Music

As the Flower Withers 1992

doom metal, death metal 49 min 7 tracks Peaceville

As the Flower Withers is the debut studio album by English doom metal band My Dying Bride. The artwork was designed by Dave McKean. This is the only full-length My Dying Bride album on which lead vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe utilizes his death growl as the sole vocal style.

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Character

Grave, character-led, contemplative and earnest.

gravecomic
character-ledplot-driven
contemplativerelentless
earnest

Tracks

1Silent Dance2:14
2Sear Me9:06
3The Forever People4:09
4The Bitterness and the Bereavement7:37
5Vast Choirs8:16
6The Return of the Beautiful12:50
7Erotic Literature5:12

7 tracks, 49 minutes.

About the album

Artist: My Dying Bride
Label: Peaceville
Released: 1992
Type: Album
Format: CD
Country: US

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