Editor's Info:
A double-CD- packed with previously unreleased material from Swans and World Of Skin- with Jarboe on lead vocals. Edited & remastered by Chris Griffin (who also recorded & mastered "Soundtracks For The Blind" & many other Swans/Gira projects), Mystery of Faith offers over 140 minutes of prime material from 1986-1997- and features humorous, obscure- and sometimes revealing- personal recordings of Swans performances rehearsals, sound checks & more. A completely distinctive take on one of the great avant-garde rock bands of all time- and a must-have historical document for all Swans fans. “... powerful stuff that is easily misinterpreted. SWANS ... are part of the template for so much to come in popular music -- Merzbow, Godflesh, Slipknot, industrial, avant-noise, post-punk, metalcore, Ministry, Neurosis, Sonic Youth, Marilyn Manson... Let pretenders beware. SWANS were real to the most frightening extent possible before self-extinction. Too real, almost -- the formula is repeated and watered down even today by lesser hands. SWANS music goes straight to the heart and body, rather than the head. Nothing is calculated.” --INK19.