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Christian Death
12+ albums
deathrockpost-punkGothic RockGothicgoth
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Christian Death is an American deathrock band formed in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1979. The band was fronted and founded by Rozz Williams and featured former Adolescents guitarist Rikk Agnew, bassist James McGearty and drummer George Belanger. Christian Death is most notable for their debut studio album Only Theatre of Pain (1982), which was a major event in the birth of gothic rock and deathrock subculture within the United States and beyond. The original band broke up in 1983 amid band infighting and drug abuse. Williams assembled a new version of the band later that year by merging with another L.A. rock band, Pompeii 99. This lineup included guitarist Valor Kand, vocalist/keyboardist Gitane Demone and drummer David Glass. The new version of the band recorded their next two albums: Catastrophe Ballet (1984) (with bassist Constance Smith) and Ashes (1985) (with bassist Randy Wilde). In mid-1985, Williams left Christian Death, in part due to his increasing interest in experimental music and performance art. Guitarist Valor Kand took over leadership, serving as lead vocalist and songwriter. At one point during the 1990s there were two bands with the name Christian Death. During the late 1980s, while also recording as Shadow Project, Williams resurrected his own version of Christian Death, with his wife [aritist]Eva O contributing guitar as well as vocals. Billing themselves as the original Christian Death, they were rejoined by first-album guitarist Agnew f
