
Symphonian played a melodic and emotional style of gothic metal with a slightly more contemporary sound than other bands in the genre. Their music featured crushing downtempo guitars and harsh growls offset by symphonic keyboards and powerful female vocals. Product details: † 80% ring-spun cotton,…
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A criminally underrated product of the early gothic metal scene, Fear of God took the genre to new and unheard of extremes. Featuring incredibly expressive female vocals, their music was a dynamic blend of alternative and gothic metal, at times subsiding into ambient desolation before…
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From its starkly beautiful contrast of half-whispered male vocals with a ghostly female soprano to its tastefully understated atmospheric keyboards and melancholy doom metal riffs, Aegis by Theatre of Tragedy brings together diverse influences into a brilliant synthesis of gothic metal and alternative rock. Product…
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Many newer gothic metal bands feature harsh growls and operatic female vocals, but when By Time Alone was released in 1996, Orphanage delivered something quite unique and visionary. The album is a mixture of straight death metal tracks on one hand, and more epic gothic…
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Trees of Eternity was a side project from Swallow the Sun’s guitarist and founding member Juha Raivio and his partner Aleah Stanbridge on vocals. Originally an acoustic project, it expanded into a fully fledged metal band with the addition of Kai Haito (Wintersun, Nightwish) on…
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The novel centers on the life of Athanasius Pernath, a jeweler and art restorer who lives in the ghetto of Prague. But his story is experienced by an anonymous narrator, who, during a visionary dream, assumes Pernath's identity thirty years before. This dream was perhaps…
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Some of Howard’s best-known characters—Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them—roam the forbidding locales of the author’s fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa. The collection…
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An anthology of early horror stories by the influential but forgotten novelist Hans Heinz Ewers, which includes The Worst Betrayal, Sibylla Madruzzo, TheToy Box and The Last Will and Testament of Stanislawa d'Asp. These stories were taken, in slightly abridged form, from the volumes 'Die…
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Between 1785 and 1788 an unknown follower of the emerging Rosicrucian movement in northern Europe compiled a selection of images and texts from esoteric material associated with the mysterious Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross. First published in two parts in Altona, Germany, the book drew…
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The priests of ancient Egypt preserved a canon of harmonies and proportions, which they applied to music, art, statecraft, and all the institutions of their civilization. In this book, John Michell demonstrates how the same canon underlies sacred structures from ancient times to the Christian…
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