A Line Of Deathless Kings - My Dying Bride

"Then Heaven opened above me And down Gods tears came Lashing away at my skin My stinking, rotten frame" My Dying Bride have always been evolving as a band, but one thing which has remained constant is the sheer quality of their releases. Their ninth full length,A Line of Deathless Kings, is no exception. It's a very mellow album by their standards, with Aaron Stainthorpe employing clean sung vocals for almost its entire duration. Likewise, the songs maintain a slow and steady pace throughout, being for the most part unhurried and reflective. Woeful, heavy riffs give way to achingly beautiful harmonised twin guitar riffs that ...  Read the complete review

My Dying Bride, the only one of the three major English doom metal bands of the early Nineties to have resisted the urge to evolve beyond all recognition (the others being Anathema and Paradise Lost) nevertheless seem to operate in cycles, or have done for much of their career. Their evolution from (at their beginning) ropey death metal through to increasingly melodic, symphonic styles reached its natural conclusion with the experimental, beautiful 34.788% Complete in 1998, since when they have veered back and forth with touches of both their earlier and more recent compositional styles. Their last two albums combined crushingly heavy death metal with ...  Read the complete review