By: Thijs
Rating: 4/10
Release: 2012
Label: Svarga Music

Silentium – The Ancient`s Wisdom
Fromt the very first track it’s obvious; Silentium – The Ancient’s Wisdom is as underground as you can imagine. A large collection of ambient soundscapes, no more than that. This is obviously a debutalbum wheThe compositions as well as the production leave not much of a impression. It’s obvious the sounds are generated by a standard syntheziser, Silentium hasn’t done much to give it some depth. The Ancient’s wisdom would be a useful soundtrack for a videogame, but that’s the only thing you can do with it, even the metalfan. Maybe when it was released during the start of the new-wave period, it could have had a chance, but that is years ago.
A record which should have had more attention in composition and production. This re-release is only nice as a collectors item for the fans of Munruthel or Slavonian Pagan Metal in general.

The content of AR on this split album is not reviewed because it is out of our range of music.

Tracklist Silentium – The Ancients’ Wisdom (1995)

1. (Intro) The Forest
2. Dying Nature (Requiem)
3. The Royal Hunting
4. Errata
5. Above The Clouds
6. Nuclear Tears Of Hiroshima
7. The Moonlight Lake
8. The Spectrum Of Darkness
9. Igni Et Ferro
10. Cradle of Dreams
11. In Saecula Saeculorum
12. Prelude In Sad Minor
13. Cimmeria
14. Illusions’ Kingdom
15. The Hidden by Veil
16. Seas of Tears
17. Errata (version II)
18. (Outro) The Forest

Tracklist AR – The Eternal Circle Of Life (1999)

1. The Gates Are Open
2. As Autumn Leaves Fall…
3. The Winds That Blow From The Black Sea
4. Snowfall
5. Crystal Of Ice
6. Funeral Pyre (Fire Journey To The Stars)
7. The Skies Are Silent
8. Broken Silence
9. The Return Of The Horned One (The New Spring Comes)
10. The Black Mirror Of The Silent Lake
11. Drops Of Moonlight
12. Closing The Gates
13. Occulting Light (Taking Charon’s Ferry)
14. Crystal Of Ice (raw MandragARa remix by Graham A. Gosnell)
15. Funeral Pyre (raw MandragARa remix by Graham A. Gosnel)