Violent Silence
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Violent Silence is a Swedish
progressive rock band. One of the more distinguishing features of the band is the fact that they include two keyboardists in the line-up and no guitarist. According to the german progressive rock site www.babyblaue-seiten.de Violent Silence "has managed to create its own sound world and manage to sound both modern and timeless." The band's uniqueness has further brought it several positive reviews by a number of music magazines across the world, such as Eclipsed, Prog-Résiste, and Sweden Rock Magazine. They have released two studio albums, Violent Silence in 2003 and Kinetic in 2005. All songs are written by Hannes Ljunghall and Johan Hedman. In the summer of 2011 the band announced on their website that new material is being recorded.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
progressive rock band. One of the more distinguishing features of the band is the fact that they include two keyboardists in the line-up and no guitarist. According to the german progressive rock site www.babyblaue-seiten.de Violent Silence "has managed to create its own sound world and manage to sound both modern and timeless." The band's uniqueness has further brought it several positive reviews by a number of music magazines across the world, such as Eclipsed, Prog-Résiste, and Sweden Rock Magazine. They have released two studio albums, Violent Silence in 2003 and Kinetic in 2005. All songs are written by Hannes Ljunghall and Johan Hedman. In the summer of 2011 the band announced on their website that new material is being recorded.
Members
- Bruno Edling, vocals
- Hannes Ljunghall, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- Björn Westén, keyboards
- Johan Hedman, drumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s - Phillip Bastin, bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....