Dead & Gone # 2 – Totenlieder / Songs of Death

Dead & Gone #2 is subtitled Totenlieder – Songs of Death, so it focuses more on this form of death songs. It’s a much more accessible compilation than the funeral marches because it features more pop songs. These pop songs all have an arch gothic overtone to them. Interspersed amongst these pop songs of death, are more traditional fare like Lydia Mendoza’s La Bada Negra, Edith Und Karl Dworak’s Dtellt’s Meine Ross in Stall, and Jasper Smith’s Died for Love. The gothic overtones of the more pop oriented material works well with the more traditional tunage, and Trikont again sequences all of these tracks together so that it’s like you are listening to a soundtrack to a Coen Brothers or Luchino Visconti film.