Silent Planet Premiere New Single & Music Video "fangs!!" - Thornhill's Jacob Charlton Guests

Progressive metalcore outfit Silent Planet have officially unveiled details of their forthcoming studio album, “Infinite Sleep“. The Californian band’s sixth full-length effort is slated to arrive on January 29 via their new label home, Pure Noise Records. Leading the charge from the upcoming release is “fangs!!“, which features a guest appearance from Jacob Charlton of Australian alternative metal outfit Thornhill.

Silent Planet vocalist Garrett Russell offered the following thoughts on the track:

“We hold the tools to extinction like holy books against our chests, believing our salvation lays inside the threat of global annihilation. A society of ‘perverts who are secretly horny for the apocalypse’ we built temples to our inevitable undoing – and we all sleep soundly inside this dread machine. But if you could see your city from a bird’ s eye view… you’d see the bite marks stippling streets and poisoning what’s left of waterways. You see the remnants, but you can only feel the “fangs!!”

I’ve had this recurring dream for quite some time where I arrive at a skyscraper rooftop where I lock eyes with a woman I’ve never met in real life. She is about to jump. And this is where the dream splits – sometimes I narrowly miss her hand and watch her fall placid to the ground, resigned to her fate. But sometimes I catch her hand, and we fall together, she always turns to me and whispers something personal, then we hit the ground and I wake up.

Early this year, as we were writing this album, the war broke out and the dream had this new element: A nuclear bomb falling on the city. It’s as though the bomb distracted her from her misery, and we would watch it together. Then, knowing that our doom was inevitable, we would jump. But this falling felt more akin to flying, as though our final moments were a choice of freedom in this strange world that hoards the keys to its own annihilation.”

Modern technology and its accompanying dangers serve as the overarching thematic thread throughout the album. As Russell further explained, “It’s all one large serpent, one large antichrist, that we are summoning.”

He also pointed to Farid ud-Din Attar’s 1177 poem ‘The Conference Of Birds‘ as another source of inspiration, elaborating:

“In that book, he claims that birds are speaking the language of heaven, that they’re kind of like angels or harbingers, messengers. l became convinced that their language is changing and evolving to try to wake humans up, because we’re falling into a trance of technology that’s leading to our destruction.”

Another concept that helped shape the record was Roko’s Basilisk, a thought experiment exploring the possibility of artificial intelligence punishing those who failed to contribute to its creation. Russell added:

“That was when I was realizing that the things you focus on kind of come to life. That’s where the album concept was born. We’re building hell with the technology that we’ve become so dependent on.”

“Infinite Sleep” track list:

01 – “Basilisk“
02 – “A Swarm Of Starlings“
03 – “Wick“
04 – “Stalking The Wild Pendulum“
05 – “fangs!!” (feat. Jacob Charlton)
06 – “Sundressed“
07 – “Snakepit“
08 – “Panic Tomb“
09 – “Deus ex hominibus“
10 – “Mindframe“
11 – “Mourning Dove, Why Don’t You Sing?“
12 – “Magnolia“
13 – “Lucid Wings Of“
14 – “Infinite Sleep“