No-Big-Silence

No-Big-Silence

No-Big-Silence ("NBS") Originally known as Aggressor is an Industrial Metal/Rock band from Estonia.

Beginings

The Beginings of Aggressor (No-Big-Silence) are found back in 1989 when they started playing together as an unknown band. At the start of 1990 they released their first demo album called "Indestructible" the music that made this demo was influenced by German Thrash Metal band Kreator. Their first big performance was on the 17th of Aprill 1990 and a year later they put together a 4 track demo which resulted in the recording of their first album Procreate the Petrifactions at the end of 1992. Later on they played several shows in Moscow and in 1994 they releasd their second album Of Long Duration Anguish.

From Death to Industrial

In 1994 bass guitarist Cram sung a Corrosia Metalla cover called "Russian Vodka" from their album Of Long Duration Anguish in which later resulted the idea of changing the band's style.

In 1995 they went to the studio (still as Aggressor) where they were suggested a name-change. So in 1996 they wrote lyrics to a song titled "No-Big-Silence 99" (a street in the USA where a mass murder was committed). So the album was titled "99" and band was renamed "No Big Silence".

Aggressor 1989-1995

Early life

The band was first introduced to a wider audience in the summer of 1995 at the Rock Summer festival, Estonia, where they headlined the B-stage. The crowd gave the band a spectacular welcome and from then on No-Big-Silence has successfully performed at larger festivals and smaller clubs in Estonia, the Baltic States, Russia and Scandinavia. No-Big-Silence is valued as a live-act with an impressive show, esteemed by such world class rock bands as Metallica, Iron Maiden, Rammstein, HIM, Motörhead, Waltari etc. No-Big-Silence was chosen to be their support act from a selection of bands.

Success

The chairman of the concert agency BDG Peeter Rebane, the local promoter for Metallic, Iron Maiden and Rammstein, comments: "In our opinion No-Big-Silence is the most professional industrial band in the Baltics. Besides, they are a great live-act."

Their second release Successful, Bitch & Beautiful was already the album of current hitsongs such as "On The Hunt" and "Vamp-O-Drama". In 2001 the album was sold in Scandinavia, Germany, Italy and other European countries through the Finnish label Cyberware Production. The homepage of Cyberware states that the album of No-Big-Silence is a magnificent masterpiece and regards it as one of the label's strongest releases today. According to Cyberware the bonus video "Star DeLuxe" on the western version of the album gives a good overview of the band's glamorous live-show and enthusiastic fanbase. The Scandinavian music magazine Prospective Magazine thinks that "Successful, Bitch and Beautiful" is a must to listen to. The review in the same magazines gives No-Big-Silence 8 out of 10 points. Johan Carlsson, a reviewer for the Swedish Release Magazine distinguishes the even and uniform quality of the album. "Metal riffs melded with electronic sounds on top of rock song structures make an interesting mixture, and the vocals fit perfectly." Positively surprised, he continues: "It is nice to see an Estonian band, but don't buy it because of that. Buy it because it is good."

Style

The sound of NBS could be said as Metal and Rock music with lots of eletronic sounds. E.g. It has the guitar sounds of Rammstein and Rob Zombie with the eletronic sounds of Depeche Mode plus the voice like sounds of Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

"No- Big-Silence, unlike most of the hard rock bands that get their inspiration from mysticism, concentrates on expressing the twists and turns of human psychology in the language of pop music. It is a great achievement in itself - to sound tough and delicate at the same time,"

states Marko Mägi from Eesti Express weekly.

Influences

Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, KoRn, Rammstein, Rob Zombie , Filter, Depeche Mode.

Members

Aggressor lineup

• Villem Tarvas (Willem) — Vocals, Guitar
• Marek Piliste (Cram) — Bass
• Kristo Kotkas — Guitar
• Marko Atso — Drums

No-Big-Silence lineup

• Cram — Vocals
• Willem — Bass, backing vocals
• Kristo K — Guitar, keyboards and programming
• Kristo R — Drums

Previous members

• Marko Atso - Drums (1995-2000)

Aggressor Albums

• Procreate the Petrifactions (1993)
• Of Long Duration Anguish (1994)
• Procreate the Petrifactions 2004 (2004)

No-Big-Silence Albums

• 99 (Album) 1997
• Successful, Bitch & Beautiful (2000)
• Kuidas kuningas kuu peale kippus (2004)
• War In Wonderland (2006)

Live Albums And Compilations

• Unreleased (Album) (2003)
• Suurte Masinate Muusika (2007)

External links

• Web site (in English)
• Estonian Metal (in English)
• Estonian Metal, Aggressor entry (in English)
• NBS's My Space entry
• Fan site (in Estonian)