Album
As the Flower Withers
As the Flower Withers is the debut studio album by English doom metal band My Dying Bride, released on 26 May 1992 through Peaceville. It places them at the very start of a catalogue that now runs to fifteen studio albums, beginning here and continuing through Turn Loose the Swans in 1993 and on to A Mortal Binding in 2024.
The record blends doom metal with death metal, and it stands apart from everything that followed. It is the only full-length My Dying Bride album on which vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe uses his death growl as his sole vocal style, so it offers the band at their rawest and heaviest. The sleeve art was designed by Dave McKean. For anyone tracing how the band developed, this is the place to begin.
As the Flower Withers: tracklist and credits
7 tracks · 49:24Tracklist
- 1Silent DanceMy Dying Bride2:14
- 2Sear MeMy Dying Bride9:06
- 3The Forever PeopleMy Dying Bride4:09
- 4The Bitterness and the BereavementMy Dying Bride7:37
- 5Vast ChoirsMy Dying Bride8:16
- 6The Return of the BeautifulMy Dying Bride12:50
- 7Erotic LiteratureMy Dying Bride5:12
- Produced by
- Paul Halmshaw, My Dying Bride, Hammy, Keith Appleton (uncredited)
- Recorded at
- Academy Music Studio
- Recorded
- December 1991 – January 1992
- Engineered by
- Keith Appleton
- Label
- Peaceville
- Length
- 49:24
Line-up
- Martin Powell · violin
- Andrew Craighan · guitar
- Adrian Jackson · bass guitar
- Rick Miah · drums (drum set)
- Calvin Robertshaw · guitar
- Aaron Stainthorpe · lead vocals
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Releases and pressings
How we know the release date wikipedia 1992-05-26; musicbrainz + wikidata 1992-05-22 (4 days apart, likely another territory)
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 22 May 1992 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 26 May 1992 | |
| Wikidata | 22 May 1992 | |
| US release | 1992 | earliest US date |
| UK / Europe release | 22 May 1992 | earliest UK or European date |
9 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | US | Peaceville | 017046403221 | other |
| 1992 | XE | Peaceville | 5016557503210 | other |
| 22 May 1992 | GB | Peaceville | 5016557503227 | original |
| March 1995 | XE | Peaceville | 5020157103220 | other |
| 1996 | US | Fierce Recordings | 090861108120 | other |
| 2001 | GB | Peaceville | 801056203229 | other |
| 2004 | GB | Peaceville | 801056703224 | remaster |
| 23 August 2004 | GB | Peaceville | 801056703224 | remaster |
| 20 January 2021 | XW | Peaceville | 801056703224 | other |
Cover art sources
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| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| coverartarchive ✓ | 1696×1701 | cropped: cropped from 1696x1701 to 1696x1696 |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |