Silence Screams

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Silence Screams
REZ-SilenceScreams.jpg
Studio album by
REZ
Released1988
Recorded1988
StudioTone Zone Studios, Chicago, Illinois
Genre Christian rock
Length43:32
Label Grrr Records
Producer REZ, Tom Cameron and
"a few close friends"
REZ chronology
Between Heaven 'n Hell
(1985)		Silence Screams
(1988)		 REZ: Compact Favorites
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
CCM Magazine [1]
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Silence Screams is the eighth studio album, by American Christian rock band Resurrection Band (known at this point as REZ), released in 1988.

Christian rock is a form of rock music that features lyrics focusing on matters of Christian faith, often with an emphasis on Jesus, typically performed by self-proclaimed Christian individuals. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands. Many bands who perform Christian rock have ties to the contemporary Christian music labels, media outlets, and festivals, while other bands are independent.

Resurrection Band American Christian rock band

Resurrection Band, also known as Rez Band or REZ, was a Christian rock band formed in 1972. They were part of the Jesus People USA Christian community in Chicago and most of its members have continued in that community to this day. Known for their blend of blues-rock and hard rock, Resurrection Band is credited as one of the forerunners of the Christian metal genre. Christianity Today called them "the most influential band in Christian music history." Following their debut in 1978, the band's greatest popularity was during the early 1980s, but later in the decade they received some crossover success when they had two music videos featured on MTV.

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Recording history

After the longest break between studio albums, REZ returned with a blues-based hard rock/metal sound (closer to their 1978 release Awaiting Your Reply [1] ) that would set the pattern for all future releases, and was also indicative of the musical direction lead singer Glenn Kaiser would take in his solo career. The album is highlighted by a cover of Blind Faith's "Presence of the Lord," which was the first in a string of cover tunes that REZ would include on almost every successive release.

<i>Awaiting Your Reply</i> 1978 studio album by Resurrection Band

Awaiting Your Reply is the debut album by American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1978.

Glenn Kaiser Blues musician, singer-songwriter, pastor

Glenn Kaiser is a Chicago-based Christian blues musician, singer, songwriter and pastor. He was the leader of Resurrection Band and is currently the leader of The Glenn Kaiser Band.

Blind Faith English rock supergroup

Blind Faith were an English supergroup featuring Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech. The band was eagerly anticipated by the music press as a continuation of Clapton and Baker's former group Cream and Winwood's former group Traffic, but they split after one album and tour.

As indicated by the unsettling album cover art, the lyrics deal with some very dark themes by focusing on the plight of the disenfranchised, whether they be victims of war ("Someone Sleeps"), greed ("Waitin' on Sundown") or racial profiling ("Three Seconds"). "Light/Light" is another of the album's highlights, and proved a popular live track throughout the 1990s.

Racial profiling is the act of suspecting or targeting a person of a certain race on the basis of observed or assumed characteristics or behavior of a racial or ethnic group, rather than on individual suspicion. Racial profiling, however, isn't limited only to an individual's race, but can also be based on the individual's ethnicity, religion, or national origin. More commonly in the United States, racial profiling is referred to regarding its use by law enforcement at the local, state, and federal levels, and its use leading to discrimination against people in the African American, Native American, Asian, Latino, Arab, and Muslim communities of the U.S. In European countries, the term "ethnic profiling" is also used instead of racial profiling.

This is the first album the band released on their own record label, Grrr Records, and the first with new bassist Roy Montroy, since Jim Denton left the band in 1987 to enter theological seminary.

Grrr Records is a French avant-garde jazz record label founded by Jean-Jacques Birgé in 1975.

Seminary, school of theology, theological seminary, and divinity school are educational institutions for educating students in scripture, theology, generally to prepare them for ordination to serve as clergy, in academics, or in Christian ministry. The English word is taken from the Latin seminarium, translated as seed-bed, an image taken from the Council of Trent document Cum adolescentium aetas which called for the first modern seminaries. In the West, the term now refers to Catholic educational institutes and has widened to include other Christian denominations and American Jewish institutions.

Track listing

All songs written by Glenn Kaiser and Roy Montroy unless otherwise noted

  1. "Silence Screams" – 4:13
  2. "You Got Me Rockin'" (Stu Heiss, Kaiser) – 3:15
  3. "Someone Sleeps" (Kaiser, Montroy, Jon Trott) – 5:21 originally titled "I See Red", and more specifically concerned Native Americans .
  4. "Waitin' on Sundown" (Jim Denton, Kaiser, Trott) – 4:06
  5. "Presence of the Lord" (Eric Clapton) – 4:35
  6. "Light/Light" – 3:44
  7. "Rain Dance" (Montroy, Trott) – 5:06
  8. "Every Waking Hour" (Kaiser) – 4:06
  9. "Three Seconds" (Kaiser, Montroy, Trott) – 4:37
  10. "You Get What You Choose" – 4:29

Personnel

REZ is:

Additional Musicians:

Production

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References

  1. 1 2 Van Pelt, Doug (December 1988). "Reviews / Silence Screams". CCM Magazine . 11 (6): 30,32. ISSN   1524-7848.
  2. ↑ Reynolds, Dave (21 January 1989). "Rez ?Silence Screams'". Kerrang! . 222. London, UK: Spotlight Publications ltd. p. 23.|access-date= requires |url= (help)
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