MY DYING BRIDE Release Behind The Scenes Footage For "Feel The Misery” Video

British doom metal pioneers, My Dying Bride, have posted a behind the scenes video from the music video shoot for “Feel The Misery”, the title track off their latest album. Check out the footage below:

Vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe commented: “Shot in beautiful Pembrokeshire, off South Wales, “Feel The Misery”, the video, was captured amidst crashing waves and total darkness by director James Sharrock and his crew of merry men and women.

“Influenced by the painting The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, the video begins with the aftermath of a tragic loss of a vessel and the miserable survivors left clinging to a makeshift raft. Perishing one by one, the sole lass slips beneath the waves to a watery death, to be discovered later on the shore by a gnarly old sea dog scrounging for oddments. Distraught at his find, the man carries the maiden to his hovel (St. Govans Chapel) and lays her before the altar as is his pious want.

“Shot in this most beautiful part of the world through treacherous rocky conditions with an incoming tide and only a storm-lamp for lighting at 2am the feeling of the misery has indeed been captured perfectly.”

Feel The Misery was released on September 18th via Peaceville Records. With crushing epic doom spanning eight tracks, and featuring the return of original guitarist Calvin Robertshaw to the fold, this is undoubtedly amongst the band’s heaviest, darkest, and most majestic works to date, marking My Dying Bride’s 25th anniversary in punishing style, with the title track also set to feature as the album’s debut video.

Feel The Misery sees a notable return to the band’s old haunt, Academy Studios in Dewsbury West Yorkshire for recording, where all of My Dying Bride’s classic early albums were produced. Mixing once more takes place at Futureworks in Manchester UK with the band’s long-time studio engineer/producer, Mags.

The band comments on the themes of Feel The Misery: “Contained within are all the grandeur and mastery of the melancholic one would expect to find on a recording from this group of musicians. The crushing of hearts and the solemn farewells to friends and lovers twinned with the destruction of flesh and the passions of cruelty are laid neatly for the listener to devour and savor. Eight new compositions detailing the path of life through dark doors and the burdens we all must endure simply to make it to the end, My Dying Bride have returned with a foreboding new album which may enlighten, delight and consume the soul in one epic sitting.”

Feel The Misery is available on CD, vinyl, plus a special edition 2CD/2×10” vinyl set in deluxe earbook format, with exclusive music and expanded booklet.

Feel The Misery tracklisting:

“And My Father Left Forever”
“To Shiver In Empty Halls”
“A Cold New Curse”
“Feel The Misery”
“A Thorn Of Wisdom”
“I Celebrate Your Skin”
“I Almost Loved You”
“Within A Sleeping Forest”

The album’s lead track, “And My Father Left Forever”, is streaming below.

Vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe commented: “It is a picture of fallen bodies and broken limbs and the despair of having to collect them all up carefully, as they are your kinfolk, and place them gently together back into the earth from where they came.”

My Dying Bride has been the leading light of doom metal since their debut album As The Flower Withers was released on Peaceville Records back in 1992. The band’s heavy atmospherics and expertly crafted compositions make them among the most essential and legendary acts of the gothic doom/death genre.