Track Listing

1. Lines From An Epitaph
2. Rebirth
3. The Age In Which Tomorrow Brings
4. Embrace The Plague
5. Primal Human Pain
6. Angel Maker
7. Judging Hope
8. Well Adjusted
9. Watching Dead Leaves Fall
10. World of Regret

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90655 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

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Debut Of The Year!

From the Artist
Guitarist Mike Casavant describes the Burn In Silence sound best: "As a guitarist, I try to write structured music in an unstructured way. There’s reason to the madness and it’s heavy for the right reasons. Going from a blast beat into a huge, open chorus just hits you. The heavy parts become harder while the melody sounds more epic. I just want to write really great songs as a whole, not just interesting parts. There’s also no limit to what we’re going to do." "I like to compare it to Pandora’s Box," Casavant continues, "where every emotion and every feeling that you can imagine is displayed in what we do."

About the Artist
BURN IN SILENCE is coming for you. This metal wrecking machine will not be stopped until it has laid every genre trend to waste. The band's Prosthetic Records debut, Angel Maker, signals the beginning of a musical apocalypse. Not simply defined by one metal subgenre, Burn In Silence is instead something dangerous, infectious, and undeniable. Upon pressing play, listeners will plunge into an entrancing whirlwind of devastation: Thrash guitars and grooving riffs flank a percussive double bass salvo that explodes upon impact, melodic choruses soar to heights of macabre beauty, and violent screams descend downward like a guillotine. Keyboards bleed texture all over the destruction, painting a backdrop that covers every inch of Hell. Cuts like "Lines from an Epitaph" and "Embrace the Plague" simply bludgeon with a pure inner rage that some artists spend a lifetime attempting to harness. On these tracks, polyrhythmic riff work shifts into technical guitars as keyboard melody and choruses engulf the entire sound. These six Massachusetts men plan on driving listeners straight to the center of darkness and back. Burn In Silence has already decimated stages all over the Northeast alongside Damage Plan, Shadows Fall, and Morbid Angel, among others. Having cultivated a live show to be reckoned with, the band stands ready to pummel audiences all over the world. The Ken Susi-produced EP Pure As Your First Day paved the way for their first full-length, the Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Himsa) mixed metallic mastery, Angel Maker. Tapping into the elements that make metal's subgenres great, the band has already become a cohesive and driven unit. With a mix of incredible production, musical talent, tireless work ethic, and a thirst to be distinct, Burn In Silence is destined to become integral to the future of the entire genre. Rejecting genre trends, the band embraces everything from power grooves to pummeling double bass and engaging dynamics. With all these elements working in conjunction, the Burn In Silence sound rises together with a combination of brutality and splendor. Over the course of the entire record, a journey will be taken and it won’t soon be forgotten. The definition of Angel Maker encapsulates this sound fittingly. "The title is a play on words about a guy who is killing people, but at the same time he’s making angels," Casavant divulges. That duality remains paramount to Burn In Silence and helps to separate them from an overcrowded scene that is now yearning for something new. When Angel Maker descends, you can either run away in fear, or join Burn In Silence as they conquer one city at a time.

Customer Reviews

(3.5 stars) Flawed, but still enjoyable
When recording their debut, this year's "Angel Maker," Burn In Silence, obviously didn't overly concern themselves with changing the face of music or reinventing metalcore as we know it. Still, this Boston-based deathcore/blackened-metalcore sextet do deserve a substantial amount of credit. Most of "Angel Maker" stacks up as well or better than the majority of metalcore released in 2006. It's a tight, punchy, sharp, crisp, hooky, vitriolic, inspired, offensive, and relevant effort which can be even kind of refreshing to listen to.

So what's the secret to this success? Simple: Crushing heaviness. These ten tracks and 38-minutes of thrashy, mean, punishing, forceful, driving, skull-cracking American metalcore have been influenced by numerous other heavy music sub-genres (for example, it's instantly noticeable that many areas here are heavily shaded by Middle-Eastern black metal). Make no mistake, folks: This sure ain't a run-of-the-mill metalcore release, and Burn In Silence aren't your typical Killswitch Engage knock-off! Overall, this record is a remarkably harsh, meaty, dissonant, noisy, and chaotic assault.

The first thing you'll notice about this album will probably be the drummer's insistent (and nearly constant) use of blast beats. But the next thing you should notice is that these songs are busy, airtight, and blistering musicianship. These songs are usually very muscular and bristle with almost everything heavy, including smashing, raw-sounding, carnage-inducing drum beats, thunderous, booming rhythms that ring like huge steel doors being slammed shut, deeply grumbling bass lines, and huge, bludgeoning guitar chops that weigh over a ton. All told, listening to "Angel Maker" is like being beaten over the head with a 2X4 until you're knocked out.

"Lines From An Epitaph" is a fierce, nearly deafening set opener that sports scorching riffs and skull crushing double bass kicks (seriously, the drummer's trapkit must be in splinters by the end of this song). Next up, "Rebirth," which evokes the sound of a heard of bison falling off a cliff, gets in the listener's face and smacks you around with chunky, punching, cascading power chords and machine gun drums. The next two cuts, "The Age In Which Tomorrow Brings" and "Embrace The Plague," counterbalances devastating heaviness with gentle melody. Both songs are highlighted by impeccable, ultra-fast, Black Dahlia Murder-worthy blasting, cast-iron riffs, and earthquake rhythms (plus, the latter track also a killer, ultra-brutal ending); but they also both feature catchy, tuneful choruses (where dreary clean vocals come onto the scene), briefly used keyboards, and even (what sounds like) an choir in the background. Other highlights include the title song (quite possibly the best track on the record), which is backed by a catchy, staccato rhythm, punching guitar hooks, slamming drums, almost monstrous vocals, scalding energy, and an irresistible momentum build-up, and the crushing, Nile-esque jackhammer ferocity and cool piano outro of "Watching Dead Leaves Fall."

Unfortunately, not all of the album can be as inspiring. For one, three tracks near the end ("Judging Hope," "Well Adjusted," and "World of Regret,") tack on annoying clean vocal refrains. Some of the tracks on here successfully balance aggression and melody, but these songs just seem excessive, trite, and watery. Next, as effective as the guitar work may be, it often seems a bit simple and minimalist (the drummer, who is clearly the focal point here, is much more inspiring and upstages the guitarist.) And, even without those two flaws, there are a few other deathcore/blackened-metalcore bands/discs that you should invest your time and money on before you pick this album up (Lamb of God's "Sacrament" and Devildriver's "The Fury of Our Maker's Hand" being two excellent examples.)

Nevertheless, it's impossible to be too harsh on this album, because this reviewer is (and most metalheads will be) willing to forgive a couple of cliches and a lack of jaw-droppingly great songwriting for energy this gripping, and music this tight and meaty. So, "Angel Maker" may be an imperfect, and less-than-groundbreaing album, but it still makes for many enjoyable headbanging sessions all the same. A recommended listen.

This is great for your blood pressure...
Excellent metalcore release with an outstanding production. Just started blasting it yesterday, but I heard some elements of A DOZEN FURIES and FEAR FACTORY in some of the songs. Pretty brutal though, it really doesn't let up in ferocity. Vocalist sounds really really pissed off. Definately a great buy, worth every penny!!!!

I want this band back
This band has broken up before they could release the album they were working on. I personally would like to see them get back together. There are a lot of bands like this but not many are as good as this one was. Just listening to the title track should be enough to convince any fan of this type of music that this CD is worth picking up. Brutal vocals and breakdowns with the emo type vocals thrown in at appropriate times. Awesome band. Their singer has moved on to a band named ACARO and from what Ive heard they are no where near as good.