Silent Fall (ex-Winterland)

Silent Fall was created in May 2005 from the passion for music of three members of the band: Guillaume (keyboards), Cyrille (guitar) et Adrien (lead vocals). After a long period of searching for a drummer and a bass guitar player, Benoist (bass guitar) and Paulo (drums) finally joined the band in September. This line-up started to play music under the name of Winterland.

The band began to play its first songs which were composed a few months earlier. Every member agreed to look for a second guitar player, in order to give more power and substance to the music. Fabrice therefore joined the band in June 2006. His arrival corresponded to the first main Parisian gigs of the band with, inter alia, a concert at l’Espace Curial on the 2nd June 2006 with Niflheim and The Last Embrace (200 people), and a participation at the Heavenfest on the 8th July 2006, at La Maroquinerie (450 people).

The evolution of Winterland’s music and the cohesion of our many fans incited the group to begin producing their first EP, "The Snow Begin To Fall" in early 2007. The group moved onto the concert scene, notably with sixth place at Fallenfest, a Parisian musical contest bringing over 500 bands together, and allowing many dates at prestigious venues such as "Le Trabendo" and "La Cigale". Equally, it should be noted that the group has supported two Danish bands during their European tours, Mercenary and Mnemic, as well as several concerts outside of Paris.

Joined by two new members, Sylvain and Pedro, following the departure of Cyrille and Ben, Winterland concentrated on creating new pieces of music in preparation for their first album. Different musical desires came to life within the group and leaded unfortunately to the departure of Paulo and Pedro. Sylvain thus decided to move to bass guitar while two new musicians, Olivier (guitar) and Fabio (drums) settled into the group. Having recorded four songs at Wildpath Studios, in order to gain a more adequate promotional support, the group participated to the Raism08 with renowned bands such as Gamma Ray, Saxon or even Korpiklaani.

The band recorded its first album in May and should be back on the stages at the end of 2009. At this occasion, the band decided to change its name into Silent Fall. This change goes hand in hand with the arrival of a new guitar player, Pierre, replacing Fabrice.

Inspired in particular by bands like In Flames, Mercenary, Raintime or Edguy, the music of the band is a blend made of melodic, death and symphonic metal. But it keeps a certain personality acquired by the musical diversity of the band's members.


http://www.silentfall.net
http://www.myspace.com/silentfallmetal

Wow, thanks! They sound great!

Hello everybody!

A new dawn has come for Winterland. As you probably know, the band will soon come up to the Wildpath Studio (http://www.wildpath-studio.com) to record its first album.

For this occasion, the band will change its name to Silent Fall. This announcement may certainly surprise a lot of you, but you have to reckon that this decision was hard to take because we are using this name since 2005. In fact, another Winterland, coming from Germany, exists, and has already released two albums. This band owns the rights on the name, and that's why we can't continue to use it. In brief, our music will stay the same and we'll continue to play the songs that you already know, but when the album is released, you have to look for us at the S letter instead of the W letter ^^

This change goes hand in hand with the arrival of a new guitar player, Pierre Cabannes. Olivier and I have known him for more than a year, and he owns all the technical and scenic abilities required. Here is the line-up of Silent Fall during the recording:

Adrien Eyraud - Vocals
Guillaume Tertis - Keyboards
Olivier Caron - Guitars
Pierre Cabannes - Guitars
Sylvain Rousselle - Bass Guitar
Fabio Carnielli - Drums

The album's name will be Otherwise and will include about ten tracks along with Kill For Life, I wish, World of Secrets and Forever and Ever. This album will be kind of traditional speed melodic metal, blended with some progressive and death melodic parts. Don't expect to find as before the tracks that you already know. They have all been revisited to give a unity to this album. Furthermore, three guests may appear on this album. We can't announce their names at the moment, but there should be a female singer, a keyboard player and a guitar player.

We'll give you more news as soon as possible. At the moment, just know that we'll be back on the road at the end of the year and that we'll try to release the album at the same time. Finally, a new website will appear soon. You can already see below the new logo.

Until then, feel free to come to our forum to give your impressions and to let a comment on our guestbook.

Metal Rules.

Nice! I like the logo too

Hey guys!!!

The tracklist of our first album is now available!!! There will be 11 tracks and an additional bonus that we don't know what we're gonna do with ^^

Here is the tracklist of "Otherwise":

1. Who is the fool?
2. Kill for life
3. Haunted Sights
4. Forever and Ever
5. One cold winter night
6. I wish
7. Play with Fire
8. World of Secrets
9. This could have been
10. Tears of Fate
11. On the top of the world

Bonus : Heroes

A special version of "Who is the fool?" will also be released only on the internet...

Marjolaine Bernard (Wildpath) will appear as a guest vocal on "This could have been" and a guitar solo realized by Stephan Forté (Adagio) will appear on "World of secrets".

More information will come quickly.

Metal Rules.

Adrien, Silent Fall

Sounds fantastic!!! Can't wait for more updates!

First reviews :

Germany :
My revelations.de 10/15
Metal.de 7/10
Metal1.info 7,5/10

France :
Auxportesdumetal 12/20
Heavysound.fr 7,5/10
Angelsymphony 8,5/10
Heavylaw 8/10

USA :
Dangerdog 3,5/5
Apochs.net 4/5

I don't suppose I could have a copy to review? I'm on the reviewers team for www.Spirit-Of-Metal.com, and I'd love to review your album!