The Silent Circus is the second studio album by American progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me. Released October 21, 2003 through Victory Records. It was their first album to be released through Victory Records after their departure from Lifeforce Records. It was re-released in 2006 with a bonus DVD included. The album includes 10 tracks with a hidden song titled "The Man Land" hidden at the end of "The Need for Repetition".
A music video was released for the song "Mordecai"; the video starts with the first nineteen seconds of "Reaction" before transitioning into "Mordecai".
Victory Records has released several double vinyl editions of the album.
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Tommy Rogers; all music is composed by Between the Buried and Me
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Lost Perfection A) Coulrophobia"
4:13
2.
"B) Anablephobia"
3:01
3.
"Camilla Rhodes"
4:49
4.
"Mordecai"
5:48
5.
"Reaction"
2:01
6.
"(Shevanel Take 2)"
3:14
7.
"Ad a dglgmut"
7:38
8.
"Destructo Spin"
4:46
9.
"Aesthetic"
3:45
10.
"The Need for Repetition" (song ends at 6:17, a hidden track entitled "The Man Land" begins at 11:14.)
The album received generally positive reviews from professional critics. Adrien Begrand of PopMatters opined in a positive review for the album, "The Raleigh, North Carolina, band had sliced and diced its way through multiple extreme metal subgenres, bridging the "math metal" complexity of the Dillinger Escape Plan, the godly hardcore of Converge, the furious technical death metal of Nile, and the more melodic strains of mid-'90s Swedish death metal with astonishing dexterity."[2] Kurt Morris of Allmusic commented, "One minute the band may be playing thrash metal and the next they're flowing into death growls and thick guitar riffs. They certainly show a mastery of the hardcore and metal styles that many bands their age can take a lot longer to understand. the metal take on things can seemingly change in a flash as lead singer Tommy Rogers fleshes out his vocals and utilizes the keyboards to create something that sounds more like it should be on a Smashing Pumpkins album".[5]
