Mandylion is the third studio album by the Dutch band The Gathering. It was released on August 22, 1995 by Century Media Records. The record is their first album to feature vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen. The album was recorded and mixed at Woodhouse Studios in Hagen, Germany between June 1st and June 16th, 1995 under the guidance of Siggi Bemm and Waldemar Sorychta. Two of the songs have quotes from popular culture inserted into them: "Strange Machines" contains a passage from George Pal's film version of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, and "Sand & Mercury" ends with a recording of J.R.R. Tolkien reading a quote from Simone de Beauvoir.
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... the band. The band wanted to break out of the previous death metal universe and from then on consciously do without growls. In the meantime, the band was even on the verge of breaking up, before the [...]
... pozostali wierni sobie, zdobywając jednocześnie coraz szersze rzesze fanów. Nadeszła pora, by uczcić dziesięciolecie premiery "Mandylion". Z tej właśnie okazji płyta doczekała się ekskluzywnej re-edycji. [...]
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