The Silent Circus

The Silent Circus is the second studio album by the American progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me. Released October 21, 2003, 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". This is the band's last release with guitarist Nick Fletcher and bassist Jason King. It is also the band's only album with drummer Mark Castillo and the only album not produced by Jamie King. The album was remixed and remastered in 2020.

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.

Some journalists consider it to be among the greatest and most important metalcore releases of the genre's second wave.