The official video for SILENT PLANET’s new single ‘fangs!!,’ featuring Jacob Charlton of Thornhill, accompanies the announcement of Infinite Sleep. The single and video are available now; the album arrives January 29, 2027, with pre-orders available.
The Southern California atmospheric progressive metalcore quartet has signed with Pure Noise Records. Infinite Sleep is its sixth full-length, its first for the label and its next body of original music after SUPERBLOOM (2023).
Vocalist Garrett Russell connects ‘fangs!!’ to recurring dreams and the threat of annihilation. In his account, he encounters a woman on a skyscraper rooftop: sometimes he misses her hand as she falls, while other versions end with them falling together. During the album’s writing, the dream changed to include a nuclear bomb approaching the city.
‘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,’ Russell says. His accompanying statement describes a society that treats the tools of extinction as a promise of salvation, using bite marks across streets and waterways as the song’s central image.
That concern extends across Infinite Sleep, a 14-song concept album about humanity’s dependence on technology, with birds acting as warning messengers. Its serpent imagery draws on Roko’s Basilisk—the thought experiment involving a future AI that punishes those who failed to help create it—alongside Russell’s nightmares of a serpent entering his mind and a close encounter with a rattlesnake while hiking in Los Angeles.
The bird imagery developed through another personal experience. Russell says he became convinced a bird was speaking to him; later, a fan who had survived an accidental overdose and weeks in a coma described a similar experience and gave him Attar’s The Conference of the Birds.
‘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,’ Russell explains. He describes the resulting concept this way: ‘We’re building hell with the technology that we’ve become so dependent on.’
The announcement frames the record through Genesis imagery, including a garden, a flood, and Cain and Abel. Songs such as ‘Basilisk’ and ‘Snakepit’ develop its serpent motif, while other titles refer to birds. The supplied description of the cover identifies a murmuration of starlings as an image of community.
Original guitarist Spencer Keene returned as a writer and producer. Keene previously contributed to The Night God Slept (2014) and Everything Was Sound (2016). Russell recalls their early partnership: ‘He was writing songs and I was putting words and vocals to it.’
Russell, guitarist and vocalist Mitchell Stark, drummer Alex Camarena and bassist Nick Pocock also reunited with producer Dan Braunstein, whose credits include Spiritbox, Dayseeker and ERRA. Ocean Grove’s Sam Bassal handled mixing. The announcement describes material spanning indie rock-adjacent songs, modern metalcore, industrialized nü-metal and drone-laden cinematic soundscapes.
Russell describes the record as the band’s most complete album. ‘For us, being true to ourselves isn’t being true to a certain genre,’ he says. ‘It’s being true to an ethos of honest storytelling, and making something that’s emotionally cathartic.’
- 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
Infinite Sleep continues the story of SUPERBLOOM and took two years to make. The earlier sci-fi concept album followed a November 2022 van crash in a Wyoming snowstorm that hospitalized Russell with a concussion and fractured back. The announcement reports 35 million Spotify streams for ‘Antimatter.’ The Aquarian described SUPERBLOOM as ‘a masterpiece of modern metal,’ while Kerrang! wrote, ‘Give these lads their flowers.’
‘Wick,’ also included in the new tracklisting, raised funds for the Ukrainian children’s charity Return of Childhood. The band performed in Kyiv and Lviv in June 2026. ‘That whole experience definitely shook me up a lot,’ Russell says.
Formed in 2009, SILENT PLANET takes its name from C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet. Russell, a former therapist with a master’s degree in psychology, draws on literature, philosophy and mythology in lyrics accompanied by footnotes. The supplied biography names T.S. Eliot, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Dante and Frantz Fanon among those references, alongside accounts involving an Oradour-sur-Glane massacre survivor, Hiroshima’s hibakusha and a stranger at Penn Station.
Camarena joined in 2012, Stark in 2014 and Pocock in 2022. The band has toured with Motionless In White, Dayseeker and Beartooth; Russell calls its followers Lovers. Everything Was Sound debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hard Rock Albums chart in 2016, followed by a Best Underground Band win at the Alternative Press Music Awards the next year. Around When the End Began (2018), Alternative Press described the band as ‘purposefully lighting the way in a world predisposed to destruction.’
The announcement lists a current run with Saosin and Like Moths To Flames through early December, followed by Europe with Resolve in January 2027 and Australia with Dayseeker, Jutes and sace6 in February. The body and date block name Save Us on the current run; the email preheader instead says Save Me.
November–December 2026 — with Saosin and Like Moths To Flames; Save Us named in the tour block
- November 10 — Philadelphia, PA — Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia
- November 11 — Baltimore, MD — Nevermore Hall
- November 13 — Buffalo, NY — Town Ballroom
- November 14 — Detroit, MI — The Majestic Theatre
- November 15 — Chicago, IL — House of Blues Chicago
- November 17 — Milwaukee, WI — The Rave / Eagles Club
- November 18 — Minneapolis, MN — The Fillmore Minneapolis
- November 19 — Omaha, NE — The Waiting Room Lounge
- November 20 — Denver, CO — Summit Music Hall
- November 21 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Complex
- November 22 — Boise, ID — Knitting Factory
- November 24 — Seattle, WA — Showbox SoDo
- November 25 — Portland, OR — Roseland Theater
- November 27 — Los Angeles, CA — The Novo
- November 28 — San Diego, CA — SOMA
- December 2 — Ciudad De México, Mexico — Foro 28
January 2027 — with Resolve
- January 20 — Reims, France — La Cartonnerie
- January 21 — Strasbourg, France — La Laiterie
- January 22 — Villeurbanne, France — Transbordeur
- January 23 — Montpellier, France — Rockstore
- January 24 — Limoges, France — Centre Culturel John Lennon
- January 26 — Toulouse, France — Le Metronum
- January 27 — Cenon, France — Le Rocher de Palmer
- January 28 — Nantes, France — Warehouse
- January 29 — Wasquehal, France — THE BLACK LAB
- January 30 — Paris, France — La Cigale
February 2027 — with Dayseeker, Jutes and sace6
- February 7 — Northbridge, Australia — Metro City
- February 9 — Adelaide, Australia — Hindley Street Music Hall
- February 11 — Melbourne, Australia — Margaret Court Arena
- February 12 — Moore Park, Australia — Hordern Pavilion
- February 14 — Brisbane, Australia — The Fortitude Music Hall
