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Silverchair announce "indefinite hibernation"

by Ciaran Thompson

Nearly twenty years and five studio albums into their career, Australian three-piece Silverchair have announced they’ll be going into “indefinite hibernation.” Work on their sixth album had apparently begun late last year, but was abandoned due to musical differences within the band.

A statement on their Facebook page read:

If the band stops being fun and if it’s no longer fulfilling creatively, then we need to stop. Therefore after much soul searching we wanted to let you know that we’re putting Silverchair into ‘indefinite hibernation’ and we’ve decided to each do our own thing for the foreseeable future.

This means that Silverchair won’t be making music together or playing shows any time soon. It also means that the three of us won’t be working together unless and until it feels right again. We want to thank you for all your support in good times and bad. You’ve put up with our long breaks between albums, our constantly changing musical styles and lots more. The unbelievable loyalty we’ve been shown by you our audience, and our friends, has never gone unnoticed or unappreciated.

The band’s first record Frogstomp was released in 1995 when lead singer Daniel Johns was only 16.