NEW MUSIC: Post Death Soundtrack - IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I AM ALONE
- twenty4sevenlifest
- Jun 9
- 10 min read
Independent Artist
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Calgary-based solo project Post Death Soundtrack serves as an ever-evolving amalgamation of heavy music and heavy ideas from the unpredictable mind of Stephen Moore. This lays the groundwork over which Moore showcases his crushing vocal performances, philosophical, often terrifying lyricism and untethered sonic palette. 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.
Following the critical success of 2024's "Veil Lifter", a doom metal/grunge album that achieved features on Doom Charts, Metal Devastation Radio and recognition from several 'Best of 2024' year end lists, Stephen Moore decided on a fresh direction for the next release. It ended up taking form far sooner than he has anticipated.
Post Death Soundtrack's 5th full-length album "IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I AM ALONE" is the sonic equivalent to an urgent magazine clipping threat tied to a rock and thrown through a window. Having grown up loving albums like Nirvana's 'Incesticide' and Jeff Buckley's ill-fated "Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk", Stephen Moore has always had a love for rawness and truth in music - the rest is secondary. He merely asks himself 'Is it good?' Although this album has both brutish output, frightening, upsetting content and sublimely beautiful pieces, the themes are difficult to unpack. "TREMENS" was finalized when Stephen Moore was literally in the middle of the dreaded Delirium Tremens. There is a 15 % chance of death.
"This album is in some ways a complete breakdown in audio format, and in that there is a powerful breakthrough. I find it beautiful and powerful to express what often is not acknowledged or communicated. I learned that from Kurt Cobain and I'm very proud of this work." - Stephen Moore
During the promotion of 2024's acclaimed 'Veil Lifter', Moore discovered the bones of a forgotten album, most of which had been recorded between 2009 - 2011. Some are on the experimental industrial and noise side of the sonic realm, while many are acoustic-based, a few of which were almost too pretty to be included. From 12 or 13 initial tracks, which were often completely reimagined, with new production and instrumentation as well as vocals added, another 15 completely new offerings were written and recorded, making this release a staggering 30 songs.
Album openers "TREMENS" and "GOOD TIME SLOW JAM (IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I AM ALONE" rage with a feral, reckless and wholly uncensored energy. Although the lyrics play a strong role, there is disturbing content here as it involves mental health struggles during crisis. Stylistically, these tracks fit well with artists like Skinny Puppy and Nine Inch Nails. "A MONOLITH OF ALARMS" recalls artists like Frontline Assembly and in many ways sums up Post Death Soundtrack's reason for existing and inspiring others.
"You see all the voiceless, abandoned and sick
Forgotten the beacon....I light the wick
I heard the screaming from the derelict farm
Where tongues were silent....A MONOLITH OF ALARMS
Ring them out"
"VENUS IN FURS" is an appropriately subversive interpretation of Velvet Underground's dirge classic. "WHEN THE WORLD IS BURNING BRIGHT" is a taunting 3 am gothic post-punk piece that lyrically confounds. There are no rules in Moore's musical world. "FAST APPROACHING RADIANT LIGHT" once again jolts the pace along with a frantic breakbeat and an explosive, rousing performance. "SOMETHING STIRS", also recorded in May 2025, is a song of mourning, partially based on the children's campfire story "Who Has My Golden Arm?", and partially based on Moore having his kittens stolen in the middle of the night and whole family robbed by an ex. Yes, truth is often stranger and more twisted than fiction, and this album is an uncensored walk directly through intensive trauma. "WE FALL", simple as it is, can be a downright upsetting listen, even for Moore. Anyone who has lost someone they felt were integral might relate to this devastating, and very short, track.
"HYPNOTIZER" riffs on Led Zeppelin's love for Eastern melodies that intertwine with solid hooks while delivering a message about lack of media, social and emotional literacy. "RIVER MAN", an earnest cover of Nick Drake's subtle classic, is very much a happy accident. Imperfect, yes. Moore recorded this himself in his apartment in 2010 after discovering he loved Nick Drake's level of sensitivity and knack for communicating dark things through surreal lyricism. This is one of those cases where the performance just works better than a studio take and stands alone as it is. It could be the centerpiece of this release. "FINAL DAYS" is full-on punk rock with a rockabilly insanity to it, imagining the end of the world in a slightly comedic way and honoring both Refused and Swing Kids with it's vicious energy.
"Reckless Fever", "Oversoul", "Start This Over" and "Surrender" are moody acoustic tracks with a similarity in their sense of existential longing. Both were written after Moore discovered his love for all things Leonard Cohen.
"CRAWLING KING SNAKE", recorded in May 2025, delivers an altogether unpredictable take on The Doors and their stellar version of John Lee Hooker's classic blues expression. "HYPNOTIZER" riffs on Led Zeppelin's love for Eastern melodies that intertwine with solid hooks while delivering a message about lack of media, social and emotional literacy.
"God's Away On Business" is another of Moore's favorite Tom Waits tracks, and is has a new groove, as it would be inappropriate to attempt to impersonate the man. Passion runs all of this process. "What's He Building In There?" is newly recorded in 2025. It is one of Stephen's all-time Tom Waits favorites, although there are many of them. This is the ultimate take of the nosy neighbor.
"An Anything" is a dark and moody, obscure cover of one of Stephen Moore's life-long friends, Ryan Smith AKA My Arm Is An Ocean.
"Song for Bonzai" and "Desert Wind" provide more beautiful more acoustic expressions. "Song for Bonzai" is the only instrumental on this release. Originally titled "Song of Joy", after additional instrumentation and production, it is appropriately called "Song for Bonzai" in tribute of the brave black cat Bonzai, Stephen's beloved animal companion who passed very recently after a fight with diabetes, undiscovered underlying issues, and brutish vets. He was the bravest cub, but had too much goodness for this Earth and was simply stopping by. Moore made this album happen in the throes of mourning his boy. The pain on this album is real. "Desert Wind" is another apartment recording, recently mildly treated. It is a very simple song that carries some magic with it's presence.
The tracks "What Did You Just Call Me?", "I Would Surmise", "Control", "Trigger Finger", "White Mare", "Get Your Tickets Ready" and "In All My Nightmares I Am Alone" were all recorded in 2025 as Stephen Moore put together this release.
Eclectic, brash, raw, revelatory, mournful and resilient. Post Death Soundtrack's 5th album "IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I AM ALONE" is a singular work when you look closely enough. The same heart, spirit and pain pervade this wide-ranging collection.
Currently, Stephen Moore is working on the final touches for his new album with industrial/doom metal/alternative project HE IS ME, which is a duo him and Portland artist/musician Casey Braunger formed. Casey and Stephen are artistic collaborators and very close friends as well. Their upcoming album will be called "HEL'S MOUTH", and will contain 14 or 15 songs of dynamic shifts, tense arrangements, sludgy, guitar-driven metal, industrial, hard-edged grooves, ambient pieces and very much a battling mindset.
Post Death Soundtrack's "IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I AM ALONE", out now, is at once uncensored chaos, frustration, and subtle beauty.
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Tracklisting:
1. TREMENS 03:19
2. GOOD TIME SLOW JAM (IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I AM ALONE) 04:26
3. A MONOLITH OF ALARMS 04:16
4. VENUS IN FURS 05:15
5. WHEN THE WORLD IS BURNING BRIGHT 02:14
6. FAST APPROACHING RADIANT LIGHT 05:01
7. SOMETHING STIRS 03:21
8. WE FALL 01:20
9. HYPNOTIZER 04:16
10. RIVER MAN 03:26
11. FINAL DAYS 04:05
12. RECKLESS FEVER 04:52
13. CRAWLING KING SNAKE 05:41
14. GOD'S AWAY ON BUSINESS 02:48
15. MARROW 01:00
16. SURRENDER 03:48
17. OVERSOUL 03:37
18. WHAT'S HE BUILDING IN THERE? 03:44
19. CONTROL 00:52
20. SONG FOR BONZAI 03:10
21. WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME? 01:15
22. START THIS OVER 03:30
23. AN ANYTHING 04:35
24. DESERT WIND 03:18
25. I WOULD SURMISE 01:37
26. TRIGGER FINGER 01:25
27. WHITE MARE 01:46
28. GET YOUR TICKETS READY 01:20
29. NOTHING 01:49
30. IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I AM ALONE 01:41
Credits:
Stephen Moore - Vocals, Guitars, Lyrics, Production
All songs written and performed by Stephen Moore
All songs, including the ones below, retreated and remastered by Stephen Moore
Reckless Fever, Surrender, Gods Away on Business, Final Days, Oversoul, Song of Joy and Hypnotizer engineered and produced by Colin Everall
Bring It Back recorded and engineered by Kenneth Buck
Final Days features Colin Everall (drums), Jon Ireson (bass) and Kenneth Buck (additional guitar)
Genres: Rock, Gothic Rock, Industrial, Industrial Metal, Alternative, Post-Punk, Acoustic, Dark, Metal, Doom, Avant-garde, Electronic, Darkwave
RIYL: Mike Patton, Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Nirvana, Tom Waits, Alice in Chains, Marilyn Manson, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Puscifer, Scott Walker, Swans, The Stooges/Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, Portishead
Release Date: OUT NOW
Biography:
Calgary-based heavy solo project Post Death Soundtrack craft 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 Stephen Moore showcases his crushing vocal performances, dissonant sonic palette and untethered philosophy. 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.
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 favour of a raw, guitar-driven doom grunge sound as evidenced in their latest 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 CASEY LEWIS providing powerhouse live drums.
The album went on to be acclaimed worldwide, making several beat albums of 2024 year end lists, was featured by the illustrious Doom Charts, magazines like Rock Hard Italy, Big Takeover Magazine, Post-Punk.com, V13, EARMILK, The Metalverse, Spirit of Metal, Headstuff, Obscure Sound, ADDICTED Magazine, Project Metal, and dozens of others. Stephen Moore was also featured on a number of podcasts and radio shows, most notably the extremely popular Metal Devastation program with Zach Moonshine.
Now solo, Stephen Moore decided to release Post Death Soundtrack's 5th album "IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I AM ALONE" as an extremely eclectic and uncensored collection. This is in tribute to his love for albums such as Nirvana's "Incesticide". The album dishes out a wide range of extremes, trauma and vast emotion. Stephen is also putting the final touches on his new album with Casey Braunger, AKA his partner in crime in industrial doom alternative metal duo HE IS ME. This album should be out within the next few months and will be titled "HEL'S MOUTH".
Currently, Stephen Moore is working on the final touches for his new album with industrial/doom metal/alternative project HE IS ME, which is a duo him and Portland artist/musician Casey Braunger formed. Casey and Stephen are artistic collaborators and very close friends as well. Their upcoming album will be called "HEL'S MOUTH", and will contain 14 or 15 songs of dynamic shifts, tense arrangements, sludgy, guitar-driven metal, industrial, hard-edged grooves, ambient pieces and very much a battling mindset.
Post Death Soundtrack's "IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I AM ALONE" is a 23 song tour through danger, mental illness, the darkness we avoid - at once uncensored chaos, frustration, and an outpouring of beauty. This project exists to ring a monolith of alarms where voices were once silent.
