The Shroud Of

1. Loneliness

2. Two People

3. High Why

4. Hospital

5. Blue Step

6. Hatemonger

7. Shroud

8. Now I Want It All

9. Hex of Sex

10. You Are

11. I Don't Resist

12. Jungle Song

13. She Was a Visitor

14. Two Little Skeletons [*]

15. Tired Death [*]

16. He Who Falls [7"][Live][*]

17. She Was a Visitor [7"][Live][*]

18. Shower Sequence [*]

Tracks:

When The King Went To War, Op.7/6
Ah, Thou Red Sun, Op.10 No.1
Elegy
Faust: Act 2: Le Veau D'or
The Nightingale, Op.60/4
Nochenka (Folk Song)
A Life For The Tsar: Act 4: My Dawn Will Come
Disenchantment, Op.64/2
Song Of The Needy Pilgrim
When The King Went To War, Op.7/6
Mefistofele: Prologue: Ave Signor
Faust: Act 4. Ser
The Song Of The Flea
Faust: Act 2: Le Veau D'or
Eh, Vanka (Folk Song)
Nochenka (Folk Song)
Luchinushka (Folk Song)
Ruslan & Ludmila: Act 2. Farlaf's Rondo
Barbiere Di Siviglia: Act 1: La Calunnia
A Life For The Tsar: Act 4: They Guess The Truth; My Dawn Will Come
Lakme: Act 2: Lakme, Ton Doux Regard
Ruslan & Ludmila: Act 2: From The Dark Shroud Of Eternity
Dubinushka (Folk Song)
Arise, Fair Sun (Folk Song)

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Sorry
Another wonderful falling dream..
Goth?
Filled with a dark beauty
Filled with a dark beauty

Long Ago and Far Away
Shroud
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Wet Warm Cling - Film Red Velvet Crush

ASIN: B00000HYZ6
Release Date: 1996-02-12

Tracks:

Under a Dark Sky
Tonight
Falling Dream
Wallflower
Ahes In the Wind
Alice
She
Wednesday's Child
Caged Bird
Sulfer Salt and Mercury
Shadow
Long Ago and Far Away

Album Description

"Beautifully melancholic female vocals combines with dark and slow ethereal music.

Customer Reviews:

Sorry.......2001-09-27

The Shrouds first disc just left me kind of wondering. Their follow up was superb but this album had many a hole. Caged Bird is excellent though and well worth the price of the disc, imo. But the rest of the album kind of lacked. I wish I could say something positive about this album besides the fact that Caged Bird is good. But I can't. Total honest truth, start with their follow up then come back and get this one. Her vocals got stronger and the follow up was really sonic and had some great melody. It's not a horrible album, don't get me wrong. But they got much better and I think the consumer should opt for the secodn then the first ;).

Another wonderful falling dream.........2000-12-28

This is a beautiful album, melodic but fresh. Too many goth bands either go for a pounding, dark rock sound, or go totally ethereal. Either extreme gets boring after a while. This band does a little of both, throws in a female lead who sounds properly goth without pretending to be a fallen angel or a vampire queen, and makes the whole thing sound great. 'Falling Dream' is a spacy kind of fantasy in a fairy tale style. 'Alice' is a brilliant rocker with a fresh delivery - sometimes I actually prefer it to the original (if you didn't know, it's an ancient Sisters of Mercy song). A great bunch of songs for those who wish goth music hadn't gotten so vapidly pretentious in the Nineties.

Goth?.......2000-08-31

If you are looking for "Sisters of Mercy" or "BauHaus"- forget it! If you're into Concrete Blond, you shouldn't be disapointed. It may grow on me, but NOT what I expected.

Filled with a dark beauty.......2000-07-14

The diversity of the songs on this album is truly incredible. Each one stands out from the others with its own unique sound, evoking a myriad of emotions ranging from joy to melancholy. "Tonight," an intense yet simple love song, is rife with a dark, heady euphoria, expressed in such lyrics as "no regrets, no turing back, oh throw all caution to the wind". The same intensity is transformed into disappointment in the sorrowful "Shadow," a portrait of unrequited love. "And the rain beats on the window pane, counting the years passing. You never came." The collection has its share of quiet, introspective songs, including a haunting cover of "Alice" and the deliciously morbid "Ashes in the Wind." (I can't begin to describe how much I love this song, with its eerie vocals and surreal imagery. "Gathered on stony steps, we breathe our last whispers of the end." It's one of the Shroud's most melodic songs, and perhaps also the "gothiest".) But there are also more energetic pieces, such as "Caged Bird" and "Sulfur, Salt and Mercury," which seem almost to scintillate with a dark energy. The different styles are well balanced, though. There's a whimsical, almost ethereal quality to all the songs, and the entire album has a vaguely pagan overtone. One can hear many elements of the style later developed in A Dark Moon Night, though there's also a raw quality here which reminds me a little of Switchblade Symphony's Serpentine Gallery.

Filled with a dark beauty.......2000-07-14

This album continues to hold my interest although I've played it countless times. The melodies are beautiful, the lyrics at times inspirational. This is a band which deserves a lot more attention, and an album that I highly recommend.

Songs to Wake the Dead
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Songs to Wake the Dead
Alien Sex Fiend , Gitane Demone & Marc Johx , Switchblade Symphony , The Shroud , Rosetta Stone , Big Electric Cat , Children on Stun , Nosferatu , Spiral Trance , and Corpus Delicti
Manufacturer: Cleopatra
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000EHWUVQ

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Track Listing: 1. Alien Sex Fiend - Magic (Pyramid Mix) 2. Demonix - Perv (Remix) 3. Switchblade Symphony - Dollhouse (The Damned Mix) 4. The Shroud - Caged Bird 5. Christian Death - Hour of the Wolf 6. Eva O. - Angel of Death 7. The Wake - Procession 8. Rosetta Stone - Adrenaline (Hard Mix) 9. Big Electric Cat - Christabel 10. Corpus Delicti - The Shelter 11. The Damned - Grimly Fiendish (live) 12. Die Form - Bite God 13. Children on Stun - Leveled Out 14. Nosferatu - Farewell My Little Earth 15. Spiral Trance - Close Your Eyes

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Alone Beside Her

ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000Q7ZKL6
Release Date: 2007-05-01

Album Description

Since 1999, this New Hampshire-based symphonic goth/death band have recorded numerous demos, EPs and splits. 'Alone Beside Her' is their long-awaited full-length debut, and it is another step up in terms of maturity and professionalism. Screaming Ferret.

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Dalston Shroud
Sand
Manufacturer: Soul Jazz
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000IB0EKM
Release Date: 2006-11-20

Tracks:

Kendoki
Doctor Crop
Dalston Shroud
Stick Eyed Bug Man
Summer Lightning, Pt. 2
Lal K
Light Bender
Arson
Intersex
Bearded Angel
Summer Lightning, Pt. 1

Album Description

Third album of post-punk/electronic/art noise geniuses who have created a musical space for themselves all of their own - They've performed alongside ballerinas, live animals, played to Tarkovsky films and played in cemetories. Soul Jazz. 2006.

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A truely terrific album
Pretty good...
Oh my Goth
Great cd
WHAT A FIND

A Dark Moon Night
Shroud
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ASIN: B00000GWV2
Release Date: 1999-01-01

Tracks:

Pixy - Led
Where the Wind Goes
Madeline
And Then
Day and Night
Roses
Prophecy
Another Time
Let Me hold On
Apology
Cup

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Though the Shroud have the band name and the cover art of gloomy, Gothic dark wavers, this record's sound pulses with uptempo love songs and velvety rockers. Engaging in a straight-up, guitar-driven way, the music is simultaneously accessible and mysterious, like familiar surroundings suddenly darkened in a candle-lit power outage. Though well-crafted and produced to a high sheen, it's also still edgy and passionate. Take the verses of "Pixy-Led": Lydia Fortner's vocals cascade through a melancholic guitar line, giving way to the big chords and enticingly teasing keyboard riff in the chorus. Elsewhere, the arpeggiated guitar work and organic atmospherics of "And Then" almost sound like a forgotten Moody Blues B-side. Still, this is more Siouxie Sioux than classic-rock homage. The baroque feel and swirling vocals of songs like "Let Me Hold On" conjure up images of a romanticized past, lavish and ornate as a four-poster bed covered with rose petals. --Matthew Cooke

Album Description

Beautifull melancholic female vocals combined with dark and slow ethereal music

Customer Reviews:

A truely terrific album.......2003-03-24

Not cold, this album is notibly dark but so very warm and refreshing. The voice; a smokey hybrid of Stevie Nix and Gitane Demone. Lydia Fortners voice has a smooth and absolute sound. The music is so very reminding of "The Cures" "Disentegration" on the way to "Wish" being that the guitar effects are so very similar and the pace is mellow and developing. "A Dark Moon Night" is an album that keeps giving all the way through, very well balanced with intelligent lyrics wise in mysticism that are further displayed on "In the Garden".(the shrouds follow up album which is also very good) This album is a truley wonderful album, invoking a mood like waves rolling on the beach on a warm night of a quiet red/gold ending summer day. Very entertaining band to listen to. The Shroud are very worthy of thier praise.

Pretty good..........2003-03-22

I like this album, but I don't listen to it as often as others. I enjoy the female vocals and the overall subtle feel of it, but somewhat repititous...

Oh my Goth.......2002-10-28

This is a pretty darn good album.

I have to admit that I was thouroughly underwhelmed on the first few listens. But like all good stuff, after a while I began to think it was OK, then pretty good, now I am sold.

The Shroud combine several talented individuals in creating their unique sound. Lydia Fortner has an extremley talented voice, from the higher note too deep sensous growls. Her versility is well shown by the second track "where the wind goes" which just melts into your ears. The guitars are understated, and rely mainly on Lydias voice to gain effect. This is best comparible to other guitar darkwave bands- maybe like the Cranes with a different vocalist, or perhaps early Cure.

If you like guitar based goth, any darkwave, any shoegazer or even just feel like some mellow sounds this comes recommended. If you are of a more industrial bent- say Collide, Curve or Wench, you may find this a bit too tame, but I think it would suit even you for those "quiet moments".

Great cd.......2002-06-23

This is my favourite cd right now.

I really like this one very much and that's coming from someone who's very picky about "Goth" music.

WHAT A FIND.......2001-02-07

I bought this CD on a whim just from listening to a few clips. When I got it, it stayed in my CD player in my car for over a month straight. The music is haunting and lovely...perfect for nearly any mood you're in. I never tire of the music, the voices and the feelings behind them. The song 'Dark Moon Night' should be dedicated to my ex-husband.

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The Shroud Of
Minimal Man
Manufacturer: Boutique
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00062P54S
Release Date: 2004-11-23

Tracks:

Loneliness
Two People
High Why
Hospital
Blue Step
Hatemonger
Shroud
Now I Want It All
Hex of Sex
You Are
I Don't Resist
Jungle Song
She Was a Visitor
Two Little Skeletons [*]
Tired Death [*]
He Who Falls [7"][Live][*]
She Was a Visitor [7"][Live][*]
Shower Sequence [*]

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Beautiful melancholy...
An Ethereal Romp Through Dark Melancholy
a slight disappointment, but still superb
A great new EP from the Shroud!!
a good listen all round

In the Garden
Shroud
Manufacturer: Neue Asthetik
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ASIN: B0000647M2
Release Date: 2002-04-03

Tracks:

In The Garden
Mirrorworld
Green Velvet
Psychopsis
Vision
Black
Let Go
Valeriana
Pandora
Spiral Back
Collector
Dans Le Jardin

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful melancholy..........2005-01-19

'In The Garden' is The Shroud's third release and it is definitely deserving of your immediate attention. I don't have their debut 'Long Ago and Far Away' yet but, unlike most fans, I find myself favoring this album over 'A Dark Moon Night' which was also very good. 'In The Garden' is chock-full of dreamy, infectious melodies and, to me, is more accessible than 'A Dark Moon Night'. Whenever I get an itch to hear something by The Shroud I almost always seem to pop in this album...

Lydia Fortener has a voice that's akin to Faith and the Muse's Monica Richards. It's at times whispery and ethereal while at other times fiercely dynamic, which goes perfect with the moody, otherworldly Gothic-rock rhythms, and a few atmoshperic openers/interludes that range from ominous to gorgeous. Musically the material is mighty impressive but lyrically this record is also very strong. Not one song on here is disposable of and I especially love the beautiful, melodic tracks "Let Go", "Spiral Back" and "Collector".

I'm pleased to know that Collide is not the only talented Goth group to come out of the Los Angeles area, and I am proud to say that they are a local band I look forward to *hopefully* seeing live someday.

An Ethereal Romp Through Dark Melancholy.......2004-06-16

The Shroud have proven themselves to be a highly eclectic darkwave group, bringing a wide variety of sounds to their intriguingly haunting and gorgeously artistic music. This album is no different. "In the Garden" is a highly atmospheric romp through a dark, moody, otherworldly plane of existence.

The first and title track, "In the Garden" is an eerie prelude foreshadowing and setting the mood for the remainder of the album. Lydia Fortner's dramatic and breathy vocals on this track truly give a sense of ominously ethereal beauty. "Mirrorworld" combines a mellow, steady, rhythmic beat to back up Lydia's vocals, which border somewhere between mid-range singing and spoken word. "Green Velvet" adds more noticeable guitars and drums, with intriguing keyboard interludes.

Track four, "Psychopsis," is reminiscent of a child's distant cries. This track, like the title track, is a short interlude rather than a full-length song. "Vision" is a highly danceable track with excellent guitars and drums. "Black" tones things down once again with a mellow yet pounding beat. Lydia's lyrics on this piece seem particularly poetic and melancholic. "Let Go" continues the mood and pace set during "Black."

"Valeriana" is yet another instrumental interlude, consisting of a quaint tapping on the piano. "Pandora" picks things up a bit with a guitar-driven beat and catchy lyrics. "Spiral Back" is more driven by drums and keyboards, yet still catchy and trance-inducing nonetheless. "Collector" sits itself comfortably into a mellow groove achieved via rhythmic guitars, and is almost folksy. "Dans Le Jardin" rounds out the album by returning us to sounds similar to the opening title track, but adds a flute into the mix.

Overall, The Shroud really show off their talent on this release, as well as their ability to incorporate various artistic influences in order to create an album that is really on entire movement rather than a mere collection of songs. This particular album is subtle in both its message and execution, feeling very much like a trance-induced dream state. Lydia's voice is not strained to any extent, as she chooses to stay in a lower vocal range throughout this album's entirety. This only serves to enhance the mellow and psychedelic mood that perseveres for the CD's duration. The light, airy, and atmospheric instrumentation backs up these vocals beautifully. Turn out the lights, light some candles, and kick back to treat yourself to this music that is truly too beautiful to ignore!

Also recommended: "Chasing the Ghost" by Collide, "Haunted" by Poe, and "A Dark Moon Night" by The Shroud.

a slight disappointment, but still superb.......2002-12-14

The first time I listened to this album, I hated it-- it's a distinct departure from their previous two (both of which I would rate 5 stars)-- but after a few more listens, I began to get into its subtle charms. It is mellower and more dreamlike, and works better as a whole than as individual tracks. Like other listeners, I expected something longer (especially after 3 years), but then I don't know what has transpired during that period of time. Still, Lydia's voice is as wonderful as ever, as is the band's playing.

A great new EP from the Shroud!!.......2002-11-24

The Shroud are a rarity, indeed. An American band playing dark, moody gothic rock - and from sunny L.A., at that! On this new album, better production and increased use of electronic textures elevates their unique sound to better heights. However, my problem with the album is its brevity. If you think this is an album with 12 real songs, as the titles suggest, think again. Four of the "songs" are rather pointless instrumental interludes, obviously included to pad the running time of the album, which at only 43 minutes, is already too short. What we're left with is 8 actual songs, clocking in at around a total of 35 minutes. The songs themselves are all excellent, further expanding the band's repertoire beyond their guitar-bass-drums gothic roots, but I'd have preferred to pay the price of an e.p. or mini-album, which this sorta is - or, better yet, have a longer album! Is this all they could come up with in three years?! Albums do seem to be getting shorter these days, and with compact discs holding 80 minutes, that's a real disappointment.

a good listen all round.......2002-06-14

the shroud have always seem to satisfy my musical craving with each release that they have created, certainly this album is definately up to the quality in terms of what you would expect from one of the most talented inovative groups around today.
With the trademark sound that they have grown accustomed to, but with a little more qualities about this record that makes it stand out from their previous releases.
songs that stand out, well nearly all of them....but the highpoints are pieces like, mirrorworld....which basically saturates past a point that you are tranported through to another place!
there are many more great songs here for that person who likes to listen to music with "vision" in it.
I strongly give my recommend...although the only downside for me is there are to many instrumental breaks and interludes throughout the album.