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My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire Audio CD

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My Dying Bride Band: My Dying Bride
Title: For Lies I Sire
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Release Date: 2009-04-21
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: My Body, A Funeral 2: Fall with Me 3: Lies I Sire 4: Bring Me Victory 5: Echoes from a Hollow Soul 6: Shadowhaunt 7: Santuario di Sangue 8: Chapter in Loathing 9: Death Triumphant

Never dissappointed.
Highly recommended. Less "hard" as Line of Deathless Kings, but just as moving. As always, to many words lessens the impact of listening to truly appreciate these guys.


Doomful Glorious Lies


Some people obsess about My Dying Bride's music always comparing new albums to earlier albums, etc. "For Lies I Sire" is another excellent album in the almost unprecedented line of albums by the best in the genre. While this is understandable and hard to avoid, I've always thought doing so was senseless. This album does't sound like "A Line of Deathless Kings", but it sounds like My Dying Bride, and that's a good thing; it's the whole point. After all these years, they still sound like My Dying Bride; yet the music still sounds fresh. . . far fresher than most bands who've been around this long. . . or even half as long. These songs feel like new and different compositions to me.

Either you get their music or you do not.

Even though the line-up has changed; it's still My Dying Bride mostly because of Aaron, Andrew, and Hamish [incidentally, Hamish has been around long enough he should be considered a TRUE member by now; that is, he's not just a replacement guitarist; he is My Dying Bride].

If you've never heard their music before, you could easily start here; it's a great album. It has a lot to offer.




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Lost in Translation
But this is just me!!
The album had no character, no clear destination and the songs are just thrown there randomly. I believe this album is the worst and most poor performance ever made by MDB. The transitions from melodic to death are nothing like the brilliant "Words of Darkness, Songs of Light". It just saddens me to see my favorite band lose their identity.


The Conjication Of Darkness
Few of these groups realize that the fans that listen to this style of music are interested in atmosphere and musicianship not just the 'evilest' sounding group. Lately many bands have been attempting to come out as the darkest of the dark in the Metal universe.

My Dying Bride remains faithful to their style and fans bringing yet another solid gloomy Doom Metal album to the table. The tempo ranges from an almost depressing low and reaches a mid-fast pace at select points but for the most part the album sludge's along harmonically.

Andy and Hamish put down some very somber and entrancing axe work and as always push the limit's of their skill's with some above average lead sections that border on the faster-then-usual for My Dying Bride. The bass unlike other bands in the genre continue to take a back seat to the guitars which is a nice change to this style of music, the bass is normally over powering with many newer Doomish bands.

Percussionist Dan Mullins throws down some nice slow fills and even manages to pump out some head bang worthy double bass parts as the album goes on. The only real problem I have with the album is the use of so called 'clean' vocals. Aaron Stainthorpe has an amazing guttural roar matched by few at his best and the fact he held back on the roaring vocals forces me to take a whole star.

Except the vocals (which is simply a personal preference) this album is simply great Doom Metal from beginning to end. The band continues to prove that they are among the elite whom helped birth this style and also continue to prove they are overall a strong group of musicians. So far easily the best Doom Metal album of 09. .


Not quite there?
Whilst still a wonderful slab of doom I felt this ablum just did not quite measure up to "A line of Deathless Kings" or "Songs of Darkness. . " their most recent previous albums.
Still better than almost all other albums I've heard this year though.


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