THE SILENCE - VIRTUAL SYNTHESIS EP

The Silence is a name of at least nine acts: 1. The Silence is an Orange County, CA, United States-based alternative rock band, which has been creating relationships with audiences across the U.S. since 2004. They initially played goth rock, but their current repertoire is pure rock. For 2006, The Silence has added lead singer Chris Poulson to the lineup, joining Ryan McKee (guitar), Stephen Hernandez (guitar), Michael Reynoso (bass) and Jakob Medina (drums). In February of 2007, The Silence announced Michael had decided to part ways with the band, Sean Stamps taking the spot of bassist. The new lineup looks to continue the past successes of The Silence, which has included awards such as Best Rock Band at the Inland Empire Music Awards, General Motors Axis In The Garage champions and Best Pop Punk Band at the 2006 Southern California Music Awards. Their latest EP, The Evolution, demonstrates each members desire and ability to play edgy music that hearkens back to the glory days of rock and roll. Their signature track 'Falling Faster', was nominated for Best Rock Song at the Inland Empire Music Awards, which shows off a hook reminiscent of the rock icons; Aerosmith and Van Halen. Other tracks, such as Break My Heart, highlight the bands arena rock influences. In an earlier incarnation, the band was led by Steven Juliano and released the album Audio Alchemy (2004). 2. The Silence were a Leatherhead, United Kingdom-based proto-punk beat band, active between 1965-1967. before adopting the name The Silence that were known as The Few and, even earlier, Clockwork Onions), with core members Andy Ellison (vocals), Chris Townson (drums), Geoff McClelland (guitar) and John Hewlett (bass). Their recordings included tracks such as 'Down Down', 'Cold On Me' and 'Forgive Me If I'm Wrong'. The band was later renamed John's Children (featuring Marc Bolan. 3. The Silence is a Belgian collaboration of Christian Jay Bolland (aka CJ Bolland) and Stephan van Laethem. Their releases included: Virtual Synthesis EP (1997), Psychick Is Dead (1998), Music Control (2000) and the stand-alone track 'Acid Attack' (2003). 4. The Silence is a Slovenian theatrical ambient / synth-pop / electronic duet. Boris Benko and Primoz Hladnik are the two sole members of the group; Benko on vocals and lyric arrangements and Hladnik on all keyboards and programming arrangements. They have created music much akin to Assemblage 23's darker, calmer side with a slight touch of bleak sarcasm. They have since released their latest anthology, Key Silence, which is a rarity/best of collection of this group so far. 5. The Silence is a Rockhampton, Australia-based alternative rock band, formed in 2003. The band has built a solid reputation to an ever-increasing fan base playing at many of the various festivals and venues in Central Queensland. One of the highlights for The Silence was to support ‘The Butterfly Effect’ at Rockfest 05 during Youth Week. In May 2004 the bands talents were recognised with a Regional Arts Development Fund grant which was used to record their first EP, the eponymous The Silence, in Brisbane at Zero-Interference with Bryce Moorhead. December 2005, The Silence entered four songs from their EP into the Music Oz awards. Achieving great success, by not only winning second place with 'The Jars' at this national competition, they also were successful with all four songs making the top 40 in the alternative category. 6. The Silence is a Philadelphia, PA, United States three-piece alt-rock band. They have opened up for such diverse acts as Live, G. Love, Spacehog, Collective Soul, The Samples, The Ocean Blue and The Connells. Members Evan McIntyre (guitarist and vocalist) and Tim Malcarney (percussionist and vocalist) have seen the band through several line changes while independently releasing a string of CD albums. 7. The Silence was a prototype for Mott The Hoople, active in the mid 1960s, and later reformed for a reunion in 1989 and 1990, finally releasing an album in the mid-1990s. Such band members included Overend Watts, Dale Griffin, Robert Fisher, Paul Jeffery and Patrick Brooke. 8. The Silence is a pseudonym of film director, music producer / writer, bass player and Second Person member, Mark Maclaine. 9. The Silence is a new alias of the Industrial Hardcore producers Ophidian and Eye-D, launched in 2023 with a debut album. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.