My Dying Bride are an English doom metal band formed in Bradford, England in 1990. To date, My Dying Bride have released twelve full-length studio albums, three EPs, one demo, one box set, four compilation albums, one live album, and one live CD/DVD release.
Along with Anathema and Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride is a forerunner of the death/doom metal genre and considered part of the "Peaceville Three" as all three bands were signed to Peaceville Records at the time.
Biography
Early years (1990–1992)
My Dying Bride were formed in Bradford in the north of England in June 1990 after guitarist Andrew Craighan and drummer Rick Miah co-formed the band after they had split from Abiosis, joining vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe and guitarist Calvin Robertshaw while ending Abiosis. After six months of rehearsing, the band recorded and released their demo, Towards the Sinister, which was produced by Tim Walker of Voltage Records. Its title was taken from a line in the song "Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium". The band would soon release their first single, "God Is Alone", on a small French label called Listenable. After the single had sold out almost immediately, they were picked up by Peaceville Records, and they could release their first EP, Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium, which also featured their latest recruit, bassist Adrian Jackson. The EP was soon followed by their first full-length album, As the Flower Withers.
Podcasts:
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ALBUMS
- Introducing My Dying Bride released: 2012
- A Map of All Our Failures released: 2012
- Evinta released: 2011
- For Lies I Sire released: 2009
- An Ode to Woe released: 2008
- A Line of Deathless Kings released: 2006
- For Darkest Eyes released: 2005
- Sinamorata released: 2005
- Anti-Diluvian Chronicles released: 2005
- Songs of Darkness, Words of Light released: 2004
- As the Flower Withers released: 2004
- The Voice of the Wretched released: 2002
- 34.788%... Complete released: 2001
- Turn Loose the Swans released: 2001
- Meisterwerk II released: 2001
- The Dreadful Hours released: 2001
- The Light at the End of the World released: 2001
- Meisterwerk I released: 2000
- The Angel and the Dark River released: 1996
- Like Gods of the Sun released: 1996
- Trinity released: 1995
For Darkest Eyes
Released 2005- Symphonaire infernus et spera empyrium (promo video)
- The Thrash of Naked Limbs (promo video)
- The Songless Bird (promo video)
- I Am the Bloody Earth (promo video)
- The Cry of Mankind (edit) (promo video)
- For You (promo video)
- A Sea to Suffer In
- The Songless Bird
- The Crown of Sympathy
- The Thrash of Naked Limbs
- The Cry of Mankind
- Your River
- Black Voyage
- Your Shameful Heaven
- From Darkest Skies
- The Forever People
- The Songless Bird
- The Snow in My Hand
- The Crown of Sympathy
- The Thrash of Naked Limbs
- I Am the Bloody Earth
- Symphonaire infernus et spera empyrium
- Turn Loose the Swans
- Sear Me MCMXCIII
- Sear Me
- Your River
- A Sea to Suffer In
- The Songless Bird
- The Cry of Mankind
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by My Dying Bride
Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
by: My Dying BrideSo vile mens' torment was truly a pleasure
A plan that would change mankind for ever more
Catherine Blake slept fitfully in the
summer night. In the heat.
she murmured gently and moved smoothly,
this way and that. Oh, the beauty.
Her luscious eyes, delicate fingers,
clawed at her sodden bed.
Catherine smiled. Took a fabulous breath
of summer air and tasted death.
Die Erorians' visit had been succesful, rewarding.
with nights of female screams of whimpers,
lustful dreams.
Night followed rampant night of
delicate soft gasps.
The ultimate attack on all Heaven and it's glories.
Seduce them as they slept, oblivous to
their midnight tryst.
The seed of doom was platned.
Phantom raped in their dreams.
The sad ones take their own lives.
Slay their men night after night.
Catherine Blake dreamt of a horror.
Of passion too, and of terror.
Over her silent breast, shadows swept,
shades caressed.
Motherhood was destroyed by the seed
and laid to waste.
A great rift was born. Man and the
world were torn.
The daggers went in dep, vile and sickening.
Women swept away all infancy from their wombs.
And still the Lord God remained silent.
No utterance, no movement, no tears.
The earth became red.
The cutting machines of man.
Disgust and hatred for the lives of woman.
The butchery, the savagery, did spill
unto themselves.
A chorus of agony from Heaven and rain poured
In a colossus of angels tears.
The creature of all sins. The lord of the
bleakest abode.
Did wonder at the silence.
What did the Almighty know?
All Hell did fill with the screaming souls
of dead men.
The mighty army of God did stand and wait.
Hoping our lord would unleash them all.
the great firy pit. Hordes ripped apart.
Chaos ensued, screaming from the dark.
Observing his darkened child, in the miserable corners of earth
The great heart of God will heal up the earth.
The Lord watched as his beloved slipped silently
Back into the darkness below.