All the votes are in and the compiling is done after days and countless hours of digging through all the piles of molten metal from 2015! So who will be #1? You’ll find out as we count down to the BravePick Of 2015 throughout December! And once again our devout scribes put their collective metal minds together to build the ultimate lists including individual Top 20s (new studio albums ONLY),  Top 5 Brave Embarrassments, Top 3 Concerts, What/Who Needs To Stop In 2016? and Metal Predictions For 2016. All will be showcased come the New Year!

Tis the season to commence the good, bad and ugly of 2015! Let’s rock!

BravePicks 2015

30) MY DYING BRIDE - Feel The Misery (Peaceville)

British doom lords My Dying Bride continue to stay relevant and scribe David Perri echoes those remarks wholeheartedly in his review (found here):

2015 might as well be 1995 within the doom scene, as Paradise Lost has released The Plague Within, its best record since Draconian Times, and My Dying Bride has returned to classic, Like Gods Of The Sun-esque moments with its latest album, Feel The Misery. Though My Dying Bride never strayed into other genres like Paradise Lost did (too much disaffection we’ll add, and none of it the doom metal kind), Feel The Misery does mark a re-visitation to My Dying Bride’s early era, even if the group has stayed impressively doom consistent throughout its career. One wonders if the return of original guitar player Calvin Robertshaw is part of the reason My Dying Bride has produced such old-school results. Feel The Misery is My Dying Bride's twelfth (!) album and it's a desolate and melancholy soundtrack to grey days, as we have come to expect of this English band. 

Read the entire review here.

Feel The Misery was released on September 18th via Peaceville Records and sees a notable return to the band’s old haunt, Academy Studios in Dewsbury West Yorkshire for recording, where all of My Dying Bride’s classic early albums were produced. Mixing once more takes place at Futureworks in Manchester UK with the band’s long-time studio engineer/producer, Mags.

The band comments on the themes of Feel The Misery: “Contained within are all the grandeur and mastery of the melancholic one would expect to find on a recording from this group of musicians. The crushing of hearts and the solemn farewells to friends and lovers twinned with the destruction of flesh and the passions of cruelty are laid neatly for the listener to devour and savor. Eight new compositions detailing the path of life through dark doors and the burdens we all must endure simply to make it to the end, My Dying Bride have returned with a foreboding new album which may enlighten, delight and consume the soul in one epic sitting.”

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30) MY DYING BRIDE - Feel The Misery (Peaceville)