My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire review
| Band: | My Dying Bride |
| Album: | For Lies I Sire |
| Style: | Death doom metal, Gothic doom metal |
| Release date: | March 20, 2009 |
| A review by: | jupitreas |
01. My Body, A Funeral
02. Fall With Me
03. The Lies I Sire
04. Bring Me Victory
05. Echoes From A Hollow Soul
06. ShadowHaunt
07. Santuario Di Sangue
08. A Chapter In Loathing
09. Death Triumphant
Look, I just cut myself, this violin sounds like a razor blade slicing my arteries. Now let me read some Shakespeare to you. Pain. Suffering. My ex-girlfriend. Religion. Violins as razors again. Crimson red drops of blood meandering like the wine from the Holy Grail. Your ex-girlfriend. Pain. Violins. Shakespeare. Latin references, look how deep I am. Bleeding love. Now look, I'm angry for a moment!!! Speed. I'm angry!!! AAAAA... OK, now, I'm sad again. Depression. Shattered passion. Violins. Pain. Goodbye.
Come on, we all know this is precisely what My Dying Bride does on every single album including the more experimental ones. If this is your kind of thing, For Lies I Sire will be right up your alley, just like all the other albums by this band. It's not my kind of thing though. To me, pseudo-romantic, overwrought whining like this is quite annoying, frankly. Truly depressed people don't broadcast their pathetic stories in 10 albums, don't recite Shakespearean poetry and don't threaten to commit suicide. They just fucking do it. Preferably in an amusing way, such as by jumping from a building on an old lady. Or by running into a mall with dynamite up their ass. Life is just a cruel joke anyway, right? Well, laugh at this, society!
For Lies I Sire is the first My Dying Bride album to feature violins since Like Gods Of The Sun and as a consequence sounds quite similar to that record. In other words, it is slightly faster and more straight-forward than usual, has more crunchy riffs and steers clear of growled vocals. The exception to this is "A Chapter In Loathing", a weird song with blastbeats and strangely screeched vocals, ironically the only enjoyable piece here. The other tracks follow the band's trademark template as described above and they do it... averagely at best. So if you love this band, the album will be a decent one, or perhaps a slightly above average one for you.
The music on For Lies I Sire has some moments but that doesn't take away from the fact that still, after all these years, the best My Dying Bride songs are those that throw their formula out of the window. Which is what I will happily do now with this CD. Hopefully it will hit an old lady right on the head.
 | Written on 22.04.2009 by With Metal Storm since 2002, jupitreas has been subjecting the masses to his reviews for quite a while now. He lives in Warsaw, Poland, where he does his best to avoid prosecution for being so cool. |
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| ravendeath Posts: 240  |
Written by [user id=31891] on 09.06.2009 at 10:26 Why not? Same band and at some moments even the similar mood... yes, MDB are not the band to be listened anywhere and anytime.
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| Fat & Sassy! Elite Posts: 3857  |
So I just came back to read all the posts since I last read this review, and well shit (123 posts!)... jupitreas, not only have you written one of the most enjoyable reviews I've ever read... but you also flared up one of the funniest bitch fit wars I've ever read. Congrats!  Billy Joel didn't start the fire... jupitreas did.
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| MeloDeathViking Posts: 516  |
Written by Fat & Sassy! on 11.06.2009 at 21:17 This gave me a good laugh that I needed this morning. Possibly the best Bill Joel reference EVER! haha
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| Fat & Sassy! Elite Posts: 3857 |
Written by MeloDeathViking on 23.06.2009 at 19:30 I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
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| Ellrohir Heaven Knight Posts: 8669  |
Didnt liked this one too much...
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| BudDa Elite Posts: 887  |
Didn't like it either..kinda..meh. I do like the review though. Nice work Jup..
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| Nicko's Nose Posts: 490  |
Ok, so I if understand well, you can't review an album that you don't like? What the fuck? If an album is good or not is a matter of opinion. This review isn't wrong, it's just an opinion. Stop being retards and insulting people just because they don't like the things that you like.
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374  |
Written by [user id=31891] on 31.10.2009 at 22:33 I don't recall that the review have any sort of insult towards a specific person. Maybe a joke against the stereotype but nothing more.
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| VPeter Posts: 1450  |
Written by [user id=31891] on 01.11.2009 at 21:39 Yes, butthurt fanboys who only proof by their stupidity that they belong to that stereotype.
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427  |
Oh please lets not get into this entire argument again...
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| VPeter Posts: 1450 |
Sigh, I know... going in discussion with THE_BLACK_GOD is like beating a dead horse or trying to teach K7 how to spell. yet now and then we keep doing it.
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| Headbanger009 Posts: 7  |
With everything bickering between MDB and Metallica, I really don't bother. I like both bands, and to everyone who keeps bitching that MDB is depressing and shit, thats what fucking DOOM METAL is! These practically invented the freaking genre, and their not that shit! Its fucking DOOM METAL! What do you want, ballads about roses and puppies!?
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| Headbanger009 Posts: 7 |
I agree with Black God, I really don't understand why people hate MDB!!? The only really "bad" or un-MDB album was 34.788%... Complete. Sorry, i forgot about the roses, but MDB are one of the best doom metal bands and should get some more recognition. I mean Katatonia and Draconian sing about the same stuff, and are probably inspired by MDB, yet no one carries on that they're depressing or stupid. F*ck anyone who doesnt like MDB. Once again, siding with Black God, if you don't freaking like it, don't fucking listen, its not gonna to magically go away.  :banger2:
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15287  |
Written by Headbanger009 on 04.12.2009 at 08:33 it's not so much "fuck MDB" as it is "this album isn't particularly good. or inspired." to be honest, i kinda like their "...Swans" album, but the others i have heard are mediocre at best compared to the vast bulk of the doom that has been directed my way. compared to, from this year alone, Ahab, Akelei, Candlemass, Colosseum, Count Raven, Forsaken, Griftregard, Isole, Process of Guilt, Procession, Profetus, Shrinebuilder, The 11th Hour , The Gates of Slumber, it's mediocre.
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374 |
Written by BitterCOld on 05.12.2009 at 10:30 I agree with you, compared to everything that has been done lately... this is brings nothing new to the table and what it brings it's not even inspired. Although I disagree abou the "...Swans", while being a very good album I don't understand why so many get wet dreams for it. The best one I've heard so far is easily their debut  , although I like enjoy their discography until "...Kings" because it was with that album when everything turned meh to the max.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by BitterCOld on 05.12.2009 at 10:30 Just a shame they have only released those two new songs as downloads from their bandsite. They should have properly released them on professional cd-r imo. I'd better start beating the shit out of them to release it properly. But then again they are currently writing material for the debut full-length which should be relased coming summer.
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15287 |
Written by [user id=31891] on 07.12.2009 at 18:00 why? i like the review. dislike the album. you are NOT my (or anyone else's) Moral Authority with the power to dictate how to me how should feel about, well, anything. boo fucking hoo.
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