Progressive metalcore group Silent Planet‘s brand new studio album “Infinite Sleep” has now officially been announced by the band themselves. A January 29th release date has been mapped out for it via their new label home of Pure Noise Records. First up to bat from this sixth studio album from the Californian natives is “fangs!!“, a song that finds them welcoming Jacob Charlton of Australian alternative metallers Thornhill as a special guest.
Silent Planet vocalist Garrett Russell commented on that 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.”
The advent and perils of modern technology serve as the thematic connective tissue throughout the effort, as Russell went on to add, “It’s all one large serpent, one large antichrist, that we are summoning.” He further went on to cite Farid ud-Din Attar’s 1177 poem ‘The Conference Of Birds‘ as inspiration for the record as well, offering:
“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.”
Also revealed as creative fuel for the album was Roko’s Basilisk, a thought experiment about AI potentially punishing those who did not help create it:
“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 listing:
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“
For pre-orders head over to purenoise.merchnow.com/collections/silent-planet.
