
The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box
Bela Lugosi's dead
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Oh, the air was shining,
Shining like a wedding ring
Barbed like sex
I felt 10,000 volts
My chest was full of eels
Pushing through my usual skin
I opened up new wounds
Pouting, shouting
Oh love - like liquid falling
Falling in cascades
Oh love-lorn victims laughing
Laughing in cascades
The sun was rich
Rich with a song of sin
My breath melted my words
Into strange alphabets
Tormenting my tongue
Pouting, shouting
The heartbeats were echoing
Echoing the revolver
Emptying into my mouth
I pulled a face from my pocket
And smiled a leper's grin
I felt somebody close
Pouting, shouting

Their goth-sounding name and dour visual image aside, the prolific duo of Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard produce wildly eclectic but utterly unique music. Their painstakingly crafted albums encompass numerous arcane genres, from European classical music to ancient Celtic and Middle Eastern folk styles, often employing authentic antique instruments to achieve their ambitious, emotive soundscapes. The 1993 effort Into the Labyrinth found Dead Can Dance mixing their medieval leanings with more exotic Eastern influences on "Saldek" and "Yulunga," while exploring Celtic balladry on the traditional "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" and theatrical songcraft in their interpretation of Bertolt Brecht's "How Fortunate Is the Man with None." --Scott Schinder
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Etiquetas: avant-garde, dark, New Age

Ritual music from Finland's deep primeval forests, according to ancient Gods long forgotten. "I", this one-man anti-band's debut release.
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Etiquetas: dark, minimalism, noise, ritual
Etiquetas: dark, industrial, Punk Rock

"Recording the Angel was the name of a project by the band Depeche Mode to record their concerts on the spring (North America) and summer (Europe and Asia) legs of their 2006 Touring the Angel tour. The recording was done by London-based company Live Here Now.
Of the 50 shows that actually took place, 43 were recorded (exceptions were performances in Kristiansand, Norway and Benicassim, Spain) and made available for direct download or per mail on double compact discs. All the issued CDs featured the same artwork (cover and booklet), differing only in the setlist, which was printed on an extra white card, and the venue and show date printed on the front and back covers and on the discs themselves."
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Etiquetas: dark, electronic, synthpop

Sounds Like: Shoegaze, post-rock
My Latest Novel, I Love You But I've Choosen Darkness

A bizarre work, of this crazy woman, based on Baudelaire's "Les Litanies de Satan" one of her's best works... So download it... If you there!!
"Ô toi, le plus savant et le plus beau des Anges,
Dieu trahi par le sort et privé de louanges,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Ô Prince de l'exil, à qui l'on a fait tort
Et qui, vaincu, toujours te redresses plus fort,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui sais tout, grand roi des choses souterraines,
Guérisseur familier des angoisses humaines,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui, même aux lépreux, aux parias maudits,
Enseignes par l'amour le goût du Paradis,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Ô toi qui de la Mort, ta vieille et forte amante,
Engendras l'Espérance, — une folle charmante!
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui fais au proscrit ce regard calme et haut
Qui damne tout un peuple autour d'un échafaud.
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui sais en quels coins des terres envieuses
Le Dieu jaloux cacha les pierres précieuses,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi dont l'oeil clair connaît les profonds arsenaux
Où dort enseveli le peuple des métaux,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi dont la large main cache les précipices
Au somnambule errant au bord des édifices,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui, magiquement, assouplis les vieux os
De l'ivrogne attardé foulé par les chevaux,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui, pour consoler l'homme frêle qui souffre,
Nous appris à mêler le salpêtre et le soufre,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui poses ta marque, ô complice subtil,
Sur le front du Crésus impitoyable et vil,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui mets dans les yeux et dans le coeur des filles
Le culte de la plaie et l'amour des guenilles,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Bâton des exilés, lampe des inventeurs,
Confesseur des pendus et des conspirateurs,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Père adoptif de ceux qu'en sa noire colère
Du paradis terrestre a chassés Dieu le Père,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Prière
Gloire et louange à toi, Satan, dans les hauteurs
Du Ciel, où tu régnas, et dans les profondeurs
De l'Enfer, où, vaincu, tu rêves en silence!
Fais que mon âme un jour, sous l'Arbre de Science,
Près de toi se repose, à l'heure où sur ton front
Comme un Temple nouveau ses rameaux s'épandront!"
-- Charles Baudelaire - -
Diamanda Gálas, "The Litanies Of Satan"
[1982, Mutue Récords]
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Etiquetas: dark, experimental

"The whole Afghanistan situation was kicking off, Iran had the American hostages...we were taking notice...it's not called that [Red Mecca] by coincidence. We weren't referencing the fucking Mecca Ballroom in Nottingham!"
Richard H Kirk
(Rough Trade, 1981)
Sounds Like:
Industrial, Electronic,
Acid Art of Noise, Suicide
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