Track Listing

1. Call to Arms
2. Funeral
3. Song Remains Un-Named
4. Rebirth of the Temple
5. Divided
6. Bitter Pill
7. Force Fed
8. Lies in the House of Shame
9. Wrath
10. Dead to Me 2006
11. First Amendment
12. Falling Down
13. Live Again

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #128554 in Music
• Released on: 2006-05-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Thrash has a new king
Santos has brought it back with more fury and talent than before.I'm a devote fan of Spineshank but as I said this cd shows more prowess.With prounding drums and damaging guitars the band quickly stands out.Santos has definatly come into his own as a vocalist since "self-destructive pattern" by Spineshank.I doubt it will belong before they gain recognition.Futhermore the quality of the release is incredible for not being a mainstream label.Silient Civilian leads the pack of brutal and talented trash/metal bands on the market.Stand out tracks are:
Funeral,Rebirth of the Temple,Divided,Bitter Pill and First Amendment.
A must for fans of, Trivium,devildriver,in flames,spineshank,children of bodom and God Forbid

Awesome band
This is a refreshing surprize. I wasn't a big spineshank fan while talented it just never grabbed me. But opening track The Funeral sets up this impressive disc. Does it have some of the new england metal sound? Absolutely but it also has thrash guitar solos and double bass drums. Everyone in this band shines and Jonny shows impressive vocal range. Plus every song has it's own shape keeping this cd fresh. My only complaint is some unneccesary bush bashing I know jonny hates bush and the war but three songs? Come On! At least write something orginal like shadows fall drives the weak or killswitch's numbered days. Except for that this republican thought this cd was excellent.

A nice surprise & strong debut
Sometimes a singer will leave his current group and go on to start a new band which sounds a lot (or almost exactly) like the old one, so the singer's fans will be left scratching their heads and wondering why he left the first group (consider Chris Barnes' Six Feet Under and Ozzy Osbourne's solo project). That is not the case, here, though. Jonny Santos, ex-frontman of the now defunct Spineshank, left his first band in 2004 and went on to form Silent Civilian, whose debut album, "Rebirth of the Temple," was released in May of this year. But Silent Civilian's comparisons with Spineshank stop at Jonny Santos. Spineshank were a nu/industrial metal group, but SC are definitely much more intense and metalic. Jonny might have had this aggression built up inside of him all these years and was dying to release it, or maybe he just wanted to separate his new band from Spineshank...who knows?! Either way, "Rebirth of the Temple" is still a good C.D..

This disc is clearly influenced by North American metalcore, but, fortunately, these songs are usually heavy and thrashy enough to avoid calling Silent Civilian a baby Killswitch Engage. Most of these songs are full to the brim with scalding energy, catchy, white hot riffs, and fast drums patterns.

The album's first real song, "Funeral," is an awesome one. The verses shoot by with a propulsive, blistering guitar lead, a swift double bass attack and raging vocals. These parts of the song, however, are offset by a catchy, cleanly sung chorus (the first of many to come). And two long, winding, multi-parted guitar solos also flare up. Tracks three and four, "The Song Remains Un-named" and the title track, interlock fiery, chugging riffs with pounding drums and also feature melodic guitar solos. "Divided", which has blowtorch guitars, a pounding rhythm, and a memorable shout-along of "Hey! Hey! Hey, hey, hey!", is another memorable song, and other highlights include the politically motivated "Lies In The House Of Shame", and "Dead To Me 2006," which features pounding guitars and livid lyrics like "screw the world!", and "you're dead to me!"

Some songs, like "Bitter Pill" and "Wrath", have more melody than most of the rest, due to their big choruses. But, conversely, some of this album proves that not every track needs to have melody, because "Force Fed", "First Amendment", and "Falling Down" get by just fine without having any melody or limpid vocals whatsoever. Instead, songs like those ooze with scorching energy, blazing guitars, and powerful, skull-cracking kick drums.

But most of these songs follow the same structure, with an explosive intro segueing into white hot riffs, fast drumming, and raging vocals in the verses and just a hint of melody in the choruses. Thus, the album tends to grow kind of formulaic and monotony eventually becomes a factor. But these songs, especially when taken individually, are still very entertaining and exciting, and should effortlessly kick the butts of open-minded metalheads everywhere.

All in all, even though the metalcore scene ultimately remains largely unmoved, "Rebirth of the Temple" makes for some very enjoyable listening sessions, and is a pleasant surprise and strong, promising debut by Silent Civilian. Here's hoping Jonny didn't use up all of his aggression on this album, and he has it in him to keep making albums of this quality in the future.