Shihad – Old Gods (Vinyl) Dead Can Dance I Have Known Love

I Have Known Love

Winner of the 2004 Mercury Music Prize

While over the last three years the band have played countless New Zealand shows

and the arrangements are often gorgeously lush without threatening to overpower Van Etten’s alto

Orange spawned the idea of a thematic delving into the foibles and little-known psyche of William of Orange

Shihad – Old Gods (Vinyl) Dead Can Dance I Have Known LoveIf anger is an energy, then Old Gods Shihads 10th studio album since forming in Wellington in 1988 could singlehandedly power our capital city for a year. Old Gods is a step into fury for frontman Jon Toogood whose lyrics encapsulate our collective anger at recent world events. The album states its intent from the moment the crushing, grinding riff of opener Tear Down Those Names explodes to life, and just one song later Toogood urges for the killing