About Northern Silence:
Northern Silence Productions is a German underground label and mailorder focused mainly on Black Metal and related styles. It was founded in 2003 by owner Torsten Suess, who ran it by himself until June 2020. In July 2021 the sole trader Northern Silence was turned into the Northern Silence Productions GmbH & Co. KG. In July 2023 the label and mailorder split into two separate companies. The label moved to Cyprus with its owner Torsten Suess, and the mailorder remained in Germany as the distributor of all Northern Silence releases and the entire mailorder stock. It is now run by C.E.O. Randolf Baumgärtel and employees Dany Tee (Los Males Del Mundo) and Olga Baumgärtel.
Since its founding, Northern Silence has become one of the more noteworthy labels especially in the Atmospheric Black Metal community. The primary focus lies on signing new/unknown acts, helping them to spread their music to a worldwide audience and grow into respectable, well-known and much loved artists in the process. Successful examples are Caladan Brood, Gallowbraid, Woods of Desolation, Saor, Eldamar, Faidra, Emyn Muil, Cân Bardd, Heretoir, Nornír, Angantyr, Belenos, Belore, Skyforest and many others.
The label used to have two subdivisions – Eyes Like Snow & Beneath Grey Skies - which focused on Doom/Heavy Metal and Alternative/Gothic Rock, respectively. Both are currently on hold.
Northern Silence does not have and never had any religious or political agenda or affiliations. The label’s founder, as a unique focal point of the divine, follows the way of Advaita Vedanta and allows all seeming expressions of creation to be as they are, understanding that their nature is of his own making and ultimately completely illusory.
The Northern Silence mailorder, with over 7000 individual titles in stock, is meant to be a source for Metal and Dungeon Synth fans from all over the world to get the music they enjoy in physical format, as well as merchandise of their favorite bands. The main focus lies on Black Metal but releases of other more or less Metal-related subgenres and Dungeon Synth are offered as well.
Northern Silence runs a Bandcamp page (https://northernsilenceproductions.bandcamp.com/) through which most physical releases and many downloads of Northern Silence releases are sold. To stay informed about new releases as well as shop updates it is recommended to follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
To check out Northern Silence releases, Bandcamp is certainly the ideal choice, but many of them are also available on Youtube, mostly on the well-known channel “Black Metal Promotion”.