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This Corrosion" was a composition Eldritch had already once recorded (if not released) with his Sisterhood collaborators. Also, the B-side featured "Torch", the last song from the previous line-up. Then-manager Boyd Steemson maintains the chart success was no surprise for the band. a b LIPEZ, ZACH. "The Mekons' Jon Langford on His Brief Sisters of Mercy Stint" . Retrieved 8 May 2020.

Sandstorm / Untitled were given away in contribution to a charity compilation CD in the early 90's. Robb, John. "Interview: Andrew Eldritch in depth on Trump, brexit, the ‘new album’ and himself". Louderthanwar.com. 15 November 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2018 Ohanesian, Liz (15 February 2016). "10 Classic Goth Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Goth Music". LA Weekly. Archived from the original on 25 June 2020 . Retrieved 22 June 2020. Following the last concerts in December 1993, the Sisters of Mercy went into what Eldritch called a "strike against EastWest". He was alluded to have been preoccupied with legal matters surrounding the band; although Eldritch has never explained the meaning behind this, it has been suggested [ by whom?] by various parties that the issues stemmed from either the short-lived tour with Public Enemy in 1991, or, alternatively, Eldritch's ongoing issues with EastWest Records, as the band still owed them two original studio albums.

Riemann, Hannsjörg (17 September 1992). "Andrew Eldritch". Bravo (in German). p.28. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012 . Retrieved 9 April 2018.

The original incarnation of Doktor Avalanche was a BOSS DR-55 ("Doctor Rhythm"); the Doktor was later replaced by a Roland TR-606, soon followed by a TR-808, and, briefly, a TR-909. On one album, First and Last and Always, an Oberheim DMX bore the Doktor name. [31] Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 3, stamped, "XXX S ΛO" etched): R/S Alsdorf 242232-1-A XXX S ΛO Eldritch refined his songwriting by drawing common threads between all acts of barbarism, whether artistic or romantic or political. The band’s most recent album, 1990’s Vision Thing, is named after a term George H.W. Bush floated to describe the elusive quality that makes a candidate’s platform feel marketable. Eldritch—whose plan-B if the music thing didn’t work out was to study language at Oxford—always seemed attuned to this type of rhetoric. The group’s first greatest hits collection was called A Slight Case of Overbombing, his attempt at nailing the tone himself: the way that overly confident people present their dangerous ideas to a receptive audience. In the decades since, Eldritch has given up being Michael Stipe or Ozzy Osbourne; sometimes he doesn’t even seem like he wants to be Andrew Eldritch. He regularly writes and performs new material in concert, some of which his fans hail alongside his best work, but has yet to make another album. (“I’ve got other stuff to do, man,” is how he recently justified the decision. “I’ve been watching a lot of anime.”)Note: The album was originally launched on 13 November 1987. For further releases see discogs/Floodland a b c Andrews, Mark. "Shine Like Thunder: The First Golden Age of The Sisters of Mercy". The Quietus . Retrieved 8 May 2020. This Corrosion” was ultimately featured on the second studio album from The Sisters of Mercy, and the band pared down to the core two-piece of Andrew Eldritch and Patricia Morrison, creating a record that re-defined the sound The Sisters of Mercy stood for. Peddie, Ian (2006). The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest. Ashgate. ISBN 9780754651147. Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 12, stamped, "X 15 D" etched): R/S Alsdorf 242232-1-AX 15 D

Again, this is where the contradictions appear. If the early versions of ‘This Corrosion’ were an extension of Gift, Eldritch’s employment of Jim Steinman with no apparent irony found him embracing the very thing he’d supposedly been taking the piss out of all these years. The uber-producer makes his presence felt on Floodland’s opener, ‘Dominion/Mother Russia’ wherein the masses voices of the New York Choral Society are used to grand effect once more. Speculation about a new release was renewed in November 2016, when Eldritch said he might release a new album if Donald Trump were elected president: "I don't think I could keep quiet if that happened." [20] The band has yet to release any new material, but in 2017 they embarked on a European tour in August and September. [21] [22] The band has performed thirteen new songs during concerts held between 2019 and 2022, such as "There is a Door" and "Show Me (On The Doll)," but has yet to make studio recordings available. [23] Since 2012, some of the shows featured a guest appearance by the Irish singer Lisa Cuthbert who performs her cover version of "This Corrosion" on piano. [24] [25] Influence In late 1997, the contract with EastWest was terminated, after the company agreed to accept material recorded under the SSV name instead of two albums for which the Sisters of Mercy had contractual obligations. The company agreed to accept the material (techno-like droning featuring mumbling vocals by Andrew Eldritch, without drums) without listening to it first. The recordings were never officially released and circulated only through pirate MP3s. Regarding the title Floodland, Eldritch realised that, after writing all the songs for the album, the theme of water came up repeatedly. He attributed the theme's recurrence to the amount of water within Hamburg, where he was writing these songs. [18] Michael Bonner of Uncut viewed Eldritch as casting himself in a role where he is a "jaded observer, watching cynically as he and the world slouch towards Armageddon," adding that the songs are bonded together by "images of the apocalypse that straddle the gap between the personal and the political." [25]Andrew Eldritch – vocals, composing, keyboards, synthesizers, guitar, bass guitar, drum machine programming Billboard 200 | Week of 12 March 1988". Billboard. Archived from the original on 27 December 2019 . Retrieved 21 June 2020. Hussey and Adams went on to form a new group called the Sisterhood. Their setlists featured songs Hussey had intended for the Sisters of Mercy; he would later record and release many of them with his new group. Meanwhile, Eldritch protested against their usage of the Sisterhood name as too similar to the Sisters of Mercy and the name of his band's fan community. In an attempt to stop Hussey's band Eldritch released the single "Giving Ground" by his own band, the Sisterhood. The single was later followed by the album Gift. Hussey's band eventually christened themselves the Mission. Hussey has since expressed regret about the entire incident.

European Hot 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.4, no.50. 19 December 1987. p.18. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History. History The Sisters of Mercy logo, version from 1990 featuring original head and star logo adapted from Gray's Anatomy textbook 1858 Early years (1980–1983) Recording [ edit ] Eldritch hired Patricia Morrison ( pictured, c. 1978) with the intention of having her play bass guitar on the album. Mico, Ted (14 November 1987). "After the Flood". Melody Maker. Archived from the original on 7 July 2018 . Retrieved 9 April 2018.

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Campbell, Michael (2012). Popular Music in America:The Beat Goes On. Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-0840029768. a b Morrison, Patricia (1988). "Patricia Morrison – Sisters of Mercy" (Video). Videowave Music. Archived from the original on 11 August 2016 . Retrieved 23 June 2020. Gary Marx (ex-Sisters of Mercy) – "The Nowhere Exhibition and a Then and Now" ". Side-line. 11 February 2008. Archived from the original on 6 September 2013 . Retrieved 11 July 2019. On November 13th, 1987, The Sisters of Mercy released their second album Floodland—considered by many to be a step sideways in the band’s musical direction; it’s definitely a nice wandering off the beaten path of Dr. Avalanche. After the end of The Sisters of Mercy MKII, with Wayne Hussey, Gary Marx and Craig Adams— Andrew Eldritch initially formed The Sisterhood to keep others from ever using that particular name; releasing a full-length album from The Sisterhood, along with a planned 12 inch EP called This Corrosion, that was never realized. a b Huey, Steve. "The Sisters of Mercy | Biography & History". AllMusic . Retrieved 14 November 2016.