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.