# Martin Powell

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This article is about the musician. For the 19th-century ball player, see [Martin Powell (baseball)](/source/Martin_Powell_(baseball)). For the 17th-century actor, see [Martin Powell (actor)](/source/Martin_Powell_(actor)). For 18th-century marionette showman, see [Martin Powell (puppetry)](/source/Martin_Powell_(puppetry)).

**Martin Powell** is an English musician. In 1991, Powell auditioned for the position of bass player in the band [My Dying Bride](/source/My_Dying_Bride) but was turned down as the band had just filled the position.[citation needed] Upon informing the band he was also a violin and [keyboard](/source/Electronic_keyboard) player, he was hired as a session musician, before becoming the band's permanent violinist and keyboardist.

Around 1998, Powell and My Dying Bride parted ways, and he joined [Anathema](/source/Anathema_(band)), in the role of live keyboardist, only to depart two years later. In 2000, Powell joined the British [extreme metal](/source/Extreme_metal) band [Cradle of Filth](/source/Cradle_of_Filth)[1] along with drummer [Adrian Erlandsson](/source/Adrian_Erlandsson) and guitarist [Paul Allender](/source/Paul_Allender) after the departure of [Les 'Lecter' Smith](/source/Les_Smith). The band then went to record the album *[Midian](/source/Midian_(album))*. The following year, the band released their transitional mini-album *[Bitter Suites to Succubi](/source/Bitter_Suites_to_Succubi)*. In 2003 they released the album *[Damnation and a Day](/source/Damnation_and_a_Day)* using a small orchestra and choral section for which Powell wrote the score. Powell wrote several songs for both that album and was also a songwriter for the band's 2004 album *[Nymphetamine](/source/Nymphetamine)* on which he also played guitars on several tracks as well as keyboard duties. He was nominated for a [Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance](/source/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Metal_Performance) with Cradle of Filth in 2005. In that same year, Powell and CoF parted ways.

After his departure from Cradle of Filth, Powell returned to university where he earned a first class degree in music (and won The Phillip John Lord Composition Prize) and completed a PhD in music composition in 2013.[2]

Powell is featured on the [Type O Negative](/source/Type_O_Negative) DVD *[Symphony for the Devil](/source/Symphony_for_the_Devil_(Type_O_Negative))*. He played live keyboards for [Tiamat](/source/Tiamat_(band)) in 2006 to 2007.

He toured with [Alternative 4](/source/Alternative_4) as live keyboard player in 2011 and 2012. He wrote and played keyboards for the 2013 album "When the Circle of Light Begins to Fade" from Australian band [The Eternal](/source/The_Eternal_(band)). He also toured as live keyboard player for [Solstafir](/source/Solstafir) in 2016. In 2016, he wrote and played keyboards on [Lawnmower Deth](/source/Lawnmower_Deth)'s first single after 22 years "I am Cob" which received airplay on BBC Radio 2 courtesy of [Simon Mayo](/source/Simon_Mayo). Most recently, he played and composed keyboards for the Dutch band Bleeding Gods' album, "Dodekathlon" released February in 2018. Powell also wrote and played on the album "Waiting for the Endless Dawn" by [The Eternal](/source/The_Eternal_(band)), released in 2018.

## References

1. Ankeny, Jason. "Biography: Cradle of Filth". [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic). Retrieved 4 March 2010.

1. ["University of Sheffield Sound Studios"](http://adrian-moore.staff.shef.ac.uk/sj2010/sj10winter.pdf). *Adrian-moore.staff.shef.ac.uk*. Retrieved 12 March 2012.

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