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Brotherhood of Pagans
12+ albums
Gothic RockcoldwavedeathrockgothGothic
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The Brotherhood of Pagans is a French Goth group formed in March 1990 hailing from Pierrefonds France. Risen from the ashes of two other groups of the Cold Wave genre – Itchy Souls and Nuits Heretiques, it initially comprised Alien (rhythm guitar and vocals), Coccs (synthesiser), Sailor (drums), Elrik (Bass) and Vox Populi (guitar). The group began playing it’s first live gigs in 1991, but it was during the course of 1993 that the ‘BOP’ started to make themselves known, thanks principally to the beginning of a their relationship with the French label ‘Darkland of Tears’. Among other things, this enabled the BOP to provide support for Corpus Delicti at a concert in Nice, and to appear at a Festival in Dorsten (Germany) in front of 800 people. This marked the start of their journey. This collaboration with Darkland of Tears further allowed BOP access to numerous compilation albums, firstly those on the Darkland label such as ‘Cold Tears’ and ‘Gothicland’, then on compilations produced by International labels of renown like ‘Goth Box’ by Cleopatra, and ‘Death by Dawn’ by Appolyon. The Brotherhood featured on around a dozen compilations on 5 continents, evidence of their ability to attract public attention even though they had yet to produce their first album. The afore-mentioned first album finally appeared in March 1995. ‘Tales of Vampires’ was an immediate success. Released in 17 countries, their debut album threw up 2 classics of the genre, the unrelenting ‘Resurrection’ a
