Blog Post
Six Year Silence - 'King To a Clown'
Iain McArthur • Nov 03, 2021
Album Review
How do you make a great band even stronger? Six Year Silence had already started to make a bit of a name for themselves as Uproar, including an album and a sold-out hometown show at The Garage in Glasgow. This is a re-invented and rejuvenated version of that band with a new name and some new band members, but still retaining that dark, aggressive and modern, hard rock sound.
The title track is an impressive 5-minute blast of epic proportions and is both hard-hitting and beautifully textured. It has also inspired some very striking and stylish art work that should sell a fair few T-shirts in due course.
There’s an aggressive streak running through the album, from the relentless and menacing “My Enemy” through to the ‘fight’ chants in the closing “Fight Song”. That’s also true of “Hypocrite” which is the only track which carries the ‘explicit’ label as a result of featuring more ‘shits’ than a tunnel out of Shawshank State Penitentiary.
There is a real change of pace for the slower “Today” which starts off very doomy but quickly becomes a unifying and redemptive anthem (‘together as one, hearts will mend’). “Lost in the Dark” picks up the pace a bit and features some ‘Woah-ohs’ and benefits from some stunning guitar work.
The band has already played a fair few of these songs in their first two gigs (see Rockfiend’s review of the Edinburgh gig) and songs like “I Desire”, “Worlds Collide” and especially “Wrong Side of Heaven” will only become even stronger crowd favourites from repeat plays.
This is a very strong second ‘debut’ and should give the band a great platform to build on – hopefully with more live shows. Well played.