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Nafre de la Toundra I have listen to SOM intensely since hearing the first bars of "Black Planet", and I have heard many imitations and mediocre renditions. This album. Floors. Me. Each track is a unique, personal and strikingly powerful musical execution of insight into the truly unique magick of this most inimitable group. My only criticism--and it is tragic one--is that the vinyl version was not the full "Honoris II" collection. Gods! Get this, servants: it is music to rise and reverberate to. Favorite track: Heartland by VERSARI.
Bertrand Marchal
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Bertrand Marchal One of the very best tributes I have listened to, all styles included. It's very refreshing and exciting how all bands manage to reinvent the SOM's sound, while enhancing the original inner rhythm and the dark overall tone of disillusion. Really thrilling! Favorite track: Inondations I by MAMAN KÜSTERS (Bonus track).
GothPucca
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GothPucca This is the song I discovered Chris Shape to 🎉 ! Favorite track: Body Electric by CHRIS SHAPE feat Raffaele Venturelli.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of [uprGOLD017] HONORIS II via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Full Digital Discography

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  • Limited Edition Cassette 90"
    Cassette + Digital Album

    On the initiative of Unknown Pleasures Records, and the consequent adhesion to this project by Industrial Complexx & Oráculo Records, we pay tribute with covers by different bands to The Sisters of Mercy, the band that many of us identify as the most important of the gothic rock and dark post-punk that derived in the first wave of English punk.
    Industrial Complexx has prepared for this occasion a special release in cassette format with 16 covers.

    Includes unlimited streaming of [uprGOLD017] HONORIS II via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Brief Chronicle Biography about The Sisters of Mercy (Spanish version)

    Brief Chronicle about The Sisters of Mercy is a book that Industrial Complexx publishes together with Honoris II Tribute to The Sisters of Mercy & The Sisterhood, an album created by Unknown Pleasures Records to pay tribute to The Sisters of Mercy, the band that many of us identify as the most important of gothic rock and dark post-punk that derived in the first wave of English punk.The book concisely tells the story and the different stages of this Leeds band. It is an unauthorised biography written by Ximo Noguera, so some of the assessments are personal. Iván Galíndez is in charge of the graphic design.

    108 pages / 15x15 cm format / colors

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  • Limited Edition 12" Vinyl
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Order Now "NO MERCY • An Honoris Tribute To The Sisters Of Mercy & Sisterhood" • VINYL 12" 33rpm mini album (without the vinyl single 7" cancelled after production problems) presented in a ONE-OFF truly limited edition of 400 copies lacquered pressed on 180 gr. high quality solid black vinyl. All tracks have been specially remastered for LONG CUT vinyl by Eric Van Wonterghem Includes immediate digital download. Shipping out on around April 15th, 2022.

    EXTRACTED FROM "HONORIS II, TRIBUTE TO THE SISTERS OF MERCY & THE SISTERHOOD". PUBLISHED UNDER EXCLUSIVE LICENSE OF UNKNOWN PLEASURES RECORDS AS PART OF THE BLACK ALLIANCE PROJECT

    "NINE WHILE NINE", "ON THE WIRE" AND "POISON DOOR" ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY ANDREW ELDRITCH & GARY MARX

    "DRIVEN LIKE THE SNOW" ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY ANDREW ELDRITCH & LARRY ALEXANDER

    "GIVING GROUND" ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY ANDREW ELDRITCH

    "BODY ELECTRIC " ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY ANDREW ELDRITCH, BEN GUNN & GARY MARX

    ALL RIGHTS OF ORIGINAL SONGS UNDER PROPERTY OF MERCIFUL RELEASE. © + (P) MERCIFUL RELEASE

    MASTERED BY ERIC VAN WONTERGHEM / ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY GUSTAVE DORÉ

    ONE-OFF PRESSING OF 400 COPIES
    OR96 © 2021 Black Alliance = ORACULO RECORDS + UPR

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During my dark youth, I was very big fan of The Sisters Of Mercy’s 1981/88 era (« Floodland » included). At UPR we have always hesitated to pay tribute to this cult band from Leeds/UK, because it always seemed difficult to me to interpret the fabulous songs of the british acid rock gang, without falling into the ‘gothic cliché’ or poor copycat. But 40 years after the band's first concert in the north of England it's high time to pay them a true artistic ambitious homage. With the well-known requirement that is that of our label, we prepared an awesome CD compilation called 'HONORIS II THE SISTERS OF MERCY & THE SISTERHOOD' for the end of September. This Tribute will be accompanied by a very special limited tape and book designed & printed by the spanish label Industrial Complexx (Valencia). For vinyl collectors, know that the Oràculo label (Barcelona) is releasing also a vinyl version with 6 tracks taken from our compilation (12" + 7"), including an unreleased one. Many excellent musicians responded to our call, some legendary bands and talented outsider. There are already many international tributes to The Sisters Of Mercy, but by my standards they often sound pretty mediocre and below the original songs. My objective is therefore to bring together very awesome covers that will give thanks to the legacy of the original Andrew Eldritch’s songs, without caricatures or baroque clichés (fans know that Andrew hates the “goth” label), and by focusing especially on the early songs and B faces.The Sisters Of Mercy began their careers 40 years ago. Long life to Andrew Eldritch!

Pedro aka HIV+, 2021.

vinyl : oraculorecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-mercy-an-honoris-tribute-to-the-sisters-of-mercy-the-sisterhood

tape + book : industrialcomplexx.bandcamp.com/album/honoris-ii-tribute-to-the-sisters-of-mercy-the-sisterhood

Since the launch of our compilation friends have died, Vanessa Asbert Vilanova from Oràculo records, Seamus guitarist of Stranger Dreams and Raffaele Venturelli singer on "Body electric" by Chris Shape. May our friends rest in peace.

REVIEWS :
addict-culture.com/the-sisters-of-mercy-honoris-ii/
filtermexico.com/2021/10/13/honoris-ii-un-album-tributo-a-the-sisters-of-mercy/
www.gutsofdarkness.com/god/objet.php?objet=21866
elgarajedefrank.es/fr/honoris-ii-tribute-to-the-sisters-of-mercy-the-sisterhood/
www.obskure.com/actualites/honoris-ii-tribute-sisters-of-mercy-upr-sortie-septembre-2021.html
www.muzzart.fr/20210720_34354_divers-honoris-ii-tribute-to-the-sisters-of-mercy-the-sisterhood-unknown-pleasures-records-20-septembre-2021/
www.elektrospank.com/interviews/368-pedro-penas-robles-presents-his-tribute-to-sisters-of-mercy-with-honoris-ii-tribute-to-the-sisters-of-mercy-the-sisterhood-interview
songazine.fr/v2/honneur-aux-sisters-of-mercy/
www.musiceternal.com/News/2021/Flood-II-The-Sisters-Of-Mercy-Cover-by-HIV-20210722
www.darkentries.be/nl/recensies/verzamelaar-tribute-vinyl-no-mercy-an-honoris-tribute-to-the-sisters-of-mercy-and-the-sisterhood/
www.indiepoprock.fr/OnAAussiEcoute/honoris-ii-tribute-to-the-sisters-of-mercy-the-sisterhood/

credits

released September 1, 2021

Credits :
01 (Andrew Eldritch/Larry Alexander)
02 (Gary Marx/Andrew Eldritch)
03 (Andrew Eldritch)
04 (Eldritch/Hussey/Marx/Adams)
05 (Eldritch/Marx/Adams)
06 (Andrew Eldritch/Gary Marx/Craig Adams/Ben Gunn)
07 (Andrew Eldritch/Gary Marx)
08 (Andrew Eldritch/Ben Gunn/Gary Marx)
09 (Andrew Eldritch/Ben Gunn/Gary Marx)
10 (Eldritch/Marx)
11 (Andrew Eldritch/Larry Alexander)
12 (Eldritch/Hussey/Marx/Adams)
13 (Eldritch)

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UNKNOWN PLEASURES RECORDS Avignon, France

We are a label / mail order shop based in the South of France, specializing in forms of dark music influenced by the sound of the late 70s and early 80s. We produce high quality bands of Post-Punk / Minimal wave / Synthpop / EBM / Dark Techno / Industrial / Cold Wave / Noise Experimental / Dark Folk / Indie Rock
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