Biffy Clyro are a band I'd not really paid any attention to until 'That Golden Rule' landed in my review pile, and I was genuinely rather taken with it. I liked the fact that it rocked, but liked even more the unusual structure and the audacious change in direction about halfway through. I thought it was a pretty cool thing to do, and quite inventive, in context.
I also dug the fact that the album it was taken from, 'Only Revolutions' took its title from the magnificent and mind-blowing experimental novel my Mark Z. Danielewski.
There isn't nearly so much to dig about 'Many of Horror,' and there's nothing remotely inventive about it. A mid-tempo, melodic rock ballad, it sounds like the tuneful softer song that are essentially obligatory for all commercial rock albums. Fine as an album track, if eminently skippable, standout single it isn't.
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