Love Like Blood is a German gothic rock

Gothic rock

Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...

/gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

 band.

Biography

Its nucleus consists of Eysel brothers (Yorck-vocals, lyrics

Lyrics

Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...

 and Gunnar - bass

Bass guitar

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). The band was active in the years 1989-2001 and is now on (indefinite) hiatus. Its early sound reminisces the style of The Fields of the Nephilim

Fields of the Nephilim

Fields of the Nephilim are an English gothic rock band formed in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1984. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Carl McCoy, saxophonist Gary Whisker, Tony Pettitt on bass, guitarist Paul Wright and drummer Alexander "Nod" Wright...

. They made their breakthrough with the 1992 album “An Irony of Fate”, which marked the debut of the English guitarist Mark Wheeler. This album showcased a transition to a more hard-rock-influenced style.

In the middle of the 1990s, Love Like Blood turned to Gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

 with the album "Exposure".

On their 2000 album, "Enslaved + Condemned", Love Like Blood made a rendition of Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer, percussionist and occasional actor. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known in the Serer language as mbalax, a type of music...

 & Neneh Cherry

Neneh Cherry

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's song "Seven Seconds", giving the pop song a more ragged metal-oriented cover.

In January 2010 it was announced that Love Like Blood would be performing live for the "first and only" time since 1999 at the Twentieth Anniversary Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival in Leipzig

Leipzig

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Albums

• Flags of Revolution (1989)
• An Irony of Fate (1992)
• Sinister Dawn/Ecstasy (1992)
• Odyssee (1994)
• Exposure (1995)
• Snakekiller (1998)
• Enslaved+Condemned (2000)
• The Best of Love Like Blood [Swordlilies] (2000)
• Chronology of a Love Affair (2001)

Singles

• "Sinister Dawn" (1989)
• "Ecstasy" (1991)
• "Kiss & Tell" (1992)
• "Demimondes" (1992)
• "Flood of Love" (1993)
• "Heroes" (1993)
• "Stormy Visions" (1993)
• "Taste of Damocles" (1997)
• The Love Like Blood E.P. (1998)
• "Love Kills" (2000)

External links

• Official webpage
• Unofficial polish Love Like Blood webpage