Methods To End It All is the debut album of Heavy Metal Music

Heavy metal music

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 band Creation’s Tears

Creation’s Tears

Creation's Tears is a heavy metal music band based in the Greater Belfast region of Northern Ireland, with some members based in England.The band's personnel includes former members of established heavy metal acts; Lee Morris ex Paradise Lost and guest female vocalist Sarah Jezebel Deva ex Cradle...

 who are based in the Greater Belfast

Belfast

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 region of Northern Ireland

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, with some members based in England

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. Methods To End It All has been referred to by journalist Malcolm Dome

Malcolm Dome

Malcolm Dome has been an English writer and journalist about metal since 1979. In addition to writing books, he has been a journalist for Record Mirror, Kerrang!, Metal Hammer and Classic Rock among others. He also co-runs and DJs on the online radio station TotalRock.-Selected books:*Dome, Malcolm...

 and producer Jens Bogren

Jens Bogren

Jens Peter Daniel Bogren is a record producer, mixer and recording engineer who has worked on albums by Opeth, Katatonia, Soilwork, God Forbid, Iron Mask, Amon Amarth, and Symphony X, amongst others...

 as belonging to the Gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

 genre while others have drawn comparisons to Lacuna Coil

Lacuna Coil

Lacuna Coil is an Italian gothic metal band from Milan. Formed in 1994, the group has had two name changes since being previously known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal and was inspired by the combination of gothic imagery and music...

, Within Temptation

Within Temptation

Within Temptation is a Dutch symphonic gothic metal/rock band founded in 1996 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerholt. Their music is described as symphonic metal, although their earlier material, such as Enter, was gothic metal. In an interview, Den Adel said they fell into a...

, Opeth

Opeth

Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. Though the group has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force throughout the years...

, Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost (band)

Paradise Lost are a heavy metal band that formed in 1988 in Halifax, England.-History:Their first three full-length albums are examples of the death/doom style, although the latter two incorporated some melodic and gothic elements...

, 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,...

 and Anathema

Anathema (band)

Anathema are an English band from Liverpool primarily known for their ever evolving sound. Beginning as pioneers of the death/doom metal sub-genre, their later albums have been associated with genres such as alternative rock, progressive rock, art rock, new prog, and post-rock.-History:Anathema...

.

The band's personnel, fronted by singer / guitarist Brian Eddie Reynolds  includes former members of established Heavy metal

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 acts; Lee Morris

Lee Morris (musician)

Born in 1970 in Wolverhampton, Lee came from a musical family and started playing the drums at six years of age. He learnt his instrument from his dad and spent many hours during his early years playing along with various records from the family record collection...

 ex Paradise Lost

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Paradise Lost are a heavy metal band that formed in 1988 in Halifax, England.-History:Their first three full-length albums are examples of the death/doom style, although the latter two incorporated some melodic and gothic elements...

 and guest female vocalist 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...

 ex Cradle Of Filth

Cradle of Filth

Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...

. Methods To End It All would be the first Heavy Metal Music album to feature Lee Morris since his departure from Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost (band)

Paradise Lost are a heavy metal band that formed in 1988 in Halifax, England.-History:Their first three full-length albums are examples of the death/doom style, although the latter two incorporated some melodic and gothic elements...

 in 2004.

In a completely unexpected twist and just days before recording sessions for Methods To End It All commenced, bassist Ian Coulter announced he would be leaving Creation’s Tears

Creation’s Tears

Creation's Tears is a heavy metal music band based in the Greater Belfast region of Northern Ireland, with some members based in England.The band's personnel includes former members of established heavy metal acts; Lee Morris ex Paradise Lost and guest female vocalist Sarah Jezebel Deva ex Cradle...

 to concentrate on his new marriage. Coulter did however play bass on the band's Methods To End It All album.

Recording sessions for Methods To End It All commenced in January 2010. Creation's Tears employed three producers for different attributes of the recording. Ex Kill II This member Mark Mynett recorded the drums with Lee Morris in Huddersfield. Producers, Jens Bogren (Opeth, Katatonia, Soilwork, Amon Amarth) and David Castillo (Inme, Eluveitie, Katatonia) recorded all guitars at the famous Fascination Street Studio in Orebro with vocals and bass recorded at Ghost Ward Studios Stockholm where Katatonia recorded Night Is the New Day.

The debut Creation's Tears album Methods To End It All had initially been touted for a Spring 2010 release but following the band's vocalist, Brian Eddie Reynolds contracting serious food poisoning during the recording sessions in Stockholm, the release was subsequently postponed. Reynolds would finish a small vocal section at his home studio in Ballymena.

Sarah Jezebel Deva ex Cradle Of Filth made a guest appearance on Methods To End It All track Creation's Tears.

Methods To End It All was eventually released on 4 October 2010 via Cure For Poison Records and distributed through Code 7 / Plastic Head distribution in UK & Eire.

Track listing

Personnel

• Brian Eddie Reynolds – All Vocals & All Guitars
• Ian Coulter – Bass
• Lee Morris
  Lee Morris (musician)
  Born in 1970 in Wolverhampton, Lee came from a musical family and started playing the drums at six years of age. He learnt his instrument from his dad and spent many hours during his early years playing along with various records from the family record collection...
  
   – Session Drums
• 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...
  
  – Guest vocals on “Creation’s Tears”

Linear notes

• Produced by David Castillo with additional production by Jens Bogren & Brian EDDIE Reynolds.
• Mixed & Mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios, Orebro, Sweden, May-July 2010.
• Pre-production by Mark Mynett, Brian EDDIE Reynolds & Ian Coulter.
• Drums recorded & engineered by Mark Mynett at Blue Rooms, Hudders?field, England 15th – 17th Jan 2010.
• All guitars & (Vocals: Creation’s Tears, Odyssey, No Saviour Here, I’m Falling) engineered & produced by David Castillo at Fascination Street Studios, Orebro, Sweden 21st Jan – 2nd Feb 2010.
• Sarah Jezebel Deva’s vocals recorded & engineered by Daniel Abela, Escape Route Studios, Essex, England 9th Feb 2010.
• Vocals (Another Collision, I Fail, Parody Paradigm, The Last Tear Is Cried For Romance, Untimely Reminder) & all bass engineered & produced by David Castillo at Ghost Ward Studio, Stockholm, Sweden 24th – 29th Mar 2010.
• Additional vocals on “Untimely Reminder” recorded & produced by Brian EDDIE Reynolds at Cure For Poison Studio, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
• Front cover photo by Abigael Dani
• Additional cover photography by Brian EDDIE Reynolds.
• Album cover layout & design by Jonny Crozet & Laura Yabsley.
• All songs written & arranged by Brian EDDIE Reynolds.
• All lyrics written by Brian EDDIE Reynolds.