Silent Planet have debuted a music video for “fangs!!” featuring Thornhill’s Jacob Charlton. That track will appear on their new album, “Infinite Sleep,” which will be out on January 29. Frontman Garrett Russell said the following:
“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.”
He also revealed that the album was inspired by the dangers of modern technology:
“It’s all one large serpent, one large antichrist, that we are summoning.”
He went on to say Farid ud-Din Attar’s 1177 poem “The Conference Of Birds” played a role as well:
“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.”
He also discussed the influence of Roko’s Basilisk:
“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“