Burning Inside
"Apparition"
(Crash Music)

First off, these guys got a lot to say, on and off the disc! But I'll tell you one thing, I'd rather make their acquaintance through the pages of the cover insert then run into them in a dark and foggy graveyard. For some odd reason whenever I think of Burning Inside I'm right away taken back to that Ministry record like ten years ago and the song title of the same name. No comparison whatsoever. "Apparition's" an exercise in Death Metal technicality. I wrote a similar "slogan" for a band called Sceptic not too long ago and I'll apply the same drama here-do we see a trend creeping through the mist? Maybe, maybe not. The fact is whether or not a typical Death Metal group has a degree of dexterity to their playing is often hard to discern-and in a lot of cases you're following along to the subject matter you can't understand playing by ear alone and so you're left with enough of a hollow head that by its conclusion, none of it really matters anyway. Now we're not talking ELP meets Deicide here. but then again that would be rather interesting now wouldn't it? Here you got ten ghoulish tracks, all tuned low, delivered at often high speeds, sometimes slowed by the sludge, occasionally giving way to glimpses of concise melodic lines and glimmers of pale moonlight, which is to say somber keyboard notes offering brief hope to a fading spirit. Burning Inside features four guys come together for their love of brutality, blood and guns, having previously honed their crafts in other notable acts as Iced Earth, Death, and Control Denied, and thus nature of their complexities contained therein an otherwise skull-crushing environ.

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