PLANNING FOR BURIAL DUDE STARTS MUSIC RUINS LIVES LABEL

Last November, we turned you onto New Jersey's Planning For Burial, a project with a highly esoteric take on post-rock influenced metal. We described the group as "post-life" music, given the band's focus on the other plane of life. They're heavy and doomy, though not in the conventional sense of those terms.

Well Thom, the man behind Planning for Burial, has started a label entitled Music Ruins Lives. Music may have ruined our wallets, but our lives? An except from their "About" section:

We don't do drugs here at Music Ruins Lives, but we exist as junkies nonetheless -- trapped in the never-ending chase to feed an addiction that's worse than anything based in substance, because hell, it's everywhere, everybody does it, and it's so socially acceptable the kids're getting hooked before they can even read. No one ever expects going in to have to push off payments and skip a few meals here and there in order to free up enough cash to sate the urges, but that's the reality of the situation we've put ourselves in, one that deserves no more or less pity than is cast upon those shaking with the sickness of withdrawal -- what we pop in aren't pills, but cassettes and compact discs; our needles hit record grooves instead of veins. It's disgusting.

Describes our music consumption habits to a tee.

The label's first release is a cassette edition of shoegaze/doom/black/electronic/WTF group Have a Nice Life's Voids. The MC edition will include the bonus track "I'm Dr. House." According to the label, it's been a fast seller, and it may be sold out by the time you read this, but never say never. Music Ruins Lives' next project is a split CD of Planning For Burial and Lonesummer, and preorders for that ditty should be up in mid-October.

In the meantime, get yourself reacquainted with Planning for Burial's Leaving.