Featured image credit: SILOS by Starset;
Released July 18, 2025
Chorus:
Let me let you go
We’re dead inside and dead below
Be my holy ghost
The only one who never knows
The way you haunt me
Threw it away at the bitter end
You left a hole where a heart had been
Let me go and put it back to where it goes
In silos
I think this is a very relatable (and timely) theme for me, personally, but more broadly people in general. There’s a reason the saying “curiosity killed the cat” exists.
Let me back up.
Come to life
I remember this
Just like paradise (and cyanide)
Take a bite
The taste of all your sin
You’ve lost your appetite (for sacrifice)
The first verse seems like he’s (if you’re following the video) describing an Adam & Eve situation; biting the forbidden fruit, possibly.
How can we terminate this parasite
If you keep digging up the host?
So the visual story (a mix of puppets and live action) seems a bit more on-the nose than some of their other videos – the main character goes snooping around in an ancient tomb and resurrects a monster. Mummy vibes, except it’s a big robot. And the key is a common technology. A similar theme to Toksik – now with Cylons (a part of a complete breakfast)!
So I will be honest, I don’t own the second book yet (financial restraints on wants), so I can’t speak to whatever storyline might be here from the novel that I haven’t read, but I can say I assume there is a thread from Prox Transmissions in this song. Dustin stated he has been working on the third book, and that is where the songs on SILOS are referencing.
(Now I want to write a review of Prox Transmissions. Maybe I’ll read it (for a third time!) and do that soon.)
And despite Wormstin making an appearance in this video (2:15) as a keychain, there’s no Wormstin Keychain on the merch shop yet, unfortunately. But it seems like a practical effect so it does exist! Somewhere!
I think my personal favorite thing about this band is that their music is relatable AF but also is describing a storyline in a series of novels, so each song has its own double meaning. Or at least, can be absorbed however your brain wants to absorb it. You never have to read any of the books to love a song.
Burn, bury it, seal it away (and forget it)
We cannot kill this monster we’ve made (so forget it)
Purge all of this, let it decay (re-bury me)
Can’t resurrect what can’t be saved
Talk about compartmentalization. Or at least, that is the advice being given. I would like to bring up part of the story in Prox Transmissions here, but I don’t want to spoil anything.
We can play pretend but we’re both lying
You know we can love again
But we’re both hiding
You know we’re the walking dead
And we’re both dying
To know how this ends
While we’re hiding in our own silos
I love bridges.
Visually, the merge is complete. The sacrifice mentioned at the beginning was fulfilled. And I have an idea of where the story goes and it makes me want to read all three books right now.