Soon, eldrich established the independent record company massive release, which was only related to s.o.m, and all this happened in 198 1 year. "I don't have any musical talent at all," eldridge said in a recent interview. "When I was a teenager, I was expelled from the music class and told that I would never understand what music is. I almost admit it now, and I don't think I can sing. All this may be the reason why I have come to this step. " As eldridge said, his unorthodox music origin is also reflected in the music of S.O.M., especially the music influence source of S.O.M. publicly admitted by eldridge, which is the American underground punk in the 1960s-underground velvet and clown. In the early days, s.o.m covered the famous songs Sister Lei and 1968 of these two bands respectively. Eldridge said, "The clown is the greatest hard rock band. Now only a few bands barely reach its level, such as motorhead and birthday parties. We may not be as good as Madhead, but we are better than the birthday party. " For those who haven't heard of s.o.m music, there are some doubts about eldritch's above statement. On the whole, the music framework of s.o.m, like all previous Gothic bands, seems to have originated from the contemporary Joy Division-deliberately suppressing hoarse throat singing, overflowing bass lines and slowly rendering the music atmosphere. If we have to put s.o.m and those two American bands together, we will think of Lou Reed's quiet and unsmiling sense of humor in songs such as emma or joelene, as well as the original punk wildness such as floorchow, which eldritch is good at bursting his singing emotions to the extreme. However, during s.o.m's seven-year music training, his music style has always maintained this gloomy face of division and self-destruction. At the beginning of 1982, with the release of some small performances and singles "Body Electricity" and "Children on strn" by Leeds University, the band began to enter the field of vision of ordinary fans from underground. In September, the band began its first tour from London and warmed up for the congenial independent band "Psychological Fur on the Road". 1At the beginning of 983, the single "Alice" reached the British independent music charts. At this time, s.o.m's musical style is fully mature. Alice is like a pool of splashing boiling water covered by a transparent and fragile film, a numb and cold killer or someone's calm eyes before collapse-warm and daily burning emotions adhere to a consistent and indiscriminate ticking rhythm, and this intentional emotional opposition and emotional split is extremely amazing. Listeners are always afraid of really getting into the endless suffering behind music. The image of "Alice" almost completely summarizes the spiritual significance of s.o.m and its genre of Gothic music. There are three words in the spiritual life of modern people: boredom, loneliness and fear. Playing loneliness at a high speed by using numbness to perfuse boredom and fear may be s.o.m' s comment on consciousness analysis-when we notice that the bright guitar is nailed behind the human voice, it seems that the human voice from the bottom of the well is scattered in the doomed breakouts again and again.
Eldridge and peter murphy of Bauhaus are called "King of Goth" by quilt fans, and they are secretly circulated as "strangers from Leeds". After 83 years, s.o.m has exaggerated and perfected their musical attitude to an unattainable level. The artistic conception and texts of these music, represented by EP "The Palace of Love" and the album "first last amd always", probably reached the peak of Gothic music because of their extreme eccentricity. Eldridge freely released his mental weakness and suicidal tendency. The Palace of Love is like a noose full of nodes, spinning and sucking. The dramatic evolution of music speed makes your heart tense when its speed suddenly increases. The tense, startled and twitching harmony is like a threat and persecution. This inevitable song, which declared absurdity and hatred, topped the independent music charts. By 1985, s.o.m had a large number of firm followers, and eldritch appeared as a star in magazines and mtv. Natural fans and the media will have many questions and criticisms about s.o.m's independent attitude. Eldridge almost disdainfully defended this: "We can be in a conscious and comfortable position in the mainstream, or we can milk without nostalgia. This is not a problem for us. We have a way, unlike other poor bands that are swallowed up by the mainstream. " The result only proves that the "method" he said is "poor" and useless.