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Es reiten die Toten so schnell

2003 studio album by Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows

For the demo tape, see Es reiten die Toten so schnell...

Es reiten die Toten so schnell (or: the Vampyre sucking at his own Vein) (German: "The Dead Ride So Fast") is the seventh album[2] by darkwave act Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows, and was released in 2003.[1] A double vinyl edition and an A5-sized boxed set edition was released, in limited quantities of 666 and 1,999 copies, respectively. The double vinyl edition came with a poster, T-shirt, postcards, communion wafers and "authenticated" graveyard soil.

Quick Facts Es reiten die Toten so schnell, Studio album by Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows ...

Overview

For Es reiten die Toten so schnell, Anna-Varney Cantodea went back to her demo tape of the same name and re-recorded all of its songs; the first seven tracks of this album consist of the demo tape in its original sequence. The rest of the album features re-recordings of the bonus tracks that were included on the first Sopor Aeternus album, Ich töte mich..., along with a handful of new songs. "Birth - Fiendish Figuration", Sopor Aeternus' signature song from their first album, appears again in its fourth incarnation on a record. The original version of "Reprise" was a spoken word piece featuring a line from the bridge of "Dead Souls".

John A. Rivers, producer for Swell Maps, Dead Can Dance and Love and Rockets, was brought in to oversee production on 'Es reiten...[2] The album was recorded in England,[3] as opposed to Sopor Aeternus' home country of Germany.[2]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Anna-Varney Cantodea

Personnel

References

  1. [1]
    "Es reiten die Toten so schnell van SOPOR AETERNUS (official) op Myspace". Blogs.myspace.com. 2008-12-08. Archived from the original on 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
  2. [2]
    The utterly fabulous ANNA-VARNEY CANTODEA. "SOPOR AETERNUS & The Ensemble Of Shadows". Soporaeternus.de. Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
  3. [3]
    Liner Notes for Es reiten die Toten so schnell
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