My Dying Bride’s 10 Most Emotionally Devastating Songs, by Frontman Aaron Stainthorpe

For a generation of fans, My Dying Bride are the kings of all things miserable. Founded and still led by vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe and guitarist Andrew Craighan, the British band are widely hailed as a progenitor of the death-doom and gothic metal subgenres (alongside siblings Paradise Lost, Type O Negative, Winter, and Anathema). Having started in 1990, they’ve since released roughly a dozen studio LPs that masterfully interweave chaotic and cathartic arrangements alongside poetically scribed angst. Rarely have examinations of mortality and heartache felt so simultaneously brutal and beautiful. This Friday (March 6) sees My Dying Bride releasing their newest triumph of doom, The Ghost Of Iron, their first full-length album since 2015’s Feel The Misery. Written in the wak...

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