Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows Germany

Biography

Officially founded in 1989, the Germany based Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows is one of the very few dark groups/projects who have based the trinity of their music, poetry and visual appearance on the explicit emphasis of the highly individual expression of pain, isolation, depression, token suicides and the desperate search for the "sacred reunion"; all acted out by their sole protagonist – the transgender Anna-Varney Cantodea. Best described as "introverted exhibitionism"

Popular Songs

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  Dark Delight

  Es reiten die Toten so schnell (or: The Vampyre Sucking at His Own Vein)

  110 BPM
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  The Dreadful Mirror

  Es reiten die Toten so schnell (or: The Vampyre Sucking at His Own Vein)

  149 BPM
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  Gone

  Death and Flamingos

  84 BPM
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  May I Kiss Your Wound?

  The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller (Aus dem Schoß der Hölle ward geboren die Totensonne)

  78 BPM
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  Soror Sui Excidium (Geliebte Schwester Selbstzerstörung)

  Todeswunsch - Sous le soleil de Saturne

Discography

Island of the Dead

2020

Death and Flamingos

2019

The Spiral Sacrifice

2018

Mitternacht

2014

Poetica - All Beauty Sleeps

2013

Have You Seen This Ghost?

2011

Sanatorium altrosa: Musical Therapy for Spiritual Dysfunction

2008

Les fleurs du mal - Die Blumen des Bösen

2007

La Chambre d'Echo - Where the Dead Birds Sing

2004

Es reiten die Toten so schnell (or: The Vampyre Sucking at His Own Vein)

2003

Songs From the Inverted Womb

2000

Dead Lovers' Sarabande (Face One)

1999

Dead Lovers' Sarabande (Face Two)

1999

The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller (Aus dem Schoß der Hölle ward geboren die Totensonne)

1997

Voyager: The Jugglers of Jusa

1997

Todeswunsch - Sous le soleil de Saturne

1995

...Ich töte mich jedesmal aufs Neue, doch ich bin unsterblich, und ich erstehe wieder auf; in einer Vision des Untergangs...

1994