Exodus | Transparent Red Vinyl

As ever so often in their long and storied career, CLAN OF XYMOX pick just the perfect moment in time for their eagerly awaited return. 'Exodus', their impeccable 18th studio album, showcases the strengths and virtues of one of the leading and most influential groups the worlds of dark wave and gothic have ever seen. Three years after their eerily echoing manifesto 'Limbo', an account of the pandemic and its beastly consequences, wave wizard Ronny Moorings returns to the scene of the crime. With him he carries a black bouquet of mournful dirges for a sick new world, elegies for a new status quo we are all forced to live with. 40 years after their inception, CLAN OF XYMOX remain the beacon of tragic elegance and morbid tristesse. They are the undoubted, unchallenged spearheads of a scene that has suddenly been brought to the attention of a much younger generation, seeking to express their angst and pain through music this legendary band has been faithfully delivering these past decades. 'Exodus' speaks of this exceptional status and leads the field in prosaic sorrow with ten new anthems of exquisite darkness. The apparatus Ronny Moorings uses may still be the same; the result is yet another masterpiece full of longing melodies, sulking vocals from deep within the batcave, reverberating guitars and hypnotic drums to banish the phantoms in all of us. We're dancing right into the abyss, this album tells us. But at least we're dancing. When there is nowhere left to turn to, when a

Tracks

1~1~Save Our Souls (Album Version)
1~2~Fear For A World At War
1~3~The Afterglow
1~4~I Can See Miles Across
1~5~We Are Who We Are
2~1~Blood Of Christ
2~2~X-Odus
2~3~Arcanus
2~4~I Always Feel The Same
2~5~Once Upon A Time

Details

Catalogue Number: TRI827LP
Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Clan Of Xymox
Release Date: 07 June 2024
Genre: Special Interest / Miscellaneous
Label: TRISOL MUSIC GROUP
Distributor: Rocket Group