Trinity - My Dying Bride

'Trinity' is a collection of Yorkshire gothic doom legends My Dying Bride's first three EPs, released between 1991 and 1994. The first three tracks are from 'Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium', consisting of a mix slow and sludgy doom and mid-to-fast-tempo passages of unashamedly raw and uncomplicated rumbling death metal. The songs offer up some incredibly guttural and sickening growls courtesy of frontman Aaron Stainthorpe and have an ominous and claustrophobic feel, whilst the lumbering doom sections are accompanied by funereal violin. The whole thing has a deep and oppressive groove to it, and represents the band at their most coarse and ...  Read the complete review

Death-doom evidently comes in threes. This collection of My Dying Bride’s first three EPs, the third time the songs have been released, proves why this band has always been the greatest of England’s ‘great three’ death-doom metal pioneers. Constantly building upon their original sound, the Yorkshiremen have managed to avoid the bizarre temptations that led to their contemporaries Paradise Lost and Anathema retreating to commercially viable and artistically dead atmospheric rock territory. Released during their creative peak in 1995, ‘Trinity’ collects together three EPs (well, three and a half) from 1991 to ’94 and, despite covering a small but varied portion ...  Read the complete review