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MY DYING BRIDE US RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED

Philadelphia: Peaceville Records today confirms March 9 as the US release date for the new album from England's My Dying Bride. Titled Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light, it is the band's eighth studio album.

Recorded at Academy Studios under the always watchful eye of Mags, Songs of Darkness, Words of Light is already highly anticipated by US fans, following the band's return to doom form on 2001's The Dreadful Hours. The album recalls echoes of the band's crowning early 90's album, Like Gods Of The Sun, adding to it a light-and-shade writing process which has birthed possibly the six-piece band's most commercial song to date - the graceful "My Wine In Silence."

Formed in 1990, My Dying Bride currently features vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe, guitarists Andrew Craighan and Hamish Glencross, bassist Ade Jackson, drummer Shaun Taylor-Steels and keyboardist Sarah Stanton. The band are regarded as one of doom metal's most prolific and notable bands. They have been acclaimed by Alternative Press, Rolling Stone, Metal Maniacs, Terrorizer, Brave Words Bloody Knuckles, Guitar, Guitar World, Unrestrained, Metal Hammer and countless publications.

Full track listing for Songs of Darkness, Words of Light includes "The Wreckage of My Flesh," "The Scarlet Garden," "Catherine Blake," "My Wine in Silence," "The Prize of Beauty," "Blue Lotus," "And My Fury Stands Ready," "A Doomed Lover." Album artwork is by Andy Green, who worked with the band for 1998's Like Gods of the Sun.

My Dying Bride are currently completing work on their first video in nearly five years, for the album track "The Price of Beauty." Producer and conceptual details not available as of press time.

Peaceville Records is a Snapper Music Label and is distributed exclusively in the US by Navarre Corporation.