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The band's sound is based upon the doom and gloom synthpop sound of darkwave, with heavy influence from Medieval and Neo-Medieval, Renaissance and chamber music. Lyrical themes in the band's early songs focused on the extreme pain of her life, the occult, her own spiritual discovery, and vampires. Later works embraced her own coming to terms with her transsexuality, love and sex, and Cantodea began to showcase a newfound humorous side to her work. Much of the band's imagery is a ghostly pale Cantodea, nude (and with a vagina airbrushed on) in forests, caves and crypts. Post 2005, Cantodea can be seen in elaborate dresses and gowns in a variety of settings. Fans generally refer to these phases as "Varney", and "Cantodea" or "Anna-Varney", due to the vast differences in presentation.

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The band's sound is based upon the doom and gloom synthpop sound of darkwave, with heavy influence from Medieval and Neo-Medieval, Renaissance and chamber music. Lyrical themes in the band's early songs focused on the extreme pain of her life, the occult, her own spiritual discovery, and vampires. Later works embraced her own coming to terms with her transsexuality, transgender identity, love and sex, and Cantodea began to showcase a newfound humorous side to her work. Much of the band's imagery is a ghostly pale Cantodea, nude (and with a vagina airbrushed on) in forests, caves and crypts. Post 2005, Cantodea can be seen in elaborate dresses and gowns in a variety of settings. Fans generally refer to these phases as "Varney", and "Cantodea" or "Anna-Varney", due to the vast differences in presentation.
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* LongTitle: Several of Sopor's songs are reflective of this trope, but ''Spiral Traveller'' excels at it. Aside from the name of the album -- a title only outdone by Sopor's debut album -- only one of the fifteen songs has a short title: "Memalon". The next shortest is "May I kiss your Wound ?"
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** Muisc/BlackSabbath's "[[Music/{{Paranoid|Album}}" and "A National Acrobat" were covered for a compilation, as "Diô N'arâp (The unability within Time)" and "Tabor C'âlan O'itanâ (My Womb is barren, but I can conceive)", respectively. The bassline from their song "Under the Sun" was also quoted for "Shadowsphere (The Monologue-World and the subconscious Symbols)".

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** Muisc/BlackSabbath's "[[Music/{{Paranoid|Album}}" Music/BlackSabbath's "Music/{{Paranoid|Album}}" and "A National Acrobat" were covered for a compilation, as "Diô N'arâp (The unability within Time)" and "Tabor C'âlan O'itanâ (My Womb is barren, but I can conceive)", respectively. The bassline from their song "Under the Sun" was also quoted for "Shadowsphere (The Monologue-World and the subconscious Symbols)".
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* CannotSpitItOut: Cantodea habitually says that she loves people in the past tense, after they have died. When covering Lionel Richie's "Hello", she only utters the "I" or "I love you" before trailing off.

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* CannotSpitItOut: Cantodea habitually says that she loves people in the past tense, after they have died. When covering Lionel Richie's Music/LionelRichie's "Hello", she only utters the "I" or "I love you" before trailing off.



** The music of ''Cat Stevens''' "I Think I See the Light" was used for "Todeswunsch (vers.)"

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** The music of ''Cat Stevens''' Music/CatStevens' "I Think I See the Light" was used for "Todeswunsch (vers.)"



** ''Have You Seen This Ghost?'' featured three covers: "It Is Safe to Sleep Alone" ("Sleep" by Music/MarianneFaithfull), "Hello" by Music/LionelRichie and "Holding Out for a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler.

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** ''Have You Seen This Ghost?'' featured three covers: "It Is Safe to Sleep Alone" ("Sleep" by Music/MarianneFaithfull), "Hello" by Music/LionelRichie and "Holding Out for a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler.Music/BonnieTyler.
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Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows is a German neoclassical darkwave band, whose sole constant member is singer Anna-Varney Cantodea. Formed in 1989 by Cantodea and Holger, the band has released 10 studio albums and six [=EPs=], or "[[InsistentTerminology sister albums]]". At the time of the project's start, Cantodea was living in complete isolation, afflicted by severe depression and close to blindness, and claims to have been "given" the music in her dreams by spirits, the "Ensemble of Shadows", thus forming Sopor Aeternus. Holger would leave the band after the demo recordings, but Cantodea would continue under the name.

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Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows is a German neoclassical darkwave band, whose sole constant member is singer Anna-Varney Cantodea. Formed in 1989 by Cantodea and Holger, the band has released 10 studio albums and six [=EPs=], or "[[InsistentTerminology sister albums]]". At the time of the project's start, Cantodea was living in complete isolation, afflicted by severe depression UsefulNotes/{{depression}} and close to blindness, and claims to have been "given" the music in her dreams by spirits, the "Ensemble of Shadows", thus forming Sopor Aeternus. Holger would leave the band after the demo recordings, but Cantodea would continue under the name.

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