The days when bands delving into any shape or form of heavy music took a single straight-line genre (or sub-genre wise), being so easy to label them are well and truly gone.
Now, most of such bands or artists seek an intertwined combination of (sub) genres, where, if they succeed, they actually present quite a sense of inventiveness and originality that makes such (heavy) music move forward.
Wither their fourth album Veil Litter, Vancouver’s Post Death Soundtrack takes that more varied path – through the eleven tracks here, the trio (Stephen Moore: vocals, guitars, lyrics, Jon Ireson: bass, additional guitars, production, Casey Lewis: drums) go through and combine everything from ‘good old’ heavy metal to grunge (and anything in between including doom, hardcore and trash) coming up with something that can bear the tag of ‘doom grunge’.
Sure, influences abound, and you could name quite a few big heavy music names here, but Post Death Trash mesh them so well to give the combination of these influences an individual, personalised touch that can keep it moving forward.
To press their point, the band decided to abandon any electronic elements within their music, relying on heavy rhythms, and even heavier guitars and vocals, trying to underlie the key thematic point they are trying to make here – as they put it, “a meditation on mental illness and its underlying prevalence throughout the collective psyche”.
Quite a heavy theme here, but it is matched with a musical heaviness that does make it a rewarding listen, particularly for fans of all things heavy.
