MY DYING BRIDE

The Ghost Of Orion NUCLEAR BLAST

Bradford’s mavens of misery dig deeper than ever before

EMERGING FROM BRADFORD in 1990 with an ambitious, unorthodox blend of death metal, doom and goth, with lyrics inspired by Shakespeare and Romantic poetry, My Dying Bride’s quickly carved out a niche as metal’s most eccentric miserablists. In Aaron Stainthorpe they had a charismatic frontman with the rare ability to slip between modes of wounded vulnerability and monstrous aggression, and 30 years on, Aaron channels these emotions more powerfully than ever, still finding new forms of vocal self-expression.

There is a solemn profundity to MDB’s music that actively benefits from the onset of middle age; the extremity of the gloom comes more convincingly from men who have lived, loved and suffered. In the five years between and its predecessor, – MDB’s longest hiatus – Aaron’s infant