San Francisco sludge/doom/post-metal band Sleepbomb premiere second single and music video »Cemetery Song« off upcoming album »The Sleeping Dead«!
San Francisco, California based sludge/doom/post-metal collective Sleepbomb premiere the second single and music video »Cemetery Song« taken from their upcoming album, »The Sleeping Dead«, scheduled for release on January 24th, 2025 via Koolarrow Records and Consouling Sounds.
Courtesy of Discipline PR:
Following the cinematic momentum of »The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari«, San Francisco-based doom-metal ensemble Sleepbomb prepares to unleash their next sonic experience, »The Sleeping Dead«, due January 24, 2025. The second single, »Cemetery Song«, offers a hauntingly immersive dive into the album’s eerie landscape.
»The Sleeping Dead« is an atmospheric descent into doom-laden soundscapes, with »Cemetery Song« setting a dark and foreboding tone. As vocalist and synth player Claire Hamard explains, “It’s obviously a major part of the film, since it’s the opening that sets the tone for what’s to come. We’ve got a very stereotypical horror-fantasy image of a graveyard, a frightened woman and a teasing man, and the first monster comes up from behind to cause chaos.”
The track captures the tension of the film’s opening scene with a solemn chromatic melody that builds into a powerful, dissonant climax. “When the fight begins, we have something very heavy, very doomy, but also very driving,” adds Claire, describing the track as a “cinematographic banger” complete with synths that sound like an alarm announcing the chaos to come.
Photo by Fred Aube
Just as with »It Was A Good Plan«, »Cemetery Song« promises a vivid auditory experience that reflects Sleepbomb’s ability to channel cinematic tension into their signature doom style.
Order »Cemetery Song« via Bandcamp here. https://sleepbomb.bandcamp.com/track/cemetery-song-2
»The Sleeping Dead« pre-orders available on October 31 via Koolarrow Records in North America. And Consouling Sounds in EU/ROW.
Sleepbomb is a San Francisco-based psychedelic doom project focused on full, original scores for genre films including the German expressionist silent masterpieces – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu and Metropolis. Historically a live experience, Sleepbomb has performed their scores across the West coast of the US since 2003 and now has set their sights on expanding to the East coast and the world for 2025.
Originally stylistically close to a chaotic version of Throbbing Gristle vs Black Sabbath, Sleepbomb has been exploring experimental sounds and forms, guided by the band’s love of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Coil, Neurosis, Sunn 0))), Ulver and Swans, among others. Settling on a drone influenced style of doom metal as the overarching theme while exploring other genres as appropriate for each film’s particular style, Sleepbomb’s goal is to re-contextualize the experience of these well-known films. They succeed in this goal.
Sleepbomb joined Bill Gould’s Koolarrow records and Belgium’s Consouling Sounds in 2023 for the release of their score for the classic 1920 German expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. They are overjoyed to repeat this collaboration for their January 2025 release of »The Sleeping Dead«: excerpts from an alternate score for George Romero’s »Night Of The Living Dead«!
● Charlie Hernandez – Guitars
● Tim Gotch – Bass, Synths
● Rob Johnson – Drums and Percussion
● Claire Hamard – Vocals, Synths, Electronics
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