Product Description

Challenging the confines of the band's prior sound, yet likewise coincidentally sticking close to the their initial statements of pushing the boundaries of extreme music, THE FUNERAL PYRE - in their two years since recording The Nature of Betrayal - has ditched keyboards along with much of the melodic death metal influence that initially inspired the band. Gone might be the death metal, but the melodious remains, albeit in a more black metal-inspired convention. With the band's latest offering, Wounds, along with the addition of a second guitar player, THE FUNERAL PYRE's riffs, fills, and - admittedly - solos have pushed the band's contemporaries' bound of banality.

Track Listing

1. Thieves
2. Black Earth
3. The Gathering Bones
4. Wounds
5. These Ties That Bind
6. Arches Of Existence
7. When The Light Ends
8. Devourer
9. Ghost Walker

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #238161 in Music
• Released on: 2008-05-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Review
...the Southern California quintet offers up a tightly executed attack that takes no prisoners on Wounds, mixing the melodic bent of its predecessor with a punky energy that propels tracks such as Black Earth and Devourer. The title track is a nearly nine-minute epic filled with ambitious dynamic shifts, while These Ties That Bind and arches of Existence flaunt some vigorous guitar flash. Let s hope these Wounds never heal. --Revolver magazine

Review
They re American but you d never know it. With a real melancholic swirl deep in the darkest pits of the forest, Nordic metal assault The Funeral Pyre are unique in a way that s a joy to hear.... An astonishingly likeable album, free of cliché, that ll worm into your blackened heart. --Rock Sound magazine