Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Commercial breakthrough, artistic lowpoint

Here, for his first major label release, Rollins bottoms out. "The End Of Silence" explores all the worst aspects of "Hard Volume", meaning that long, slow, dirge like songs that plod along with no excitement whatsoever dominate the record.Only "Low Self Opinion" and "Tearing" show any signs of life and vitality at all. Rollins tries valiantly to carry the rest with his intensity, but falls short of his goal.If you're a fan of his sludgefests, then this CD is definitely for you, if not, then "The End Of Silence" isn't the place to start for novices..it's more like the place to finish.