My Dying Bride – Macabre Cabaret

My Dying Bride

‘Macabre Cabaret’ EP

Nuclear Blast Records

Death/Doom

FFO: Paradise Lost, Anathema, Katatonia, November’s Doom

The last decade for My Dying Bride (MDB) has been magical with some of the best albums of their career with ‘A Map of All Our Failures’, ‘Feel the Misery’ and ‘The Ghost of Orion’. On the back of this, the Yorkshire death-doom starlets are capitalising on their success with their latest EP ‘Macabre Cabaret’.

                Anyone thinking that ‘Macabre Cabaret’ is going to be odds and sods or tracks not good enough to make the previous the album should dispel them immediately. What MDB offer with this EP are three tracks delivering in true MDB form, grinding slabs of melancholic searching that are not too far from epic proportions. To achieve this, the band once again delve into the bottom of the well of woe and gloom and take a look at the moment of death as these three tracks touch upon the aspect of Charon; the figure shrouded in black that aids in the crossing between life and death. This means that instead of ebbing and flowing along, with ‘A Secret Kiss’ standing triumphantly alongside the rest of MDB’s work.   

Therefore, ‘Macabre Cabaret’ brings these haunting moments to life, a glimmer of smoke that is extinguished far too soon with MDB once again proving what we already knew, when it comes to death-doom no one does it quite as good as MDB.

Adam McCann