My Dying Bride: Worth Exploring?

[soundave]

Can anyone recommend their best? Wondering if I should spend my hard-earned monthly download credits at eMusic on them.

 

[LightningLixxx]

Turn Loose the Swans has been called their best. I've had it for a while but still haven't listened to it fully.
I like their album Songs of Darkness, Words of Light. My Wine in Silence is possibly the most depressing song I've ever heard.

 

[Pethical]

one of my favourite bands, regardless what anyone else thinks of them. A lot of fans think "turn loose the swans" or "the angel and the dark river" are their best but my favourite is "the dreadful hours". a good introduction would also be their 2nd latest album "songs of darkness, words of light"

 

[Sadguru]

Amazing band. Turn Loose the Swans is said to be their masterpiece. I personally don't agree. Songs of Darkness, Words of Light is my favorite followed by The Dreadful Hours. The new one is also very good.

 

[Tubbs]

This is a band I've been wanting to listen to for a while. I was slightly thrown off by their name, sounding emo and all, but they definitely aren't an emo band (Not that it matters btw). I'm trying to get some of their albums because I heard they were one of the bands that started the whole "doom/death" metal genre.

 

[Pethical]

the new one is their worst album but has some of their best ever moments. for example the middle of "love's intolerable pain," which is just mesmerising, but the majority of that album is filled with boring predictable chugging riffs.

 

[Scarlett Letterman]

I liked what i downloaded, bought Like Gods of the Sun but it hasn't done anything for me yet. Start somewhere else.

 

[LightningLixxx]

I heard they were one of the bands that started the whole "doom/death" metal genre.

Anathema, Paradise Lost, and My Dying Bride. While the first two took quite a turn, My Dying Bride seems to consistently put out depressive, dark, doom. Paradise Lost and Anathema's entire discogs are pretty fantastic though.

 

[Sadguru]

I liked what i downloaded, bought Like Gods of the Sun but it hasn't done anything for me yet. Start somewhere else.

Good album, also contains what might be the all-time best My Dying Bride song, "For My Fallen Angel". "Fou You" and "A Kiss to Remember" are also classics.

 

[derbeder]

turn loose the swans was my favorite metal album for two years or so. that is their landmark album and still my favorite by the band. 34.788% complete is a very different album from the rest and is awesome. the angel and the dark river has two of their best songs, "the cry of mankind" and "two winters only". the light at the end of the world is not that good but has "she is the dark", one of their best. the dreadful hours is their second best regular album.

 

[RedinTheSky]

Haven't listened to them since The Angel and the Dark River album. The Trinity album combo was my favorite at that time.

 

[Liquid Diamonds]

'The Dreadful Hours'.

Easily their best. The musical ideas are much better pronounced here. All of their records have something to offer, but I don't listen to them very often anymore. Good band, if you're after that kind of thing

 

[Manbient]

I tried getting into them a lonnnng time ago, and the classic albums did nothing for me. The last couple years though i've gone back, and i much prefer their recent sound. My favorite is Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light. The Dreadful Hours is nice too.

 

[all_sins_undone]

this band is amazing

 

[dcat]

MDB "For Darkest Eyes" DVD, Awesome, get the edition with the girl picture inlay not the hand drawn inlay, imo.

 

[Phoenix5]

Their best is The Angel and the Dark River. That is THE doom album.

 

[Tubbs]

Anathema, Paradise Lost, and My Dying Bride. While the first two took quite a turn, My Dying Bride seems to consistently put out depressive, dark, doom. Paradise Lost and Anathema's entire discogs are pretty fantastic though.

Ahh yes. I was wondering what the other two were. Much thx.

 

[MasterOLightning]

I recommend Turn Loose the Swans, The Dreadful Hours, and Songs of Darkness, Words of Light.

 

[gabaghoul]

checked out Turn Loose the Swans a long time ago; it was interesting but I eventually sold it back. I recently picked it up again 'cause something had still stuck with me. maybe I'll take some of your advice and get some of the other ones now.

other doom/death-ish material worth checking out:
Rapture - Futile
Anathema - old doomy material (newer stuff sounds more like Cure/Radiohead/Porcupine Tree, still very good)
October Tide - Grey Dawn (Katatonia side project)
Slumber - Fallout (more symphonic/gothy but an excellent album)
Tiamat - Wildhoney or A Deeper Kind of Slumber

-gg
np: Weakling - Dead as Dreams

 

[in_absentia]

You should most definetly check out this band. My personal fave would be 'The Light At The End Of The World', it's what i started with.