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Pearls Given To The Swine

The Candles Burning Blue

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: SRE543CD

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Release Date:  23 February 2024

Label:  Svart Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  6430080232475

Genres:  Rock  Goth  

Release Date:  23 February 2024

Label:  Svart Records

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  6430080232468

Genres:  Rock  Goth  

  • Description

    This is the first official reissue of The Candles Burning Blue's highly appraised cult album Pearls Given To The Swine. For two decades the original CD pressing has been sought after but nearly impossible to find.

    Known for their violent and chaotic gigs, The Candles Burning Blue were an unconventional Gothic Rock band. Instead of romantic beauty they dealt with the harsher aspects of the darkness oozing from their own troubled lives. Even though they only released two CD-r, a split 7" and one full album, their impact on the Finnish Goth underground was a lasting one.

    Pearls Given To The Swine was recorded in 2000 and released in 2001 on CD, with only 500 official copies pressed. Some years later new copies appeared from shady sources, but basically the album disappeared from the face of the Earth.

    In 2001 the band started to work on the second album Pleasure Dome and also had some material recorded for the projected third album Abhorrence, but ceased to exist before any of this material was released. Until now. This reissue has a full length bonus disc consisting of these songs.

    The Candles Burning Blue had its roots firmly in Gothic Rock as performed by bands like Bauhaus, Christian Death, Virgin Prunes and The Cure, but they mixed in elements of experimentalism and art rock. Pearls Given To The Swine is a lost and found classic of Finnish Gothic Rock, and a fine example of Finnish dark culture around the turn of the millennium.

    Members went on to play in bands like Reverend Bizarre, The Puritan, Werwolf Lodge and Opium Warlords, but never reunited.

    Description

    This is the first official reissue of The Candles Burning Blue's highly appraised cult album Pearls Given To The Swine. For two decades the original CD pressing has been sought after but nearly impossible to find.

    Known for their violent and chaotic gigs, The Candles Burning Blue were an unconventional Gothic Rock band. Instead of romantic beauty they dealt with the harsher aspects of the darkness oozing from their own troubled lives. Even though they only released two CD-r, a split 7" and one full album, their impact on the Finnish Goth underground was a lasting one.

    Pearls Given To The Swine was recorded in 2000 and released in 2001 on CD, with only 500 official copies pressed. Some years later new copies appeared from shady sources, but basically the album disappeared from the face of the Earth.

    In 2001 the band started to work on the second album Pleasure Dome and also had some material recorded for the projected third album Abhorrence, but ceased to exist before any of this material was released. Until now. This reissue has a full length bonus disc consisting of these songs.

    The Candles Burning Blue had its roots firmly in Gothic Rock as performed by bands like Bauhaus, Christian Death, Virgin Prunes and The Cure, but they mixed in elements of experimentalism and art rock. Pearls Given To The Swine is a lost and found classic of Finnish Gothic Rock, and a fine example of Finnish dark culture around the turn of the millennium.

    Members went on to play in bands like Reverend Bizarre, The Puritan, Werwolf Lodge and Opium Warlords, but never reunited.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Mimosa
      • 2. After My First Murder
      • 3. Someone Is Here
      • 4. What Have I Done
      • 5. Funeral Wedding
      • 6. Disgraced Girl
      • 7. How The Black Art Was Revealed
      • 8. Disco Death

      Disc 2

      • 1. Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome
      • 2. The Thelemite
      • 3. My Portrait In Sadness And Glory
      • 4. The Stone Orchids
      • 5. In The Morning
      • 6. Bethrothal And The Rites Of Rape
      • 7. She Travels The Fastest Who Travels Alone
      • 8. Jubileum In Hell
      • 9. The Terrible Secret

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Mimosa
      • 2. After My First Murder
      • 3. Someone Is Here
      • 4. What Have I Done

      Side 2

      • 1. Funeral Wedding
      • 2. Disgraced Girl
      • 3. How The Black Art Was Revealed
      • 4. Disco Death

      Disc 2

      Side 3

      • 1. Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome
      • 2. The Thelemite
      • 3. My Portrait In Sadness And Glory
      • 4. The Stone Orchids
      • 5. In The Morning

      Side 4

      • 1. Bethrothal And The Rites Of Rape
      • 2. She Travels The Fastest Who Travels Alone
      • 3. Jubileum In Hell
      • 4. The Terrible Secret