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Towards the Sinister


Album: ''Towards the Sinister'' (1990 Demo)
1. Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium
2. Vast Choirs
3. The Grief of Age
4. Catching Feathers




God Is Alone


Album: ''God Is Alone'' (1991 EP)
1. God Is Alone
2. De Sade Soliloquay




Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium


Album: ''Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium'' (1991 EP)
1. Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium
2. God Is Alone
3. De Sade Soliloquay




As the Flower Withers


Album: ''As the Flower Withers'' (1992)
1. Silent Dance
2. Sear Me
3. The Forever People
4. The Bitterness And The Bereavement
5. Vast Choirs
6. The Return Of The Beautiful
7. Erotic Literature




Turn Loose the Swans


Album: ''Turn Loose the Swans'' (1993)
1. Sear Me MCMXCIII
2. Your River
3. The Songless Bird
4. The Snow In My Hand
5. The Crown Of Sympathy
6. Turn Loose The Swans
7. Black God




The Thrash of Naked Limbs


Album: ''The Thrash of Naked Limbs'' (1993 EP)
1. The Thrash Of Naked Limbs
2. Le Cerf Malade
3. Gather Me Up Forever




Unreleased Bitterness


Album: ''Unreleased Bitterness'' (1993 EP)
1. The Bitterness And The Bereavement




I Am the Bloody Earth


Album: ''I Am the Bloody Earth'' (1994 EP)
1. I Am The Bloody Earth
2. Transcending (Into The Exquisite)
3. The Crown Of Sympathy (Remix)




The Sexuality Of Bereavement


Album: ''The Sexuality Of Bereavement'' (1994 EP)
1. The Sexuality Of Bereavement
2. The Crown Of Sympathy (Remix)




The Angel and The Dark River


Album: ''The Angel and The Dark River'' (1995)
1. The Cry of Mankind
2. From Darkest Skies
3. Black Voyage
4. A Sea to Suffer In
5. Two Winters Only
6. Your Shameful Heaven




Trinity


Album: ''Trinity'' (1995 Best of/Compilation)
1. Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium
2. God Is Alone
3. De Sade Soliloquay
4. The Thrash of Naked Limbs
5. Le Cerf Malade
6. Gather Me Up Forever
7. I Am The Bloody Earth
8. The Crown of Sympathy (remix)
9. The Sexuality Of Bereavement




The Cry Of Mankind (Edit)


Album: ''The Cry Of Mankind (Edit)'' (1995 Demo)
1. The Cry Of Mankind (Edit)




Like Gods of the Sun


Album: ''Like Gods of the Sun'' (1996)
1. Like Gods of the Sun
2. The Dark Caress
3. Grace Unhearing
4. A Kiss to Remember
5. All Swept Away
6. For You
7. It Will Come
8. Here in the Throat
9. For My Fallen Angel
10. It Will Come (Nightmare)




Sampler


Album: ''Sampler'' (1996 Demo)
1. For You (Edit)
2. Grace Unhearing (Edit)



Album: ''For You'' (1996 Video/VHS)
1. For You




34.788%... Complete


Album: ''34.788%... Complete'' (1998)
1. The Whore, The Cook And The Mother
2. The Stance Of Evander Sinque
3. Der Überlebende
4. Heroin Chic
5. Apocalypse Woman
6. Base Level Erotica
7. Under Your Wings And Into Your Arms




The Light at the End of the World


Album: ''The Light at the End of the World'' (1999)
1. She Is The Dark
2. Edenbeast
3. The Night He Died
4. The Light At The End Of The World
5. The Fever Sea
6. Into The Lake Of Ghosts
7. The Isis Script
8. Christliar
9. Sear Me III




Meisterwerk 1


Album: ''Meisterwerk 1'' (2000 Best of/Compilation)
1. Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium (demo version)
2. The Crown of Sympathy
3. The Grief of Age (demo version)
4. A Kiss To Remember
5. Grace Unhearing (Portishell mix)
6. For You
7. Unreleased Bitterness
8. Sear Me III
9. The Cry of Mankind (video track)




The Dreadful Hours


Album: ''The Dreadful Hours'' (2001)
1. The Dreadful Hours
2. The Raven And The Rose
3. Le Figlie Della Tempesta
4. Black Heart Romance
5. A Cruel Taste Of Winter
6. My Hope, The Destroyer
7. The Deepest Of All Hearts
8. The Return To The Beautiful




Meisterwerk 2


Album: ''Meisterwerk 2'' (2001 Best of/Compilation)
1. Sear Me MCMXCIII
2. Follower
3. Vast Choirs (demo version)
4. She Is the Dark
5. Catching Feathers (demo version)
6. Two Winters Only
7. Your River
8. Some Velvet Morning
9. Roads
10. For You




For Darkest Eyes


Album: ''For Darkest Eyes'' (2002 DVD)
1. Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium
2. The Thrash of Naked Limbs
3. Songless Bird
4. I am the Bloody Earth
5. The Cry of Mankind
6. For You
7. Live at Simplon (1992)
8. Live at Willem II (1993)
9. Live in Krakow (1995)
10. Live at the Dynamo (1995)




The Voice of the Wretched


Album: ''The Voice of the Wretched'' (2002 Live album)
1. She Is The Dark
2. Turn Loose The Swans
3. The Cry Of Mankind
4. The Snow In My Hand
5. A Cruel Taste Of Winter
6. Under Your Wings And Into Your Arms
7. A Kiss to Remember
8. Your River
9. The Fever Sea
10. Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium




Songs of Darkness, Words of Light


Album: ''Songs of Darkness, Words of Light'' (2004)
1. The Wreckage Of My Flesh
2. The Scarlet Garden
3. Catherine Blake
4. My Wine In Silence
5. The Prize Of Beauty
6. The Blue Lotus
7. And My Fury Stands Ready
8. A Doomed Lover




A Line of Deathless Kings


Album: ''A Line of Deathless Kings'' (2006)
1. To Remain Tombless
2. L'Amour Detruit
3. I Cannot Be Loved
4. And I Walk With Them
5. Thy Raven Wings
6. Love's Intolerable Pain
7. One Of Beauty's Daughters
8. Deeper Down
9. The Blood, The Wine, The Roses




Deeper Down


Album: ''Deeper Down'' (2006 EP)
1. Deeper Down (Uberdoom edit)
2. The Child of Eternity
3. A Kiss to Remember (Live)



my dying bride

MY DYING BRIDE BIOGRAPHY

My Dying Bride is a Romantic Death/Doom metal band, formerly at the forefront of the British Death/Doom movement in the early 90s that included such bands as the former label mates Anathema and Paradise Lost. My Dying Bride have, bar one experimental album (34.788%... Complete), stuck resolutely to their raison d'etre. Relentlessly slow, thick, heavy chords allied with remarkably morose lyrics make My Dying Bride a unique proposition and certainly a challenge to the listener. Since its debut, the Halifax based band has remained steadfast in an unwavering pursuit of extreme Metal despite, ironically enjoying the rewards of an international fan base despite the noncommercial nature of its output.

The initial formation numbered vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe, guitarists Andrew Craighan and Calvin Robertshaw plus drummer Rick Miah, who founded the band in 1990. The band released the 'Towards The Sinister' demo, noted for its complete absence of bass, recorded over two days in late November at Revolver Studios with Tim Walker manning the production desk. They followed this with the 'God Is Alone' 7" single, restricted to 1000 copies, on the French Listenable label, again utilising both Tim Walker and Revolver Studios in May 1991. The band signed to budding Yorkshire label Peaceville Records to release the 'Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrum' EP in 1992, debuting new bassist Ade Jackson in the process.

My Dying Bride's first full-length album ,'As The Flower Withers' arriving in May 1992, established the band among press and fans alike. Jointly produced by label mentor Hammy and the band, the record stunned many critics, who struggled to find suitable descriptives to capture the radical nature of this work. In the midst of this confusion, few would disagree that My Dying Bride had, in one fell swoop, turned the Doom genre on its head.

The group had driven deep into the core essence of doom, drastically overhauling every aspect of its composition. The album opened somewhat coyly with an orchestral exercise in deceit before the Latin lyricised 'Sear Me' challenged immediately. Songs were drawn out into near unbearable dirges, capped by the twin violin imbued colossi of 'The Bitterness and the Bereavement' and 'The Return of the Beautiful', Stainthorpe's prose held closer to the great British poets than standard rock n' roll and their deliberately infantile daubed logo logo also challenged convention. 'As The Flower Withers' was boldly offered up as a cornerstone of a new approach, undoubtedly spawning the successive drone movement.

'As The Flower Withers' provided the opportunity for their first tour of Europe. The progress gained by another EP, 1993's 'The Thrash Of Naked Limbs', was marred by drummer Rick badly damaging his hand, thus canceling a projected tour with G.G.F.H. Prior to the groundbreaking 1993 'Turn Loose The Swans' album, which came in three different sleeves, the band added violinist / keyboardist Martin to the band and toured Europe once more. 'Turn Loose The Swans', incepting with the piano and violin lament of 'Sear Me MCMXC III' and hinged on the utterly woeful 'The Crown Of Sympathy', slowed the pace even further and plunged ever deeper into slug like doom. Another set of EPs, 'Sexuality Of Bereavement' and 'I Am The Bloody Earth', kept the momentum going during 1994.

'The Angel And The Dark River' was delivered during May 1995 and, in a rare high profile moment of mainstream activity, My Dying Bride gigged as support to Iron Maiden across Europe. 'The Angel And The Dark River', six slabs of morose melancholy, marked a shift in the band's strategy, for the first time dropping the Death growl of Stainthorpe in favor of a "clean" vocal delivery. Fans were quick to hail opener 'Cry Of Mankind' as a classic, even though the mind numbing repeat keyboard mantra of the outro dragged on for a full five minutes. Limited editions of this record included a second disc of live material recorded at the Dynamo in Holland.

My Dying Bride's fourth full-length endeavour, 'Like Gods Of The Sun', hit home in October 1996 in similar bleak fashion to its predecessor. Touring in Europe during March 1997 saw the band forming up a package billing alongside Therion, Sentenced, Orphanage and Dark for the 'Out Of The Dark III' festivals. However, drummer Rick departed and for their 1998 album sessions My Dying Bride pulled in the services of Year Zero and Valle Crusis drummer Mike Unsworth in order to fill the gap. Acquired to handle keyboards would be Yasmine Ahmid of Ebony Lake.

October 1998 saw My Dying Bride issuing the experimental '34.788%... Complete' album with yet another new drummer ex-Dominion man Bill Law. The record witnessed a deliberate break from the expected Gothic imagery associated with the band and provided a challenge for their existing fan base. A sharp division of opinion branded the album either as a somnambulistic, self indulgent failure or a richly rewarding diversion. Stainthorpe's vocals on '34.788%... Complete' took on a heavily distorted air, keyboards and samples usurped guitars and song structures ebbed and flowed without formal structure. Undoubtedly the most adventurous assay of the band's entire catalogue came with 'Heroin Chic', a mechanical, expletive infested industrial male / vocal rap duet with a guesting Michelle Richfield of Dominion.

The band remained strangely inactive on the touring front though as guitarist Calvin Robertshaw departed. He would swiftly be replaced by erstwhile Solstice, Serenity and Khang member Lee Baines. The 'Light At The End Of The World' album would be viewed not just as a welcome return to form, including a reprise for Stainthorpe's early growling, after the side step braved by '34.788%... Complete' but even as being one of the finests outings of the genre. For touring commitments in 1999 the band pulled in Bal-Sagoth's Jonny Maudling for live keyboards. The band's more permanent line up was completed with the addition of erstwhile Anathema and Solstice drummer Shaun Taylor-Steels and former Solstice guitarist Hamish Glencross.

An ex-My Dying Bride keyboard player Mark Newby Robson joined Cradle of Filth rebilling himself Mark De Sade.

The 2002 offering 'The Dreadful Hours' included a re-make of 'The Return Of The Beautiful' from the debut record, re-billed as 'Return To The Beautiful'. My Dying Bride themselves witnessed a change of keyboard players in April 2002 when Sarah Stanton took over from Yasmine Ahmed. My Dying Bride also announced the release of their first live album, 'Voice Of The Wretched', the same month. Hamish Glencross and Andrew Craighan launched their BlackDoom Record label in 2003. My Dying Bride put in a short burst of European dates in October of 2003, supported by UK act The Prophecy, the first signing to the BlackDoom label.

The band returned in March of 2004 with the album 'Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light', warning fans in advance that change was in the air and that the track 'My Wine In Silence' was their most commercial effort to date. In late December Shaun Steels injured his ankle in a canoeing accident. The band drafted John Bennett from The Prophecy as stand in whilst Steels recovered.

Releases announced in early 2005 included the retrospective box set 'Anti-Diluvian Chronicles', which included new remixes of 'The Wreckage Of My Flesh', 'My Wine In Silence' and 'The Raven And The Rose', plus the live DVD 'Sinamorata', recorded in Antwerp, Belgium during October 2003. This latter release also featured two video shorts made by My Dying Bride fans, 'Hope The Destroyer' and 'My Wine In Silence'.

In September 2005 it was learned that erstwhile keyboard player Martin Powell and his ex-Cradle Of Filth colleague guitarist James McIlroy had united with ex-Himsa guitarist Matt Wicklund in a brand new band project called PREY. Meantime, My Dying Bride returned to live action in the UK during November.

The album 'A Line Of Deathless Kings' was recorded during mid 2006 at Academy Studios in Dewsbury and mixed at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire. The accompanying single, 'Deeper Down', hitting number 15 on the Finnish charts, was issued as an "Uberdoom" edit with exclusive studio track 'The Child Of Eternity'.

5th January 2007 bassist Adrian Jackson left the band. Long term stand in drummer John Bennet was also reported to have parted ways. New bassist is called Lena and the new drummer is Dan Mullins (formerly of Thine, Bal Sagoth and Sermon Of Hypocrisy).
Various european dates have been confirmed.

Note: Abiosis isn't old name of My Dying Bride's. Abiosis's line-up contained Andrew Craighan, Rick Miah, Paul Evans and Darren Dickinson, not Aaron Stainthorpe and Calvin Robertshaw. Thus, only Miah and Craighan of My Dying Bride's initial line-up had been in Abiosis.


Discography

MY DYING BRIDE GENRES
Death/Doom Metal

MY DYING BRIDE LYRICAL THEMES
Dark Romanticism, Loss, Despair, Death

MY DYING BRIDE ORIGIN
United Kingdom (Halifax, West Yorkshire), formed in 1990

MY DYING BRIDE CURRENT RECORD LABEL
Peaceville Records

MY DYING BRIDE STATUS
Active

MY DYING BRIDE CURRENT LINE-UP
Aaron Stainthorpe - Vocals
Andrew Craighan - Guitar (ex-Abiosis)
Hamish Hamilton Glencross - Guitar (ex-Solstice (UK), ex-Seer's Tear)
Sarah Stanton - Keyboards
Dan ``Storm`` Mullins - Drums (ex-Thine, ex-Sermon of Hypocrisy, Kryokill, Bal-Sagoth, The Axis of Perdition, Epitaph (UK))
Lena Abé - Bass

MY DYING BRIDE PREVIOUS LINE-UP
Shaun Taylor-Steels - Drums (ex-Solstice (UK), ex-Anathema (UK), ex-Ironside)
Bill Law - Drums (1998) (ex-Dominion (UK))
Rick Miah - Drums (1990-1997) (ex-Abiosis, ex-Khang, ex-Lazarus Blackstar)
Martin Powell - Violin, Keyboards (1992-1998) (ex-Anathema (UK), ex- Cradle of Filth, ex-Cryptal Darkness)
Ade Jackson - Bass
John Bennett - Session Drums (The Prophecy (UK))
Calvin Robertshaw - Guitar (1990-1999)
Yasmin Ahmed - Session Keyboards (ex-Ebonylake)
Jonny Maudling - Session Keyboards (Bal-Sagoth)
Michelle Richfield - Guest Female Vocals in ``34.788%... Complete`` album (Dominion (UK), Sear (UK), ex-Anathema (UK), Antimatter)

 


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