label: Escape Music
Distributor: Connecting Music
Release date: 26/03/2010
Release: CD

Coming from Stockholm, Sweden, Silent Call trace their lineage to the year 1990, when founding members Daniel Ekholm and Patrik Törnblom met through a common friend and saw their shared passion and strong melodic influence.

Later on in 2006, the band was joined by drummer Mikael Kvist (Elsesphere, Fate), and the lineup was soon expanded with bass player Tobbe Moen (Red Fun, OZ, Creozoth). The singer's slot was finally filled in September of 2006 with the vocalist Andi Kravljaca. After the completion of the lineup, the band released a debut 4-track demo called Divided in January 2007, and was promptly picked up by UK label Escape Music. And now in 2010 they released album number 2 called “Greed”. The album itself has a high production level and the musicianship sets the bar high. And I know the band has a Progressive Metal thing going on, but the music feels like it’s going nowhere and it’s just one big riff soup. And after 3 songs I found myself changing the record.

Although a good record, this may be a bit too progressive and won’t be for everyone.

72/100

Jeroen.