Cruel Melody

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Cruel Melody

Studio album by Black Light Burns
Released	June 5, 2007
Recorded	2005-2006
Genre	Alternative Rock Gothic Rock Industrial Rock
Label	I AM: WOLFPACK
Producer(s)	Danny Lohner

Cruel Melody is the name of Black Light Burns' upcoming debut album, due for release on June 5, 2007.

Small pieces of the album come from past projects involving Wes Borland including Eat the Day, The Damning Well and an unreleased ambient solo record of Borland's. The bulk of the album, however, was written for this project.

The song "I Have A Need" was originally going to be a Limp Bizkit song to be featured on 'The Unquestionable Truth'. Wes Borland and Sam Rivers had already written the guitar and bass lines, but the song wasn't finished in favour of heavier tracks. Wes then decided, with permission, to use the song for this album instead.

After the album was considered complete, Borland made a post on the band's MySpace saying that he awoke from a nightmare one night with a song in his head. He instantly went to his home studio to record a demo for it. With the band having some extra time, they went back into the studio to record one final song for the album, which is now called 'Mesopotamia'.

On July 27, Borland made another blog post revealing they were going to do three new songs instead of just one. The second song may be a duet with the band Endless Hallway.[1]

Of the three new songs, only Mesopotamia was included officially on the album as the first song. The other two songs, Digging a Hole and Kill the Queen, are to be bonus tracks available at the end of the CD depending on where you purchase it at.

An advanced copy of the album was leaked onto the Internet on March 13, 2007, almost three months before the official release date.

At the end of this leaked copy, at around 8:00 on the final track 'Iodine sky', the following words can heard extremely faintly:

"I'd seen people bleed and i thought I'd seen it all but my own two eyes were perfectly normal that day theres things that I've done only seen by the sun and those things will be buried at my grave."