Post Death Soundtrack – Music as Weaponry
Overthrow Records
(4/5)
With today’s music industry having a, seemingly, obligatory way of sounding, there is a need for bands who bring a revolutionary sound to the table to break the mold. I believe Post Death Soundtrack is doing just that with the release of their debut album Music as Weaponry! With a mix of Industrial and Experimental music, Music as Weaponry is a 14-track masterpiece thought up by the genius minds of Kenneth Buck of Amahra and Steve Moore of Inner Surge and The Unravelling. The most interesting aspect of this album is the individual identity of each track being so different, yet they come together extremely well as if they were all one in the same. The overall album is about as Experimental as you can get with the combination of Rock, Industrial, Electronica, Trip-Hop, and more with a conceptual theme focusing on the process of belief, it’s role in the development of ideological institutions, and the band’s relation to ongoing violence. With that in mind, you might think this album would be “heavy” in the traditional sense related to the heaviness of newer Metal styles and such, but the end result has little of that at all. In fact, it provides a much deeper sense of heaviness in a more psychological way with an overall effect that comes out sounding very dark and, almost, intimidating at times. It can actually be quite creepy; and that gives the album the edge over everything else being plugged over the radio and in more popular culture. Getting to individual tracks, it’s definitely difficult to hold any one track over the other because of the individual identities mentioned earlier, but a few I really enjoy are: “Axe of Fiction” (Track 1)”War Song” (Track 6), “We’re Going Hunting” (Track 8), and “Killing Time” (Track 10). These four songs are ones that really stand out to me and I believe they represent a lot of the true genius that is in the two members of Post Death Soundtrack. Overall, this album is a total masterpiece and I would recommend it to anyone who is open to music a bit outside the box. I can’t wait to see what these guys think up next!
