“Dominion” by Sisters of Mercy

"Dominion" arrived in February 1988 as the second single from Floodland, the Sisters of Mercy's second album, and Andrew Eldritch wrote it on his own. It was cut in 1987 at the Power Station in Manhattan, with Eldritch producing alongside Jim Steinman and Larry Alexander, and like its twin single "This Corrosion" it brings in the New York Choral Society to sing, which makes it about as grand as goth ever got.

On the album it runs on into a coda, "Mother Russia". Eldritch has said the whole thing hides an anti-American rant colored by the Chernobyl disaster, and back then he claimed the coda argued that the West should hand Berlin over to the Soviets, since they ran it anyway. It reached 7 in Ireland and 13 in the UK.

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