Compilations, it seems, are like buses. You wait for ages then two come along at once.
Ghosts from the Darkside III (I’ve no idea what happened to Ghosts from the Darkside I) is pretty much the same as Ghosts from the Darkside II, darkwave/goth music somewhat difficult to ingest aurally driving to and from work.
This time Tristania, Clan of Xymox and L’Âme Immortelle join the dark pageant but again, the rest of the acts I’d never heard of, nor did I find any affinity with.
Unfortunately, this eagerness to embrace the dark resulted in me getting quite a few albums and fan compilations like this and, advanced warning here, very soon we will see examples of other Gothic compilations on the music project.
| 1-01 | –Flesh Field | Animal | 5:34 |
| 1-02 | –Funker Vogt | The Journey | 5:52 |
| 1-03 | –Terminal Choice | The Saviour | 6:46 |
| 1-04 | –In Strict Confidence | The Truth Inside Me | 5:05 |
| 1-05 | –Yendri | Bodyless | 5:49 |
| 1-06 | –Diary Of Dreams | Winter Souls | 5:45 |
| 1-07 | –Clan Of Xymox | Crucified | 6:00 |
| 1-08 | –Sanguis Et Cinis | Phantom | 4:57 |
| 1-09 | –Illuminate | Energie | 4:58 |
| 1-10 | –Umbra Et Imago | Mea Culpa | 4:47 |
| 1-11 | –Samsas Traum | Für Immer | 5:23 |
| 1-12 | –Mondsucht | Verlies Der Ewigkeit | 4:28 |
| 1-13 | –Mantus (2) | Feuer | 7:08 |
| 1-14 | –Exovedate | Truly | 2:30 |
| 1-15 | –Ophelia’s Dream | Quando Corpus Morietur | 3:09 |
| 2-01 | –L’Âme Immortelle | The Immortal Part | 4:53 |
| 2-02 | –Claire Voyant | Love The Giver (Eskil Simonsson Of Covenant)
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5:28 |
| 2-03 | –Love Like Blood | Bleeding | 6:02 |
| 2-04 | –The Garden Of Delight | Chaos AD | 5:09 |
| 2-05 | –Tristania | Beyond The Veil | 6:39 |
| 2-06 | –Grabesmond | Totgeboren | 3:45 |
| 2-07 | –Stillste Stund | Drei Sind Eins | 4:28 |
| 2-08 | –Cinema Strange | Lindsay’s Trachea | 5:17 |
| 2-09 | –S.P.O.C.K | Klingon 2000 (Radio Mix) | 3:49 |
| 2-10 | –Klirrfaktor | Dekadenz | 4:10 |
| 2-11 | –Cleaner | Anti-Arctic (Hard Vox Version) | 5:38 |
| 2-12 | –Absurd Minds | Fairy Stories | 5:12 |
| 2-13 | –Hocico | Spit As An Offence (Suicide Commando Remix)
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5:25 |
| 2-14 | –Siechtum | Gesellschaft Mord | 3:36 |
| 2-15 | –Dulce Liquido | Illusión Hecha Mentira |
Stegzy's Music Project 
Into Temptation: The Best of Gothic Rock — Various Artists [#637]
by stegzyWhen the much talked about Great Internet MP3 Download Free-for-All of the mid to late noughties hit, I was trying to develop my musical tastes in the dark elven forests of gothdom. As long-term readers may remember, one of the many tactics I use to discover music is to download compilations to figure out which bands I like the sound of.
One of the first compilations I downloaded was called Into Temptation. It had some really good songs on it from bands like Nightwish, Within Temptation and Ayreon. Sadly, I lost the first version due to file and disk corruption and, despite repeated attempts, was unable to locate the version I had. But with acts like Nightwish, Within Temptation, Ayreon, Sirenia, The Gathering, Lacuna Coil AND Tristania….it will do.
Complete tracklisting for this compilation:
1 –Within Temptation – Ice Queen
2 – After Forever – My Pledge Of Allegiance #1 (The Sealed Fate
3 –Nightwish – Ever Dream
4 – The Gathering – In Motion #1
5 – Tristania – Wormwood
6 – Ayreon – My House On Mars
7 –Within Temptation – Our Farewell
8 – Ambeon – Cold Metal
9 –Lacuna Coil – Senzafine
10 –After Forever – Emphasis
11–Trail Of Tears – Driven Through The Ruins
12 – Sirenia – Meridian
13 – Beseech – Between The Lines
14 – Therion – O Fortuna
And if that list doesn’t get you running for the Kleenex you’re obviously listening to the wrong genre.
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