This is my favorite album by them. Love the concept of metal with great lyrical content.

Yeah, this is my favorite MDB album too. They are one of the only bands that mix clean vocals with death growls well, I feel.

A very gloomy atmosphere (Which the band have done throughout their career so easily) created on this album, but such well-structured songs such as the beautiful yet brooding 'My wine in silence' and the powerful epic closer ''A Doomed Closer', not to forget the ferocity of 'The Prize of Beauty'. There is plenty here to regard the album as one of the band's better latter works.

My favorite album by MDB, really good
Edit 4 years later: Lol nope. Weak album that doesn't compare to their earlier material

The greatest MDB album in my opinion, along with Turn Loose The Swans. A definite masterpiece.

Written by musicalkaratekid on 25.02.2012 at 01:54

A very gloomy atmosphere (Which the band have done throughout their career so easily) created on this album, but such well-structured songs such as the beautiful yet brooding 'My wine in silence' and the powerful epic closer ''A Doomed Closer', not to forget the ferocity of 'The Prize of Beauty'. There is plenty here to regard the album as one of the band's better latter works.

"A Doomed Closer"?

Anyway, I agree with what you said. Actually, I think pretty much every song is brilliant. My favourite would be The Wreckage Of My Flesh and my least favourite The Blue Lotus, but even that song is great still.

Written by Erik M. on 02.11.2012 at 22:38

Written by musicalkaratekid on 25.02.2012 at 01:54

A very gloomy atmosphere (Which the band have done throughout their career so easily) created on this album, but such well-structured songs such as the beautiful yet brooding 'My wine in silence' and the powerful epic closer ''A Doomed Closer', not to forget the ferocity of 'The Prize of Beauty'. There is plenty here to regard the album as one of the band's better latter works.

"A Doomed Closer"?

Anyway, I agree with what you said. Actually, I think pretty much every song is brilliant. My favourite would be The Wreckage Of My Flesh and my least favourite The Blue Lotus, but even that song is great still.

Haha, I guess I was thinking the album's closer when I typed that-I do that quite a lot
Yeah, I love each and every song here bar 'The blue Lotus', but even that has it's qualities.

Written by Alex F on 19.03.2012 at 00:48

My favorite album by MDB, really good

Wow, if your favourite MDB album only gets a 7, you must really dislike them.

Savage album... but then all My Dying Bride albums are, except that little blunder they had with 34.788%... Complete???

I take 34.788% over some of their latest stuff any day tbh.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 06.04.2013 at 02:42

I take 34.788% over some of their latest stuff any day tbh.

Totally. "34..." is probably among my 3 favorites by them. And checked this one out after ignoring it for a while and it's probably the least interesting I've heard by them, though I don't know how I feel about it yet.

Written by Unhealer on 07.04.2013 at 07:09
And checked this one out after ignoring it for a while and it's probably the least interesting I've heard by them, though I don't know how I feel about it yet.

Well, THAT is an odd opinion tbh. I find albums like Like Gods of the Sun, The Light At The End Of The World, A Line Of Deathless Kings and everything after that one to be way less interesting. Well, to me everything from the very beginning up to an including this album is very good shit, it just goes slightly up and down sometimes but I like everything on that period.

The best album of them. so dark, so gothic, so doom. well done.

My personal favorite! Great doom

Can Death/Doom get any better than this?

After a few listens, I can say that this is the best metal album I heard. Such hate, such perfection, such atmosphere can only be achieved by the gods of Death/Doom.

Possibly the best doom metal album ever. At least after Epicus Doomicus Metallicus.

Excellent Doom Metal!

By By death/doom, hello gothic/doom
I didn't like it , good violins and as DerRozo said songwriters are missing here. Arons deep voice needed violins, fits good together, same time somehow all didn't work even I love gothic/doom
Songs stand out: My Wine In Silence, Doomed Lover

Might as well be their best work. It's a fucking grower

This is probably my favourite MDB record just ahead of The Dreadful Hours. It's definitely the doomiest sounding record they've done imo, the songwriting is really dark and powerful, and it's also one of their heaviest sounding albums they've done too.

It helps the fact this is shorter than The Dreadful Hours, I find this to me more consistent and overall more interesting than than The Dreadful Hours. The only downside for me is the album does kind of get a wee bit sloppy with the middle few tracks, especially considering how great the first three tracks were, "The Wreckage of My Flesh", "Catherine Blake", and "The Scarlet Garden", but the album certainly ended on a high with one of the bands best ever songs, "A Doomed Lover".