Sleepbomb Premieres “It Was A Good Plan” off LP ‘The Sleeping Dead’

Following winter’s release of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Sleepbomb returns with another slab of cinematic sound – The Sleeping Dead coming out January 24th, 2025. Hear the first single from the doom-metal band “It Was a Good Plan.”

Subtitled “Excerpts from their score for George Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead” and based on their full-length score for the film, The Sleeping Dead is an epic serving of filmic doom. Starting with the drum parts fully synchronized with the cinematic imagery, during the recording process, each track was pared down to the essential character of each scene from the most influential zombie film of them all.

Sleepbomb’s Tim Gotch states:

“Unlike The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, we knew that the final product would not be a fully synchronized score due to rights issues and the large amount of dialogue in the film.”

Order It Was A Good Plan via Bandcamp. Pre-order The Sleeping Dead on October 31st 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 U.S. 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!

Sleepbomb “It Was a Good Plan” single artwork