Peaceville UK
2009
For Lies I Sire
About This Album
It's hard to imagine that after 2006's brilliant A Line of Deathless Kings, it took three long years for Great Britain's My Dying Bride to issue a studio follow-up. True, there was a great live offering in the interim in 2008's An Ode to Woe, but For Lies I Sire, the goth and doom metal outfit's ninth studio offering since 1990, showcases a rather startling evolution in the band's sound. While it's true that A Line of Deathless Kings was brutally gloomy and depressing, it only pointed the way toward the shades and shadows of loss and darkness found here. Nearly 20 years after the band's inception, vocalist Aaron Stainthope is singing better than ever, and his lyrics are beautifully poetic and streamlined. Gone are the wordy tomes of the early years, replaced by the pointed, poignant, grief-stricken, utterly lost reflections of hopelessness and despair, the kind that come from the human heart rather than the goth music scene. Musically, the riffs have been cut to the bone as well. While the Sabbath-styled guitar and basslines are still there, they've become simpler, more straightforward, and textured with a lush yet devastatingly effective layer of violins.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3 and 4)

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