Aaron Stainthorpe is the vocalist for doom metal

Doom metal

Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

 band 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,...

. He was born in England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 but moved to Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 when he was six months old, because his British army officer father was stationed in the country. He currently lives in Halifax, West Yorkshire

Halifax, West Yorkshire

Halifax is a minster town, within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. It has an urban area population of 82,056 in the 2001 Census. It is well-known as a centre of England's woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward, originally dealing through the Halifax Piece...

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In December 2005, it was announced that Stainthorpe would lend his voice and some lyrics to a song with Sarah Jezebel Deva

Sarah Jezebel Deva

Sarah Jane , better known by her stage name Sarah Jezebel Deva, is a British vocalist. She was the female vocalist in Cradle of Filth for 14 years and also fronts her own band, Angtoria. In 2009, Deva started her self-titled solo project. The debut album A Sign of Sublime was released in February...

's new band Angtoria

Angtoria

Angtoria is a symphonic metal band composed of British singer Sarah Jezebel Deva and Swedish brothers Chris Rehn , and Tommy Rehn ....

. "Original Sin" - taken from the band's first album 'God Has a Plan For Us All

God Has a Plan for Us All

God Has a Plan for Us All is the first full-length album by Angtoria, released on 8 May 2006.It was received well by the international media and the special edition of the album sold-out soon after its release date .The band recorded a video for the title track.Lyrical themes deal mostly with child...

' - was released on 24 April 2006.

Stainthorpe has made other guest appearances on Dominion

Dominion (band)

Dominion was a British band from Thornhill, Dewsbury, that played a mix of death metal and doom metal genres. It featured a female singer, Michelle Richfield, and two male singers, Mass Firth and Arno Cagna. The band released two albums in the late 1990s on Peaceville Records and then split up....

's Interface

Interface (album)

Interface is the debut album by Dominion. It was released in 1996 on Peaceville Records.-Track listing:# "Tears from the Stars" – 4:15# "Millennium" – 3:50# "Silhouettes" – 4:50# "Alive?" – 5:47# "Weaving Fear" – 5:55...

and Disincarnate's Dreams of the Carrion Kind

Dreams of the Carrion Kind

-Credits:*James Murphy – Lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars, bass*Bryan Cegon – Vocals*Jason Carman – Rhythm guitar*Tommy Viator – Drums*Peter Coleman – Keyboards, engineering, sampling*Chris Gehringer – Mastering*Tim Hubbard – Photography...

. Aaron also made a narration appearance on Dreambreed's "Sometime" mini-album in 1995. He has his own web page at http://www.azzron.com, where a collection of his art work - including album covers for My Dying Bride and other bands - is displayed.

Personal

He is an avid reader of romantic poets such as Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...

 and often draws on the Bible

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

for inspiration. In a 2004 interview with Live 4 Metal, Stainthorpe commented that:

"I have no religious beliefs but I do like to use the Bible as a source of inspiration because it’s an obvious wealth of delicious tales and characters."

Despite the morose nature of his lyrics, Stainthorpe insists they do not give a full overview of his personality. In 2004 he said:

"Some of the stuff is influenced by personal mishaps in life. Nobody has lived a perfectly good life without tragedies and we’ve used them as part of our songwriting. I think that dwelling on the darker side of life seems much more interesting and evocative than the happier things...I’ve got somewhere to put my depression and it’s called My Dying Bride...I'm generally a happy guy!"