Songs of Darkness Words of Light [Limited Edition] [Import]

Songs of Darkness Words of Light [Limited Edition] [Import]

Track Listings

1. The Wreckage Of My Flesh

2. The Scarlet Garden

3. Catherine Black

4. My Wine In Silence

5. The Prize Of Beauty

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Full title - Songs of Darkness, Words Of Light. UK exclusive special limited edition of the European goth metal band's eighth studio album features deluxe packaging that includes a clamshell box, poster, discography, & a magnetic image of the cover artwork. Eight new tracks from the godfathers of doom. Peaceville. 2004.

Tracks:

The Wreckage Of My Flesh
The Scarlet Garden
Catherine Blake
My Wine In Silence
The Prize Of Beauty
The Blue Lotus
And My Fury Stands Ready
A Doomed Lover

Product Description

1. The Wreckage Of My Flesh
2. The Scarlet Garden
3. Catherine Blake
4. My Wine In Silence
5. The Prize Of Beauty
6. Blue Lotus
7. And My Fury Stands Ready
8. A Doomed Lover

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Call iit what you will........2007-06-13

My Dying Bride prefers to call thier music "Doom Metal", and MDB fans hate it when you call this band "Gothic Metal"...but in truth, either tag applies. Whatever you want to call it...it's an amazing album. I love it's slow and melodic atmosphere...ultra darkness. If your looking for deathmetal...there are a few traces of that here. This isn't a speedy or hard hitting power band....this is just sheer dark metal that evokes darke desire and invites deep emotional response. IMO, this is one of the most unique band in metal culture.

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struck dumb..
DoomGothDeath
THE CHILD DEVIANT
My high expectations have been met again by My Dying Bride.
Songs of Darkness, Words of Even More Darkness

Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
My Dying Bride
Manufacturer: Peaceville UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001DD9AE
Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

Wreckage of My Flesh
Scarlet Garden
Catherine Blake
My Wine in Silence
Prize of Beauty
Blue Lotus
And My Fury Stands Ready
Doomed Lover

Customer Reviews:

struck dumb.........2007-03-17

my wine in silence...this wasn,t composed by any living mortal...what abyss vomited it out i cannot imagine...you just gave it a name...rapture, a soothing lament for my soul.
this album is so dark,lamenting,sorrowful...beautiful in its uniqueness....

DoomGothDeath.......2007-02-13

Once again, MDB have done it. Following the Dreadful Hours was always going to be difficult, such an excellent album itself. On this sortie, the Doom song structures are laden with Gothic ambience. Every song on this album is intricate and well honed.

I think an earlier reader is missing the point about the distorted vocals - they are meant to appear to be distorted death vocals, clearly. The album gives you a very full sound, lots of bass and a suffocatingly heavy feel.

I think this is one of MDB's best outings. Buy it.

THE CHILD DEVIANT.......2006-12-07

To be fair, I should first mention that this is my first MY DYING BRIDE album, so I can't verify if it is thier best or thier worse. All I do know is that I love this album, and it wasn't anything I was expecting. I'm not exactly shure how to categorize this band based on this album...I suppose something along the lines of Doom Metal, Gothic Romantic, with tads of Death Metal. It's not a moshy album, not a dancey album, and not even a typical metal album on any level. It's actually quite slow and brooding....and darkly romantic. My personal favourite track on the album is 'The Scarlet Garden', ...but honestly, all of the tracks are good....no complaints here.

My high expectations have been met again by My Dying Bride........2006-05-21

The problem with My Dying Bride is that my expectations are always obscenely high for everything they release. I expect it to be the best album of the year! This sort of expectation, more often than not, only leads to disappointment (at least with other bands).

"Songs of Darkness, Words of Light" is My Dying Bride's 8th studio album. When I first came across the band in the early nineties, I'm pretty sure I would have done anything at all to make the band successful enough to last this long. What's even more impressive is the fact that every one of the bands releases (15 in all!) have been released through Peaceville. It's rare that this sort of loyalty (from both parties) is displayed in this day and age.

Let's talk about the album. This is one dark recording! From the very outset, "The Wreckage of my Flesh" displays a real fierce darkness. A sort of brooding menace, that hardly declines for the entire album. The first track is truly awesome, and a great sign of things to come. My Dying Bride really know how to start their albums, always using the first few minutes to create the exact sort of mood and atmosphere that they want to encapsulate the next hour or so. There is never any doubt who you are listening to, which is one of the amazing things about this UK outfit. They sound truly unique, and have done so for over ten years.

Other than the darkness that I mentioned previously, "Songs of Darkness, Words of Light" follows on from "The Dreadful Hours" without changing the formula too much. Don't expect any big surprises, just expect doom/death epic tracks that pull at your heart-strings and crush you simultaneously, without ever moving into cheesy gothic territory. While other bands using keyboards can move into this territory, My Dying Bride is just so heavy. They know exactly what to do, and when to do it, to get the most out of each track.

I really feel that this is vocalist Aaron's finest work to date. He has so many different styles of singing, from tender moments of vulnerability, convincing spoken word, a black metal like scream, and powerful roars of anger. He really displays all his talent throughout the album, with "The Prize of Beauty" being a perfect example of his range and ability. He is completely captivating at all times, and throughout all these differing styles and emotions, he never becomes undecipherable. I find myself singing along to every song without ever having looked at the lyrics.

The highlights of the album are "The Wreckage of my Flesh", "The Scarlet Garden", "My Wine in Silence" and "A Doomed Lover". I have read a few times recently about "My Wine in Silence" being a commercial sounding track that could break the band into the mainstream. The track is a slow, mellow piece that you could call a ballad, but there are still distorted scream-like vocals at times, as well as some truly miserable lyrics of despair. If I turned on my local radio station and heard My Dying Bride emitting from my sound system, I think I would drop dead on the spot!

My final piece of praise, before I let you all go off and buy the album, is left for the final track. "A Doomed Lover" is an absolutely devouring, genius piece of depressive art. It's right up there with the best work the band has ever done, and a magnificent finale for "Songs of Darkness, Words of Light".
My high expectations have been met again by My Dying Bride.

Songs of Darkness, Words of Even More Darkness.......2005-10-07

It's that time again. Time to take another dive into the very deepest pits of dread and despair. Time to unleash a monolithic slab of Gothic Horror upon the unsuspecting masses. It is...a new My Dying Bride album.

This, quite simply, is Doom Metal at its finest. Slow, ultra-heavy riffs. Tortured vocals speaking of death and despair. An atmosphere of utter gloom and hopelessness. Contrary to the album title, there's very little "light" in these words. Like all My Dying Bride albums, it's slow, somber, occasionally malevolent, and throughout, miserably depressing. Of the original "Big Three" of Doom Metal, including Paradise Lost and Anathema, only My Dying Bride continue to play actual Doom Metal, a fact we can all be thankful for.

"Songs of Darkness, Words of Light" begins with "The Wreckage of my Flesh" which is quintessential Doom Metal. Throughout the album, one finds only more darkness, with subjects ranging from lost love ("My Wine in Silence", "A Doomed Lover"), apocalyptic imagery ("Catherine Blake") to good old fashioned Gothic Horror ("The Blue Lotus"). Quite possibly this is their bleakest album yet; even more so than 2001's "The Dreadful Hours". The tone is consistent throughout; the band's fans wouldn't have it any other way.

Guitarists Andy Craighan and Hamish Glencross lay down boulder-sized riffs, which, thanks to the excellent production, really do sound heavy as a ton of bricks. Keyboardist Sarah Stanton provides subtle atmospheric synthesizer effects, which perfectly accentuate the bleak tone of the album. Vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe ranges from a snarly growl, to an ominous, spoken-word delivery, to a sort of despairing moan, sometimes all within the same song. The lyrics, as always, are wonderfully poetic, and far from the cliched "angst" that you might hear in mainstream "dark rock" (to take a very deserved swipe at Evanescence).

Naturally, My Dying Bride has never been the easiest band to acquire a taste for. But for the more darkly inclined, do yourself a favor and pick this CD up, because the masses will NEVER understand anything as gloomy, depressing, and downright un-trendy as this.

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Darkest and most powerful of Doom bands!!!

Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
My Dying Bride
Manufacturer: Peaceville
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Goth | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Alternative Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B0001A0RA2
Release Date: 2004-03-02

Tracks:

Wreckage of My Flesh
Scarlet Garden
Catherine Blake
My Wine in Silence
Prize of Beauty
Blue Lotus
And My Fury Stands Ready
Doomed Lover

Album Description

Full title - Songs of Darkness, Words Of Light. UK exclusive special limited edition of the European goth metal band's eighth studio album features deluxe packaging that includes a clamshell box, poster, discography, & a magnetic image of the cover artwork. Eight new tracks from the godfathers of doom. Peaceville. 2004.

Album Details

Special Limited Edition with a Poster, Discography and a Magnetic Image of the Artwork, Housed in a Clam Style Packaging.

Customer Reviews:

Darkest and most powerful of Doom bands!!!.......2007-07-28

This is beyond a band that needs to be heard by any fan of heavy music, it's absolutely vital... Ps. I laugh at the import price tag, i actually lucked out and got it at best buy for $7.99.. must have been a typo. However, actually is worth the full import price, light some candles, kill the lights, open a bottle of wine and press play, MDB will do the rest!!! \m/

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