Burning Brides - Fall of the Plastic Empire
(File 13)
Burning Brides recently toured with Enemymine and The Melvins on a short
East coast tour. I was
introduced to their music at a show on this tour when they opened for
Enemymine. Live, they were an
invigorating hybrid of rehashed heavy metal (The Fucking Champs, Oxes) and
early 90s Seattle rock
(Nirvana, Screaming Trees, The Melvins).
On this, their first album, they don't quite translate the immediacy of
their live show. Songs like
"Plank of Fire," "If I'm a Man," and "Stabbed in the Back of the Heart" all
come up short in actually
rocking, though you can tell they intend to.
Their sugary pop sensibilities shine through on "Arctic Snow," a song that
didn't quite click with
their harsher, live set. The song finishes off by blindsiding the listener
with some heavy riffing
that is unexpected, but very welcome and somehow fitting.
The Burning Brides mixture of Tad and Ozzy Ozbourne lacks the intensity it
could have, but still
works out to be far better than any Tad or Ozzy Ozbourne album ever was.
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