Manic Street Preachers "The Holy Bible" (1994)
Possibly
the darkest MSP album, and the last featuring guitarist Richey Edwards
who disappeared suddenly during the promotion for the album. To this
day it's not known what happened to him or where he went.
In addition to the situation with Edwards, vocalist/lyricist/guitarist
James Dean Bradfield was suffering depression, alcohol abuse, self-harm
and anorexia. This is not the sing-along preachiness of latter stage
MSP, this is some grinding, grim and angsty rock. The guitar riffs are
distorted and angular, my favourite being "the Intense Humming of Evil" which sounds like a mix of NIN, TOOL and Radiohead.
The album did not sell well initially, though it was critically
vaunted. The band were probably just a bit ahead of their time, with
gloom and angst... which would be fairly marketable over the next few
years. I personally thought it was a great slice of rock.
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