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The Living Tombstone have been dubbed “the internet’s biggest gaming band” - (NME)

“TLT” as they are known to their legion of fans, are the duo Yoav Landau and Sam Haft. Having created and released music for over eleven years, they have amassed 7 million YouTube subscribers, and their music has achieved over 45 billion streams across platforms. Their unique position as both recording artists and influencers in the gaming and ‘geekdom’ space gives them a significant cultural footprint and history, with multiple RIAA awarded songs, and even charting at #4 on the Dance/Electronic chart with their track Five Nights At Freddy’s, used in the end credits of the recent Blumhouse/NBC Universal produced film.

“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 an interesting narrative.”    

Haft, originally a TV and film writer by trade, joined The Living Tombstone as a songwriter-lyricist-vocalist seven years ago, but ask him and he’ll tell you, “The magic is all Yoav. I’m hardworking and lucky - he’s special.” Founding member Yoav Landau, who portrays the band’s frontman character “zero_one” onstage, started TLT as a way to escape an environment in which he never felt like he fit in, as a teenager in Israel. Yoav found an emotional outlet in developing music about his favorite television shows as a way to connect with like-minded communities away from his home, and across the world. As soon as he was able, Yoav left college, moved to America and became a full-time creator.