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My Dying Bride - As the Flower Withers Audio CD

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My Dying Bride Band: My Dying Bride
Title: As the Flower Withers
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Release Date: 2004-11-16
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Silent Dance [Instrumental] 2: Sear Me 3: Forever People 4: Bitterness and the Bereavement 5: Vast Choirs 6: Return of the Beautiful 7: Erotic Literature 8: Unreleased Bitterness [*]

Read between the lines
But, needless to say, it certainly manages to deliver a very dark [if somewhat classical and romantic] side of pure EVIL. I'll have to admit, I have this album burned. From the opening instrumental, "Silent Dance", to the previously unreleased closing track [part of Bitterness and Bereavement], it is literally like taking a dark ride to hell and back. The chunky, downtuned guitars and thundering double-bass drums right away tell you that you're in for a cold, bitter, and epic album that should be played at a funeral. After all, this band helped fire up the doom metal movement. The Latin used in some of the songs on here at times CAN be a little hard to decypher. But I go to a site called darklyrics. com to translate [as well as read the lyrics to ALL my favorite underground bands. The incredibly ideal place to play this album would be at a very isolated cemetery, in the coldest of the winter. But this album is JUST THE BEGINNING for THIS band. Don't take my word for it, buy it. Don't burn it like I did. If you are only happy when it rains, then dig in to the darkness that is My Dying Bride.


Sear Me...
Death with Doomy tempos at the perfect level. Amazing first album from MDB. MDB was one of the premier acts from the underground english scene around 1990, their first stuff it's intense and catchy Death Metal with a Doomy twist that inmediatelly caught the attention of record labels just with the first demo tape Towards the Sinister. With the ATFW, the band get involve with a topics that maximize into the second album Turn Loose the Swans that are really outsatanding and defined the original MDB style. If you are into clean and killer Death Metal this one is the masterpiece of MDB, but they get more into violins and piano fusion with decapitating riffs and growling vocals around an ambient of down feelings and artisctic performance that made them masters from their second album. The Forever People rules! This digipack version got a bonus live track that it's like the fly on the milk, the sound is awful, what a shame.


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