God Is Alone is the first EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 by death/doom metal band My Dying Bride

My Dying Bride

My Dying Bride are an English doom metal band formed in 1990. To date, My Dying Bride have released eleven full-length studio albums, three EPs, one demo, one box set, four compilation albums, one live album, and one live CD/DVD release. The band released their tenth studio album, For Lies I Sire,...

, and was released in 1991. It was released as a 7" vinyl on France

France

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-based independent label Listenable Records, and limited to 1,000 copies.

The EP saw the band approached by Peaceville Records

Peaceville Records

Peaceville Records is a British independent metal-oriented record label. The label was founded by Paul "Hammy" Halmshaw in 1987, in Dewsbury, England...

, who offered them a recording contract. My Dying Bride have been recording for Peaceville ever since.

Both tracks were re-recorded as B-Sides for the band's first release with Peaceville, "Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium

Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium

Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium is the second EP by death/doom metal band My Dying Bride. "Symphonaire" was made only a few months after signing to the Peaceville Records label. The song was also released as a vinyl record and an audio tape...

" the following year. The original versions have never been commercially re-released, unlike the rest of the band's rare material.

As a side note, God Is Alone is also the title to an underground movie written and directed by Jason Torrey in 2004. The movie was never officially published due to the copyright infringements for using music by My Dying Bride

My Dying Bride

My Dying Bride are an English doom metal band formed in 1990. To date, My Dying Bride have released eleven full-length studio albums, three EPs, one demo, one box set, four compilation albums, one live album, and one live CD/DVD release. The band released their tenth studio album, For Lies I Sire,...

, Opeth

Opeth

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, Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel

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, God Dethroned

God Dethroned

-Biography:God Dethroned was formed in 1991 by singer and guitar player Henri Sattler, with Hans Leegstra and Ard de Weerd. Sattler and Leegstra had previously been in Dysentery; Leegstra, quickly after the band formed, left the music scene altogether. They recorded a demo, Christ Hunt, in 1991,...

, Slayer

Slayer

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, and Shadows Fall

Shadows Fall

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. Aaron Stainthorpe

Aaron Stainthorpe

Aaron Stainthorpe is the vocalist for doom metal band My Dying Bride. He 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...

, the singer of My Dying Bride

My Dying Bride

My Dying Bride are an English doom metal band formed in 1990. To date, My Dying Bride have released eleven full-length studio albums, three EPs, one demo, one box set, four compilation albums, one live album, and one live CD/DVD release. The band released their tenth studio album, For Lies I Sire,...

, owns his own copy of the movie; it was given to him by the director of the film when it was discovered by Stainthorpe from information on the internet.

Personnel

• Aaron Stainthorpe
  Aaron Stainthorpe
  Aaron Stainthorpe is the vocalist for doom metal band My Dying Bride. He 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...
  
   - vocals
• Andrew Craighan
  Andrew Craighan
  Andrew Craighan is one of My Dying Bride's guitarists. Along with Aaron Stainthorpe, he is the only original member of the band still in the lineup. He played the guitar from 1989 to 1990 in the band Abiosis....
  
   - guitar, bass
• Calvin Robertshaw - guitar
• Rick Miah - drums