MY DYING BRIDE frontman Aaron Stainthorpe is featured in a new interview with Greece-based Solid Rock

Solid Rock: My Dying Bride is a historical band which shaped and laid the foundation of the doom/death genre. Which relatively new bands do you think that are capable of continuing your legacy?

Stainthorpe: "That's a good question because I have no idea. To be honest I have lost touch with the scene. I used to be very involved, I used to love listening to all the new young bands but there are so many now. There are just thousands and thousands of bands forming every year and I just can't keep track of them. I can't honestly say. I need to listen to some things that aren't metal in order to really enjoy myself sometimes."

Solid Rock: Which is your favourite My Dying Bride album and what makes it so special to you?

Stainthorpe: "It's The Dreadful Hours. The Dreadful Hours has everything you expect from My Dying Bride. It has brutal death metal, it has very very slow melancholic music, the lyrics are very sad, but there is love there as well and I think the artwork, which was one of mine that i really liked. If somebody only buys one My Dying Bride album in their whole life it should be The Dreadful Hours because it has everything you expect from My Dying Bride."

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Two My dying Bride shows have been confirmed for two concerts in January 2010, in Greece. Additionally, it has also been confirmed that the band will play at the Graspop Festival in Belgium, in June.

Upcoming dates include:

January

30 - Block 33 Club - Thessaloniki, Greece
31 - Gagarin 205 - Athens, Greece

June

26 - Graspop Metal Meeting - Dessel, Belgium

My Dying Bride are also confirmed for the 2010 edition of the Brutal Assault Festival, taking place August 12th - 14th in Josefov, Czech Republic.

Acts on the bill include:

CANNIBAL CORPSE

CONVERGE

DEMONIC RESURRECTION

DEVOURMENT

DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA

GRAVEWORM

HYPNOS

MY DYING BRIDE

SYBREED

DEVIN TOWNSEND

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