his is the first official reissue of The Candles Burning Blue’s highly appraised cult album Pearls Given To The Swine. For two decades the original CD pressing has been sought after but nearly impossible to find.
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.
A1 Mimosa
A2 After My First Murder
A3 Someone Is Here
A4 What Have I Done?
B1 Funeral Wedding
B2 Disgraced Girl
B3 How The Black Art Was Revealed
B4 Disco Death
C1 Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome (Live)
C2 The Thelemite
C3 My Portrait In Sadness And Glory
C4 The Stone Orchids
C5 In The Morning (Live)
D1 Bethrothal And The Rites Of Rape (Live)
D2 She Travels The Fastest Who Travels Alone (Live)
D3 Jubileum In Hell
D4 The Terrible Secret
