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My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings Audio CD

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My Dying Bride Band: My Dying Bride
Title: A Line of Deathless Kings
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Release Date: 2006-10-16
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: To Remain Tombless 2: '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: Blood, the Wine, the Roses

THE DEATHLESS KINGS OF GOTHIC DOOM METAL!
Deep, passionate, dark. I love this music. . . melodic doom metal with a goth touch. The song "Thy Raven wings" is probably the best song My Dying Bride has ever recorded. . . but all of the songs on this album are good. I think many would argue that this is their best album. It is IMO.


A Line of Deathless Kings
That songs of death and desesperation only can be created by the creative invention of My Dying Bride. The same Dark, sinister, agresive and depresive atmosphere that My Dying Bride always brings.


Masterpiece
Now ive gotten most of there other albums, but this is one Doomy, Heavy, Beautiful piece of music. I must say this is the first MDB album ive heard. Highly recomended for anyone who likes heavy melodic music.


Good ol Bride
I first heard My Dying Bride when Turn Loose the Swans was released on cassette tape. A grand kaleidoscope of poisonous doom. Man I am old! Ever since the Turn Loose the Swans album, I have heard many triumphs and many failures. Then came A Line of Deathless Kings. Legendary through and through. Each song on this album has been well thought out, and not a one is a filler. They bring back a little feel of the old days, and mix in some new bride stile as well. In my opinion, it is Bride's strongest release since Turn Loose The Swans. Grab it up and enjoy.


8th on my best of 2006 list
Rinse. Listen. Repeat. This year brings us yet another excellent album from MDB. Full of doom, despair and the familiar crushing guitars and mournful vocals that are the benchmark for these masters of the morose. There is nothing all that new here, and yet their sound always remains uniquely "them". It sounds like "My Dying Bride"! Sometimes, "what you expect" can be a very good thing. Using that model as criteria, you should know what you are going to get. What you expect. Which is very good.

Most of the songs are in the mid-tempo range, but backed creatively by new drummer John Bennett (The Prophecy). This release was mixed at The Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire and mastered at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London. Having the experience and the money for good studios and engineers, it should come as no surprise that the production is nearly spotless. Walls of dark, aggressive guitar mixed with some of the very best vocal work I have ever hear from Aaron Stainthorpe.

One of the features most noticeable in this release is that the large bulk of the singing is performed "clean", with only a bit of the death vox toward the end. The vocal harmonies are multi-tracked wonders; Aaron even takes your breath away at one point by jumping an entire octave on "Love's Intolerable Pain", a tour-de-force I am tempted to adopt as a personal theme song. I was very impressed with the vocals on this album. The lyrics are like the compositions; mid tempo with Aaron's usual stream-of-consciousness poetic vibe throughout.

I can always depend on this band to remind me that no matter how miserable and lonely I may feel about my pathetic life, I am not alone. In fact, Aaron must hold the patent on loss, pain, regret, betrayal and thwarted vengeance. "A Line of Deathless Kings" on the whole seems to be about a man unable to die, who, albeit immortal, suffers from every kind of indignity ever invented. Just when you think that the guy has managed to finally end himself in the eighth track "Deeper Down", he is incarnate one more in the final track, and in pursuit of another poisonous relationship "The Blood, the Wine, the Roses". The sign of a good doom album is to remind you that sometimes you just can't win, no matter what.

The music does its job. Goth-rock mixes with doom in an artful display that sets this a little bit apart from many other MDB releases. Though sometimes tough to get your head around at first, this album definitely grows on you, and should be heard in its entirety for best effect. At the very least, I can say that no matter how lonely or miserable I may feel, Aaron probably feels worse. Misery loves company, and this album is good company. Listen. Despair. Rinse. Repeat.


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