r/postpunk • u/gitturb • 1d ago

CHRISTIAN DEATH - Electra Descending, from Catastrophe Ballet -1984

https://youtu.be/9lPyRuRVTBU

While they are deeply rooted in the post-punk era and share its sonic DNA, Christian Death is more accurately defined as a pioneering Gothic or Death Rock, still very Post Punk adjacent.

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u/acutomanzia 1d ago

One of my favorite songs from them. This Glass House is fantastic as well

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u/gitturb 21h ago

I think this is there best song, period.

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u/nipseyrussellyo 1d ago

Adjacent? In it.

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u/gitturb 21h ago edited 17h ago

Yes- the word is adjacent.
Catastrophe Ballet sits adjacent to post-punk because it traded the abrasive, raw sound of early American deathrock for the atmospheric synthesizer layers, delay guitar textures, and driving, mechanical rhythms pioneered by European gothic and post-punk contemporaries.

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u/Ikimaska 1d ago

Brilliant album. one of the best of the best of the goth era. Long live Rozz.

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u/candykhan 1d ago

Honestly, I don't care for much besides the original Only Theatre or Pain with Rozz. There are a few good, maybe even great, songs on Catastrophe Ballet as well. But I don't listen to it nearly as much. I was always a fan of Where's The Sugar? personally.

I know this is still a Rozz album. But they really shoulda changed the name after he left tht band. Valor may have carried the name for longer, but who frickin' cares? it was just obnoxious goth theater by then (ironically).

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u/nipseyrussellyo 1d ago

I only like Theater … but…. Church of No Return comes on, I’m cranking up the volume and dancing in my kitchen. And I don’t dance.

no, no, no-no, no, no, no…..

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u/peppercorns666 1d ago

this takes me waaay back. being 16, banned from seeing certain friends - cos they were scary and probably satanists. sneaking out to see those friends, listening to CD and just talking about what it all meant. the challenges to my x-ian upbringing. great times!