The End of Silence | ||||
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Released | February 25, 1992 | |||
Recorded | October 1991 | |||
Studio | Showplace Studios, Dover, New Jersey | |||
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Length | 72:30 | |||
Label | Imago | |||
Producer | Andy Wallace | |||
Rollins Band chronology | ||||
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Singles from The End of Silence | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | [4] |
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 8/10 [5] |
Los Angeles Times | [6] |
MusicHound Rock | [7] |
Rolling Stone | [8] |
Select | [9] |
Spin Alternative Record Guide | 6/10 [10] |
Vox | 9/10 [11] |
The End of Silence is the third studio album by the American rock band Rollins Band, led by former Black Flag singer Henry Rollins. The album's cover features a stylized drawing of the sun identical to the one tattooed on Rollins' back. The album's liner notes credit the artwork to California tattoo artist Rick Spellman.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave it four out of five stars in his retrospective review. He observed that the singles received substantial airplay on MTV's Headbanger's Ball program, writing that the album "further cemented Rollins' profile with yet another audience: metalheads." [3] He adds, "Rollins released other solid records, but The End of Silence remains his best." In Metal Hammer's list of the top 20 best metal albums of 1992, they describe the album as "taut, ferocious, withering" and that it is "the record that took Rollins from hardcore punk renaissance man to bona fide alt-rock icon." [1] Tool bassist Justin Chancellor has mentioned that he was a fan of the album when it was released in the early 1990s. [12]
All songs written by Henry Rollins, Chris Haskett, Andrew Weiss and Sim Cain.
Year | Publication | Country | Accolade | Rank | |
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1992 | Rock de Lux | Spain | "Albums of the Year" | 23 | [13] |
1992 | Sounds | Germany | "Albums of the Year" | 24 | [14] |
1992 | Select | United Kingdom | "Albums of the Year" | 40 | [15] |
1996 | Visions | Germany | "The Eternal Readers Charts" | 63 | [16] |
1996 | Visions | Germany | "The Best Albums 1991–96" | * | [17] |
1999 | Visions | Germany | "The Most Important Albums of the Nineties" | 15 | [18] |
2000 | Terrorizer | United Kingdom | "100 Most Important Albums of the Nineties" | * | [19] |
2004 | Decibel | United States | "Hall of Fame" | 19 | [20] |
2005 | Rock Hard | Germany | "The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time" | 426 | [21] |
2022 | Metal Hammer | United Kingdom | "Top 20 Best Metal Albums of 1992" | * | [1] |
"*" denotes an unordered list. |
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Blues rock, jazz, swing and prog all propped up a rock hard alt-metal sound.