The Sisters of Mercy

The Sisters of Mercy is, along with Bauhaus, the quintessential '80s goth band. Fronted by charismatic singer-songwriter Andrew Eldritch -- the group's only permanent member -- Sisters of Mercy combines repetitive lyrics and metal-ish guitar riffs with pounding drum machine loops, creating catchy, if lengthy, dance numbers. Sisters of Mercy were formed in Leeds, England in 1980 by Eldritch and guitarist Gary Marx; the duo took its name from the Leonard Cohen song "Sisters of Mercy," and employed a drum machine, jokingly credited as "Doktor Avalanche" on their records, instead of a live drummer. During the group's formative years, guitarist Ben Gunn and bassist Craig Adams joined the band, which won underground acclaim after releasing several 12-inch club singles. With guitarist Wayne Hussey taking over for Gunn, the quartet made its full-length debut in 1985 with First and Last and Always. After a tour to support the album, Marx left to form Ghost Dance, and Adams and Hussey quit to start a new band called the Sisterhood; Eldritch objected, and released an EP as "Sisterhood" just to stop Adams and Hussey from using the name. Instead, they became the Mission (or rather the Mission UK in the U.S.), and became a successful goth-metal group in their own right. Despite lineup problems and other tensions, Andrew Eldritch elected to carry on alone under the Sisters of Mercy name, bringing on ex-Gun Club bassist Patricia Morrison for the 1987 LP Floodland. Thanks to the international success of the infectious, 10-plus-minute long single "This Corrosion," Floodland found a permanent place in the goth pantheon, alongside records like the Cure's Pornography. Eldritch and Morrison soon had a falling out, though, and she was replaced with Generation X guitarist Tony James on 1990's Vision Thing. The Sisters -- or, rather, Eldritch -- then fell strangely silent, largely due to label and personnel issues. The Sisters played only a handful of concerts after 1993, when Elektra released the greatest hits collection A Slight Case of Overbombing; since then the Sisters have only embarked on one world tour, in 1997-'98, and have yet to release another album. Seth Hindin

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