Former Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland and his band Black Light Burns is preparing for the release of Cover Your Heart andThe Anvil Pants Odyssey, a combination CD and DVD package on I Am: Wolfpack/YMA Music Group. Packed with reinterpreted songs of bands including Duran Duran, The Jesus Lizard, Sisters of Mercy and PJ Harvey, Cover Your Heart is a deconstruction and reconstruction of music that the
band has loved and appreciated. "This is a short list of just some of our
favorite songs," Wes explains. "It was really a culmination of years of
ideas for cover songs and never getting around to doing it. But as soon as
the thought of a covers album came about, it was like pulling a cork out of
a dam. We had to stick it back in as fast as possible because we were soaked
in like four seconds."

A fascinating spread of different textures and sounds, from the rhythmic
percussive/guitar aggression of Love and Rockets' "So Alive" to the dark and
twisted retelling of Fiona Apple's "On the Bound" to the punk spittle and
squelch of Iggy & the Stooges' "Search and Destroy", Cover Your Heart is a
content-oriented piece that serves as an ultimate bridge between their 2007
debut Cruel Melody and the new album. "A couple of songs don't stray too far off the path of the originals, but most are tremendously skewed," he says. "It's so much fun to take a song from one of your heroes and mix your own filth into it... you know, really create a Frankenstein's monster of a song. It's the most fun I've ever had making an album." The covers are coupled with, as Wes describes, "seven instrumentals cut from Cruel Melody," adding yet another dimension to the album. The Anvil Pants Odyssey, the DVD component of the package, contains a 100-minute tour documentary "filled with behind-the-scenes footage from BLB touring, Behind The Lie: Making the 'Lie' Music Video, plus three music videos from their debut album.

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