Christian Death
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Los Angeles, United States (1979 – present)
Formed in Los Angeles in 1979 and fronted by 16 year old vocalist/lyricist Rozz Williams (real name Roger Alan Painter) who had previously been a member of the bands The Upsetters, The Asexuals, Daucus Karota and briefly Premature Ejaculation. The names of some of these acts would be resurrected by Rozz many years after leaving Christian Death.
The band’s name was a corruption of then massively popular fashion designer Christian Dior’s name. (See http://www.rozzwilliams.com/ or http://www.rozznet.com/ )This line-up of the band released their only album, Only Theatre of Pain, in 1982. A dark, sinister style of punk rock. The album gained local success. A year later the band completely broke up.
Singer Rozz then teamed up with members from the band Pompeii 99 founded by singer, guitarist, song writer Valor Kand. Rozz took over vocals leaving Valor to focus on guitar. Pompeii 99 had released one album, Look At Yourself, to much acclaim; it, too, can be said to have an apocalyptic theme with a punk rock flavor though some songs, such as “Love Me For My Mind” are far more pop in nature. Pompeii 99 had been planning their first tour when it was proposed by their French record company to merge Pompeii 99 into a new version of Christian Death which, after some debate, was agreed upon. Thus, began the new line-up of Christian Death and the first Pompeii 99 tour became the first Christian Death tour.
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C-estQueJeFais_ Only Theatre of Pain is a classic album. I'll never get tired of it. [2]
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Diametr When I Was Bed
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rasen-virus Cheesian Death needs more love
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Riff55 Remember when last.fm actually used to play the studio versions?
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the_raytownian v Agreed. OTOP is definitely an "always and forever" album for me. So good in high school (ha!), and still good since.......... not that HS was even very long ago for me, but still, OTOP has stood the test of time better than a lot of other albums from that same period in my life, and not by nostalgia alone. Not by a long shot!
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jeff2007 Only Theatre of Pain is a classic album. I'll never get tired of it.
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Gothickque You can find here dark / gothic metal songs mostly. And maybe some other gloomy and atmospheric music genres... http://www.facebook.com/GothicMetalCommunion
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markusporno you must listen at least once
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