Eleven Scars

Naturally, the eleven scars of the album title can only be applied to My Inner Burning’s band history to a certain extent, since the five musicians (Becky Gaber, vocals; Torsten Sauerbrey, guitar; Jörg Janssen, guitar & shouts; Daniel Pietrzak, bass; and Niklas Kahl, drums) from Germany’s Lower Saxony region haven’t fought that many battles in their budding career. Yet listening to their powerful metal, you can be certain that they have lots of triumphant victories ahead of them. My Inner Burning have the determination it takes, and they’re ready to present their second album, Eleven Scars (German release date: 25 March 2011, Europe: 28 March 2011) – a surprisingly mature offering which highlights an impressive development compared to their already exciting 2009 debut. Eleven Scars sounds groovier and a little darker than "My Inner Burning".

The group’s musical direction shuns all clichés and half-baked trends. My Inner Burning consciously steer clear of that tried and tested ‘faster – harder – louder’ dictum, preferring to impress their audience with multi-faceted songs, deep-tuned guitars and great melodies which come across powerful and gentle at the same time. “We play unmistakable metal,” states the band, “but we like to include gothic, rock and pop music elements.” Their listeners realise after a few bars that this dynamic sonic experience centres mainly on Becky Gaber. The instruments are oriented to the vocalist, the songs owe their forcefulness to her voice.

Eleven Scars sees Becky Gaber deliver eleven incisive stories – a clear reference to the album title – about broken friendship, unhappy love and other relationship dramas. Eleven Scars is no concept album but the record’s lyrics definitely have a central theme. Which is one of the reasons why this album sounds extremely homogeneous.

The dynamic sound of Eleven Scars, which was recorded at the MetalSound-studio in Osterode/Harz and mixed by Torsten Sauerbrey, adds further to the excellent impression. The guitarist is generally one of the group’s mainstays: he wrote the majority of the songs, and also took care of sound engineering and production. This extremely accomplished album is complemented by the excellent artwork courtesy of Hanover photographer Martin Huch, who has worked with stars such as the Scorpions, Heinz-Rudolf Kunze and BAP and created a particularly atmospheric cover motif which focuses on Becky Gaber. So top standards all the way for this band; the (probably not entirely unwanted) scars are bound to arrive in due course.

History

Laying the foundation-stone in May 2008 Nik and Sauer recorded the first demo "Fuck you all" under the bandname The Core. A bassist (Cliff) and a second guitarist and shouter (Deibl) was found quickly. The search for the perfect singer was a little bit more difficult and took time until November 2008. Then Becky joined the band and the demo could be made complete. This demo rose in waves and after doing several shows in Germany the recordings for their first album took place in June/July 2009. In August the band decided to change their bandname to MY INNER BURNING.
After negotiating with different record companies the band finally signed a deal with CMM/SAOL in October, which released the self titled debut album on 13th November 2009.

Gaining more than positive feedback from the press and the fans the band got an offer for a tour through Greece which took place in February 2010 and was a major success. Several clubshows and festivals in Germany later the band wrote new material for a promo cd, which finally brought the band a record deal with Steamhammer/SPV in Summer 2010. In October/November 2010 the recordings for their second album called "Eleven scars" took place, which is released in late March 2011 all over Europe.