“I never felt I was destined to be a rock ’n’ roll star,” said Andrew Eldritch in 2012. But as the frontman and leader of the Sisters Of Mercy, Eldritch rose to fame in the ’80s as a goth rock icon.
His band’s influence has spread far and wide – not least among metal musicians. As he related in an interview with Classic Rock: “I was at a System Of A Down concert in Australia. I was watching from the side of the stage, and suddenly they launched into one of our songs – they did half of Marian – as a way of saying hello to me.”
