Silent Planet have officially announced their sixth studio album, ‘Infinite Sleep,’ which is set to arrive on January 29, 2027, through their new label home of Pure Noise Records. The California-based progressive metalcore outfit have also shared the first single from the effort, “fangs!!,” featuring guest vocals from Jacob Charlton of Australian metal band Thornhill. An accompanying music video for the track has also premiered online.
Vocalist Garrett Russell offered an extensive look into the song’s themes and the imagery behind it:
“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!!’”
Russell also described a recurring dream that influenced the song, involving a woman preparing to jump from a skyscraper. In some versions, he fails to reach her before she falls; in others, he catches her hand, and they fall together.
He explained that the dream took on a new dimension while the band were writing the album earlier this year, with the outbreak of war introducing the image of a nuclear bomb falling on the city. In that version, the pair watch the explosion before choosing to jump themselves, with their final moments feeling more like flying than falling.
The album’s broader conceptual thread explores the dangers of modern technology and humanity’s growing dependence on it. Russell described the subject matter as follows:
“It’s all one large serpent, one large antichrist, that we are summoning.”
He also cited Farid ud-Din Attar’s 1177 poem ‘The Conference Of Birds’ as an influence on the record, explaining that its depiction of birds communicating in a heavenly language helped shape his ideas about humanity’s relationship with technology.
“In that book, he claims that birds are speaking the language of heaven, that they’re kind of like angels or harbingers, messengers. I 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 source of inspiration was Roko’s Basilisk, a thought experiment centered on the possibility of an artificial intelligence punishing those who failed to help bring it into existence. Russell connected that idea to the album’s overall concept:
“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.”
The 14-song ‘Infinite Sleep’ track listing is as follows:
- “Basilisk”
- “A Swarm Of Starlings”
- “Wick”
- “Stalking The Wild Pendulum”
- “fangs!!” (feat. Jacob Charlton)
- “Sundressed”
- “Snakepit”
- “Panic Tomb”
- “Deus ex hominibus”
- “Mindframe”
- “Mourning Dove, Why Don’t You Sing?”
- “Magnolia”
- “Lucid Wings Of”
- “Infinite Sleep”
Pre-orders for ‘Infinite Sleep’ are available here.
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