THE BLOOD DIVINE

Release Year: 2014
Artist Origin: ENG
Style: emotional atmospheric gothic doom metal

since Darren White was a prominent underground music figure at the time, and debut longplay [1996] of this new project largely continued emotional direction of Pentecost III mini album, many saw TBD as an alternative to Anathema; however, it was in fact initiated primarily by former Cradle of Filth members Paul Allender and the Ryan brothers, with a style much closer to atmospheric gothic metal, where melancholic guitar and keyboard lines are combined with occasional bursts of unexpectedly energetic riffing, while Darren's distinctive, pain-tinged vocal delivery blends organically into a unique, fatalist mood, highlighted by such epic tracks as Aureole, where essence of the band is revealed most clearly; recent British black 180g vinyl edition