Following 2015’s universally lauded Feel the Misery album, vocalist Roughly 50% of the riffs on this record are of a high quality and leave a lasting impression, infused with the mournful beauty of an autumnal lament. Now I am slowly getting back into things. This album therefore does open a new chapter.
Since then, consistency has plagued several of the bands’ records (particularly evident on The Light at the End of the World, For Lies I Sire and The Ghost of Orion). Nevertheless, life prevailed. Since forming in Halifax in 1990, Now sailing out of these turbulent waters with their fourteenth full-length, For many, music is an outlet – a form of catharsis, taking the weft and weave of the personal and spinning it into healing art. Two? One decade? In a sort, this album can be seen as a direct aftermath to this very dark period, where he faced his own daughter's fight against cancer as well as the uttermost fear that no parent wish ever to face: losing a child. One wonders, without Stainthorpe and Craighan, whether Bride would be over.
In their place is Neil Blanchett on guitars and sometime Paradise Lost drummer Jeff Singer. If on the one hand the band faced the departure of some members, on the other the most serious issue happened in the personal life of vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe, who witnessed the struggle that his daughter had to endure against cancer.
Aaron Stainthorpe: “Because my daughter was ill, I did not do anything for a couple of years. It took me ages to record the vocals, because I did not really connect with the music like I used to do. This is especially disappointing considering the long wait and knowing what the band is capable of.
Not the most uplifting stuff, as expected, but all the more powerful for it.After a long 5 year wait, the new record 'The Ghost of Orion' has finally arrived. Unfortunately, the rest of the riffs lack conviction, strong melodies, and memorability. Frontman Aaron Stainthorpe of U.K. doom metal veterans MY DYING BRIDE says he considered asking guitarist Andrew Craighan to get a temporary replacement for him in the aftermath of his young daughter’s cancer scare just so the band could finish its 13th studio album. The recent decade of Bride’s history has been particularly interesting, taking in an experiment with classical music on As a fan from the mid-90s golden age, yet a lifelong fan of the band, I must admit that I haven’t been overly impressed with the previous three studio releases from My Dying Bride: ‘For Lies I Sire’, ‘A Map of All Our Failures’ and ‘Feel the Misery’. Although the band has put out some largely excellent records over the last 20 years (namely The Dreadful Hours, A Line of Deathless Kings, and Feel the Misery), this record suffers from a distinct lack of consistency.
It’s been a long ride for My Dying Bride, and the journey hasn’t grown any easier for Halifax’s masters of misery. My Dying Bride are one of this country’s most revered metal bands and their gothic-tinged doom metal has influenced so many bands from across the globe. The most significant event, though, was that vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe’s daughter was diagnosed with cancer. Amid all this newness however, Bride remain with their grief intact and good god, does it permeate through until it leaves you utterly sick and fragile.
Now sailing out of these turbulent waters with their fourteenth full-length, The Ghost Of Orion , what does Stainthorpe … 1 In fact, much of the record’s foundation is a stylistic continuation of the sanitization that originated on For Lies I Sire.
As the daughter of vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe battled with cancer, founding guitarist Andrew Craighan wrote new songs by himself, wondering if his talismanic companion would return to the fold. This put the band in limbo as Aaron put all of his time into her, and even briefly considered not participating on the album at all. To me, 'Feel The Misery' felt a little too My Dying Bride by the numbers and featured one of Aaron Stainthorpe's weakest vocal performances to date. In the wake of adversity and tragedy, My Dying Bride have emerged scathed but with perhaps their most monumental album in a long time. It has been a while since My Dying Bride released a full-length, and considering the personal struggles occurred in Aaron Stainthorpe's life in the last years, it's fully understandable.
His lilting melodies are at the forefront of “Your Broken Shore” and “Tired of Tears,” a song addressing the awful illness of vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe’s daughter. The English doomsters have now spent 3 decades looking down their funnel of despair, evolving from primitive death metal origins into one of the best-known and most widely respected gothic doom bands. Aaron Stainthorpe's five-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer a couple years after the release of the band's previous album Feel the Misery, from which she was later declared in remission. AARON STAINTHORPE Says He Considered Asking MY DYING BRIDE To Get Another Vocalist In Wake Of Daughter’s Cancer Diagnosis SPIN 17 December 2019 Frontman Aaron Stainthorpe of … As has been well publicized, the band was deeply impacted by personal and band-related issues that were far more important than completing the new album, leading to the lengthy delay. Frontman Aaron Stainthorpe’s young daughter was diagnosed with cancer, and the band went on a necessary hiatus so he could focus on supporting her recovery. Unfortunately, ‘The Ghost of Orion’ is perhaps their weakest full length release to date. Following 2015’s universally lauded »Feel the Misery« album, vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe’s daughter, just five years old at the time, was diagnosed with cancer. It is also their first with Nuclear Blast. Mark Mynett is the producer and studio engineer for the album and Jo Quail performs cello on some songs. Aaron walked away and almost abandoned the band he helped raise, but guitarist and founding member Andrew Craighan took the helm and, like “Feel the Misery” (2015), wrote “The Ghost of Orion” practically in isolation.Another one of those releases that initially went by rather unnoticed because I was underwhelmed by its predecessor was the new My Dying Bride album 'The Ghost Of Orion'.