Only Theatre of Pain by Christian Death

Only Theatre of Pain by Christian Death

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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.
Key Information
Artist: Christian Death
Record Label: Frontier Records
Genre: Rock and Pop
Subgenre: Gothic
Release Date: July 09, 2002
Number of Discs: 1
Song List: Disc 1
: 1. Cavity - First Communion
2. Figurative Theatre
3. Burnt Offerings
4. Mysterium Inquitatis
5. Dream For Mother
6. Stairs - Uncertain Journey
7. Spiritual Cramp
8. Romeo's Distress
9. Resurrection - Sixth Communion
10. Prayer
11. Deathwish
12. Romeo's Distress
13. Dogs
14. Desperate Hell
15. Spiritual Cramp
16. First Communion