cowcowmoo
This record has such amazing balance. Beautiful melodies without overdoing it, melancholy intertwines with every aspect without being too front and centre, anguish and hopelessness piercing through neither too subtle nor too obvious. Everything feels "just right" and it really resonates with me for all the right reasons. This is the record so many bands try too hard to aim for yet, to Silver Knife, it just seems natural. Thank you for this beautifully haunting album!
Favorite track: Restless Blight.
West Maddox
Since the debut came out 5 years ago, I have been checking for a new Silver Knife full length every couple months. The guitar tones and riffs that this band produces have an addictive quality that leaves me itching for more. I am so glad they didn't change the tone, it is so perfect. 10/10 album as I always expected was coming with their sophomore release! A fantastic continuation of the first album's sound!
bmurator
Belgian Atmospheric / Melodic Black Metal. I am a very simple & awfully boring person at heart - I see Déhà & I hit buy... :) There is no need for additional fuss or careful thought here! The available track proves me right I would say! I am really looking forward to this & can't wait! Highly recommended!!!
Edit: Great album & loving it all the way... :) Highly recommended once again!!!
Nocturnal Egg (Jordan)
On ne pourra que saluer le soin méticuleux apporté par KRAS sur la pochette, il n'empêche que le but de l'album sophomore de Silver Knife ne sera pas d'admirer béâtement l'objet mais de s'en servir — le titre "Sliver", l'allusion à la corruption et le terme "Techne" (associé à l'artisan) rattachent à la matérialité. SILVER KNIFE est une saignée. La participation de M. agrandit cette chorale de cris insoutenables et le black metal atmosphérique est torturé — mais il purge aussi. Du grand art !
Favorite track: Transfiguration.
AMOR FATI PRODUCTIONS and EXTRACONSCIOUS RECORDINGS are proud to present SILVER KNIFE's highly anticipated second album, 'Silver Knife', on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Since their formation in 2019, pan-European black metallers SILVER KNIFE have patiently built their own soundworld, first with 2020's 'Unyielding/Unseeing' full-length and then 2022's 'Ring' EP. On the eve of the latter's release, the band made their first public performance at the esteemed Roadburn Festival. And while the names and personalities behind SILVER KNIFE may be somewhat obscured, perhaps intentionally so, it's almost immaterial that the four members collectively number many of Belgium, France, and the Netherlands' most formidable bands orbiting black metal, so towering are those two recordings.
To coincide with another performance at Roadburn, SILVER KNIFE build that tower yet higher with their second album, simply self-titled. Like that first full-length, 'Silver Knife' features six core songs - but these new ones are even more epic, totaling 47 minutes. The quartet also here continue the concept of being too reluctant to wallow in self-pity, and offering a harsh incentive in the midst of trying times. As such, LP#2 feels vast and urgent in equal measure, the riffing continually cascading, always dangling on the precipice of hope and hopelessness, with the rhythm section surging and swaying with a fluidity that's mesmerizing to behold. The vocals illustrate that hypothetical precipice with blanching emotion; where lyrics may not be readily recognizable, the howls annunciating those words clearly convey their meaning. More than anything, 'Silver Knife' stunningly shows SILVER KNIFE grasping the reins of black metal traditionalism with one hand and, with the other, guiding the journey toward treacherous, risk-taking terrain that remains utterly compelling no matter which path your journey originates from. Or, perhaps the title of the closing 'Triumph in Tragedy' tells the most succinct tale.
Featuring another iconic cover courtesy of KRAS, SILVER KNIFE's eponymous second album cements the band's status as one of black metal's most dynamic outliers.
credits
released April 19, 2025
released April 19, 2025
Silver Knife is D., H., M., N. & P.
All music and lyrics by SK.
Spoken words on 'Techne' by A.H.S.
Transfigured in July 2023, Brussels, Belgium.
Recorded at Blackout Studio.
Produced, mixed and mastered at Opus Magnum Studios by D.
Genuinely the best DSBM to come out in modern times. And this is some of their best material to date. A must have for anyone who appreciates the genre, no matter how corny it might seem to some. porcelainheart-
