Death Church

Rudimentary Peni

Death Church
Digitally remastered edition. The words legendary, seminal, and classic get thrown around at will these days, but Rudimentary Peni's debut album is all of them. Recorded over two days at Southern Studios by John Loder and originally released in 1983 by Crass off-shoot label Corpus Christi, Death Church showed a band moving away from the urgency of their two early 7" singles and into their own realm. Creating a template that bands have been trying to replicate ever since, while ticking all the boxes to become a genre-defining album. Iconic artwork, a unique sound and their own lyrical universe. All merging seamlessly. Sonically the album is full of Nick Blinko's extraordinary vocals and equally remarkable guitar, Grant Matthews' big meandering driving basslines and Jon Greville's tight and relentless drum work which together made something intricate and hard hitting, with a sequence that makes the 21 songs on the album flow perfectly. Visually, the album is every outsider art lover's wet dream. A six-panel poster sleeve with every inch covered in Nick Blinko's claustrophobic black and white line drawings, while lyrically the songs deal with madness, religion, death, and questioning humankind from a dark poetic place rarely found in any art form.
Price
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
11-02-2022
Label
Item-nr
565066
EAN
0000000000000
Availability
Not in stock

Tracks

Title
Artist
1
1/4 DEAD
2
BLISSFUL MYTH
3
THE PSYCHO SQUAT
4
ROTTEN TO THE CORE
5
POPPYCOCK
6
COSMIC HEARSE
7
THE CLOUD SONG
8
VAMPIRE STATE BUILDING
9
BLASPHEMY SQUAD
10
WHEN YOU ARE A MARTIAN CHURCH
11
PIG IN A BLANKET
12
INSIDE
13
NOTHING BUT A NIGHTMARE
14
FLESH CRUCIFIX
15
SLIMY MEMBER
16
LOVE IS NOT
17
RADIO SCHIZO
18
HAPPY FARM
19
ALICE CRUCIFIES THE PAEDOPHILES
20
ARMY OF JESUS
21
DUTCHMEN