Todeswunsch
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Todeswunsch – Sous le soleil de Saturne (German and French: "Death Wish - Under the Sun of Saturn") is the second album by
Overview
Todeswunch was a major departure from Sopor Aeternus' first album,
The album quotes heavily from other works. One example is the title track, where the music is a darkwave
Todeswunsch would see re-releases in 1999, 2003 and 2008. The album artwork received significant changes for both the 2003 and 2008 editions. The painting on the cover of the original release is a detail of
Track listing
All tracks are written by
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Flesh Crucifix (Suffering from Objectivity)" | 1:52 |
2. | "Die Bruderschaft des Schmerzes (Die Unbegreiflichkeit des Dunklen Pfades, den die Kinder Saturns gehen)" ("The Brotherhood of Pain (The incomprehensibility of the dark path, that the children of Saturn go)") | 5:49 |
3. | "Shadowsphere (The Monologue-World and the subconscious Symbols): part one" | 5:02 |
4. | "Shadowsphere (The Monologue-World and the subconscious Symbols): part two" | 2:35 |
5. | "Saltatio Crudelitatis (Tanz der Grausamkeit, vers.)" ("Dance of cruelty (Dance of cruelty, vers.)") | 5:47 |
6. | "Just a Song without a Name" | 0:28 |
7. | "Soror Sui Excidium (Geliebte Schwester Selbstzerstörung)" ("The destruction of his sister (Beloved sister of self-destruction)") | 4:35 |
8. | "Le Théâtre de la Blessure sacrée" ("The theatre of the sacred wound") | 2:58 |
9. | "The Devil's Instrument" | 5:18 |
10. | "Todeswunsch (vers.)" ("Death wish (vers.)"; Cat Stevens) | 5:38 |
11. | "Drama der Geschlechtslosigkeit (part 1)" ("Drama of asexuality (part 1)") | 2:05 |
12. | "freitod-Phantasien" ("suicide-Fantasies") | 3:23 |
13. | "Drama der Geschlechtslosigkeit (part 2)" ("Drama of asexuality (part 2)") | 5:10 |
14. | "Saturn-Impressionen" ("Saturn-Impressions") | 2:47 |
15. | "Somnabulist's secret Bardo-Life (Does the Increase of Pain invite the Absence of Time?)" | 4:17 |
16. | "Not dead but dying" | 5:11 |
17. | "Only the Dead in the Mist" | 5:12 |
18. | "This profane Finality" | 4:35 |
19. | "Cage within a Cage... (...within a Cage within a Cage...)" | 1:59 |
Personnel
- Gerrit Fischer: Guitar on "Soror Sui Excidium", "Drama der Geschlechtslosigkeit (part 2)" and "Only the Dead in the Mist"
- Varney: Vocals, all other instruments and programming