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Only Theatre Of Pain (CD)

By: Christian Death (Artist)

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Christian Death Artist Snapshot:

Emerging from the early-1980s L.A.-based Death Rock scene, Christian Death became one of the defining bands of the Goth movement. With a fairly basic punk/new wave sound; nihilistic, sacrilegious lyrics; and a dark and gloomy aesthetic, Christian Death inspired legions of depressed teenagers to turn to the proverbial dark side. Although the band went through several confusing line-up changes and were initially successful only in Europe, their influence can be seen far and wide in the U.S. and abroad.

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DISC 1 for Only Theatre Of Pain (CD) Album By Christian Death (Artist)
1   Cavity 1st Communion
2   Figurative Theatre
3   Burnt Offerings
4   Mysterium Iniquitatis
5   Dream For Mother
6   Stairs (Uncertain Journey)
7   Spiritual Cramp
8   Romeo's Distress
9   Resurrection 6th Communion
10   Prayer
11   Deathwish
12   Romeo's Distress
13   Dogs
14   Desperate Hell
15   Spiritual Cramp
16   Cavity
 

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Title Note

Christian Death: Rozz Williams (vocals); Rikk Agnew (guitar); James McGearty (bass); George Belanger (drums).

Additional personnel: Eva, Ron (background vocals).

The 1984 debut album from goth metal mongers Christian Death can, in retrospect, be seen as something of a landmark release. A trendsetting disc in its merging of a creepy gothic sensibility and heavy metal, not to mention its stridently controversial (yet subtly tongue-in-cheek) assaults on the Christian religion and conventional morality, ONLY THEATER OF PAIN influenced the countless goth, death, and black metal bands that heard it.

While lyrics about Lucifer, sodomy, necrophilia, and church hypocrisy (like "Burnt Offerings" and "Cavity: First Communion") may seem commonplace now, they weren't in 1984. But it's the gloom-and-doom atmosphere here, the creepy dungeon feel of the music, that makes the greater impression, and puts Christian Death on the map as forerunners in their genre.

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