It'll probably be a while before I can listen to Only Theatre of Pain without immediately thinking back to the second semester of 10th grade, because that's when I first heard this album. Seeing as my high school mental/emotional distress was just getting heavier, it was a very fitting thing to come across and the seedy, eerie, and schizophrenic atmosphere that is this album. Pretty kitsch I know. I was going to punk shows at the continental, the knitting factory and don hills but I'd always come home to Rozz Williams as well as various 4ad bands, there just wasn't anywhere to listen to it and connect with other kids.
Rozz Williams founded Christian Death in October 1979, at the age of 16, with bassist James McGearty, drummer George Belanger and guitarist Jay. The band name was a satirical play on words derived from the designer brand Christian Dior. The first Christian Death performance in front of a live audience was at a Castration Squad gig in 1980, when Castration Squad invited Christian Death on stage to play a couple songs. In 1980 and 1981, the band played many shows with 45 Grave, another L.A. deathrock group, though they also played shows with punk bands like Social Distortion and The Adolescents.
1. "Cavity - First 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 - Sixth Communion"
10. "Prayer"
11. "Deathwish"
12. "Romeo's Distress" (Demo)
13. "Dogs"
14. "Desperate Hell"
15. "Spiritual Cramp" (Demo)
16. "Cavity" (Demo)
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