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"The title [of the album] is a play on words about a guy who is killing people, but at the same time he's making angels," coyly says the band. Well, like All That Remains is relative to Shadows Fall, so can Burn in Silence be favorably compared to Bleeding Through. Sonically speaking, that is. Simply put, if you think you've heard this before, you very well may have. Were Angel Maker's sonic "ingredients" to be listed, it would be something like 75% Bleeding Through, 15% Killswitch Engage, 9% Trivium, and 1% Meshuggah. Oh, sure, there is the occasional Entombed-sounding, gratuitous pick slide and even some Dimmu Borgir-esque symphonic Black Metal parts, but is that enough to escape the massive Metalcore shadow (with keyboards!) that hangs over this Massachusetts sextet?
In spite of what the accompanying press release indicates about the band not being "defined by one metal subgenre" Metalcore is the order of the day on Burn in Silence's debut. Everything is well played and Tue Madsen's production is crushingly crystal clear, it's just that the saccharine vocals are tired to the point of exhaustion by now. The main vocals succeed in the typical Hardcore bark style but the sing-song bit has been done to death, never mind spoken word parts. PR claims the band to have a "thirst to be distinct." Instead Burn in Silence are a very competent 3rd string Metalcore band. There is just nothing compelling about this effort. If they avoided the trends they claim to eschew maybe they would be successful at being different, if nothing else. Put this in between Gizmachi and All That Remains on your shelf.
| Tracklist |
| 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 |
: 38.06
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