The Living Tombstone or “TLT,” as they are known to their legion fans, consisting of Yoav Landau and Sam Haft, have been creating music for over eleven years, amassing 8 million YouTube subscribers and 70 billion streams across platforms. Fresh off a sold-out North American 2024 tour, they hold a significant cultural footprint in the gaming and ‘geekdom’ space with multiple RIAA-awarded songs, including their charting track “Five Nights At Freddy’s,” featured in a recent Blumhouse/NBC Universal film. The living Tombstone have now just announced a headline Academy, Dublin show for Saturday, May 31st 2025.
“Our fans connect to us because they’re obsessed with lore and story. So now we’re giving them a story that belongs entirely to them,” says band member Sam Haft, who portrays the primary vocalist character “Rust” onstage. “I don’t think of us as The Living Tombstone – I think of us as the two guys who write the story for The Living Tombstone. The act has its own world and its own characters for people to follow. It’s our job to continue to provide fans with an interesting narrative.”
TLT have continued developing projects for TV, video games, and more. In 2021, they released indie horror game In Sound Mind, which was critically well received and rated “overwhelmingly positive” on Steam. Since re-acquiring the rights to their TV project from Avex, they have independently financed a proof-of-concept to their battle of the bands cartoon, “Rock N Rumble,” with plans to pitch in Q1 2024. In addition, they’ve spun off the concept into a battle of the bands strategy video game, AudioClash: Battle Of The Bands, currently in beta and seeking a publisher.
Now newly signed to 10K Projects, TLT is working alongside industry-best alternative producer CJ Baran (Panic! at the Disco, COIN, One OK Rock) on their next album, entitled Rust. “Just as zero_one was an album about looking inward, Rust is an album about looking outward,” says Haft. “It’s an album about rebellion, dystopia, and an angry optimism that we can create the future we deserve.” Rust releases in 2025.