About
- Band members: 2-ish — NMW and friends.
- Albums: 3 — Appendix (2009, 5 songs). An Exit (2008, 6 songs). Afear (2007, 16 songs).
- Singles: 4 — Eye Love (2009). Disentangle (2009). Of Life, I Want to Live (2008). Nine Ninths Jealous (2008).
- Based in: San Diego. Started: winter 2001.
Inspired (Musically) By
Musicians: Trent Reznor, Maynard James Keenan, Tom Morello, Greg Tribbett, Les Claypool, Chino Moreno, Serj Tankian, Corey Taylor, Daron Malakian.
Bands: Tool, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Primus, Opeth, Black Sabbath (with Ozzy), Massive Attack.
Meet the Members
NMW provides vocals, writes Bullets in a Burning Box' lyrics, plays guitar, bass, makes beats and produces the music. He will always be an Oregonian and sometimes turns into a wildman caught climbing or whittling. During the day, he's a video game creator, so he also whittles code.
The Story of Bullets in a Burning Box
Admit it, when you were a child, you used to beat spoons against pots. At the time, you'd think to yourself, now I'm really making music. Since then you've grown up and now you want music with meaning, depth, sexiness, and above all else, a base line inspired by that primordial desire to slam a wooden spoon against a metal pan. Welcome to the music of Bullets in a Burning Box, a shamanistic post-industrial band focused on aligning the chaotic viscera of nature with the pristine hyper-reality of the digital age.
Bullets has been releasing new songs to the web every couple months, bringing new sounds like the haunting disjointed melodies of "Eye Love" and the passionate tug of war played across "Disentangle."
Nathanael Mathias Weiss is Bullets in a Burning Box. He backpacked around the world with a guitar, making money on street corners and writing observations on the beauty and wonder of life. With adventure calling, he bought a boat and turned it into a floating recording studio. When you close your eyes and listen to Bullets, you can almost feel the immortal rhythm of the ocean powering the beats.
Bullets boasts a deep catalog of music, including the epic 2007 debut album, Afear. Afear covers a wide breadth of material, from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, on to the cusp of transcendence. With strong driving beats, this "Genius in schizophrenia" (NINa, Fabryka Industrial Rock) slides easily between lyrical poetry and heavy metal rock melody. In 2008, Bullets followed up with An Exit, an EP loaded with experimental challenging remixes.