Burning Skies hails from the southwest of the U.K. and plays a combination of hardcore and death metal also known as deathcore. Most of the times this means a grunting singer with hardcore music and this is also the case with this British band.

Formed in late 2002 and releasing a demo in 2003, Lifeforce Records from Germany were pretty eager to pick this band up. Whether this is a justified decision everyone has to decide for himself, but based on hearing their debut full length I have to conclude that this is certainly not bad, but also not very original or groundbreaking.
Even as an occasional listener of deathcore everything sounds as if it was written according to the rules of the genre.

A grunting singer and a screamer, slashing guitars and hardcore drumming. Not very special but at the same time skillfully executed. Their label compares them to Hatebreed but Burning Skies leans more to the death metal site than Hatebreed, who are basically hardcore.

The thing with this kind of music, at least for me, is that it essentially is live music, and thus should be consumed in the live environment. There it does not matter how tracks are written but how they are played. As such, I can’t give this cd a very high rating but I’m curious to hear them live.