The Silent Comedy

“Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses”
- King Solomon

There was something about that passage. It stuck out to Jeremiah and Joshua Zimmerman. They knew it because their father was a preacher and, as Jeremiah says, they had “all these old Biblical passages floating around in their head.” But as the two brothers, who together form rock outfit the Silent Comedy, began reflecting on their music industry journey, the long-known proverb suddenly began to feel all too relevant...

Enemies Multiply, the resulting album that the band recorded over the course of a year and a half in Austin, Texas, is a big-boned, bruising affair. “Avalanche” stands at the center, framed around a searing guitar line and squelching church organ. A rocker that Josh explains is similar to the band in the way it developed over years to its current state . “It went through this journey where it’s completely transformed. When I listen to how it ended up, I really feel it’s the pinnacle of all of that work.” Even “No Saints Forgiven”, which begins as a back porch delta-blues confessional, quickly explodes into a glam-metal Van Halen-esque sing-along at the chorus. “All that we are as a band is wrapped up in this new project,” Josh says of the Silent Comedy’s belief that conflict and challenges are often the best source material for artistic expression...

“We started to feel the narrative happening,” Jeremiah adds of the years spent writing the material that became Enemies Multiply. “It was grounded in a very real place. We were in legitimate struggles on multiple fronts, so the songs are infused with all of that meaning.” Rather than let it dampen their spirits, however, the multi-instrumentalist Jeremiah and his songwriting savant younger brother Josh channeled this time of conflict into the most impassioned, hard-hitting, and thoroughly engaging album of their career.

Their early albums, such as 2010’s diverse LP, Common Faults, were rough, DIY efforts that still went on to generate hundreds of thousands of digital sales and millions of streams fueled primarily by word of mouth and TV licensing . Licensing placements include brands and show such as Volkswagen, Cinemax, Namco Bandai’s Dark Souls video game, CBS’s Reckless, the CW’s The Originals, Amazon’s Goliath, History’s Hatfields & McCoys and Men Who Built America series and more. “That exposure was great,” shares Josh “but we didn’t have the means at the time to really capture the feeling of the band.”

Over years of evolution, the buzz about The Silent Comedy has always been centered on their live show and its rollicking, over-the-top energy. To that end, the Zimmerman brothers felt their studio efforts needed to better match their live persona, and turned to Grammy- nominated, Austin-based, producer Chris “Frenchie” Smith to record Enemies Multiply. “Frenchie finally captured the feeling of our live show” Josh explains “and we can’t wait for people to hear the result on Enemies Multiply!”