Origen:Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Alemania
Período de actividad:1989-presente (29 años)
Género:
~Dark folk
~Darkwave
~Rock gótico
~Neofolk
~Música neo-medieval
~Darkwave neoclásico
~Neue Deutsche Todeskunst
Discográficas:
~Apocalyptic Vision Records
~Metal Blade Records
~Self Released
Miembro actual:
~Anna Varney Cantodea:Voz,guitarra,teclado (1989-presente)
Antiguos Miembros:
~Holger
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows es una banda relacionada comúnmente con la subcultura gótica, que ha conseguido gran prestigio en círculos especializados,está formada por su único miembro,conocido como Anna Varney Cantodea.
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Ana Varney Cantodea |
El nombre "Varney" fue integrado basándose en una novela de vampiros llamada "Varney el vampiro, o el festín de sangre" (Varney the Vampire or the Feast of Blood) de 1847 como se deduce por una canción titulada "The Feast of Blood" que incluye en un par de Albums.
Es poco lo que se sabe acerca de Anna Varney,salvo que ha creado un personaje andrógino oscuro y rodeado de misterio, muy acorde con la música que compone.
Anna Varney se niega a actuar en directo "para seres humanos" y ni siquiera se conoce su nombre real en las fotos suele aparecer fuertemente maquillado o con máscaras,no realiza entrevistas en persona y sólo las concede si éstas se hacen en condiciones que garanticen su anonimato.
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Tampoco se sabe mucho acerca de "The Ensemble of Shadows" ("Conjunto de las Sombras"). Cuyo origen está en el descubrimiento de "presencias o voces sobrenaturales" que despertaron su sensibilidad musical,en los tiempos de casi tres décadas en que Varney vivió en dura soledad, depresión y desesperación.
Una vida torturada y unos sentimientos negativos que terminaría compartiendo con el público gracias a la música que rondaba por su cabeza.
Su música es muy emocional y lúgubre, con un estilo que ha mutado y evolucionado disco tras disco, desde la electrónica de sus comienzos al electro-gótico pasando por la música medieval y renacentista. En su música podemos encontrar tanto instrumentos tradicionales como instrumentos de viento (en especial flautas), guitarras, bajos y cuartetos de cuerda, como sintetizadores o cajas de ritmos.
Anna Varney tiene un marcado carácter andrógino.Ha jugado en varias ocasiones con la idea de ser una mujer, y abandonar la forma masculina en favor de alcanzar la integridad entre lo masculino y lo femenino, pero niega someter su cuerpo a cualquier alteración quirúrgica para conseguirlo.
~Ich Töte Mich Jedesmal Aufs Neue, Doch Ich Bin Unsterblich, Und Ich Erstehe Wieder Auf... In Einer V -1994
Discográfica:Apocalyptic Vision
1. Travel on Breath
2. Falling Into Different Flesh
3. Birth-fiendish Figuration
4. Tanz der Grausamkeit
5. Im Garten des Nichts
6. Time Stands Still
7. Do You Know My Name?
8. Penance and Pain
9. Holy Water Moonlight
10. Beautiful Thorn
11. The Feast of Blood
12. Dark Delight
13. Baptisma
14. Birth-fiendish Figuration
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~Todeswunsch - Sous le Soleil de Saturne-1995
Discográfica:Apocalyptic Vision
1. Flesh Crucifix
2. Die Bruderschaft des Schmerzes
3. Shadowsphere I & II
4. Saltatio Crudelitatis
5. Just a Song Without a Name
6. Soror (Sister of Self-destruction)
7. Le Théâtre de la Blessure Sacrée
8. The Devil's Instrument
9. Todeswunsch
10. Drama der Geschlechtslosigkeit I
11. Freitod-phantasien
12. Drama der Geschlechtslosigkeit II
13. Saturn-impressionen
14. Somnambulist's Secret Bardo-life
15. Not Dead But Dying
16. Only the Dead in the Mist
17. This Profane Finality
18. Cage Within a Cage
~The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller-1997
Discográfica:Season Of Mist
Apocalyptic Vision
1. Sylla'borêal
2. Question(s) Beyond Terms
3. C'ayllagher a Dom'bhrail
4. To a Loyal Friend
5. Never Trust the Obvious
6. The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller
7. Memalon
8. Memories Are Haunted Places
9. Die Widerspendtigkeit Unerwünschter Gedanken
10. Synchronicity
11. Totenlight
12. Ein Freundliches Wort...
13. Die Toten Kehren Wieder Mit Dem Wind
14. May I Kiss Your Wound ?
15. Ein Gütiges Lächeln auf den Gesichtern der Toten...
~Voyager-The Jugglers of Jusa-1997
Discográfica:Apocalyptic Vision
1. The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller II
2. Ein Freundliches Wort Hat Meine Seele Beruhrt
3. Memalon II
4. Alone
5. Modela Est (Kraftwerk Cover)
6. Birth
7. Feralia Genitalia - Arrival of the Jugglers
8. Menuetto
9. Saturn Impressionen
10. May I Kiss Your Wound
11. Alone II
12. The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller II
Bonustracks (Re-Issue 2008)
13. The Goat
14. The Bells Have Stopped Ringing
15. The Widow's Dream (A Fragment)
~Dead Lovers Sarabande (Face One)-1999
Discográfica:Apocalyptic Vision
1. Across the Bridge
2. On Satur(n)days We Used To Sleep
3. Hades Pluton
4. Sieh, Mein Gelliebter, Hier Hab Ich Gift
5. Ich Wollte Hinaus in den Garten
6. Gebet: An Die Glücklichen Eroberer
7. Lament Totenklage
8. The Sleeper (by Edgard Allan Poe)
9. Die Knochenblume
10. Inscshrift Epitaph
11. All Good Things Are Eleven
~Dead Lovers Sarabande (Face Two)-2000
Discográfica:Apocalyptic Vision
1. Abschied
2. The Dog Burial
3. The House is Empty Now
4. No-one is There
5. Procession-funeral March
6. Va(r)nitas, Vanitas
7. The Hourglass
8. Transfiguration
9. Has He Come to Test Me ?
10. If Lonefiness Was All
11. Daffodils
~Songs from the Inverted Womb-2001
Discográfica:Metal Blade Records
1. Something Wicked This Way Comes
2. Tales from the Inverted Womb
3. Do You Know About the Water of Life?
4. And Bringer of Sadness
5. Résumé...
6. Totes Kind - Little Dead Boy
7. May I Kiss Your Wound ?
8. Saturn Devouring His Children
9. There Was a Country by the Sea
10. Little Velveteen Knight
11. Eldorado
~Nenia C'alladhan : The Medieval and Folky Side-project-2002
Discográfica:Metal Blade Records
1. An Die Sterne
2. Die Stimme im Sturm
3. Schwarzer Spiegel
4. Schattengesang
5. Der See Des Vergessens
6. Sternblumennacht
7. Schwarzer Spiegel II
8. Lied der Todesfee
9. Sternblumennacht (original version)
~Es Reiten Die Toten So Schnell-2003
Discográfica:Metal Blade Records
1. Omen Sinistrum
2. Dead Souls
3. Stake of my Soul
4. Beautiful Thorn
5. Baptisma
6. The Feast of Blood
7. Sopor Fratem Mortis Est
8. The Dreadful Mirror
9. Reprise
10. Birth-fiendish Figuration
11. Penance and Pain
12. Holy Water Moonlight
13. Infant
14. Über den Fluss
15. Dark Delight
~La Chambre D'echo - Where the Dead Birds Sing-2004
Discográfica :Apocalytic Vision
1. The Encoded Cloister
2. Backbone Practise
3. Idleness & Consequence
4. Beyond the Wall of Sleep
5. Imhotep
6. Hearse - Shaped Basins of Darkest Matter
7. Interlude - the Quiet Earth
8. We Have a Dog to Exercise
9. The Lion's Promise
10. Leeches & Deception
11. The Skeletal Garden
12. Feed the Birds
13. Consolatrix Has Left the Building
14. Day of the Dead
~The Bells Have Stopped Ringing-2005
1. The Goat
2. The Bells Have Stopped Ringing
~Les Fleurs du Mal-2007
1. Architecture (all That’s Erected... Are... Walls)
2. Always Within the Hour
3. In Der Palästra
4. A Little Bar of Soap
5. Bitter Sweet
6. Ourt Lady of the Broken Hearts
7. La Mort D’Arthur
8. The Simple Joys of Maidenhood
9. Helvetia Sexualis
10. Les Fleurs du Mal
11. Shave, If You Love Me
12. Some Men Are Like Chocolate
13. The Virgin Queen
~Sanatorium Altrosa (Musical Therapy for Spiritual Dysfunction)-2008
1. Consider This : the True Meaning of Love (Instrumental)
2. Architecture II
3. Shave, if You Love Me
4. La Mort d’Arthur
5. Consider This : the True Meaning of Love (Remix Version)
6. The Conqueror Worm II
7. In der Palästra
8. Collision
9. Les Fleurs du Mal
10. Bitter Sweet
11. Consider This : the True Meaning of Love
~Have You Seen This Ghost ? -2011
Labels
Discográfica:Apocalytic Vision
1. I Don't Believe in Ghosts
2. One Day My Prince Will Come
3. Cornucopia D'amour
4. It Is Safe to Sleep Alone
5. Hello
6. At the Stroke of Midnight Gently
7. Starlight Seen Through Veils of Tears
8. Powder
9. Angel of the Golden Fountain
10. Where the Ancient Laurel Grows
11. I Fell for One (Who Loved Me Not)
12. Holding Out for a Hero
13. The Hours of Sadness It Is Safe to Sleep Alone
~Children of the Corn- 2011
Discográfica:Apocalytic Vision
1.Children of the corn
2. Bis zum Hahnenschrei
3. Cornflowers
4. The Curse of the Mummy
5. Night of the Scarecrow
6. To Walk Behind the Rows
7. Harvest Moon (Cornflowers II)
~Poética-2013
1. The Oblong Box (Pt. 1)
2. Dreamland
3. Eldorado
4. The Sleeper
5. Alone (Pt. 1)
6. The Conqueror Worm
7. Alone (Pt. 2)
8. The City in the Sea
9. The Oblong Box (Pt. 2)
10. The Haunted Palace
11. A Dream Within a Dream
~Mitternacht-2014
Discográfica: Apocalytic Vision
1. Mitternacht
2. Beautiful
3. La Prima Vez
4. Bang-Bang
5. The Boy Has Built a Catacomb
6. Carnival of Souls
7. Confessional
8. Under His Light
9. You Cannot Make Him Love You
10. Under His Light
11. Into the Night
12. It's Just That My Sadness
13. Under His Light (2)
14. Miniature
The Spiral Sacrifice -2018
Discográfica:Self Released
1. Everything Is an Illusion
2. Where the End Begins
3. There Are Scars in the Evening Sky
4. The Broken
5. I Cannot Go Back to the Way I Was
6. In the Company of Beasts
7. When You Love a Man
8. Through the Forest Wondrously
9. By the Waters of Forgetfulness
10. Ein Freundlich' Wort einst Unverhofft
11. I Am Done with Men
12. Sometimes You Make Me Smile
13. At Sunset Through the Fields Aflame
14. In the Old House (We Made Out Well)
15. Light in the Attic
16. If I Could Go Back in Time
17. I Am so Glad it's Over
18. Let Me Say It Now
19. Through Your Eyes
EP:
~Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh-1995
Discográfica:Apocalyptic Vision
1. Anima I
2. Shadowsphere II
3. Saltatio Crudelitatis
4. Freitod-Phantasien
5. Anima II
6. Tanz der Grausamkeit
~Flowers in Formaldehyde-2004
Discográfica:Metal Blade Records
1. In an Hour Darkly
2. The Conqueror Worm
3. Minnesang
4. Von der Einfalt
5. Hearse-shaped Basins of Darkest Matter
6. Leeches and Deception
7. Extract from: the Voices of the Dead
8. Do You Know My Name ? What Has Happened While We Slept ?
~A Strange Thing to Say-2010
Discográfica:Apocalyptic Vision
1. A Strange Thing to Say
2. Silver
3. The Urine Song
4. Stains on You
5. 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea (or: The History of STEAMPUNK... abridged)
6. Oh, Chimney Sweep
Sencillo:
~In der Palästra-2008
Discográfica:Ninguna discográfica conocida
1. In der Palästra
*Omen Sinistrum
Complilaciones:
~Like a Corpse Standing in Desperation-2005
Discográfica:Ninguna discográfica conocida
~DISCO 1:
1. Omen Senistrium
2. Dead Souls
3. Stake of My Soul
4. Beautiful Thorn
5. Baptisma
6. The Feast of Blood
7. Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est
8. Reprise
9. White Body
10. Diô N'Arap
11. Tabor C'Alan O'Itana
12. Deep the Eternal Forest
13. Watch Your Step
14. Introduction - The Termite People
15. Anima I
16. Shadowsphere II
17. Saltatio Crudelitatis
18. Freitod-Phantasien
19. Anima II (Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh)
20. Tanz der Grausamkeit
21. As Fire Kissed the Echo Twins
~DISCO 2:
1. The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller II
2. Ein Freundliches Wort Hat Meine Seele Berührt
3. Memalon II
4. Alone
5. Modela Est
6. Birth (Instrumental)
7. Feralia Genitalia - The Arrival of the Jugglers
8. Menuetto
9. Saturn-Impressionen
10. May I Kiss Your Wound ?
11. Alone II
12. The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller II (Instrumental)13. The Widow's Dream
14. The Goat
15. The Bells Have Stopped Ringing
~DISCO 3:
1. In an Hour Darkly
2. The Conqueror Worm
3. Minnesang
4. Von der Einfalt
5. Hears-Shaped Basins of Darkest Matter (Instrumental)
6. Leeches & Deception (Instrumental)
7. Extract From the Voices of the Dead
8. Do You Know My Name ? - What Has Happened While We Slept ?
Video:
~The Goat ...and Other re-animated Bodies-2009
Discográfica:Apocalyptic Vision
1. The Goat
2. The Dog Burial (slightly altered version)
3. ...And Bringer of Sadness
4. Deep The Eternal Forest (version 1)
5. Deep The Eternal Forest (version 2)
6. The Bells Have Stopped Ringing (orig. version)
7. The Bells Have Stopped Ringing (b/w version)
8. Dead Lovers' Sarabande 1 (teaser)
9. Les Fleurs du Mal (teaser)
EP:
~Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh-1995
Discográfica:Apocalyptic Vision
1. Anima I
2. Shadowsphere II
3. Saltatio Crudelitatis
4. Freitod-Phantasien
5. Anima II
6. Tanz der Grausamkeit
~Flowers in Formaldehyde-2004
Discográfica:Metal Blade Records
1. In an Hour Darkly
2. The Conqueror Worm
3. Minnesang
4. Von der Einfalt
5. Hearse-shaped Basins of Darkest Matter
6. Leeches and Deception
7. Extract from: the Voices of the Dead
8. Do You Know My Name ? What Has Happened While We Slept ?
~A Strange Thing to Say-2010
Discográfica:Apocalyptic Vision
1. A Strange Thing to Say
2. Silver
3. The Urine Song
4. Stains on You
5. 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea (or: The History of STEAMPUNK... abridged)
6. Oh, Chimney Sweep
Sencillo:
~In der Palästra-2008
Discográfica:Ninguna discográfica conocida
1. In der Palästra
Demos:
~Es Reiten Die Toten So Schnell... -1989
Discográfica:Ninguna discográfica conocida
*Omen Sinistrum
*Dead Souls
*Stake of My Soul
*Beautiful Thorn
*Baptisma
*The Feast of Blood
*Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est
~Like a Corpse Standing in Desperation-2005
Discográfica:Ninguna discográfica conocida
~DISCO 1:
1. Omen Senistrium
2. Dead Souls
3. Stake of My Soul
4. Beautiful Thorn
5. Baptisma
6. The Feast of Blood
7. Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est
8. Reprise
9. White Body
10. Diô N'Arap
11. Tabor C'Alan O'Itana
12. Deep the Eternal Forest
13. Watch Your Step
14. Introduction - The Termite People
15. Anima I
16. Shadowsphere II
17. Saltatio Crudelitatis
18. Freitod-Phantasien
19. Anima II (Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh)
20. Tanz der Grausamkeit
21. As Fire Kissed the Echo Twins
~DISCO 2:
1. The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller II
2. Ein Freundliches Wort Hat Meine Seele Berührt
3. Memalon II
4. Alone
5. Modela Est
6. Birth (Instrumental)
7. Feralia Genitalia - The Arrival of the Jugglers
8. Menuetto
9. Saturn-Impressionen
10. May I Kiss Your Wound ?
11. Alone II
12. The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller II (Instrumental)13. The Widow's Dream
14. The Goat
15. The Bells Have Stopped Ringing
~DISCO 3:
1. In an Hour Darkly
2. The Conqueror Worm
3. Minnesang
4. Von der Einfalt
5. Hears-Shaped Basins of Darkest Matter (Instrumental)
6. Leeches & Deception (Instrumental)
7. Extract From the Voices of the Dead
8. Do You Know My Name ? - What Has Happened While We Slept ?
Video:
~The Goat ...and Other re-animated Bodies-2009
Discográfica:Apocalyptic Vision
1. The Goat
2. The Dog Burial (slightly altered version)
3. ...And Bringer of Sadness
4. Deep The Eternal Forest (version 1)
5. Deep The Eternal Forest (version 2)
6. The Bells Have Stopped Ringing (orig. version)
7. The Bells Have Stopped Ringing (b/w version)
8. Dead Lovers' Sarabande 1 (teaser)
9. Les Fleurs du Mal (teaser)
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