Planning for Burial is Thom Wasluck‘s solo, post-metal project. On March 10th the musician will release his third full-length, Below the House, via the San Francisco-based label, The Flenser. In 2014, Wasluck returned from New Jersey to his childhood home in western Pennsylvania and began working alongside his father as a commercial insulator, while also beginning work on his upcoming long-player. Today we listen to Planning For Burial’s track “Whiskey and Wine“, the album’s first single. Combining elements of doom metal with a shoegaze aesthetic, his insular and obsessive methodology yields deeply personal results here. “Whiskey and Wine” summons reclusive intensity as the musician repetitively strikes frigid, doom-laden chords to open. While sonically heavy to be sure, this track is in no way earthbound as the maelstrom it creates seems to have a definite upward motion. Adding his voice to the mix, Wasluck rides the updraft with an anguished howl, punctuated by rips of feedback and ringing glockenspiel, before the track floats off with ethereal ambiance.
