British death-doom legends, MY DYING BRIDE, recently announced their 15th studio album, A Mortal Binding, set for release on April 19th. Now, the Yorkshire sextet have unveiled the second single from the album. The solemn, melancholic track “The 2nd of Three Bells” is accompanied by a richly gothic video directed by Daniel Gray.
Andrew Craighan of MY DYING BRIDE commented: “The second of three bells sees the band in a more musical performance role as opposed to artistic metaphors of the struggles between the death knell itself and the lust for life’s brief pleasures.”
A Mortal Binding, the much-anticipated follow-up to The Ghost of Orion (2020) finds the Yorkshire-based quintet delighting in anxiety, loss, and toil to resplendent effect. From the raw distress of ‘Her Dominion‘ and twisted horror of ‘Thornwyck Hymn’ to the funerary violins of the 11-minute monolith ‘The Apocalyptist’ and the classic-feeling ‘The 2nd of Three Bells’, A Mortal Binding is pinnacle MY DYING BRIDE. If Songs of Darkness, Words of Light (2004) elevated the band to new heights and A Map of All Our Failures (2012) expanded upon the group’s mid-tens grandeur, then A Mortal Binding stages MY DYING BRIDE’s next exultant phase of elegiac misery.
MY DYING BRIDE hired The Ghost of Orion studio wizard Mark Mynett to produce, mix, and master A Mortal Binding. The group holed up at Mynett’s Mynetaur Productions (PARADISE LOST, ROTTING CHRIST) in Manchester, UK, where they tracked the album consecutively from July to September 2023.
For over three decades, MY DYING BRIDE from West Yorkshire have been the voice of the hopeless and broken, combining haunting sounds with crushing misery and melancholy. With their signature sound they’ve shaped the doom metal scene like barely any other act and integrated both soft violin melodies and violent death metal growls into their music, whilst always staying strictly loyal to themselves. And since the early Nineties, the band’s masterminds and founding members Andrew Craighan and Aaron Stainthorpe forged beautiful grief into studio albums with songs of epic length. As MY DYING BRIDE edge past their 33rd year, they’re aging gracefully, remaining as vital and heart-wrenching as ever. The flower withers once more on My MY DYING BRIDE’s upcoming new record A Mortal Binding, due out on 19th April 2024.
A Mortal Binding track listing:
1. Her Dominion
2. Thornwyck Hymn
3. The 2nd of Three Bells
4. Unthroned Creed
5. The Apocalyptist
6. A Starving Heart
7. Crushed Embers
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