The Silver have introduced their sophomore full-length album, Trying Glass Hymnal Blue, due out March 20, 2026 by way of Gilead Media. The document follows the band’s 2021 debut Ward Of Roses and expands dramatically on its fusion of black steel, post-black atmospherics, and ornate heavy steel grandeur.
Greater than a set of songs, Trying Glass Hymnal Blue is conceived as an immersive, ritualistic expertise. Baroque riffing swells with operatic scale, whereas vicious black steel shrieks from vocalist N. Duchemin reduce via the grandeur with surgical depth.
The album’s first single, “Two Candles,” exemplifies this duality. Opening with eerie choral textures and bass, the monitor erupts right into a storm of tremolo riffing earlier than pivoting right into a dramatic heavy steel stomp paying homage to basic ’80s metal, filtered via trendy existential dread. Clear, haunting vocals from V intertwine with Duchemin‘s feral screams, culminating in a deconstructed midsection and an enormous, arena-sized crescendo earlier than spiraling again into darkness.
V feedback on the monitor: “Two Candles burn, one for every face… It’s a shattering of duality, a confrontation with the shadow, and a plea for union and consummation. Musically it displays these themes—terror and longing, ecstasy and despair—finally reconciling the 2 musical ‘faces’ into union. Press play, and burn with me.”
In keeping with the band, Trying Glass Hymnal Blue builds straight upon the inspiration laid by Ward Of Roses, however with larger confidence, ambition, and scale. “With Ward Of Roses we have been discovering ourselves in actual time,” says V. “With Trying Glass Hymnal Blue, we already had the blueprint. From there, the one choice was to make it greater, extra fearless, and extra distinctly us.”
Lyrically, the album explores fractured id, inner reflection, and dreamlike struggling. Duchemin describes the document as “a beast of many faces,” with every music representing a confrontation with self, reminiscence, or notion.
Visually, the album is delivered to life by acclaimed artist Paul Romano, who totally designed the art work and packaging. Drawing on imagery of mirrors, refraction, duality, and mythological symbolism, Romano’s work completes the album’s unified aesthetic imaginative and prescient.
Trying Glass Hymnal Blue was recorded by the band alongside Richie DeVon in Philadelphia and combined and mastered by Damian Herring. Pre-orders are available here.
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