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The Dreadful Hour (Digipak) (CD)

By: My Dying Bride (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Dreadful Hour (Digipak) (CD) Album By My Dying Bride (Artist)
1   Dreadful Hours, The
2   Raven And The Rose
3   Le Figlie Della Tempesta
4   Black Heart Romance
5   Cruel Taste Of Winter, A
6   My Hope The Destroyer
7   Deepest Of Hearts, The
8   Return To The Beautiful, The
 

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Review

Kerrang (Magazine) (p.52) - "Aaron Stainthorpe is on particularly top form, turning out some especially blood-chilling lyrics..."

Title Note

Appropriately following the previous year's Meisterwerk 1 compilation, this 2001 release draws from My Dying Bride's catalog to form a track list of fan favorites (as voted on the group's website) and imports/rarities. Fortunate to be graced with material from the superior Turn Loose the Swans and Light at the End of the World, it would have been nice to hear a number from the controversial 34.788%...Complete on either of the two collections, but that isn't how the fans voted, so both retrospectives focus on material from only a few of the band's releases. My Dying Bride explained that the Top Ten songs were too long to fit on one disc, so the picks were divided and the room that remained was filled with more experimental material many fans haven't heard, which seems to defeat the purpose of a "hits" collection. Perhaps the band divided the project into two releases just to allow Peacevill the chance to charge almost double for what easily could have been one product. The "experimental" material doesn't stand up, making the second half of both records pretty unenjoyable -- and hard to recommend. So new fans might want to just purchase one of the group's better releases (Turn Loose the Swans or As the Flower Withers) as a starting point. Only My Dying Bride completists should worry about pursuing either of the Meisterwerk volumes. ~ Vincent Jeffries

While they faltered a little bit toward the late '90s, doom/death metal pioneers My Dying Bride seemed to get a new lease on life (or should that be death?) with 1999's excellent The Light at the End of the World, and The Dreadful Hours builds on that momentum. Like The Light, this is very much a guitar-based album; there are no violins like on their earliest albums, nor are there any electronic forays such as those on 34.7888% Complete. Also, the keyboards are used sparingly (and tastefully -- these guys could teach some other goth metal bands a lesson). The first three tracks showcase the band's diversity and songwriting strength at their best, moving from the quiet, thunderstorm-accompanied guitar introduction of the title track to the galloping death metal riffing later in that same song, then proceeding to the especially bitter and venomous vocals on "The Raven and the Rose" and the mournful guitar breaks on "Le Figlie Della Tempesta." The rest of the album isn't quite on the same level as these opening tracks, but throughout the band still shows a real knack for alternating clean and distorted guitar passages and also for using a variety of tempos (although they seldom get especially fast) as well as vocal styles (e.g., growled, sung, spoken, and occasionally screamed). This diversity, as well as the logical flow of ideas from one section to the next, enables the band to write songs that average eight or nine minutes without getting bogged down or boring. True to My Dying Bride's trademark, The Dreadful Hours makes for a dreary, somber listening experience, but keeping that in mind, it's also an really well-done and inspired album, especially given how far the band was into their career at this point. ~ William York

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