MY DYING BRIDE Turn Loose The Swans Vinyl LP

1993 was a strange and fertile year for heavy music, and somewhere in Bradford, My Dying Bride were making gothic doom death metal that sounded like grief had learned to play violin. Turn Loose The Swans is the record that cemented them as one of the defining voices of the genre.

Where As The Flower Withers showed what they were capable of, Turn Loose The Swans is where it all locked into place. The violin, the death growls giving way to clean lament, the sheer weight of the tempo and atmosphere together, it's a blueprint that Paradise Lost and Katatonia were drawing from at the same time, but My Dying Bride had a particular darkness that was entirely their own. Thirty-plus years on and this still feels like a necessary record, not a relic. This is gothic doom as emotional excavation.

Format: Vinyl LP. Full length album. Originally released 1993. Country of origin: UK. Genre: gothic doom death metal.

Fans of: Katatonia, Paradise Lost, Candlemass, Novembers Doom, Moonspell, Amorphis.