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Epic

Manic Street Preachers

Holy Bible

British European Back in stock The Holy Bible is the sound of a band plunging into chaos taking in such joyous subjects as the holocaust The Intense Humming Of Evil prostitution Yes anorexia 4st 7lb and general despair everything else Needless to say the majority of it was written by guitarist Richey Edwards just before he was hospitalised for depression It's not the easiest album in the world to listen to with James Bradfield often having to cram all the words together to fit them all in but it's worth the perseverance The dark gothic but never Goth guitars compliment the black mood of Yes and the alternately narcissistic and disgusted Faster which samples the film version of Orwell's masterpiece 1984 while the gentle acoustic This Is Yesterday often sounds close to breaking Suffice to say this is not a party record but for pure intelligent hatred of the self and of others it is fascinating and still one of the Manics greatest moments