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SEELENLICHT's second full length album Love and Murder will be available soon at Trutzburg Thule and your favourite dealer!





A calendar for 2010 with the artwork of the album is available now at kunstdruckwerk.com








In the beginning, Butow Maler was already involved with the German project, KAMMER SIEBEN, and had just released the first album ('Unfinished Movies') on the well-respected Eis&Licht label. Troy Southgate, meanwhile, had been a vocalist with the Anglo-Dutch group, H.E.R.R., since 2003 and had worked on two albums ('The Winter of Constantinople' & 'Vondel's Lucifer'), an EP ('Fire & Glass: A Norwood Tragedy') and a series of collaborations with the likes of Horologium, Survival Unit, Sistrenatus and Erich Zahn. Butow eventually got in touch with Troy to see if he would like to provide vocals for a forthcoming KAMMER SIEBEN track. The mutual appreciation between the two parties eventually resulted in 'Love's Final Hour', a Gothic murder ballad featuring vocals by Troy and Maria Southgate. Butow then sent Troy several additional pieces of music that he had composed with Herr Twiggs, something which led to a highly-productive Spring period in which a total of fourteen songs were eventually written and recorded. The emergence of SEELENLICHT in May 2007, therefore, was not a preconceived development and the group evolved gradually as a direct result of the enthusiasm, commitment and creativity that went into it. The trio's energy and dynamism soon attracted the attention of Justin Mitchell from Cold Spring Records and plans were made to release the songs in September 2007 on a debut SEELENLICHT album, entitled 'Gods & Devils'. The group has just recorded a track ('Memnon, Prince of Ethiopia') for a forthcoming compilation album, 'Aithiopis', and are already beginning work on their second album. SEELENLICHT will also donate a track ('Dreamsleep') to an Attrition tribute album and, in the meantime, the song 'Demian' has been included on a widely distributed Gothic double-CD compilation entitled '13th Street - the Sound of Mystery, Vol. 4', featuring well-known artists like Type O Negative, Paradise Lost and Nightwish.

Member Since:

May 18, 2007

Members:

TROY SOUTHGATE
(lead vocals)

BUTOW MALER
(synthesizer, sampler, guitars, melodica, backing vocals)

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Collaborators:
DEV (While Angels Watch)
(guest vocals on 'Vergiss mein nicht')
JK (Von Thronstahl)
(guest vocals on 'Revolution in Black')
MARIA SOUTHGATE
(guest vocals on 'Love's Final Hour' and 'Herne the Hunter')
EUSTACIA VYE (Horologium)
(guest vocals on 'Herne the Hunter')
HERR TWIGGS (Kammer Sieben)
(sampler, piano)

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Influences:

Philip Glass, Herman Hesse, Michael Nyman, Dead Can Dance, Ozymandias, Lord Byron, Puissance, Gustav Mahler, Death In June, Nick Cave, Kunst, Nature And Organisation, Sol Invictus, The Protagonist, Joy Division, Spiritual Front, Fire & Ice, This Mortal Coil, Current 93, Johannes Brahms, Elijah's Mantle, Ian Dury, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud.

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Sounds Like:

Releases/Compilations



SEELENLICHT - Love & Murder / Trutzburg Thule (2009)
1. Vergiss mein nicht, 2. The Romantics, 3. The Ghosts of Flanders, 4. The Outsider, 5. When the Lamp is Shattered, 6. Revolution in Black, 7. The Lovers Revenge, 8. Dreamsleep, 9. Futhorc, 10. Priapus, 11. Love & Death, 12. Memnon, Prince of Ethiopia, 13. Return to Summerisle, 14. Ansuz-Laguz-Uruz

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The Tarot Serie / Invisible Eye Productions (2009)
SEELENLICHT - The Lovers, Sorch'enn, (((o)))

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SEELENLICHT - Gods & Devils / Cold Spring CSR86CD (February 2008)
1. Prelude, 2. Demian ,3. Diary of Desolation (Part One) ,4. She Walks in Beauty ,5. Flamme ,6. Diary of Desolation (Part Two), 7. Herne the Hunter, 8. Valhalla, 9. Idle Thoughts On The Janus Shore (Part One), 10. Idle Thoughts On The Janus Shore (Part Two), 11. The Modern Saxons, 12. Love's Final Hour, 13. Diary of Desolation (Part Three), 14. Seelenlicht

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Various Artists - OEC 100 / The Old Europa Cafe (2008)
A Challenge of Honour, Ain Soph, Albireon, All My Faith Lost, Argine, Deutsch Nepal, Gerechtigkeits Liga, Knifeladder, SEELENLICHT – Return to Summerisle, The Lindberg Baby, Thomas Nola et Son Orchestre, ...

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13th Street - The Sound Of Mystery Vol.4 (2007)
SPIRITUAL FRONT, SIEBEN, PARADISE LOST, EISHEILIG, NIGHTWISH, SEELENLICHT - Demian, TYPO NEGATIVE, SALTATIO MORTIS, MINISTRY, ...

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Record Label:

Trutzburg Thule
Cold Spring Records