Metalcore band Silent Planet have released a new song entitled ‘Psychescape’, which features Spencer Chamberlain from Underøath. The song appears on the band’s upcoming album “Everything Was Sound” which is set to be released on July 1st, 2016 via Solid State Records. The song can be streamed below.
Silent Planet vocalist Garrett Russell comments: “The song is told from the viewpoint of a character that suffers from Schizophrenia. I speak in the mindset of the character as he wishes to escape his mind and the control of society, whereas Spencer speaks as the voice of indifference towards reality and taboos of culture – overall embracing what some might call ‘madness’ as a gift.”
Spencer, who dealt heavily with themes of paranoia and social control throughout a decade of Underøath, co-wrote the lyrics on the song. We were beyond thrilled when he agreed to be on the record, and after working with him, our respect for him as an artist and performer is triple-fold.”
Written as a concept piece, “Everything Was Sound” takes place within a Panopticon – a prison of deception. By definition, a Panopticon is a circular prison where prisoners can be viewed from a central well at all times. Further elaborating the concept Russell said “every room in the prison is another person diagnosed with mental illness. Some of them suffer from environmental trauma, like PTSD, which Russell argues to be an internalization of the violent world we create. “I’m trying to understand these stories throughout the songs – both challenging society’s stigmatization of mental illness while searching for hope amidst the inner-reality of suffering people.” To Russell, who holds a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology (and revealed that he has been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder) the album hits especially close to home.
Track Listing:
1. Inherit the Earth
2. Psychescape
3. Dying in Circles
4. Understanding Love As Loss
5. Tout Comprendre
6. Panic Room
7. REDIVIDEЯ
8. Nervosa
9. C’est Tout Pardonner
10. Orphan
11. No Place To Breathe
12. First Father
13. Inhabit the Wound
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Video below: ‘Psychescape’
Video below: ‘Panic Room’