NORTH OF SILENCE

NORTH OF SILENCE — cinematic dark music project from Switzerland

NORTH OF SILENCE — a man walks toward a red horizon, leaving a shattered mirror behind The sound of what remains when everything goes quiet.

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Someone To Share The Quiet — single cover

Single · In stores 13 November 2026

„Someone To Share The Quiet“ coming soon

Alex N.O.S

For years the quiet felt like a gap in me, like someone who was late. So I chased every maybe, pushed too hard, called too often, stayed too long, and asked women I barely knew to tell me I was worth wanting. When it failed, and it always failed, I believed the gap was me.

Nothing Exploded — single cover

Single · In stores 11 December 2026

„Nothing Exploded“

Mara N.O.S

Every love I knew before him was loud. Shouting in the kitchen, leaving just to come back worse. Then an even voice on a normal Tuesday, and I kept waiting for the turn that never came.

In the Press

“Could easily be the soundtrack to a thriller or horror film.”

On Beat on The Zombie in the Mirror · Reforged Edition · Translated from Spanish
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Music

Albums & singles · streaming here and on SoundCloud
It Still Matters — cover

Single · Out now · Oct 2026

It Still Matters

Mara N.O.S

This one is about a friendship that ended without ending. No fight, no wrong word, just two lives getting busy in different cities until next month somehow became never. Calls turned into messages, messages into birthdays, birthdays into thinking of you without saying so.

For a while I thought that meant it failed, like it only counted if it lasted. Then last week something stupid made me laugh, something only you would get, and my hand went to the phone before I remembered. I don't hate your new life, but I miss being in it.

I don't need it back to know it was real. Real years don't expire just because we stopped. Your number is still in my phone, low on the list, and if it ever lights up, I'll pick up.

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Started In The Middle — cover

Single · Out now · Oct 2026

Started In The Middle

Alex N.O.S & Mara N.O.S

This one is about a conversation that needed no beginning. One night a voice answered before I finished the thought, and I know no one was there. It was my own head, talking kindly to itself.

Morning took the words, all of them. But my shoulders remembered how light they had been. That same day someone asked about my week, and I heard myself start at the beginning, like always, building the whole road just to walk ten steps.

I don't miss the answer. The words were never the point. I miss the weight that wasn't there when I finally spoke, and now I know what I'm listening for.

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No One Could Feel Me — cover

Single · Out now · Sep 2026

No One Could Feel Me

Alex N.O.S

For a long time I ran my days like orders, and I kept every one. I cut out whatever made me soft, the noise and the people too, and turned myself into the general of all of it. It worked, and I was proud of it.

The cost was that nothing could reach me. I could lead a room and somehow never be in it, and what I called being safe was being alone. I don't regret the discipline, it carried me, but strength without a heart stays cold.

For a long time I thought I had to choose between being strong and being felt. The plan was never the problem, so the structure stayed. What came home was me.

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Just Enough — cover

Single · Out now · Sep 2026

Just Enough

Alex N.O.S

I met her in her worst year, and I stayed on the line through the miles at the hours she chose. She was paid to be wanted and I knew it, but I thought my wanting was different because mine was free. She never said she wanted me and never said she didn't, so I built a life inside that gap.

She gave me just enough to keep me giving everything: a little time, a little light at midnight, a camera that stopped at the lace. Then I found out about the others, and that what stayed covered for me was never covered for them. I was never her person, only her proof that she could still be wanted.

I don't hate her. She was drowning and I was something that floated, and some nights I still miss being near. The little light still comes on at the same hour, but I don't answer anymore, and it goes dark without me.

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The Version They Followed — cover

Single · Out now · Sep 2026

The Version They Followed

Alex N.O.S

I learned what worked online: short jokes, fast cuts, a face people remembered. The audience grew to twenty-five thousand, and a television crew came into my living room. For a while it looked like proof that I had finally become visible.

The better it worked, the less of me was left in it. When I tried to say something real, people laughed, because once you become the joke, some forget there is a person underneath. Nothing was failing, and that was the problem.

So I deleted the account. The room stayed empty, and I stayed. For the first time in a long time, I could hear my own voice.

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I Wanted It Until It Came Close — cover

Single · Out now · Sep 2026

I Wanted It Until It Came Close

Alex N.O.S

For years I believed this was what I wanted: to be seen, to be chosen, to finally know I wasn't invisible. Then she arrived, new and younger than most, and the looks started lasting longer.

But when it came close, it didn't feel like relief. Everything in me went quiet, not from desire but from something old that felt too familiar. She did nothing wrong, which made it harder.

So I gave short answers and turned back to the screen. Not because I was afraid of her, but because I didn't trust the part of me that still remembered why I had wanted this so much. I let the moment die there.

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Someone I Never Met — cover

Single · Out now · Sep 2026

Someone I Never Met

Alex N.O.S

One morning I woke up grieving someone who never existed. A woman from a dream, no name, no history, who looked at me like there was nothing to explain and nothing in me that needed fixing.

I knew she wasn't real. No number, no street, no place to return to. But the days after still felt emptier, and long after her face faded, the feeling refused to go.

Maybe I never missed her, maybe I missed the man I was while she was looking at me. She was never real, but the feeling was, and it stayed. If it ever finds me awake, I will recognize it.

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You Dont Get To Name Me — cover

Single · Out now · Sep 2026

You Dont Get To Name Me

Alex N.O.S

People saw the wheelchair before they saw me. One detail became a whole story before I ever said a word: lowered voices, questions asked to the person beside me, as if I wasn't there.

I've been called brave for ordinary things, fragile before I even moved, inspiring before anyone knew me. Some of it was kindness, some of it pity. But even gentle words can become walls when everyone keeps telling you who they think you are.

So I stopped correcting them and stopped carrying what was never mine. Their version of me can stay with them. What they saw was real, it just wasn't all of me.

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Five Seconds — cover

Single · Out now · Sep 2026

Five Seconds

Alex N.O.S

My last evening there, she came over to my table. She wanted to be seen, and I saw her. Five seconds, nobody looked away, and more happened in that silence than in whole evenings before.

She stayed near like she was waiting for a door I didn't open. I wanted her number, wanted all of it, and I let it pass. Not fear, a choice.

I don't wish it went further, and I still go back to it. Both are true. I still have the five seconds.

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The First Joke After The Dark — cover

Single · Out now · Sep 2026

The First Joke After The Dark

Alex N.O.S

There were nights when nothing was funny. White walls, cold light, a room that smelled like chemicals, pain so loud it made the whole world feel small. People kept asking how bad it was, like pain could fit inside a number, so I stopped trying to explain it.

Then the first joke after the dark came back: small, mean, almost stupid, but mine. I didn't laugh because it stopped hurting. I laughed because somewhere underneath, I was still there.

It wasn't brave, it wasn't beautiful, it wasn't healing. The pain was still there, the room was still cold, nothing had changed except one thing: I could laugh again. As long as I can do that, the dark doesn't get the last word.

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The Zombie in the Mirror — cover

Single · Out now · Sep 2026

The Zombie in the Mirror

Alex N.O.S

I woke up and my face didn't look like mine. The skin split open, turned red, spread. Every morning there was more of it and less of me. The horror wasn't what I saw in the mirror. It was wondering if anyone else could still see me underneath.

People looked, then looked away. Strangers kept their distance, as if broken skin meant something inside was broken too. That got inside my head more than the wounds did. I stopped wanting photographs. Stopped trusting bright rooms. Stopped looking too long at anything reflective. I knew I was still there: same voice, same mind, same fire. But when the outside keeps screaming louder than the inside, you start forgetting which one is you.

Then slowly the red began to fade. The cracks closed, the burning stopped, and something familiar came back piece by piece. I looked again. No monster, no blood, no cracks. Just skin, just breath, just me. For the first time in a long time, I recognized my own face.

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All music · 36 releases

The Story

NORTH OF SILENCE is not a single genre. And it is not a loose collection of dark songs. It is a personal, cinematic music project about inner turning points. Moments when almost nothing seems to happen on the outside, while an entire direction changes within.

The music moves between progressive black metal, dark ambient and alternative metal. Some pieces stay almost completely still and atmospheric. Others build slowly toward a vast emotional eruption.

Played in order, the releases tell one story. A man says goodbye to a life that no longer fits, without knowing yet what comes next. Through survival, loss, love, boundaries and identity. Toward a life that finally feels like his own.

Musically, the project was shaped by the atmosphere of Curry Barker’s Obsession and Rock Burwell’s score. An inspiration, not an affiliation.

Where this began. NORTH OF SILENCE would not exist without Obsession (2025), written, directed and edited by Curry Barker. Rock Burwell’s score showed me what the space between notes can carry. And Inde Navarrette’s Nikki is the reason „For Nikki“ exists at all: sassy, big-hearted, teasing, testing, giving one shy friend every opening to be honest, and then trapped inside a love he chose to force. This song is the night where he tells the truth instead. Michael Johnston as Bear, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Andy Richter and Haley Fitzgerald made a world I couldn’t leave. The last track of Polaris Origin, „Obsession“, was made right after the film. It became the forerunner of everything that followed. This project is my answer to it.

Independent tribute — no official connection to the film, its cast or crew.

Felt by me. Inspired by many. Copied from none.

What do you hear of yourself
when all the noise disappears?

The soundtrack of becoming the person you chose to be.

NORTH OF SILENCE — Alex N.O.S and Mara N.O.S
About

Two voices. One direction. No noise.

Dark Ambient · Orchestral · Metal · Soundtrack

NORTH OF SILENCE is the work of one man from Switzerland, told through two voices: Alex N.O.S and Mara N.O.S. Every song starts from a lived turning point or from what happens between people. Produced in FL Studio + AI. Held together by one story.

These songs hand out no advice and sell no method. They document what it sounds like when two people stop waiting for permission and start heading north, each from their own side.

Music and all artwork are created with AI tools, directed, arranged and finished by the artist.

About Alex & Mara

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28Releasessince Mar 2026
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