SILENT PLANET announce new album ‘SUPERBLOOM’ & release single “Collider”
It’s been a hell of a year so far for Californian metal group SILENT PLANET, their previous single “Antimatter” blew up and saw them garner a ton of new eyes and ears on the band, eagerly anticipating what will come next. Today that question has an answer as Silent Planet have announced their new album SUPERBLOOM which is set for release on the 3rd November via Solid State Records. The release date is also a significant for the band as it arrives on the anniversary of their horrific van accident which delayed the writing and recording process of what was to become the new album. Vocalist Garret Russel remembers the accident and it’s relationship to the record: “The majority of us were awake when we felt the van start to slide,” he says. “We had some time to come to grips with the fact we were about to go down and have a close brush with death. Afterwards, we talked about what to do with the band. We went back into the record with an increased willingness to take risks. It bolstered our confidence to try new things. When the accident happened, it did something to my head, and it fed into the album.”.
Along with this announcement the band have also dropped a music video for new single “Collider” taken from the record. The song is a electronically laced anthem which goes from ethereal soundscapes and beautiful melodies to crushing riffs and huge choruses, this is the sound of a band that are truly coming into their own and crafting songs that will feel right at home on the big stages.
Speaking on the song Garrett says: “Take all the darkness. All the vitriol, the greed and the vanity; lay it again as dust. Everything can be alchemized. This song is called ‘Collider… It’s about what comes out of our lives when the people we trust and hold closest are the ones who can hurt or betray us the worst. We don’t have to run from the pain or be afraid. The dark gives us the energy to make something beautiful. The song is about alchemizing the darkness and transforming its negative properties.”
Check out the video here:
“A SUPERBLOOM is this strange moment where brilliant fauna spring forth unexpectedly and bring forth such an array of colors, it almost feels alien in origin,” Garrett notes. “It only lasts for a couple of weeks before it’s gone. While we were recording, the SUPERBLOOM was happening. For me, the record is getting in touch with the other side and watching the strange and paranormal emerge from the mundane and profane, hence the title… I grew up in Northern California,” he continues. “There’s a strip of the state known as Humboldt County, but it’s called the ‘Lost Cove.’ It’s a hotbed for strange and paranormal events like UFO and Big Foot sightings. There’s so much we haven’t uncovered. It’s possible our reality as we know it is not complete. We started telling the tale of a 17-year-old who went missing. It’s based on a true story with many details changed. Art dictates reality, and reality dictates art. Making this record was a very strange and mystical process. It’s the most magical and inspired moment of our career so far.”
SUPERBLOOM TRACK LISTING:
1) Lights Off the Lost Coast
2) Offworlder
3) Collider
4) Euphoria
5) Dreamwalker
6) Antimatter
7) :Signal:
8) Anunnaki
9) The Overgrowth
10) Nexus
11) Re-Entry
12) SUPERBLOOM
Pre-order it here.
