Heart-Shaped Wound, by Aurelio Voltaire

Heart-Shaped Wound

by Aurelio Voltaire

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jacensolodjo I don't know how I missed the initial release of this but I found it now and glad I did. I honestly can't pick a single favorite song, but I am so so happy Aurelio kept the "maybe there's a God above" part of Hallelujah. it is too often changed to "I know there is". But Necropolis of Former Lovers speaks to me personally, but so does The Ones Who've Hurt You. And Leaves in the Stream is the perfect ballad for his voice mingling with Alissa's. Whether you are new to Voltaire, only aware of his Grin Adventures Songs, or a fan of all his other work you will find something to enjoy in this bittersweet collection, appropriately titled as Heart Shaped Wound. Favorite track: The Necropolis of Former Lovers.

vleryk Amazing, just like all his other albums, but the Spock Love Song and his haunting cover of Hallelujah make it shine above the rest! Favorite track: Human Nature.

dragonlily70 Voltaire put his heart and soul into this album and it's so evident. This album was definitely worth the wait! Favorite track: Human Nature.

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1.	The Projectionist 04:56	buy track
2.	Human Nature 04:37	buy track
3.	Leaves in the Stream 03:49	buy track
4.	Butterfly 03:36	buy track
5.	In Disguise 06:10	buy track
6.	The Ones Who've Hurt You 05:16	buy track
7.	Hallelujah 04:59	buy track
8.	The Necropolis of Former Lovers 06:10	buy track
9.	The Folly of Love 04:56	buy track
10.	A Romantic Guy 03:39	buy track
11.	The Necropolis of Former Lovers (Midnight in the Mausoleum Mix) 06:07	buy track

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Aurelio Voltaire's 11th album from 2017

Dark cabaret artist Aurelio Voltaire leaves the vampires, zombies and murder ballads behind for a heart-wrenching collection of songs about love gained and love lost. His eleventh studio album (and first Projekt release in a decade) sees Voltaire crafting his most mature and passionate release to date.

Throughout his 20-year career Voltaire has danced on the dark side with a sardonic smile, penning such tunes as “Zombie Prostitute” “Cannibal Buffet” and “Vampire Club.” He’s best known for “When You’re Evil” (from 1999’s debut The Devil’s Bris), a jaunty celebration of naughtiness befitting a Disney villain (as evidenced by the scores of Disney villain fan videos on youTube set to the song.) Also a classic track, “Brains!” (from 2002’s Boo Hoo) recounts an evil meteor hungry for human brains and was featured on the Cartoon Network show The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

With a reputation for macabre, tongue-in-cheek skewering of everything from religion to the Goth scene to Star Trek and Star Wars, Voltaire has his serious side, too. Every once in a while someone comes along and breaks his heart, and the result is an album of gut-wrenching songs. His 2002 outing, Boo Hoo, was described by Projekt as “a breakup record for lonely hearts with an ax to grind.” Well, it’s happened again! Heart~Shaped Wound goes past an 8.9 on the heartbreak scale. The result of a short but tumultuous three-month relationship – the first after his divorce in 2013 – Voltaire found himself writing new songs that were earnest, brimming with anguish, regret and yearning.

Known for releasing an album a year, Aurelio Voltaire spent three years crafting Heart~Shaped Wound in between his hectic touring schedule. Defying classification, the album drifts seamlessly from Goth rock to folk, from saxophone-fueled torch songs to guitar driven indie-rock. There’s even an intense heavy metal ballad, “Leaves in the Stream,” a duet sung with Arch Enemy frontwoman Alissa White-Gluz.

Aurelio Voltaire returns to Projekt, bringing with him 20 years of genre-defying musical storytelling; often sarcastic, sometimes serious, always uniquely… Voltaire.

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released September 1, 2017

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projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/almost-human
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Projekt is America's premier independent label specializing in passionately intense introspective music across a variety of genres (ambient, ethereal, electronic,darkwave, goth, dreampop & more). Projekt is home to a diverse roster including Steve Roach, Voltaire, Erik Wollo, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, Forrest Fang, Mark Seelig, Lycia and others. ... more

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Feb 2018
Scenes from a Ghost Train

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Trapped Vol. 1

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Transmitter

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First Decade

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Heart-Shaped Wound

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Long Thoughts

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Shine

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Phase IX

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These fleeting moments

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Shadow Of Time

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Limitless

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Second Nature

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Beneath The Serene

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Victor Frankenstein (music for a dark evening)

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Etheric Imprints

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The Hues of Infinity (free!)

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Skeleton Keys

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Aftermath

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Disorientation Flow

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Blue Radiance

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Timelines

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Sugar Wingshiver

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Ornamental (a Projekt Holiday Collection)

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In A Place Of Mutual Understanding

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Tension Sessions (ep)

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Exterminating Angel

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Possibilities of Circumstance

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Live Transmission

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The Wolf At The Ruins / Migration (reissue)

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Quiet Moments

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Silent Currents 3

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Ghost Colored Halo

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Future Flows

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Rainbow Melodies

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XiX

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Objet No. 1

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Tenderotics

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Crystal Bells

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Divinian

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Airborne

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Back to Life

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Slow Dream

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Burials Foretold

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Animism

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The Shaman's Heart II

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Deconsecrated and Pure

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Dies Irae

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Eztica

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Silent Currents

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Sub Rosa

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Arc of Passion

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Book of Mirrors

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Ooky Spooky

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Immersion : three

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Terraform

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immersion : one

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Disciple

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Contamination (Paradoxx Remixxed)

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Le Serpent Rouge

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MEI-JYU

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Then and Again

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Legacy

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Of Pigeons and Other Curiosities

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Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces (complete edition)

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Eternal Circulation

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A Day In The Stark Corner

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The Lost Pieces

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Under An Holy Ritual

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The Trilogy (25th anniversary remastered edition)

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Book of Alchemy

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Before The Buildings Fell

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Tanzmusik (1985)

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Structures From Silence (deluxe)

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