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Великобритания  6 авг 2019 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Completes Work On New Album |  7 июн 2019 : |
MY DYING BRIDE - "Deep In Recording Mode" |  13 апр 2019 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: 'A Harvest Of Dread' Box Set To Include Rarities And Previously Unheard Pre-Production Demos |  5 дек 2018 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Parts Ways With Drummer SHAUN STEELS, Announces Replacement |  25 сен 2018 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Singer Opens Up About 5-Year-Old Daughter's Cancer Diagnosis |  27 окт 2017 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Frontman Shoots Down Split Rumors |  10 мар 2017 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Live At Wacken Open Air 2015; Video Of Full Show Streaming |  2 мар 2017 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Signs With NUCLEAR BLAST |  23 фев 2017 : |
MY DYING BRIDE’s Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light Reissued On Double Vinyl; “The Wreckage Of My Flesh” Streaming |  16 окт 2016 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Celebrates 25th Anniversary With 'A Harvest Of Dread' Book, Five-CD Collection |  6 май 2016 : |
MY DYING BRIDE - The Thrash Of Naked Limbs EP To Be Reissued On 180g Vinyl |  14 сен 2015 : |
Video Premiere: MY DYING BRIDE's 'Feel My Misery' |  18 июл 2015 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: New Song 'And My Father Left Forever' Available For Streaming |  25 июн 2015 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Announce New Album Feel The Misery |  11 июн 2014 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Parts Ways With Guitarist HAMISH GLENCROSS, Welcomes Back CALVIN ROBERTSHAW |  11 ноя 2013 : |
MY DYING BRIDE – Debut Album As The Flowers Withers To Be Reissued On Vinyl |  2 ноя 2013 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: Video Footage Of Bucharest Concert |  10 май 2013 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: 'The Manuscript' Title Track Available For Streaming |  3 май 2013 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: 'The Manuscript' Audio Samples Available |  28 мар 2013 : |
MY DYING BRIDE To Release 'The Manuscript' In May |  31 янв 2013 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Putting Finishing Touches On New EP |  2 янв 2013 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: 'The Poorest Waltz' Video Released |  21 ноя 2012 : |
MY DYING BRIDE To Release Four-Track EP 'The Manuscript' |  18 окт 2012 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: Trailer For Documentary On Special Edition Of 'A Map Of All Our Failures' |  17 окт 2012 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: Four Songs From 'A Map Of All Our Failures' Available For Streaming |  4 окт 2012 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: Another New Song Available For Streaming |  11 сен 2012 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Launches 'A Map Of All Our Failures' Mini-Site |  25 авг 2012 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: New Song Available For Streaming, Download |  27 июл 2012 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: New Album Details Revealed |  3 апр 2012 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Begins Work On New Studio Album |  23 ноя 2011 : |
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MY DYING BRIDE: \'The Barghest O\' Whitby\' Mini-Site Launched |  7 сен 2011 : |
MY DYING BRIDE To Release \'The Barghest O\' Whitby\' EP |  31 июл 2011 : |
MY DYING BRIDE To Release Three-Part EP |  7 май 2011 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: \'Evinta\' Mini-Site Launched |  23 апр 2011 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: \'Evinta\' Deluxe Edition Detailed |  8 апр 2011 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: \'Evinta\' Track Listing Revealed |  4 апр 2011 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: 20th-Anniversary Collection \'Evinta\' Due In May |  14 окт 2010 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: \'Treasure Trove\' Of Items Unearthed |  27 авг 2010 : |
MY DYING BRIDE To Release 20th-Anniversary Collection |  3 июн 2010 : |
MY DYING BRIDE To Be Joined By Former Skinsman, AKERCOCKE Drummer On The Road This Summer |  23 ноя 2009 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Videos Available |  13 ноя 2009 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: Video Footage From HELLFIRE II Festival Available |  10 окт 2009 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: \'Bring Me Victory\' Video Released |  4 окт 2009 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: New EP Artwork Unveiled |  29 авг 2009 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: More New EP Details Revealed; Video Still Available |  10 авг 2009 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Recording New EP |  10 июн 2009 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Parts Ways With Violinist/Keyboardist, Announces Replacement |  26 май 2009 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: \'The Dreadful Hours\' Released On Double Vinyl With Gatefold Cover |  30 мар 2009 : |
MY DYING BRIDE - European Live Dates Confirmed |  13 фев 2009 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: New Album Audio Preview Available |  26 янв 2009 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: New Album Artwork Unveiled |  17 ноя 2008 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: New Album Title, Track Listing Revealed |  27 окт 2008 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Frontman Talks About Forthcoming Album |  30 июн 2008 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Announces New Keyboardist/Violinist |  17 май 2008 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Extends Deal With PEACEVILLE RECORDS |  28 апр 2008 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: Video Interview With HAMISH GLENCROSS Available |  11 апр 2008 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: 'An Ode To Woe' CD/DVD Set Due This Month |  26 мар 2008 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Begins Recording New Album |  10 мар 2007 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: First Photo Of New Lineup Available |  7 мар 2007 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Parts Ways With Bassist, Drummer; Replacements Announced |  11 янв 2007 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: 'Rare' Video Of 1995 DYNAMO OPEN AIR Performance Available |  3 окт 2006 : |
MY DYING BRIDE Parts Ways With Drummer |  26 сен 2006 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: 'A Line Of Deathless Kings' U.S. Release Date Announced |  25 сен 2006 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: 'Deeper Down' Video Posted Online |  10 сен 2006 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: \'A Line Of Deathless Kings\' Release Date Confirmed |  21 авг 2006 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: \'A Line Of Deathless Kings\' Artwork Posted Online |  16 авг 2006 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: New Album Title Revealed |  12 май 2006 : |
MY DYING BRIDE: In Recording Mode |  20 фев 2006 : |
MY DYING BRIDE To Enter Studio In April |  31 июл 2005 : |
MY DYING BRIDE 'Sinamorata' DVD Due In August - July 30, 2005 |  15 апр 2005 : |
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11 июл 2025

AARON STAINTHORPE On His Status With MY DYING BRIDE: 'I've Not Left The Band, And I Haven't Been Kicked Out'
 During an appearance on a recent episode of the Iblis Manifestations podcast, Aaron Stainthorpe was asked about his current status with MY DYING BRIDE, seven months after it was announced that the renowned English doom metal band had recruited SWALLOW THE SUN vocalist Mikko Kotamäki to front MY DYING BRIDE for its live appearances in 2025. Aaron, who co-founded MY DYING BRIDE in 1990 with guitarist Andrew Craighan, responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Well, in fact, the last thing I heard was they're writing new material as well now, which is interesting. I have not heard from Andrew for over a year. And as me and him are the only founder members left… And we never had a manager. Me and Andrew managed as best we could for years and years and years. There was only one stint when we nearly got a manager — Ronnie James Dio's ex-wife, funnily enough. That was a long, long time ago. So me and Andrew figured, 'Well, we could probably do it.' So we had a go of it, and then we had this big bust-up — I can't even remember when it was now, a year ago, a year and a half. And I thought, 'We'll let it die down a bit, and when we come to our senses, we'll get around the table, thrash out our differences and reignite the band.' And then I saw they were gigging without me. So I thought, obviously there's no communication then. So, what do I do? I'll just keep doing what I do until there is some communication. And there still hasn't been. So I'm getting on with my life. I'm not gonna sit there and stew and wait for things to happen. I'm gonna crack on and maintain a busy schedule. But I've no idea who they're gonna use in the studio, if they do a new album. I don't even know if there's a record deal anymore, 'cause everything's gone pear shaped at Nuclear Blast. I don't even know if Nuclear Blast is operating as a full record label anymore. I've heard all kinds of weird stories. And I know for a fact that the guy I used to chat with at Nuclear Blast, he's not there anymore. So over the last couple of years there's been massive, massive changes. So I don't even know if MY DYING BRIDE have a deal. And if they do, I don't know where that leaves me. I've not left the band, and I haven't been kicked out, so I don't understand where we're gonna go. I don't know what the future is. But having been a founder member and in the band for 35 years, I'm not leaving. If they wanna do things without me, well, good luck to 'em."
When Iblis Manifestations host Shayan noted that "it sounds like quite a complicated situation" in light of the fact that a legal MY DYING BRIDE partnership exists between Aaron and Andrew, Stainthorpe concurred. "Yeah. And it'll only get more complicated," he said. "I don't fully understand it. You would hope and imagine that as a founder member who hasn't left, I would have some authority somehow, but it seems not. So I don't really know. I'm probably gonna have to seek legal advice at some point. Obviously, I didn't want to, and I don't want to, but if a record comes out, a MY DYING BRIDE record comes out, and I'm not on it, but I'm still officially the singer, I don't know legally what I'm supposed to do. So at some point, unfortunately, it looks like I might have to seek legal advice, which in this country we have the musicians' union, so it's not a problem. They've got all the experts. And I do know some people quite high up in the business. So I've got people with their finger on the pulse so I can chat with them and just see what's what. But I don't want to. I would just rather keep singing MY DYING BRIDE songs. But maybe I don't have a choice with that."
Aaron also clarified that his involvement with his new band HIGH PARASITE, which released its debut album, "Forever We Burn", last September via Candlelight/Spinefarm, didn't create any issues with MY DYING BRIDE, despite fan speculation to the contrary. "Yeah, there was never gonna be a conflict," he explained. "MDB do about 15 gigs a year, and [there is] sometimes three or four years between albums. I could be in 10 bands and it wouldn't affect the scheduling of MY DYING BRIDE. I spoke to [HIGH PARASITE bassist/vocalist Danny] Tombs [Lambert] back in the day and I said, 'Here's some MY DYING BRIDE gigs. Make sure there's no HIGH PARASITE [gigs] clashing, any clashing of any gigs at all.' And he said, 'Absolutely fine. That will not happen.' And, well, it never even got that far, because we had a big bust-up before then, and the gigs got canceled anyway.
"You don't sacrifice the main band for your smaller band," Aaron continued. "That doesn't happen. Can you imagine Lars Ulrich saying to METALLICA, 'Do you know what, guys? Can we cancel those big gigs, 'cause me and my mates wanna mess around in this other band?' It doesn't work that way. It doesn't happen like that. And it would be ridiculous to even think that. 'Cause I know some people think, 'Oh, Aaron's concentrating more on HIGH PARASITE than MY DYING BRIDE. So he sacrificed MY DYING BRIDE for HIGH PARASITE.' You don't do things like that. It's utterly, utterly ridiculous. And why would I? MY DYING BRIDE has been an absolute delight for me for 30-odd years. I'm not gonna let that go. And I'm certainly not gonna let another, a smaller band batter it out the way. It doesn't work like that. Literally every musician I know is in more than one band. It's easy. Anyone can do it. It's not an issue."
Asked if he has been in touch with any other members of MY DYING BRIDE, Aaron said: "I see Neil [Blanchett, guitar] every once in a while for a beer in Halifax. But zero communication with the others. They've all got my details."
Pressed as to whether he has tried to reach out to the other members of MY DYING BRIDE since the "bust-up" happened that he mentioned earlier in the interview, Aaron said: "There's no point. There's no point because if they're not contacting me, they don't want to. So it's pointless me chasing them. They're doing what they wanna do and they clearly wanna do it without me."
Aaron went on to say that he is still holding out hope things could be ironed out between him and the other members of MY DYING BRIDE in the coming months.
"The reason why I'm not screaming and shouting is because I genuinely think it's not over," he said. "If I knew it was definitely over, then, yeah, I'd be heartbroken. But I try to remain optimistic that somehow we can work stuff out. I don't see why we can't. We're not kids. We're not a gang. We can surely work something out. Because normally when bands split up, there's normally some sort of financial irregularity, someone's run off with all the money, or there's some infidelity — 'You slept with my wife' or 'you slept with my wife.' Bands split up because of serious — something's gone really bad, really bad. We have none of that, which is why I think we can get back together. But let's see."
Asked what he would say to Andrew right now if the guitarist was listening to the interview, Aaron said: "Give us a ring. Give us a ring. It's not hard, is it?"
MY DYING BRIDE's latest album, "A Mortal Binding", came out in April 2024 via Nuclear Blast Records.
HIGH PARASITE's debut LP, the aforementioned "Forever We Burn" — with Stainthorpe and Lambert at the helm — was produced by Gregor Mackintosh of PARADISE LOST. According to a press release, the effort "blends metal, gothic rock, and dark synth-pop into a powerful and emotionally raw sound."
Asked in a separate interview with the Brutally Delicious podcast how difficult it was emotionally for him to step away from MY DYING BRIDE and do something new, Aaron said: "Well, it didn't happen like that. It sort of evolved over months, I guess. So I didn't wake up and suddenly go, 'Right, I'm doing this now.' It just sort of evolved, and when something evolves at a slower pace, you've got time to get used to it. It's not a big shock and you start to become that other person.
"I said it before I'll say it again: I feel 10 years younger," Aaron continued. "And so it must be good for my health. And weirdly — I don't know how this works — I'm eating better and I'm drinking less and I'm exercising more. So whatever I've decided to become or do is really beneficial on so many different levels."
Asked if MY DYING BRIDE fans are taking the journey with him and his new band or if he is reaching an entirely new audience, Aaron said: "Well, a bit of both. We always see MY DYING BRIDE shirts at the gigs, and people come over and I'm signing MY BYING BRIDE merch all the time. That will never stop, which is great. And a lot of them have come along for the ride. It won't be everybody's cup of tea, and that's fine. No one band is everyone's cup of tea. Some of them, they absolutely love it and they've bought everything, which is absolutely fantastic. So, yeah, the MDB fans are coming along for the ride and for the most part loving it."
Asked if it was difficult for him to switch gears and do something like this apart from what has pretty much been his legacy, Aaron said: "Yeah, I didn't really think about it, to be honest. I mean, MY DYING BRIDE did death metal and doom. Some of the death metal stuff was pretty rapid. It wasn't all doom. So, we knew how to nod our heads pretty rapidly back in the old days. And this is a bit more of that. The songs are obviously much, much shorter. They're super catchy. But it's weird having someone else singing on stage, because Tombs does some vocals and I do the vocals. And I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, when he's singing, what am I supposed to do?' I'm not gonna dance. I can't dance, I'm not gonna embarrass myself like that. But I'm not entirely sure what I'm supposed to do. My stage craft is still developing. I just try and walk around a bit. I bought a cordless microphone so I could get a bit more movement on stage without tripping everybody. So, it is weird when I'm not the only singer, because, of course, in MDB I was the only one doing [the singing]. So, that's a bit weird. But the music's just cool music. It's great to sing and it's great to move to.
"I said I feel 10 years younger because the energy that the music brings and the energy that the younger members of HIGH PARASITE give off, it just makes me feel great," Aaron added. "So on stage, I'm actually having fun. With MY DYING BRIDE, I never had — I wouldn't call it 'fun' on stage, because the songs are really emotional and they're super heavy. It was draining mentally for me with MY DYING BRIDE. With HIGH PARASITE, for the first time ever, I look forward to getting on stage, and I love being on stage with HIGH PARASITE. And I've never felt that.
"At this age in my life, you sort of think, well, you've done this thing for a long, long time, and that's all you're gonna do… And then suddenly something else comes along, and it flips the coin completely. And as I say, I feel 10 years younger, I'm full of energy and I can't wait for the next gig."
Regarding what it has been like to have successfully reinvented himself at this stage of his life, Aaron said: "Well, again, because I've never reinvented myself before, it's all very, very new. It's all super new to me. I don't what I'm doing half the times, but it just feels good. I've got a new lease of energy, and I'm doing things I've not done before. Which is good at this stage of my life, to be doing brand new things. It's great. And I've started reading my poetry at gigs as well now.
"In January this year, I did a show in a church in Belgium with DARKHER and SYLVAINE. It was brilliant," he revealed. "And I'm working on a few more of these sort of events. Something's coming up in October, I believe, where I'll be performing again with DARKHER and the DEAD SPACE CHAMBER MUSIC group, doing some poetry and some versions of MY DYING BRIDE songs that people would've heard before. So, again, things I've never done before. [And I'm] really enjoying [it]."
Asked if he feels like there is "a whole new creative spark going on", Aaron said: "Yeah, definitely. I still like writing the really heavy lyrics because that's really where my heart is — the deep, meaningful stuff. And while at the moment that's not lyrics for MY DYING BRIDE, it's poems which I'm able to perform live. So I'm still venting my emotions, but instead of singing them with MY DYING BRIDE, I'm speaking them to people who are bewildered sometimes, but for the most part, enjoying it. Because a lot of my poetry is very much like MY DYING BRIDE lyrics. It comes from the same heart, same soul. So, if you like MY DYING BRIDE lyrics, you're pretty much gonna like the poetry."
Photo credit: Matt Wells
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А что там у Nuclear Blast за проблемы, кстати?
И ведь он не просто один из участников, - он основатель, лицо группы и надо полагать, что автор всех текстов. Как при этом он может стоять в сторонке и смотреть, как его группа действует без него, с кем-то другим на вокале?