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Review from Forgotten Path Magazine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, June 17, 2013, In : Album Reviews

From: Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 5
Published: November 2013
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It seems that the debut album of Silent Path tries to continue the traditions, which have been started by “Filosofem” of Burzum and it is typical to the underground Black Metal of the Middle East (for instance, we can remember Animus or Avinar and so on). We hear the music here, which is being performed in a very slow and repetitive way, having almost whispering vocals because of pain and despair. Something tha...

Review from Melting Album Reviews

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, May 13, 2013, In : Album Reviews

From: Melting Album Reviews
Published: May 13, 2013
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Emotion is incredibly hard to convey; what we feel inside is intense and sometimes hard to express, even to someone that we trust. There is this nagging feeling that anything said is inadequate and invalidates the emotion that is churning inside of us because it’s simply not enough. Whether it be positive or negative, it can be incredibly debilitating and frustrating to try to convey these feelings. Silent Path have created an a...

Review from Necomance Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, March 29, 2013, In : Album Reviews

From: Necromance Webzine

Published: March 27, 2013

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*Google translation of Spanish review

The truth is that there are few reviews I've done of bands coming from Iran, and this is one of them, this is the SILENT PATH and back albumsm "Mourner Portraits" , released through Hypnotic Dirge Records brings us almost 53 minutes of cutting depressive black metalsimilar to what we have offered bands like Burzum , early My Dying Bride , Morgh and Nortt. 's compositions SILENT PATH is characte...

Review from Pitchline 'zine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, In : Album Reviews

From: Pitchline Webzine
Published: March 15, 2013
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*Google translation of Spanish review

Acedia - Greek avkhdi - as psychological pathology or deadly sin, understood by the Catholic cosmology, representing a total unrest and unease at both the material and spiritual of the sufferer. The total absence of the great void and will go on to become the only eco ecstatic soul. Only a few courageous beings are capable of lancing chains and squeeze these nihilistic disdain and complex emotion...
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Review from Alarm666 Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, February 14, 2013, In : Album Reviews

From: Alarm666 Webzine
Published: February 13, 2012
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*Google translation of Danish review

When talking about metal bands from Iran, it is not exactly musical projects as Silent Path that first pops up in mind. The band, which is a one-man project makes in ambient doom metal with a large dose of black metal atmosphere about it. The result is a fairly interesting but also rather special release out.

From the beginning, you get the depressing hearing steaks, and the atmospheric melanchol...

Review from Burning Black Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, January 17, 2013, In : Album Reviews

From: Burning Black Webzine
Published: January 16, 2013
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*Google translation of Spanish review

"Mourner Portraits" is the debut album of this Irani one man Black Metal band formed by Count De Efrit only ... As you probably expected, judging by the name of the band and title of this album, Silent Path plays Depressive Black Metal, not the ultra-bitter and anguished kind of DBM, but an introspective, atmospheric and relaxing form of obscurely Black Metal, where ghostly atmospheres crea...
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Review from Sonic Abuse

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, November 25, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: Sonic Abuse
Published: November 25, 2012
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Silent Path is the name taken by Saman N. (also known as Count De Efrit) for his solo work. Hailing from Iran, Saman takes his cues on this release from the icy, crystalline riffs of black metal and the dank atmosphere of doom. ‘Mourner Portraits’ has had a long and painful gestation, the album originally having been written and recorded in 2009, with label problems leading to the record not actually being released despite having ...

Review from Miasma Magazine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: Miasma Magazine
Published: November 5, 2012
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*Google translation of Finnish review

Islamic countries are known to have been quite strict in terms of cultural liberty or death threats towards artists have always just sananhelinää. Iranian Nu same alias Count De Efrit has been working on this debut album, despite a one-man black metal project they are involved Silent Pathille. The band is not the lord of the first, nor the nationality of not even in this case, the music of no i...