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Clan of Xymox (also known as Xymox) blend an eclectic and vibrant mix of electronic pop, gothic rock, and acoustic folk. From the Netherlands, Xymox was established in 1985 by frontman Ronny Moorings and then live-in Anke Wolbert. Their first EP, Subsequent Pleasures added Pieter Nooten afterwards on keyboards and left a mark on an emerging Euro-wave market.
A chance meeting with Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance led to an invitation to support that band on a UK tour, and then a recording contract with their record label, 4AD.
Their first two full length albums, self-titled Clan of Xymox and Medusa, comfortably settled Xymox into their own niche of blooming melodics and smooth grey lyrical originality, with Ronnie’s songwriting coming as a fresh and very welcome abstract to the plastic and packaged synthpop of the late 80s. In 1989, Ronnie saw a chance to evolve and left 4AD, releasing Twist of Shadows which proved to be their most complete and mature offering thusfar, and was their most successful yet.
With the next two albums, Phoenix and Metamorphosis, fans were left with something of an out of body experience - as Xymox was sounding nothing like themselves. Metamorphosis was truly that however, its failure created a catalyst for Moorings to jump to yet another label, part ways with his bandmates, and pickup Mojca Zugna on bass.
A chance meeting with Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance led to an invitation to support that band on a UK tour, and then a recording contract with their record label, 4AD.
Their first two full length albums, self-titled Clan of Xymox and Medusa, comfortably settled Xymox into their own niche of blooming melodics and smooth grey lyrical originality, with Ronnie’s songwriting coming as a fresh and very welcome abstract to the plastic and packaged synthpop of the late 80s. In 1989, Ronnie saw a chance to evolve and left 4AD, releasing Twist of Shadows which proved to be their most complete and mature offering thusfar, and was their most successful yet.
With the next two albums, Phoenix and Metamorphosis, fans were left with something of an out of body experience - as Xymox was sounding nothing like themselves. Metamorphosis was truly that however, its failure created a catalyst for Moorings to jump to yet another label, part ways with his bandmates, and pickup Mojca Zugna on bass.
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iaretehrulzor wrote:
One of the greatest bands ever.
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skinnydrifter wrote:
Darkwave how it was always meant to be
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digitalhooligan wrote:
The soundtrack of my high school days!
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xymoxcontrol wrote:
Love them !
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Anastaxia_Xylf wrote:
Today is my own jubilee of the day when I heard Xymox for the first time ^^ Long live dear Xymox!:-*
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BunkerGhost wrote:
this band don't have bad albums
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skinnydrifter wrote:
In Love We Trust is a great new album!
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Ntaki wrote:
new album instead is very good ! I liked it ! how u can say that Hail Mary or Morning Blow are both boring.. each song is interesting. But of course is my personal opinion not an absolute one ^^
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the_sagga wrote:
new albums are so boring :(
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Lahiri wrote:
Please listen to this! http://www.lastfm.it/music/And+This+Again/_/Ghoul
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Bloody-Wolf wrote:
Back Door <3
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android9791 wrote:
Ronny sounds alot like Andy on Jasmine and Rose.
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skinnydrifter wrote:
You only need to listen to one song ("This World") to see how overtly synth pop their music is... (yeah Depeche Mode's People Are People was sampled in it) but I started from their first album, very synthpop/New Order/The Cure/DM driven and I listen to a hell of a lot of "darkwave" groups, so that's how sure I am
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jadosh wrote:
Pure darkwave., i love their new album
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Gwrhkhsh wrote:
Not that sure about synthpop anyway - it's way different, at least to me. Maybe their early stuff, but still, rather dreampop like Cocteau Twins, not really synthpop. However, I'm not any fan of the genre, so I could be wrong. Darkwave pioneers - legends: for sure.
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skinnydrifter wrote:
Guys listen, it's called synthpop, electro, darkwave, whatever... but Clan of Xymox do not make EBM music. Influence? Yeah sure why not, but they don't make it.
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xymoxcontrol wrote:
Even when Boyled says he does not like anything of the later period ( very strange !) boyled01 is after all these years still extremely obsessed by the band, that is good to see! Especially from a Queen and Rammstein fan like him. ( I don't see how he could even be interested in cox ( ever) apart from harassing the band on all sorts of pages..)
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boyled01 wrote:
yes....ebm
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Anastaxia_Xylf wrote:
yes,that's why I wrote ebm in quotation marks
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skinnydrifter wrote:
There's nothing EBM about Clan of Xymox. Pretty much everything even close to it is the SYNTHPOP influence
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