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• Published on: 2007-05-01
• Released on: 2007-05-01
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Customer Reviews

Saving Metal By Destroying The Ordinary
Swarm of the Lotus have proven themselves on their Abacus debut. When you first hear this album it will be hard to digest. The riffs are chaotic and the song structures are all over the place. It is a truly amazing piece of work. After a few listens you will come to an understanding that it has destroyed any album you have bought in a while. Songs like "Call To Abandon" and "House at the Bottom of the Sea" highlight the band's creativy and knowledge of music. Other songs like "Hookworm" and "Yan Hou" cover the heavy side of the album as they blast through your speakers. Producer Kurt Ballou (Converge) did a phenomenal job on the production. Several musical passages sound very raw and "Converge-esque." The band has all the potential to rise atop the underground metal scene. Buy this album today!

realized potential
"When White Becomes Black" was a damn near perfect release, I only had a few minor complaints. Swarm of the Lotus showed that they had potential to become a great, truly unique voice in heavy music, and they live up to it with "Sirens of Silence." The album is at once chaotic yet structured and technical, with loads of killer riffs. It reminds me of Converge, which makes sense since Kurt Ballou produced it. Highly recommended.

A Perfect Album
"The Sirens Of Silence" should not be passed up. This is all that's touched my CD player for weeks. You are mangled by a wall of twisted vines and ivy and slither through the darkest of caves only to be spun out on your feet. There are trenches of emotion that will lift and bury and nothing on this album is predictable which makes for excellent extended play. It's like Neurosis,Today Is The Day and Converge battling for Earth.