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The Dreadful Hours
The Dreadful Hours is the seventh studio album by English doom metal band My Dying Bride, released on 13 November 2001 through Peaceville. It sits between The Light at the End of the World (1999) and Songs of Darkness, Words of Light (2004), and its sound draws on doom, death metal, death-doom and gothic metal, the blend the band had worked in since the start.
The record also looks back to the beginning. It includes a remake of "The Return of the Beautiful" from their debut, As the Flower Withers, retitled "The Return to the Beautiful". That makes it a good place to hear how far the band had travelled since 1992 while still holding onto their roots. It came in a digipak with a full colour booklet, a nice touch for anyone who likes to hold the music in their hands.
The Dreadful Hours: tracklist and credits
8 tracks · 1:10:49Tracklist
- 1The Dreadful HoursMy Dying Bride9:24
- 2The Raven and the RoseMy Dying Bride8:13
- 3Le figlie della tempestaMy Dying Bride10:08
- 4Black Heart RomanceMy Dying Bride5:24
- 5A Cruel Taste of WinterMy Dying Bride7:36
- 6My Hope, the DestroyerMy Dying Bride6:45
- 7The Deepest of All HeartsMy Dying Bride8:56
- 8The Return to the BeautifulMy Dying Bride14:24
- Produced by
- Andrew Craighan, Mags
- Recorded at
- Academy Music Studio
- Recorded
- 2001
- Engineered by
- Mags
- Label
- Peaceville
- Length
- 1:10:49
Line-up
- Andrew Craighan · guitar
- Hamish Glencross · guitar
- Adrian Jackson · electric bass guitar
- Jonny Maudling · keyboard
- Shaun Taylor‐Steels · drums (drum set)
- Aaron Stainthorpe · vocals
- Yasmin Ahmed · keyboard · guest
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Full discography →
God Is Alone
1991
Symphonaire infernus et spera empyrium
1992
As the Flower Withers
1992
The Thrash of Naked Limbs
1993
Turn Loose the Swans
1993
I Am the Bloody Earth
1994
The Angel and the Dark River
1995
Trinity
1995
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1996
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1998
The Light at the End of the World
1999
Meisterwerk 1
2000
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2001
The Voice of the Wretched
2002
For Darkest Eyes
2002
Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
2004
Anti‐Diluvian Chronicles
2005
A Line of Deathless Kings
2006
An Ode to Woe
2008
For Lies I Sire
2009
Bring Me Victory
2009
Evinta
2011
The Barghest o’ Whitby
2011
A Map of All Our Failures
2012
The Manuscript
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Feel the Misery
2015
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2020
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Releases and pressings
How we know the release date wikipedia + musicbrainz
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 13 November 2001 | ignored lone early release dated 2001-10-22 |
| Wikipedia infobox | 13 November 2001 | |
| Wikidata | 2001 | |
| US release | 13 November 2001 | earliest US date |
| UK / Europe release | 22 October 2001 | earliest UK or European date |
6 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | GB | Peaceville | 801056709028 | other |
| 22 October 2001 | GB | Peaceville | 801056709028 | original |
| 13 November 2001 | US | Peaceville | 801056109026 | other |
| 2005 | AR | Icarus Music | 801056109026 | other |
| 2009 | XE | Peaceville | 801056709028 | other |
| 20 January 2021 | XW | Peaceville | 801056709028 | other |
Cover art sources
deezer · upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| deezer ✓ | 1200×1200 | upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25) |
| coverartarchive | 1000×1000 | upscaled |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |