Trinity

Peaceville Records released My Dying Bride's three early EPs as a single album in 1995. I believe that the original EPs were only available to Peaceville club members... which is probably about the worst way to promote your label's artists. They righted the wrong with the release of Trinity.
By '95 My Dying Bride had already begun to move away from the Death Metal sound, but this collection serves as a bold reminder that these boys from Halifax were once austere members of the Death/Doom triumvirate, sharing the honor with Paradise Lost and Anathema. The cover included here is from the American release, the rest of the world got a pic of a severed Jesus statue head while we got graves with the original EPs' album art on them. Also, the track "The Sexuality of Bereavement" replaced "Transcending (Into the Exquisite)" from the original I am the Bloody Earth EP. Why, you ask? For no good reason that I know of... they just up and switched it. Anyway, this EP collection represents a time in My Dying Bride's catalog which was mired in crushing Death/Doom metal. Still, you can just hear the songs expanding the very genre of Doom with each track. My Dying Bride were creative pioneers even in their early days which is made evident by the poetic and emotive explosion of sound within this collection.

Lay down with beasts,
and welter in my gore