# POST DEATH SOUNDTRACK Promote ‘Veil Lifter’ Album With New Single “Lowdown Animal”

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- Published: 2024-09-03T13:00:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

### **POST DEATH SOUNDTRACK Promote ‘Veil Lifter’ Album With New Single “Lowdown Animal”**

POST DEATH SOUNDTRACK continue the promotional push of the explosive “Veil Lifter”
album with a new music video for the particularly vicious thrash grunge anthem “
Lowdown Animal”. [**_Watch here._**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGbFELaFWI4)

_“The concept behind the Hyena is many-fold. I grew up in a school that operated
as ‘Lord of the Flies’. Bullying, intimidation, fear, and no safety. There was no
escape or control. I don’t want to see that happen to others like my nephews or 
niece. I initially invoked the Hyena symbol in my lyrics after a nasty divorce that
found my life savings gone and my kittens stolen. The invocation “I’ll be the Hyena.
Unwelcome drifter.” came about. It is a willingness to rise up in the midst of total
chaos. It is also a sacred connector between all of us who have faced trauma, abuse,
gaslighting, or suicidal thoughts, saying “I’m with you. You’re not alone because
we are the same and we share a pack.” _– Steve Moore

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Photo credit: Monika Deviat

Currently trending on the Bandcamp Grunge, Hard Rock, and Heavy Metal charts, Post
Death Soundtrack’s “Veil Lifter” is getting heavy recognition. Part of this success
is likely due to them currently being featured on the extremely popular [Doomcharts.com](https://doomcharts.com/)
as their ‘Friday Freebie’ pick. The band has their new album available for free/
pay what you want on Bandcamp.

They also recently released their music video for the haunting “Tide Turns Red”.
[_**Watch on Youtube.**_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9UF-XHmYLc)

POST DEATH SOUNDTRACK’s fourth full-length release Veil Lifter is a tempestuous,
10-track Molotov cocktail channeling 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 ‘doom grunge’ 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, 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. Veil Lifter is a relentless charge
throughout, capturing the unwelcome outsider mentality of a threatening pack of 
hyenas. 

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 literally 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. So in many ways, it’s an invocation of protection
and spiritual weaponry at a time when it was greatly needed._

_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 Advaita,
the Gita, Zen and philosopher’s 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 was going to 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 Lewis. 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 April16th. A limited edition
vinyl run is also expected at a slightly later date.

Recently, Post Death Soundtrack have continued the promotional rollout of “Veil 
Lifter” with two music videos; [_**“Hammer Come Down”**_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBRqFQVLMCw),
which has been banned from Google and Youtube ads for ‘negative imagery’ (we firmly
disagree but will let you decide for yourself), and [_**“Immovable”**_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gunOCBMWzOU),
the sludge metal epic which is a Advaita Vedanta-inspired opus that inspired the
duo to dedicate the album to Stephen’s father, Ted George Moore (RIP).

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Watch this video on YouTube

[**_Order the full album on Bandcamp._**](https://postdeathsoundtrack.bandcamp.com/album/veil-lifter)_****_

_**The album is currently FREE/pay what you want. Full lyrics are also available
at Bandcamp.**_

[_**Watch the duo’s music video for “Burrowing Down the Spine”.**_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAjT8nXqas)

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**Veil Lifter Credits:**
Stephen Moore: Vocals, Guitars, LyricsJon Ireson: Bass,
Additional Guitars, ProductionCasey Lewis: DrumsEngineered by Jon IresonDrums recorded
by Casey LewisMixed and mastered by Casey Lewis at Echo Base StudioAlbum art by 
mrgn_studio

**Artist Bio:**
Vancouver-based psychedelic doom grunge project Post Death Soundtrack
crafts a dense electric symphony of heathen guitars, brazen bass, and a bubbling
cauldron of vicious sounds. The score to the untamed plains of the subconscious.
This lays the groundwork over which the inimitable Steve Moore showcases his crushing
vocal performances. In each piece, he takes from his hall of faces to embody the
essence of a theme, be it scathing fury or enlightened ambivalence. Balancing ferocity
and serenity, surrealist absurdity and earworm familiarity. 

Conceived in grubby back rooms and underground clubs of inhospitable Calgary, Canada,
Post Death Soundtrack initially took inspiration from the same forces that drive
young obstinate bands in cities like DC, Austin, and Detroit. The cognitive dissonance
between the forces that run their town and the forces that run their lives. The 
original duo of KENNETH BUCK and STEVE MOORE took aim squarely at the hypocrisies
of government, religion, and mainstream ideology with blinding rage but also tongue
firmly in cheek sarcasm. The debut album, 2008’s Music as Weaponry, pulls together
the wild, brash industrial of Skinny Puppy and Ministry with the hypnotic trip-hop
textures of Portishead and Massive Attack to deliver an engrossing indictment of
Western culture and an offer to rise above its trappings. 

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Photo credit: Monika Deviat

On the heels of the release of Music as Weaponry, JON IRESON was recruited to the
lineup, adding his own brand of mesmerizing psychedelia to the mix. Ireson’s affinity
for 60s and 70s psychedelic rock, as well as the nebulous electronica that came 
out of Britain from the likes of Underworld and a techno-age David Bowie, allowed
Buck and Moore to take their vocals further down the rabbit hole to fever dream 
mantras and mad hatter ravings.

COLIN EVERALL was brought on board to fill in on drums for a handful of rare live
dates but would also end up contributing his haunting piano piece ‘Through the Gates’
over which Moore takes the listener on a perilous journey to the “other side”. Their
second LP, 2016’s The Unlearning Curve, turned the lyrical focus inward while showcasing
the band’s new “psychedelic industrial” sound. 

In 2019, It Will Come Out of Nowhere expanded upon The Unlearning Curve’s signature
sound with sludge metal elements adding even more gravitas. The group, now streamlined
back to a duo, has Ireson at the reins of the sprawling production while Moore takes
us on a trip through his tempestuous psyche. The 11 unforgiving tracks explore when
calamity comes knocking unexpectedly on your door inspired by betrayal, divorce,
personal loss and other blind-sided knocks to the ego. Doom, hip-hop and Indian 
raga all leech into the groundwater giving the album an unparalleled sonic breadth.

Post Death Soundtrack in 2024 takes on a completely different form, abandoning all
electronics in favor of a raw, guitar-driven Doom Grunge sound as evidenced in lead
singles ‘Icy Underground’ and ‘Lowdown Animal’. The latest music features the band
as a power trio with Moore’s unmistakable guitar style backed by Ireson’s raucous
bass lines and the powerhouse live drums of CASEY LEWIS.

Their fourth full-length record entitled Veil Lifter offers unparalleled moments
of fury, enormity, and transcendence. Featured tracks ‘The Die is Cast’, ‘Killer
of the Doubt’, ‘Immovable’, and ‘Hammer Come Down’ showcase the band larger in scale
and consequence than ever before. Veil Lifter releases on April 16th, 2024.

**RIYL: **Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Opeth, Tool, Windhand, The Stooges, Russian 
Circles, Mastodon, Queens of the Stone Age

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