MY DYING BRIDE 34.788%... Complete 2xLP REISSUE avant-death doom paradise lost

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MY DYING BRIDE 34.788%...Complete 2 x LP

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   When My Dying Bride first crawled out of the muck of the UK underground in 1990, the band quickly began to evolve into a soul-crushing blend of pummeling slow-motion death metal, sepulchral doom, and decadent imagery seemingly torn from the pages of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, a sound that, along with label-mates Anathema and Paradise Lost, would definite what we would come to know as "death-doom". Many of My Dying Bride's albums have been out of print on vinyl for a decade or longer, but Peaceville recently began to reissue many of these records in deluxe new double LP editions pressed on 180 gram vinyl in gatefold packaging, and all of them are worthy of rediscovery by both longtime fans and newcomers to the band's devastating heaviness.
Unfashionable though it may be, My Dying Bride's controversial 1998 album 34.788%...Complete remains one of my favorite albums from the band, an ambitious experiment that saw the pioneering British doom metal outfit venturing into electronically-tinged territory; admittedly, not every moment of the album fires on all cylinders, but you'll also find some of the best songs of their career rumbling within these grooves. The album was erroneously derided by some at the time of its release as an ill-advised bid for more commercial accessibility, some even comparing it to the likes of Celtic Frost's Cold Lake, but that sentiment seems even less likely with a decade's worth of hindsight. While 34.788%...Complete does have some moments of unfocused experimentation alongside forays into gothy indulgence, the album also has fantastic, crushing tracks like "Der Überlebende" and "The Whore, The Cook And The Mother" that are among the most emotionally punishing that the band ever recorded. It's a grower, for sure. Take that opening song, "The Whore...", a slab of mournful atmospheric metal that glows with that anguished, classic My Dying Bride sound, even as it slowly moves from the lumbering gothic heaviness of the first half into a gloomy, trip-hop laced ambience that flows out across the remainder of the song, skillfully blending dark electronic textures with an exquisitely grief-stricken atmosphere. It's one of my favorite My Dying Bride songs, possessed with that dark, sorrowful majesty that marks all of the band's best stuff. Just as moving and memorable is "Der Überlebende", easily one of the most infectious earworms the band ever wrote, a wah-flecked haunting hook woven around the sort of orchestral, ominous doom that the band perfected with their earlier albums. You also get the lurching, symphonic sludge and abject gloom of "The Stance Of Evander Sinque", another pummeling riffbeast forged from towering doomed grooves and crushing palm-muted riffage, those weepy synth-strings and violin sounds overshadowing the creepy, half-croaked whispers that lurk in the background. It's not till the appearance of the strange "Heroin Chic" that the album takes a hard left into a kind of offbeat, gothy trip-hop sound, equal part Vision Thing-era Sisters Of Mercy and Massive Attack, Aaron Stainthorpe's deadpan vocals backed by narcotized female singing, a doom-laden riffs crawling across the skittering beats. It sticks out amongst the album's stronger material, but I'll take it when we're also getting the Swans-gone-industrial metal crunch of "Apocalypse Woman", the massive riff that descends ever downwards through "Base Level Erotica", and the loping, frostbitten gothic grandeur of "Under Your Wings And Into Your Arms". This version of 34.788%...Complete also features the bonus track "Follower" that had previously only appeared on the Japanese version of the album, itself a fine blast of dark, depressing death-doom mastery.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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