{"product_id":"temple-of-love-tee","title":"Temple of Love Tee","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eORDERS OPEN: 10\/15\/26\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eORDERS CLOSE: 10\/19\/26\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTO PRINT: 10\/20\/26\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRINTED ON LAA GD1801 BLACK TEES. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eALL ITEMS TAKE BETWEEN 3-4 WEEKS TO PRODUCE AFTER THE ORDER PERIOD ENDS. You will always receive your item unless otherwise contacted. All items are final sale. We are not responsible for lost, stolen, or misplaced packages. Please note all gradient prints are different, variations will occur.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Sisters of Mercy built a mythology out of absence. Andrew Eldritch formed the band in Leeds around 1980 with guitarist Gary Marx, with a drum machine named Doktor Avalanche keeping time behind them, and from the start they refused to behave like a band that wanted to be understood. The sound was black, cold and enormous: baritone vocals, chorus-drenched guitars, and a rhythm machine that never missed a beat or showed an emotion. Eldritch ran his own label, Merciful Release, and he treated the idea of the band as something to be guarded, not explained. The mystery wasn’t a marketing strategy so much as a habit, and a few decades later it’s still the thing people write about first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/MV5BOWRiNzdkYzAtYTJjMC00NDFhLWE5ODktNzZmZTNiZWM3MTcwXkEyXkFqcGc_._V1.jpg?v=1791730721\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e“Temple of Love” is where the whole thing locked into place. It came out in October 1983 on Merciful Release as a non-album single, no major label involved, and it did well enough on the independent chart to get Eldritch a contract with WEA. The song itself is a ritual in miniature: a pulsing drum machine, a guitar line that sounds like a cathedral collapsing in slow motion, and Eldritch intoning about love as something both holy and lethal. Then in 1992 he did the strangest thing a goth bandleader could do and re-recorded it with Ofra Haza, a singer whose voice pushes the chorus into something that sounds ancient. The single, subtitled “Touched by the Hand of Ofra Haza” as a joke on a New Order title, became the band’s biggest UK hit, reaching number three. A song that started as a cult object went top five because he added a singer from a completely different tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/MV5BZjBmMmU1NTktZmZhMi00MzhhLTg0MDQtOTU3NGExNjYyOTBmXkEyXkFqcGc_._V1.jpg?v=1791730747\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThen there is Eldritch himself, who has made a career out of being unmanageable. When guitarist Wayne Hussey and bassist Craig Adams left in 1985 to form the Mission, the fight over who owned the name turned into a legal mess, and Eldritch’s response was to put out a record called “Gift” under the name the Sisterhood, partly as a maneuver to secure his hold on the Sisters of Mercy name. It worked. Later, deep in a dispute with his record label, he recorded an album under the name SSV, said to stand for “Screw Shareholder Value,” delivered it to satisfy a contract, and the label never released it. The album is still passed around as a bootleg. His last proper studio album as the Sisters of Mercy was “Vision Thing” in 1990, and he has refused to release another one since, even as the band tours and plays new songs live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/MV5BZGJhYjU0NWYtODIxMC00NTNlLTkxOTktNGE4ZjAwZjA4YzYzXkEyXkFqcGc_._V1.jpg?v=1791730795\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"524\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThat refusal is the real ending to the story. Most bands from that scene broke up, reunited, and sold the catalogue. Eldritch decided that the band should exist only in rooms with the lights down, performing songs nobody can buy, a legend that survives by never being allowed to age. It’s perverse, probably frustrating, and completely in character. The Temple of Love is still standing because he’s the only one with the key, and he’s never been interested in letting anyone inside.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Enter the Night Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Small","offer_id":48443786690766,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium","offer_id":48443786723534,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large","offer_id":48443786756302,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":48443786789070,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":48443786821838,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3XL","offer_id":48443786854606,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/SISTERSFRONT.png?v=1791728817","url":"https:\/\/enterthenightgallery.com\/products\/temple-of-love-tee","provider":"Night Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}