2016 press on black vinyl with printed innersleeve

After the flower croaked and before the swans could wreck havoc,the sextet pooled their still-striding creative brilliance for yetanother ep, one that would mark a slight change in guitar tone fromthe previous utter crunch to a more fluid, less crotchety caress,retaining only one song’s worth of that special My Dying Bridedisconsolate atmosphere that was quickly and oxymoronically gainingmomentum. In all respects, there’re really only two songs here. ‘LeCerf Malade’, a near instrumental with only four verses of Frenchstretched unnoticeably over its lifespan, is a much less stellar,less eventful, and less motivated translation of Frost’s spookyeffects tracks ‘Dance Macabre’ and ‘A Tear in a Prophet’s Dream’.Moreover, with its carpet of background moans, distant bells,cryptic quasi-Gregorian chants, keyboards, and other unassimilatedcacophony, it’s a precursor to the ambient style worn by the likesof Arcana, Die Verbannten Kinder Evas, and Mz.412 as well as thedungeon chamber music of Mortiis. Of course, MDB didn’t inventthese styles by a long shot, but expounded on them in an almostnatural assimilation. Unfortunately, it doesn’t exactly form theglue adhering the two real songs. In the vein of the band’s nowdependable resonance, the title cut is a slow, groping earthquakeof a song. Violin chirps and weaves through plodding rhythmiccaverns where Aaron’s demon-spirited barks echo unintelligiblewarnings to all. With ‘Gather Me Up Forever’, tempos change moreregularly, alternating death and doom with bipolar-like range, butwith that regularity comes song structuring almost too predictableand one-two, one-two, something possibly keyboards or even hornscould’ve broken up. This is the very rare and since long out ofprint Peaceville EP

Track listing:
1. The Thrash of Naked Limbs
2. Le Cerf Malade
3. Gather Me Up Forever

Condition cover: nm

Condition vinyl: nm

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