My Dying Bride - As The Flower Withers

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

Best Songs:
05. Vast Choirs
09. Deconstruction Macabre

Great album. Very heavy, emotional and atmospheric.

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

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.

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.

The Forever People fucking slaps.

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.

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.

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-

I never gave this album a chance because I didn't think the band would be able to properly convey emotions like they could on later albums like Swans or Dreadful using just growls. I was completely wrong! This album is like a primal My Dying Bride. Instead of Aaron's sorrowful cleans clashing with his growls, we get a performance that's satisfyingly raw, full of rage and passion with it's feet still firmly in romanticism. I'm really enjoying this album overall. It makes the leap into TLTS stand out that much more to me.

Masterpiece!!!