Comus were one of England's underground bands that dealt with the folk revival from a psychedelic and classical perspective. First Utterance (Pye, 1971 - Earmark, 2005) employed viola, violin, flute, oboe, guitar and percussions, distributed among six members, to craft complex songs such as Diana, Drip Drip, Song To Comus, The Bite, The Prisoner that hark back to the Middle Ages but also comply with the canon of Canterbury's progressive-rock. The three-part suite The Herald is possibly their masterpiece. Roger Wootton's growling vocals (a` la Family's Roger Chapman) added an evil dimension to their sordid tales of murder, rape and witchcraft.

Their second album, To Keep From Crying (Virgin, 1974), featured Lindsay Cooper (Henry Cow) and Didier Malherbe (Gong) but, surprisingly, was far less adventurous and sounded like so much hippie-folk of the 1960s.

Song To Comus: The Complete Collection (Castle Music, 2005) is a 2cd-set that reissues First Utterance with the first single and bonus tracks.

Comus reformed four decades after the fact and released Out Of The Coma (Coptic Cat, 2012), that contains three new songs and the only (live) recording of their 16-minute Malgard Suite (with a young Lindsay Cooper on bassoon).