Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre - The Broken Heart of Man is an album by English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 band Current 93

Current 93

Current 93 is an eclectic British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet .-Background:Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Steven Stapleton has appeared on...

. Although musically one of Current 93's gentlest albums it is also lyrically very dark, prominently featuring the motif of blood

Blood

Blood is a specialized bodily fluid in animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells....

, menstrual and otherwise. David Tibet

David Tibet

David Tibet is a British poet and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only full-time member. He had earlier collaborated with Psychic TV and 23 Skidoo...

 states in the liner notes that all songs should be regarded as one piece of music; indeed, the album is similar to a stream-of-consciousness narrative, and several tracks contain similar - and in some cases, identical - musical themes. For example, the last three tracks were intended as a single piece, and are often performed live as such. Portions of the song are also musically identical to the Thunder Perfect Mind-era live song "Imperium V", which serves as a lyrical prelude as well.

Track listing

1. "A Voice from Catland" – 0:22
2. "Steven and I in the Field of Stars" – 2:56
3. "The Teeth of the Winds of the Sea" – 7:15
4. "Moonlight, You Will Say" – 5:19
5. "Into the Bloody Hole I Go" – 1:01
6. "The Darkly Splendid World" – 0:51
7. "The Cloud of Unknowing" – 7:28
8. "Let Us Go to the Rose" – 5:17
9. "All the World Makes Great Blood" – 3:55
10. "The Great, Bloody and Bruised Veil of the World" – 4:17
11. "Into the Menstrual Night I Go" – 1:14
12. "Dormition and Dominion" – 6:19
13. "So: This Empire Is Nothing" – 1:08
14. "This Shining Shining World" – 2:51