• Home
• News
• Features
• Reviews
• TV
• Photos
• Win
• Blog
• Magazine
• Merch
• Festivals

Burnt By The Sun - ‘Heart Of Darkness’

Have you heard the news? Every band ever is eventually going to get back together...

Rating: 9

Have you heard the news? Every band ever is eventually going to get back together. These days, it’s almost unheard of for a band to not break up, reform and deliver another album to rapturous open arms and violent mosh pits. The new material may not always be deserving of platitudes, but fans just want to hear the old shit anyway, so greet ‘em euphorically and make ‘em feel wanted.
Enter Burnt By The Sun, one of the leaders of the late 90s metallic, hard/noisecore scene and their (supposedly) final album. Thing is though, ‘Heart Of Darkness’ is so strong that we can envision fans not being overwhelmingly disappointed whether they air out ‘You Will Move’ from their self-titled EP or not when there’s the storming mayhem of ‘Inner Station’ to contend with. Maybe that’s going a bit far, but ‘Heart Of Darkness’ is chock full of extreme music enormo-domes that are expressive outpourings that rival previous their previous output. ‘There Will Be Blood’ has a massive chorus, driving riff and eerie outro, the churning groove of ‘Goliath’ is like a Paul Bunyon-sized axe to the spine and their sense of adventure remains with the melodic sequences in ‘Rust In Future Primitive’ proving that other options outside of clean singing over soaring melodies do in fact exist.

Kevin Stewart-Panko