SILENT PLANET SHARE "SUPERBLOOM"
California metal band SILENT PLANET released their new album SUPERBLOOM last year via Solid State Records. Get it here.
Today, the band has shared a deeply compelling narrative video for the title track.
Watch it here.
"We decided to make a video around an alternate interpretation of our title track 'SUPERBLOOM' that is largely inspired by Midsommar and the Heaven's Gate cult suicides," the band shares. "We teamed up with our longtime video partners Hometown Team and collaborated on the story. We were fortunate to work with two actors who have an incredible amount of experience in the genre: Jenna Kannell (Terrifier) and Jess Matney. And a bunch of our listeners came along as extras. We feel that this video is our best work to date and wanted to release it now to start alongside our SUPERBLOOM headline tour."
Silent Planet are currently on a headline tour of North America. All dates are below.
SILENT PLANET ON TOUR:
WITH AVIANA + JOHNNY BOOTH:
2/1 — Denver, CO — Summit Music Hall
2/2 — Kansas City, MO — recordBar
2/3 — Springfield, MO — The Outland
2/4 — Dallas, TX — South Side Music Hall
2/6 — San Antonio, TX — The Rock Box
2/7 — Houston, TX — RISE Rooftop
2/9 — Tampa, FL — The Orpheum
2/10 — Atlanta, GA — The Masquerade
2/13 — Indianapolis, IN — Hi-Fi
2/14 — Detroit, MI — The Shelter
2/15 — Chicago, IL — Bottom Lounge
2/16 — Columbus, OH — The KING of CLUBS
2/17 — New Kensington, PA — Preserving Hardcore
2/20 — Worcester, MA — Palladium
2/21 — Baltimore, MD — Baltimore Soundstage
2/22 — Greensboro, NC — Hangar 1819
2/23 — Nashville, TN — The Basement East
Silent Planet have consistently transfixed a diehard fanbase. The group dropped a string of acclaimed albums, including The Night God Slept [2014], Everything Was Sound [2016], When The End Began [2018], and Iridescent [2021]. Album standout "Trilogy" generated 5.3 million Spotify streams to sit alongside their genre-bending triumph "Panic Room" from the 2016 release, currently at 5 million. The guys notably took home "Best Underground Band" at the 2017 Alternative Press Music Awards and toured with the likes of Motionless In White, August Burns Red, Beartooth, and The Contortionist.
Over the course of two years, they recorded what would become SUPERBLOOM in Woodland Hills, CA alongside longtime producer and frequent collaborator Daniel Braunstein. A jarring turn of events split the process into two seasons. Trekking through a Wyoming snowstorm in November 2022, Silent Planet survived a vehicle accident. The van flipped over, leaving the group laying in the wreckage of a bitter Wyoming snowstorm as Garrett was hospitalized with a fractured back and head wound requiring stitches.
"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 the way, they settled on a conceptual framework, expanding the scope of their vision like never before. "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.