Black Light Burns

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Black Light Burns
Background information
Origin California, USA
Genre(s) Alternative Rock
Gothic Rock
Industrial Rock
Years active 2005 - Present
Label(s) I AM: WOLFPACK
Associated
acts		 The Damning Well
Limp Bizkit
From First to Last
Nine Inch Nails
A Perfect Circle
Telefon Tel Aviv
Website http://www.blacklightburns.com/
Members
Wes Borland
Danny Lohner
Josh Eustis
Josh Freese
Nick Annis
Marshall Kilpatric
Sean Fetterman

Black Light Burns is an American gothic/alternative rock supergroup created by Wes Borland (formerly of Limp Bizkit, Big Dumb Face, Eat the Day). The band's lineup consists of, naturally, Borland himself, along with Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails), Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv), and Josh Freese (The Vandals, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails). Their debut album, Cruel Melody, is due to be released on June 5, 2007.

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[edit] History

Borland states that Black Light Burns is the culmination of the various projects he has been working on ever since he quit Limp Bizkit in 2001. Things began with Big Dumb Face, a solo project that Borland had been working on during his time with Limp Bizkit. Borland didn't take the project too seriously, and used it to basically test the waters, and see how hard it would be to do something serious on his own, without the aid of his bandmates. After he quit the band, he began working on several different projects. The first of which was supposed to be an instrumental album one could listen to and simply relax. Simultaneously, he began Eat The Day. With this project, Borland stated that he became cocky, and thought because of his previous success with Limp Bizkit, duplicating that success with a new band would be simple. He soon found out this wasn't the case. Eat The Day eventually unraveled itself, as, in Borland's words, "I think everybody involved in that project had different ideas about the direction that it should go". Borland became self-absorbed, and along with continuous pressure from the label, and struggles finding a lead singer for the band, the project eventually disbanded.[1]

In terms of their lineup, Black Light Burns is somewhat of a successor to the brief project The Damning Well, which consisted of mostly the same members. The main difference this time around being that Borland has taken vocals into his own hands, after many attempts to find a proper vocalist in various projects.

After the 'failure' of Borland's various projects, he returned to Limp Bizkit once again, turning down the spot as Nine Inch Nails touring guitar player. According to vocalist Fred Durst, Borland only agreed to return to the band on the condition that their label, Geffen, agreed to support his solo project, Black Light Burns.

It began only as a side project, with Borland writing many of the songs during his time off from Limp Bizkit, but soon things in Limp Bizkit became very quiet, and Borland himself stated that Black Light Burns was now his main project, and anything else he did, including Limp Bizkit, was a side project. Eventually arguments broke out on MySpace between Borland and Durst, and Borland left Limp Bizkit once again, although according to him, the band members had already gone their separate ways, he simply decided not to return.

The Black Light Burns song titled "I Have a Need" was instrumentally written to be included on the Limp Bizkit release The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1), but was cut in order for the EP to remain mostly metal oriented. It features Limp Bizkit's bassist Sam Rivers on the track, and Wes was allowed to use the song for Black Light Burns when the song was turned down for use by Limp Bizkit.

On June 16, Borland announced that the band and Geffen Records had parted ways. There was little word in the following months over the situation regarding a new label, though as of October 25, the band is in negotiations with a label, and are hoping to release their debut album early 2007.

Borland has stated that he is the only constant in Black Light Burns, as the other members of the studio lineup are expected to be mostly unable to participate in touring with Black Light Burns, such as the notoriously busy Josh Freese.

The initial touring lineup of Black Light Burns has yet to be revealed. However, Black Light Burns' first tour was previously set to begin in fall of 2006 with From First to Last, who Borland also plays bass for on and off. This tour was to feature Borland doing double duty as the singer/guitarist for Black Light Burns and then bassist for From First to Last afterwards. However, Sonny Moore (singer of FFTL) developed a node on his right vocal chord and has to get surgery, thus ending Wes Borland's current touring stint with From First to Last.

On February 3rd, 2007,Wes announced through the official Black Light Burns myspace, that the band has now signed to Ross Robinson's new label I AM: WOLFPACK. Though no release date is available, Wes Borland mentioned that it is looking like the album will be released around June, and the band is hoping to begin touring around that time as well. Borland has schedule some guitar clinic dates in the middle east for spring of 2007 in the meantime.

On February 5, 2007, Borland announced that the official release date for the album is June 5, 2007.

Lie will be the first single from the album, going to radio on March 20 and will feature a music video soon after.


[edit] Band Members

Much like Nine Inch Nails, Black Light Burns consists of two entities, the studio band, and the live band. Some members of the band that recorded in the studio may not be able to tour with the band, and future live members might contribute to future CD releases, therefore lineup changes could occur. Borland did all of the vocals, guitar, and bass on the album, except on the following spots:

[edit] Guest Contributors

  • Endless Hallway -certain members appear on one of the three still as-of-yet-titled song written during the summer of 2006, that will be included on Cruel Melody.

[edit] Studio

[edit] Live Band

Note: The live band will consist of five positions: Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboard, and Drums.

  • Wes Borland's Macbook Pro will be playing the keyboard or loops that the four above bandmembers can't/won't be playing live

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Album Cover Album Information
Cruel Melody
  • Released: June 5, 2007
  • Chart Positions:
  • U.S. Sales:
  • Worldwide sales:
  • RIAA Certification:

[edit] Singles

Year Title Chart positions Sales Album
U.S. US Modern Rock U.K. AUS CAN GER IRL UWC
2007 "Lie" TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA Cruel Melody


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