Sisters Of Mercy
These Leeds (UK) second-wavers (named after a track from 1968's Songs
Of Leonard Cohen) became the sour face of Goth four years
after their first single, with the release of their debut LP, First
and Last and Always. Andrew Eldritch brought Napoleonic
swagger to such dark anthems as Walk Away and Some
Kind Of Stranger.
The drum-machine clatter and chiming guitar was a good fit with
Goth's introspective aesthetic, but their driving ambition
gathered around them like a storm.
Peter Murphy (of Bauhaus) asserted that The Sisters Of Mercy
were "formed for Goths, by Goths, and by God, they were
Goth".
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