SWANS — White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity

MetalMusicArchives.com — the ultimate metal music online community, from the creators of progarchives.com

SWANS - White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity cover
3.64 | 13 ratings | 1 review
Buy this album from MMA partners

Album · 1991

Filed under Non-Metal
By SWANS

Tracklist


1. Better Than You (05:51)
2. Power and Sacrifice (05:37)
3. You Know Nothing (05:46)
4. Song for Dead Time (05:24)
5. Will We Survive (06:51)
6. Love Will Save You (06:06)
7. Failure (06:20)
8. Song for the Sun (05:03)
9. Miracle of Love (06:43)
10. When She Breathes (05:03)
11. Why Are We Alive? (05:29)
12. The Most Unfortunate Lie (05:02)

Total Time 69:18

Line-up/Musicians


- Michael Gira / voice, acoustic guitar, sounds, samples, keyboards, arrangements
- Jarboe / voice, keyboards, background vocals, choral and orchestral arrangements
- Christoph Hahn / acoustic and electric guitar
- Clinton Steele / acoustic and electric guitar
- Jenny Wade / bass guitar
- Anton Fier / drums, drum programming
- Nicky Skopelitis / acoustic and electric guitar, baglama, bazouki, banjo
- Vincent Signorelli / percussion
- Hahn Rowe / violin
- Steve Burgh / mandolin, 12-string guitar
- Norman Westberg / electric guitar

About this release

CD, cassette and 12" vinyl 2LP released 5th June 1991 on Young God Records (YG 003-2).

Cassette released 1991 on Sky Records (7-5060).

CD released 1992 on Sky Records (7-5060).

12" vinyl remastered 2LP released 6th December 2015 on Mute Records (STUMM377).

12" vinyl remastered 2LP released 2015 on Young God Records (YG50).

Thanks to triceratopsoil, Bosh66 for the updates

Buy SWANS - WHITE LIGHT FROM THE MOUTH OF INFINITY music

More places to buy metal & SWANS music

SWANS WHITE LIGHT FROM THE MOUTH OF INFINITY reviews

Specialists/collaborators reviews

Warthur
On this release Swans go full, 100%, "tracks from this album were recommended as background music in a Vampire: the Masquerade book" goth, to the point where Michael Gira's vocal delivery adopts that particular stentorian tone reminiscent of goth vocalists trying really hard to imitate Andrew Eldritch.

This would be seen as a risible and mercifully brief phase in their existence between their shockingly raw early post-punk material that preceded this and their exceptional post-rock material that came after, were it not for one thing: they're amazingly good at this stuff. Perhaps Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds could have stood toe to toe with Swans in the post-punk/goth stakes at this point in time, but precious few others could.

Members reviews

No SWANS WHITE LIGHT FROM THE MOUTH OF INFINITY reviews posted by members yet.

Ratings only

  • pillow
  • tpw
  • wpt
  • Vim Fuego
  • SilentScream213
  • Peacock Feather
  • luanpedi
  • Fant0mas
  • Triceratopsoil
  • Eria Tarka
  • Coracin
  • sauromat

Write/edit review

You must be logged in to write or edit review

White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity Contents

Member Zone

Username:
Password:
Stay signed in

Metal Subgenres

Artists Alpha-index

MMA TOP 5 Metal ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
Master of Puppets Thrash Metal
METALLICA
Buy this album from our partners
Paranoid Heavy Metal
BLACK SABBATH
Buy this album from our partners
Moving Pictures Hard Rock
RUSH
Buy this album from our partners
Powerslave NWoBHM
IRON MAIDEN
Buy this album from our partners
Rising Heavy Metal
RAINBOW
Buy this album from our partners

New Metal Artists

New Metal Releases

The Goblin Sessions Heavy Metal
THEM
Buy this album from MMA partners
Tormenta De Arena Metalcore
VORAGO
Buy this album from MMA partners
Infinite Metalcore
FUTURE GHOST
Buy this album from MMA partners
Heretic Melodic Death Metal
SUNCINDER
Buy this album from MMA partners
The Skull Burned Wearing Hell Like A Life Vest As The Night Wept Mathcore
FRONTIERER
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Metal Online Videos

Future Ghost - Wolves (Official Music Video)
FUTURE GHOST
Bosh66· 1 day ago
Future Ghost - Nemesis Game (Official Music Video)
FUTURE GHOST
Bosh66· 1 day ago
Harrowed TwentyTenVideo
HARROWED
Bosh66· 3 days ago
Sunmancer - Realms of Dilemma (Official Visualizer)
SUNMANCER
Bosh66· 8 days ago
Sunmancer - Lower Cavalier (Official Visualizer)
SUNMANCER
Bosh66· 8 days ago
More videos

New MMA Metal Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Metal News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us
Follow us on Twitter Become a Facebook fan RSS Feed