Composer/Musician Reacts to My Dying Bride - A Kiss To Remember (REACTION!!!)

Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on My Dying Bride - A Kiss To Remember
ORIGINAL VIDEO: • A Kiss To Remember
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[@martharunstheworld]

MDB is one of the most amazing live bands I've ever heard. I've been able to see them live a couple times and each one has been so emotional and intense, it takes everything and gives everything. They're simply incredible.

[@tylerpike954]

Critical Reactions: "Interesting, I thought that was a guitar solo." My Dying Bride: "A what?"

[@mozsab]

I’ve been laughing at this for 10 minutes

[@LornWandrr]

Oh, a nice chuckle after dinner! Thank you, good sir :D

[@ratatoeskr-melodicdarkambi7741]

There is one guitar solo in their catalogue! VAST CHOIRS! I have been listening to them since 1996 and this song always struck me as weird compared to the rest of their music as it is to my knowledge the only one with a guitar solo.

[@vladomatoski1634]

​​@@ratatoeskr-melodicdarkambi7741yes, one in vast choirs and one nearly 30 years after on Tired of Tears.

[@induristan]

To get a better idea of My Dying Bride's vocals you shoukd check out 'The Dreadful Hours', ' Catherine Blake' and 'The Prize of Beauty'. Aaron is a great vocalist, able to adjust his style & performance to the mood of the song

[@aiLoveE]

indeed, or 'and i walk with them'. critical does not seem to understand that Aaron uses his voice like a versatile instrument.

[@dimitriid]

Also a suggestion I made before: the band Saturnus with their song "I long" which takes some of these types of ideas but furthers their extremes: even slower tempo, even more simplistic music, no vocal melodies (It becomes growls and spoken voice) and just more of a showcase for the melancholic elements to just become even more of a slow, depressive song. Really beautiful music but definitively challenging.

[@diablilloperdio]

I only know a handful of albums by MDB, but I love the doominess they bring. Unmistakeable sound. They combine a bunch of great stuff: melody, counterpoint (like you mentioned), agression, heavy guitar/drums, interesting lyrics, layering...and they are artistic.

[@dimitriid]

Ah yes, this is the stuff when it comes to Doom. And that recommendation was on point this is one of the highlight albums of one of the highlight Doom bands right here. And yes the live performances drive that point about Aaron (Their vocalist) even further were he basically acts like a clinically depressed person to go along with his just dead enthusiasm vocals as you describe it. Yes not for everyone but this is fitting of the genre, specially when it gets even more slow and dark than this song.

[@arafatsafin650]

Aaron has a lot of different vocal styles. Just listen to Your River

[@petergjata1498]

I love that track.

[@CorTec]

Yes, or two winters only

[@gaborneumajer4203]

Like you said, these vocals fits with the mood perfectly. In other songs he also does growls, though I know you are not a fan of that. My Dying Bride was one of my first doom band, an all time favourite. If you want mixed vocals, I would highly recommend Draconian, another of my favourites in doom.

[@joshrowell8375]

I saw your reaction to spawn of possession and mentioned the orchestra aspects of the song. I highly, HIGHLY recommend the German band Haggard. React to haggard - All'inizio è la morte

[@LaughingMan44]

If you do MDB you gotta do Paradise Lost! "Beneath Broken Earth" or "Longest Winter" are probably a couple of their doomiest songs.

[@triumphtinltcomicdg]

maybe you could react to neoclassical band Elend, for start "Ares In Their Eyes", because of catchy main theme...

[@benjaminhouse4500]

peter 73 Elend; such an underrated band.

[@rolandweigert5169]

For me The price of beauty is there best song. Extreme depressed, and his growls are really cool there. The complete album is killer.

[@ckokomo808]

Yes! Glad you’re back! Tbh, don’t know this bad too well but really am liking their newest album this year. They’re on the list to start digging into. Any recommendations friends? Peace.

[@nisinduperera7130]

Your broken shore was great but there were useless interludes and riffs throughout the album imo

[@rituEllie]

You River. Best MDB song ever imo

[@justinvermilyea9192]

That's probably the best description of my dying bride I think I've ever heard forward momentum while dragging

[@hughoneill9833]

You walked all over one of MDBs best intros.

[@justinvermilyea9192]

Brian man you picked my favorite my dying bride song absolutely amazing track love the violins 🎻❤

[@Beartooth.12]

Famous Last Words - The Show Must Go On

[@benedictdonald4338]

Best MDB is their prog-doom epic masterpiece, “The Crown of Sympathy”. Hard to believe mere humans can compose and deliver such a song.

[@juhosuomi2551]

If you're now diving into doom metal, I'd like to recommend checking out Swallow the Sun. Their earlier work is really doomish (even in the funeral doom category) but in my opinion (triple)album called Songs from the North I, II & III is their absolute masterpiece. On that album the first disc is melodic doom/somewhat even melodeath, second disc is full acoustic with folkish vibe and the last disc is complete slow paced, very dark funeral doom. Overall I like songs With You Came the Whole World of Tears, 10 Silver Bullets, Songs from the North (acoustic from the disc 2) and Lost & Catatonic the most on that album but if you want to really experience slow and heavy funeral doom, I would say that check out also The Gathering of Black Moths and Empires of Loneliness.

[@alxtee406]

if you want to expand Doomish field, check out the most atmosphere funeral doom (Shape of Despair - a distant dream of life) and, probably, best black-doom ever made (Ruins of beverast - 50 Forts Along the Rhine)

[@moccles]

I was crushed when you didn't continue with doom metal week because I am a sad doomster. I think you made a good choice for an introductory song here. MDB have a long career in which they have stayed.....mostly the same. They've explored a lot with focusing on violin and clean vocals and I am pleased you selected one with an emphasis on these. To me this is one of their most romantic and melodic songs and a very good representation of a pillar of doom which the previous two videos have not strictly been. As a vocalist, Aaron is a master of delivery and theatrics. I do not agree with your interpretation here at all as I believe it was a very passionate performance. I do remember feeling similarly when I first heard this band though and it took a while (of listening to other doom bands) for this style to click. Doom can be quite alienating for some people because you kind of have to be interested in bringing forth emotions that we usually try to avoid. However, when it comes to media that is mostly what I look for, and I'm excited to see what you react to next.

[@CriticalReactions]

Agreed. A lot of these..."unusual" singing styles require a bit of an acclimation period. And I'm talking about everything from screaming to growling to this dreary Doom to screeching -- all of it is an acquired taste. And in this instance I simply haven't acquired the taste yet being my first introduction to it.

[@bajasmancer]

@@CriticalReactions It's funny, for me it was the growling I was getting used to when hearing them for the first time : )

[@jetblack4345]

My first time with doom metal ever was when Windhand released their album called Eternal Return, loved it so much because it was like Nirvana but slow metal. My next step was checking out some other doom metal bands on Spotify playlists and the thing that got hooked me on was the exploration of one feeling (the thing that you point out about some bands that is overlooked) . To me it's like a shoegaze of metal

[@CycoSven69]

New to doom metal? No other band on Earth sounds like My Dying Bride though.

[@arhansolo8725]

Aaron knows exactly knows how he wants to sound. It's on purpose. I like the song but is is definitely not one of their many masterpieces. My favo is 'Return to the beatiful'. Then you get many differen singing styles from Aaron in one song...

[@widipersadha1951]

Please react to Pain of Salvation - Beyond The Pale...Another prog metal masterpiece! Daniel Gildenlow has one of the best voice in prog. If you want to hear some range you gotta to check them out!

[@iwrestledabear9075]

Yeah! Pain of Salvation Beyond the pale or Undertow

[@benardolivier6624]

Like Gods of the Sun was probably their heaviest album with no growls, but the song itself isn't one of their best. Check The Crown of Sympathy or The Cry of Mankind for their best doomy songs. Also if you want to look for something completely different, try For My Fallen Angel from the same album: the saddest song that was probably ever written, it will break your heart in pieces and make you cry all your tears.

[@CorTec]

Great, if you don't like aaron listen to 'she is the dark' , and the then 'The Light At The End of The World', and then you will understand

[@rougecoquin7296]

Best "vampire song" ever.

[@rougecoquin7296]

I mean... nothing beats "And at your second birth, we will slay the earth and stalk mankind til heaven burns"

[@magoelder9079]

I would love to you react sometime to Pain Of Salvation: King of Loss / The Perfect Element / Full Throttle Tribe / Beyond the Pale.. whatever.. all are good

[@lizzieturbett7444]

a really great example of monotone vocals with a lot of emotion and energy would be Orthodox-- their new album Let it Take its Course is chilling, absolutely worth a listen

[@CriticalReactions]

I'll have to check that one out and see how it compares with this type of monotone singing.

[@SpikeValentine]

If you like your Doom/Goth Metal with great vocals you should try Love You To Death by Type O Negative.

[@egazi99]

Please check out "The Aristocrats" a weird jazz/prog band. A trio of virtuosos having stupidly fun. Check out live versions of Erotic Cakes or Bad Astroid from them. I would love to watch you trying to analyze their music

[@jonathanhenderson9422]

You might check out Type O Negative who have a similar style and vocalist, but I think a bit more personality and stronger songwriting. They were also a bit more tongue-in-cheek/humorous with it: I mean, they titled their greatest hits album "The Least Worst of Type O Negative."

[@alonsotarango3486]

Great band, great song, good pick, please do Revocation - "Witch trials"

[@skotous]

suggestion! Iced earth Dante's inferno (alive in Athens) version critical reaction

[@vladdracul8827]

Yep you need The Dreadful Hours.

[@nisinduperera7130]

Xoth - Haruspex next!

[@spurqz]

Swallow the Sun are one of the best doom metal bands, and "Emerald Forest and the Blackbird" is one of their best songs

[@matildasdaddy8012]

my dying bride are the best doom band

[@pietrayday9915]

I'd definitely put them in the top three along with Candlemass and Black Sabbath... I don't think I've heard a genuinely bad My Dying Bride album, and all of the ones I've heard but Evinta have grown on me.

[@sergiuosan8674]

Really glad you picked this band, they are one of the greatest doom bands out there. It is true the vocals are not the highlight of the song, but it is however very specific to the doom genre, where more often than not you can see this style of singing. Don't fully agree with your interpretation of vocals, to me it seems more like the vocalist is drained out of life and that is what doom is all about. A further look if you are still interested in doom is Saturnus :)

[@tomknokkel]

lol you damn right you picked the wrong My Dying Bride song to start with lol. That's the problematical trouble which people frequently face when they're first introduced to a band they've never heard before, the vocalist is totally capable of utilizing other types of vocal styles. My Dying Bride possess plenty of songs, i thereby recommend the song titled Within A Sleeping Forest. I have listened to ''Within A Sleeping Forest'' numerous times it's a fantastically brilliant superb track.

[@madmatt5661]

My dying bride kings of doom

[@Chupie77777]

Black Crown Initiate: Purge or Great Mistake!

[@justinvermilyea9192]

This song is not a good representation of Aaron's voice the other songs you've done are much better examples of his vocal range it's specific to this song like you said

[@matildasdaddy8012]

😮 awesome singer🤘 try dreadful hours live

[@jadeisme4345]

Glass beach- bedroom community

[@craigtyrrell4631]

Love your channel💯... Please react to Venice may - limerence

[@Fvckedwithaknife]

Should do a grindcore week lol

[@Fvckedwithaknife]

Nasum, Magrudergrind, Insect Warefare, Couple Skates, Cripple Bastards, etc...

[@nisinduperera7130]

What do you think of the new Wake album Devouring Ruin? I think it's great

[@Fvckedwithaknife]

@@nisinduperera7130 love them, although I much prefer sowing the seeds of a worthless tomorrow. But there direction change and everything is good as well. Always support them just cause there from a province over from where I'm from haha

[@nisinduperera7130]

@@Fvckedwithaknife oh wow! That's great man I'm new to grind (I know Wake is not pure grind) Any recommendations?

[@Fvckedwithaknife]

@@nisinduperera7130 pretty much what I recommend before. Plus like, shitlife, crack house, exit 13, the drip(kinda grind like, kinda not), theories, agothocles, hemorrhage, mass grave, unholy grave

[@5H3R1F]

React to Bloodbath Mock The Cross

[@makjak111]

Wow picked an old one

[@CriticalReactions]

That's good right? So many of these bands have left the metal part of Doom Metal behind in their later albums.

[@makjak111]

@@CriticalReactions for the most part I'd say that's true. My dying bride stayed in doom their whole career. It just caught me off guard. They also use harsh vocals on other albums

[@ratatoeskr-melodicdarkambi7741]

@@CriticalReactions i think that my dying Bride came from a throne, second to none, until the last three albums i would say. These are not as interesting as the other ones but still good. The old Albums, Turn loose the swans, the Angel and the dark river... My God, blessings to my ears, my brain, my life. I would not sell knowing these for any price.

[@mordante01]

There are so many better MDB songs IMHO.