Sisters Of Mercy: Floodland (Black Ice Galaxy) LP

The album Floodland was released in November 1987 as the second proper entry in the Sisters of Mercy discography. After a short and unsuccessful interlude with the side project The Sisterhood, Andrew Eldritch returned to the original label Sisters of Mercy and recorded the album with bassist Patricia Morrison (also The Gun Club, The Damned or Bags) under the supervision of producers Larry Alexander and Jim Steinman. The recording received positive reviews and was certified gold in England for sales of over 100,000 copies. The Sisters of Mercy are an English rock band, formed in 1977 in Leeds. One of England's leading goth bands of the 1980s, the band plays a slow, gloomy, ponderous hybrid of metal and psychedelia, often incorporating dance beats; the one constant in the band's career has been deep-voiced singer Andrew Eldritch. (There is some disagreement as to whether the group took its name from an order of Catholic nuns or from the Leonard Cohen song of the same name.) Eldritch originally formed the band in 1980 with guitarist Gary Marx and recorded its first single with a drum machine dubbed Doktor Avalanche.