Double album on black vinyls with gatefold cover

It’s hard to imagine that after 2006’s brilliant A Line OfDeathless Kings, it took three long years for Great Britain’s MyDying Bride to issue a studio follow-up. True, there was a greatlive offering in the interim in 2008’s An Ode to Woe, but For LiesI Sire, the goth and doom metal outfit’s ninth studio offeringsince 1990, showcases a rather startling evolution in the band’ssound. While it’s true that A Line of Deathless Kings was brutallygloomy and depressing, it only pointed the way toward the shadesand shadows of loss and darkness found here. Nearly 20 years afterthe band’s inception, vocalist Aaron Stainthope is singing betterthan ever, and his lyrics are beautifully poetic and streamlined.Gone are the wordy tomes of the early years, replaced by thepointed, poignant, grief-stricken, utterly lost reflections ofhopelessness and despair, the kind that come from the human heartrather than the goth music scene. Musically, the riffs have beencut to the bone as well. While the Sabbath-styled guitar andbasslines are still there, they’ve become simpler, morestraightforward, and textured with a lush yet devastatinglyeffective layer of violins. It’s there in the reflections on ruinedtenderness that inaugurate “My Body, A Funeral,” the set’s opener,which gives way to something eerie, plodding, andmulti-dimensionally heavy as guitars, basses, snares, bass drums,and violins all seek to crescendo together. It’s there in the morechant-like, metallic, malevolent bitterness of “Bring Me Victory,”where ringing basslines meet keyboards and violins atop roilingtom-toms and a more insistent tempo (which is the greatest sidewaysresurrection tune about Jesus ever). It’s also there in the lithe,languid drift that is “Shadow Haunt,” and the sprawling doom metalsuite “Death Triumphant,” that closes the set with washes of tautriffs, atmospheric waves of sound, ambience, and dirge-likestrings. What “it” is, is the elemental discovery by My Dying Brideof a sound that pushes the doom metal attack of yesteryear towardthe margin where it entwines sensuously — and inseparably — withgothic rock, in a meld that bears no signature but the band’s. MDBhas so seamlessly metamorphosed, lyrically, musically, andsonically, that they’ve effectively created their own subgenre ofgoth while retaining enough of their earlier M.O. to keep old fans,while no doubt gathering to themselves a legion of new ones — whohave little to no use for doom or goth metal — in the process. Forthose veterans who’ve enjoyed A Line of Deathless Kings, The Angeland the Dark River, and even Turn Loose the Swans, this is for you.For the curious, For Lies I Sire is an excellent place to begin toinvestigate one of the most genuinely enigmatic bands to haveemerged from the 20th century more inspired and visionary thanbefore. And for the veteran fan, who will in no way bedisappointed, this is brilliant work.

Track listing:
1. My Body, A Funeral
2. Fall With Me
3. The Lies I Sire
4. Bring Me Victory
5. Echoes From A Hollow Soul
6. ShadowHaunt
7. Santuario Di Sangue/Sanctuary Of Blood
8. A Chapter In Loathing
9. Death Triumphant

Condition cover: nm

Condition vinyl: nm

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