Faith And The Muse never fails to surprise me with a new image of their vision. I do not know which is better, Monica's voice or her lyrics. And you can not leave William Faith(Christian Death,Live-Shadow Project) out when he creates the beautiful sounds. I hope this band never ends. Check out all of Faith And The Muse's work, especially "Evidence Of Heaven".

"The Burning Season" is the fourth and best studio album from one of the trailbreakers in goth. The lyrics are exquisite, and the additional programming and treatments by Chad Blinman take the band to a new level never reached before. Every track takes the band to a new level of grandeur that succeeds beautifully, making Faith and the Muse goth royalty forever. As well, Monica Richard goes all out with her voice and reaches new notes I've never heard before, especially in "Visions". Talk about getting the tingles every time I hear it! She's dreamy in "Boudiccea" and "In the Amber Room", intimate in "The Burning Season", jazzy in "Gone to Ground" and she rocks out in "Sredni Vashtar" and the "Relic Song." Of any project Faith and the Muse have ever done, "The Burning Season" is Monica's finest and clearest vocal performance yet. The same goes for William Faith. He's left the spoken word poetry behind and comes through with one of Faith and the Muse's most incredible songs ever: "Failure to Thrive." Hypnotic and disarming, it'll haunt you for years after you hear it. Get ready for "The Burning Season"--Faith and the Muse's most fully realized album yet!

I hope everyone who reads this checks it out --especially anyone who misses Siousxie and the Banshees. "The Burning Season" is magnificent. By the way, if you haven't heard Faith and the Muse's remake of "Running up that Hill" off their "Vera Causa", you have not lived!

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Well I bought this album based on the sound bits offered by Amazon it came off as having a "Siouxsie & the Banshees" flare with a "This Ascension" twist to it, but what I found was fairly pitiful.

I hear Verse in every song but rarely to never do I hear chorus, bridge or intro that is any extention of the verse. Cut and dry the songs on here are done within the first minute they start. The irony to my "seeming" bashing is that this is quite a bit stronger then alot of the Metropolis lables bands and offers a more accesible sound then many of the lables boring vampire-techno hacks. The gothic and darkwave music of late; actually since 1998 with the death of the brilliant, Rozz Williams and the break up of the relentlessly fun and pretty "Switchblade Symphony" seems to have no more power points to offer. Seems the freedom offerd to morbid children and the lack of shock that goth now has over society has plagued it with an inability to do what it knew to do. Adaptation is something the music of the modern dark seems to lack. I think its about due time to have a great new dark band with a awesome inovative sound, so I promise to keep looking for it. Sorry people but "Faith and the Muse"... these Siouxsie/Creatures/This Ascension imatating 2 dont have anything but a poor monotonous rehash to offer.

Untill then I offer you bands such as "Rheas Obsession" who seem to have something for being a modern dark band as long as they cut out the middle eastern Loreena Mckennit rehasing and stick with a more bass heavy approach. I happen to be listening to and old favorite, 1986's "Horse RotorVator" by "Coil"(I adore this album) and wonder where inovation has gone.