Like Gods of the Sun is an album by 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,...

 released in 1996. This is the last album by the band to feature Rick Miah on drums and Martin Powell

Martin Powell

Martin Powell is an English musician. In 1991, Powell auditioned for the position of bass-playing in the band My Dying Bride, but was turned down as the band had just filled the position...

 on keyboards and violins.

Like its predecessor The Angel and the Dark River

The Angel and the Dark River

The Angel and the Dark River is the third album by the British doom/death metal band My Dying Bride. The 1996 re-release contains one bonus track "The Sexuality of Bereavement" and a bonus CD titled Live at the Dynamo...

this album has completely clean vocals.

A video was filmed for "For You" and appears on the VHS and DVD of For Darkest Eyes

For Darkest Eyes

For Darkest Eyes is the first video release by death/doom metal band My Dying Bride. Created first as a VHS in 1997, then later being reproduced as a DVD in 2002 however it was given 2 different version of the front cover...

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Singer Aaron Stainthorpe

Aaron Stainthorpe

Aaron Stainthorpe is the vocalist for doom metal band My Dying Bride. He was born in England but moved to Germany when he was six months old, because his British army officer father was stationed in the country...

 has stated many times that this is his favorite MDB album. The track "A Kiss To Remember" has become a regular in the band's live setlist.

The song "For My Fallen Angel" has an extract from a poem called Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)

Venus and Adonis is a poem by William Shakespeare, written in 1592–1593, with a plot based on passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It is a complex, kaleidoscopic work, using constantly shifting tone and perspective to present contrasting views of the nature of love.-Publication:Venus and Adonis was...

 by the English

England

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 poet

Poet

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 and playwright

Playwright

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 William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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The Japanese and limited digipak editions of the album feature the bonus remix "It Will Come (Nightmare Mix)". This track was included on the 2003 reissue of the album alongside an additional remix of the song "Grace Unhearing", credited as "Portishell Mix". The song was thus named as Stainthorpe was at the time a big fan of the British band Portishead. The band would later perform a cover of the Portishead song "Roads" for the Peaceville Records

Peaceville Records

Peaceville Records is a British independent metal-oriented record label. The label was founded by Paul "Hammy" Halmshaw in 1987, in Dewsbury, England...

 anniversary compilation "Peaceville X". The cover artwork was designed by Andy Green.

Track listing

1. "Like Gods of the Sun" – 5:41
2. "The Dark Caress" – 5:58
3. "Grace Unhearing" – 7:19
4. "A Kiss to Remember" – 7:31
5. "All Swept Away" – 4:17
6. "For You" – 6:37
7. "It Will Come" – 4:27
8. "Here in the Throat" – 6:22
9. "For My Fallen Angel" – 5:55
10. "It Will Come" (Nightmare mix, bonus track on digipak
    Digipak
    Digipak is a patented style of CD, DVD or BD packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI World Ltd., an Atlas Holdings company.-Features:...
    
    ) – 5:36
11. "Grace Unhearing" (Portishell mix, bonus track on digipak
    Digipak
    Digipak is a patented style of CD, DVD or BD packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI World Ltd., an Atlas Holdings company.-Features:...
    
    ) – 7:05

Credits

• Aaron Stainthorpe
  Aaron Stainthorpe
  Aaron Stainthorpe is the vocalist for doom metal band My Dying Bride. He was born in England but moved to Germany when he was six months old, because his British army officer father was stationed in the country...
  
   - vocals
• Andrew Craighan
  Andrew Craighan
  Andrew Craighan is one of My Dying Bride's guitarists. Along with Aaron Stainthorpe, he is the only original member of the band still in the lineup. He played the guitar from 1989 to 1990 in the band Abiosis....
  
   - guitar
• Calvin Robertshaw - guitar
• Adrian Jackson
  Adrian Jackson
  Adrian Jackson is My Dying Bride's former bassist. He was a member of the band from 1991 until January 2007 when he moved to the USA.-Equipment:* Warwick Thumb Bolt-On bass* Sansamp Processors...
  
   - bass
• Martin Powell
  Martin Powell
  Martin Powell is an English musician. In 1991, Powell auditioned for the position of bass-playing in the band My Dying Bride, but was turned down as the band had just filled the position...
  
   - violin, keyboard
• Rick Miah - drums