My Dying Bride has been one of my absolute most favorite bands for over ten years now. I can still remember picking up, 'The Angel and the Dark River' back then and being absolutely blown away. Never had I heard music like this before and never had I ever experienced such melancholy through heavy metal music either. The melancholy thing was somewhat key here as during those days of my life I was extremely depressed, but somehow it was comforting knowing that there were others out there that felt the same inside. Naturally I was devastated a few years later after reading an interview with Aaron where he openly admitted that it was just a gimmick and that they were mostly all happy people married and so on. But that's another story.
Last year MDB released, 'For Lies I sire,' which is also the tenth full-length album from these doom/death metal legends. Lies combines the best elements of the newer MDB sound with a bit of the elements from the 90's to form a nearly perfect album. I found this recording to be the darkest and generally most downhearted sounding work since 'The Dreadful Hours' nearly ten years ago. They also hired a new violinist to take Martin Powell's long vacant chair, and let me tell you Katie Stone's morose violin adds a painfully beautiful element to this album that's been absent from these guys music for way to long. Besides her presence it's business as usual with MDB and you know what to expect.
Some superb songs grace this album, but honestly, 'My Body, A Funeral' holds up as one of the best songs of their career. This is one of those MDB songs you can play over and over and never get sick of since the emotion is overwhelming and the song is more or less just a perfect doom metal composition.
If at some point you forgot about My Dying Bride, then come back now and check this one out. It's definitely one of the highlights of their discography.
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