Cruel Melody is tinged with electronics, Borland’s droning, monotone style vocal, and a general distortion during the heavy parts that makes everything sound as if it is being filtered through an AM frequency. As you may expect with Lohner and Freese involved, this sounds very much like Nine Inch Nails’ early work. While this is not the band’s touring line-up as a result of known prior commitments, they do make an interesting combo. Black Light Burns, aka Wes Borland’s latest solo project, is perhaps solidifying proof of that statement, although his current stint with Marilyn Manson could prove to be an effective tool in proving this statement as well if it results in an album featuring his guitar work.Ĭruel Melody features Borland alongside friends Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails), Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle) and Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv). ![]() Time seems to be telling us that Borland performs at his best when under another person’s creative control. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, his many side projects since leaving the band have fallen significantly short of the mark with both audiences and critics. Week of Algebra Chiroptera (Unspeakable Axe Records) Atronos Fehde (Purity Through Fire) Black Grail VIIII (Iron Bonehead Productions) Celestial Grave Vitriolic Atonement (The Sinister Flame) Cinis Lies That Comfort Me (Selfmadegod Records) Condemned AD Following A Failing Leader (Wormholedeath) Dio Dio At Donington '83 (Niji Entertainment/BMG) Dio Dio At Donington '87 (Niji Entertainment/BMG) Discordance Axis Jouhou (Willowtip) Eva Under Fire Love, Drugs & Misery (Better Noise Music) Frayle Skin & Sorrow (Aqualamb Records) Freedom Hawk Take All You Can (Ripple Music) Gaerea Mirage (Season Of Mist) Gematria Gematria II: The Spindle Of Necessity (Nefarious Industries) Gutvoid Durance Of Lightless Horizons (Blood Harvest Records) Hail Conjurer Earth Penetration (Bestial Burst/Signal Rex) Harvest Of Ash Ache And Impulse (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) Kaledon Legend Of The Forgotten Reign - Chapter VII: Evil Awakens (Beyond The Storm Productions) KEN mode Null (Artoffact Records) Killing Joke Lord Of Chaos (Vinyl) (Spinefarm) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Omnium Gatherum (Vinyl) (Virgin Music) Kings Of Mercia Kings Of Mercia (Metal Blade Records) Live Burial Curse Of The Forlorn (Transcending Obscurity Records) Living Wreckage Living Wreckage (M-Theory Audio) Meridian The Fourth Dimension (From The Vaults) Mindivide Fragments (My Kingdom Music) Motörhead Iron Fist (40th Anniversary Edition) (Sanctuary Records) Motörhead Iron Fist (40th Anniversary Edition) (Sanctuary Records) Nordjevel Gnavhòl (Indie Recordings) Orphaned Land All Is One (Reissue) (Century Media) Orthodoxy After Ignis (The Sinister Flame) Petbrick Liminal (Neurot Recordings/Rocket Recordings) Putrescine / Kosmogyr Desolate Tides (Tridroid Records) Putrescine / Kosmogyr Desolate Tides (Tridroid Records) Razor Cycle Of Contempt (Relapse Records) Set The Sun In Absentia, Vol 2 (Set The Sun) Space Of Variations IMAGO (Napalm Records) Spellbook Deadly Charms (Cruz Del Sur Music) Stone Temple Pilots Core (30th Anniversary Edition) (Vinyl) (Run Out Groove) Stratovarius Survive (earMUSIC) The Soft Moon Exister (Sacred Bones Records) The Wonder Years The Hum Goes On Forever (Hopeless Records) Unsane Unsane (Lamb Unlimited) Venom Black Metal (40th Anniversary Edition) (Vinyl) (BMG) Venom In Nomine Satanas (CD/DVD) (Boxset) (BMG) Venom Inc.Speaking as someone who held a lot of animosity towards Limp Bizkit (it’s best not to get me started on the “why” part), I had always felt that founding member Wes Borland was a great guitarist trapped in a pop music machine.
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