Style: Doom/death metal, gothic metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: If The Dreadful Hours expanded on the death metal end of the bands sound, this album sees them fully embracing the gothic elements
Thoughts: This is it. My Dying Bride's final truly great album. It takes the return to the roots approach that the band has been exploring for the past few albums, but again takes it in a different direction. Instead of embracing the death metal side of their sound the band has fully embraced the gothic elements of their sound.
This comes with several immediately noticeable changes. The growls are almost non-existent on this album, the guitar melodies from the early albums are back full force, and the drumming has that instantly recognizable My Dying Bride cadence to it (if you've heard the early albums you know what I mean). The music is also darker, and more bleak than ever before. All changes that I welcome with open arms.
The music found on Songs of Darkness, Words of Light is among the best that the band has put out. The album is so consistent, there is hardly a bad song on here. For one album they managed to capture the darkness of the first few albums, especially The Angel and the Dark River. Though this time without the violin.
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