Come in and Burn

Rollins Band

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 25, 1997)
• Original Release Date: March 25, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Dreamworks
• ASIN: B000005ALZ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #48,873 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Frank Zappa always said it was a good thing he was the ringleader of his ensemble since he would never have passed an audition to play with his bandmates. Henry Rollins suffers from the same fate. Rollins may be a creative and literate individual, but he's a one-trick-pony when it comes to songwriting. The average Rollins tune shifts between two gears: Rollins speaking ominously while his bandmates vamp dark and funky, and Rollins screaming with hatred while his cohorts grind and shred. Fortunately, Chris Haskett and drummer Sim Cain provide Come In and Burn with enough diversity to keep it from sounding trite, unleashing mind-warping chops that range from blackened soul to gut-wrenching noise. --Jon Wiederhorn

Product Description
Japanese edition of the new album adds 'Disappearing Act' & 'Also Ran' as bonus tracks. Also features thesingle 'Starve' and 11 other new tracks, for a total of 14. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you'd shut up and listen..., April 6, 2004

By	DeAnna Factor (From the Kentucky Coal Mines to the California Sun) - See all my reviews

I've had this CD for years and played it while driving, while cleaning the house, while doing everything but really listening and paying attention. Listen to the damn words people - Rollins is once again showing up with all the answers. I'm using Inhale/Exhale as my new yoga mantra. I'm requesting that they play Say Goodbye Again at my funeral. Don't worry about the tattoos and the rough exterior, just shut up long enough to listen.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A vastly underrated and extremely intense masterpiece, November 24, 2003

By	Takis Tz. (Germany) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

After having heard this album countless times, and after having heard countless albums in general as record store worker, i'm convinced that Henry Rollins is the victim of his very own reputation in regard to "Come in and Burn".
Rollins is one of the sacred icons of hardcore because of his Black Flag past but of certain solo albums of his as well.
But this is exactly the catch: "Come in and Burn" is not your expected Rollins LP, indeed it's more a metal LP than a harcore one and a stunning one at that.

Rollins is blessed to have a great band behind him here, that delivers incredible recipes for agression and anger and does so in a very innovative way. There are songs here that will easily ignite any moshpit, songs that will move even the most snobby metal fans. "End of something" and "All i want" are easily two of the best songs Rollins has ever sung and "On my way to the cage" is a cue for great metal songs. "Thursday afternoon", "Spilling over the side" and "Saying Goodbye again" are great introspective songs that lack nothing in feeling and intensity.
Did i say intensity? I definately think that this album happens to eb one of the most intense of the 90s. As far as I'm concerned one of the intense period.
Rollins is at his songwritting best if not at his most mature both as a songwriter and performer (I've seen Rollins in 3-4 different tours and he was easily on top of his game while touring "Come in and burn").
One thing that is also certain is that in previous albums (as well as following albums) there wasnt much balance in Rollins's albums. He's always had the ability to write great songs ("Liar" being the overwhelming evidence) but he's also written many indifferent songs that have spoiled the goods overall.
Not so in "Come in burn". This is through and through intense, great and stomping, like a bus going 100m/h with the breaks out of order.
If you do own this album and you've somehow forgotten it on your shelf go and rediscover it. Chances are you'll be puzzled at yourself that you've left it there gathering dust. If you dont own it you are seriously missing out on a fantastic rock album.
A masterpiece.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of his best!, August 15, 2000

By	KB (Woodbridge, VA. United States) - See all my reviews

After reading some of the reviews on this album on this site, I had to write one in defense. I saw a few of 1 and 2 stars on this record and I just don't get it. Are you guys actually listening to the record? This is a brilliant peice of art here. So what if Henry used some distortion on his voice on a couple songs...it's called GROWING and MATURING. Henry is being smart about this album and his new one Get Some Go Again...they're different. Listen to Weight and the other previous albums...sure they're great but they are all too similar. Rollins is being smart in the fact that he doesn't want the same sounding record everytime. This is the same Henry Rollins that everyone loves...he's not selling out on Come in and Burn. If you nay-sayers weren't so ignorant you'd hear what he has to say. Also....if Come in and Burn is supposedly his sellout album...why is it that no songs were ever publisized? A lot of people don't even know Come in and Burn exists because it never got a lot of air time. I think you all call him a sell out because you're afraid of change...if you don't want change in music go buy a Rage Against the Machine record. Leave Hank out of the sell out list...he doesn't need you guys. For the REAL Rollins Band fans out there...Come in and Burn is wonderful and a must have.