Like Gods of the Sun [Import]

Like Gods of the Sun [Import]

Track Listings

1. Like Gods Of The Sun

2. The Dark Caress

3. Grace Unhearing

4. A Kiss To Remember

5. All Swept Away

6. For You

7. It Will Come

8. Here In The Throat

9. For My Fallen Angel

10. It Will Come (Nightmare)

11. Grace Unhearing (Portishell Mix)

Tracks:

Like Gods Of The Sun
The Dark Caress
Grace Unhearing
A Kiss To Remember
All Swept Away
For You
It Will Come
Here In The Throat
For My Fallen Angel
It Will Come (Nighmare)

Amazon.com

Fans of Type O Negative, Mercyful Fate, and even Manowar will probably appreciate Like Gods of the Sun by goth-core metal purveyor My Dying Bride. Refusing to be held back by stylistic restraints, the band have crafted a symphonic opus that rattles with hammering beats, roaring guitars, woebegone vocals, and weeping violins. And while My Dying Bride rarely play anything hummable, their songs are filled with enough compelling riffs and constantly changing rhythms to raise the band above most of their contemporaries. --Jon Wiederhorn

Customer Reviews:

A Little Dissapointing............2006-02-26

Ignoring 34.x% complete, this is probably the album I like least of the MDB catalog. This album seems to be missing the emotion of the typical MDB product and has more of a 'rock' feel to it. A lot of the tracks have 'bouncy' almost happy feel to them. Now don't get me wrong, its not "REM Shiny Happy People happy". It just seems more upbeat than other albums MDB have produced. The guitar sound on this album is a little annoying. Another thing about this album is that most of the songs are shorter, and if you notice that the guitars are playing the same notes on both left and right channels. On most MDB albums, you have them playing on different scales, with one guitar accompanying another. This album sounds very flat in general, with few tracks standing out. Like Gods of the Sun, For You, Grace Unhearing and All Swept Away, For My Fallen Angel are good tracks. The Dark Caress, It Will Come, Here in the Throat and are skippable. The extra track at the end is nothing to write home about.

This album just didn't do it for me...it's just a little inconsistent.

MANDATORY DOOM!!!!!.......2005-12-12

MDB are THE master's of DOOM..nothing can really touch their 90's album's!!

This was the FIRST MDB cd I got, I heard the song ''For You'' on tv and was blown away by their sound..see MDB are my fave band ever..granted they arent to great nowaday's but the amount of amazing album's they did will for ever be with me!!

The song's are a lot shorter on this one, but they still manage to DESTROY you. MDB were so UNIQUE..nothing will ever touch them!! there is more of a CELTIC(meaning CELTIC..not celtic frost!) feel to this album which is sorta weird for MDB.. but it work's very well

As I said this is MANDATORY..always good for when your feeling down!

I must also say ''It Will Come(nightmare)'' is one creepy song..picture the earth exploding to that song!!

BEAUTIFUL!!

Gothic Metal at it's absolute BEST.......2004-09-10

This is Goth Metal at it's ULTIMATE. This album is a MUST HAVE. WARNING if you only like Doom metal or Death Metal rather invest in some of MDB's other albums, this one is not for you. All I can say is this album is brilliant... the BEST that My Dying Bride has to offer.

Beautiful, yet dissapointing for me.......2003-08-28

i just bought "Like Gods of the Sun" and I've heard it only once
(just too little time), but I think I have to write a review.
I've had heard some songs from the album, such as LGOTS,
For you.A kiss to Remember,For my Fallen Angel and i had almost an idea of what it could contain:heavy and melodic guitars, as is the MDB standard, haunting violins and keyboards by the musical genious Martin Powell(such a shame and loss he left) and an overall dark atmosphere. The lyrics not at all depressing, but God-questioning sometimes, depicting the malice of the world, Aarons dissapointment with the current status of our world, erotic and dark.

Let's come to Aarons vocals. I have to recognise Aaron as a great singer, who evolves through the years. He has a nice-positioned voice, deep, not extravagant and not abused. So far for his clean vocals. My only dessappointment is that this album is totally devoid of harsh vocals, something I was expecting for so old a release.

So, I recommend it to any fan of My Dying Bride, but not to anyone who wants to hear the brutal harsh singing of Aaron.

I give this album 5 stars due to its musical ingenuity and quality, and also because MDB are worth it.

Not Up to Level of Other Albums.......2002-08-22

After hearing "Turn Loose the Swans", "Angel & the Dark River" and "The Dreadful Hours" I though My Dying Bride could do no wrong. All three albums were masterfuly written peices of darkness. The songs were chalenging and exciting as well as imotional and passionate.
However "Like Gods of the Sun" is different. On this album it seems as if all the emoition, passion and creativity were squeezed into half the songs, and the others were left empty or half done. LGotS contains one of MDB's best songs, possibly THE best in "A Kiss to Remember". With beutiful violin solos, slow grindy doom parts, dark slow vocals, a haunting piano interlude and some unearthly drumming the song is damn near perfict! Theres also the tear jerking "For My Fallen Angel". As Aaron slowly speaks the tragic epitaph for his lost love touching violins and keys play a backround good enough for the saddest ending to the saddest movie. There is also the title track wich contains some real dark vocals over killer keyboards. "The Dark Carress" is very good too.
However the rest of the album isn't nearly as good. The problem is that MDB are playing to what seems to be Aaron's weakness, singing over fast rhythems. If he growls it works but it surly doesn't work with the singing. Songs like "All Swept Away" and "Here in the Throat" contain some good slow parts, but they're few and far between. Putting "It Will Come" on the album twice was pointless, sience the remix looses its novelty after a few listens. Then theres "Grace Unhearing" which is stright up terrible. The vocals are just unbearably annoying.
Over all the album is just lacking. Two great songs, two very good songs, several ok songs and a few bombs. The other three MDB albums I have are simply better then this. Get the other ones first and then if you realy like them get this one cuz "For My Fallen Angel" and "A Kiss to Remember" are MDB essentials.

Average customer rating:

Masterpiece
Like true meal gods they slay!
Not that bad... not that good, either...
Annoying

Like Gods Of The Sun
My Dying Bride
Manufacturer: Peaceville UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
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The Angel and the Dark River
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ASIN: B00008AWOF
Release Date: 2006-12-25

Tracks:

Like Gods of the Sun
Dark Caress
Grace Unhearing
Kiss to Remember
All Swept Away
For You
It Will Come
Here in the Throat
For My Fallen Angel
It Will Come [Nightmare Mix][*]
Grace Unhearing [Portishell Mix][*]

Album Description

2003 digitally remastered reissue of 1996 album for the European goth-metal band, includes 2 bonus tracks 'It Will Come' (Nightmare Mix) & 'Grace Unhearing' (Portishell Mix). Digipak. Peaceville.

Customer Reviews:

Masterpiece.......2004-04-06

I just got it in the mail a couple of days ago and I'm memerized by it. It was everything and more I hoped for. Somewhat on the same lines as Angel and the Dark River in sound, it is different in the way there are more songs on the album with shorter and more melodic tracks. The guitar sound is also very different. It is a very processed sound with very clean distortion and has more treble then bass.. Reminds me of a early 90's band "Anacrucsis". The voilins and keyboards are well played and the bass guitar is excellent. My favorite track on it is "A Kiss to Remember". One of the best songs I've heard from this band. The whole cd is good. There is not one average part in any of these songs. They glare right at you in the face and with passion.

Like true meal gods they slay!.......2003-12-10

I have no idea why there are only two reviews of this masterpiece, when it's been out since 1996. As far the other two reviews, completely disregard them, as they are wrong. This album is a masterpiece, with only a few, tiny flaws, that can be easily overlooked and forgotten. It was the last album with the original line-up, and was a progression of their earlier efforts. Some have described it as goth, yet MDB never identified themselves as goth; nor was it their intention. It is a brooding, melodic, raging, guitar-driven, heavy metal doom album, with organ, piano, and violin to give it a funereal and sometimes romantic, yet depressing ambiance that some have wrongly described as being gothic. If you've never had the priviledge of hearing MDB, start here. And where are my fellow brothers? Why only two reviews? Speak up! Speak up!

Not that bad... not that good, either..........2003-11-29

I have been a fan of My DyING BRIDE since hearing them on late-night radio numerous times between 1991 and 1993. When I finally took the plunge and bought their first four releases in 1993, I was absolutely dumbfounded because here there was finally a band that a) made real music and b) didn't feel the need to repeat themselves every ten seconds. To paraphrase Jello Biafra, here was a band that wasn't dedicated to destroying what was left of your imagination.

So where did it go wrong on this album? Well, the My DyING BRIDE of old felt this pressing need to get an album out every year, regardless of what internal pressures they might be facing. After criticisms of their previous album for being drawn out and badly produced, they decided to make this album a) cleaner-sounding and b) shorter, "punchier", more compact. It suffers badly for it.

Three of the first four songs hit the listener well and hard, giving a taste of the My DyING BRIDE of old. Even if they do steal a Black Sabbath riff in contrast to their fervent denials of any Sabbath influence - the riffs that make up Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and parts of Like Gods Of The Sun are literally identical. That aside, only Grace Unhearing gives a taste of the disappointment that follows from track five onwards. Soon, the rhythms become annoying, the lyrics become repetitive and monotonous (the exact thing people get into bands like this to avoid), then the whole thing just feels rushed into production.

Put simply, this album would have been far better as an EP containing songs 1, 2, and 4. The rest of the album has me, probably one of the most fervent My DyING BRIDE fans you will ever meet, apologising.

Annoying.......2003-11-13

First, the bias. 18, male of course. Likes metal in concept, loves goth in concept, loves post-punk proto-goth deathrock and intelligent industrial in practice. Listens to das ich, skinny puppy, tear garden, listens to meshuggah, opeth, lacrimosa and dreams of sanity with respect to metal.

That said, I've read that My Dying Bride has nothing to offer hardcore metal fans, what with its goth hooks. Well, from someone who is moderately interested in goth music, MDB sucks from that point also.

I was lured into buying this album after downloading "a kiss to remember". The lyrics to the song were a little hokey but the song is awesome, flat-ass hands down bar none a good romantic hard song.

Like Gods of the Sun and For my Fallen Angel are the only other tracks i can even remember. It seems to me that someone took the right combination of drugs or got a blunt object concussion that induced the instant of clarity and inspiration that created 'a kiss to remember', and the song was so good that the band felt compelled to throw an album up around it.

All the other songs are filler, they're all the same. They're morose, the lyrics are poorly written, the songs are boring and most importantly they lack structure. The melody (of each song, always) consists of combinations of simple and irritating riffs, they'll start a song on a riff that's not good enough to carry through the whole song, but instead of playing variations on a theme to pump life into the riff, they just switch instantly and slap a different riff onto the song. So each song sounds like three to five individual bad songs, spliced together in linear chunks.

I've heard one song that proves to me that these guys can make good music. If they kept their songs simple and homogenized, with structure and insightful (or indescipherable) lyrics, they would certainly be better off.

Now i'm not by any means a metal devotee, there's a whole lot of metal that i can't stand, but every once in a while i'll find a band that's smart, darkly beautiful and melodic. And that band's opeth.

Like Gods of the Sun
Average customer rating:

A Classic Gothic Metal Album

Magnificent, yet Dissapointing

Like Gods of the Sun
My Dying Bride
Manufacturer: Mfn
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Goth | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000056AQZ
Release Date: 2001-01-05

Tracks:

Like Gods of the Sun
Dark Caress
Grace Unhearing
Kiss to Remember
All Swept Away
For You
It Will Come
Here in the Throat
For My Fallen Angel
It Will Come [Nightmare Mix][*]
Grace Unhearing [Portishell Mix][*]

Customer Reviews:

A Classic Gothic Metal Album.......2005-05-20

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For me this album epitomizes why I love MDB. Take all that raw energy found in the Metal Music scene and slow it down and add a couple of good musicians and then add one final devastating touch, the wretched vocals of Aaron. The musicians are certainly a step above the typical level of musicians in this style. Aaron is an absolutely master at delivering pure emotional power through his voice. You will live his life, love, death and dark perception of his world.

For those of you who are new to MDB you should know that MDB's style can change widely from album to album. I love the Goth Metal Gloomy Type Albums but still do listen to the other more traditional Death Metal Albums. I enjoy both but feel that without a doubt it is this bands and Aarons ability to slow down their music and cross the divide between the gothic and metal styles that makes this band special.

Another thing I love about this band is that they don't play a concert when they don't want to. They tour far less than other bands simply because they don't want their performance & their enjoyment of it to be anything less than 100%. RESPECT. This album is a must have. I would also recommend the anthology of MDB part I and II *Meisterwerk * This will give you an excellent introduction to MDB but also only half the picture. I must say I rarely play some of there less gothic albums because why would I when I could put on one of their others. You might also try the new one, Songs of Darkness, Words of Light as it is similar to Like Gods of The Sun being more accessible then there other albums if you are coming from a non-metal background. WARNING if you only like Doom metal or Death Metal rather invest in some of MDB's other albums, this one is not for you. All I can say is this album is brilliant... the BEST that My Dying Bride has to offer. Just writing this is making me want to go and play it right now. It is like Portishead, for those of you who know, in the respect that it is a classic.

The album is erotic and dark drowned in the beautiful and haunting vocals of Aaron. Another thing which makes this album so accessible is the Aaron's decision to use clean vocals. You can actually hear what he is saying. Don't you ever get tired of such harsh vocals where you are not even sure if the guy can sing because the vocals are so harsh? After a while I did and that makes Aaron and this album like a breath of fresh air. Finally someone has done it right.

Magnificent, yet Dissapointing.......2003-08-28

i just bought "Like Gods of the Sun" and I've heard it only once
(just too little time), but I think I have to write a review.

I've had heard some songs from the album, such as LGOTS,
For you.A kiss to Remember,For my Fallen Angel and i had almost an idea of what it could contain:heavy and melodic guitars, as is the MDB standard, haunting violins and keyboards by the musical genious Martin Powell(such a shame and loss he left) and an overall dark atmosphere. The lyrics not at all depressing, but God-questioning sometimes, depicting the malice of the world, Aarons dissapointment with the current status of our world, erotic and dark.

So, I recommend it to any fan of My Dying Bride, but not to anyone who wants to hear the brutal harsh singing of Aaron.

I give this album 5 stars due to its musical ingenuity and quality, and also because MDB are worth it.

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