Track Listing

1. Heart Full Of Black
2. Come Alive
3. Alternative Teenage Suicide
4. King Of The Demimonde
5. Century Song
6. Dance With The Devil
7. Leave No Ashes
8. To Kill A Swan
9. Pleasure In The Pain
10. From You
11. Last Man Standing
12. Vampire Waltz

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62761 in Music
• Released on: 2004-12-06
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Burning Brides were formed in 1999 by guitar player/vocalist/songwriter Dimitri Coats and bassist Melanie Campbell, stopping in Philadelphia to release their hook-laden debut album, Fall of the Plastic Empire. With Leave No Ashes they fulfil all the promise of Empire. This album, produced by the Brides with legendary producer George Drakoulious (Black Crowes, Tom Petty) streamlines and finely hones every element that made its predecessor so great and then kicks it all up several dozen notches--imagine equal parts garage rock swagger, sleaze metal hook, britpop melody and classic alternative rock crunch thrown together in pile-up on the turnpike and you'll start to get the idea. Leave No Ashes is a dark, majestic masterpiece the likes of which we don't often see these days, great from end to end and, while the bands' influences are worn on their sleeves, this music is never derivative, always fresh. Take for instance the opener "Heart Full of Black": it tears out of the gate like the hellraising spawn of Cheap Trick's drug-fuelled one night of passion with ZZ Top, while "Pleasure in the Pain" could be Ray Davies on his darkest day. Closing track, "Vampire Waltz" comes across like crazy horse in the apocalyptic aftermath of an epic bender, with Coats singing as though he's the one out for blood. Every song here is a monster: these are tunes that stick in your head long after the record is done, beautiful and dark, powerful and compelling... perfect. Here come the Brides, come on let's go for a ride.