CRUEL MELODY was formerly going to be an esoteric, dirge-heavy solo project with a wide variety of singers, but as Borland up and running crafting heavier materials, he as a final point determined to get the reins at the rear of the mike. BLACK Light Uses up will make their very first stay debut at the NARM convention in Chicago on April thirtieth. And the new search satisfies him very well. Now Borland has taken Lohner, Freese and audio designer Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv) to super-producer Ross Robinson's upstart I AM: WOLFPACK label and delivered Black Mild Burns' harrowing debut, Cruel Melody, 180 degrees from what you suppose you know about the eccentric axeman. From the publish-Ramones surf rock freakout of opener "Mesopotamia" and the gradual-develop confessional spit of "I Have a Need" to the introspective, epic closing tandem "New Hunger" and "I Am Where It Normally takes Me" (the latter featuring the smoky siren get in touch with of Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano), Cruel Melody is an individual hell of a curveball. "I was speaking to Trent Reznor, playing him these tracks in their infancy," Borland remembers. ("Screw it," he laughs, "there is certainly a personal pc in the band.") In the interim, he's just striving to great his exclusive strategy to earning artwork. "You'll find it practically like when you see a tiny flash in the corner of your eye and you might be not absolutely sure what it was.