Biography
Sharing the hometowns of Hondo Maclean and Funeral For a Friend and having spent enough time performing alongside the likes of the aforementioned bands who have risen up and out of the thriving South Welsh music scene - As Silence Falls, who are somewhat of a ‘local band super group’ to those in the know are infact a genuine proposition to join the UK’s metal elite.
Gravitating together from the ashes of past embryonic musical attempts, ASF formed with the survivors of bands who as a whole were simply not able to cut it, but the resulting formation has brought together experiences and a new sense of urgency gained from making a myriad of previous mistakes.
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Combining influences from the brutality of modern contemporary metal (Chimera, Killswitch Engage) and forging them with the epic melodicism of the likes of The Smashing Pumpkins and Coheed & Cambria, ASF are far from the melting pot of copyists flooding the area – instead the band have opted for a honest amalgam of styles – resulting in what one could say to be a ‘brutifully’ stimulating shot-to-the-arm of a genre currently lacking the amount of depth required to become something truly exciting.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.