Experimental movie soundtrack veterans Sleepbomb return to the 4 Star Theater Thursday to celebrate the release of their latest album featuring the band's original music for "Night of the Living Dead."

The group that has made a name for itself with over two decades of performing live original ambient drone/doom soundtracks to movies like "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," "Conan the Barbarian," "Metropolis" and "Bladerunner." Sleepbomb currently features bassist/synth player Tim Gotch, singer/keyboardist Claire Hamard, guitarist Charlie Hernandez and drummer Rob Johnson.   

While the band has been making music in various configurations since 2003, for many years live performances during film screenings were the main way fans could experience their music. However, in 2023, Bill Gould -- bassist for Bay Area band Faith No More who has also collaborated with Mexican grindcore band Brujeria, This Heat drummer Charles Hayward and the late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer -- released the group's soundtrack to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on his Kool Arrow imprint, partnering with Belgian label Consouling Sounds to make physical editions available in Europe. 

In January, the two labels put out a second collection of Sleepbomb's music drawn from the band's score for George Romero's landmark zombie apocalypse film "Night of the Living Dead." Entitled The Sleeping Dead, the album was recorded, mixed and mastered at Earhammer Studios in Oakland by Greg Wilkinson (a member of the bands Brainoil and Deathgrave who has worked with High on Fire, Autopsy, Lecherous Gaze, Vastum and many others) and perfectly captures the confusion and dread experienced by the film's characters as they make a stand against the hordes of flesh-eating reanimated dead from a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. The band celebrates the album release with this performance during a screening of the horror classic at the 4 Star Theater Thursday night.

Sleepbomb performs the score to "Night of the Living Dead"  
Thursday, March 6, 8 p.m.  $25
4 Star Theater