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My Dying Bride My Dying Bride are an English doom metal band formed in Bradford. Since their inception in 1990, they have released 15 studio albums, five EPs, one demo, one box set, four compilation albums, one live album, and one live CD/DVD release. Along ...

, which features both album tracks and rare recordings. Its companion piece - '' Meisterwerk 1'' - was released the previous year. It is the third of five My Dying Bride compilation albums, following 1995's "

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" and " Meisterwerk 1", preceding " Anti-Diluvian Chronicles" in 2005 and "Meisterwerk 3" in 2016.

Track listing

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Turn Loose the Swans ''Turn Loose the Swans'' is the second studio album by English doom metal band My Dying Bride, released in 1993. It marked a radical departure from the band's first full-length, '' As the Flower Withers''. Martin Powell's violin playing had beco ...

") # "Follower" (from the Japanese version of " 34.788%...Complete") # "Vast Choirs" (from " Towards the Sinister") # "She Is the Dark" (from " The Light at the End of the World") # "Catching Feathers" (from " Towards the Sinister") # "Two Winters Only" (from "

The Angel and the Dark River ''The Angel and the Dark River'' is the third studio album by English doom metal band My Dying Bride. The 1996 re-release contains one bonus track "The Sexuality of Bereavement" and a bonus CD titled ''Live at the Dynamo''. The Live CD was record ...

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Turn Loose The Swans ''Turn Loose the Swans'' is the second studio album by English doom metal band My Dying Bride, released in 1993. It marked a radical departure from the band's first full-length, '' As the Flower Withers''. Martin Powell's violin playing had beco ...

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- (from the

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"X" compilation) # "For You (Video Track)" - (full-length version from " Like Gods of the Sun")

Credits

Aaron Stainthorpe Aaron Stainthorpe (born 12 November 1968) is an English singer who is the lead vocalist for doom metal band My Dying Bride and the goth metal band High Parasite. In December 2005, it was announced that Stainthorpe would lend his voice and some ...

- vocals, all tracks *

Andrew Craighan Andrew Craighan (born 18 July 1970) is one of My Dying Bride's founding guitarists. Craighan is one of two original My Dying Bride members still in the lineup, alongside Aaron Stainthorpe. He played the guitar from 1989 to 1990 in the band Abio ...

- guitar, all tracks and bass on tracks 3 and 5 * Calvin Robertshaw - guitar, tracks 1-3,5-9 *

Hamish Glencross Hamish Glencross is a Scottish guitarist best known for his work with the English metal band My Dying Bride. He also co-founded the short-lived Blackdoom Records with the band's other guitarist, Andrew Craighan. Glencross had a brief acting c ...

- guitar, track 4 * Adrian Jackson - bass, tracks 1,2,3,6-9 *

Martin Powell Martin Powell is an English musician. In 1991, Powell auditioned for the position of bass player in the band My Dying Bride, but was turned down as the band had just filled the position. Upon informing the band he was also a violin and keyboa ...

- violin, keyboard, tracks 1,6-9 * Rick Miah - drums, tracks 1,3,5-7,9 *

Shaun Steels Shaun 'Winter' Taylor-Steels (born Shaun Steels, 22 August 1970) is a British heavy metal drummer and bassist. Steels, born in Normanton, West Yorkshire, is of Scottish and Norwegian descent on his mother's side of the family. Steels replaced ...

- drums, track 4 * Bill Law - drums, tracks 2, 7,8 * Keith Appleton, 'Mags' - keyboards tracks 7,8 *

Jonny Maudling Jonny Maudling (born Jonathan Maudling) is an English keyboard player and drummer, former bassist with the unsigned UK thrash band Igniter and principal music composer for the UK symphonic metal band Bal-Sagoth. He is now the composer/ keyboar ...

- keyboards, track 4

References

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