It’s always fascinating when underground metal goes so deep into its zone that it essentially stops sounding like metal. Planning For Burial, the one-man project from Wilkes-Barre musician Thom Wasluck, pretty much exists in that zone. His new song “You Think” is a perfect example. There are things on “You Think” that mark it as experimental black metal — the overwhelming wall of buzz-drone guitars, the sometimes-tortured vocals. But “You Think” has saxophones and big, sad melodies working for it. It’s got Wasluck wailing that he’s not as disciplined as his father was, which is not exactly the same thing as promising the coming reign of Odin. Ultimately, “You Think” is just a really cool, emotive, atmospheric rock song, and metal isn’t that important to the tone that Wasluck conjures.
