Finally, had time to sit down and listen to For Lies I Sire, My Dying Bride’s latest album.  In the last 3 albums, MDB seemed to be going to a different direction from their roots.  Nothing wrong with that, but the whole situation sounded too commercial, or it’s like they were pressured to release music asap.  They were still writing good heavy music, but it seems that the lack of violin, helped in lack of writing good “to die with” music.  They lacked the atmosphere, which in my opinion MDB …

Alternative 4 reminds me of my teen years, listening to it on my way to school, in rock bars in the evening while head banging and getting drunk, and obviously at home. At some stage in my life I was listening to this album 24 hours a day and till today, it is still one of my favourite doom albums, so today I decided to listen to it again.
Impressive! Simple, clean, atmospheric, at the same time moving! Many doom albums are noisy to appreciate base guitar riffs, or …