Current 93
Genre: Neo-Folk
Origin: England
Status: Active
Members
David Tibet - vocals, various instruments
Michael Cashmore
Steven Stapleton
Former members:
Christoph Heemann
Douglas Pearce (see also Death In June)
Rose McDowall - vocals
various rotating contributors
Band Links
Current 93 Discography
Dogs Blood Rising
(1984, L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords)
1. Christus Christus (The Shells Have Cracked)
2. Falling Back In Fields Of Rape
3. From Broken Cross, Locusts
4. Raio No Terrasu (Jesus Wept)
5. St. Peters Keys All Bloody
LAShTAL (EP)
(1984, L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords)
1. LAShTAL
2. Salt
3. Caresse
Nature Unveiled
(1984, L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords)
1. Ach Golgotha (Maldoror Is Dead)
2. The Mystical Body Of Christ In Chorazaim (The Great In The Small)
In Menstrual Night
(1986, United Dairies)
1. Sucking Up Souls
2. To Feed The Moon
Dawn
(1987, Maldoror)
1. Great Black Time (Live At Bar Maldoror)
2. Maldoror Er Daudur
Imperium
(1987, Maldoror)
1. Imperium I
2. Imperium II
3. Imperium III
4. Imperium IV
5. Be
6. Locust
7. Or
8. Alone
Christ And The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow
(1988, Maldoror)
Disc 1
1. Dögun
2. Forever Changing
3. The Ballad Of The Pale Christ
4. Christ And The Pale Queens, Mighty In Their Sorrow
Disc 2
1. Night
2. Astral Paddington (Etching)
Earth Covers Earth
(1988, United Dairies)
1. The Dilly Song
2. Hourglass (For Diana)
3. Earth Covers Earth (For Aki)
4. Rome (For Douglas P.)
5. Time Tryeth Truth
6. Hourglass (For Rosy Abelisk)
Crooked Crosses For The Nodding God
(1989, United Dairies)
1. He Is Everywhere Nowhere
2. Northforth
3. Hail
4. The Return Of The Final Church
5. Snow
6. Oh Thou Coal Black Smith
7. From Boyd's Bunker
8. Ending Ending
9. The Summer Past
10. The Slickstair Song
11. Toytown Awakes
12. Dark Wood Too Awakes
13. After Tomorrow
14. Hey Ho The Nodding God Comes!
15. Loony Runes
16. The Ballad Of Bobby Sunshine
17. The Use Of Compassion Explained
Looney Runes
(1990, Durtro)
1. Panzer Ruin (In The Hands Of Gillespie)
2. That's All Folks
3. Invocation
4. The Summer Of Love (Not Listed)
5. Happy Birthday
6. Black Flowers Please
7. Oh Coal Black Smith
8. Farewell, The Birds Have Stopped Singing
As The World Disappears...
(1991, Durtro)
1. Khor Bai Nyes Dmigs
2. Lament For her
3. The Death Of The Corn
4. A Song For Douglas After He's Dead
5. Terra Tegit Terram
6. Be
7. Hooves
8. Horsey
9. They Returned To Their Earth (For My Christ Thorn)
10. A Song For Douglas After He's Dead (Rebirth)
Island
(1991, Durtro)
1. Falling
2. The Dream Of A Shadow Of Smoke
3. Lament For My Suzanne
4. Fields Of Rape (Sightless Return)
5. Passing Horses
6. Anyway, People Die
7. To Blackened Earth
8. Oh Merry-Go-Round
9. Crowleymass Unveiled
10. Paperback Honey
11. The Fall Of Christopher Robin
12. Fields Of Rape And Smoke
13. Merry-Go-Round And Around
Thunder Perfect Mind
(1992, Durtro)
1. A Beginning
2. The Descent Of Long Satan And Babylon
3. A Sadness Song
4. A Song For Douglas After He's Dead
5. In The Heart Of The Wood And What I Found There
6. Mary Waits In Silence
7. A Silence Song
8. A Lament For My Suzanne
9. Riverdeadbank
10. All The Stars Are Dead Now
11. Rosy Star Tears From Heaven
12. When The May Rain Comes
13. Thunder Perfect Mind I
14. Thunder Perfect Mind II
15. Hitler As Kalki (SDM)
16. A Sad Sadness Song
Emblems: The Menstrual Years (Compilation)
(1993, Durtro)
Disc 1
1. Great Black Time I (Excerpt)
2. Falling Back In Fields of Rape (Excerpt)
3. Only Shadows Of Hooks (Excerpt)
4. Ach Golgotha: The Mystical Body Of Christ In Chorazaim (Excerpt)
5. Sucking Up Souls (Excerpt)
6. The Breath And The Pain Of God
7. Imperium I
8. Imperium II
9. Diana
10. The Ballad Of The Pale Christ
11. Great Black Time II (Excerpt)
12. Great Black Time III (Excerpt)
13. Happy Birthday Pigface Christus
Disc 2
1. The Stair Song
2. Suzanne: She And I In Darkness We Lay And Lie
3. Maldoror Is Ded Ded Ded Ded
4. Hooves
5. Oh Coal Black Smith
6. The Signs And The Sighs Of Emptiness
7. Broken Birds Fly
8. Earth Covers Earth
9. They Return To Their Earth
10. Silence As Christine
11. Anyway, People Die
12. The Descent Of Long Satan And Babylon
13. Our Lady Of Horses
14. In Sadness Sang
15. The Sadness Of Things (Excerpt)
Hitler As Kalki
(1993, Durtro)
1. Imperium V
2. Hitler As Kalki (SDM)
3. Christ And The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow
4. All The Stars Are Dead Now
5. Imperium V
Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre
(1994, Durtro)
1. A Voice From Catland
2. Steven And I In The Field Of Stars
3. The Teeth Of The Winds Of The Sea
4. Moonlight, You Will Say
5. Into The Bloody Hole I Go
6. The Darkly Splended World
7. The Cloud Of Unknowing
8. Let Us Go To The Rose
9. All The World Makes Great Blood
10. The Great, Bloody And Bruised Veil Of The World
11. Into The Menstrual Night I Go
12. Dormition And Dominion
13. So: This Empire Is Nothing
14. This Shining Shining World
All The Pretty Little Horses
(1996, Durtro)
1. The Long Shadow Falls
2. All The Pretty Little Horsies
3. Calling For Vanished Faces I
4. The Inmost Night
5. This Carnival Is Dead And Gone
6. The Bloodbells Chime
7. Calling For Vanished Faces II
8. The Frolic
9. The Inmost Light
10. Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil
11. The Inmost Light Itself
12. All The Pretty Little Horses
13. Patripassian
Horsey
(1997, Durtro)
1. Diana
2. The Death Of The Corn
3. Three
4. Broken Birds Fly I (Maldoror Waits)
5. Horsey
6. Broken Birds Fly II (Maldoror Wails)
Soft Black Stars
(1998, Durtro)
1. Untitled Instrumental
2. Larkspur And Lazarus
3. A Gothic Love Song
4. Mockingbird
5. Soft Black Stars
6. It Is Time, Only Time
7. Anti-Christ And Barcodes
8. The Signs In The Stars
9. Whilst The Night Rejoices Profound And Still
10. Moonlight, Or Other Dreams, Or Other Fields
11. Judas As Black Moth
12. Chewing On Shadows
Faust
(2000, Durtro)
1. Faust
Sleep Has His House
(2000, Durtro)
1. Love's Young Dream
2. Good Morning, Great Moloch
3. The Magical Bird In The Magical Woods
4. Red Hawthorn Tree
5. Immortal Bird
6. Niemandswasser
7. Lullaby
8. Sleep Has His House
9. The God Of Sleep Has Made His House
Cats Drunk On Copper (Live)
(2001, Durtro)
1. Intro / Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil
2. Calling For Vanished Faces I
3. The Death Of The Corn
4. Horsey
5. The Descent Of Long Satan And Babylon
6. In The Heart Of The Wood And What I Found There
7. Be
8. Black Flowers Please
9. Mary Waits In Silence
10. Calling For Vanished Faces II
11. Since Yesterday
12. The Blue Gates Of Death
13. The Bloodbells Chime
14. All The World Makes Great Blood
15. The Great, Bloody And Bruised Veil Of This World
16. Dormition And Dominion / So: This Empire Is Nothing / This Shining Shining World
17. A Sadness Song
18. Happy Birthday
The Great In The Small
(2001, Durtro)
1. The Great In The Small
A Little Menstrual Night Music (Remix Album)
(2003, Durtro)
1. Sucking Up Souls (Remix)
2. To Feed The Moon (Remix)
Halo (Live)
(2005, Durtro)
1. Halo
2. Alone
3. Mary Waits In Silence
4. Calling For Vanished Faces II
5. The Signs In The Starts
6. All This World Makes Great Blood
7. Good Morning, Great Moloch
8. Whilst The Night Rejoices Profound And Still
9. 5 Hypnagogue 5
10. A Silence Song
11. Sleep Has His House
12. 4 Hypnagogue 4
13. Fields Of Rape
14. So: This Empire Is Nothing
15. The Death Of The Corn
16. Locust
How I Devoured Apocalypse Balloon (Live)
(2005, Durtro)
Disc 1
1. Intro
2. Good Morning Great Moloch
3. 5 Hypnagogue 5
4. While The Night Rejoices Profound And Still
5. Earth Covers Earth
6. Calling For Vanished Faces II
7. All This World Makes Great Blood
8. Mary Waits In Silence
9. Judas As A Black Moth
10. A Gothic Love Song
11. The Bloodbell Chime
12. Walking Like Shadow
13. Sleep Has His House
14. Time Of The Last Persecution
15. Long Satan And Babylon
16. A Sadness Song
Disc 2
1. Intro
2. Alone
3. Red Hawthorn Tree
4. All The World Makes Great Blood
5. The Signs In The Start
6. 4 Hypnagogue 4
7. Mary Waits In Silence
8. The Inmost Light Itself
9. Falling Back In Fields Of Rape
10. Whilst The Night Rejoices Profound And Still
11. Black Sun Bloody Moon
12. They Returned To Their Earth
13. So, This Empire Is Nothing
14. The Shining Shining World
15. The Blue Gates Of Death
Black Ships Ate The Sky
(2006, Durtro)
1. Idumæa
2. Sunset (The Death Of Thumbelina)
3. Black Ships In The Sky
4. Then Kill Cæsar
5. Idumæa
6. This Autistic Imperium Is Nihil Reich
7. The Dissolution Of "The Boat Millions Of Years"
8. Idumæa
9. Bind Your Tortoise Mouth
10. Idumæa
11. Black Ships Seen Last Year South Of Heaven
12. Abba Amma (Babylon Destroyer)
13. Idumæa
14. Black Ships Were Sinking Into Idumæa
15. The Beautiful Dancing Dust
16. Idumæa
17. Vauvauvau (Black Ships In Their Harbours)
18. Idumæa
19. Black Ships Ate The Sky
20. Why Cæsar Is Burning Part II
21. Idumæa
Birdsong In The Empire (Compilation)
(2007, Durtro)
1. The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home
2. At Sunset
3. Black Ships Ate The Sky
4. The Time Of The Last Persecution
5. Alone
6. Idumaea
7. Black Flowers Please
8. Bind Your Tortoise Mouth/Vauvauvau
9. Larkspur And Lazarus
10. Niemandswasser
11. Calling For Vanished Faces II
12. Moonlight, Or Other Dreams, Or Other Fields
13. Sleep Has His House
14. Whilst The Night Rejoices Profound And Still
The Inmost Light
(2007, Jnana Records)
Disc 1
1. Where The Long Shadows Fall
Disc 2
1. The Long Shadow Falls
2. All The Pretty Little Horsies
3. Calling For Vanished Faces I
4. The Inmost Night
5. The Carnival Is Dead And Gone
6. The Bloodbells Chime
7. Calling For Vanished Faces II
8. The Frolic
9. The Inmost Light
10. Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil
11. The Inmost Light Itself
12. All The Pretty Little Horses
13. Patripassian
Disc 3
1. The Stars Are Marching Sadly Home
Birth Canal Blues (EP)
(2008, Jnana Records)
1. I Looked To The South Side Of The Door
2. She Took Us To The Places Where The Sun Sets
3. The Nylon Lion Attacks As Kingdom
4. Suddenly The Living Are Dying
Birth Canal Blues Live (EP)
(2008, Coptic Cat)
1. I Looked To The South Side Of The Door
2. She Took Us To The Places Where The Sun Sets
3. The Nylon Lion Attacks As Kingdom
4. Suddenly The Living Are Dying
Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain
(2009, Coptic Cat)
1. Invocation Of Almost
2. Poppyskins
3. On Docetic Mountain
4. 26 April 2007
5. Aleph Is The Butterfly Net
6. Not Because The Fox Barks
7. UrShadow
8. As Real As Rainbows
Last updated August 9, 2009.