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NEW MUSIC: 156/Silence Cement Their Modern Metalcore Crown With New Track 'No Arms' + Album News
- Tiana Speter
- May 20
- 3 min read
Modern metalcore is a sonic space that either loudly delights or divides depending on your vintage and/or your personal tastes. But every now and then a band emerges ready to take the genre to tantalising new places, and in that vein, Pennsylvania's very own 156/Silence have swung in with a brand new single No Arms alongside the announcement of their sixth studio album From A Distance due out September 4 via Pure Noise Records.
“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."” - 156/Silence
Brandishing a touch of Thornhill with oozing cleans and sensual melodies, along with palpitating beats and blistering brutality, No Arms is a powderkeg that expands on 156/Silence's earlier works, proving that genre pigeonholing is (deservedly) dead and also sending fans into a frenzy with nu metal and rock hues as From A Distance itself looms in the distance.
Check out the brand new clip for No Arms below (with a visual nod to previous album People Watching for good measure):
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.
Interestingly, From A Distance will share some collab features that also sync up with August Burns Red's upcoming new album Season Of Surrender, namely Mike Hranica from The Devil Wears Prada and Aussie Alex Reade from Make Them Suffer. And if you're in the US, you can catch the band closing out a killer run supporting Thornhill on the Mercia Tour, before a quick headline 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 American run with Chiodos, sace6 and Calva Louise, followed by a performance at Louder Than Life in September.
From A Distance Track Listing:
01. Control Burns
02. No Arms
03. Order & Entropy
04. Swept From Under (Call of The Void)
05. An Early Exit
06. Collateral (ft. Tony Castrati of Crippling Alchoholism)
07. Cannon Fodder (ft. Mike Hranica of The Devil Wears Prada)
08. Secret Room
09. Proxy Idols
10. Phoenix Dies
11. From A Distance (ft. Alex Reade of Make Them Suffer)
12. After Dusk