My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings review
Band: | My Dying Bride |
Album: | A Line Of Deathless Kings |
Release date: | October 2006 |
01. To Remain Tombless
02. L'Amour Détruit
03. I Cannot Be Loved
04. And I Walk With Them
05. Thy Raven Wings
06. Love's Intolerable Pain
07. One Of Beauty's Daughters
08. Deeper Down
09. The Blood, The Wine, The Roses
There are moments when everything becomes servant of utter tranquility and all the deathlike silence suddenly is being seduced by the ominous sound of the bells of the underworld, unleashing the signs of the forthcoming doom. The Gods of doom have risen from their 2-year slumber and the time has come for humanity to drown once again in oblivion, darkness, death, pain, sorrow, despair and mourning, yes, My Dying Bride are back, invading the prosperous kingdom of a world filled with delight and joy, covering the heavens with the heaviest of tears.
If "Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light" was many steps forward for the sound of the band (at least to me it was), the new work of the UK doom/death combo has for sure a more primary aura. To tell the truth, i really didn't know what to expect after their previous effort and "A Line Of Deathless Kings" was a surprise to me, as for most of you as well i think, since i, and you i suppose, was expecting something more doom/death metal driven in the vein the band has offered throughout the years under their own sound. From what i have noticed around, "A Line Of Deathless Kings" is a love it or hate it album, since half the people i asked enjoyed it a lot and the other half hated it, as for me, to be honest, i liked it a lot, despite the fact it takes the sound of the band steps backwards.
The voice of the wretched, Aaron Stainthorpe, for one more time creates worlds where hope has perished and its condemned shadow mourns for every day of lost euphoria. The vocals are mainly clean, either imposing in their very own way or devout through a more reciting prism (some of the reciting vocals, like on the opus "And I Walk With Them", bring forth memories of "Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light"), with an Aaron bleeding over a microphone, chanting final lasting breaths, whereas the grunting vocals are just a few, making their appearance when the music becomes more intense and upbeat in the form of an emotional outburst. The guitars have an intense heavy edge, powerful heavy riffing which destroys everything that appears in its way, leaving behind it an amorphous lifeless maze. The acoustic passages lend the album a more melancholic and esoteric tone, whereas, oddly (!!!), the keyboards are not many, in fact they have almost vanished from the sound of My Dying Bride in their new attempt, making their appearance in very few moments of "A Line Of Deathless Kings", being in the background. As for the drumming, it's powerful and imposing, creating walls of sound that surround the listener with their nocturnal groove, though the bass lines are a bit in the background, not an actual problem when it comes to this specific part of the doom metal scene.
All in all, we're talking about a very guitar-and-drumming based work adorned by Aaron's wailing chants, showing a will to express their grandeur through the basic instruments, but also bringing forth a remembrance of "The Angel And The Dark Rives", in terms of feeling mainly as the album flows. I think that "A Line Of Deathless Kings" is one of those albums that flows as one to let you drown in its beauty and totally understand it, so i won't recommend some songs to check, try it as a full journey through inner corridors of emotion.
Another piece of art to let wounds blossom on your weary body (and soul), but for one more time "one of beauty's daughters", this unique duality My Dying Bride always had, of beauty and of doom, is here to haunt your existence. It's so simple, place yourselves by their side, in a line of deathless kings (in fear and respect, like on the beautiful and dreadful black and white cover), and walk with them in beauty and agony.
"We walk as Gods together through a fiery dawn..."
| Written on 27.11.2006 by "It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind." |
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