Chants Of Maldoror Lyrics

The Chants Of Maldoror were formed in December 1994, when Adolphe (vocals) and David (bass), both coming from a previous and unfruitful experience, joined Echo (keys/synth/piano) and Loren (guitars/programming) to start a project of medieval/ritualistic music. They got the band’s name from “Les Chants De Maldoror”, a prose poem by Isidore Ducasse (1846/1870), which is considered a masterpiece of the unreal and a decadent manifesto of surrealistic imagery. As time went by, the C.O.M. changed their sound until reaching a more rock-oriented form, as stated by their first official release, the demotape “Ritual Death”, out in 1997 and presented with a live performance at the Italian goth festival “Ascension Of The Gods”, where they shared... read more