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Los Angeles, California, United States (1979 – present)

Christian Death are a band which formed in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1979. Originally fronted by 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. This line-up of the band released their only album, Only Theatre of Pain, in 1982. A dark, sinister style of . 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 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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  • the_raytownian

    PS: Pompeii 99 > Valor CD. lelz. byt seriously, cheesy 80's post-punk is a r8 thing./

    8 hours ago Reply
  • the_raytownian

    V lol. I heer yiz. I am drunk again, btw. jsut saying. sp only alcoholic failutres like rozz. But yeah, I have no problem w/ people who pref. Valor. But, for me personally, Rozz will always trump Valor'sCD. <3 sorry I can't sype.

    9 hours ago Reply
  • Acid_Demon

    ..and also i know it pisses people off to no end to say Fuck Off to Rozz.

    11 hours ago Reply
  • Acid_Demon

    i understand your not a fan, as i am not much of a fan of Rozz's music...i usually stay quiet and don't argue who is better, cause really Rozz's CD and Valor's CD..IMO are 2 different bands..honestly my two all time CD records are Valor's stuff..just saying that Valor really took the Anti-Christian to a place that wash;t for Rozz..and Valor couldn't really do Goth all that well.. Sexy Death God has it's moments. I do like Catastrophe Ballet as a goth album.

    11 hours ago Reply
  • SlicerOfBones

    Just gonna avoid the arguing over vocalists here and say Christian Death is a great band.

    Yesterday 9:40pm Reply
  • the_raytownian

    music AND writing.... and aesthetic... and general presentation. Basically everything. I'm simply not a fan.

    23 May 4:03am Reply
  • the_raytownian

    Also, I wanna clarify, If I actually thought valopr were good, I wouldn't be pretending to hate his music. The whole "valor stolle cd" argument is irrelevant. I like a handful of valor-era songs, even..... just, generally speaking, I think his music is total butt.

    23 May 4:02am Reply
  • the_raytownian

    I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. I mean, Premature Ejaculation was started when he was a fucking teenager. Valor came up witht eh ide ato collaborate with CRADLE OF FILTH in his, like, 90's or something. i can't tell if you;re kidding because im drunk and this is the internet, dammit. tell me u jokin bruv. also, I am not just being a jerk when I say I honestly think SDG is excrutiatignly bad.

    23 May 3:48am Reply
  • Acid_Demon

    "anything worth listening to"...was not looking for a serious response..just tired of reading how Valor Kand is a piece of crap and should be killed...all i know..in my Opinion ..Valor actually put a slight more intelligence into what Christian Death was..i mean Premature Ejaculation..seriously???

    23 May 12:06am Reply
  • the_raytownian

    "but what has Rozz done since after 1990..oh that's right....." a whole lot. :/ I mean, I know it's sort of pointless to make a serious response, but the 90's were his most active years, and SDG is complete shit.

    22 May 4:29am Reply
  • Acid_Demon

    i say fuck to Roger Williams..Valor Kand is a beast, granted nothing good after Sexy death God...but what has Rozz done since after 1990..oh that's right.....

    22 May 12:39am Reply
  • Eli_Teixeira

    I like the "Atrocities" album. I also like "Only theater of pain" although is not my favourite. And I do prefer Valor's voice and singing ways than Rozz's (kill me now). But I know that Rozz started it all and I do give him credit for it. It's just a matter of taste. <3

    14 May 2:02pm Reply
  • adamcooleyisdea

    Amazinng band.

    27 Apr 12:44pm Reply
  • Azaykov

    Хорошая музыка, не каждому дано понять.

    24 Apr 8:45am Reply
  • Lord_DeviL_

    говнецо

    16 Apr 1:18pm Reply
  • thrashdeth

    Only Theatre of Pain is still a perfect beautiful album <3

    16 Apr 11:24am Reply
  • sadsunnyday

    @dogmanstar I'll check these albums... I also listened to some tracks from the last one, but no chance...

    5 Apr 11:59pm Reply
  • sadsunnyday

    @pissonyourdog To be honest, the only song I liked on ''Atrocities'' is ''Tales of Innocence'', the album itself is weak.

    5 Apr 11:54pm Reply
  • the_raytownian

    I actually -am- deaf! But even I can tell that "Pornographic Messiah" is a bad album just from feeling the club-beat vibrations of songs like their cover of Soft Cell's "Sex Dwarf"... Yuck!

    1 Apr 10:33pm Reply
  • chocolatelolita

    Never forgotten <3

    1 Apr 10:27pm Reply
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