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My Dying Bride - 34.788%... Complete



7.4 | 325 votes |
Release date: 6 October 1998
Style: Gothic doom metal

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01. The Whore, The Cook And The Mother
02. The Stance Of Evander Sinque
03. Der Überlebende
04. Heroin Chic
05. Apocalypse Woman
06. Base Level Erotica
07. Under Your Wings And Into Your Arms
08. Follower [Japanese bonus]

Additional info
Released through: Peaceville

Recorded at Academy Studios Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England.
Engineered & Produced by Mags, assisted by Calvin.
Mixed at Chapel Studios Lincoln by Mags and Calvin on summer of 1998.
Asstistand engineers: Stevie Clow and James Anderson.

In memory of Richard Jackson for his fatherly guidance and love (1940-1997).

Staff review by
Deadsoulman
Rating:
7.5
"Tell me that I'm a sinner... "

So here is the album that has made this famous English band lose a huge part of their first-hour fans... Paradoxically, it's the one that has made me know My Dying Bride. As I had never heard "The Angel and the Dark River" before, I absolutely couldn't be prejudiced against this new one, and I have been able to immerse in it objectively, something that unfortunately some of the fans did not do...

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published 03.02.2004 | Comments (2)

Staff review by
KwonVerge
Rating:
8.0
After the renowned and poetic "Like Gods Of The Sun" My Dying Bride started working on the successor of this brilliant album. Sadly, Martin Powell announced to the rest of the band that he would leave My Dying Bride and everything happened so suddenly, with the rest of the band having to keep on working on the new album without an important part of them, Powell's keyboard/piano and violin work.

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published 01.12.2005 | Comments (6)

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18.12.2011 - 23:29
Rating: 7
InnerSelf
proofread free
This album always gets bashed for being different, and even though it has some awful moments but "The Whore, The Cook And The Mother" and "Under Your Wings And Into My Arms" are two of my all time favorite MDB songs
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He who is not bold enough
to be stared at from across the abyss
is not bold enough
to stare into it himself.
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14.10.2012 - 00:10
ThunderAxe1989
Account deleted
Fucking Wow......this was pretty bad, I must say.......What were they thinking? Like is this some sort of feeble attempt at sounding "Grunge"?


"34.788%...Complete" is to My Dying Bride as "Turbo" is to Judas Priest.

......well, at least the majority of their discography is excellent though.
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25.04.2013 - 04:11
?apleee
Mouthcrab
Heroin Chic is... Weird. But good.
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"Without judgement, perception would increase a million times."~Chuck Schuldiner

Less coherent than Anal Cunt.

Eric Brecht once liked my Facebook comment. Therefore, by the translative property, Chuck Schuldiner like my comment.
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11.07.2013 - 10:37
Rating: 8
Fordy

I think this album is very good. Different to their other stuff, but i like it.
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03.03.2016 - 04:22
Maco
Pvt Funderground
What a retarded name for an album.
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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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03.03.2016 - 04:42
Karlabos
Meat and Potatos
So... Did they finish recording the album already?
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"Aah! The cat turned into a cat!"
- Reimu Hakurei
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03.03.2016 - 23:35
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by Maco on 03.03.2016 at 04:22
What a retarded name for an album.

I wouldn't say it's retarded but it's definitely on the odd side of things. Which is understandabe considering it comes from a dream one member had at the time, and dreams are pretty weird anyways.

Quote:
The album's title was derived from a dream guitarist Calvin Robertshaw had where he was told the human race had a limited lifespan on earth, 34.788% of which had already expired.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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04.03.2016 - 04:18
Maco
Pvt Funderground
Written by X-Ray Rod on 03.03.2016 at 23:35

dream


Idk dude, even with that explanation I still think that it sounds stupid . Well not as stupid as "Favourite Worst Nightmare" but still stupid.
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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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04.03.2016 - 09:47
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by Maco on 04.03.2016 at 04:18
Idk dude, even with that explanation I still think that it sounds stupid . Well not as stupid as "Favourite Worst Nightmare" but still stupid.


I personally think dreams are fascinating in how bizarre they are. I even keep a notebook close to my bed to write out my dreams as soon as I wake up just to have a laugh months later. I once dreamt the aliens came to earth and I saw Don Francisco hang himself out of desperation as the aliens came closer to him and wanted to lobotomize him.

I have no idea why you wouldn't make at least one song out of that.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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31.05.2016 - 22:20
Rating: 4
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
A bit industrial, only song strands out was Heroin Chick, guest vocalist chick was awesome and his spoken parts was awesome to na na nananana
Litex gothic clothing people would like this one... dead to old MDB even this is worst, every single other album are better as this one!
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Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
apos;'
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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31.05.2016 - 23:48
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Actually, while I thought this to be crap at the time it turned out to be a good album. Much better than most of their recent stuff.
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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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31.05.2016 - 23:49
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Bad English on 31.05.2016 at 22:20

, every single other album are better as this one!


Nope.
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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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31.05.2016 - 23:54
Rating: 4
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 31.05.2016 at 23:48

Actually, while I thought this to be crap at the time it turned out to be a good album. Much better than most of their recent stuff.


I had same feeling when I was listening it in 2008 something and not now
about recent I will listen them and judge then , but latest defiantly was better as this
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Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
apos;'
[image]
I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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01.06.2016 - 00:02
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
A Line Of Deathless Kings, For Lies I Sire, Evinta are a lot lot lot worse
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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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01.06.2016 - 03:18
Rating: 7
God Alone

Yea never quite got the fuss about this one. It's different, and sure not that great, yet far from their worst stuff, especially the atrociously lame For Lies I Sire - everytime I mention it I get a cold shiver down my spine...
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02.06.2016 - 01:18
Rating: 7
masterofdisguise

It's different, but that does not make it bad. Of course, this is far below most of their works, but, tbh, I actually wish they would go this way again.
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12.03.2020 - 18:04
ickoriss

It's not my favorite My Dying Bride record, but I applaud them doing something so different. 'Heroin Chic' kind of makes me cringe, but I really do love some tracks on here, especially 'Under Your Wings and Into Your Arms'. That song is killer.
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15.06.2021 - 01:05
NDNI

I love this album !!! This is the best album of My Dying Bride ! I can't get what's so different here ? Exactly the same I love The Dreadful Hours and Like Gods Of The Sun - The Whore The Cook And The Mother is amazing ! also Apocalypse Woman , Base Level Erotica and Under Your Wings and Into Your Arms - really very underestimated record IMO. I know that with the taste is like with the ass - everybody has its own ;-) . But I wanted to tell you this ! 10/10
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01.10.2022 - 13:55
Rating: 6
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
This album was a weird turn for the band, I understand that they felt it necessary to try a new sound and style at that moment in time, but this never really worked for me unfortunately. I'm not necessarily saying they shouldn't have taken this route, just that it didn't do anything for me personally, I'm not keen on the particular distorted guitar tone they used, and the vocals sounded too grungy for me, the riffs though are actually very good, and I like the more up beat tempo parts, it's just the majority of the album bored me a wee bit.

The opening track, "The Whore, the Cook and the Mother", "Apocalypse Woman" aren't actually bad tracks, probably because in parts they remind one of Paradise Lost, the closer "Under Your Wings and into Your Arms" is actually one of my overall favourite MDB songs, the rest doesn't do it for me at all unfortunately.
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