''The Dreadful Hours'' is the seventh studio album by English

doom metal Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other heavy metal genres.K. Kahn-Harris, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'' ...

band

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 ...

, released on 13 November 2001. It contains a remake of "The Return of the Beautiful" (renamed "The Return to the Beautiful") from the band's debut album, ''

As the Flower Withers ''As the Flower Withers'' is the debut studio album by English doom metal band My Dying Bride. The artwork was designed by Dave McKean. This is the only full-length My Dying Bride album on which lead vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe utilizes his death ...

''. ''The Dreadful Hours'' was issued in a

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with a full colour booklet.

Track listing

Personnel

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 *

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 ...

- guitars *

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 ...

- guitars * Adrian Jackson - bass * Shaun Taylor-Steels - drums

Additional Personnel

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 * ''Yasmin Ahmed'' - keyboards on "A Cruel Taste of Winter"

References

My Dying Bride albums 2001 albums {{2000s-metal-album-stub