Lost In Silence

Jacob‘s Fall
If you‘re frightened of dying, and you‘re holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.
- Bruce Joel Rubin, Jacob's Ladder

Every single one of us is striving for something higher. Is trying to climb the ladder to heaven just like biblical Jacob did. Yet, the only thing we seem to accomplish is standing in our own and in each others way. Man is a wolf to man, homo homini lupus has taken the place of compassion and altruism. The way up becomes a fall. A reason to despair? Maybe, yes. All the more favourable, though, is to channel society’s drawbacks into gripping and touching music. This is just what Jacob’s Fall did – and with “Lost In Silence”, they wrote one of the most astounding, most tangent and most entrancing German Rock albums of the recent past.
How did it happen? Allow us to elaborate: This band here is a far-cry from a bunch of buddies content with playing the music they privately dig. Jacob’s Fall play the music that comes out of them all by itself. Of course it is influenced by even the tiniest experience you make in life, of course it is coined by the members’ individual preferences between classical music and Rock, between Metal and Pop. However, every last one of these experiences is dissected, analysed, felt, tasted and smelled at only to be reformed in the most original way by genuine music addicts Christian Faust (vocals, guitars, piano), Jens Pietzonka (guitars), Lukas Adelsberger (guitars), Daniel Pabst (bass) and René Jauernik (drums and percussion).
Hence, it’s close to impossible do describe how “Lost In Silence” actually sounds. It’s Rock music, of course it is, but it’s also more than that. Jacob’s Fall like their sound playful and progressive, but then again temptingly catchy, dramatic and highly atmospheric, slow-paced and dipped into deepest minor.
Jacob's Fall's music has an often dark and always melodic aura, even in its sonically heaviest moments. It's a sound you won't forget once you've heard it. The band draws on various musical genres to entangle the listener in a web of melancholy with a steely determination at its core. Furthermore, the album's eleven songs will tear you away from your everyday worries, telling stories full of passion and pain.
The roots of Jacob’s Fall go way deeper than their official birth in 2016. Some of the members were playing in nineties Dark Rock hopefuls My Insanity and toured Europe alongside acts like Lacuna Coil, Samael or Therion. As was the case back then, Jacob's Fall also places great emphasis on the sound quality of their albums. For their 2019 debut album, "The War We Miss?", they enlisted the help of a true luminary: At Woodhouse Studios, Siggi Bemm, who also produced the first My Insanity albums, gave "The War We Miss?" a natural, warm, and mystical sound that brings the feel of the old benchmark works of Tiamat, Moonspell, and The Gathering into the present. "Lost In Silence" was produced entirely independently and finished at Sawdust Studios in Halle/Saale by Annisokay mastermind Christoph Wieczorek. His modern and powerful sound perfectly matches the mostly dark stories told on the current album.
The quintet's atmospheric, bittersweet rock is never hopeless. Instead, it's intensely elegiac, thoughtful, and thoroughly serious. But never with platitudes, brute force, or the plowing of any scene clichés. Instead, it's in search of personal catharsis. And speaking of ladders at the beginning: Jacob's Fall looks set to climb a few rungs this year.