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| Released | October 21, 2003 October 3, 2006 (reissue)[1] | |||
| Recorded | 2003 | |||
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| Length | 52:56 | |||
| Label | Victory | |||
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| Re-issue cover | ||||
 Cover for the reissue of The Silent Circus | ||||
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| AllMusic |   [8] |
| PopMatters | 8/10[7] |
| Punknews | [6] |
The Silent Circus is the second studio album by American progressive metalcore band Between the Buried and Me. Released October 21, 2003, through Victory Records. It was their first album to be released through Victory Records after their departure from Lifeforce Records. It was re-released in 2006 with a bonus DVD included. The album includes 10 tracks with a hidden song titled "The Man Land" hidden at the end of "The Need for Repetition". It is notable for being the band's only album not to be produced by Jamie King. The album was remixed and remastered in 2020.
This is the band's last release with guitarist Nick Fletcher and bassist Jason King and only album with drummer Mark Castillo.
A music video was released for the song "Mordecai"; the video starts with the first nineteen seconds of "Reaction" before transitioning into "Mordecai".
The two part song "Lost Perfection" are the first songs in the Parallax story, which would further develop in "Prequel of the Sequel" from their album Colors and "Swim to the Moon" from their album The Great Misdirect. The Parallax story later became its own EP and album respectively, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues and The Parallax II: Future Sequence.
- ^ "Between The Buried And Me: The Silent Circus (Re-Issue) CD - Victory Merch". Victory Records. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
- ^ https://loudwire.com/who-invented-metalcore/
- ^ Sacher, Andrew (March 8, 2021). "15 Seminal Albums From Metalcore's Second Wave (2000-2010)". Brooklyn Vegan. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
- ^ Hill, John (June 28, 2017). "25 Best Metalcore Albums of All Time". Loudwire. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- ^ a b Hartmann, Graham (October 21, 2013). "Between the Buried and Me, 'Mordecai' (Live) – Video of the Day". Loudwire. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- ^ a b Conduit (November 21, 2003). "Between The Buried And Me - The Silent Circus". Punknews. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
- ^ a b Begrand, Adrien (February 28, 2007). "Between the Buried and Me: The Silent Circus". PopMatters. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
- ^ Morris, Kurt. "The Silent Circus - Between the Buried and Me | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved July 21, 2009.