With "A Mortal Binding", the flower wilts once again…
British doom/death metal legends My Dying Bride are ready to release their 15th album, A Mortal Binding, via Nuclear Blast. For the highly anticipated follow-up to 2019's "The Ghost of Orion", the Yorkshire-based quintet delight us with a revamped line-up with the addition of permanent guitarist Neil Blanchett and the return of drummer Dan Mullins. While "My Dying Bride" has completed her 33rd year, her graceful age proves just as vital and heartbreaking as ever.
The songs "Thornwyck Hymn", "Her Dominion", "The 2nd of Three Bells" and "The Apocalyptist" are ultra-heavy, poignant anthems of doom, death and despair, while all shining through their romantic lyricism.

Replete with an excellent Eliran Kantor (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Ex Deo) cover art - commissioned by Stainthorpe, "The Ghost of Orion" posits My Dying Bride back on the proverbial doom-death throne. In fact, they’ve never sounded better. From the doleful lay in 'Your Broken Shore' to the grim 10-minute epic 'The Old Earth,' "The Ghost of Orion" is the product of a vibrantly creative band unwilling to rest on their laurels or past glories.
My Dying Bride‘s three decades of misery almost came to an end several years ago. Following 2015’s universally lauded "Feel the Misery" album, vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe’s daughter, just five years old at the time, was diagnosed with cancer. Shocked and heartbroken, Stainthorpe put all band activities on hold while he, his immediate family, and My Dying Bride put their collective energies into eradicating what Stainthorpe called, "the cruellest of God's bitter and loveless creations"…

My Dying Bride is a veteran English doom and gothic metal band known for serpentine compositions, dark, brooding atmospherics, beautifully produced recordings and a theatrical stage presence. Though they began as a "slower-than-usual" death metal band with brutal recordings such as 1993's As the Flower Withers and Turn Loose the Swans, the slow, dark, atmospherically brooding nature of their later recording such as 1999's The Light at the End of the World and 2001's The Dreadful Hours were invested with both classical and romantic themes, and found them ushering in gothic metal; they were also a prime influence on the second wave of doom metal alongside Anathema and Paradise Lost, the so-called "Peaceville Three" (all three bands were signed to the label at the time).

Doom legends MY DYING BRIDE unleash their new album The Ghost Of Orion today! The band's magnificent 13th studio album was born despite endless hurdles being thrown at the band. From in-studio foibles to members departing to the life-changing aftereffects of dealing with a sick family member, the Brits rode it out. The Ghost of Orion posits MY DYING BRIDE back on the proverbial doom-death throne. In fact, they’ve never sounded better.