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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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
I doubt anyone actually left MS because of this review. And even if anyone did... it is stupid to leave a site because someone disagrees with a review. Good riddance I'd say.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by [user id=31891] on 10.12.2009 at 17:41 First off I am not a member of MA and secondly i keep on reading there. Btw In that review the reviewer clearly missed the point about that album. He reviewed years and years after its release. But he is still entitled to his opinion. As is any of the official (and guest) reviewers here. My point is that it is STUPID to stop visiting a site just because you disagree with a review. This review is well-written wheereas the MoP one at MA isn't
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15287  |
You're my favorite little wind-up toy on this site. say something about a band you like - even warranted (this album is dire, the production on death magnetic ruined an otherwise ok album) and just step back and watch you meltdown. you still froth at the keyboard here months after the review was published, you link it to other sites to froth more. just too funny. Jupe's opinion is perfectly acceptable and i get the point he's making. it stems from consistently writing on the same lyrical themes over 10 albums makes those themes boring, safe, and cliche... SSDD... Same Shit, Different Disk. he takes underlying issues with prior albums, points to the history of it, finally how those issues culminate in this album.
---- get the fuck off my lawn. Beer Bug Virus Spotify Playlist crafted by Nikarg and I. Feel free to tune in and add some pertinent metal tunes!
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| the stranger Posts: 398 |
Written by [user id=31891] on 10.12.2009 at 16:55 If it is honest as this one, then it will be excellent. Also, maybe this a bit off-topic but anyway, I'll say it, I have heard so many bad opinions about Virgin Black being the greatest of them all "I can make better music with my dick". And it made me laugh a lot. And yes, they're a whining band, but I like them. So, don't worry if somebody else has a different opinion.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by [user id=31891] on 12.12.2009 at 10:37 That doesn't mean a thing. There are quite a lot of MDB fanboys on there.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Headbanger009 Posts: 7  |
Yeah, as I have said, if you don't like MDB no one is fucking forcing you too! 
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| Headbanger009 Posts: 7 |
Ahab are good. But has nobody heard of Draconian or Novembers Doom here? Or old classic Paradise Lost? Or Virgin Black, would it stun some of you to know that Virgin Black are from Adelaide?
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15287 |
Written by Headbanger009 on 20.01.2010 at 16:18 what does any of this have to do with MDB's album? there are plenty of various doom threads around... post in one of those.
---- get the fuck off my lawn. Beer Bug Virus Spotify Playlist crafted by Nikarg and I. Feel free to tune in and add some pertinent metal tunes!
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| Kennoth Posts: 2502  |
What's with jupitreas and all the unrated albums? I personally find it slightly annoying. If you don't like it, rate it badly. Anyway, I'm planning on checking this out before making any judgments about it.
---- *insert something deep and profound*
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374  |
Written by Kennoth on 04.10.2010 at 16:19 "I no longer rate albums because people get too obsessed with the rating and forget to read the actual review. Read the review, it will give you a much better idea if an album is worth your time than a rating will." From his profile, it's a good answer imo considering how many people just fucking troll a lot of reviews here just because of the rating.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| Kennoth Posts: 2502 |
Doesn't that defeat the very purpose of rating an album? It's like baking cookies without turning the oven on first. Sure, some people will always bitch about the rating, and frankly, that's perfectly fine with me. Surely, there can't be all too many people out there that don't read the review at all just because they're not satisfied with the rating...
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| jupitreas hi-fi / lo-life Staff Posts: 6659  |
Written by Kennoth on 04.10.2010 at 20:22 You'd be surprised. Anyway, the main reason why I don't rate albums is that opinions are not quantifiable. A rating is, at best, a very vague representation of what a reviewer thinks about an album; however, most users argue about this arbitrary value the most. I just can't be bothered with such pointless discussions so I don't rate albums.
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| Milena gloom cookie Staff Posts: 4603  |
My second favorite review on this site.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374 |
Written by [user id=35732] on 28.12.2011 at 05:39 It would match the album in that case... Which is far worse. God, how low they have fallen.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| jupitreas hi-fi / lo-life Staff Posts: 6659 |
Written by [user id=35732] on 28.12.2011 at 05:39 Well done, you have publicly committed a logical fallacy. How does it feel?
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| Slayer666 Posts: 2466  |
Written by Milena on 20.12.2011 at 20:43 I actually prefer all the bitch-fests to the review, but yeah, great one.
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374 |
Written by [user id=35732] on 28.12.2011 at 19:20 Them EP was surprisingly not bad, I'll give you that. They just have to continue like and improve a little more and we're back to the good MDB.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| Ethan1994 Posts: 52  |
That opening paragraph made me laugh, even though I love MDB, and I like this album (although I admit, it's not their best). 
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| Erik M. Posts: 3104  |
Written by [user id=35732] on 28.12.2011 at 19:20 It's indeed a great EP. Too bad The Manuscript sounds a lot more generic and and much less interesting. Curious to MDB's next album in any case, which is apparently coming this year.
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| Erik M. Posts: 3104 |
Written by X-Ray Rod on 28.12.2011 at 19:28 I like how you make it seem you agree yet you word it differently.  Anyway, For Lies I Sire is their worst album for me. The whole sound of it is just annoying to my ears. Wouldn't go as far as calling it outright bad, but it's just way less great than pretty much everything they ever did.
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| ScreamingSteelUS Editor-in-Chief Admin Posts: 5925  |
This review is more brutal than most of the albums on this site.
---- "Earth is small and I hate it" - Lum Invader I'm the Agent of Steel.
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| mz Posts: 4825  |
Legendary review, and for a good reason, unlike that one of enslaved...
---- Giving my ears a rest from music.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62017  |
I like Intro of review..seems DerRoz style, I miss that gocker here , and violins was awesome indeed, maybe best, like I said makes his voice and violin sound some unique combination
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| nikarg Staff Posts: 7348  |
The first paragraph is funny. The comments are even funnier though, both the fanboy ones and the ones trying to defend the review. It's such a pity that THE_BLACK_GOD is not here anymore.
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