BURNING HUMAN Schedules First-Ever Hometown Show

BURNING HUMAN — the resurrected death metal band featuring SHADOWS FALL drummer Jason Bittner — will play its first-ever concert in the group's hometown of Troy, New York on December 4 at Dublin's Bar. Also appearing on the bill are ARMOUR COLUMN, STREET SWEEPER and THE POWER. This will be BURNING HUMAN's last of 2010 as the band plans to concentrate on writing the follow-up to 2009's "Resurrection Through Fire".

Commented BURNING HUMAN: "This show will be epic! We have never played our hometown since the inception of this band, and we are extremely excited to finally be able to play in Troy. We have chosen a bunch of great local acts to open the show, so don't miss this one!!! Also, we have already started the writing process for the next CD, and have three songs finished, with seven or eight songs written in total. We will probably write another four or five songs before we start the demo phase."

"Tormented Mind", the "controversial" music video from BURNING HUMAN was reportedly "banned" last year by MTV2's "Headbangers Ball" for being "too violent" for airing. The song comes off BURNING HUMAN's debut album, "Resurrection Through Fire", which came out on April 21, 2009 through E1 Music (formerly Koch Records). The CD was produced and mixed by James Murphy (DEATH, OBITUARY, TESTAMENT) in his SafeHouse Productions studio in central Florida. Cover artwork for the CD was handled by Björn Goosses of Killustrations.

BURNING HUMAN is:

Jason Bittner (Drums)
Jonah Radaelli (Vocals)
J. Sunkes (Guitar)
Jay VanDervoort (Bass, Vocals)
Mike Stack (Guitar)

In the latter half of the 1990s, BURNING HUMAN was a deathcore/death metal four-piece from the "Capital District" region of New York (Albany, Troy, Schenectady). Ignited in 1995, BURNING HUMAN's lineup consisted of Bittner (currently in SHADOWS FALL, ex-STIGMATA, CRISIS) on drums, Jason Sunkes (currently in DEAD RABBITS, ex-STIGMATA) on guitar, Jay VanDervoort on bass, and Jonah Radaelli on vocals.

Shortly after forming, BURNING HUMAN recorded and released a seven-song demo tape titled "Death is Mercy". These songs were later released on a compilation CD titled "We the People: A Compilation of Upstate NY's Hardest" with three other bands from the Troy/Albany, New York area (WAR-TIME MANNER, POLITICS OF CONTRABAND, DYING BREED). Although the band never issued a full-length album, a number of additional tracks were recorded and released on various compilation CDs, including a song called "Hazards to Humans" on a sampler titled "Capitol Punishment" in 1997. In addition, two songs — "As Good As Dead" and "Tormented Mind" — were featured on the "Frozen Dawn IV" compilation CD in 1998, and "Self-Inflicted Crucifixion" appeared on "United We Stand, Divided We Fall" in 1998.

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