Vancouver, British Columbia based Psychedelic Doom Grunge duo Post Death Soundtrack has announced their fourth full-length album, “Veil Lifter,” which will be released this Tuesday, April 16th, 2024.
Watch an animated video for the album’s latest single “Burrowing Down The Spine” through the YouTube player below:
Post Death Soundtrack’s fourth full-length release “Veil Lifter” is a tempestuous, 10-track Molotov cocktail channelling Doom, Grunge, Hardcore and Thrash into a crushing new record. Following the orchestrated industrial soundscapes of their third album, “It Will Come Out Of Nowhere,” Jon Ireson and Stephen Moore have taken a sharp turn to an unruly organic live sound. This fresh approach is driven by those who first inspired them – Alice In Chains, Black Sabbath, Nirvana and The Stooges, as well as artists who are redefining Heavy music for a new age – Russian Circles, Windhand, Pallbearer, Queens Of The Stone Age and YOB. Sludgy riffs, Hardcore fury, hypnotic grooves and empyrean ambience work in union to conjure a singular affecting vision.
Thematically, “Veil Lifter” is provocative, incisive, and wholly uncensored. A rousing invocation of spiritual weaponry. A meditation on mental illness and its underlying prevalence throughout the collective psyche. A bold expression of terrifying realities and a prayer of sorts. “Veil Lifter” is taken from an Eastern philosophy-inspired phrase, “lifting the veil of ignorance.” The name points to the intrinsic beyond the countless external forms and ideas that mask it. Shamanic visions, shadowy dreamscapes, a scorched Earth, and a relentless drive for solace lead the protagonist to retreat to the icy waters underground before facing the mountain of renewal and unbecoming.
Steve: “‘Veil Lifter’ is very much the album I’ve always wanted to make. The album is intended, as all my work is, to be completely uncensored, unashamedly dark, raw emotionally, and therefore, cathartic and freeing. It was written from deep within the shadow during nearly impossible times. Isolation, depression, addiction, chaos, burned bridges, health failures, and strangely, perseverance and the resilience of the inner witness.
Much of it is written in heavy metaphor and dream language, as I’ve always felt it’s more powerful to paint a picture rather than be overly direct. Ideas from the Gita, Zen and philosophers like Krishnamurti find their way into the concepts and lyricism here and there, but for the most part, this is a purely raw album intended to evoke deeply personal emotion, as it was written from a truly dangerous place.
‘Veil Lifter’ is dedicated to the memory of my hero and wonderful Father, Ted George Moore, who I know would be proud of what we’ve created.”
Jon: “Steve had amassed a treasure trove of guitar parts that he would send me daily, a lot of slow dirges with some faster hardcore-inspired stuff mixed in. That inspired the new direction for this record. We knew it would be a pretty big change ditching all the electronic production stuff we had done on our other records but when you listen to a song like »Bridge Burner« off of the last album, you can see the direction we were heading.
The bones of the songs came together very quickly, arranging all the drums, rhythm guitars and some of the bass in two crazy week-long bursts. The album really came to life once we started adding Steve’s great vocal layers, added some fuzzy melodic bass lines to move the plot along, and the icing on the cake was bringing in Casey. He had worked with Steve on several projects before and his intensity, personality, and feel make the record really punch.”
About visceral tracks like »Lowdown Animal«, Moore adds, “The hyena has become a kind of symbol for the band, With lions, tigers, and bears, you have a good idea of what to expect from their brute strength. But hyenas represent the outsider, the unwelcome drifter, the cursed sneak. We’ll sneak up, surround the mighty lion and take it down while laughing.”
“Veil Lifter” will be released on digital platforms on April 16th. A limited edition vinyl run is also expected at a slightly later date.
Purchase thealbum on Bandcamp: https://postdeathsoundtrack.bandcamp.com/album/veil-lifter
Tracklist:
01. At The Edge Of It All (Intro)
02. The Die Is Cast
03. Killer Of The Doubt
04. Icy Underground
05. Arjuna’s Hunting Hand
06. Lowdown Animal
07. Tide Turns Red
08. Burrowing Down The Spine
09. Pin Prick
10. Immovable
11. Hammer Come Down
Lineup:
Stephen Moore / Vocals, Guitars, Lyrics
Jon Ireson / Bass, Additional Guitars, Production
Casey Lewis / Drums
