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My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River
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Release date: 22 May 1995
Style: Gothic doom metal

Rating:
8.9 | 415 votes

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688 have it
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01. The Cry Of Mankind
02. From Darkest Skies
03. Black Voyage
04. A Sea To Suffer In
05. Two Winters Only
06. Your Shameful Heaven
07. The Sexuality Of Bereavement [bonus]
08. Your River [Live at Dynamo '95] [bonus]
09. A Sea To Suffer In [Live at Dynamo '95] [bonus]
10. The Forever People [Live at Dynamo '95] [bonus]

Top 20 albums of 1995: 6
Top 200 albums of all time: 69

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Additional info
Peaceville

Recorded and mixed at Academy Studios Dec/Jan '94/'95
Produced by Mags & My Dying Bride. Cover and photos by Aaron

Released on cassette by Metal Mind.

The American release by Futurist and the limited edition digipack released by Peaceville included a bonus track:
7. The Sexuality of Bereavement [8:04]

Reissued in 1996 by Fierce and Peaceville with new cover art (a black background and a larger version of the center image) including "The Sexuality of Bereavement" and a bonus disc, Live at the Dynamo '95:
1. Your River [8:13]
2. A Sea to Suffer In [6:21]
3. Your Shameful Heaven [6:21]
4. The Forever People [4:52]

Released on picture disc vinyl with no sleeve in 1997, limited to 500 copies.

Reissued by Peaceville in 2001 and Soyuz in 2002, restoring the original cover art and track list.

Remastered and reissued in 2003 by Peaceville as a single disc digipack (using the black version of the cover) with four bonus tracks, including "The Sexuality of Bereavement" and Live at the Dynamo '95, excluding "Your Shameful Heaven" which appeared on that year's reissue of Turn Loose the Swans.

Reissued in 2010 by Peaceville in a super jewel box CD/DVD package, with entirely new cover art. The CD is the same as the 2003 reissue and the DVD is For Darkest Eyes.

Staff review by
DerRozzengarten

Rating:
10 		After the exceptional and mourning aesthetic of "Turn Loose The Swans" My Dying Bride returned with another opus of emotional intensity and esoteric feelings, "The Angel And The Dark River".

I don't know how the fans of "As The Flower Withers" and "Turn Loose The Swans" expected their successor to be back then, but they were not expecting it to be like "The Angel And The Dark River" for sure, as far as I am concerned. This time My Dying Bride remain heavy and powerful, yet not aggressive. A more fragile and gentle approach is overrunning their sound and this is not something that shines only through the music, but from the vocals as well. Aaron Stainthorpe, the dramatic persona of My Dying Bride, this time chose to express himself only through his wailing clean vocals, pouring his soul to his personal and beauteous lyrics, leaving behind the grunting way of expression and thus lending a more poetic approach to the sound of My Dying Bride.

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ramin - 02.01.2011 at 08:25  
Rating: 10 Best album
Tiglath Pileser - 03.05.2012 at 11:02  
Rating: 8 I've never heard a better Gothic song than The Cry for Mankind. It's the most melancholic song imaginable!
Cuca Beludo - 13.09.2012 at 20:06  
  This one must be the most melancholic album I've ever heard.
Odinson - 04.02.2013 at 15:29  
Rating: 10 An absolute 10. Can't think of a better album of my dying bride than this. Also the best goth/doom metal album ever
LordHypnos - 25.03.2013 at 22:56  
Rating: 9 I still think that Turn Loose The Swans is better than this one. I didn't want to say this, but I think that Aaron's "sorrowful" clean vocals suck; it's not moving at all. But his spoken word and growling are amazing, though. I think this album would be better with these two kinds of singing as well, even though it wouldn't bring anything new.

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