{"id":938,"date":"2017-09-15T06:56:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T06:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gradualhate.info\/?p=938"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:27:49","slug":"soror-dolorosa-apollo-prophecy-productions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"Soror Dolorosa &#8211; Apollo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Apollo-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Apollo-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Apollo-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Apollo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Apollo-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Apollo-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Apollo-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Apollo.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-938 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/?attachment_id=940'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_owb7aeujZG1u8pupko2_640.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_owb7aeujZG1u8pupko2_640.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_owb7aeujZG1u8pupko2_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_owb7aeujZG1u8pupko2_640-500x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/?attachment_id=941'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_owb7aeujZG1u8pupko3_640.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_owb7aeujZG1u8pupko3_640.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_owb7aeujZG1u8pupko3_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_owb7aeujZG1u8pupko3_640-500x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Soror Dolorosa &#8211; Apollo<\/strong><br \/>Prophecy Productions \u200e\u2013 PRO 183<br \/>Format: CD, Album<br \/>Country: Germany<br \/>Released: 14 Sep 2017<br \/>Style: Goth Rock, Post Punk<\/p>\n<p>Paris-based Soror Dolorosa creates raw and hungry gothic rock inspired by post-punk, death rock and cold wave. French for \u2018Sister Pain\u2019, Soror Dolorosa was formed in 2001 by vocalist Andy Julia. Taking its name from the novel \u201cBruges-la-morte\u201d by Flemish symbolist writer Georges Rodenbach, Soror Dolorosa channels its inspiration\u2019s strong undercurrents of passion, nostalgia and mourning, transferring those powerful emotional states into its music and live performances. These signature elements of the group\u2019s sonic formula are heard in its muscular songs, jangling guitars, overdriven bass lines, driving rhythms and Julia\u2019s distinctive, dramatic vocal style.<\/p>\n<p>Four years in the making, \u201cApollo\u201d is Soror Dolorosa\u2019s crowning achievement; a bombastic dystopian world view encapsulated in dark popcraft. Melodic and memorable, the album shines a light on both stunning beauty and haunting sadness with Julia\u2019s foreboding, prophet of doom baritone soaring on down a long and lonesome highway full of baroque, exquisite anguish. The four sides of the double LP are presented like the passing of the four seasons, creating an audio life cycle. With Soror Dolorosa, everything starts and ends within this ancestral conception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravels were the key inspiration for the songs on &#8216;Apollo\u2019,\u201d Julia says. A renowned editorial photographer in Paris\u2019 elite fashion industry, the frontman is also an exhibited artist and published author who travels the globe. \u201cPassing through plains, mountains, cities, forests and deserts; all of these sensations, all of these smells are remembered and represented within the songs simple melodies and die hard grooves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Long associated with acts such as Alcest, Les Discrets and Lantl\u00f4s, it makes perfect sense for Prophecy to welcome Julia and Soror Dolorosa to its family of artists. Long compared to standard-bearers such as Fields of the Nephilim, The Sisters of Mercy, Joy Division and Bauhaus, it too makes sense that Soror Dolorosa continues to grow its sound and vision; and with \u201cApollo\u201d, they have taken that very next step. For the band, \u201cApollo\u201d isn\u2019t just a new album, it\u2019s a spiritual quest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApollo\u201d will be released as a digipak CD, gatefold 2xLP (on 180g vinyl, including special vinyl mastering) and as a deluxe 3xCD\/DVD artbook (measuring 28&#215;28 cm, including 72 pages) including the \u201cRive Gauche\u201d live album on 2xCD and DVD featuring 110 minutes of concert footage. In tandem with \u201cApollo\u201d, Prophecy will also reissue Soror Dolorosa\u2019s entire back catalog which includes \u201cSeverance\u201d (2009, with unreleased bonus track), \u201cBlind Scenes\u201d (2011) and \u201cNo More Heroes\u201d (2013).<\/p>\n<p>Edition:<br \/>&#8211; Digipak CD<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-embed tmblr-full\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-orig-width=\"540\" data-orig-height=\"304\" data-url=\"https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOZa9Z16RL-Y\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:10px;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/apollo\/1556091463\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/seller\/gradual\/profile\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"128\" src=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-1024x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-1024x128.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-500x63.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-1140x143.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soror Dolorosa &#8211; ApolloProphecy Productions \u200e\u2013 PRO 183Format: CD, AlbumCountry: GermanyReleased: 14 Sep 2017Style: Goth Rock, Post Punk Paris-based Soror Dolorosa creates raw and hungry gothic rock inspired by post-punk, death rock and cold wave. French for \u2018Sister Pain\u2019, Soror Dolorosa was formed in 2001 by vocalist Andy Julia. Taking its name from the novel \u201cBruges-la-morte\u201d by Flemish symbolist writer Georges Rodenbach, Soror Dolorosa channels its inspiration\u2019s strong undercurrents of passion, nostalgia and mourning, transferring those powerful emotional states into its music and live performances. These signature elements of the group\u2019s sonic formula are heard in its muscular songs, jangling guitars, overdriven bass lines, driving rhythms and Julia\u2019s distinctive, dramatic vocal style. Four years in the making, \u201cApollo\u201d is Soror Dolorosa\u2019s crowning achievement; a bombastic dystopian world view encapsulated in dark popcraft. Melodic and memorable, the album shines a light on both stunning beauty and haunting sadness with Julia\u2019s foreboding, prophet of doom baritone soaring on down a long and lonesome highway full of baroque, exquisite anguish. The four sides of the double LP are presented like the passing of the four seasons, creating an audio life cycle. With Soror Dolorosa, everything starts and ends within this ancestral conception. \u201cTravels were the key inspiration for the songs on &#8216;Apollo\u2019,\u201d Julia says. A renowned editorial photographer in Paris\u2019 elite fashion industry, the frontman is also an exhibited artist and published author who travels the globe. \u201cPassing through plains, mountains, cities, forests and deserts; all of these sensations, all of these smells are remembered and represented within the songs simple melodies and die hard grooves.\u201d Long associated with acts such as Alcest, Les Discrets and Lantl\u00f4s, it makes perfect sense for Prophecy to welcome Julia and Soror Dolorosa to its family of artists. Long compared to standard-bearers such as Fields of the Nephilim, The Sisters of Mercy, Joy Division and Bauhaus, it too makes sense that Soror Dolorosa continues to grow its sound and vision; and with \u201cApollo\u201d, they have taken that very next step. For the band, \u201cApollo\u201d isn\u2019t just a new album, it\u2019s a spiritual quest. \u201cApollo\u201d will be released as a digipak CD, gatefold 2xLP (on 180g vinyl, including special vinyl mastering) and as a deluxe 3xCD\/DVD artbook (measuring 28&#215;28 cm, including 72 pages) including the \u201cRive Gauche\u201d live album on 2xCD and DVD featuring 110 minutes of concert footage. In tandem with \u201cApollo\u201d, Prophecy will also reissue Soror Dolorosa\u2019s entire back catalog which includes \u201cSeverance\u201d (2009, with unreleased bonus track), \u201cBlind Scenes\u201d (2011) and \u201cNo More Heroes\u201d (2013). 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