Burning Love
Songs for Burning Lovers
Deranged Records

When I last wrote about Burning Love they were flying high off of their six song, ’09 demo (and probably some other influences as well), and I promised that an LP was on the way. Well, here you go. Following the release of the “Don’t Ever Change” single (with a cover of Nick Cave’s “Jack the Ripper” on the B-side), Songs for Burning Lovers is the Canuck band’s full-length debut and if you think there’s no fucking danger left in rock n’ roll, if you think there aren’t any bands around any more who will piss where they sleep just for the privilege of smelling like hopelessness and failure, then you haven’t experienced the glory that is Burning Love. Led by Cursed’s Chris Colohan on vocals, Burning Love comes at you like a mental patient off its meds, all red eyes, twitchy limbs, and drool, and the abrasive, fuzzy, hardcore punk n’ roll on Songs for Burning Lovers (produced by master Ian Blurton) offers up all the subtle charm of chewing glass and sparring with a chain link fence. It’s 30 minutes of high energy disaster, brother, and further proof that Canada is home to some of the best electric mayhem around (think Bastard Child Death Cult, Quest for Fire, Brutal Knights, and Trigger Effect as well, to name a few). Of course, Burning Love also shares its spit n’ shit distemper with bands like Motorhead, Dead Boys, Hot Snakes, Black Flag, and Turbonegro, so when they finally come to take you away, you’ll know exactly who to blame.

Listen to “Don’t Ever Change” from Songs for Burning Lovers!

Here’s the brand new video for Bastard Child Death Cult’s “Radio Silence”!

Bastard Child Death Cult
Year Zero
Stereo Dynamite

The whole country’s gone MAD, gripped with some kind of interminable, back-breaking FEAR. The pigs have struck. The future is BLEAK. Everyone’s afraid to get out of bed in the morning and the person next to you on the street corner will claw at your throat with unnerving FURY if you should even so much as cough in their general direction. It’s everyone for themselves and it’s HEINOUS. There’s no vaccine for that kind of lawlessness and DOOM. But there is a soundtrack.

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