Originally released on Peaceville in October 1993, and recorded at Academy Studios in Yorkshire, the album saw the arrival of long time session musician and classically trained violin and piano player Martin Powell. The album also saw the band stretching and pushing the grandiose textures and epic doom dynamics to create an opus of previously unrivalled atmosphere. Fans and critics have since hailed «Turn Loose the Swans» as the blueprint for the new Gothic Metal genre, with many often still citing the release as among the defining albums of the band’s distinguished career.
Disc 1
1.Sear Me MCMXC III
2.Your River
3.The Songless Bird
4.The Snow In My Hand
5.The Crown Of Sympathy
6.Turn Loose The Swans
7.Black God