When The Deadbolt Breaks’ music has been labeled many things -heavy, daunting, overwhelming, unnerving- but the bands guitarist, vocalist and founder, Lewis, has always struck a balance between the ugly and beautiful: long compositions wade through detuned, discordant, and murky sludge before shifting into melodic ambient space rock territories, and back again. It’s not hard to see that cinema is often what informs Lewis’s songwriting: the grueling discomfort of E. Elias Merhige or the surreality of David Lynch have provided as much inspiration as his musical influences.

“As Hope Valley Burns: Eulogy”, is the finale to what is essentially a 2 record set, although both records will stand on their own.