There's a fulminating anger bursting through the seams on every track. The sound is more connected to hardcore than anything, yet it's mostly moody and mid-tempo. It's misanthropy without halloween imagery, or anything resembling the nature worship similar lyrics are treated with in other genres. There is no solution given for the issues laid bare. Burning Image gives you the truth of man and doesn't tell you what to do with it. People are lying to you, they're immovable, they're worthless, walking drones and you can't do a thing about it.
I'm going to compare this with some other bands I really love to get to the point: Glen Danzig at his best still had his dick too far up his own ass to say anything on this level with Samhain. 45 Grave were too busy having fun in some imaginary splatterhouse. Burning Image give you a version of deathrock that lives up to the promise of a strain of punk that meditates on misery.
These are the classics, with some new tracks at the end (you'll hear the difference; they're just as good as the old material). Keep sharp objects out of reach while listening.
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