Aaron Stainthorpe (born 12 November 1968) is an English singer who is the lead vocalist for

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My Dying Bride My Dying Bride are an English doom metal band formed in Bradford. Since their inception in 1990, they have released 13 studio albums, three EPs, one demo, one box set, four compilation albums, one live album, and one live CD/DVD release. Alon ...

. In December 2005, it was announced that Stainthorpe would lend his voice and some lyrics to a song with

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's new band

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. "Original Sin", taken from the band's first album ''

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'', was released in April 2006. Stainthorpe has made other guest appearances on

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's ''

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''. He also made a narration appearance on Dreambreed's ''Sometime'' mini-album in 1995. In 2021 he was a guest vocalist on the debut album of the romanian doom metal band Olympus Mons.

Personal life

Stainthorpe 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. He lives in

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. He has a

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vocal range. He is an avid reader of Romantic poets such as

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and often draws on the Bible for inspiration. In a 2004 interview with Live 4 Metal, Stainthorpe commented that:

"I have no religious beliefs but I do like to use the Bible as a source of inspiration because it's an obvious wealth of delicious tales and characters."

Despite the morose nature of his lyrics, Stainthorpe insists they do not give a full overview of his personality. In 2004, he said:

"Some of the stuff is influenced by personal mishaps in life. Nobody has lived a perfectly good life without tragedies and we've used them as part of our songwriting. I think that dwelling on the darker side of life seems much more interesting and evocative than the happier things...I've got somewhere to put my depression and it's called My Dying Bride...I'm generally a happy guy!"Aaron Stainthorpe interview
metal-rules.com. Retrieved 2010-02-27.

References

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