Based in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Wasluck started to perform as "Burial" in 2005 and released the debut album, Leaving in 2009.
[4] Planning for Burial has shared the stage with a wide range of music acts, including Chelsea Wolfe, Have a Nice Life and Deafheaven.
[5] Planning for Burial's music takes influences from a wide array of genres, and is labeled as "gloomgaze"[5] and experimental metal.
[6] According to Pitchfork critic Andy O'Connor, Thom Wasluck of Planning for Burial "filters post-metal, doom, ambient, and goth-rock through his own terminally miserable lens".
[7] New Noise Magazine argued that the act's sound "contains elements of slowcore, shoegaze, doom, drone, '90s alt rock, '80s goth, and black metal, while never being defined by any one of those genres".