My Dying Bride
The Light At The End Of The World

THE REVIEW

Before starting to review the album, I just wanted to say that I am aware of the other review written about this full-length. However, I take the liberty to write another one due to the affection I have for this record, considering also that these artists have not been discussed much. But let's move on to this work of art.

Still fascinated by a splendid cover, evocative and full of pathos, "She Is The Dark" begins in its magnificence. A killer song in some ways, heartrending in its evocative melancholy in others. A masterpiece supported by intense and dark riffs like few others and by Aaron's disarming vocal performance in its perfection. Already tested, the following "Edenbeast" seems to lull us transporting us, through its oriental melodies, to another world, but it's all an illusion because halfway through the song we are massacred by a death assault worthy of the early Bride. Deadly, the song takes us into an ethereal and dreamy interlude only to abandon us completely to the initial melodies. It is impossible not to mention the title track, a song enriched by an indescribable text (I can only recommend you to read it, maybe with the track playing in the background) dealing with an intense love story, as is the song, broken only by some more aggressive and tormented interludes, but carried throughout its length by a unique and fascinating epicness. This is poetry.

After a very intense track like The Fever Sea, we reach the second part of the album embodied by the intense and sick "Into The Lake Of Ghosts", the dark "The Isis Script" with Aaron's voice dominating over heavy yet always elegant guitar riffs, and "Christliar", frantic in the first part but damn evocative in the second, in the transitions from aggressive growl to a sublime and melancholic melody left entirely to the guitars and keyboards. It closes with the third version of the eternal "Sear me" which certainly does not betray its renowned reputation, appearing sad and tormented like its predecessors.

In conclusion, yet another confirmation of the stature of these artists capable of producing an album with different facets, supported by a consistently high level of emotion. Turn off the light, close your eyes, and let yourself be carried away... perhaps then you will see it, the light at the end of the world...