Artist: MY DYING BRIDE
Album: THE ANGEL AND THE DARK RIVER REISSUE (DIGI)

Release date: 13.06.2025
EAN/UPS: 0801056723529
Media type: CD

The Angel and the Dark River is the third album by the British doom/death metal band My Dying Bride. The 1996 re-release contains one bonus track "The Sexuality Of Bereavement" and a bonus CD titled Live at the Dynamo. The Live CD was recorded during their appearance at the Dynamo Festival in 1995.

It was arguably the release that saw the band travel furthest from their death metal origins, and provided the fullest expression of the doom metal side of their music. Aaron Stainthorpe dispensed with his death metal vocals entirely, and Martin Powell's violin and keyboard playing now seemed to be the basis around which the rest of the arrangement was built. Apart from the final track of the original release ("Your Shameful Heaven"), the tempo was unremittingly slow, with only the odd fast drum fill from Rick Miah adding some variety.

Aaron Stainthorpe's lyrics continued in the vein of Turn Loose the Swans - focusing on religious symbolism and relationship problems - whilst non-English phrases were omitted once more. Stainthorpe has said in many interviews that "Two Winters Only" is his favourite My Dying Bride song.

TRACKLIST CD:

1. The Cry Of Mankind
2. From Darkest Skies
3. Black Voyage
4. A Sea To Suffer In
5. Two Winters Only
6. Your Shameful Heaven

Bonus Track:

7. The Sexuality Of Bereavement

LINE-UP:

Aaron Stainthorpe - vocals, cover art, photos
Andrew Craighan - guitar
Calvin Robertshaw - guitar
Adrian Jackson - bass
Martin Powell - violin, keyboard
Rick Miah - drums