Fear, Emptiness, Decibel: My Dying Bride Dominate the October Issue

Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here’s managing editor Andrew Bonazelli…

We just put the October Decibel to bed yesterday (exit light, or something…), and if you have a hard-on for My Dying Bride, well, grab a handful of tissues now. Because you will be weeping with joy! Not only do the U.K.’s preeminent gothic death/doom legends earn their first cover, but their first flexi, in the form of original track “Hollow Cathedra,” which will not appear on forthcoming album Feel the Misery, and was an extra special request from our editor-in-chief, Mr. Cool Guy Albert Mudrian. It’s just the latest example of how Decibel has always had the backs of, well, two-thirds of the Peaceville Three.

Until this cover, Paradise Lost have been the biggest beneficiary. We gave the Halifax heavyweights a cover/flexi double-dip in the June 2012 issue, and their seminal Gothic was one of our first-ever Hall of Fames, way back in 2005 , a.k.a., the backwards-e era. Funeral doom titans Evoken covered PL’s “Rotting Misery” for the Flexi Series (that one’s sold out, sorry), and of course we cordially invited PL axeman Gregor Mackintosh’s ferocious Vallenfyre on the last Decibel Tour. Vallenfyre also includes former MDB shredder Hamish Glencross, and shortly after Gothic graced the HOF, we inducted  My Dying Bride’s incredible Turn Loose the Swans. Basically, all these dudes are indebted to babysit for us any time we ask. And I don’t even have babies. Maybe!

All of which, sadly, leaves Anathema in the dark (or, really, given their recent output, the light). Nary a cover nor flexi disc, although to be fair, they pretty much abandoned extreme music four years before Decibel formed with the prophetically-titled A Fine Day to Exit.

Anyway, now that we’re well into doubling down on HOFs (Sepultura, Autopsy and Carcass are among the many bands with two entries), what do you guys think should be the next Peaceville Three inductee?

While you wait for the October issue with My Dying Bride on the cover, why not read the September issue… or, better still, just get a full subscription?