Five years have passed since The Loudest Silence released their debut album ‘Aesthetic Illusion’, making ‘The Core’ to be the first original song after five long years of silence and a first true sign of life, excluding the cover version of Nirvana’s ‘Heart-Shaped Box’, which was home-recorded during the worldwide pandemic of COVID, and released in March 2022
A lot has happened during those years: aside from the setbacks due to worldwide waves of pandemics, the band also went through significant line-up changes. Drummer Damir Sinanović – Bumbar and the long time guitarist Mirza Ćorić left the band in 2022, leaving Taida (vocals), Denijal (keyboards & orchestration) and Džemal (bass guitar) as lone members of the band, to be the core of The Loudest Silence.
The band however kept creating new music and is now happy to announce that further new songs will be released in 2024. In fact, the band already demoed 7 new songs and already has a working title for the new album.
While recording and producing the new material, the band really wanted to up their game sound-wise, and are very happy to announce that the new song was engineered, produced and mixed by Joost van den Broek (EPICA, BLIND GUARDIAN, POWERWOLF, AYREON, AFTER FOREVER among others). The vocals and keyboards were recorded in the same studio Taida used for recording her vocals for the albums she did with the legendary Swedish band THERION – Behind the Forest studio in Munich, Germany, while the bass guitar was recorded in Sarajevo.
Some of the new elements in the sound of The Loudest Silence could surprise fans of the debut album, or fans of the symphonic metal genre in general, but that does not concern Denijal.
‘We never thought of The Loudest Silence as a band that is part of a specific genre. We actually do not like this whole idea of genres and sub-genres at all. When we create music, it comes from what we feel and sometimes it’s dark, melancholic and heavy, sometimes it’s not. It’s not about fitting into some niche, but is all about emotion and the urge to get it out. We do not care if it sounds like symphonic metal, doom, black metal or whatever. If it’s what we feel, than so be it.’
The band have released a lyric video for the song as well and that decision is especially important for Taida.
In general, I do not like to talk about my lyrics or explain them. That beats their purpose and I think that people should find their own meaning in them.
But when we were making the video with the amazing DRONICON FILMS, I had to give them some direction, so I did tell them that the idea of ‘The Core’ in general is about the essence of humanity, which we are constantly losing, we seem to be losing the connection to our inner being, our inner values, because we are more driven by others, thoughts of others or greed… But that is just scratching the surface, the lyrics are much, much more than that and that is why it was important for me to have them in the video, especially now when we are once again witnessing what seems to be the worst of humanity.’
The Core’ dropped on Friday, November 3rd at noon (12:00 PM, CET) on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, and more. At the same time, the band have released a new animated lyric video for the song on YouTube.
Watch the lyric video for “The Core”:
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THE LOUDEST SILENCE are:
Taida Nazraić – vocals
Denijal Ćatović – keyboards / orchestration
Džemal Bijedić – bass
CREDITS:
‘The Core’
Vocals by Taida Nazraić
Keyboards & Orchestration by Denijal Ćatović
Bass guitar by Džemal Bijedić
Guitars by Bart Hennephof (TEXTURES)
Drums by Koen Herfst (ARJEN LUCASSEN’s Supersonic Revolution)
Guitar solo by Mirza Ćorić (ex-THE LOUDEST SILENCE)
Produced & mixed by Joost van den Broek @ Sandlane Recording Facilities
Mix assisted & mastered by Yarne Heylen @ Project Zero Studio
Animated lyric video by DRONICON FILMS.
Cover artwork by Nihil
Logos & layout by Džemal Bijedić
Music by Denijal Ćatović
Lyrics by Taida Nazraić
Arranged by The Loudest Silence
