Dead Silence
by Billy Talent
  • Record Label: Atlantic
  • Release Date: Sep 18, 2012
User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 36 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 36
  3. Negative: 1 out of 36
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  1. Jacek
    Oct 5, 2013
    3
    I liked Billy Talent very much, I really did! But this album is just awful. The band has completely lost his soul. Every song has no power, no character. There are just tracks of guitar, bass passages and vocal lines but there's no Music here! Do you like five-minutes boring, tuneless songs? You're more than welcome to listen to Dead Silence! I feel very disappointed. I'm back to SaintI liked Billy Talent very much, I really did! But this album is just awful. The band has completely lost his soul. Every song has no power, no character. There are just tracks of guitar, bass passages and vocal lines but there's no Music here! Do you like five-minutes boring, tuneless songs? You're more than welcome to listen to Dead Silence! I feel very disappointed. I'm back to Saint Veronica, to Fallen Leaves or Rusted from the Rain. The title, Dead Silence, means something. Firstly it's Billy Talent's dead. Secondly, the band should really stop playing the crap like that.… Expand

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Q Magazine
    Nov 26, 2012
    80
    More often than not, this is pop punk as it should be: direct, streamlined and raucous but of enough substance that preachy points are made within nagging, urgent choruses. [Oct 2012, p.93]
  2. AllMusic
    Oct 4, 2012
    80
    Overall, the sound on Dead Silence isn't that different from the band's previous work, but is certainly some of the best work they've done.
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  3. NOW Magazine
    Oct 4, 2012
    60
    [Dead Silence] sounds exactly like what you'd expect from the maturing Mississauga pop-punk band: more middle-of-the-road radio-friendly guitar rock, with less punk energy and more classic rock than in their younger years.
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