The Barghest o' Whitby

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The Barghest o' Whitby
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EP by
My Dying Bride
Released7 November 2011 (2011-11-07)
Recorded2011 at Futureworks Studios, Manchester
Genre Doom metal, death-doom
Length27:04
Label Peaceville
My Dying Bride chronology
Evinta
(2011)		The Barghest o' Whitby
(2011)		 A Map of All Our Failures
(2012)

The Barghest o' Whitby is an EP by the doom metal band My Dying Bride, released on 7 November 2011. It consists of a single, 27-minute track. [1] [2]

Extended play Musical recording longer than a single, but shorter than a full album

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP. Contemporary EPs generally contain a minimum of three tracks and maximum of six tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play (SP) and LP, but it is now applied to mid-length CDs and downloads as well.

Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other heavy metal genres. Both the music and the lyrics intend to evoke a sense of despair, dread, and impending doom. The genre is strongly influenced by the early work of Black Sabbath, who formed a prototype for doom metal. During the first half of the 1980s, a number of bands from England, the United States and Sweden defined doom metal as a distinct genre.

My Dying Bride British metal band

My Dying Bride are an English doom metal band formed in Bradford in 1990. To date, My Dying Bride have released twelve full-length studio albums, three EPs, one demo, one box set, four compilation albums, one live album, and one live CD/DVD release.

Contents

Background

Speaking to Lords of Metal, Aaron Stainthorpe said of the piece:

Aaron Stainthorpe British singer

Aaron Stainthorpe is an English singer and songwriter. He is the vocalist for doom metal band My Dying Bride.

Well, I wrote it myself, based on rough stories that we have read about in the Yorkshire area. All old villages and towns in Europe have folklore tales of spirits and dark beings and fairies and things like that. And I had heard several different stories about large, black dogs, crawling the moors of Yorkshire... And I thought: "Well, we live in Yorkshire and we never really looked at our own heritage before in My Dying Bride lyrics. Let us look at this and see if we could invent our own story, our own Yorkshire folklore." And so I wrote a story called 'The Barghest O’Whitby' about a large black dog which, at first, it seems to crawl the moor land randomly killing people, but it does not. The lyrics tell a story of why this dog is doing what it is doing and its final victim is waiting up in the old sea town, the old fishing town of Whitby. That is where the final confrontation takes place and it is a story of revenge... [3]

Yorkshire Historic county of Northern England

Yorkshire, formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Due to its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform. Throughout these changes, Yorkshire has continued to be recognised as a geographical territory and cultural region. The name is familiar and well understood across the United Kingdom and is in common use in the media and the military, and also features in the titles of current areas of civil administration such as North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.

Whitby Coastal town in North Yorkshire, England

Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a maritime, mineral and tourist heritage. Its East Cliff is home to the ruins of Whitby Abbey, where Cædmon, the earliest recognised English poet, lived. The fishing port emerged during the Middle Ages, supporting important herring and whaling fleets, and was where Captain Cook learned seamanship. Tourism started in Whitby during the Georgian period and developed with the arrival of the railway in 1839. Its attraction as a tourist destination is enhanced by the proximity of the high ground of the North York Moors national park and the heritage coastline and by association with the horror novel Dracula. Jet and alum were mined locally, and Whitby Jet, which was mined by the Romans and Victorians, became fashionable during the 19th century.

According to Stainthorpe, the artwork pictures the band's guitarist's Hamish Glencross' dog which he "embellished... a little bit in Photoshop. It is all my kind of artwork, pushed together to give a visual interpretation of what you might see in the lyrics. It is quite nice, no high art, but it is just an interpretation of what you are going to get inside the music". [3]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."The Barghest o' Whitby"27:04
Total length:27:04

Credits

Andrew Craighan British musician

Andrew Craighan is one of My Dying Bride's founding guitarists. Along with Aaron Stainthorpe, and now Calvin Robertshaw they are the only original members of the band still in the lineup. He played the guitar from 1989 to 1990 in the band Abiosis.

Hamish Glencross British musician

Hamish Glencross is a Scottish guitarist best known for his work with the English metal band My Dying Bride. He also co-founded the short-lived Blackdoom Records with the band's other guitarist, Andrew Craighan, which released The Prophecy's debut album Ashes.

Shaun 'Winter' Taylor- Steels is a British heavy metal drummer and bassist. Shaun is of Scottish and Norwegian descent on his mother's side of the family.

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References

  1. ↑ "My Dying Bride's 'The Barghest O' Whitby". Peaceville Records. Archived from the original on 16 October 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  2. ↑ "My Dying Bride Announces New EP "The Barghest O' Whitby"". metalunderground.com. 6 September 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  3. 1 2 "My Dying Bride interview". www.lordsofmetal.nl. January 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
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