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October 31 1986
Christian Death
Atrocities
Genre: Death Rock
2.25 out of 5
And here it is, the new version of Christian Death, in its full form. Rozz Williams is gone, Valor Kand has taken full control, which explains the prevalence of percussion above almost everything else.
Ostensibly this record is about The Holocaust and, specifically Joseph Mengele at times and that’s the second record I’ve heard this month with songs about the torturer-as-doctor, after Slayer’s “Angel of Death”. I kind of get it. We were all pretty affected by the Holocaust in the mid-80s. At least those of us who were old enough to remember the amazing ABC mini-series that was as harrowing and terrifying as anything I’d seen before. Here we are 8 years later and reaping from that.
It lives on to this day, actually. I’m still boring my way through Hitler: Ascent, Jojo Rabbit won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, Look Who’s Back…
Anyway…this is a boring record despite the ugliness of the content.
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