To celebrate its 35th anniversary, Handful Of Snowdrops' seminal first album, 'Land Of The Damned' is available on CD for the first time in nearly 15 years.

Handful Of Snowdrops are a pioneer band in the Canadian Electronic New Wave / Coldwave scene and its debut has reached near mythical status. This reissue features 6 additional tracks, including 2 never-before-released on CD demos from 1985 - 'Face To Face' and 'The Keep' - in addition to the original 8 tracks.

In 1986, the third lineup of the band consisting of Michel Mercier, Jean-Pierre, Christian Lefebvre, and Michel Plamondon, recorded a four-track demo containing what would to become their most famous song, 'Gabrielle'. These four tracks would become the basis for their first album, 1988's 'Land Of The Damned', the first and only release on the short-lived Montreal independent label Lisp. Their editor would later take this recording to New York City, where he met with Woodrow Dumas of Louisiana's C'est La Mort Records (Controlled Bleeding, Area), who offered to release "Land of the Damned" in the U.S. two years later. The rest, as they say, is history.

Digipak.