CD: 758027
RELEASED: 2006
LABEL: Warner

01. Dominion/Mother Russia
02. Flood I
03. Lucretia My Reflection
04. 1959
05. This Corrosion
06. Flood II
07. Driven Like The Snow
08. Never Land
09. Torch (*)
10. Colours (*)
11. Never Land (*)
12. Emma (*)

(*) bonus tracks

2006 issued digitally remastered edition of 1987's "Floodland". While the Goth scene in England was picking up commercial steam in the mid-'80s, Sisters of Mercy may have seemed quiet, but roared back with this album. Opening with the driving two-part hymn "Dominion/Mother Russia", Sisters leader Andrew Eldritch (along with bassist Patricia Morrison) created a black soundscape that is majestic and vast. While earlier Sisters releases were noisy, sometimes harsh affairs, "Floodland" is filled with lush production and lyric imagery that is both scary and glorious. The slower tracks like "Flood" and "1959" are some of the best ethereal sounds Goth has to offer and the downright regal "This Corrosion" is one of the best single songs of the genre. Long before Trent Reznor brought his brand of densely textured, hard-hitting Goth rock to the world, The Sisters Of Mercy were creating the mould with albums such as "Floodland". Here, front man Andrew Eldritch and company mix styles with a dark and gloomy palette. Songs are built with punishing and/or danceable drum machine tracks, guitars that alternately moan and crash, touches of '80s keyboards, and Eldritch's deeply resonant, undertaker voice, for a sound that made the Sisters one of the leading lights of the '80s Goth movement. A definitive milestone, the CD housed in a foldout digipack sleeve with updated liner notes and 4 bonus tracks.

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