Music review: In Silentio Noctis: Through Fragments of Christianity

Through Fragments of Christianity is the only album I could find from the Finnish band In Silentio Noctis. They apparently broke up in May this year, so we likely won’t anything more from this excellent band. It’s kind of a shame. I can understand though that the time commitment that must go into a band like this is incredible and there may not be much money in it, neccesarily.
In Silentio Noctis was really pulling metal forward it would seem, with what in the language of annoying metal subcategories could be called symphonic gothic metal. Defined by technical virtuosity and excellent female vocals. It is difficult to believe that human beings could possibly play at some of the speeds they achieved.
True their songs have a tendency to blur together into a single song, they had their little bit that they did, which is high operatic female vocals over the fastest and most brutal metal you’ve ever heard, plus some keyboards. It worked well enough. It could have kept going. Alas, personal conflicts and time constraints apparently crippled this band from being the band they could have been, they could have kept playing and developing this material for years, it would have sailed above other bands. Finland doesn’t have any shortage of weird local metal bands, that’s for sure. Astral Sleep is still going strong. The first Scandinavian black metal band was Bathory back in the 80’s, so there is no lack of back catalogue of Scandinavian black metal to go through. There are a million bands of that to go through and the tendency on something like Scandinavian black metal is that the primary years are the years of most interest. Then there is the whole thing with a band like Children of Technology where they kind of nailed down the importance of early Celtic Frost and early Voivod, duplicated it relatively successfully but recently. I’m still up in the air about doing things that way. That is still miles above whatever indie bands in New York are doing. Maybe I should just go back and go through Candlemass and Bathory albums. That review of the old Celtic Frost album got hits.
I suppose it is better that In Silentio Noctis only did one album which is reasonably good, and then broke up, then they do what a lot of metal bands have done and kept going for years and years producing endless weak albums.
Through Fragments of Christianity doesn’t stand up to early Celtic Frost or early Voivod, by the way. It’s reasonably good, though.