Formless - Mourning Beloveth

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

It is. Personally I rate The Sullen Sulcus as highly as Dust, but they're sonically very different, so it's easy to understand someone preferring one or the other.

[Thorn]

I've probably spent more time with '...Circus' than any of their other ones so I'd have to say it's my default favourite.  As someone who's not in and out of studios or playing in bands  like a lot of ye I wouldn't notice mixes and productions all that much .Hell of a discography to choose from though.

[open face surgery]

Dust and Sullen Sulcus are dependent on the day a lot of the time for me but certainly my favourites. Revisiting AMC here. The production is weird enough but plenty of amazing moments. Without question my least listened to MB record and it has an overall colder, chuggier feel which maybe the reason I didn't go back to it as much but it's hitting now anyway so no harm, no foul.

Incredible back catalogue.

[Eoin McLove]

MB have a new EP or album on the way and I'm really curious to hear it. The revamped line-up, combined with age and wisdom (?) will without doubt add some fresh elements to the band's sound. But, to be fair, the last ten years has seen them expand their musical world so much that they have really opened the door for whichever type of experimentation they may choose. I was listening to an old Metal Ireland podcast interview with Frank and Darren from when Rust & Bone came out and you can see at that time they had transcended the confines of Doom Death by then. I wonder now with Frank no longer playing the guitar, how the dynamic of songwriting might have shifted about. I have high hopes. I know the new guitarist is a mean shredder, and I've no doubt there will be tasty solos to be had- I just hope they maintain some kind of balance on that front.