Veil Lifter is Post Death Soundtrack‘s fourth full-length album and sees the duo take an organic turn with their sound, inspired by the likes of Alice in Chains, Black Sabbath and Nirvana.

By Graeme Smith

Feature photo by Monika Deviat

Post Death Soundtrack are Jon Ireson and Stephen Moore. The duo’s third album It Will Come Out of Nowhere saw them create orchestrated industrial soundscapes but with their new album, they play it a little more fast and loose. Doom, grunge, hardcore and thrash all come together across its lively ten tracks, giving plenty for listeners with a love of all that is heavy to get their teeth into.

Brooding on topics such as mental health, psyche, and Eastern philosophies, Veil Lifter is no fluff piece. Its rawness leaves nothing to the imagination, displaying deep emotion and confessing to darkness.

Opening with an atmospheric and disconcerting vignette of an intro, At The Edge Of It All, we’re then hit by the heavy riffs of The Die is Cast. There’s a severity to it all, with the feelings and story brought to life through passionate vocals. Killer of The Doubt is a seven-minute sludgy odyssey that’s full of a sense of adventure before Icy Underground rounds off the early listening with a bristling blues rock moment.

Other highlights include the haunting and hard-hitting Arjuna’s Hunting Hand, the epic and psychedelic Immovable and Burrowing Down the Spine. The latter is a dark and visceral track with creeping melodies played over relentless bass.

In my experience, hard rock can go one of two ways. It can be hostile and uninviting or it can draw you in and take you to places you’d never expect to go. Post Death Soundtrack’s new album most definitely fits into the latter category. It’s brilliantly observed, pleasingly varied and chock full of atmosphere and storytelling. Even if you don’t usually like heavy rock, you should give it a go.

Veil Lifter is out now and available to buy as a digital album on Bandcamp. You can check it out below.