My Dying Bride‘s Anthology Of Sombre Reflections is out now through Peaceville Records, an expansive and comprehensive collection of early works from demos to EPs and albums.
It’s available as a deluxe eight-vinyl boxset, with each record presented on 180gm heavyweight black vinyl. The four studio albums included have been mastered at half-speed courtesy of Air Studios.
The boxset also includes a 48-page book featuring photographs and artwork, plus new interviews with Andrew Craighan and Aaron Stainthorpe conducted in 2025, exploring some of the influences and thought-processes behind the creation of their ’90s work, as well as reflections on their output over this period.
Anthology Of Sombre Reflections also contains two large posters depicting the Turn Loose The Swans CD artwork image, plus the original poster included in As the Flower Withers. A selection of photo prints of the band from this era is also included.
Disc 1: The Grief Of Age
Side A: ‘Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium‘ (1990 Demo), ‘Vast Choirs‘ (1990 Demo), ‘The Grief Of Age‘ (1990 Demo), ‘Catching Feathers‘ (1990 Demo)
Side B: ‘God Is Alone‘ (1991 7” Version), ‘De Sade Soliloquy‘ (1991 7” Version), ‘Unreleased Bitterness‘, ‘The Sexuality Of Bereavement‘
Disc 2: Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium
Side A: ‘Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium‘
Side B: ‘God Is Alone‘, ‘De Sade Soliloquy‘
Disc 3: As The Flower Withers (Half-Speed)
Side A: ‘Silent Dance‘, ‘Sear Me‘, ‘The Forever People‘, ‘The Bitterness And The Bereavement‘
Side B: ‘Vast Choirs‘, ‘The Return Of The Beautiful‘, ‘Erotic Literature‘
Disc 4: The Thrash Of Naked Limbs EP
Side A: ‘The Thrash Of Naked Limbs‘
Side B: ‘Le Cerf Malade‘, ‘Gather Me Up Forever‘
Disc 5: Turn Loose The Swans (Half-Speed)
Side A: ‘Sear Me MCMXCIII‘, ‘Your River‘, ‘The Songless Bird‘, ‘The Snow In My Hand‘
Side B: ‘The Crown Of Sympathy‘, ‘Turn Loose The Swans‘, ‘Black God‘
Disc 6: I Am The Bloody Earth EP
Side A: ‘I Am The Bloody Earth‘, ‘Transcending (Into The Exquisite)‘
Side B: ‘The Crown Of Sympathy (Remix)‘
Disc 7: The Angel & The Dark River (Half-Speed)
Side A: ‘The Cry Of Mankind‘, ‘From Darkest Skies‘, ‘A Sea To Suffer In‘
Side B: ‘Black Voyage‘, ‘Two Winters Only‘, ‘Your Shameful Heaven‘
Disc 8: Like Gods Of The Sun (Half-Speed)
Side A: ‘Like Gods Of The Sun‘, ‘The Dark Caress‘, ‘Grace Unhearing‘, ‘A Kiss To Remember‘
Side B: ‘All Swept Away‘, ‘For You‘, ‘It Will Come‘, ‘Here In The Throat‘, ‘For My Fallen Angel‘
After a career spanning over thirty-five years, from UK underground upstarts and outliers, to major success on the international stage, including tours with UK icons Iron Maiden and genre legends Dio, My Dying Bride have themselves become a firmly established pillar of metal history with a refined and influential brand of death/doom metal, their studio output spanning fourteen full-length albums to date.
