British death-doom legends My Dying Bride are proud to announce that their 15th studio album “A Mortal Binding” has been released today! The Yorkshire based sextet have also revealed their final album single titled “Her Dominion”, which is accompanied by an evocative lyric video created by Tommy Antonini.
My Dying Bride’s Andrew Craighan commented,
“The video very closely represents the downward spiral the song itself is portraying. A twisted internal division masquerading as beauty. Enjoy the darkness.”
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 (Divine Chaos, 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 Dying Bride’s new record “A Mortal Binding”, which is out today!
