Artist: My Dying Bride
Label: Peaceville
Release Date: 10/12/99
Average Rating: 4.67
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Title: The Light at the End of the World Artist: My Dying Bride Label: Peaceville Release Date: 10/12/99 |
There are currently 3 Reader Reviews of this album.
Average Rating: 4.67 Go to Judgment Committee Reviews of this Album |
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Submitted by Chris Ayers (10/15/00):
Strangely enough, I found myself even more excited about the new MDB album than I was before I wasted Dad’s hard-earned cash on 1998’s 34.788%... Complete (which was about 91.433%... crap). Back then, I was hoping for an exalted dirgefest along the lines of ’96’s Like Gods Of The Sun, but like any intelligent fan, I knew that the glory days of ’94’s Turn Loose The Swans were behind the band. The only disappointing fact about The Light... is its import price (the band lost their U.S. distribution when Fierce/Mayhem went under a while back); otherwise, it’s a monster of an album and a welcome revisiting of their heavier side — not to forget the band’s using their scrawled ‘evil’ logo again, the most outward sign of a band’s return to greatness. “She Is The Dark” and “Edenbeast” recall the highpoints of both Swans (gothy atmospherics woven in with Aaron’s wonderfully clean vocals) and 1992’s As The Flower Withers (thrashy riffage and Aaron’s gutturally death vox). But “The Night He Died” and the 10-minute title cut usher in the classic MDB sound without the added intensity of classical violinist Martin, having departed the fold after Like Gods. Their signature gloominess is revisited a third time with “Sear Me III” (the first time was on Flower; second time was on Swans). Since Paradise Lost forfeited their place in British doom paradise after 1993’s Icon and the whole scene was becoming more and more watered-down with crossover goth acts, My Dying Bride really comes to the rescue with Light, reclaiming their reign over lesser metal entities and proving that their metal integrity is still intact.
Submitted by Jason P. Sorens on 2/14/00:
I agree with Abyss's review of this album. I was worried about it before I got it, because of the strong suspicion that they were "returning to their roots" simply due to the poor reception accorded 34.788%...Complete. However, my doubts were eased. The structures and arrangements of Turn Loose the Swans have been fused with riff-intensive metallic instrumentation of Like Gods of the Sun. It has gotten better with every listen. I would still rate it below Swans since it lacks the latter's mindblowing originality, but it gets my vote as comeback album of the year.
Submitted by Auggs on 2/11/00:
Before i got to hear it, I stated that MDB's The Light at the End of the World was going to be one on 99's best. And damn was I right. If it's not #1, which I think it is, it's because my love for Amorphis and Anathema looms ever near.There's no MDB album as superb as Swans and so when I heard The Light... was a trun to those days I was enthralled.
Melodic, melancholic and nostalgic yet heavy, aggressive and killing. This album has it all and MDB are back with a vengeance after 34.788 whatever. Five skulls all the way around.
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