California’s Silent Planet have announced their new video Visible Unseen. The track features on their latest album When The End Began, which dropped last Friday on UNFD
– Garrett Russell, vocals
24.11 – UK Manchester Satans Hollow
25.11 – UK Birmingham Asylum 2
26.11 – UK Glasgow Garage Attic
27.11 – UK London New Cross Inn
28.11 – Germany Trier Ex-Haus
29.11 – Switzerland Aarau Kiff
30.11 – Czech Republic Brno Eleven Club
01.12 – Poland Bialsko Biala Rudeboy Club
02.12 – Slovakia Bratislava Kulturák Klub
03.12 – Hungary Budapest Dürer Kert
04.12 – Austria Wien Escape
05.12 – Austria Graz Explosiv
06.12 – Austria Innsbruck PMK
08.12 – Germany Ennepetal Christmas Rock Night
09.12 – Germany Leipzig Naumanns
10.12 – Czech Republic Prague Rock Cafe
11.12 – Germany Berlin Musik & Frieden
12.12 – Germany Schweinfurt Alter Stattbahnhof
13.12 – Italy Florence Cycle Club
14.12 – Italy Modena La Tenda
15.12 – Italy Milano Circolo Svolta
16.12 – Germany Karlsruhe Knockdown Festival
In the band’s latest effort When the End Began, frontman and lyricist Garrett Russell explores the obscure and mystical Nietzschean concept of ‘Eternal Return’ as it relates to the human experience. Haunted by recurring dreams of war, famine, and dead planets and further exacerbated by health complications and surgery, Russell was drawn to explore the concept of apocalypse in this latest batch of stories. When the End Began delves into instances of global and personal crisis – watershed moments between and within humanity – and aims to draw connection between the two.
Since their inception in 2009, Silent Planet have never looked for handouts. The band first gained prominence due to their vast array of intellectual influences, anchored by Russell’s masters degree in psychology and field experience as a mental health therapist. However, it is their remarkably intimate connection with their listeners that has become their trademark in the music scene. Perhaps no single event better speaks to their grassroots base than their surprise, underdog victory in the Underground Band of the Year category at the 2017 APMA awards.
With this third full-length release, the band have established themselves not as a mainstay in the genre, but as sonic trend-setters. Primary song architect and guitarist Mitchell Stark pushes the band into increasingly aggressive territory in this new release, accented by the distinguishably refined and progressive drumming of Alexrene Camarena. Furthermore, the album showcases a wide vocal array, thanks to the dynamic singing range of bassist Thomas Freckleton, who vacillates between anthemic choruses and contemplative verses throughout the record. In a genre fraught with cliche, Silent Planet have produced their most deliberate and cohesive effort to date.
When The End Began is further complimented by the talents of producer Will Putney, who, in his second effort with Silent Planet, has managed to capture the band’s aggressive live sound mix while retaining their more exploratory ambient elements.
When The End Began is available for now on 24Hundred & iTunes via UNFD.
2. The New Eternity
3. Northern Fires (Guernica)
4. Afterdusk
5. Visible Unseen
6. Look Outside: Dream
7. Vanity of Sleep
8. In Absence
9. Share The Body
10. Firstborn (Ya’aburnee)
11. Lower Empire
12. Look Inside: Awake
13. The Anatomy of Time (Babel)
14. Depths III
