The Knife - Silent Shout (Official Music Video)

Official video for 'Silent Shout' by The Knife, taken from their album of the same name.
Directed by Andreas Nilsson.
"We told Andreas we wanted something very dark and surrealist. When he came up with this idea it was perfect. [...] it has all the elements that we like -- it's very sad, but hard and beautiful at the same time. And it's cold, but it's warm." Karin
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[@Mike_TNVol4Life]

One of the greatest Albums ever made! Top to Bottom perfection! You can literally just start from this first song & let it play to the end without ever hearing a bad song! (I don't really think The Knife knew how to make a bad song honestly!) I wish for new Knife album! Please!! 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@John-tc3ln]

lol I was just thinking, what album could I just put on and let play, et voilà!

[@RdM-bl2oq]

Completely agree, absolutely perfect album

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

A timeless classic. After all these years this track is even more beautiful.

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

I cought a glimpse now it haunts me

[@sibagatov]

Yes! Now I want to rediscover The Knife

[@timreidflytrap]

spot on assessment. haunting beauty it’s everything. beloved absolutely.

[@vegacast]

@@PandemoniumMeltDown same

[@s.a.l948]

Yeah, their music hasn't aged

[@Fatalink]

Love that this is partially influenced by Black Hole by Charles Burns, which is one of my favorite graphic novels. The parallels in the lyrics and visuals are apparent. Great song.

[@larsmuller309]

Yesterday today tomorrow...this track is everything...timeless beautiful and never boring🙏🏻

[@kentchambers4468]

🇸🇪🔥 from Nebraska 🇺🇸

[@T_from_U]

sheep in the dark... haha... quite.

[@geekoidian]

The Recue in France

[@nicoloquadi5452]

2024. Still here. Silent Shout in my heart for 20 years ❤️

[@slcsocialist]

This whole album was a revelation during a weird year for teenage me. It still goes in rotation when I'm feeling certain ways. This song is s monolith of brilliant dark electronic music.

[@DracoVolantus]

me too

[@lucasjunginger5090]

me too

[@schnorz84]

couldn't agree more!

[@baumsn]

nicely put

[@CarlosTorres-yt5os]

Cantina

[@cloudbloom]

One of my favorite arpeggios of all time. The build and chaotic drive is amazing

[@billkormas3460]

Finally the official music video on watchable quality

[@scoobeski]

I love KZbin journeys. Watching Mental As Anything live it up one minute, Nina Hagen African reggae the next and ending up on this wondrous beast of a track and now it's stupid o'clock in the morning and I no longer want to sleep.

[@badbusiness2113]

KZbin Trippin'

[@Redemtor62]

Best electronic music ever created

[@gianlucacroce1653]

An absolute masterpiece.

[@DjokoJ]

I remember back when I heard this song for the first time, I was mesmerized and couldn't stop listening to it all over again and again. I immediately knew that it would be a legendary song!

[@grantbailey6748]

I can't stop playing it in 2024

[@amg4150]

Me too. It’s a timeless classic!

[@faithhealer3154]

There´s no Loudspeaker who could cope with the Level of loud i want to play this....Maybe a huge Stereo Tower on the damn Moon !!

[@JL0ndon]

When you wake to a notification that the knife uploaded and it’s an HD version of your favorite song

[@deenial]

It’s 480 tho

[@JL0ndon]

@@deenial i mean it’s just better definition compared to the original upload. Not actual full hd 1080p

[@ivankramskoi4394]

Ok... what happens then?

[@stacybigfoot4801]

The Knife in my heart.

[@EternalExodus]

hey, I have a tattoo of this song. the symbol that flashes at the beginning, with all the lines. still one of my favorite songs ever.

[@vascorebelo7306]

Heard this through a dark period of my life. Learnt that even during dark times there was always room for beauty

[@mnmlstellar]

#lyrics I never knew this could happen to me I know now fragility I know there's people who I haven't told I know of people who are getting old Wish I could speak in just one sweep What you are and what you mean to me Instead I mumble randomly You stand by and enlighten me In a dream I lost my teeth again Calling me woman and half man Yes in a dream all my teeth fell out A cracked smile and a silent shout A cracked smile and a silent shout If I explain it once thoroughly He'll have you later 'cause it's never free You were at the gigantic spree I caught a glimpse now it haunts me I caught a glimpse now it haunts me

[@puppygumdrop313]

~ Thank You ~

[@tabes1268]

Love the dark folk vibe. Its like David Lynch guest directing one of the original moomins.

[@JH-lo9ut]

It is very reminiscent of some early video by Björk ("human behavior"?) It was directed by Michel Gondry, and Yes he was inspired by David Lynch.

[@ninalarae9917]

I always listen to th8s when I'm wide awake and decorating or doing something artistic, especially when it's cold outside gray &winter. Over around 10 yrs ago, I was going to perform at an exotic dance club to this with a green light show. I ended up leaving, though, to come back to Birmingham and leaving that club on the coast behind.

[@markomedic8724]

this whole album is a universe of meaning

[@1987vosje]

Some songs are like alligators. Their bodies lie still in the water, there is almost a tranquil feel to it watching them. But their eyes are above water. Fully awake and experiencing. There is a build up. A warning sign, an inner turmoil not visible above. There is more happening under that surface. There is something brooding. This is one of those songs!

[@petemcdonald2356]

We must marry! ;-)

[@stoopidgerl]

I just discovered this today. No shit... Like on my 8th listen today.

[@Brascofarian]

one of the best openings of any track ever. Sublime.

[@marcodallolio9746]

Unlike most music I used to be enthusiastic about in 2006, as a teenager, when I listen to this today it's not just nostalgia. I'm a different person with different tastes and emotions, but this still speaks to me

[@imjustaguy8232]

This used to scare me and fill me with wonder at the same time in my early high school years. It still does.

[@xKitKit]

I absolutely adore this music video. Somewhat reminiscent of Tool’s “Schism” and “Parabola" what with the uncanny faces and anatomical irregularities.

[@chillkat2317]

Still kicking ass in 2024, enough said

[@WordTweak]

This is the gateway song that hooked me.

[@LouisMorissette]

Same

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

Colouring of Pigeons for me

[@ComradeOgilvy369]

The Knife are on a level of their own. This one was worth having on vinyl.

[@22Ein]

I got Tomorrow in a Year when they released that in 2021. Still my pride and joy.

[@mida8261]

I discovered this band for the first time in 2010 when I started college. My introduction to the band was both Heartbeats and Silent Shout. I've been a huge fan of The Knife/Fever Ray since. Listening to this song brings me back to my college years. Good times!

[@MantecadasPaulina]

I discovered The Knife at 17, through this song, 12 years ago. Still my favorite music project (maybe sharing the top spot with Portishead). In my opinion, some of the most original lyrics out there, one of the smartest uses of an eclectic repertoire of styles, always looking not only for new ways of making music, but also for new ways of understanding how music can participate on the path to a more plural and united society. Your songs have accompanied me in some of the most important stages and events of my life. Thank you.

[@TechIOwn]

The Knife, along with Air, Portishead and Massive Attack, not to mention Basement Jaxx, most of it still sounds contemporary even some 10-15 years later.

[@ggeemmiinnii]

Speaking of Portishead. I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard them. I was 11 years old, in 6th grade, and it was fall of 1990. I was in my bedroom getting my school clothes ready for the morning. I had my little Sony boombox tuned to 102.1, and this...this SONG came on that was unlike anything I had ever heard before...I knew immediately that this was a band I'd have a long-term love affair with. I grabbed a blank cassette and threw it in the tape deck and hit record. This was pre-internet (at least pre-before-everyone-had-internet-access), so I could only hope the DJ said the name of the artist or song after the song ended--and he did! I asked for 'Dummy' for Christmas that year and, bless my parents, I got it on CD. I'll be 44 tomorrow and I'm lucky to have so many poignant memories which include Portishead on the figurative soundtrack.

[@MantecadasPaulina]

@@ggeemmiinnii thank you for sharing!

[@tontaestupida4279]

THANK YOU THE KNIFE (KARIN AND OLOF) FOR MAKING SUCH A WONDERFUL, TIMELESS AND FABULOUS RECORD. I HAVE NO WORDS TO EXPLAIN HOW MUCH YOU GUYS ARE PART OF MY LIFE (2006) MY HIGH SCHOOL LIFE TO BE PRECISE. I NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE ONE YOUR LIVE SHOWS :( I HOPE ONE DAY, IN THIS LIFE OR IN THE OTHER I CAN SEE YOU PERFORM. GREETINGS FROM MÉXICO!

[@operationscomputer1478]

thanks for the capslock mate

[@Onionbaron]

@@operationscomputer1478 phew, thank god somebody reacts to the atrocity's in these dark ages!

[@astanarcho8651]

that was a silent shout ;)

[@rajpritdeb2069]

ChatGTP suggested this classic

[@FrancisGo.]

Based. There must be some of me and my friends in the training data.

[@shkrafa]

Importante que vuelvan para recordarnos todo lo que han dicho los últimos años, es su tiempo.

[@-hastatus-]

Insane music, insane video.

[@mehdihani2932]

chat gpt recommended me this 😅

[@chrisarnold462]

Really? What did you ask!? That's awesome

[@mehdihani2932]

@@chrisarnold462 just asked for some music

[@oreziopancrazio3685]

Im sorry for you then

[@mehdihani2932]

@@oreziopancrazio3685 ok

[@w.neuman]

*(WAS PRETTY EXCITED TO SEE A °NOTIFICATION FROM · "THE~KNIFE".!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ) 👀🙉🔪 €¥£ ^

[@johnnyronic]

Come back, my heroes!

[@mi-da2920]

It still boggles the mind that the album is 16 years old! I was a freshmen in high school when the album came out. Still rocking that album in my 30's!

[@kelseycrider329]

Sameeee!

[@magnushhogberg]

Same but in my 50's 😁

[@AvanaVana]

Throbbing Gristle’s “Hot on the Heels of Love” is 43 years old, which is the musical and conceptual center of this song. And HHHL was a minimalist/industrial response to the disco maximalism of Giorgio Moroder’s 1977 “I Feel Love”.

[@magnushhogberg]

@@AvanaVana I agree even if it's a stretch. HHHL's production quality doesn't stand the test of time though. But that's not surprising for music from that time :)

[@AvanaVana]

@@magnushhogberg I guess it’s a matter of taste and occasion. It still sounds very nice to me in a dark warehouse early or late at night. Edit: I actually recall a just few years ago playing it in an opening set for Pharmakon. So the production has a quality that can work with the setting. But I try not to overplay my old TG records :)

[@GodmadeConscious]

Does anyone else realize that the beginning of this song is a transmission to humans and other life forms?

[@alxdiablo]

I got lost with my time capsule and ended up in 2006, the day when I first heard this track ♾

[@RCLMR97]

this song was my first genuine discovery into "weird" or different music to what everyone else i knew was listening to. ill never forget someone much older than me at the time (2011) seeing what I was listening to (this song) and being impressed. lol. He showed me many great artists and bands and opened my whole world up. Someone else made this exact comment: This is the gateway song.

[@fluidified5354]

Yeah man these are the tracks that I enjoy discovering because i probably wouldn’t have had the chance to come across this song have I not click on it in my recommendation feed.

[@Floralsickness]

same for me, in my teens. I’m now over 30. This song IS a gateway.

[@Fygee]

I watch this and I imagine this airing on early 80s MTV. Melting everyone's minds and scaring kids that dared to channel flip while it was airing.

[@BuseJF]

Life changing music video for me. One of the greatest of all time. So happy there’s finally a clean, high quality copy online.

[@hs1544]

I used to listen to this all the time. Wow what a throwback

[@CBlargh]

I think in order to really understand this, one has to live through a Scandinavian winter. It is like floating, lost in space. You can scream as much as you like, but you'll never make a sound.

[@mrflipmode]

Aphex twin would be proud of this video, good work!

[@jairshazajid1051]

never knew this could happen to me I know now fragility I know there's people who I haven't told I know of people who are getting old Wish I could speak in just one sweep What you are and what you mean to me Instead I mumble randomly You stand by and enlighten me In a dream I lost my teeth again Calling me woman and half man Yes in a dream all my teeth fell out A cracked smile and a silent shout A cracked smile and a silent shout If I explain it once thoroughly He'll have you later 'cause it's never free You were at the gigantic spree I caught a glimpse now it haunts me I caught a glimpse now it haunts me

[@elenas.6607]

Thank You

[@DavidLynchScaresMe]

I still have nightmares about this video....

[@Kopfkissenzerwühler]

I‘m 54, listening now… 24 now! 😉

[@j.petrovics9089]

Over 10 year old masterpiece.

[@ZapPowerMax]

15 to be exact.

[@Onionbaron]

ah I love it! Wait til you discover Mozart and Beethoven! Sooner or later you will discover that age is so very very relative...

[@dudzdangelo]

Trigger to another dimension.

[@Jsarson1976]

One of the best songs ever and really hope they produce music in the next few years. The music industry needs them both 😀

[@rodrigodiana1774]

I'm loving reviving your beautiful discography. It's still disrupiting. Thank you for your music, the knife, and happy 20th anniversary!

[@bodilsvee201]

Such an epitome to EDM absolut epic.

[@muisabfc3033]

First ever

[@brunovinicius1613]

I love you guys more than i love myself, and I love myself a way too much

[@пропАпатиты]

Привет Российским фанатам! Классика 2006)

[@ShadowArtist]

awesome song and the animated light graphics are awesome as always, I do wish the music video was remasted to HD video quality....

[@kucam12mischablue]

quality - 480p in 2021. why

[@elliebarton1005]

Omg 💕 my favourite song by you 🤩 please make a come back you two! Xxxx

[@thelowlytrinity]

this is the best song ever made, probably.

[@DDH4x0r]

Dia banyak dosa,banyak fitnah orang, takdak sunat kulit... Percayalah kepada-Nya Allah Taala Percayalah kepada Rasul-Nya Percayalah kepada Qada dan Qhadar Percayalah kepada raja dan permaisuri Percayalah kepada aku untuk kamu yang sesat dengan dunia Maya.

[@lukefinley_76]

5 minutes of the sexiest music ever written

[@egisandina]

Another dimension 👽

[@DOODOOFART-m9p]

Andreas Nilsson, director of this video, you need to make an HD version of this. This, along with "like a pen" and the other music videos you made in this period is really one of the best music videos ever created. They are incredibly creative and diverse with their fearless switching between several animation techniques at once.

[@k1ste]

Chat GTP brought me here when i asked for one of the best songs in the genre of electronic dance music.

[@mariogomez2807]

This dark synth defo reminds me of some♡ne....I'd rather forget about.

[@jamiefaulkner4648]

Love the timing and melody. Record your heart and incorporate it within the drums . Playing with digital is a freezing sense of sound. Make it all to keep our souls alive, my friend . Reserve and echoing would not justify any of it. But hey... ., who am I to tell you to rock this 360 globe of life that relies of a vibration. In 10 years I will release what I've been manifesting over 50 years. Musique for all aggressive and complacent moods. God's instrument versus the Devils Weapons .

[@petegreci7969]

I've been watching and listening to videos for years to pass the time when I take a break. This is the only one that ever scared me. I never cared for abstract expression, but this one spoke to me. The controlled psychosis is disturbing.

[@Gluten-Paid-For]

2006, is that you?

[@natasa7738]

Timeless…my tune, my frequency…painkiller.

[@forestfishburne7900]

I never knew this could happen to me I know now fragility I know there's people who I haven't told I know of people who are getting old Wish I could speak in just one sweep What you are and what you mean to me Instead I mumble randomly You stand by and enlighten me In a dream I lost my teeth again Calling me woman and half man Yes in a dream all my teeth fell out A cracked smile and a silent shout A cracked smile and a silent shout If I explain it once thoroughly He'll have you later 'cause it's never free You were at the gigantic spree I caught a glimpse now it haunts me I caught a glimpse now it haunts me

[@AnaGogic]

first time hearing this.. fantastic song

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

Lucky you... no wait, it still feels the same after all these years...

[@ch1k4sh4pk3]

Puca traka jako

[@jonnda]

@janineThrows TBH, I didn't really notice or care about the athlete's gender until I read your pinned comment. It was an impressive throw, and I am glad it was caught on camera.

[@denisgucci9768]

Der dritte Raum - Hale bopp

[@skumsters2323]

The video reminds me of Bjork 's human behaviour, Not a big fan of Bjork but that video was f íng fat, So is this one....shivers, thank you!!

[@DDH4x0r]

Taubat ? Taubat apa lan, sudah tutup pintu taubat. Bini aku takpa...sebab tu aku ambik dia balik... Faham?sebab tu aku kata jangan cheat...

[@noordzeepinguin]

i can't believe this one has only 5.2k likes, to me it's a classic

[@TheBFN]

Just heard Fever Ray for the first time today I like it it sounds like something that would be played in hell's sex club... 😈... While your messed up at 3am

[@vegetabletv]

Thank you so much. Lots of love from Costa Rica

[@warj.3577]

Extremely memorable music video. I remember watching this video on Comcast's On-Demand service years ago, in their Music Choice section, before the big revision of On-Demand.

[@juanchobrojas963]

Concierto de este álbum como en el 2006,, por favor!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@sarahkomakino]

💜🔥✨

[@dud0r]

Avantgarde like Pink Floyd those days. Really, really good

[@Xsksnssjccxghb]

All these years I waited :,3

[@homealone5087]

One of the best first tracks of any album.

[@БямбасүрэнГанболд-т7ь]

cool

[@AbstractEnergy321]

All these years and still am amazed at this. Pura Vida from Costa Rica

[@SatanasanataS]

[@melinamuleiro8001]

The turbiest video, i cant sleep... Im afraid of the video... Is this real ?

[@omegahyperes96]

I need to remember to visit this cool chune, so much good music out there. Cheers, Mates 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@lammilamm9997]

Wumm Wumm Wumm, Bumm Bumm Bumm Toller Bass, der gesamte Körper bebt. Sensationell gut😊

[@BlueArcStreaming]

Crazy psychedelic, love it

[@ianation]

still a banger!