Planning For Burial

Thom Wasluck, an American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, originated Planning for Burial, whose somber experimental metal incorporates elements of shoegaze, goth, alt-rock, doom, drone, and black metal. Operating alone in both studio and concert settings, Wasluck launched the project under that name in 2005 and began a succession of somber albums and split releases that combine the ominous black shoegaze of Jesu with the heavy, fixated industrial metal of Fragile-era Nine Inch Nails.

After performing with multiple groups during his youth in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, he established Planning for Burial as a solo venture in 2005. The debut album Leaving appeared in 2009, and Enemies List Home Recordings reissued it the following year. Steady output of shorter recordings helped cultivate an audience, among them two joint releases with Lonesummer on Music Ruins Lives and the 2012 album I Miss Our Conversations, I'm Sorry on Tycho Magnetic Anomalies. Following a signing with The Flenser, the second full-length Desideratum arrived in 2014 and listed “whiskey” among its instrumental credits.

Wasluck issued the single “As a Lover” two years later. Returning to his childhood residence supplied the creative spark for the third album, 2017’s Below the House. That same year he assembled the compilation Matawan: Collected Works 2010-2014, gathering out-of-print non-album tracks first recorded in his prior home of Matawan, New Jersey.