When Metal Sleeps, by Small Life Form

When Metal Sleeps

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In 2020 I invested my life savings to open a coffee shop & event space in an attempt to shape the town I was living in into a town I wanted to live in. It was hard. It was rewarding. It was unsustainable. Admitting it was hard. A couple weeks before closing a regular asked what I was going to do next & I said I didn't know. He said he could get me a job he thought I'd like in an iron foundry. He was right. The job was perfect for where I was at mentally. Physically grueling. Physically challenging. Actually dangerous enough to make me appreciate being alive. Another friend of mine used to call me every week saying I was a prisoner & I had to get out of there. I told him I would be happy to stop shoveling sand out of tunnels & burning myself if he could find a job that paid me better & he never could. Eventually I did find something that paid better - a desk jockey job not really fitting to who I see myself as, but probably better suited to what I actually am... a 50 year-old father & husband.

When Metal Sleeps documents my two years in the foundry. The anger & resentment I had from a failed dream sculpting the sounds of my daily life into industrial ambient soundscapes. Ominous & frightening & soothing. This is not music for everyone. An argument could be made it isn't even music at all. This is Small Life Form.

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released April 24, 2026

Recording/Engineering: Brian John Mitchell

Consultants: Ben Link Collins, Nathan Amundson

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Silber has been getting drone, experimental, & other fiercely independent music out to the masses since 1996.

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