Danny Lohner also manufactured the band's debut album CRUEL MELODY which will be in-shops on June five, on famed file producer Ross Robinson's model new upstart label I AM: WOLFPACK. CRUEL MELODY was initially going to be an esoteric, dirge-serious solo project with a wide range of singers, but as Borland started off producing heavier content, he as a final point made the decision to acquire the reins at the rear of the mike. Borland has flirted with his large post-LB breakthrough on and off through the last 5 many years, to start with with the idiosyncratic Large Dumb Confront, then with his brother Scott in Take in the Day before hooking up with bassist Danny Lohner (9 Inch Nails) and drummer Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle) in proto-industrial powerhouse the Damning Effectively, whose crushing Underworld soundtrack contribution "Awakening" showcased Richard Patrick (Filter, Army of Virtually anyone) on vocals. From the post-Ramones surf rock freakout of opener "Mesopotamia" and the gradual-build confessional spit of "I Have a Require" to the introspective, epic closing tandem "New Hunger" and "I Am Exactly where It Normally takes Me" (the latter featuring the smoky siren call of Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano), Cruel Melody is just one hell of a curveball. And the riff form of adopted second to that, if it was acceptable. "I was speaking to Trent Reznor, actively playing him these tracks in their infancy," Borland remembers. ("Screw it," he laughs, "there is certainly a computer system in the band.") In the interim, he's just striving to perfect his special strategy to creating artwork. "It is just about like when you see a minor flash in the corner of your eye and you happen to be not convinced what it was.