The adage that great art comes from great pain is as much a truth as it is a cliché.
In the late 2010s, My Dying Bride have been put through the emotional wringer, and it shows on their 14th album, The Ghost of Orion.
After 2015's Feel the Misery, singer Aaron Stainthorpe's five-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer.
He immediately curtailed band activity.
She went into remission in 2019.
In the interim, MDB signed with Nuclear Blast.
Even as guitarist Andrew Craighan wrote new material for their label debut, the band lost two members: drummer Shaun Steels was replaced by Jeff Singer, and founding guitarist Calvin Robertshaw quit by text.
Further, when the time came to record, Stainthorpe felt so out of it he considered asking Craighan to replace him temporarily.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your Broken Shore | My Dying Bride | Play | 07:43 | 17 MB | 0 MB |
| 2 | To Outlive the Gods | My Dying Bride | Play | 07:57 | 18 MB | 0 MB |
| 3 | Tired of Tears | My Dying Bride | Play | 08:37 | 19 MB | 0 MB |
| 4 | The Solace | My Dying Bride, Lindy-Fay Hella | Play | 05:52 | 13 MB | 0 MB |
| 5 | The Long Black Land | My Dying Bride | Play | 10:01 | 22 MB | 0 MB |
| 6 | The Ghost of Orion | My Dying Bride | Play | 03:31 | 8 MB | 0 MB |
| 7 | The Old Earth | My Dying Bride | Play | 10:32 | 24 MB | 0 MB |
| 8 | Your Woven Shore | My Dying Bride | Play | 02:10 | 5 MB | 0 MB |
| 56 mins | 129 MB | |||||
| 0 mins | 0 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lena Abé | Bass |
| 2 | Andrew Craighan | Guitars |
| 3 | Lindy-Fay Hella | Arranger, Primary Artist |
| 4 | Eliran Kantor | Cover Art |
| 5 | Shaun Macgowan | Keyboards, Violin |
| 6 | My Dying Bride | Primary Artist |
| 7 | Mark Mynett | Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer |
| 8 | Jo Quail | Cello |
| 9 | Jeff Singer | Drums |
| 10 | Aaron Stainthorpe | Booklet, Lyricist, Vocals |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |