Turn Loose the Swans

by My Dying Bride

Turn Loose the Swans cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 11 October 1993
  • Label: Peaceville
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:20:18
  • Community rating: 3.88/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Adrian Jackson, Calvin Robertshaw, Martin Powell, Rick Miah

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Turn Loose the Swans' is a towering, profoundly melancholic landmark in the evolution of death-doom and gothic metal. My Dying Bride incorporates mournful violin sections and highly romantic, somber poetry into their crushing, agonizingly slow guitar riffs, generating an incredibly ominous atmosphere.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, funereal, sorrowful, sludgy, monolithic

Tracklist

  1. Sear Me MCMXCIII (7:23)
  2. Your River (9:23)
  3. The Songless Bird (6:59)
  4. The Snow in My Hand (7:08)
  5. The Crown of Sympathy (12:13)
  6. Turn Loose the Swans (10:07)
  7. Black God (4:51)
  8. Le Cerf Malade (6:31)
  9. Transcending (Into the Exquisite) (8:39)
  10. Your Shameful Heaven (6:59)

Credits

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