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[Info]
Artist : Billy Talent
Album : Dead Silence
Label : Warner Music Canada
Genre : Rock
Street Date : 2012-09-11
Quality : 280 kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4 -V0
Size : 114.49MB
Time : 53:55 min
Url : http://www.billytalent.com/
[Tracks]
1. Lonely Road To Absolution 1:15
2. Viking Death March 4:04
3. Surprise Surprise 3:08
4. Runnin' Across The Tracks 4:19
5. Love Was Still Around 3:46
6. Stand Up And Run 3:20
7. Crooked Minds 5:04
8. Man Alive! 3:36
9. Hanging By A Thread 3:53
10. Cure For The Enemy 4:26
11. Don't Count On The Wicked 4:08
12. Show Me The Way 3:06
13. Swallowed Up By The Ocean 5:02
14. Dead Silence 4:48
[Notes]
Proper now with correct track names, enjoy!!!
If you've seen the video on YouTube, you can't help but marvel at the sight
of over 100,000 fans singing along to "Viking Death March," the first track
released to the public from Billy Talent's fourth album, Dead Silence.
Watching the mass celebration of this song is powerful enough but the fact
that the track had only been released days before the band hit the stage at
the Rock Am Ring festival in Germany is testament to the loyalty of the
band's fans around the world.
Dead Silence is the follow up to Billy Talent I, II and III and was recorded
in three different studios in Toronto, Vancouver and Los Angeles. The album
was produced by Billy Talent guitarist Ian D'Sa and is perfect proof for
Billy Talent's inner strength, their focus and hard work ethic; character
traits that have turned them into one of the most successful international
rock acts of the past decade. Being together for almost 20 years and having
travelled thousands of miles in vans, buses and planes turned the four piece
not just into a band, but into a family ù a tight brotherhood that will
challenge and tackle any obstacle in front of them. Equipped with countless
awards (such as multiple MuchMusic Awards, Juno Awards, MTV Awards and even
two of those rare German Echo Awards) and having played the biggest festival
stages worldwide, Billy Talent are ready to take on their next mission: to
complete their world domination.
When Billy Talent started their adventurous journey into what would become
Dead Silence, all they knew was that they wanted to record an album in the
traditional sense of the word ù a collection of songs that all tie in with
each other, a journey through ups and downs, highs and lows, hope and decay,
love and disgust, joy and sadness. An album that has a start, a finish and
everything in between thus "represents all aspects of life basically," says
singer Ben Kowalewicz. They are 14 songs, as straight from the heart,
intense and intuitive as previous milestones like "Try Honesty", "River
Below" or "Red Flag" and as unwilling to compromise or give in. It was a
long, winding and bumpy road Billy Talent had to take in order to turn Dead
Silence into what it is today: a tour de force rock album.
The band started working on their fourth release shortly after they returned
from touring their previous album. Billy Talent III was produced by Brendan
O'Brien, debuting at #1 in Canada and peaked at #2 on the German album
charts, marking the third consecutive platinum album for the band in Canada
and second (after Billy Talent II) in Germany. The band had just purchased a
building in the East end of Toronto where they could rehearse, record and
stock their gear while not on tour. Guitarist Ian D'Sa, singer Ben
Kowalewicz, drummer Aaron Solowoniuk and bassist Jon Gallant spent five to
six days a week setting up their new headquarters, building walls,
varnishing floors, painting and getting the new computers and pro-tools
running. "It is our first big band investment", Gallant says. D'Sa
remembers: "The first couple of months after we returned home we were fixing
the place up. At first we needed to soundproof the place and build a room
within a room. It's on a residential street and we didn't wanna piss off any
neighbours. After that we saw the potential of what we could do with this
place. It was so big that we could actually build a recording studio in it.
We thought it'd be a good idea so that we could demo the new songs. It
turned out to be a beneficial thing for the album. And that's probably why
the album turned out the way it is."
A smart decision for sure, as having their own rehearsal and recording space
gives Billy Talent convenience enough to practice and record whenever they
want. No deadlines, no curfews, no one to beg for the keys. The main goal
for each member was to push their boundaries for this new album, to leave
comfort zones and question each and everything. As with the previous albums,
the band channeled their ideas into compositions by D'Sa. The London born
guitarist with roots in Goa had most of the parts already worked out in his
head. For Dead Silence, he envisioned Kowalewicz's voice as the fourth
musketeer, an additional instrument, the link between his licks, riffs and
leads and the pumping rhythm section from Gallant and Solowoniuk. "On this
record I wanted to step up what we do with vocals," explains D'Sa. "A lot of
the vocal melodies are super high, or in the higher register, so I pushed
Ben pretty hard in the vocal booth a couple of times. He nailed it."
"The good thing about Billy Talent is that there is no ego in the band,"
adds Kowalewicz. "If anyone has an idea, the others know it is for the
greater good of the song. We always ask ourselves what can we do
individually and collectively to make this song the best we possibly can?!
And Ian's song writing skills have improved so much; it makes all our jobs a
lot easier because he provides us with this vessel that we can jump on and
hang on to."
"It's important to hear everyone out", says D'Sa. "If I write a piece of
music and I already know that I want a guitar thing to happen here and then
a vocal thing to happen there, Jon may not know that. So if he has a bass
idea I think it's important to keep an open dialogue going and listen to
everyone's ideas."
It's obvious that these guys have learned their lessons. With three highly
successful albums under their belt, the members have developed a mutual
trust in and a deep respect for their band mates, knowing that their unique
sound is based on the contribution and talent of each individual member. For
Dead Silence the four-headed democracy decided to take their fate by their
own hands, leaving the production to guitarist Ian D'Sa, who had already
co-produced Billy Talent II. His vision of what defines the sound and vibe
of Billy Talent was the roadmap for Dead Silence. "Our fans really liked the
sound of Billy Talent II," says D'Sa. "We were confident that this is our
sound, and we just wanted to execute that."
In the midst of the recording, the band was rocked to its foundation when,
around Christmas of 2011, Solowoniuk broke the news to his band mates that
he would have to undergo heart surgery ù very soon. "I knew about it for
five years," the drummer explains. "My heart was working overtime. In order
to get the right amount of blood through my veins it had to work harder and
it was growing at that point. The doctor said if I would let it go over a
year or two, it would be terrible. After he told me that, I had open heart
surgery to get it fixed. The surgery is a routine thing. But for anyone
who's going through it, it's pretty scary. But I had a great doctor and
that's why it healed so fast. I started playing drums lightly eight weeks
later. Twelve weeks after the surgery I was pushing myself because I knew I
had to play live. So I pushed through it, and it feels great! Drums are fun
and everything just feels easier, whereas before I was getting tired a lot.
So I guess I'm fixed."
While Solowoniuk was pushing for recovery, his friends kept working on Dead
Silence, refining ideas and browsing through countless scrapbooks and lyric
sheets, looking for words to fit the music. Still shaken by their drummer's
surgery, the band gave the song "Don't Count On The Wicked" a lyrical turn:
"Aaron has a charity called the F.U.M.S. organization (Fuck You Multiple
Sclerosis), and one of their slogans was 'Turn Anger Into Hope'. I thought
that was a pretty cool line or lyric, and we put it in the song." Kowalewicz
said, "The thing with Aaron jarred all of us; it was pretty shocking and
tough to wrap your head around, especially after all the things he's already
been through. That really shook the foundation and it came at a weird point
as well, we were already so far (in the recording process). But when you put
everything in context of Aaron's situation, then the rest is pretty small."
Hearing this explains why Dead Silence offers some of the hardest and
edgiest songs Billy Talent have ever recorded, charged with the most honest,
deep and dark lyrics to date. The band touches base with various subjects,
such as the tongue in cheeky first single "Surprise Surprise," a song that
deals with "the fact that advertising has seeped into our culture so much
that people buy into it blindly now," says D'Sa, or the fake reality
implemented by social networks. "A lot of the album has to do with how
important it is not to get caught up in material culture, internet culture
and all those things that distract us from what's real," adds Kowalewicz,
"Life is real. So go for a walk, turn your phone off. Go get some sun on
your face. Get some perspective."
The cover for Dead Silence was created by Australian artist Ken Taylor, and
it looks just as dark, detailed and thrilling as the new songs from Billy
Talent sound. "The underwater scenario, a city immersed under the ocean,
reflects songs like 'Dead Silence' or 'Swallowed Up By The Ocean,' but it
also points out that there's always an element of hope. There's the phone
box, so when the world is destroyed and everything goes to shit, there's
still hope," laughs Kowalewicz. "If there's anything that comes close to
some sort of concept for this record, then it would be the underlying theme
of this year being 2012, with a little bit like an
end-of-the-world-mentality seeping in there ù and being aware that you only
got one kick at the can, you only got one shot! Dead Silence is about
following your dreams, standing up for yourself, realizing what's important
and what's total bullshit."