“It’s about the idiots, full of sound and fury, who stampede around this world signifying nothing. It’s about people who sing about the revolution while selling it short, about people who sing about the corrosion of things while they themselves are falling apart. People who miss the point… It’s also stupidly over-the-top bombastic, but rightly so.”

— Andrew Eldritch, on This Corrosion

Even more specifically, This Corrosion was written as a “take that” to two former members of the Sisters of Mercy who left the band in 1985 to form The Mission.  Eldritch’s feeling was that The Mission was just a corrosive version of Sisters of Mercy.

Director Stuart Orme was one of the directors who worked with literally everyone.  His video here is properly goth in the style of 1987.

Enjoy!