One Word Album Review: Silent Planet - ‘When The End Began’

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Aw yes, the album review: A 300-500 word write-up explaining all the eccentricities pretentious wordsmiths love and hate about a band’s new album. While most reviews tend to hover the line between a positive and negative analysis, we’ve found that some seem to deviate from the pack choosing to spend their time putting an artist down for months of hard work.

We, on the other hand, would rather give the power back to the artist by letting them take a stab at reviewing (or simply explaining) their new music. And in order to make that process as easy (and fun) as possible, we’ve decided to give the artists one word and one word only to describe each song off their new release – thus creating the One Word Album Review.

Featured on today’s OWAR is Silent Planet’s hard-hitting boundary-pushing LP When The End Began. Following up 2016′s critically acclaimed release Everything Was Sound is no easy task but with 14 thought-provoking and technically proficient tracks, Silent Planet is not only continuing where they left off but they’re also making strides into a whole new sonic stratosphere.          

Now before we turn this too much into our own review, we’re going to pass things over to frontman Garrett Russell as he chose fourteen words to describe each of his band’s new tracks. To check out what Russell had to say for a glimpse into When The End Began, be sure to look below. Afterward, make sure to not only pre-order a copy of the band’s new record before it hits stores this Friday but also grab tickets to see Silent Planet out on tour with Stray From The Path, Greyhaven and Kublai Khan here.

01) Thus Spoke

One Word Song Description: Movie

02) The New Eternity

One Word Song Description: Rock

03) Northern Fires (Guernica)

One Word Song Description: Rap

04) Afterdusk

One Word Song Description: Deftones

05) Visible Unseen

One Word Song Description: Death

06) Look Outside: Dream

One Word Song Description: Quiet

07) Vanity of Sleep

One Word Song Description: Honest

08) In Absence

One Word Song Description: Radio

09) Share the Body

One Word Song Description: Dark

10) Firstborn (Ya'aburnee)

One Word Song Description: Emotional

11) Lower Empire

One Word Song Description: Angry

12) Look Inside: Awake

One Word Song Description: Aliens

13) The Anatomy of Time (Babel)

One Word Song Description: Spaceships

14) Depths III

One Word Song Description: Annihilation 

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