Evinta is a My Dying Bride

My Dying Bride

My Dying Bride are an English doom metal band formed in 1990. To date, My Dying Bride have released eleven full-length studio albums, three EPs, one demo, one box set, four compilation albums, one live album, and one live CD/DVD release. The band released their tenth studio album, For Lies I Sire,...

 album released in 2011. It is a development of many of My Dying Bride's older musical themes and riffs, which were re-written for a variety of classical

Classical music

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 instruments, rather than the traditional metal music

Heavy metal music

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 instruments; these riffs were combined with new vocals and music, thus creating a release characteristic of both a studio album and a compilation.

Track listing

Disc one

1. In Your Dark Pavilion — 10:03
2. You Are Not The One Who Loves Me — 6:47
3. Of Lilies Bent With Tears — 7:10
4. The Distance; Busy With Shadows — 10:46
5. Of Sorry Eyes In March — 10:35

Disc two

1. Vanité Triomphante — 12:22
2. That Dress And Summer Skin — 9:39
3. And Then You Go — 9:22
4. A Hand Of Awful Rewards — 10:21

Disc three

1. The Music Of Flesh — 7:05
2. Seven Times She Wept — 4:06
3. The Burning Coast Of Regnum Italicum — 11:50
4. She Heard My Body Dying — 8:31
5. And All Their Joy Was Drowned — 10:15

Credits

• Aaron Stainthorpe
  Aaron Stainthorpe
  Aaron Stainthorpe is the vocalist for doom metal band My Dying Bride. He was born in England but moved to Germany when he was six months old, because his British army officer father was stationed in the country...
  
   — male vocals
• Jonny Maudling
  Jonny Maudling
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   — piano
  Piano
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   and keyboards
  Musical keyboard
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• Lucie Roche — female vocals
• Alice Pembroke — viola
  Viola
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• Johan Baum — cello
  Cello
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Conception and Production

"Evinta. A project almost 15 years in the making. An idea that has sat smoldering and never really had a reason to burn alive until now. 9 albums worth of darkness recreated anew to mark 20 years of MDB. Music arranged to the soundscapes of sorrows past. Finally the 20th anniversary allows us to release this music in a form it has been desperately, woefully waiting for. Enjoy the Darkness."

My Dying Bride press release, April 5, 2011

The idea for Evinta dates back to the mid-1990s, when Martin Powell

Martin Powell

Martin Powell is an English musician. In 1991, Powell auditioned for the position of bass-playing in the band My Dying Bride, but was turned down as the band had just filled the position...

 was still in the band; however, the idea was shelved when Powell left both due to the lack of a violin in the band and also due to the possibility that a release of this kind would seem exceptionally pretentious, coming from a band who had been around for merely five years. Once a violinist returned, however, and the band had gained more experience, they began to work on Evinta with an aim of releasing in October 2010, to celebrate the band's 20th anniversary. However, this was later pushed back to "until it's ready".

Format

Evinta was released in three separate formats - jewel case, limited edition and deluxe edition. The jewel case and limited editions both contained disks one and two, with the limited edition coming in digipak format with a 24 page booklet and being shipped to independent retailers only, compared with the jewel case being for general retail. The deluxe edition came with a 64-page, 12-inch hardback book and the third disk. Music from the third disk, however, is intended to be released separately in due course.

The book and booklet both contained pictures from My Dying Bride's history, with a brief paragraph for every major release,as well as lyrics. However, the booklet missed out certain lyrics, and the deluxe edition removed the paragraph for the album The Light At The End Of The World.