Released 22 August 1995 Length 52:40 Artist The Gathering Producer Waldemar Sorychta | Recorded 1-16 June 1995 Mandylion
(1995) Nighttime Birds
(1997) Release date 22 August 1995 Label Century Media Records | |
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Studio Woodhouse Studios, Hagen, Germany Genres Gothic metal, Doom metal, Progressive metal Similar The Gathering albums, Gothic metal albums | ||
The gathering mandylion full album
Mandylion is the third studio album by the Dutch band the Gathering. It was released on 22 August 1995 by Century Media Records. The record is their first album to feature vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen. The album was recorded and mixed at Woodhouse Studios in Hagen, Germany between 1 and 16 June 1995, under the guidance of Siggi Bemm and Waldemar Sorychta.
Contents
- The gathering mandylion full album
- The gathering strange machines
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
Two of the songs have quotes from popular culture inserted into them: "Strange Machines" contains a passage from George Pal's film version of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, and "Sand & Mercury" ends with a recording of J.R.R. Tolkien reading a quote from Simone de Beauvoir.
The gathering strange machines
Track listing
All lyrics written by Anneke van Giersbergen; all music composed by The Gathering.
Disc 2, 1–3 Demo recorded in June 1994 at Beaufort Studio.
Disc 2, 4–7 Demo recorded in early 1995 at Double Noise Studio in Tilburg.
Personnel
Songs
1Strange Machines6:05
2Eleanor6:42
3In Motion #16:56