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My Dying Bride - As The Flower Withers



7.9 | 332 votes |
Release date: 22 May 1992
Style: Death doom metal

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01. Silent Dance
02. Sear Me
03. The Forever People
04. The Bitterness And The Bereavement
05. Vast Choirs
06. The Return Of The Beautiful
07. Erotic Literature [1992 CD and cassette bonus]
08. The Forever People [live] [1996 Japanese bonus]
09. Unreleased Bitterness [2004 digipack bonus]

Additional info
Recorded in December 1991/January 1992 at Academy Studios. Produced by Hammy and My Dying Bride. Engineered by Keith Appleton. Cover photography, illustration and design by Dave McKean. Mastered at Transfermation, London, by Noel Summerville.

The original LP release included a poster.

"Unreleased Bitterness" is an early version of "The Bitterness And The Breavement".

Staff review by
KwonVerge
Rating:
8.5
My Dying Bride is one of the most influential bands in the doom/death metal scene (and not only); may I say doom/death itself? Formed back in 1990 by Calvin, Aaron, Andy and Rick and having already released two demos ("Towards the sinister" and "God is alone") and an interesting EP ("Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium") they release during 1992 their long-awaited debut album "As the flower withers". Pure doom/death metal with death metal outbursts and Aaron being an utterly descriptive interpreter, inspiration, intense poetic lyrics with a sense of mourning romanticism and a dark wailing atmosphere consist of this wonderful debut album leaving behind a bitter taste of a dying bride, My Dying Bride?

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published 17.10.2004 | Comments (8)

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Comments: 9   Visited by: 417 users
29.01.2011 - 00:03
Rating: 8
Kropy

Musicianship: 7
Vocal: 7
Atmosphere: 8
Melody: 6
Originality: 8
Production: 10
CD Covers: 9

Best Songs:
05. Vast Choirs
09. Deconstruction Macabre
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01.10.2011 - 17:10
BeastOfMetal456
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Great album. Very heavy, emotional and atmospheric.
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27.04.2016 - 18:33
Rating: 8
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Old MDB, somehow we don't hear such music anymore, and band was more DM as doom, even still its dead/doom. Aron can sing calm and clean vox, what we don't hear here, he has an interesting voice
Decent album
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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06.09.2016 - 02:19
HellriderRising

Another dark and bleak album of the doom/death scene raised in the 90s. Fans of that kind of music should give it a try.
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14.01.2018 - 01:13
Rating: 7
Redel

While not being a particularly prominent album, this one holds one of the band's finest all-time works: the first part of the ingenious Sear me trilogy. Masterpiece this one.
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17.06.2020 - 01:22
ickoriss

The Forever People fucking slaps.
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29.09.2022 - 19:43
Rating: 7
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Their debut is certainly a long way off from their sound of nowadays material, in fact it seems to have a different sound entirely from their next album, Let Loose The Swans. This has a raw sounding production, the riffs are denser, and it has more of a tempo in some areas, but it lacks that overall emotion and and melancholic songwriting of LLTS. This reminds me in some ways of Gothic by Paradise Lost, it's good but doesn't wow me.
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01.10.2022 - 00:23
Rating: 8
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by AndyMetalFreak on 29.09.2022 at 19:43

Their debut is certainly a long way off from their sound of nowadays material, in fact it seems to have a different sound entirely from their next album, Let Loose The Swans. This has a raw sounding production, the riffs are denser, and it has more of a tempo in some areas, but it lacks that overall emotion and and melancholic songwriting of LLTS. This reminds me in some ways of Gothic by Paradise Lost, it's good but doesn't wow me.

Definitely a different beast from TLTS. I'd say it pack a lot of emotion but most of that seems to be brutal anger and passion. Violent record and probably my favorite My Dying Bride record. I wouldn't compare it to Gothic at all though, more like Paradise Lost's debut instead as both are as raw and violent.
Man I loved the sick growls and screams on this one.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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01.10.2022 - 00:26
Rating: 8
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by AndyMetalFreak on 29.09.2022 at 19:43

Their debut is certainly a long way off from their sound of nowadays material, in fact it seems to have a different sound entirely from their next album, Let Loose The Swans. This has a raw sounding production, the riffs are denser, and it has more of a tempo in some areas, but it lacks that overall emotion and and melancholic songwriting of LLTS. This reminds me in some ways of Gothic by Paradise Lost, it's good but doesn't wow me.


To me from this to and included Swans those are bands best work, pure death/doom classic, amazing albums, todays bands dont compose so emotional deep albums... seems 90's was key factor, seems all was different then-
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Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
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