The Dreadful Hours is an album by 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,...

 released in 2001. It contains a remake of "Return of the Beautiful" (renamed "Return to the Beautiful") from the band's debut album, As the Flower Withers

As the Flower Withers

As The Flower Withers was the first album by Yorkshire-based doom metal band My Dying Bride. The artwork was designed by Dave McKean.-Song information:Many of the tracks on this album have appeared in a different form on other MDB releases...

. Singer 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...

 has often cited that either this or "Like Gods of the Sun

Like Gods of the Sun

Like Gods of the Sun is an album by My Dying Bride released in 1996. This is the last album by the band to feature Rick Miah on drums and Martin Powell on keyboards and violins....

" is his favourite MDB album.
"The Dreadful Hours" comes housed in a digipak

Digipak

Digipak is a patented style of CD, DVD or BD packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI World Ltd., an Atlas Holdings company.-Features:...

 with a full colour booklet.

Track listing

1. "The Dreadful Hours" – 9:23
2. "The Raven and the Rose" – 8:12
3. "Le Figlie Della Tempesta" – 10:08
4. "Black Heart Romance" – 5:23
5. "A Cruel Taste of Winter" – 7:36
6. "My Hope, the Destroyer" – 6:44
7. "The Deepest of All Hearts" – 8:56
8. "Return to the Beautiful" – 14:23

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...
  
   - vocals
• Andrew Craighan
  Andrew Craighan
  Andrew Craighan is one of My Dying Bride's guitarists. Along with Aaron Stainthorpe, he is the only original member of the band still in the lineup. He played the guitar from 1989 to 1990 in the band Abiosis....
  
   - guitar
• Hamish Glencross
  Hamish Glencross
  Hamish Glencross is one of My Dying Bride's guitarists. He also co-founded the short lived Blackdoom Records with the other guitarist in the band, Andrew Craighan releasing The Prophecy's debut album "Ashes"....
  
   - guitar
• Adrian Jackson
  Adrian Jackson
  Adrian Jackson is My Dying Bride's former bassist. He was a member of the band from 1991 until January 2007 when he moved to the USA.-Equipment:* Warwick Thumb Bolt-On bass* Sansamp Processors...
  
   - bass
• Shaun Taylor-Steels - drums
• Jonny Maudling
  Jonny Maudling
  Jonny Maudling is an English composer, keyboard player and former drummer for the band Bal-Sagoth. Maudling's primary instruments are Roland synthesizers when playing live. He comes from a musical family and was classically trained on piano from an early age...
  
  - keyboard
• Yasmin Ahmed - keyboard on "A Cruel Taste of Winter"