Love Is Colder than Death

德国的 Love is Colder than Death 成立与1990年，取名于60年代法斯宾德的电影。自始至终他们都象是一个奇异的化身，有关于Love is Colder than Death的音乐所残留下来的东西：在世纪之交里隐晦时期的低语和于现代社会中寻找有如天堂般美丽家园的童话。这支乐队首次登场于1990年，作为HYPERIUM旗下的元老乐队，他们总是被别人误解，许多人将乐队臆断为拾Dead Can Dance牙慧中的一员，但事实上他们与Dead Can Dance出现于同一时期，不过乐队很早就确定了自己EBM+中世纪音乐的双重身份。
Love is Colder than Death于91年推出了他们首张大受好评的LP/CD《Teignmouth》。紧随着1992年同期发行了他们的第二张专辑《MentalTraveller》。同上一张一样，延续了他们中世纪的风情，缓慢而庄重的合成键盘，EBM类的黑电子和中世纪的诡异融合。
Love is Colder Than Death, commonly abbreviated LiCTD or LICTD, is an early German heavenly voices / neo-classical / neo-medieval band that was one of the corner stones to Hyperium Record's Heavenly Voices compilation series of the early 1990s. It is named after the 1969 Fassbinder film Liebe ist kälter als der Tod. The band's music is characterized by its extensive use of both romantic and classical styled male and female vocals. Founded by Ralf Donis, Maik Hartung, Sven Mertens, and Susann Heinrich in 1990, the band members and music have changed slightly. The first few LICTD albums were released on the Hyperium record label in Europe and on the new Metropolis Records label in the United States. The band's album Teignmouth was the first Metropolis Records release, and remains one of LICTD's more popular albums. Following the departure of Donis, the more experimental songs that characterized some of the early LICTD work gave way to a much more classical sound. Eclipse, the latest LICTD album with new content, reached number one on Mexican New Age Sales Charts.[1] At present, the band is based in Leipzig Germany. The band performed at major international festivals including, Wave-Gotik-Treffen in 2003 and 2005 and the annual Bach Festival Leipzig in 2003.