★★★★★
Sound: Definitely a must-hear album. Great lyrics coming from the mouths of a great vocalist and lung-wrecking screamer, perfectly matched with sweet, awesome riffs and rhythms, doused up with a pimped drummer. Lots of interesting tracks, recognizing the fact that the album revolves around greek mythology, and the tragic circumstances engraved with it. Very clever. // 10 Lyrics and Singing: The lyrics were perfect. They were very simple yet indulging...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: "A Place Where The Sun Is Silent" is Alesana's 2011 release, follow up to their 2010 release "The Emptiness" and their first release on Epitaph Records. "The Emptiness" was a concept album that revolved around the ideas of Edgar Allen Poe and this new album is actually based on Dante's "Inferno"...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: The instruments in the songs, to me, are amazing. I love the sound of the guitars/bass and the drums together. The beats are breakdowns are very catchy and the screaming is perfect. Alesana has really written some great songs for this new album. Also, it is obvious that their writing and musical abilities have improved since their last album...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
As hard as it is to believe that there's still someone out there clamoring for the same poppy sing/scream emo anthems that were blaring through many a college dorm room in 2004, apparently there still exists an audience for bands like Alesana...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-04-02
★★★★★
Kris Crummett has produced some of my favorite bands in Emarosa and Dance Gavin Dance, and has done well with Alesana's The Emptiness. Now he's charged with calibrating A Place Where The Sun Is Silent and it would be a high order to reproduce the notes of albums past, especially the likes of On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax. "The Dark Wood of Error" is akin to Davey Havok on Sing the Sorrow, but a few piano notes and a sultry voice is less than what's needed to open the album with a bang...
- www.punknews.org
2011-11-10
★★★★★
Oh look, another concept album, and this one is about Dante's Inferno. If you're rolling your eyes right about now, I don't blame you, because it seems like everyone is making a concept album lately, and, to be completely frank, it's starting to irk me. Nonetheless, this is about Alesana's A Place Where the Sun Is Silent - and not my personal opinion of concept albums...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2011-11-03
★★★★★
Release Date: October 18, 2011 In a genre as crammed as post-hardcore, it's easy to become bored with the mundane. As more and more teens flood Purevolume with their generic breakdowns and predictable band names, I find myself more and more apt to ignore the cookie cutter style that has been whittled down to nothing more than mere sound...
- absolutepunk.net
2011-10-31
★★★★★
Release Date: October 18th 2011 Since releasing their debut album On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax back in 2006, Alesana have desperately tried to embolden their sound on each record in hopes of creating a record with enough depth, creativity and original songwriting that would spark the interest of listeners. Where Myth Fades to Legend failed to capture the attention of its listeners as did their previous album. However their third record showed hope for the band...
- absolutepunk.net
2011-10-31
★★★★★
Webster's Dictionary defines "emptiness" as something "lacking reality, substance, meaning, or value or lacking purpose or result" (I'm sure you've never heard an opening quite like that before). It also happens to be the name of Alesana's third studio offering. What do these two things have in common? Well, the definition of the word describes the album to a tee. The Emptiness is just that...
- www.reviewrinserepeat.com
2010-12-14
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