Albums of the Autumn 3
My Dying Bride: 34.788%...Complete
(Peaceville, 1998)
My Dying Bride: The Light At The End Of the World
(Peaceville, 2000)
My Dying Bride: The Dreadful Hours
(Peaceville, 2001)
Warning for those not so into metal - we enter now those spheres.
First three studio-albums of My Dying Bride's post violinist -era form also a soundtrack for autumn - the dark, wet, rainy, muddy and sleety late autumn. I think they all were released by autumn as well, so listening to them a lot when they were new might have attached them so heavily to that time of the year. On the other hand, I connect their earlier albums with violinist strongly to early spring.
I couldn't find samples of the 34.788%...Complete as album versions and wasn't satisfied with the live versions I found today, so I won't post any. Despite the name, that album is NOT collection, the name points to computers uploading, and it was explained how the mentioned percentage of complete apocalypse or fall of mankind has been uploaded. Or something else as mysterious. Violin had been essential part of My Dying Bride's sound, and 34.788%...Complete was the first studio album they did after the violinist had left the band. Turning to new directions, introducing samples and slighty industrial sounds to their typical overwhelming, repetitive guitar riffs, combination of mellow and violently heavy, slow and long songs - they sounded so different listener was puzzled and forgot to miss the violin. It underlined that the pattern of another guitar repeating some really simple riff over and over again and another adding variations and decorations and turning the riff slowly to something else was even more typical to My Dying Bride than the violin-melodies. It seems that this album isn't still as popularly high valued as others, because there was not sample songs in YouTube. Well, it is a bit strange, and not the typical album of the band, but as an album it's slightly underestimated by many listeners. And as such an album I dig up when the autumn comes it is one of its kind. The presence of evenings getting darker and rain falling down is so strong on it.
The Light At The End Of The World in my mind is connected to even later autumn, the darkness of November that seems endless, slush on the streets and rain. As an album, for My Dying Bride, it was return to the old times, bringing back also the growling vocals from the early history.
The picked sample-song Christliar was again one of those personally meaningful songs at its releasing time - I had a good reason to be disappointed and angry at someone, and it felt like the guitars were embodying my dark thoughts that swelled around like the slush and water in those puddles of mud I had to walk through to get anywhere, and singer Aaron was whining and growling out my pain - the song was extremely cathartic, and still feels so when I pick it up. The clip is fan-vid illustrated only with album-cover so feel free to do something else while listening - it lasts over 9 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDEAJwPBtJM
That the title song of The Dreadful Hours is illustrated only with album-cover feels justified - somehow this cover felt like meaningful addition to the atmosphere the music creates - it's somehow disturbing, but in a way the really strong real life autumn colors feel just as disturbing, especially if they're connected with insomnia. I'd say, in a way this album embodies a lot of that feeling how something can be at the same time dreadful and fascinating. One intriguing addition is also that around time this came out, I had read a lot Marina Warner's book "No Go the Bogeyman - scaring, lulling and making mock" and liked it to the point of fixation - and it seems like the title song's lyrics could be written inspired by the very same book.
Another thing - I find it almost funny how Aaron who has been first to state himself he can't really sing, sings himself the roles of a child, mother and murderous father all in one, and so that the song really sounds like dialogues. I found some live clips that show the changing of roles in action - I'll link the album version (fan vid) though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cyll0qXs9k
(Peaceville, 1998)
My Dying Bride: The Light At The End Of the World
(Peaceville, 2000)
My Dying Bride: The Dreadful Hours
(Peaceville, 2001)
Warning for those not so into metal - we enter now those spheres.
First three studio-albums of My Dying Bride's post violinist -era form also a soundtrack for autumn - the dark, wet, rainy, muddy and sleety late autumn. I think they all were released by autumn as well, so listening to them a lot when they were new might have attached them so heavily to that time of the year. On the other hand, I connect their earlier albums with violinist strongly to early spring.
I couldn't find samples of the 34.788%...Complete as album versions and wasn't satisfied with the live versions I found today, so I won't post any. Despite the name, that album is NOT collection, the name points to computers uploading, and it was explained how the mentioned percentage of complete apocalypse or fall of mankind has been uploaded. Or something else as mysterious. Violin had been essential part of My Dying Bride's sound, and 34.788%...Complete was the first studio album they did after the violinist had left the band. Turning to new directions, introducing samples and slighty industrial sounds to their typical overwhelming, repetitive guitar riffs, combination of mellow and violently heavy, slow and long songs - they sounded so different listener was puzzled and forgot to miss the violin. It underlined that the pattern of another guitar repeating some really simple riff over and over again and another adding variations and decorations and turning the riff slowly to something else was even more typical to My Dying Bride than the violin-melodies. It seems that this album isn't still as popularly high valued as others, because there was not sample songs in YouTube. Well, it is a bit strange, and not the typical album of the band, but as an album it's slightly underestimated by many listeners. And as such an album I dig up when the autumn comes it is one of its kind. The presence of evenings getting darker and rain falling down is so strong on it.
The Light At The End Of The World in my mind is connected to even later autumn, the darkness of November that seems endless, slush on the streets and rain. As an album, for My Dying Bride, it was return to the old times, bringing back also the growling vocals from the early history.
The picked sample-song Christliar was again one of those personally meaningful songs at its releasing time - I had a good reason to be disappointed and angry at someone, and it felt like the guitars were embodying my dark thoughts that swelled around like the slush and water in those puddles of mud I had to walk through to get anywhere, and singer Aaron was whining and growling out my pain - the song was extremely cathartic, and still feels so when I pick it up. The clip is fan-vid illustrated only with album-cover so feel free to do something else while listening - it lasts over 9 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDEAJwPBtJM
That the title song of The Dreadful Hours is illustrated only with album-cover feels justified - somehow this cover felt like meaningful addition to the atmosphere the music creates - it's somehow disturbing, but in a way the really strong real life autumn colors feel just as disturbing, especially if they're connected with insomnia. I'd say, in a way this album embodies a lot of that feeling how something can be at the same time dreadful and fascinating. One intriguing addition is also that around time this came out, I had read a lot Marina Warner's book "No Go the Bogeyman - scaring, lulling and making mock" and liked it to the point of fixation - and it seems like the title song's lyrics could be written inspired by the very same book.
Another thing - I find it almost funny how Aaron who has been first to state himself he can't really sing, sings himself the roles of a child, mother and murderous father all in one, and so that the song really sounds like dialogues. I found some live clips that show the changing of roles in action - I'll link the album version (fan vid) though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cyll0qXs9k