Pearls Given To The Swine, by The Candles Burning Blue

Pearls Given To The Swine

by The Candles Burning Blue

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1.	Mimosa 05:05	buy track
2.	After My First Murder 04:44	buy track
3.	Someone Is Here 06:14	buy track
4.	What Have I Done? 03:31	buy track
5.	Funeral Wedding 04:48	buy track
6.	Disgraced Girl 03:40	buy track
7.	How The Black Art Was Revealed 07:26	buy track
8.	Disco Death 03:15	buy track
9.	Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome (Live) 05:39	buy track
10.	The Thelemite 04:53	buy track
11.	My Portrait In Sadness And Glory 03:24	buy track
12.	The Stone Orchids 04:29	buy track
13.	In The Morning (Live) 03:21	buy track
14.	Bethrothal And The Rites Of Rape (Live) 04:34	buy track
15.	She Travels The Fastest Who Travels Alone (Live) 06:44	buy track
16.	Jubileum In Hell 02:30	buy track
17.	The Terrible Secret 05:03	buy track
18.	Arrival 06:03	buy track
19.	Funeral Wedding (Instrumental Synth Remix) 04:37	buy track
20.	Bethrothal And The Rites Of Rape 03:28	buy track
21.	She Travels The Fastest Who Travels Alone 05:02	buy track

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Known for their violent and chaotic gigs, The Candles Burning Blue were an unconventional Gothic Rock band. Instead of romantic beauty they dealt with the harsher aspects of the darkness oozing from their own troubled lives. Even though they only released two CD-r, a split 7” and one full album, their impact on the Finnish Goth underground was a lasting one.

Pearls Given To The Swine was recorded in 2000 and released in 2001 on CD, with only 500 official copies pressed. Some years later new copies appeared from shady sources, but basically the album disappeared from the face of the Earth.

In 2001 the band started to work on the second album Pleasure Dome and also had some material recorded for the projected third album Abhorrence, but ceased to exist before any of this material was released. Until now. This reissue has a full length bonus disc consisting of these songs.

The Candles Burning Blue had its roots firmly in Gothic Rock as performed by bands like Bauhaus, Christian Death, Virgin Prunes and The Cure, but they mixed in elements of experimentalism and art rock. Pearls Given To The Swine is a lost and found classic of Finnish Gothic Rock, and a fine example of Finnish dark culture around the turn of the millennium.

Members went on to play in bands like Reverend Bizarre, The Puritan, Werwolf Lodge and Opium Warlords, but never reunited.

Pearls Given To The Swine is available on 2LP Svart exclusive transparent violet vinyl, 2LP black vinyl and 2CD editions. Availabe for purchase here:

www.svartrecords.com/en/product/the-candles-burning-blue-pearls-given-to-the-swine/11602

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released October 13, 2023

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