an Ariatic Silence -virallinen sivu, genre: Melodic Hard Core

SUOSITUIMMAT TARINAT

The seed that would grow to become An Ariatic Silence was planted in late Spring, 2005, with a fateful rendezvous in the percussion room at a Nashville music store. It was there that bassist Chris Carpenter and vocalist Greg Young, then members of the inspired, but struggling rock outfit, Ryonen, were introduced to Ryon Hoard, an accomplished and fiercely motivated drummer who had recently moved to Nashville in search of musicians with a similar vision to his own. Though Ryonen was not in the market for a drummer, Chris and Greg were nonetheless impressed with Ryon's skill, and they immediately noticed striking similarities between his style and their own. They exchanged numbers, but it would be another six months before they would ever play together.

Later in the summer of that same year, Jerry Darnell, a 20-year-old guitarist from Burke, VA, just outside of Washington, D.C., moved to Nashville to attend audio-engineering school. Jerry had become friends with Greg four years prior--his best friend and next door neighbor in Burke was the son of a long-time friend and bandmate of Greg's father's, and his decision to move to Nashville in pursuit of his musical goals had been aided by all of these people's encouragement. Although Greg and Jerry had played guitar together before on several occasions, the two had no real plans to play together upon Jerry's arrival. But as the universe would have it, creative differences forced Ryonen guitarist Conrad Allen to part ways with the band, a severence whose timing seemed all-too-coincidental with Jerry's move. Greg asked Jerry to join almost immediately, and for the moment it seemed as if Ryonen would continue almost as it had before.

But in November, in a final, fatal blow to the band known as Ryonen, further creative and directional differences split the band from one it's founding fathers, drummer Michael Wilson. Left with no drummer and a furiously burning fire, the remaining three called upon Ryon to be the missing piece in their ever-changing musical puzzle. Soon after, the four members hung out together for the first time, and before the band had ever played a note, it became evident that An Ariatic Silence had already been born. Soon after, the band held its first practice at a friend's rehearsal space, and synergy the likes of which none of them had ever experience was achieved.

Since that prophetic night in November, blood has become the only thing separating these four musicians from true brotherhood; and An Ariatic Silence has become, to them, much more than a band. It has become an ideal, a covenant, a way of life. It has become a symbol of beauty, of inspiration, of camaraderie, of revolution, of freedom--a unique harmony aimed at cutting to the core of the polluted social psyche, and exploding in seismic lullaby for all to hear, in the name of the only things that truly matter: LIFE, LOVE, TRUTH, TRUST, MUSIC.

Greg Young 07 syyskuuta 2006 08.09