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Opiate For the Masses Week: Day 5 "Burn You Down"


07/11/2008
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(antiMusic) This week industrial metal heavyweights Opiate for the Masses' new album 'Manifesto' hits stores at long last via Century Media records. To celebrate the release we asked frontman Ron Underwood to pick his favorite tracks from the effort and tell us a little bit about each one. Here is Ron with today's song:

Burn You Down- This song is the first single from "Manifesto" and despite its odd production, it was the obvious choice. I had the music worked out entirely on an acoustic guitar before anybody else had heard it and it just stuck with me. It didn't matter what lyrics I chose for the chorus; the melody sold it for me. I couldn't get it out of my head, so the rest was just details. A lot of the impact of the verse can be owed to Prodigy's "Spitfire" where the first downbeat just tears your face off, and then there's a lot of space. I wanted to take that idea turn it upside-down.

A cool thing about the guitars on this track is that they were all run through synthesizers. Jim (our guitarist/programmer) and I were a team for this. One of us would play the guitar part and the other would play a countermelody or sweep the envelopes of the synths to create this really unique sound. That's how we did that odd calliope-sounding intro. It's really just a guitar that's shaped by a synth manually, in real-time. That, added on top of samples of horns, hand drums, and raccoons makes this track one of a kind.

Lyrically, this was our answer to a decade of being screwed over by so many people in the record industry; a warning that the tables have turned and this time we're gonna leave them all ablaze in our wake.

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