Silence is Madness is the third album by the American heavy metal band Bride, released in 1989. This was be the last album in the bands metal era, as the band began writing more commercial hard rock on the following releases. On Silence is Madness, Bride also tried to achieve crossover success to secular market, as they wrote slightly less Christian based lyrics than before. Despite the changes, this album did not sell notably better than their p...
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Silence is Madness is the third album by the American heavy metal band Bride, released in 1989. This was be the last album in the bands metal era, as the band began writing more commercial hard rock on the following releases. On Silence is Madness, Bride also tried to achieve crossover success to secular market, as they wrote slightly less Christian based lyrics than before. Despite the changes, this album did not sell notably better than their previous releases.
On this album, Bride left behind many of its speed and thrash metal elements found on its previous release, and adopted a more straighforward classic metal sound with blues influences. The albums puts more focus on hooks, as displayed on songs such as "Fool Me Once," "Hot Down South Tonight," and "Under the Influence." In contrast to that, "Evil Dreams," "All Hallow’s Eve," and "No More Nightmares" represent a more haunting atmosphere. Bride also introduced a blues influenced hard rock song in "Rock Those Blues Away."
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