All Hail the Silence

All Hail the Silence
Background information
Genres	Electronic, synthpop, new wave
Years active	2012, 2014–present
Associated acts	Erasure, Vince Clarke
Website	http://www.allhailthesilence.com/
Members	BT Christian Burns
Notable instruments
Roland System 100 Oberheim 4 Voice Roland Jupiter-8 Prophet-5 Roland Juno-60 Minimoog

All Hail the Silence is an electronic music/synthpop/throwback project consisting of two members: electronic musician Brian Transeau and singer-songwriter Christian Burns. The band was informally announced on March 8, 2012, but live shows and project announcements did not commence until the second half of 2014.

All Hail the Silence and the subsequent album are notable in that they were created using analog synthesizers without the aid of a computer.

In 2012, Transeau contacted Burns, who collaborated with him on albums such as the Grammy Award-nominated These Hopeful Machines (2010) and A Song Across Wires (2013), inquiring on the formation of a band, to which Burns accepted. Before the band's informal announcement, the duo recorded 17 songs in the basement of a synth store called AnalogLand in Baltimore without the use of a computer. Transeau stated that the record was inspired by the teen angst of listening to synthpop bands from the 1980s and 1990s such as Depeche Mode, Yaz, The Human League, OMD, and The Blue Nile. He describes it as "synth wave".

One of the seventeen songs, called "Looking Glass", is available for download as a "Tweet for a Track" song in connection to Twitter and Facebook.

The duo's first album was expected for release in the second half of 2012, but the project was postponed so that both artists could finish their remaining solo projects.

In October 2013, it was announced that musician Vince Clarke would work with All Hail the Silence on their forthcoming project. On July 21, 2014, Transeau and Burns announced that their band would be touring with Erasure in the fall of 2014 for the album The Violet Flame.

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