The British band “My Dying Bride” is a special case of a band that if we exclude the album “Evinta”, all their other works are at an excellent level. The band that balances between Doom and Death but succumbs to many Gothic elements having found the recipe, once again sticks with us, where the audience finds us, to think about what can be inside us and how much these thoughts will plague us.

In “A Mortal Binding” we have 7 long tracks, the longest being 11:24, which are about fifty-five minutes long.
But they are not over-inflated and time is not wasted, so that the whole duration has meaning and meaning. An album full of art. The riffs, the atmospheric passages and the still creepy voice of the violin, are so well placed within the album that they glorify it in its entire dark perspective. Where the only ray of moonlight emerges from the black-clouded British sky, there again the escape door closes. It is an album that absorbs all kinds of emotions and returns them as dark and heavy as its artist/composer has chosen.

I think I’ve become a part of “A Mortal Binding” and my favorite track is “Thornwyck Hymn”.
My Dying Bride’s new album is not an innovative or groundbreaking album, but it’s so addictive that I think it blows your mind.

Sometimes I envy more northern areas with different weather than ours, where listeners can better get into the atmosphere of such a release. Maybe that’s the only negative I received while listening to the amazing “A Mortal Binding”.

1. Her Dominion (Her Throat Labours at the Work of Felate) 06:12
2. Thornwyck Hymn (A Choir of Sorry Girls) 06:49
3. The 2nd of Three Bells (Even Time Wishes You Were Here) 06:54
4. Unthroned Creed (Filled with Beautiful Blood) 07:02
5. The Apocalyptist (He Did Not Weep for Me) 11:24
6. A Starving Heart (Beyond the Rim of Sky) 07:30
7. Crushed Embers (A Voice Full of Tears) 09:02
total 54:53

Spyros Tribos
8,5/10