156/Silence Announce new album “From A Distance”
Hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, atmospheric metalcore powerhouse 156/Silence has today announced their new album ‘From A Distance‘, set for release on September 4 via Pure Noise Records. ‘From A Distance’ will be the band’s sixth album and latest body of music since 2024’s fan-favorite ‘People Watching’. In celebration of the news, the quintet has released the first single from the forthcoming full-length “No Arms” and the official music video.
When asked about the inspiration behind the track, the band shared:
“‘No Arms’ is about being without a way to protect yourself and what belongs to you. Being alone and afraid, not having any means to control the situations that befall on us. The overwhelming feeling of being helpless until we’re not. Until somebody saves us.”
FROM A DISTANCE
156/Silence
Track Listing:
1. Control Burns
2. No Arms
3. Order & Entropy
4. Swept From Under (Call of The Void)
5. An Early Exit
6. Collateral (ft. Tony Castrati of Crippling Alchoholism)
7. Cannon Fodder (ft. Mike Hranica of The Devil
Wears Prada)
8. Secret Room
9. Proxy Idols
10. Phoenix Dies
11. From A Distance (ft. Alex Reade of Make Them Suffer)
12. After Dusk
Fans have their chance to see the band on the final two weeks of the Mercia Tour with Thornhill, Fox Lake and Vianova, followed by a quick headlining run in late May into early June. The band will then be performing at Inkcarceration in July before hitting the road on the It’s Not You, It’s Me North Americanm run with Chiodos, sace6 and Calva Louise, followed by a performance at Louder Than Life in September. Tickets are available at the link here, so be sure to get yours before it’s too late.
Mercia Tour Dates with Thornhill, Fox Lake & Vianova
May 19 — Boston, MA — Royale
May 20 — New York, NY — Webster Hall
May 22 — Toronto, ON — The Opera House
May 23 — Detroit, MI — Majestic Theatre
May 24 — Chicago, IL — The Vic Theatre
May 26 — Englewood, CO — Gothic Theatre
May 27 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Complex
May 29 — Portland, OR — Roseland Theater
May 31 — Seattle, WA — The Showbox
Headlining Dates
May 30 — Richland, WA — Ray’s Golden Lion*
Jun 2 — Billings, MT — Pub Station (Tap Room)
Jun 5 — Lincoln, NE — 1867 Bar
Jun 6 — Iowa City, IA — Gabe’s
Jun 7 — Indianapolis, IN — Hoosier Dome
Inkcarceration Festival 2026
Jul 18 — Mansfield, OH — Ohio State Reformatory
It’s Not You, It’s Me Tour Dates with Chiodos, sace6 & Calva Louise
Aug 3 — Boise, ID — Knitting Factory
Aug 5 — Bend, OR — Midtown Ballroom
Aug 6 — Spokane, WA — Knitting Factory
Aug 7 — Vancouver, BC — The Commodore
Aug 9 — Calgary, AB — The Palace Theatre
Aug 10 — Edmonton, AB — Union Hall
Aug 11 — Saskatoon, SK — Louis
Aug 12 — Winnipeg, MB — Burton Cummings Theatre
Aug 14 — St. Paul, MN — Myth Live
Aug 15 — Green Bay, WI — Epic Event Center
Aug 23 — Portland, ME — State Theatre
Aug 28 — Asheville, NC — The Orange Peel
Aug 29 — Nashville, TN — Brooklyn Bowl
Louder Than Life Festival 2026
Sep 20 — Louisville, KY — Kentucky Expo Center
*Fox Lake as support
ABOUT 156/SILENCE
156/Silence makes intense, foreboding, and haunting music. Their songs are cinematic, blending brutality with intellect. They draw on real and imagined terror, all woven into melody and power. Vocalist and lyricist Jack Murray, guitarist and primary songwriter Jimmy Howell, guitarist Ryan Wilkinson, drummer Kyle O’Connell, and bassist Mike Ernst form a formidable unit, forged through shared passions and losses since the band’s earliest incarnation first formed in Pittsburgh in 2015.
2024’s crowd pleaser, People Watching, was a watershed moment, boasting breakout anthems “Better Written Villain” and “Character Development (Cold Start).” Distorted Sound wrote, “There is enough in the band’s repertoire to not only keep you entertained but also keep you guessing.”
From a Distance, its spiritual sequel and the band’s first album with Pure Noise Records, ups the ante with gut-wrenching depth and atmosphere. Their sixth album is dark and ponderous yet triumphantly self assured. (It follows the devastating standalone single “Our Parting Ways,” released in 2025 in loving tribute to longtime bassist Lukas Booker, who passed away unexpectedly earlier that year.)
The group’s reputation as a live force of nature was earned on the road, where they deliver audience connection and sonic devastation while touring with the likes of The Devil Wears Prada, Chiodos, Fit For A King, Counterparts, Silent Planet, and The Acacia Strain, among other contemporaries.
Produced by Josh Schroeder (King 810, Lorna Shore, The Plot In You), From a Distance finds 156/Silence heavy as hell, while leaning into atmosphere, mood, and emotional impact even harder. The group reverently namechecks classic game scores like Resident Evil and Silent Hill, and the heady concepts of prestige TV like Twin Peaks (a sample from Apple TV’s Severance opens the album).
Murray’s lyrics remain keenly observational, personal, and incisive. From a Distance serves as a bold thematic companion to its predecessor. While earlier records often documented tension at close range, From a Distance observes from a wider vantage point, examining social behavior, celebrity worship, intrusive thoughts, and interpersonal connection with steely focus.
That authenticity is crucial to the band’s ever-growing audience.
No two 156/Silence albums are alike, from the unhinged frenetic chaos of Undercover Scumbag (2018) to the gloriously savage and technical Irrational Pull (2020), which Metal Hammer likened to Converge and Botch. The diverse ruminations found in Narrative (2022) took things even further. BrooklynVegan called that album “bolder and richer” and “an exciting step forward for [the] band.”
People Watching continued the prolific outfit’s tradition of steadfast evolution and innovation. Revolver praised the dark melodic edge of the Animal Farm-inspired “Better Written Villain,” declaring, “156/Silence may have just penned an instant classic of their own canon.”
As Howell points out, they’d never really tried singing choruses and hooks prior to People Watching. “It went so well that we decided to double down on that.” From a Distance also features guest appearances from some formidable vocalists: Mike Hranica of The Devil Wears Prada, Alex Reade of Make Them Suffer, and Tony Castrati of Crippling Alcoholism. It also cranks up the soundscapes.
“I look toward bands we love that grew with their listeners, like Thrice and Bring Me The Horizon,” Howell says of their continuing creative mission. “They have a sound, but they grow and change. Some bands are comfortable repeating the same thing again. I don’t want to do that. I want to make you feel the way you do when you hear one of those important bands, without sounding like them.”
Murray describes the title track as “a love song” and “probably the most Twin Peaks-inspired song.”
From a Distance cuts deeper into People Watching’s lyrical heart. “Proxy Idols” tackles celebrity worship. “Order & Entropy” contemplates maintaining focus amid the utter devastation of things falling apart. “Swept from Under (Call of the Void)” sees Murray wrestling with intrusive thoughts. “They tell you to hurt yourself, even when you don’t feel bad,” he says. “It’s just the ever-looming shadow of weird and intrusive thoughts, and negativity, of just being swept from under by the void.”
From straightforward hard rock to synth-heavy experimentation and all the way back to the band’s deadly mathcore roots, 156/Silence have established themselves as unbound by any genre limitation.
“We could go anywhere now, and that’s the goal,” Howell says. “Nothing is ever off the table.”